Parliamentary questions
Jackson Carlaw
1,088 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
15 Dec 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive where residents of Newton Mearns must attend to receive each service normally provided at a medical centre.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: There are four GP Practices in the Newton Mearns area. These are Dr Quinn & Ptns, Mearns Medical Centre, 13 Maple Avenue, G77; Dr Haughney & Ptn, 257 Mearns Road, G77; Dr Arfan & Ptn, Crookfur Medical Practice, 3 Corrour Road, G77; Dr Tobias, 3 El…
15 Dec 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many residents are in the catchment area of each medical centre in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: This information is not available centrally in the form requested. However, information about general practices in Scotland and on the number of patients which they serve is available on a website maintained by the Information and Statistics Division of NHS N…
24 Nov 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the level 3 budget line for Support for Freight Industry is to be reduced from £10.3 million in 2010-11 to £2.9 million in 2011-12 and what specific spending is being reduced to achieve this.
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: The UK Government has reduced Scotland''s budget by £1.3 billion in 2011-12 - cuts of around £500 million to our resource budget and £800 million to our capital budget. As a result, we have had to take tough decisions, including a reduction in the Support for…
24 Nov 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement on page 99 of Scotland’s Spending Plans and Draft Budget 2011-12, what specific small road improvement schemes are to be delayed.
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: The following small trunk road improvement schemes which have completed their statutory process will be held in readiness to be taken forward at the earliest possible opportunity:</p> <p >A95 Lackgie Improvement</p> <p >A702 Candymill Bend and Edmonstone Br…
24 Nov 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the level 3 budget line for the Forth and Tay Road Bridge Authorities is to be increased from £10.7 million in 2010-11 to £22.4 million in 2011-12 and on what this additional funding is to be spent.
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: The level 3 budget line for the Forth and Tay Road Bridge Authorities has increased in order to meet contractual commitments and to allow essential maintenance works to take place. This will enable work to replace the viaduct bearings on the Forth Road Bridge…
24 Nov 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the level 3 budget line for Road Improvements is to be reduced from £49.7 million in 2010-11 to £24.2 million in 2011-12 and what specific spending is being reduced to achieve this.
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: The scale of the total reduction in the Scottish Government budget for 2011-12 has required tough decisions to be taken about expenditure across government and careful consideration of pressures and priorities in all portfolios. Taking into account these pres…
24 Nov 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the level 3 budget line for Network Strengthening and Improvement is to be reduced from £56.4 million in 2010-11 to £15 million in 2011-12 and what specific spending is being reduced to achieve this.
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: The scale of the total reduction in the Scottish Government budget for 2011-12 has required tough decisions to be taken about expenditure across government and careful consideration of pressures and priorities in all portfolios. Taking into account these pres…
24 Nov 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the level 3 budget line for Support for Ferry Services is to be increased from £77.8 million in 2010-11 to £94.4 million in 2011-12 and on what this additional funding is to be spent.
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: The Support for Ferry Services budget line is used to fund essential ferry services which transport people, vehicles, freight and livestock to and from Scotland''s island and remote mainland communities. The vast majority of funding is distributed via long-te…
12 Nov 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of pupils in Roman Catholic schools has been Roman Catholic in each year since 1997, also broken down by (a) local authority and (b) school.
Answer · Keith Brown: This information is not collected centrally.</p>
12 Nov 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Roman Catholic schools request that parents present a certificate indicating that their child was baptised in a Roman Catholic Church before allowing the child entry to the school and what its position is on this practice.
Answer · Keith Brown: The information requested is not collected centrally. Section 28B of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 requires every education authority to publish their admission criteria for schools. It is for the authorities to set out the details and reasonable verifica…
11 Nov 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are in place to ensure that meals served to patients at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill) are tailored to the specific needs and tastes of children; what analysis has been carried out of the effectiveness of these measures, and what conclusions have been drawn.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: Arrangements are in place at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill) to ensure that all children on admission to hospital who have special dietary requirements are assessed by a dietician. Food suitable for children''s dietary needs is available durin…
11 Nov 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive where meals served to patients at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill) are prepared.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: The majority of meals served to patients at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, are prepared at the Western Infirmary. Yorkhill locally prepares chilled patient and staff meal components and call-order children''s snack choices, which are alternat…
11 Nov 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what efforts have been made to secure patient feedback on the standard of meals served at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill); what such patient feedback has shown; what lessons have been learned, and how patient satisfaction levels compare with those at other NHS Greater Glas…
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Board catering surveys are issued to all patients and they are analysed on a regular basis. The board monitors the patient views of catering services in a number of ways e.g., through the clinical quality indicators (CQIs) framew…
11 Nov 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the procedure is for advising nurses working on an open rota in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde of their next rota; what feedback has been received on this procedure, and whether any feedback suggests the need for improvement.
29 Sep 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what assurance it can give to staff and patients of the Vale of Leven Hospital that there are no plans to close the hospital.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: I can give an absolute assurance to local staff and patients that there are no plans to close the Vale of Leven Hospital. Indeed, it was this Government that put an end to a decade of damaging uncertainty by delivering a viable future for the hospital through…
29 Sep 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many anaesthetists have been employed at the Vale of Leven Hospital in each year since 1999.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: The information requested is presented in the following table, as provided by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.</b></p> <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 > <thead> <tr > <td valign=top > <p align=center >Financial Year</p> </td> <td …
29 Sep 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what assurance it can give that the services provided by the Christie ward at the Vale of Leven Hospital will remain at the hospital on a permanent basis.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: No decisions have been made about the future of local inpatient mental health services. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and the Vale Monitoring Group are to consider demand for the inpatient service, as well as the provision of enhanced community services…
29 Sep 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to refurbish the Christie ward at the Vale of Leven Hospital following the damage caused by fire in July 2010, and when it expects this work to be completed.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will consider all the options, including representations from the Vale of Leven Monitoring Group, at their board meeting on 26 October 2010.</b></p>
29 Sep 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive where the new Alexandria Medical Centre is to be sited and when it will be open to the public.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: The <i >Vision for the Vale of Leven Hospital</i>, approved by the NHS board and I during 2009, set the site for the new health and care Centre within the grounds of the Vale of Leven Hospital and adjacent to the main entrance to the hospital site.</b></p> <…
29 Sep 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to provide sufficient reserves of road salt for winter 2010-11 and what assurance it can give that these will be effective.
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: The responsibility for winter maintenance rests with individual roads authorities, in the case of trunk roads the Scottish Ministers, and on local roads the relevant local authority. The Scottish Salt Group chaired by Transport Scotland and including represe…
29 Sep 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many tonnes of road salt have been held in reserve in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: Responsibility for winter maintenance on local roads is a matter for individual local authorities and the Scottish Government does not hold this information centrally.</p>
22 Sep 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what total number of planning applications was decided by each local authority and what percentage was decided within two months in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2009-10.
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: </p> <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 > <thead> <tr > <td width=161 nowrap rowspan=2 valign=bottom > <p align=center >Planning Authority</p> </td> <td width=201 nowrap colspan=2 valign=bottom > <p align=center >2006-07</p> …
2 Aug 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what (a) volume of land has been occupied by and (b) proportion of total energy generated has come from wind farms in each year since 1997.
Answer · Jim Mather: The information requested on volume of land is not held centrally. Scottish Natural Heritage has published maps of the areas of wind farm sites on its website at <a href="http://www.snh.gov.uk/">http://www.snh.gov.uk</a>.</p> <p >The information requested on…
2 Aug 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much in (a) cash and (b) real terms has been spent on improving (i) the road network and (ii) public transport networks and how many journeys have been undertaken via each method in each year since 1997.
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: The amount spent on improving the road network since 1997 is shown in the following table:</p> <p >Improving the Road Network (£ Million)</p> <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=630 > <thead> <tr > <td width=111 valign=top > <p ali…
2 Aug 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive at what rate per mile staff at (a) the Scottish Executive and (b) each other publicly funded body can claim expenses for journeys undertaken by bicycle and what total value of claims has been paid by each body since 1999.
Answer · John Swinney: The Scottish Government processes travel and subsistence claims for a number of Scottish Government agencies and non-departmental public bodies. All of these organisations apply the Scottish Government''s Travel and Subsistence rates.</p> <p >For journeys on…
2 Aug 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on improving the cycle network in both (a) cash and (b) real terms and how many bicycle journeys have been undertaken in each year since 1997.
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: 1. Financial Information for 1997-98 to 1998-1999 was not recorded in the level of detail which was used from 1999-2000. Table<strong> 11.1</strong> of the Scottish Transport Statistics: No 27 - 2008 Edition provides details of the expenditure on transport wi…
27 Jul 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) speed cameras and (b) road accidents there have been in each year since 1997, also broken down by local authority.
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: Table 1 shows the number of speed cameras and road accidents in each year since 1997.</b></p> <p >Table 1: Total Number of Speed Cameras and Road Accidents Since 1997</p> <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 > <thead> <tr > <td width=100 vali…
27 Jul 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been received in speed camera fines in each year since 1997, expressed in (a) cash and (b) real terms, also broken down by local authority.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: The information requested is not available by local authority area. Safety (speed and red light) cameras are operated by the eight local Safety Camera Partnerships that deliver the Scottish Safety Camera Programme, which has been operating in police force are…
23 Jul 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the comments of Stewart Stevenson on 27 May 2010 (Official Report C. 26681), (a) how it intends to fulfil its commitment to undertake a national debate with young drivers, their parents and guardians and representative groups to explore young driver issues and concerns, (b) ho…
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: By the end of this year, a national debate on young drivers'' safety will be conducted across Scotland using various methods of communication, including face to face and social networking, by contractors who have specialist knowledge and experience of conduct…
23 Jul 2010 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what budget it has allocated to Scotland’s Road Safety Framework to 2020, detailing the amount of resource being allocated to each individual scheme
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: In addition to the existing budgets for road safety, the Scottish Government has allocated £800,000 to Scotland''s Road Safety Framework for the financial year 2010-11. We will decide on future allocations within the context of the forthcoming spending review…