Parliamentary questions
Margaret Mitchell
550 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
24 Jul 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-1497 by Stewart Stevenson on 23 July 2007, how many planning application appeals related to green belt.
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: This information isnot held by the Directorate for Planning and Environmental Appeals.</p>
24 Jul 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-1497 by Stewart Stevenson on 23 July 2007, how many planning application appeals were repeat appeals.
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: This information isnot held by the Directorate for Planning and Environmental Appeals.</p>
24 Jul 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-1497 by Stewart Stevenson on 23 July 2007, whether it will provide a breakdown of planning application appeals by local authority area.
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: The number of appealsreceived by the Directorate for Planning and Environmental Appeals, broken downby local authority, since 1999 and the subsequent decisions are set out as follows.</p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3> <thead> <tr> <td width=2…
23 Jul 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people (a) were arrested in 2006 and (b) have been arrested in 2007 under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005, broken down by local authority area.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: Statistics on thenumber of persons arrested are not collected centrally. Statistics on thenumber of crimes recorded by the police in 2006-7 will be available followingthe publication of the statistical bulletin <i>Recorded Crime in </i><i>Scotland</i><i>, 200…
23 Jul 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, for each prosecution under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005, it will provide a breakdown of category of emergency worker attacked.
Answer · Elish Angiolini: The Crown Office andProcurator Fiscal Service’s case management database does not record the professionor job title of victims in a way that would allow aggregate information to be extractedin the format requested, but the following table gives a breakdown of…
23 Jul 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005 (a) were brought in 2006 and (b) have been brought in 2007, broken down by local authority area.
Answer · Elish Angiolini: The Crown Office andProcurator Fiscal Service’s case management database does not record the local authorityarea in which an offence took place. It does contain information about the sheriffcourt jurisdiction in which offences took place. The following table …
26 Jun 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many convictions there have been in relation to “honour killings” in each of the last five years.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: Information on such crimescannot be separately identified within the statistics collected centrally onhomicides or court proceedings.</p>
25 Jun 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cannabis factories have been discovered by the police in each year since 1999, broken down by police force.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: The Scottish Executive does notcollect information about the number of police operations that have discovered cannabisfactories.</p><p>The Scottish Executive does collectdrug seizure data from the eight police forces within Scotland andthese data do contain i…
25 Jun 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many planning application appeals have been made to it and subsequently approved in each year since 1999.
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: I refer the member to thequestion S3W-1497 answered on 23 July 2007. All answers to written PQ’s areavailable on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can befound at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search">http://www.sco…
25 Jun 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many planning application appeals have been made to it and subsequently rejected in each year since 1999.
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: I refer the member to thequestion S3W-1497 answered on 23 July 2007. All answers to written PQ’s areavailable on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can befound at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search">http://www.sco…
25 Jun 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many planning application appeals have been made to it in each year since 1999.
Answer · Stewart Stevenson: The number of appealsreceived by the Directorate for Planning and Environmental Appeals (formerlySEIRU) and the subsequent decisions are set out as follows.</p><p>Planning Permission AppealsReceived Each Year Since 1 April 1999</p><table border=1 cellspacing…
25 Jun 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many death certificates have been altered to show MRSA as the cause of death in each year since 1999.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: The data providedin the following table shows the position where death certificates have been alteredon the basis of additional informationreceived from Procurator Fiscals:</p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3> <tr> <td nowrap valign=bottom> <p al…
25 Jun 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many death certificates have recorded MRSA as the cause of death in each year since 1999.
Answer · Nicola Sturgeon: It is unusual forMRSA infection to be an isolated cause of death, as a range of contributory factorsare normally involved. The death certificates that have recorded MRSA as the underlyingcause of death are, however, shown in the following table:</p><table bor…
15 Jun 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many convictions there have been under the Protection of Children and Prevention of Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2005 for meeting a child following certain preliminary contact, broken down by year.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: No convictions underthe 2005 act were recorded for 2005-06, the latest year for which statistics areavailable.</p>
15 Jun 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many charges there have been under the Protection of Children and Prevention of Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2005 for meeting a child following certain preliminary contact, broken down by year.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: Statistics on thenumber of people cautioned and charged by the police are not collected centrally.There were no records of persons proceeded against in court under the 2005 act in2005-06, the latest year for which statistics are available.</p>
19 Mar 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive where people with learning disabilities who have been assessed as being unsuitable to live in the community in the last year have been placed.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: Individuals may be unable to livein the community for a variety of reasons and should be in a setting that is appropriateto their needs, this may be an NHS assessment and treatment facility or a criminaljustice setting.</p><p>Research was undertaken into peop…
19 Mar 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people who have been referred to assessment centres for people with learning disabilities in the last year have been deemed unsuitable to live in the community.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-32643 on 2 April 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’swebsite, the search facility for which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.…
19 Mar 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many places there are in established assessment centres for people with learning disabilities.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-32643 on 2 April 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’swebsite, the search facility for which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.…
19 Mar 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many established assessment centres there are for people with learning disabilities.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: This information is not held centrally.</p>
19 Mar 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people who have been the subject of VI1 reports issued by social work departments in the last year have also been referred to an assessment centre for people with learning disabilities.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: This is a matter for local authorities. The information requestedis not held centrally.</p>
19 Mar 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people who have been the subject of VI1 reports issued by social work departments in the last year and charged by the police have had their charges proved.
Answer · Robert Brown: This is a matter for local authorities. The informationrequested is not held centrally.</p>
19 Mar 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people who have been the subject of VI1 reports issued by social work departments in the last year have also been charged by the police.
Answer · Robert Brown: This is a matter for local authorities. The informationrequested is not held centrally.</p>
19 Mar 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many VI1 reports have been issued by social work departments in the last year as a result of violent attacks.
Answer · Robert Brown: This is a matter for local authorities. The informationrequested is not held centrally.</p>
19 Mar 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many VI1 reports have been issued by social work departments in the last year.
Answer · Robert Brown: This is a matter for local authorities. The informationrequested is not held centrally.</p>
19 Mar 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many births were attended by independent midwives in comparison with other births in each year since 2000.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The information requested is not held centrally.</p>
19 Mar 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many independent midwives there are, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer · Andy Kerr: This information is not held centrally.</p>
19 Mar 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any proposals to make professional indemnity insurance a condition of registration for independent midwives.
Answer · Andy Kerr: Theregulation of midwives is a reserved matter. The Nursing and Midwifery Council,which is responsible for the regulation of all nurses and midwives, is a UKbody set up by Parliament under the Nursing and Midwifery Order (2001).</p><p>It is UK government poli…
12 Feb 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many clerks to the district court spend an insufficient percentage of their time on district court work to entitle them to transfer to employment with the Scottish Court Service under the Transfer of Undertaking (Protection of Employment) (TUPE) regulations.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: According to the informationprovided so far by local authorities there are 66 district court clerks (legal assessors)who will not meet the 50% criterion for time spent on district court business whichwould identify them as candidates for transfer to the Scott…
12 Feb 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many clerks to the district court spend a sufficient percentage of their time on district court work to entitle them to transfer to employment with the Scottish Court Service under the Transfer of Undertaking (Protection of Employment) (TUPE) regulations.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: According to the informationprovided so far by local authorities there are 28 district court clerks (legal assessors)who will meet the 50% criterion for time spent on district court business whichwould identify them as candidates for transfer to the Scottish …
21 Dec 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent by each NHS board on foreign language interpreters in each of the last five years, broken down by language.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The provision of foreign languageinterpreters is a matter for individual health boards, including where this is necessaryto ensure clinicians can treat patients appropriately in compliance with our obligationsunder European Treaty and reciprocal health agreem…