- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to place a statutory obligation on the police, the Crown Office and the courts system to ensure that the victims of crime and their families are given essential information relating to their case.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-24440.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to make the criminal justice system more transparent.
Answer
The Executive is continually looking to improve the effectiveness of the criminal justice system and we seek wide public involvement in this work. Lord Bonomy, for example, placed press advertisements seeking views on his review of the High Court and the committee chaired by Sheriff Principal McInnes that is reviewing summary justice has recently issued a consultation paper seeking views from those working in the criminal justice system and from the wider public. Ministers have announced their intention to establish an independent Judicial Appointments Board whose role will be to make recommendations to the First Minister about the appointment of all new Judges and Sheriffs. The board will have equal numbers of lay and legal members.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards fund intracytoplasmic sperm injection treatment for infertility.
Answer
The following table shows the NHS boards which currently fund ICSI treatment:
| NHS Board | ICSI (Yes/No) |
| Argyll and Clyde NHS Board | No |
| Ayrshire and Arran NHS Board | Yes |
| Borders NHS Board | Yes |
| Dumfries and Galloway NHS Board | Yes |
| Fife NHS Board | Yes |
| Forth Valley NHS Board | Yes |
| Grampian NHS Board | Yes |
| Greater Glasgow NHS Board | Yes |
| Highland NHS Board | Yes |
| Lanarkshire NHS Board | Yes |
| Lothian NHS Board | Yes |
| Orkney NHS Board | Yes |
| Shetland NHS Board | Yes |
| Tayside NHS Board | Yes |
| Western Isles NHS Board | Yes |
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what options are available to patients wishing to access intracytoplasmic sperm injection treatment for infertility in areas where the treatment is not currently provided by the NHS board.
Answer
IVF is funded in all NHS board areas and may offer an alternative where ICSI is not available.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when intracytoplasmic sperm injection treatment for infertility will be available in NHS board areas where such treatment is not currently funded.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-24462 today, which shows that all NHS boards, except Argyll and Clyde NHS Board, now fund intracytoplasmic sperm injection treatment on the NHS. NHS boards were asked to work towards implementation of the recommendations of the EAGISS report, which published in February 2000, within existing resources. Argyll and Clyde NHS board are currently reviewing their progress in implementing the recommendations of the report and this review will include the issue of funding ICSI treatment.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 16 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been disbursed under the microcredit programme in each year from 2000-01 to date.
Answer
The first tranche of funding - £70,000 - was spent in financial year 2001-02 during February-March 2002. Disbursement of funding is a matter for Scottish Enterprise.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 16 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make representations to the Ministry of Defence and Her Majesty's Government to provide substantial resources for a job creation programme for the areas affected by redundancies at Faslane and Coulport naval dockyards.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-24408.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 16 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the microcredit programme is exclusively targeted at women and, if so, in what way and how the programme targets match the terms of the announcement made on International Women's Day on 8 March 2000.
Answer
The microcredit programme is not exclusively targeted at women as sex discrimination legislation generally prohibits restricting funding schemes in this way. It is expected, however, that the majority of recipients of microcredit will be women as proposed in the original announcement. Details of the programme are available through Small Business Gateway outlets.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 16 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was allocated to the microcredit programme in 2001-02 and what funding will be allocated in (a) 2002-03 and (b) 2003-04.
Answer
The Executive has allocated £1 million for the microcredit programme to Scottish Enterprise over a three-year period. In year 2001-02 Scottish Enterprise spent £70,000. The balance of funding is expected to be utilised in years 2002-03 and 2003-04, and into 2004-05.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 16 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take in light of the job losses at the Faslane and Coulport naval dockyards given the existing level of unemployment in the area and the impact these job losses will have on the local economy.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the Ministry of Defence on a wide range of issues including the Faslane and Coulport naval bases. The scale of any job reductions and consequently the deployment of resources to mitigate the effect of job reductions cannot be confirmed until Babcock Naval Services has reviewed its requirements. Officials at Scottish Enterprise Dunbartonshire (SED) are seeking to assess the potential impact of any redundancies and SED's Chief Executive will meet the naval director of the Clyde complex later this month. Once the Scottish Executive has received a report of the outcome of this meeting, it will consider convening a meeting with interested parties to decide upon appropriate action.
