- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether a budget has been set for the national conversation on the draft Referendum (Scotland) Bill.
Answer
The cost of producingand translating the document is around £35,000 (including the web version, the design,printing and the summary in eight languages and a full Gaelic version). Distributionof the document cost a further £5,000, and the cost of the launch event was £8,000.The total cost of launching the national conversation to date is therefore £48,000.
The costs of carryingout the conversation will depend on how its structure develops, in light of responsesfrom the people of Scotland as to how they wish to be involved. The workis being carried out within existing resources from the government’s constitutionalpolicy and communications teams.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will proceed with the Referendum (Scotland) Bill if there is a low level of public support for the proposals in its white paper, Choosing Scotland's Future: A National Conversation.
Answer
The government willconsider the response to the national conversation in deciding how to proceed withthe draft bill. However, the level of support for any particular proposals couldbe only properly determined by a vote in a referendum.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 6 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what responsibility the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth and the Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism retain for Scotland¿s creative industries and when they will outline their vision for the growth of this sector of the economy.
Answer
the Scottish Government is collectively considering how to best support the creativeindustries in Scotland. We will make an announcementon this matter, setting out respective roles and responsibilities, when we publishour proposals for Creative Scotland.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 27 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the commitment made by the Minister for Parliamentary Business on 14 June 2007 (Official Report c. 709), what progress has been made on convening a summit with key stakeholders to agree a joint position against renewal of the Trident nuclear weapons system; on what date the summit will take place, and which key stakeholders will be invited to participate.
Answer
Initial planning hasbegun with a view to the summit taking place in Glasgow later this year. The precise date, the venue and those to be invited toparticipate are under consideration.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the Scottish Government is doing to promote the Scottish film industry in the wake of the UK film industry's recent success at the Oscars
Answer
This is a matter forNHS Ayrshire and Arran.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-568 by Fiona Hyslop on 18 June 2007, whether any consultation will be held on where free school meals pilot schemes will take place before plans for the pilots are published.
Answer
Details of the localauthorities that have been selected to take part in the free school meals pilotschemes were announced on Wednesday 11 July 2007. The pilots willinvolve all pupils in primary 1 to primary 3 (P1 to P3) in Glasgow City Council,West Dunbartonshire Council, Fife Council, East Ayrshire Council and Scottish BordersCouncil. These authorities have been selected because they include recognised areasof deprivation and cover urban areas as well as small towns and rural areas. Furtherdetails of the pilots will be set out in due course.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has set up a working group on the regulation of houses in multiple occupation.
Answer
The Scottish governmentis mindful of the complex nature of the issues surrounding provision and regulationof houses of multiple occupation and we are considering new guidance to help addressthis. There will be close engagement with stakeholders in developing guidance.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-568 by Fiona Hyslop on 18 June 2007, when plans for free school meals pilot schemes will be published.
Answer
I refer the memberto the question S3W-1215 on 17 July 2007. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 12 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it supports any form of regulation of the bus industry.
Answer
As part of the implementationof
Moving Into the Future – An Action Plan for Buses in Scotland, we arecurrently working with stakeholders to ensure the effective operation of the currentbus regulatory regime in Scotland.
Under the Transport(Scotland) Act 2001, transport authorities have theoption of entering into statutory Quality Partnerships and developing Quality Contractswhere they consider these appropriate. To support transport authorities use of thesepowers we are reviewing the 2001 legislation and will consider what changes maybe required to simplify its operation in due course.
Beyond this, thereare no plans to re-regulate the bus industry in Scotland.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is monitoring the tenants’ right to buy housing policy.
Answer
Yes, the tenants’right to buy housing policy is monitored by the Scottish Government.
