- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff in the Highland NHS Board area have reported an assault in (a) 2000-01 and (b) 2001-02; whether information held on this matter now includes the number of cases (i) reported to the procurator fiscal, (ii) raised as criminal prosecutions and (iii) resulting in a conviction, and, if it does not, whether there are any plans to include such information.
Answer
The first national collection of data from NHS boards and trusts on violent and aggressive incidents took place in 2001 for the financial year 2000-01. Collection of data for 2001-02 has also taken place. Quality assurance procedures to validate the data are under way.This data was collected as part of the Occupational Health and Safety Minimum Dataset, and it is planned to publish a minimum dataset report on the data collected between 2000-02 this year. The data published will show violence and aggression as a component of the occupational injury rate.Information on the reporting of violent incidents to the procurator fiscal, the number of criminal prosecutions, and number of convictions in NHS board areas is not held centrally. Though there are currently no plans to include this information in the minimum dataset requirements, the information gathered in the Minimum Dataset is reviewed annually. The board in question may however hold this information locally.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-247 by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 June 2003, whether it will place copies of the responses it has received to Towards Better Oral Health in Children, other than those submitted on a confidential basis, in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre and whether it will publish an analysis of the responses showing how many (a) support and (b) oppose adding fluoride to the water supply.
Answer
Copies of the responses have been publicly available in the normal manner at the Scottish Executive library since early March. An independent researcher has been appointed to collate and analyse all responses to the consultation. The report will be available later in the summer.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 13 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-25409 by Lewis Macdonald on 9 May 2002, what schemes have been identified for the A82 between Tyndrum and Inverness in the context of its review of the 1995 Route Accident Reduction Plan.
Answer
BEAR Scotland Ltd will submit the Route Accident Reduction Plan (RARP) for the A82 between Tyndrum and Inverness to the Executive before the end of July 2003. The plan will identify measures for inclusion in trunk road programmes. These measures will be considered and progressed in the normal manner.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 13 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what meetings have taken place between ministers and commercial airlines since 1 January 2003; what the subject matter was of any such meetings, and what meetings are planned with such airlines in the next three months.
Answer
Ministers and officials meet airlines regularly and meetings may well take place in the next three months.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 13 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the standard of ground maintenance of the trunk road network in the Highlands Council area is adequate.
Answer
The Executive provides for the same level of landscape maintenance on all Scottish trunk roads and the standard is adequate. The Performance Audit Group (PAG) monitors BEAR's performance and any deficiencies identified will be addressed.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 13 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will meet, and make representations to, any interested parties, other than Her Majesty's Government and civil servants, regarding a public service obligation application for the Inverness to Gatwick air link and, if so, which organisations and individuals it plans to meet.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has supported the imposition of protective measures on the Inverness to Gatwick air link. The Secretary of State for Transport indicated at the UK Parliament's Transport Committee on 21 May that this issue will be covered in the forthcoming white paper. There are no plans to meet other parties.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 12 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has undertaken on the Norwegian Government's policy of providing a level of loan for housing based on the meeting of certain criteria, such as providing benefits to the environment, and whether it plans to adopt this approach in its own housing policy.
Answer
I have asked Mr Bob Millar, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. His response is as follows:The Executive has not undertaken any research on the Norwegian Government's policy of providing a level of loan for housing based on the meeting of certain criteria, such as providing benefits to the environment, and has no plans at present for the introduction of such loans.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual loss of income would be if the non-domestic rates poundage is reduced to 44.4p and how this figure is calculated.
Answer
Around £35 million in non-domestic rate income is raised from each 1 pence of the poundage rate. Reducing the poundage rate by 3.4p from the current rate of 47.8p to 44.4p, would cost around £120 million (3.4p x £35 million). This would be a recurring cost.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 12 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any losses to individual scallop fishing vessels caused by a reduction in dredge numbers would be proportionate to any potential conservation gains.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-530 on 10 June 2003. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 12 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will give a breakdown of awards made to communities within the Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber constituency from the Community Safety Awards Programme, the cost of each such award and its purpose.
Answer
Through the Community Safety Partnership Award Programme we have provided Highland Wellbeing Alliance Community Safety Partnership with £139,500 in 2002-03 and £136,734 in 2003-04 to identify and address community safety priorities. To engage communities, this partnership operate a small grants scheme for local initiatives, involving annual expenditure of roughly £50,000. We do not hold detailed information on these awards but are aware that up to end January 2003 the following 14 initiatives, which appear to be based in the Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber constituency or act on the wider Highland area, benefited from awards under this scheme:SAFE KIDS Coalition for training and awareness raisingAviemore Detached Youth WorkerSafe Tourist Pack - joint initiative aimed at visitors to HighlandAlness New Community School anti-bullying projectNo Excuses Smoke Alarm Project for older people in LochaberKLB Youth Project in KinlochbervieLochaber Grinders Skate ParkHighland Ethnic Minorities GroupPositive Steps - Home Safety checkSocial Firm Development GroupYoung Driver Awareness Campaign in Badenoch and StrathspeyHome Start Ross and CromartyNairn Dog Fouling CampaignCharleston Academy School Bus Safety.
