- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1576 by Ms Margaret Curran on 13 August 2003, who, in addition to the Scottish Police Federation, responded to its plans for community wardens and whether it will place a copy of any such responses in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
Answer
A comprehensive list of respondentsis given in the annex of Building strong,safe and attractive communities: summary of consultation responses, published in 2003, copies of which are available inthe Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number: 29308). Copies of individual responsesare available in full for inspection at the Scottish Executive Library.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment will be made of the effectiveness of the community warden scheme.
Answer
The information requested isgiven in section 11.4 (page 11) of Building strong, safe and attractivecommunities: Guidance for submissions, published in 2003, copies of which areavailable in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 28543)
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what uniform community wardens will wear
Answer
The choice of uniform is a localdecision.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24699 by Mr Jim Wallace on 1 May 2002, what the role of a community warden will be and whether it will be different from that of a neighbourhood warden.
Answer
The information requested isavailable in paragraph 12, page 12, of Building strong, safe and attractivecommunities: Guidance for submissions, published in 2003, copies of which areavailable in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 28543)
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what input it has had to the Department for Transport's criteria for the placement of road markings since May 1999.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is represented at official level on the Department for Transport Road MarkingsTechnical Working Party.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the fourth supplementary question to question S2F-194 by the First Minister on 11 September 2003, whether the Waverley railway partnership has been advised of the criteria to be applied to assess the business case for the Borders Railway.
Answer
I can confirm that Waverley railwaypartnership has been advised of the criteria to be applied.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the fourth supplementary question to question S2F-194 by the First Minister on 11 September 2003, what criteria will be applied to assess the business case for the Borders Railway.
Answer
All business cases are requiredto be compliant with the Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidelines (STAG)
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the business case for the Borders railway must reflect inflationary factors such as construction costs and, if so, how such costs will be calculated.
Answer
The business case should be presentedin 2002 prices. It is for Waverley Railway Partnership to propose the approach toinflation in its business case.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider funding an application from the Waverley Route Trust in respect of its proposed research project on modification of the current railway specification to accommodate the movement of charter and freight trains and of express services taking under 50 minutes from Tweedbank to Edinburgh and a specialist technical, operational and business case study of the potential application of innovative approaches to the Borders railway.
Answer
No. We have funded the WaverleyRailway Partnership to take the project to the current stage. The specificationof the railway is a matter for the partnership to justify in its business case.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Answered by Euan Robson on 29 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many assaults on (a) staff and (b) other young people and incidents involving (i) staff and (ii) other young people were recorded in young people's residential units in each year from 1999-2000 to 2002-03, in total and broken down by residential unit.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
