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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S1W-22578

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 14 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to the proposed reduction or removal of funding to Children 1st by Scottish Borders Council.

Question reference: S1W-22576

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 14 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to the proposed reduction or removal of funding to Penumbra by Scottish Borders Council.

Question reference: S1W-22575

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 14 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to the proposed reduction or removal of funding to Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland by Scottish Borders Council.

Question reference: S1W-22562

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 14 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to the proposed reductions in the hearing impairment service by Scottish Borders Council.

Question reference: S1W-22563

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 14 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to the proposed reductions in nursing home provision by Scottish Borders Council.

Question reference: S1W-22572

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 14 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to the proposed reduction or removal of funding to the First Step Trust by Scottish Borders Council.

Question reference: S1W-22573

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 14 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to the proposed reduction or removal of funding to Borderline by Scottish Borders Council.

Question reference: S1W-22329

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 14 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on planned cuts to the continuing education program in the Scottish Borders Council area, reported in The Southern Reporter on 24 January 2002, and what action it will take on this matter.

Question reference: S1W-22459

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 12 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-21536 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 21 January 2002, when an offer of Regional Selective Assistance was made to Manpower plc, Selkirk; when that offer was accepted; what the total amount of the offer was, and to what conditions any payments will be subject and when they will be made.

An offer of Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) was made to Manpower in November 2000. The company has still to formally accept this offer. Details of the amount of RSA offers is made public in Labour Market Trends when the first instalment has been paid to a company; until then this remains commercially confidential. Similarly, details of the conditions attached to any offer are part of a contract between the company and the Scottish Executive and remain confidential.

Question reference: S1W-22460

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 12 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22102 by Mr Jim Wallace on 21 January 2002, whether the contracting out to a specialist provider of the escorting of prisoners will result in reduction in the staffing levels of prison officers and, if so, what the projected reduction is.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. His response is as follows:The restructuring of prisoner escort arrangements will mean that the SPS will, over time, need about 200 fewer prison officer posts, but all our staff have been given a firm undertaking that that there will be no compulsory redundancies: any surplus staff will be suitably re-deployed.