- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 28 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive after how many 999 calls to emergency call controllers requesting the assistance of police officers took an hour or more to respond in each year since 2000, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of 999 calls requesting police assistance and broken down by police force area and division.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. Chief constables of the individual Scottish police forces are responsiblefor the operation of this service.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 26 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions members of the armed forces have been deployed in Scotland in support of policing operations in each year since 1999, broken down by police force.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. Scottish police forces may call on support from the armed forces underthe terms of Military Aid to the Civil Authorities. It is for individual Chief Constablesto decide whether they require assistance from the armed forces for specific operations.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 26 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has received from emergency planning officers or emergency planning representatives’ groups in each year since 2002 about any lack of equipment to deal with a civil emergency incident involving a “dirty bomb”, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is notaware of any representation since 2002, from either emergency planning officersor representative groups, about a lack of equipment to deal with a “dirty bomb”.However, the Executive engages constantly with all the key representative organisations,including those covering local government interests, about all aspects of emergencyplanning and response. As a result of this dialogue Scotland’s capabilityfor dealing with all types of emergency is improving continually.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 26 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many families with children under five are without central heating and what the cost would be of extending free central heating to those families.
Answer
The Scottish House ConditionSurvey estimates that in the year from October 2003 to September 2004 there werearound 7,000 families with children under the age of five without central heating.Individual installation costs vary but it is estimated that it would cost approximately£24 million to provide these families with central heating systems.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated average numbers of people have been that could be processed through decontamination tents in the event of a civil emergency incident involving a “dirty bomb” in each year since 2002, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Scottish Ambulance Service
The Scottish Ambulance Servicehas eight Special Operations Response Teams strategically located across Scotland to providea swift response to major incidents including terrorist incidents involving theuse of a “dirty bomb”.
Each unit is capable of decontaminating24 ambulant persons per hour. All the equipment was purchased in 2003.
Fire and Rescue Service
Since the introduction of theNew Dimension programme, eight dedicated mass decontamination units have been providedto seven of the eight Scottish Fire and Rescue Services on a risk and populationbasis. Each mass decontamination structure is designed to decontaminate a maximumof 200 ambulant persons per hour.
These are currently distributedon a Fire and Rescue Service (FRA) basis as follows:
| Central Scotland FRS | 1 Unit | Operational 2003 |
| Dumfries and Galloway FRS | 1 Unit | Due to go live 2007 |
| Grampian FRS | 1 Unit | Operational 2004 |
| Highland and Islands FRS | 1 Unit | Due to go live 2007 |
| Lothian and Borders FRS | 1 Unit | Operational 2004 |
| Strathclyde FRS | 2 Units | 1 Unit operational 2003, 2nd unit 2004 |
| Tayside FRS | 1 Unit | Operational 2006 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish Ambulance Service calculates average response times across Scotland.
Answer
Response times are calculatedfrom the time the main patient complaint is established to the time the first ambulanceresource arrives at the scene. Average response times are calculated by dividingthe total number of incidents by the total of the response times.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of “dusk to dawn cover” was operated by each operational division of the Scottish Ambulance Service at 13 February in each year from 2000 to 2007, broken down by day of the week, shift time and number of vehicles.
Answer
The information requested couldonly be obtained at disproportionate cost.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of “dawn to dusk cover” was operated by each operational division of the Scottish Ambulance Service at 13 February in each year from 2000 to 2007, broken down by day of the week, shift time and number of vehicles.
Answer
The information requested couldonly be obtained at disproportionate cost.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 20 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many exemptions Scottish ministers have applied to justify withholding information from disclosure under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 in each month since January 2005.
Answer
There are 17 exemptions tothe disclosure of information provided for in the Freedom of Information (Scotland)Act 2002. The Executive has used all but one of these exemptions - AuditFunctions - as and when appropriate to the particular request.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 20 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Brix notes have been considered by Scottish ministers to be exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, broken down by month since March 2006.
Answer
The Scottish Executive’s Freedomof Information Unit have been notified of the following requests for Brix notesin each month since March 2006 for which a refusal notice has been issuedbecause an exemption under the act applies. April 2006 - 6, May 2006 - 6, June 2006- 12, July 2006 - 18. Between August 2006 and January 2007 - 4.
