- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any subject areas will be discontinued by education authorities in order to make way for the new e-learning lesson modules operated by the Ministry of Defence, entitled “Defence Dynamics” and, if so, which ones.
Answer
It is for schools and localauthorities to decide on management and delivery of the curriculum in Scottishschools.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Ministry of Defence regarding any specific elements of the current Scottish curriculum that led to Ministry of Defence tri-service teams carrying out 153 visits to Scottish schools in 2005-06, approximately one third of their total number of visits that year.
Answer
None. Such visits would be amatter for schools and local authorities to arrange.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to the Ministry of Defence with regard to recruitment by the armed forces in schools.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has madeno representations to the Ministry of Defence on recruitment by the armed forcesin schools.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has allocated any funding in support of the proposed e-learning lesson modules and “Defence Dynamics” website operated by the Ministry of Defence and aimed at 14 to 16-year-old school pupils.
Answer
No.
- 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 28 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive after how many 999 calls to emergency call controllers requesting the assistance of police officers took three hours 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 |
