- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 6 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much the administration of its central heating programme will cost in total.
Answer
The programme is administered by local authorities and housing associations for their own houses as part of the day to day administration of their stock. The amount of fees payable to Eaga for administering the programme in the private sector will depend on the number of systems installed, which in turn depends on the number of eligible households coming forward. It is therefore not possible at present to estimate the total cost, but fees for work in each dwelling will represent less than 7% of the average grant.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2002
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Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the target waiting time is for patients who have been referred to a hospital to receive information regarding their status on the waiting list.
Answer
There is no national target waiting time for patients referred to hospital to receive details of their appointment with a consultant. The Electronic Clinical Communications Implementation Programme, which is currently being piloted, will support electronic booking of hospital appointments. This will enable patients, where appropriate, to receive details of their hospital outpatient appointment before leaving the GP surgery.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many general dental practitioners in Lothian have closed their patient lists.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. As independent contractors dentists can choose whether to treat individual patients, and some will only treat adult fee-paying patients privately.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2002
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Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 8 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list bids whose applications for funding to (a) the Public Transport Fund and (b) the Integrated Transport Fund were refused.
Answer
The following local authority bids were not awarded funding from Round 4 of the Public Transport Fund:East Renfrewshire Council - A77 Fenwick Road Giffnock Reconfiguration.Renfrewshire Council - Paisley Town Centre Quality Bus project and Paisley Interchange study.Argyll & Bute Council - Lismore and Luing Ferry Services project development work. East Renfrewshire Council - Transportation Study for Glasgow Southern Circumferential Route.Orkney Islands - Public Transport Interchange project.Perth & Kinross Council - Interchange and cycle measures studySouth Ayrshire - Multi-modal travel study.Highland Council - Great Glen Transport Axis and Inverness City Centre Improvements Study.Aberdeen City Council - Urban Realm study.East Dunbartonshire Council- Integrated Community Access Plans study Fife Council - Forth Bridgehead Transportation studyNorth Lanarkshire Council - Safer Routes to School project and Quality Bus Corridors StudyWest Lothian Council - Airdrie Bathgate Railway Line reopening studyWESTRANS - park and ride strategy for West of Scotland developmentThere is no bidding process for the Integrated Transport Fund (ITF). ITF funds are allocated at the discretion of ministers.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how may general medical practitioners in Lothian have closed their patient lists.
Answer
Nine practices in the area of Lothian NHS Board have indicated that they are not currently accepting new patients.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 1 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has given to its staff on the operation of the concordats between it and departments of Her Majesty's Government and on the operation of the Memorandum of Understanding between Her Majesty's Government, Scottish ministers and the Cabinet of the National Assembly for Wales.
Answer
No specific guidance has been issued to Scottish Executive staff on the operation of the Memorandum of Understanding between the UK Government and the devolved administrations and the concordats between Scottish Executive and UK Government Departments, as these documents themselves constitute guidance to staff.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2002
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Answered by Ross Finnie on 30 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what sites are currently in use, or have been identified for future use, as repositories for nuclear waste and what the source of the nuclear waste was, or will be, for each site.
Answer
The latest information on the amount, location and source of radioactive waste presently stored in the UK and predicted to arise in future is contained on the CD-ROM 1998 United Kingdom Radioactive Waste Inventory, a copy of which is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 8385). The Inventory does not include information on past disposal of waste. Dounreay has operated disposal facilities for low and intermediate level waste which has arisen as a result of past activity on the site. The intermediate level waste disposal facility, the so-called "Dounreay shaft", has not been used since 1977. Details of the waste to be recovered from it are included in the Inventory as it is proposed that it will be removed from the shaft.The consultation document Managing Radioactive Waste Safely began the process to develop a long-term policy for the management of solid radioactive waste in the UK. Future stages of this process will consider options for the storage and disposal of radioactive waste. This is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 16146).
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 30 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-21018 by Lewis Macdonald on 3 January 2002, what the eligibility criteria are for the Public Transport Fund.
Answer
The eligibility criteria for the Public Transport Fund are set out in circular DD3/2001 inviting bids. Copies are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 18647).
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2002
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Answered by Wendy Alexander on 30 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring it has undertaken of the effectiveness of the Partnership Action for Continuing Employment contingency plans.
Answer
In March-April 2001 the Executive undertook a series of seminars to review the first year of operation of the Partnership Action for Continuing Employment (PACE) framework.In October 2001 the report Partnership Action for Continuing Employment 2001 Review was published, outlining the key findings from the review. The document included an action plan for the further improvement and development of PACE at a strategic and local level. That included recommendations in respect of early warnings and forward planning.We are also commissioning research on how other countries deal with large-scale redundancies in order to identify other examples of best practice.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 30 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-16250 by Rhona Brankin on 27 June 2001, whether any sites for the repository of nuclear waste material from decommissioned nuclear submarines have now been selected.
Answer
No sites have been selected. I understand that in its announcement on the publication of the final report of the Project ISOLUS Front End Consultation, the Ministry of Defence stated it will not be until industry comes forward with proposals that potential sites will begin to emerge.
