- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards fund intracytoplasmic sperm injection treatment for infertility.
Answer
The following table shows the NHS boards which currently fund ICSI treatment:
| NHS Board | ICSI (Yes/No) |
| Argyll and Clyde NHS Board | No |
| Ayrshire and Arran NHS Board | Yes |
| Borders NHS Board | Yes |
| Dumfries and Galloway NHS Board | Yes |
| Fife NHS Board | Yes |
| Forth Valley NHS Board | Yes |
| Grampian NHS Board | Yes |
| Greater Glasgow NHS Board | Yes |
| Highland NHS Board | Yes |
| Lanarkshire NHS Board | Yes |
| Lothian NHS Board | Yes |
| Orkney NHS Board | Yes |
| Shetland NHS Board | Yes |
| Tayside NHS Board | Yes |
| Western Isles NHS Board | Yes |
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to make the criminal justice system more transparent.
Answer
The Executive is continually looking to improve the effectiveness of the criminal justice system and we seek wide public involvement in this work. Lord Bonomy, for example, placed press advertisements seeking views on his review of the High Court and the committee chaired by Sheriff Principal McInnes that is reviewing summary justice has recently issued a consultation paper seeking views from those working in the criminal justice system and from the wider public. Ministers have announced their intention to establish an independent Judicial Appointments Board whose role will be to make recommendations to the First Minister about the appointment of all new Judges and Sheriffs. The board will have equal numbers of lay and legal members.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to improve communication between the police, the procurator fiscal service and the victims of crime and their families.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-24440.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to review how victims of crime and their families are treated by the criminal justice system.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is demonstrating its continuing commitment to victims and their families within the criminal justice system through the implementation of the Scottish Strategy for Victims. The strategy has been developed by the main criminal justice agencies with the objectives of improving support and information for victims as well as increasing opportunities for victims to participate in the criminal justice system. Each of the agencies has published an action plan to support the strategy and implementation is monitored by the Victims Steering Group, a multi-agency forum which promotes the interests of victims and their families within the justice system. As a result, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service has established the Victim Liaison Office to improve the availability of information about the progress of individual cases reported to Procurators Fiscal for victims and bereaved next of kin. The police have also resolved the data protection issues in relation to passing information to Victim Support Scotland to make it easier for victims of crime who wish it, to get the support they need. In addition, the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill includes provisions to give victims certain rights to improve the position of victims and their families in the criminal justice system. Thus certain victims of crime, if they wish it, will have a statutory right to be informed of an offender's release from prison; to make representations to the Parole Board before a decision is taken on the release of a prisoner, and to receive information about the outcome of Parole Board reviews and licence conditions. The Executive also plans to pilot a scheme which will allow victims to make a statement about the impact of the crime to better inform decisions.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to place a statutory obligation on the police, the Crown Office and the courts system to ensure that the victims of crime and their families are given essential information relating to their case.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-24440.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Elaine Murray on 16 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made with plans to review the location of sportscotland's headquarters as part of its general relocation policy.
Answer
As recommended in last year's organisational review of sportscotland and following the development of a remit with the Executive, sportscotland has appointed PMP Consultancy to carry out a property review and facilities strategy study. A key part of that review will consider further the options for the future location of sportscotland's headquarters taking account of the Executive's policy on location and re-location of public sector jobs. A report on this is due at the end of July.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 16 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the microcredit programme is exclusively targeted at women and, if so, in what way and how the programme targets match the terms of the announcement made on International Women's Day on 8 March 2000.
Answer
The microcredit programme is not exclusively targeted at women as sex discrimination legislation generally prohibits restricting funding schemes in this way. It is expected, however, that the majority of recipients of microcredit will be women as proposed in the original announcement. Details of the programme are available through Small Business Gateway outlets.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 16 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been disbursed under the microcredit programme in each year from 2000-01 to date.
Answer
The first tranche of funding - £70,000 - was spent in financial year 2001-02 during February-March 2002. Disbursement of funding is a matter for Scottish Enterprise.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 16 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make representations to the Ministry of Defence and Her Majesty's Government to provide substantial resources for a job creation programme for the areas affected by redundancies at Faslane and Coulport naval dockyards.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-24408.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 16 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was allocated to the microcredit programme in 2001-02 and what funding will be allocated in (a) 2002-03 and (b) 2003-04.
Answer
The Executive has allocated £1 million for the microcredit programme to Scottish Enterprise over a three-year period. In year 2001-02 Scottish Enterprise spent £70,000. The balance of funding is expected to be utilised in years 2002-03 and 2003-04, and into 2004-05.
