- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider the proposals on the future of maternity services in Glasgow in relation to the wider impact such changes will have on (a) the West of Scotland and (b) Scotland as a whole.
Answer
Greater Glasgow Health Boardare currently consulting on their proposals for the future of maternityservices in Glasgow. The overview report of the Expert Group on AcuteMaternity Services (2002) makes it clear that acute maternity services shouldbe planned and commissioned in a regional context and when considering theirfinal proposal I will have to be content Greater Glasgow Health Board haveadhered to this.
I have already emphasisedthe importance of this pan-regional approach when I responded to the proposals madeby NHS Argyll and Clyde.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 17 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with COSLA in relation to the nursery nurses' dispute.
Answer
COSLA and the Scottish Executive are in regular formal and informal contact about a wide range of issues.The Executive does not hold central records of how many contacts are made inrelation to any specific issue.
Pay and conditions are amatter for employers and this dispute must be resolved between the localauthorities, as employers, and the trade unions. COSLA has informed us that theyhave made it clear to each local authority they need to enter into localdiscussions with the trade unions to arrive at a local settlement.
The Scottish Executive will continue to encourage the local authorities and unions to keeptalking in order to reach a settlement that is fair for the nursery nurses andfinancially sustainable for the local authorities.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it will give to the 60,000 signatures collected in the Evening Times petition in support of saving the Queen Mother's Hospital.
Answer
I will consider allinformation before me and all representations made to me before I come to adecision.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to protect skills and jobs in the call centre industry in light of global outsourcing of services to Asia.
Answer
Extensive research on callcentres in Scotland and outsourced competition from India has recentlybeen undertaken by Phil Taylor of the University of Stirling and Peter Bain of the University of Strathclyde.The Scottish Executive supported this study and the findings are expectedto be published later this month. The Scottish Executive will be considering thesefindings most carefully together with other partners to see what conclusions canbe drawn.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will take into account the experience of maternity hospital closures in Edinburgh when it considers the Greater Glasgow NHS Board recommendations on the future of maternity services in Glasgow.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-3828. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 11 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what role Strathclyde Passenger Transport will have in Transport Scotland.
Answer
Transport Scotland isproposed to be a strategic body for Scotland as a whole which would work closely with transportbodies across the country. We are currently consulting on the new agency;stronger regional transport partnerships; and Strathclyde Passenger Transportand this consultation will close on 17 December this year.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 10 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to enforce the law on disabled parking bays.
Answer
Under section 47 of the RoadTraffic Regulation Act 1984, a driver may be issued with a fixed penalty noticeif his or her vehicle is not displaying the requisite badge while parked in adesignated disabled person’s parking bay.
The power to inspect suchbadges, under section 73 of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001, is beingcommenced in January 2004 to address abuse of the badge scheme. This sectionwill bring in a new offence of refusing to produce a badge when requested to doso by the police, traffic wardens or local authority parking attendants.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 7 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will cost the implementation of recommendations contained in the University of Glasgow's Department of Urban Studies report Refuges for Women, Children and Young People.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is currently in the process of completing the £12 million DomesticAbuse Refuge Development Programme, provided through Communities Scotland. Thisprogramme of funding was developed to either build or purchase new refuges oradapt, extend and upgrade existing ones. Once this funding programme has beencompleted the Scottish Executive will consider what further action is required.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 7 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what response it has given to the recommendation for women who have been victims of domestic violence to be housed in purpose-built refuges containing single occupancy flats, communal areas and a children's room contained in the University of Glasgow's Department of Urban Studies report Refuges for Women, Children and Young People.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has accepted the recommendations in the report Refuges for Women,Children and Young People. It has already provided £12 million, throughCommunities Scotland, to either build or purchase new refuges or adapt, extendand upgrade existing ones. The programme has given priority to the developmentof new build self-contained flats with communal facilities.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 5 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional resources it has allocated to support the pilot scheme for domestic abuse courts in Glasgow.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-3351 on 5 November 2003. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search-wa.
