- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 16 July 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to support the Glasgow Harbour Development in light of the liquidation of Scotdem Demolition Ltd.
Answer
The Executive has no involvement in this project.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 July 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how quality bus contracts will protect bus services for communities located on non-profitable bus routes.
Answer
Quality contracts are part of the "toolkit" of options provided in the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 to allow local authorities to enhance the provision of bus services. Under a quality contract, a local transport authority can determine what bus services are provided in the area covered by the contract, the standards to which they are provided (including frequencies and fares) and additional facilities or services to be provided, for example bus shelters.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 4 July 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to address the increase in violent crime caused by binge drinking in light of comments made by the Chief Constable of Strathclyde Police.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2O-280 on 26 June 2003 which is available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/sch/search.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 27 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of mothers giving birth are in need of immediate acute care.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2O-109 by Malcolm Chisholm on 5 June 2003, how many maternity hospitals meet the Expert Group on Acute Maternity Services' recommendations that consultant-led maternity units dealing with low- to medium-risk pregnancies should have on-site paediatric facilities and that tertiary referral centres dealing with more than 3,000 deliveries per annum should have access to neonatal surgery.
Answer
Consultant-led maternity units dealing with low- to medium-risk pregnancies and labour are described, within A Framework for Maternity Services in Scotland, as providing level IIb intrapartum care. There are three consultant-led units providing IIb care and all have access to on-site paediatric facilities. All four tertiary referral centres in Scotland have access to neonatal surgery.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of babies are in need of immediate paediatric care when born.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 20 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-190 by Nicol Stephen on 3 June 2003, what plans there are to introduce statutory obligations on bus operators to plan bus routes to serve key public services.
Answer
None. Bus operators plan routes to key public services according to their commercial judgement. The statutory obligation to secure the provision of any additional services to meet public transport requirements for socially necessary services rests with local transport authorities.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 19 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what its proposals are to curb neighbourhood noise.
Answer
The Scottish Executive believes there is a need to tackle the issue of neighbourhood noise. In that light, the Executive intends to issue a formal consultation before the 2003 summer recess on its proposed Anti-Social Behaviour Bill, which will include proposals to curb neighbourhood noise.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish its consultation paper on reform of the High Court of Justiciary.
Answer
I am pleased to announce that I am today publishing a white paper setting out wide-ranging proposals for the reform of the High Court of Justiciary. This follows up the review of practices and procedure in the High Court which we asked Lord Bonomy to carry out, and on which he reported to the Executive in December 2002. It represents the next step in our strategy for the systematic modernisation of justice in Scotland.Lord Bonomy made a number of very practical suggestions for a more efficient High Court which better serves the interests of justice. He identified the culture of delays and adjournments as particularly unhelpful to victims, witnesses and jurors, and sought to ensure greater certainty about how and when cases would proceed, and greater sensitivity in how they were handled. We have consulted extensively on Lord Bonomy's proposals, and the white paper published today draws heavily on them. It will pave the way for a bill to be introduced in the autumn for reform of the High Court. This will be complemented by wider changes to the organisation and support of the High Court to deliver more effective handling of the most serious crime. Over the next few days we will circulate copies of the white paper to a wide range of stakeholders in the criminal justice system, including all those who commented on Lord Bonomy's report.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 June 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 18 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much national lottery funding has been allocated in total and per head of population to non-national organisations in each postcode area of Glasgow.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-621 on 17 June 2003. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.