- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 20 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what the remit of the Glasgow Film fund is.
Answer
The business of Glasgow Film Fund Limited (GFF) is to make commercial equity or loan investments in films made by Glasgow-based companies or by companies using Glasgow as a substantive production location.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 20 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive Scottish Executive what importance it attaches to the family mediation service, and what funding it currently gives to it.
Answer
The Scottish Executive places great importance on the work of organisations offering family mediation in Scotland. Grants for the current financial year are detailed in the table below.
| Family Mediation - Borders | £12,058 |
| Family Mediation - Central | £66,396 |
| Family Mediation - Dumfries & Galloway | £23,855 |
| Family Mediation - Grampian | £24,236 |
| Family Mediation - Highland | £24,356 |
| Family Mediation - Lothian | £17,510 |
| Family Mediation - Tayside | £38,928 |
| Family Mediation - West | £22,660 |
| Family Mediation - Western Isles | £27,110 |
| Family Mediation Scotland | £62,830 |
| Total | £319,939 |
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 10 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what assistance, financial or otherwise, it currently gives to the Scottish music industry.
Answer
As this information is rather lengthy, I shall write to the Member and arrange for the information to be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe).
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 25 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to publish further bilateral concordats between departments of Her Majesty's Government and UK agencies and their counterparts or contacts in the Scottish Executive.
Answer
The following bilateral Concordats are being published today:Health and Safety ExecutiveDepartment of Trade and IndustryOffice for National StatisticsDepartment of Culture, Media and SportA Concordat will also be published today covering Public Procurement.The texts have been made available to the Parliament and are available in the Document Supply Centre and on the Executive's web site.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 25 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether payments from the Irish Government for ECMO treatment carried out at Yorkhill Children's Hospital will now come directly to Greater Glasgow Health Board, rather than being retained by the Department of Health.
Answer
This is a reserved matter. Payments made by overseas Governments in this regard are paid direct to the Westminster Consolidated Fund.The cost to each health board area of care provided under the negotiated reciprocal health care agreements is recognised within the total resources allocated to each health board each year.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 5 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Association for Children with Heart Disorders, Glasgow Branch, the largest user group of children's cardiac services in Scotland, has been asked to contribute to the ongoing review of the future of the Paediatric Surgery Service in Scotland and, if not, why not.
Answer
The views of the Glasgow Branch of the Association for Children with Heart Disorders were canvassed on the future of paediatric cardiac surgery in Scotland, and they also made representations on the issue.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 5 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive how many women have been detained in Cornton Vale prison for non payment of fines.
Answer
Provisional figures indicate that there were 512 receptions to Cornton Vale prison for non payment of fines in the calendar year to 31 December 1998 and 148 to 31 August 1999.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 28 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what community service provision there currently is for female offenders, and whether it has any specific plans to reduce the female prison population.
Answer
All local authority criminal justice social work departments in Scotland provide Community Service Schemes. Authorities are required to ensure that schemes for unpaid work in the community offer a sufficient range of placements to be able to accommodate offenders with differing employment, personal or domestic circumstances.Following the publication of a major review of the use of custody for women, Women Offenders - A Safer Way, undertaken by the Chief Inspector of Prisons and Chief Inspector of Social Work, an inter-agency forum, chaired by Professor Sheila McLean, was set up last year to consider the issues raised by the review.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 16 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will make a decision on the future of cardiac surgery at Glasgow Royal Hospital for Sick Children.
Answer
Today I announced my decision on the future of the paediatric cardiac surgery service in Scotland. The Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill is to become Scotland's single centre for children's heart surgery.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 16 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will make a decision on the future of cardiac surgery at Glasgow Royal Hospital for Sick Children.
Answer
Today I announced my decision on the future of the paediatric cardiac surgery service in Scotland. The Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill is to become Scotland's single centre for children's heart surgery.
