- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration has been given to allocating additional funds to prevent there being only one paramedic on air ambulance night-time flights.
Answer
Decisions about the way the Scottish Ambulance Service allocates its resources are operational matters for them, within their total budget envelope. This includes decisions about resources for the air ambulance service and for staff training. The Scottish Ambulance Service baseline budget for 2007-08 was £177.794 million and for 2008-09 was £183.394 million. The increase represents a 3.15% uplift.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will next discuss with the Scottish Ambulance Service the issue of there being only one paramedic on air ambulance night-time flights.
Answer
The Scottish Government discusses a range of issues with the Scottish Ambulance Service on a regular basis.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 2 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the projected pupil numbers are for primary 1 to 3 classes from August 2010 for (a) Highland, (b) Orkney Islands, (c) Shetland Islands, (d) Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, (e) Argyll and Bute and (f) Moray councils.
Answer
Projected pupil numbers in each stage for each local authority are not generally produced centrally. However, using trends in the five to seven-year-old population from GRO Scotland''s projections and 2007 participation rates, projections for pupils in P1 to P3 classes (also including other pupils in composite classes that have P1 to P3 pupils) would be 8,150 in Highland, 650 in Orkney Islands, 900 in Shetland Islands, 1,050 in Eilean Siar, 2,650 in Argyll and Bute and 2,950 in Moray.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what evaluation has been made of farming incomes for bull producers following withdrawal of the Bull Hire Scheme.
Answer
No such evaluation has been carried out in respect of the withdrawal of the Bull Hire Scheme.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the market value is of Crofters Commission farms.
Answer
The Crofters Commission manages three farms in the Inverness area on behalf of Scottish ministers: Beechwood, Knocknagael and Balrobert.
An agreement to sale has been entered into with Highlands and Islands Enterprise in respect of Beechwood, an agricultural unit totalling approximately 214.3 acres, for £3.15 million.
Knocknagael and Balrobert were collectively valued, as at 31 March 2007, at £2.7 million. No decisions have been taken on the future use or disposal of Knocknagael and Balrobert.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will create new crofts on Crofters Commission farms when the Bull Hire Scheme has ended.
Answer
This will be one of the options to be considered when the future of the farms is appraised by Scottish ministers.
The Scottish Public Finance Manual offers guidance on the factors to be taken into account when ministers consider the future use or disposal of land. Details may be found at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/Finance/spfm/disposalassets/disposalassetsannex.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the criteria were for participating in the Bull Hire Scheme in (a) 2000-01, (b) 2001-02, (c) 2002-03, (d) 2003-04, (e) 2004-05, (f) 2005-06, (g) 2006-07 and (h) 2007-08.
Answer
Individual crofters are not eligible to participate in the subsidised bull hire arrangements operated by the Crofters Commission. In the years in question, eligibility was normally confined to groups representing at least three cow owners. These requirements were designed to prevent the possibility that a group might be formed to support a single business/enterprise.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the criteria are for participating in the Bull Hire Scheme.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-17874 on 27 November 2008. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost was of participating in the Bull Hire Scheme in (a) 2000-01, (b) 2001-02, (c) 2002-03, (d) 2003-04, (e) 2004-05, (f) 2005-06, (g) 2006-07 and (h) 2007-08.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-17871 on 27 November 2008. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 27 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many bulls were replaced during a hire period under the Bull Hire Scheme in (a) 2000-01, (b) 2001-02, (c) 2002-03, (d) 2003-04, (e) 2004-05, (f) 2005-06, (g) 2006-07 and (h) 2007-08.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. The Bull Hire Scheme is administered on behalf of Scottish ministers by the Crofters Commission and I have asked the Chief Executive of the Crofters Commission to respond to you directly with the information you have requested.
