- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Monday, 02 September 2002
-
Current Status:
Answered by Elish Angiolini on 16 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions were raised under section 272 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 in each year since 1997, broken down by local authority.
Answer
There have been no prosecutions under section 272 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Friday, 09 August 2002
-
Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 6 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will make an announcement regarding payments from the Scottish Transport Group pension fund and what sum will be paid out.
Answer
I announced on 12 August 2002 that an additional £8 million had been secured by Scottish ministers, bringing the total amount to be distributed to £126 million, and that letters were being sent to eligible former Scottish Transport pension scheme members to initiate the payment process.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Friday, 09 August 2002
-
Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 6 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the full amount of the surplus of the Scottish Transport Group pension fund will be paid out this year or whether 20% of the fund is to be retained until 2003.
Answer
An initial payment representing most of the overall total will be made to identified beneficiaries this financial year, with the remaining amount paid in the next financial year once the details of all those who are eligible are known.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Friday, 09 August 2002
-
Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 6 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether payments from the Scottish Transport Group pension fund surplus will be made before the end of August 2002.
Answer
The Scottish Public Pensions Agency began making payments on 31 August 2002.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Friday, 09 August 2002
-
Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 6 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether payments from the Scottish Transport Group pension fund surplus will be made in full to the widows of fund contributors and whether it will act upon the recommendations of the Petitions Committee made at its meeting on 25 June 2002.
Answer
I refer the member to my letter to the Convener of the Scottish Public Petitions Committee dated 9 August 2002, a copy of which I understand has been sent to the member.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2002
-
Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 5 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements have been put in place by each NHS board to assist in the provision of GP out-of-hours services; what amount of each board's budget has been used for the provision of such services in each of the last three years, and how much it estimates such services will cost in the (a) current year and (b) next two years.
Answer
All GPs are eligible for an annual payment (currently £2,510) for providing out of hours services and for a night visit fee (currently £25.10) for each face to face consultation carried out between the hours of 10pm and 8am. These fees and allowances are prescribed in the Statement of Fees and Allowances payable to GPs and are paid from the NHS Board's General Medical Services demand-led budget. In addition, NHS Island Boards and Primary Care Trusts assist in the provision of out of hours services in their area by providing funding from the Out of Hours Development Fund. The fund forms part of the overall cash limited budget given to boards each year. The following table provides a breakdown of each area's expenditure on out-of-hours services from the development fund over the last three years. The table also shows the estimated expenditure for the current year. Information on the estimated costs for the next two years is not available.Breakdown of NHS Board Expenditure On Out Of Hours Provision
| Primary Care Trust/ Island NHS Board | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03Forecast Expenditure |
| Argyll and Clyde | 510,890 | 584,508 | 543,384 | 522,000 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 750,490 | 747,075 | 819,289 | 792,058 |
| Borders | 192,342 | 215,650 | 226,841 | 243,009 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 320,784 | 377,615 | 426,766 | 374,932 |
| Fife | 353,767 | 410,455 | 421,900 | 437,000 |
| Forth Valley | 297,592 | 303,419 | 370,084 | 334,000 |
| Grampian | 555,530 | 611,709 | 708,455 | 732,000 |
| Greater Glasgow | 1,803,000 | 1,496,188 | 1,531,000 | 1,567,000 |
| Highland | 343,508 | 406,386 | 429,841 | 305,000 |
| Lanarkshire | 496,384 | 507,019 | 511,740 | 567,000 |
| Lothian | 1,506,791 | 1,549,537 | 1,669,086 | 1,645,645 |
| Orkney NHS Board | 35,411 | 43,567 | 33,395 | 41,000 |
| Shetland NHS Board | 23,944 | 22,782 | 23,272 | 29,000 |
| Tayside | 404,794 | 459,181 | 520,727 | 549,600 |
| Western Isles NHS Board | 54,265 | 45,500 | 47,000 | 47,000 |
| Scotland Total | 7,649,492 | 7,780,591 | 8,282,780 | 8,186,244 |
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 July 2002
-
Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 26 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has given any recent approval for expenditure to be paid to four landed estates for a programme of deer culling; if so, how much this totalled; what rate was paid per carcass, and whether this represented value for money.
Answer
No such approval has been given.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 July 2002
-
Current Status:
Answered by Elaine Murray on 26 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what recognition sportscotland will give to international shinty fixtures between Scotland and Ireland and, if none, whether it will invite sportscotland to give recognition to these fixtures.
Answer
Sportscotland does not recognise the annual match between the shinty players of Scotland and the hurlers of Ireland as there is no international federation for shinty under whose auspices international competitions can take place. This is a matter for sportscotland and the Executive has no plans to intervene.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Friday, 19 July 2002
-
Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 16 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will request the European Commission to readdress the issue of the setting of the west of Scotland nephrops total allowable catch (TAC) with a view to reinstating the reduction of 10% of the TAC introduced in 2001.
Answer
We hope to address this in the autumn negotiations on TACs.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Friday, 19 July 2002
-
Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 16 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it submitted evidence to the European Commission regarding the lack of impact that the nephrops fishery had on cod and whether it will place in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre copies of any evidence which it submitted to the Commission in relation to this issue.
Answer
The UK submitted evidence to the Commission on several occasions in 2001 to illustrate that higher landings of nephrops did not result in higher landings of cod. The specific nature of this correspondence is confidential.
