- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 6 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what support and advice it will give to Strathclyde Passenger Transport to ensure that there is no repetition of the Glasgow Underground shutdown on 31 July.
Answer
The operation of the Glasgow Underground is a matter for the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 3 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it considers should be taken to enable the Glasgow road networks and other public transport networks to accommodate the potential increase in the number of football fans no longer using the Underground systems to travel to matches in midweek and at weekends.
Answer
The operation of the Glasgow Underground is a matter for the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive. It is for the Executive and Glasgow City Council to consider appropriate contingency arrangements to accommodate service alterations or cancellations on the Underground.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 August 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 3 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the likely impact on acute patient mortality and morbidity in the area covered by Greater Glasgow Health Board of closing down acute service facilities in the Victoria Infirmary and the Western Infirmary and concentrating acute services in the Southern General and the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Answer
It is for Greater Glasgow Health Board to assess and provide the health care services to meet the needs of their local population. To date no firm decisions have been made in relation to the future configuration of acute health care services in Glasgow. However, when considering the possible reconfiguration of acute services, the Board will ensure that access to local services is balanced against the need to provide acute services at the highest level. The Health Board will, of course, consult in due course on any proposals for change.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 August 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 3 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to improve rail services in Scotland.
Answer
This financial year, over £208 million of public money will be spent to secure passenger train services in Scotland. An additional £6.1 million will be available for Scottish rail freight schemes.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 August 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 2 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to improve rail services in Scotland.
Answer
This financial year, over £208 million of public money will be spent to secure passenger train services in Scotland. An additional £6.1 million will be available for Scottish rail freight schemes.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 2 September 1999
To ask the Presiding Officer how the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body proposes to enforce the ban on MSPs and staff smoking in Parliament Headquarters.
Answer
The SPCB recently reaffirmed that the entire Parliamentary complex should be a smoke free environment. The SPCB will be looking to the Business Managers to assist in exhorting all Members to observe the ban. Any Member or their staff found smoking in the Parliamentary complex will be reported to the SPCB, who will consider appropriate action. Parliament staff found smoking will be dealt with under the disciplinary procedures.The Scottish Parliament Policy on Smoking in the Workplace, which reinforces this message will be issued to all Members, their staff and Parliament staff this week.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 August 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 1 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive when it proposes to examine the possibility of establishing a direct ferry link between Anstruther and North Berwick.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is currently part-funding a study of fast ferry links on routes between Granton, Rosyth and Burntisland in the context of its involvement with the Forth Transport Infrastructure Partnership. The findings of this study will be available later this year. The ferry study is one element of a wide-ranging consideration by the Partnership of options for cross-Forth travel.The Executive has no plans to investigate the possibility of a direct ferry service between Anstruther and North Berwick.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 August 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 1 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive how much revenue was raised through the car park trading account of each local authority in 1997/8; what was the expenditure on car parking facilities for each local authority in Scotland in 1997/8, and what was the accumulated balance held in the car park trading account of each local authority in Scotland at the end of financial year 1997/8.
Answer
Information on local authority car park trading accounts is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 August 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 31 August 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to assist the charity Epilepsy Bereaved in carrying out a national sentinel audit into epilepsy related deaths in Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish Executive are proposing to fund a bid by Epilepsy Bereaved to extend the national sentinel audit they are undertaking into epilepsy deaths in England, to cover cases of epilepsy related deaths in Scotland.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 31 August 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there will be any implications for local authorities as both purchasers and providers of services when the Competition Act 1998 comes into force next year, and if so, what the implications will be.
Answer
The Competition Act 1988 applies to all undertakings engaged in economic activities whatever their legal status. Local authorities which engage in commercial or economic activities relating to goods or services will be covered by the provisions of the Act as will those businesses which provide goods and services to local authorities and their activities will therefore equally be subject to the prohibitions in the Act. Competition being a reserved matter, the Act will be enforced throughout the UK by the Director General of Fair Trading who has made contact with all local authorities and is undertaking an education programme to ensure that their staff are equipped to detect cartels and anti-competitive practices which may operate in their areas of activity.
