- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 8 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any specific assistance is to be made available to help the tourist information office in Aberdeen and local tourist board in light of recent cut backs as well as the impact which the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak has had on local tourism.
Answer
Answer expected on 8 May 2001
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 8 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any specific assistance is to be made available to tourist boards operating in the north east of Scotland in response to the impact of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak on tourism.
Answer
Answer expected on 8 May 2001
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 4 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many specialist multiple sclerosis (MS) nurses there were in each of the last three years; what the ratio of nurses to sufferers was in each year, broken down by health board and, further to the answer to question S1W-12859 by Susan Deacon on 9 February 2001, when the estimated number of MS sufferers for 2000 will be available.
Answer
Information regarding the number and ratio of specialist Multiple Sclerosis nurses is not available centrally. Estimates, based on Continuous Morbidity Recording (CMR) data, of the number of Multiple Sclerosis sufferers in Scotland in the year 2000 are now available.Information from the CMR System estimates that approximately 6,000 individuals were seen by General Practitioners, in respect of Multiple Sclerosis, in Scotland in 2000.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 4 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what rate of return is envisaged for the proposed Scottish water authority.
Answer
The current Rate of Return for the three water authorities is 6.5%. Issues such as the Rate of Return will be settled if, in light of responses to the current consultation exercise on the Water Services Bill, the Executive decides to proceed with the creation of a single water authority.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 4 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether East of Scotland Water has any plans to change the ownership of the Carron Valley reservoir or to enter into partnership arrangements for the management of that reservoir and its associated distribution system.
Answer
This is an operational matter for the East of Scotland Water Authority and I have asked Dr Jon Hargreaves, Chief Executive of ESWA to reply. His response is as follows;East of Scotland Water has no plans to change the ownership of the Carron Valley reservoir or to enter into partnership arrangements for the management of that reservoir and its associated distribution system.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 4 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the ratio is between net additional expenditure on fixed assets and net additional borrowings for each water authority for each of the last five years.
Answer
The figures requested may be calculated from those given in each of the water authorities' published accounts. Copies of their accounts as laid before the Scottish Parliament, and pre-devolution, the Westminster Parliament, back to 1996-97 are held in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
Bib Numbers are as follows: -| Water Authorities' published accounts | Scottish Parliament Information Centre - Bib numbers |
NoSWA | ESWA | WoSWA |
| 1996-97 | 97515 | 12833 | 12836 |
| 1997-98 | 12832 | 12834 | 12837 |
| 1998-99 | 4005 | 12835 | 4004 |
| 1999-2000 | 8790 | 7898 | 7925 |
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 4 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of debt was inherited by each of the water authorities at vesting date and what subsequent interest charges have had to be paid each year since for each authority, giving separate figures for interest charges paid and penalties for redemption in relation to inherited debt.
Answer
The figures requested are given in each of the water authorities' published accounts. Copies of their accounts as laid before the Scottish Parliament, and pre-devolution, the Westminster Parliament, back to 1996-97 are held in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
Bib Numbers are as follows: -| Water Authorities' published accounts | Scottish Parliament Information Centre - Bib numbers |
| NoSWA | ESWA | WoSWA |
| 1996-97 | 97515 | 12833 | 12836 |
| 1997-98 | 12832 | 12834 | 12837 |
| 1998-99 | 4005 | 12835 | 4004 |
| 1999-2000 | 8790 | 7898 | 7925 |
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 4 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what rate of return was set for each of the water authorities and what actual rate of return was achieved for each of the last five years.
Answer
The current rate return set for each of the three water authorities is 6.5%.The figures requested may be calculated from those given in each of the water authorities' published accounts. Copies of their accounts as laid before the Scottish Parliament, and pre-devolution, the Westminster Parliament, back to 1996-97 are held in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
Bib Numbers are as follows: -| Water Authorities' published accounts | Scottish Parliament Information Centre - Bib numbers |
| NoSWA | ESWA | WoSWA |
| 1996-97 | 97515 | 12833 | 12836 |
| 1997-98 | 12832 | 12834 | 12837 |
| 1998-99 | 4005 | 12835 | 4004 |
| 1999-2000 | 8790 | 7898 | 7925 |
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration is being given to the establishment of a drug court in the north east, what the reasons are for its position on this matter and, if such a court is to be established, where it will be sited and what the timetable is for its establishment.
Answer
I expect to receive the proposals from the steering group considering the model for a drug court within Glasgow Sheriff Court shortly. This will inform my decision on the piloting of other drug courts. Meantime work is underway to introduce Drug Treatment and Testing Orders to sheriff courts in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time for paediatric orthodontic treatment was in each of the last three years, broken down by health board area.
Answer
Most paediatric orthodontic treatments carried out within hospital and community health service settings are undertaken on an outpatient basis and information on waiting times for such treatments is not held centrally.
