- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 18 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any new guidance is planned for schools in respect of school trips.
Answer
We expect to publish guidance on Health and Safety on Educational Excursions later this month.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 16 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to review the process of funding for research institutes and, if so, whether any measures are being considered that will help ensure the future of those institutes funded directly by it that are unable to compete with the higher education sector for funding from research councils.
Answer
The draft strategy for agricultural and biological research outlined proposals for changes to the funding mechanisms for the commissioning of research by the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department from the main research providers. The final research strategy will be published shortly. Implementation of strategy aims will involve dialogue with research councils which will address the issue of access for research institutes to research council funds.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 16 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures were (a) planned and (b) adopted as a result of Protecting and Promoting Scotland’s Freshwater Fish and Fisheries and what future legislation will be introduced in relation to this sector.
Answer
Protecting and Promoting Scotland’s Freshwater Fish and Fisheries was published in April 2000, and set out where Scotland’s wild fish and fisheries were at the time of publication.
Scotland’s freshwater fish and fisheries: securing their future was published in August 2001, and consulted on a numberof proposals to be adopted in both the short and the long-term.
The Scottish Freshwater Fisheries Forum has now been established to take forward a number of outstanding issues.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 16 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were waiting for digital hearing aids to be fitted in each NHS board area in each of the last three years, expressed also as a percentage of the number of overall requests in each area, and what the average waiting time was in each year in each board area.
Answer
These details are not held centrally. NHS boards should be approached directly for this information.
I also refer the member to the answer to S2W-10218, on 16 November 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 11 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the restructuring of police funding announced by the Minister for Justice on 12 October 2004, what funding will be allocated (a) in total and (b) per capita on a national basis and broken down by police board area for the next three years, and how this compares with the previous three years.
Answer
The available information is shown in the following tables:
Police Grant Aided Expenditure (£ Million)
| Force | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
| Central | 36.9 | 40.3 | 42.4 | 46.0 | 48.2 | 51.9 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 23.2 | 24.7 | 26.2 | 28.0 | 29.1 | 30.5 |
| Fife | 44.4 | 49.5 | 52.9 | 58.2 | 59.7 | 65.8 |
| Grampian | 72.4 | 78.5 | 84.3 | 89.4 | 93.8 | 101.9 |
| Lothian and Borders | 149.1 | 159.8 | 168.8 | 178.8 | 185.4 | 195.2 |
| Northern | 43.5 | 46.7 | 48.9 | 50.4 | 53.6 | 57.4 |
| Strathclyde | 389.1 | 421.0 | 444.1 | 476.4 | 496.3 | 513.5 |
| Tayside | 63.5 | 68.3 | 71.4 | 76.4 | 79.2 | 82.7 |
| Scotland | 822.1 | 888.8 | 939.0 | 1,003.6 | 1,045.2 | 1,098.9 |
GAE Per Capita (£)
| Force | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
| Central | 132 | 144 | 151 | 164 | 172 | 185 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 157 | 168 | 178 | 190 | 198 | 207 |
| Fife | 127 | 141 | 150 | 165 | 170 | 187 |
| Grampian | 138 | 150 | 161 | 171 | 179 | 195 |
| Lothian and Borders | 168 | 180 | 190 | 201 | 209 | 220 |
| Northern | 158 | 169 | 177 | 182 | 194 | 208 |
| Strathclyde | 177 | 191 | 202 | 216 | 225 | 233 |
| Tayside | 164 | 177 | 185 | 198 | 205 | 214 |
| Scotland | 163 | 176 | 186 | 198 | 207 | 217 |
Note: GAE figures per capitafor 2005-06 to 2007-08 are calculated using the latest population estimates at 30 June 2003.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 11 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to open or reopen rural railway stations in the north east.
Answer
Proposals to open or re-openstations are best promoted, in the first instance, by the relevant local authorityor regional transport partnership. Currently, plans are in the process of developmentfor stations at Kintore, Newtonhill and Laurencekirk.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that Grampian Police receives a share of funding which adequately reflects the extra duties it must carry out to police the offshore industry and the royal estate at Balmoral.
Answer
Yes. The new allocation methodology which I announced in October 2004 for police grant aided expenditure was based on an analysis of all policing activity in each Scottish police force.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were defined as living in fuel poverty in each of the last five years, expressed also as a percentage of the total population.
Answer
According to the Scottish House Condition Survey 1996, 738,000 households lived in fuel poverty which made up approximately 35% of the total housing stock. The Scottish House Condition Survey 2002 showed that 286,000 households lived in fuel poverty, approximately 13% of the total housing stock. The Scottish House Condition Survey is the only source we have for reliably measuring fuel poverty.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-10810 by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 September 2004, how it will obtain such information from NHS boards that have not submitted data.
Answer
The Scottish Executive will be producing guidance for the implementation as set out in the publication,
Health for All Children available on the website:
http://www.health- or-all-children.co.uk/which will provide NHS boards with the steps that will be introduced to monitorobesity in children and young people.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-10810 by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 September 2004, for which NHS boards is such information available and how many children in each such board were classified as clinically obese in each of the last five years, expressed also as a percentage of the child population in each board and showing the percentage change on a year-on-year basis.
Answer
Although the information is not available in the exact format requested I have provided the information that is readily available through the Information Services Division. This information has been provided in two tables that provide data on High Body Mass Index and the number of children that have been examined in each participating NHS board. The information is available from the Parliamentary Information Centre (Bib. number 34303). Further data have also been are published in the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland Report, Clinical Outcome Indicators, Clinical Outcomes Group, November 2003. This report shows that of 12-year-olds in Scotland, 33% were overweight, 18% obese and 10-11% severely obese.
