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Business Bulletin No. 162/2001 |
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Friday 9 November 2001 |
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Section E : Written questions lodged on 8 November 2001 |
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S1W-19770 Irene McGugan: To ask the Scottish Executive (a) whether there are any guidelines on (i) how many computers schoolrooms should be equipped with, (ii) the minimum network requirements of supporting such provision and (iii) best practice in respect of educational use of computers and (b) how many schools are not currently operating within any such guidelines. S1W-19801 Stewart Stevenson: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail the number of reported incidences of mites and varroa disease in the bee population in each of the past five years, giving the most appropriate area breakdown available. S1W-19802 Dr Elaine Murray: To ask the Scottish Executive how many schools have rolls of 50 or fewer pupils. S1W-19803 David Mundell: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to bring forward legislation equivalent to the Animal Health Bill which has been introduced in England and Wales. S1W-19804 Fiona McLeod: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has established a mechanism to provide small businesses with practical, sector-specific advice and information on compliance with legislation and regulations relating to environmental issues. S1W-19805 Mr Gil Paterson: To ask the Scottish Executive what the average length of time has been for giving (a) substantive answers to all written parliamentary questions and (b) substantive answers to written parliamentary questions which received a holding answer, since May 1999. S1W-19806 Brian Adam: To ask the Scottish Executive how many assessments of carers' needs were made by each local authority in the last year for which figures are available. S1W-19807 Brian Adam: To ask the Scottish Executive what duties it has placed, or plans to place, on local authorities to identify and assess the needs of individual carers. S1W-19808 Dennis Canavan: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ensure that representatives of the Scottish Bus Group Pensioners' Action Committee are allowed to participate in any discussions on the distribution of the ex-gratia payments from the Scottish Transport Group pension funds surplus. S1W-19809 Stewart Stevenson: To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to prevent the spread of mites and varroa disease in the bee population. S1W-19810 Irene Oldfather: To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has issued to health boards regarding the additional £18.6 million for improvements to general medical practices announced by the Minister for Health and Community Care on 13 June 2001. S1W-19811 Irene Oldfather: To ask the Scottish Executive whether the £18.6 million announced on 13 June 2001 for improvements to general medical practices will go directly to the practices themselves. S1W-19812 Fiona McLeod: To ask the Scottish Executive what estimates it has received of the number of compulsory redundancies, if any, that will result from the creation of Scottish Water. S1W-19813 Fiona McLeod: To ask the Scottish Executive what estimates it has received of the number of staff who will take voluntary retirement as a result of the creation of Scottish Water in each of the financial years 2001-02, 2002-03 and 2003-04. S1W-19814 Nicola Sturgeon: To ask the Scottish Executive what explicit responsibility it or any of its non-departmental public bodies or executive agencies have for monitoring accidental and non-accidental major injury statistics and, if no body has this responsibility, what plans it has to start monitoring such statistics. S1W-19815 Nicola Sturgeon: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to make the monitoring of accidental and non-accidental major injury statistics a responsibility of (a) NHS Trusts or (b) the proposed unified NHS Boards. S1W-19816 Nicola Sturgeon: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to encourage and support the establishment of a nurse education programme in trauma rehabilitation. S1W-19817 Nicola Sturgeon: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to ensure that prevention of, and rehabilitation from, major injury receives a high profile in the interests of public health. S1W-19818 Mr Keith Harding: To ask the Presiding Officer, further to his answer to question S1W-19461 on 12 November 2001, what the total costs were of publishing, printing and distributing the Scottish Parliament Annual Report 2000 to 2001 in languages other than English. S1W-19819 Mr Brian Monteith: To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Deputy Minister for Sport, the Arts and Culture has had any discussions with the chairman or other representatives of the Scottish Arts Council regarding the future of its director. S1W-19820 Andrew Wilson: To ask the Scottish Executive on what dates, for each contract area, it received the relevant information required under Schedule 3, Part 4, paragraphs 5 and 6 of the Term Contract for Management and Maintenance of the Trunk Road Network. S1W-19821 Ms Sandra White: To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it issues to health boards on the provision of digital hearing aids. S1W-19822 Ms Sandra White: To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been supplied with digital hearing aids since May 1999, broken down by health board area. S1W-19823 Ms Sandra White: To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to improve the availability of digital hearing aids. S1W-19824 Ms Sandra White: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to discontinue the issuing of analogue hearing aids and issue digital hearing aids instead. S1W-19825 Ms Sandra White: To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to publish the findings of the Review of Audiology Services Working Group. S1W-19826 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive when it plans to implement those aspects of the Report of the Renewing Local Democracy Working Group not concerned with proportional representation. S1W-19827 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive what its current estimates are of the rate of return on capital in schools funded wholly or partly through the Private Finance Initiative. S1W-19828 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the relationship between class size and examination results. S1W-19829 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to ensure that persistent young offenders are brought before the courts more speedily than at present. S1W-19830 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive what targets it has set for improving the educational attainment of children in care. S1W-19831 Mr Kenneth Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive what the actual cost was to the NHS in each of the past five years of patients failing to keep appointments and what steps it is taking to reduce these occurrences.
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