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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S1W-23357

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 March 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22295 by Malcolm Chisholm on 7 February 2002, how many of the 88 young people on the waiting list of the Young People's Unit are from East Lothian.

Question reference: S1W-23356

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 March 2002

Question reference: S1W-23244

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 18 February 2002
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 March 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-3316 by Peter Peacock on 7 February 2000, what the current (a) allocation per nursery place is to local authorities and (b) minimum recommended payment to the provider is.

Question reference: S1W-23648

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 01 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to its press release SE4015/2001 on 19 September 2001, how many NHS trusts have had their financial deficits written off; how much was written off; when the deficits were written off, and who authorised the writing off of each deficit, broken down by NHS trust.

Susan Deacon announced on 19 September 2001, an allocation of an additional £90 million for the NHS in Scotland. Using these resources, seven trusts had their financial deficits written off in this financial year (2001-02).The following amounts were applied against the cumulative deficits of NHS trusts:

	£000
Argyll & Clyde Acute	3,035
Renfrewshire & Inverclyde PCT	1,077
Grampian Acute	4,914
North Glasgow Acute	9,491
South Glasgow Acute	4,092
Highland Acute	2,744
Tayside Acute	15,852
Total	41,205

Question reference: S1O-04841

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 March 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 March 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to the letter to me from the Deputy First Minister and Minister for Justice on 26 February 2002 about the publication of the contract between the Scottish Prison Service and Kilmarnock Prison Services Limited, what is meant by "early next month".

Question reference: S1W-22619

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2002
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 21 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive on what basis extended borrowing was approved for the Western Isles Council following the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.

Western Isles Islands Council lost £23 million following the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. Since there was no immediate prospect of recovering the money and no chance of continuing to be in a position to discharge its statutory obligations without revenue borrowing, the council wrote to the Secretary of State in August 1991 requesting special borrowing consent to replace the £23 million. Exceptionally, on account of the scale of the loss in relation to the council's total financial resources, the Secretary of State granted the council consent to borrow in terms of paragraph 1(2) of schedule 3 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975 to make good the shortfall and maintain its day-to-day cash flow requirements during the remainder of 1991-92. Since the loss was consequent on ultra vires investment activity, the terms of the consent specified that the interest and repayment costs of the borrowing must be met entirely by the council without any grant aid or other financial assistance from the Government.

Question reference: S1W-21782

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 11 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 19 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-20998 by Iain Gray on 8 January 2002, why 43 of the 116 applications made for free central heating in the Scottish Borders area were found to be ineligible.

Nineteen applicants were ineligible because they had a working central heating system and one applicant had not occupied the house for the required 12 months. The remaining 23 was made up of those who had not returned their application forms to EAGA at the time the earlier question was asked. All of those applications have now been processed and qualify for grant. Many have now received their package of measures.

Question reference: S1W-22567

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 19 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to the proposed reduction or removal of funding to Borders Women's Aid by Scottish Borders Council.

Question reference: S1W-22325

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 19 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the planned withdrawal of core funding for Borders Women's Aid, reported in The Southern Reporter on 24 January 2002, and, in light of the service this group provides to women and children who are victims of domestic violence in the Scottish Borders Council area, what action it will take to ensure that this service continues.

The Local Government Spending Review 2000 provides an extra £1.2 billion in support for local government over three years - an increase in real terms of 10.5%. It is the Scottish Executive's view that this should enable all local authorities to provide the necessary support for all women's refuges. It is therefore the responsibility of Scottish Borders Council to allocated funding according to its priorities. The National Group on Domestic Abuse, which I chair, will be looking at funding for service provision as part of its future work programme.

Question reference: S1W-22577

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2002
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 14 February 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to the proposed reduction or removal of funding to the Eyemouth and District Disability Association by Scottish Borders Council.