- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the young people in the Borders who have found employment through the New Deal since its introduction are still in employment and what the nature of that employment is.
Answer
Employment policy is reserved to the UK Government which therefore takes the lead on the funding and delivery of New Deal throughout Great Britain, although in close consultation with its partners, including the Scottish Executive.
This information is not available.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail any proposals there are for further private prisons.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:-
"The Scottish Prison Service is currently conducting a review of the Estate with a view to meeting operational requirements over the next ten years. This is a fundamental review in which nothing is ruled in and nothing ruled out and a full range of options is being considered. Detailed work on the review is continuing and no formal recommendations have yet been made".
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Prison Service is intending to make changes to the terms and conditions of employment of serving prison officers and, if so, what are the changes and what is their purpose.
Answer
I have asked Mr Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond, his response is as follows:
The Scottish Prison Service are introducing new employee related policies on:
Staff attendance patterns, to ensure that staff attend when the business requires it, and to improve efficiency;
Sickness absence management, to improve consistency and effectiveness, and to reduce overall sickness absence;
The filling of vacancies, to improve efficiency; and
Conduct and equal opportunities, to clarify what behaviour is acceptable and what is not, and to guide staff on dealing with unacceptable behaviour from colleagues.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what contacts it has had with whom and when with regard to the Borders cashmere industry and the implications of a possible 100% or more import tariff being imposed by the industry's main export market, the USA, and what assessment it has made of any effect this will have on the 2,000 industry workers and the current value of the industry's order book.
Answer
Ministers fully recognise the importance of the cashmere industry to the Borders and the potential impact on it of US punitive import tariffs. The Scottish Executive is working closely with Scottish Trade International, the Scotland Office, the Department of Trade and Industry and the sector itself to deal with the threat.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 10 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide funding for the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital at Gartnavel so that complementary treatment for cancer sufferers can continue and cancer sufferers do not have to travel to Bristol, where the hospital's Senior Registrar has taken up a new post, in order to continue their treatment.
Answer
I am assured by the North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust, of which the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital is a part, that complementary treatment for cancer sufferers will not be affected as a result of the move of the Senior Registrar to take up a new post with the United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust. The Senior Registrar provided one session a week at the hospital and the clinic which she held has continued to be run since her departure.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 9 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8271 by Iain Gray on 10 July 2000, what specific work is in progress to implement the various strands of the Scottish Advisory on Alcohol Misuse Action Plan.
Answer
I refer Ms Grahame to the answer I gave to her question S1W-8762.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 9 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8272 by Susan Deacon on 10 July 2000, how the effectiveness of the #2.5 million will be appraised and monitored, over what period(s) and whether any such appraisal will be placed in the public domain.
Answer
I refer Ms Grahame to the answer I gave to her question S1W-8762.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 9 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8272 by Susan Deacon on 10 July 2000, how national strategic developments to control alcohol misuse are identified, how the allocation of the #2.5 million to specified national developments will be made, whether any of the allocation has yet been determined and, if it has, to which national strategy developments the additional resources will be allocated over the next three years.
Answer
The Scottish Advisory Committee on Alcohol Misuse (SACAM) was specifically set up to advice the Scottish Executive on the development and implementation of a coherent national strategy, and the most appropriate targeting of available resources.
SACAM identified, within its first Action Plan, the range of developments necessary to lay firm foundations for effective implementation of a robust and sustainable strategy. The work currently in progress will help us to determine the most appropriate targeting of available resources in the longer term. At this stage, available funding is being used to support initial implementation of the Action Plan. Specific work in this respect includes the undertaking of a scoping review of alcohol misuse information; research into costs associated with alcohol misuse and cost-effectiveness of measures to reduce alcohol misuse which will shortly be commissioned; the preparation of an inventory of alcohol services; increased funding to Alcohol Misuse Co-ordinating Committees in recognition of their vital role in alcohol misuse at both local and national level, and to inform prevention and health promotion aspects of a national strategy, SACAM is planning to hold an event later this year to examine evidence and perspectives of alcohol misuse.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 8 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8354 by Susan Deacon on 13 July 2000, what criteria were applied to arrive at the 60% target for immunisation of the over 65 age group from the flu virus this year.
Answer
60% was agreed with representatives of the BMA in Scotland as a Scotland-wide target which is regarded as both achievable and beneficial.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 3 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive during what period in this year the flu vaccine will be available to the over 65 age group.
Answer
It is expected that, as is normal procedure, influenza immunisation will be concentrated in the period between 1 September 2000 to 31 January 2001.
