- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many warrants have been issued under regulation 17(3) of the Licensing of Animal Dealers (Young Cats and Dogs) (Scotland) Regulations 2009.
Answer
The enforcement of the Licensing of Animal Dealers (Young Cats and Young Dogs) (Scotland) Regulations 2009 is a matter for local authorities. The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive on what grounds licensing applications have been rejected under the Licensing of Animal Dealers (Young Cats and Dogs) (Scotland) Regulations 2009.
Answer
The issuing of licences under the Licensing of Animal Dealers (Young Cats and Young Dogs) (Scotland) Regulations 2009 is a matter for local authorities. The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many appeals have been lodged under the Licensing of Animal Dealers (Young Cats and Dogs) (Scotland) Regulations 2009 and how many have been successful in part or in whole.
Answer
The issuing of licences under the Licensing of Animal Dealers (Young Cats and Young Dogs) (Scotland) Regulations 2009 is a matter for local authorities. The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many licensing applications have been rejected under the Licensing of Animal Dealers (Young Cats and Dogs) (Scotland) Regulations 2009, also expressed as a percentage.
Answer
The issuing of licences under the Licensing of Animal Dealers (Young Cats and Young Dogs) (Scotland) Regulations 2009 is a matter for local authorities. The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 June 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 17 June 2009
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many small and medium-sized enterprises (a) bid for contracts for services in the Parliament and (b) were successful in whole or part, also expressed as a percentage, in each year since 1999.
Answer
The information below shows how many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been successful in bidding for Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) contracts (goods and services) by number since April 2003.
This historical information is only available from 2003 in a percentage format as this was when procurement services commenced its Responsible Purchasing Initiative, part of which contained a commitment to actively remove barriers to SME participation in SPCB procurement.
To date, the number of SMEs that have bid for contracts has not been recorded. However, as part of the SPCB''s Responsible Purchasing Strategy, procurement services is currently developing a system to obtain this information, which will start to be published from 1 April 2010 (from this date we will also record and publish the same statistics for social enterprises)
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/corporate/procurement/docs/Strategy-FINAL.pdf.
| Years | Total Number of Contracts Let to SMEs |
| 2003-04 | 39% |
| 2004-05 | 48% |
| 2005-06 | 45% |
| 2006-07 | 62% |
| 2007-08 | 67% |
| 2008-09 | 53% |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 June 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 11 June 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what efforts are being made to support expanding businesses in the Scottish Borders during the economic downturn.
Answer
In the face of recession, we remain firmly committed to our overarching purpose of increasing sustainable economic growth. However, we are very aware that action is required now to protect the nation from the worst of the downturn and ensure Scotland is well placed to recover quickly. We will publish an updated Programme for Economic Recovery on 15 June.
This programme allows us to be dynamic and flexible in our response to the downturn yet remain within the overall direction of our Government Economic Strategy.
To this end we have charged Scottish Enterprise to assist growing companies in the Borders and throughout Scotland, to address particular areas of their business including: refocusing strategy; developing new market/customer opportunities; new product development and innovation; reducing operating costs and increasing efficiencies, and advice on access to funding where appropriate.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been distributed to provide ophthalmic services, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
General Ophthalmic Services (GOS) is a demand led primary care service. The (GOS) budget is non-discretionary and NHS boards are funded to the level of their expenditure in meeting the costs in their area of providing the NHS eye examinations, optical vouchers issued and the fees for domiciliary visits. The GOS budget for 2008-09 was £83.9 million and is £87.4 million for 2009-10.
An additional £8 million of capital funding was made available to optical practices through NHS boards over the financial years 2007-08 and 2008-09, primarily for the provision of digital fundus cameras to further support the development of the NHS eye examinations.
NHS boards also received a further £2.6 million of pump priming funding over the financial years 2007-08 and 2008-09 to help implement the recommendations of the Review of Community Eyecare Services in Scotland.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish Environment Protection Agency enforcement notices have been served against military facilities or installations in each year since 2003.
Answer
Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) issued five statutory enforcement notices under the Control of Pollution Act 1974 in 2003 in respect of RAF Kinloss. No other statutory enforcement notices have been served on any military installation by SEPA since 2003.
Administrative enforcement action was taken by SEPA in 2008 against Her Majesty''s Naval Base Clyde at Faslane.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any of its officials or agencies have undertaken an assessment of the potential environmental and health impacts of radioactive contamination from the Faslane nuclear submarine base.
Answer
Yes. Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) routinely monitors the levels of radioactive contamination around Faslane. The purpose of this monitoring is to examine the dispersion of radioactive discharges from the site and to confirm the safety of the food chain. The results of its assessment are published annually in the
Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE) report. The report is published jointly by SEPA, the Food Standards Agency, Environment Agency and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency.
A copy of the most recently published RIFE report covering 2007 (Bib. number 47127) and previous reports for 2003 to 2006 (Bib. numbers 34135, 37874, 40784 and 44134) are available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre and are publicly available on SEPA''s website at:
http://www.sepa.org.uk/radioactive_substances/rs_publications/rife_reports.aspx.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 7 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider issuing guidance to police forces that pay for intelligence information from informants in relation to groups or organisations that are not criminal or violent in nature.
Answer
A Code of Practice relating to Covert Human Intelligence Sources, made under Section 24 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Scotland) Act 2000, already exists. Copies of this are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 26338).
