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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: S3W-29511

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 8 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive which of the recommendations made in the Thematic Review of Wildlife Crime remain to be implemented in each Scottish police force and within the Scottish Government.

Question reference: S3W-27609

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 September 2009
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.

Question reference: S3W-27613

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 September 2009
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.

Question reference: S3W-27612

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 September 2009
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.

Question reference: S3W-27611

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 October 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many licences have been variated, suspended or revoked under the Licensing of Animal Dealers (Young Cats and Dogs) (Scotland) Regulations 2009, broken down by group.

Question reference: S3W-27608

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 October 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many licences have been issued under the Licensing of Animal Dealers (Young Cats and Dogs) (Scotland) Regulations 2009.

Question reference: S3W-27610

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 September 2009
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.

Question reference: S3W-24697

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 June 2009
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.

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%

Question reference: S3O-07367

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 June 2009
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.

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.

Question reference: S3W-23845

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 11 May 2009
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.

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.