- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 11 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to review the operation of disclosure certificates.
Answer
Work is in hand to implementthe provisions of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 which will replace enhanced disclosure certificates for people wanting towork with children and protected adults. Enhanced disclosures for other purposes,standard and basic disclosure certificates will continue to be provided byDisclosure Scotland.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 May 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 11 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide answers to parliamentary questions directly for publication in the Official Report, rather than by reference to documents lodged with the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) in the interests of openness, as members of the public do not have access to SPICe.
Answer
The Executive has no plans tochange the current system.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 May 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 11 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will undertake a review of all those parliamentary questions where the answers given indicated that information was not held centrally to ensure that the data requested is provided in the interests of openness.
Answer
The Executive has no plans forsuch a review.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 May 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 11 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to extend the designation of bodies under section 5 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 so that, inter alia, housing associations and PPP/PFI contracts wholly financed by public funds are included.
Answer
The Scottish Executive intendsto keep the scope of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 under review.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 May 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 7 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish its strategy on fostering, following the previous administration’s consultation on the matter which ended in February 2007.
Answer
A fostering and kinship carestrategy will be published later in 2007.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 May 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 31 May 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-30969 by Ross Finnie on 19 January 2007, what progress has been made in respect of regulations on the transportation of puppies pursuant to the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006.
Answer
The consultation on the draftregulations on the licensing of animal dealers has been completed and the responsesare being considered. As a result of these responses it will be necessary to makea number of changes to the draft regulations before they are presented to Parliament.We anticipate that these regulations will be laid before Parliament in theautumn.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 2 April 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of ministerial expenses, not including staff expenses, was in each year since 1999, broken down by minister.
Answer
The detailed informationrequested is currently being collated and I will write to the member as soon asthe information is available.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 29 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many jobs it has been billed for by Scottish Gas under the central heating programme.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
As at 23 March 2007, Communities Scotland has been invoiced for604 completed jobs from Scottish Gas. This does not represent the number of installationsto date as invoices are not submitted until all associated work such as energy adviceand post installation inspections has been completed.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 29 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scottish Gas will meet its target of 6,000 central heating jobs to be completed under the central heating programme by the end of March 2007.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
Scottish Gas expects around 5,000 central heating systems tobe installed by the end of March. They expect to have completed the installationof 6,000 central heating systems by around mid-April.
We still expect that the national target of 12,000 installationsby the end of March will be achieved.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 29 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many jobs under the free central heating programme have been completed by Scottish Gas.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is as follows:
The latest information provided by Scottish Gas shows 4,017 centralheating systems having been installed as at 18 March.
