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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: S2W-31869

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 February 2007
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has allocated any funding in support of the proposed e-learning lesson modules and “Defence Dynamics” website operated by the Ministry of Defence and aimed at 14 to 16-year-old school pupils.

Question reference: S2W-31870

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 February 2007
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to commission, roll out and support e-learning lesson modules covering the (a) manufacturing, (b) construction and (c) services sector to ensure genuine choice for pupils in the context of the announcement by the Ministry of Defence of the “Defence Dynamics” e-learning lesson modules.

Question reference: S2W-31751

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 28 February 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive after how many 999 calls to emergency call controllers requesting the assistance of police officers took three hours or more to respond in each year since 2000, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of 999 calls requesting police assistance and broken down by police force area and division.

Question reference: S2W-31750

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 28 February 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive after how many 999 calls to emergency call controllers requesting the assistance of police officers took an hour or more to respond in each year since 2000, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of 999 calls requesting police assistance and broken down by police force area and division.

Question reference: S2W-31754

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 26 February 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions members of the armed forces have been deployed in Scotland in support of policing operations in each year since 1999, broken down by police force.

Question reference: S2W-31753

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 26 February 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has received from emergency planning officers or emergency planning representatives’ groups in each year since 2002 about any lack of equipment to deal with a civil emergency incident involving a “dirty bomb”, broken down by local authority area.

The Scottish Executive is notaware of any representation since 2002, from either emergency planning officersor representative groups, about a lack of equipment to deal with a “dirty bomb”.However, the Executive engages constantly with all the key representative organisations,including those covering local government interests, about all aspects of emergencyplanning and response. As a result of this dialogue Scotland’s capabilityfor dealing with all types of emergency is improving continually.

Question reference: S2W-31757

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2007
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 26 February 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many families with children under five are without central heating and what the cost would be of extending free central heating to those families.

Question reference: S2W-31752

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 February 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated average numbers of people have been that could be processed through decontamination tents in the event of a civil emergency incident involving a “dirty bomb” in each year since 2002, broken down by local authority area.

Scottish Ambulance Service

The Scottish Ambulance Servicehas eight Special Operations Response Teams strategically located across Scotland to providea swift response to major incidents including terrorist incidents involving theuse of a “dirty bomb”.

Each unit is capable of decontaminating24 ambulant persons per hour. All the equipment was purchased in 2003.

Fire and Rescue Service

Since the introduction of theNew Dimension programme, eight dedicated mass decontamination units have been providedto seven of the eight Scottish Fire and Rescue Services on a risk and populationbasis. Each mass decontamination structure is designed to decontaminate a maximumof 200 ambulant persons per hour.

These are currently distributedon a Fire and Rescue Service (FRA) basis as follows:

Central Scotland FRS	1 Unit	Operational 2003
Dumfries and Galloway FRS	1 Unit	Due to go live 2007
Grampian FRS	1 Unit	Operational 2004
Highland and Islands FRS	1 Unit	Due to go live 2007
Lothian and Borders FRS	1 Unit	Operational 2004
Strathclyde FRS	2 Units	1 Unit operational 2003, 2nd unit 2004
Tayside FRS	1 Unit	Operational 2006

Question reference: S2W-31768

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2007
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 February 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish Ambulance Service calculates average response times across Scotland.

Question reference: S2W-31783

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2007
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 February 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what level of “dusk to dawn cover” was operated by each operational division of the Scottish Ambulance Service at 13 February in each year from 2000 to 2007, broken down by day of the week, shift time and number of vehicles.