- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 6 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the East Kilbride constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 6 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the Coatbridge and Chryston constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 6 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-15671 by Sarah Boyack on 19 June 2001, whether the statement that the police would initiate a road closure means that it is the police who are responsible for taking the decision to close a section of motorway or trunk road due to a road traffic accident and, if not, who is responsible.
Answer
The police, who are normally first at the scene of a road traffic accident, have the power to close a section of motorway or trunk road if they deem there to be a hazard to other road users. They also have a duty to do so in certain circumstances to protect life and property.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 26 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether public buildings built under public procurement procedures funded by the public sector are subject, under good practice procedures, to construction standards which are more stringent than those imposed by legally required construction standards.
Answer
Public sector clients will require buildings to satisfy Government policies on matters such as environmental performance or access for people with disabilities as they deem necessary in particular cases. The standards may exceed, or expand on, those set by the Building Standards (Scotland) Regulations, which are the minimum standards applicable to all new buildings.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 26 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-15534 by Jackie Baillie on 30 July 2001, what legal advice it took before concluding that amendment 150 to the Housing (Scotland) Bill, now incorporated in the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001, would comply with the European Convention on Human Rights.
Answer
The Scottish Executive always seeks to act within the law and takes legal advice as appropriate. The policy of the Executive is, as a general rule, not to disclose that legal advice has been obtained on any particular matter, or to disclose the content or source of any such legal advice. There does not appear to the Executive to be any good reason to depart from that general policy in this particular case.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 18 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what provision there is for pre-school education of children of asylum seekers and refugees.
Answer
The children of asylum seekers and refugees have, in principle, the same access to pre-school education as other children of pre-school age, resident in a local authority area. In academic year 2001-02, pre-school year children will be eligible for grant-funded education if they were born between 1 March 1997 and 28 February 1998. Children aged three will be eligible from the start of the term after their third birthday. Local authorities currently have the power to provide nursery education for all such children and from 1 April 2002 will be under a duty to secure this.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 18 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria children of asylum seekers and refugees have to meet in order to access pre-school education.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-18396.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 18 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether an application for planning consent for a change of use of the accommodation at Dungavel House was made to South Lanarkshire Council.
Answer
No. South Lanarkshire Council advise that no application for planning permission was required because, in their opinion, the use of Dungavel House as a detention centre does not constitute a change of use in planning terms.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 11 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive why the performance specification section of the motorway and trunk roads maintenance tender documentation cannot be placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre (SPICe); whether it will place in SPICe a copy of the performance specification and key performance indicators which it requires tenders to meet, and whether copies of the tender documentation will be submitted to the Transport and the Environment Committee to inform its inquiry into the management and maintenance of trunk roads.
Answer
Some of the tender documentation is specific to the operators submitting bids, and therefore is commercially confidential. However, I have now placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre the part of the specification which does not contain contract specific information, and therefore is not covered by commercial confidentiality (Bib. number 16573).
It would be for the Transport and Environment Committee, once action before the courts has been determined, to request sight of tender documentation in accordance with the protocol established for sensitive papers relating to matters before a Committee. This protocol provides, in certain circumstances, for the Convenor of the Committee to have sight of the documents on a personal and confidential basis.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 8 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Housing Improvement Task Force is the only group looking at the issue of sellers' surveys and, if not, whether it will give details of any other such groups, including their remit, membership and meetings held to date, and details of when the task force and any other groups are due to report.
Answer
The remit of the Housing Improvement Task Force includes consideration of the likely effect of providing better information about the condition of the property as part of the house purchase process, taking account of proposals for sellers surveys and sellers packs.
There are no other groups established by the Scottish Executive which are currently considering issues relating to sellers surveys.
