- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 5 June 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what further targets have been set in respect of reducing waiting times at North Glasgow and Yorkhill NHS Trusts.
Answer
The national waiting time standards for NHSScotland are set out in Our National Health which was published in December 2000. It includes a commitment to reduce the national maximum waiting time for in-patient/day case treatment to nine months, from the current 12 months by 2003, as well as a number of specific waiting times standards for coronary heart disease and cancer. The National Waiting Times Unit is currently undertaking a programme of visits to all mainland NHS boards and trusts for discussions with senior management about their plans for ensuring delivery of national waiting times standards, and on the development of local standards which will tackle the longest waits for out-patient appointments and diagnostic tests.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mike Watson on 5 June 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #1.5 million Strategic Change Fund for museums has been allocated to assist Glasgow museums.
Answer
The Executive has awarded one-off funding of £1 million to the Kelvingrove Refurbishment Appeal Trust and £2 million towards Glasgow's Museums and Galleries Service. This funding has not been taken from the Strategic Change Fund.Applications have now been invited by Scottish Museums Council for the £1.5 million Strategic Change Fund, with decisions on the first round of funding to be announced in October.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 5 June 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, how many overseas students, other than asylum seekers and refugees, undertake English language courses and what further information is available on such students in regard to (a) how many studied (i) part-time and (ii) full-time, (b) their country of origin, (c) their length of stay, (d) how many progressed to further education and higher education courses, (e) how many are also in part-time employment and what the nature of that employment is and (f) an estimate of their contribution to the economy through course fees, accommodation costs, living expenses and leisure pursuits, in each year since 1999.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Elaine Murray on 28 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what role the contemporary music industry will play in its recently announced cultural co-ordinators programme.
Answer
The schools cultural co-ordinators pilot programme will seek to maximise the contribution to children and young people's education of the full range of arts and cultural activities. The pilot programme will allow the local authorities participating to determine the ways in which this is done, reflecting local circumstance. Contemporary music has a special ability to engage and enthuse the young and I expect it to play an important part in the pilot activities.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
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Answered by Margaret Curran on 22 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial incentives and support will be made available to private house owners to assist with repairs in the light of Issues in Improving Quality in Private Houses: The first report of the Housing Improvement Task Force.
Answer
Improving Quality in Private Housing set out the views of the Housing Improvement Task Force on the main strengths and weaknesses in the way private houses are maintained and repaired as well as the house buying and selling process. It makes no recommendations for action at this stage and is intended to provide the basis for stage two of the task force's work which will look at future policy options including what, if any, changes should be made to the housing improvement and repair grant system and other possible ways of supporting and encouraging owners to maintain their homes.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 22 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what timescale has been set for its stage two proposals referred to in Issues in Improving Quality in Private Houses: The first report of the Housing Improvement Task Force.
Answer
The task force has been asked to complete its work and make its final report and recommendations early in 2003.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 21 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-23664 and S1W-23665 by Ms Margaret Curran on 18 March 2002, what information is required on planning application forms relating to the address and location of the site of the planning proposal.
Answer
The statutory requirement in this regard is set out in The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Scotland) Order 1992, which requires that "the application shall be accompanied by a plan sufficient to identify the land to which it relates...". In addition, Planning Advice Note (PAN) 48:
Planning Application Forms provides advice on best practice on the content and layout of local authority application forms. The guidance notes on model forms contained in PAN 48 suggest that information about the address or location of the proposed development should include the postcode where possible.Copies of PAN 48 can be ordered on: Tel. 0131 244 7066 or viewed on the advice section of the Executive's Planning internet site at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/planning.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mike Watson on 21 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken on its National Cultural Strategy commitment to work with Glasgow City Council to examine the circumstances of museums and galleries in the city.
Answer
The National Cultural Strategy recognised the particular position of Glasgow and committed the Executive to work with Glasgow City Council to examine the circumstances of the museums and galleries in the city. Ministers have had a series of meetings with Glasgow City Council to hear their plans for development of the city's museums and galleries and I am pleased to say that the Executive has now awarded one-off funding of £1 million to the Kelvingrove Refurbishment Appeal Trust and £2 million towards Glasgow's Museums and Galleries Service towards realising its full educational and tourism potential.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 April 2002
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Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 13 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19942 by Lewis Macdonald on 28 January 2002, what progress has been made to seek an exemption for Glasgow Underground from the draft European Transport Regulation.
Answer
There is no change in the position from the answer given to questions S1W-17966 on 19 September 2001 and S1W-19942 on 28 January 2002. There is specific reference to the Public Service Requirements in the conclusion of Barcelona European Council calling for agreement by the end of 2002.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 13 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-23664 and S1W-23665 by Ms Margaret Curran on 18 March 2002, what access planning authority officials have to the Scottish Parliament website MSP list and postcode search facility.
Answer
The website can be accessed by any party.