- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 March 2000
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Answered by Sarah Boyack on 24 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the police will still be responsible for assisting traffic wardens in issuing notices to illegally parked vehicles following the transfer of powers to issue such notices from the police to Glasgow City Council.
Answer
Most parking offences for most roads in the City of Glasgow area were decriminalised with effect from 4 October 1999. As a result, the relevant parking rules on these roads are now enforced solely by parking attendants employed by Glasgow City Council rather than by traffic wardens or the police as was the case previously. The only roads in the Glasgow area where these offences have not been decriminalised are motorways. On these roads, parking offences will continue to be a matter for the police, who are also responsible for the enforcement of all non-decriminalised traffic legislation throughout Glasgow.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 September 1999
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Answered by Susan Deacon on 7 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria will be used to decide on the location of the centralised children's cardiac service.
Answer
I refer the Member to the answer given to question S1W-1613.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 September 1999
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Answered by Susan Deacon on 7 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there has been any estimate of the impact on other services provided by Yorkhill NHS Trust should children's cardiac services be resited in Edinburgh.
Answer
I refer the Member to the answer given to S1W-1613.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2000
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Answered by Susan Deacon on 6 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to encourage the development of a Scottish and international centre of excellence of ECMO treatment at Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgow.
Answer
The Yorkhill Hospital provides Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) for children from Scotland and other countries within the European Union. In keeping with the delivery of NHS services in general, the Scottish Executive encourages the delivery of high quality services and expects the ECMO service to be of a high standard which fully meets patients' needs.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 February 2000
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Answered by Susan Deacon on 24 February 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider undertaking a detailed appraisal of cable companies operating 999 emergency services with particular regard to the safe provision of ambulance, police and fire services.
Answer
This is a matter reserved to the Department of Trade and Industry and Oftel within the UK Government.If, however, you have any information that calls into question the integrity of the services provided to our emergency services, I am more than happy to pass that information on to Oftel.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 1999
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 23 February 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Scottish Legal Aid Board will report on its pilot project to increase the number of repayment months in contributions of #500 or over.
Answer
The Scottish Legal Aid Board has been undertaking an internal pilot study to assess the likely impact on legal aid expenditure of an extended regime of payments of contribution. Whilst decisions on the length of the repayment period for contributions are entirely an administrative matter for the Board, they are concerned that any extension to the repayment period could lead to pressure on public expenditure. At this time the results of the pilot study have not been fully analysed by the Board.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 22 February 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-2173 by Susan Deacon on 10 November 1999, whether it has considered any recommendations received from the Scottish Breast Screening National Advisory Group yet and whether there are now any plans to extend breast screening to include women over the age of 64.
Answer
I understand that the results of the Scottish study aimed at assessing the implications of extending the upper age limit of routine invitation for breast screening were considered by the Scottish Breast Screening National Advisory Group at their meeting on 16 February.I expect to receive the Group's recommendations after they have had the opportunity to fully consider the findings of the study.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2000
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Answered by Peter Peacock on 17 February 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many secondary schools in (a) Glasgow and (b) Scotland currently have a pupil council.
Answer
This information is not collected centrally.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 January 2000
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Answered by Wendy Alexander on 2 February 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the proposals on the right to buy for housing association tenants will be modified to take into account particular problems in areas in which social housing is in a minority.
Answer
In the Scottish Executive paper A New Single Social Tenancy for Scotland: Rights, Obligations and Opportunities we made it clear that our aim is to create more mixed communities in all parts of Scotland. To achieve this objective, we will ensure that Scottish Homes directs its resources for investment in new socially rented housing to those areas where there is clear, demonstrable need.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 January 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 2 February 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans regarding the right to buy and housing associations with charitable status.
Answer
There are no plans to change the current provisions which exclude, from the right to buy, tenants of housing associations that are registered charities.
