- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 25 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider issuing guidance to Scottish Trusts to ensure that NHS workers employed by contractors are paid promptly after a national settlement is reached.
Answer
Staff who work for contractors are not employed directly by Scottish NHS Trusts. Their terms and conditions of service are a matter for individual contractors to determine.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 22 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans to amend the legal aid restrictions so that the receipt of incapacity benefit and other benefits is not taken into account when calculating income in applications for legal aid funding.
Answer
An applicant for advice and assistance who is in receipt of income support, income-based jobseekers allowance, Disabled Person's Tax Credit (previously Disability Working Allowance) and Working Families Tax Credit (previously Family Credit)
and has disposable capital of less than £1,000 will receive advice and assistance with no contribution.
An applicant for advice and assistance who is in receipt of a back to work bonus or payments made under the Earnings Top-up Scheme 1996, Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 or section 12B of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, will have these disregarded when calculating his or her disposable income and capital.
An applicant for civil legal aid who is in receipt of income support; income-based jobseekers allowance; back to work bonus; payments made under the Earnings Top-up Scheme 1996, Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 or section 12B of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968; disability living allowance; constant attendance allowance; payment made out of the social fund, will have these disregarded when calculating his or her disposable income and capital.
When calculating an applicant's disposable income and capital for advice and assistance and civil legal aid, allowances are also made for "dependent persons", the applicant's "tools and implements of trade" and such like.We have no plans for Incapacity Benefit to be disregarded from the calculation of an applicant's disposable income or disposable capital for advice and assistance or civil legal aid.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 20 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what assistance it currently gives to the Scottish film industry, and whether there are any plans for future funding.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is providing £2.225 million in 1999-2000 to Scottish Screen to carry out a range of activities which are of assistance to the Scottish film industry. In addition, the Scottish Enterprise Network and Highlands and Islands Enterprise provide assistance, in particular through the local film offices and company development activities. Scottish Screen's grant is to be increased by £200,000 in 2000-01.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 20 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what the remit of the Glasgow Film fund is.
Answer
The business of Glasgow Film Fund Limited (GFF) is to make commercial equity or loan investments in films made by Glasgow-based companies or by companies using Glasgow as a substantive production location.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 20 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive Scottish Executive what importance it attaches to the family mediation service, and what funding it currently gives to it.
Answer
The Scottish Executive places great importance on the work of organisations offering family mediation in Scotland. Grants for the current financial year are detailed in the table below.
| Family Mediation - Borders | £12,058 |
| Family Mediation - Central | £66,396 |
| Family Mediation - Dumfries & Galloway | £23,855 |
| Family Mediation - Grampian | £24,236 |
| Family Mediation - Highland | £24,356 |
| Family Mediation - Lothian | £17,510 |
| Family Mediation - Tayside | £38,928 |
| Family Mediation - West | £22,660 |
| Family Mediation - Western Isles | £27,110 |
| Family Mediation Scotland | £62,830 |
| Total | £319,939 |
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 10 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what assistance, financial or otherwise, it currently gives to the Scottish music industry.
Answer
As this information is rather lengthy, I shall write to the Member and arrange for the information to be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe).
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 25 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to publish further bilateral concordats between departments of Her Majesty's Government and UK agencies and their counterparts or contacts in the Scottish Executive.
Answer
The following bilateral Concordats are being published today:Health and Safety ExecutiveDepartment of Trade and IndustryOffice for National StatisticsDepartment of Culture, Media and SportA Concordat will also be published today covering Public Procurement.The texts have been made available to the Parliament and are available in the Document Supply Centre and on the Executive's web site.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 25 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether payments from the Irish Government for ECMO treatment carried out at Yorkhill Children's Hospital will now come directly to Greater Glasgow Health Board, rather than being retained by the Department of Health.
Answer
This is a reserved matter. Payments made by overseas Governments in this regard are paid direct to the Westminster Consolidated Fund.The cost to each health board area of care provided under the negotiated reciprocal health care agreements is recognised within the total resources allocated to each health board each year.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 5 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive how many women have been detained in Cornton Vale prison for non payment of fines.
Answer
Provisional figures indicate that there were 512 receptions to Cornton Vale prison for non payment of fines in the calendar year to 31 December 1998 and 148 to 31 August 1999.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 5 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Association for Children with Heart Disorders, Glasgow Branch, the largest user group of children's cardiac services in Scotland, has been asked to contribute to the ongoing review of the future of the Paediatric Surgery Service in Scotland and, if not, why not.
Answer
The views of the Glasgow Branch of the Association for Children with Heart Disorders were canvassed on the future of paediatric cardiac surgery in Scotland, and they also made representations on the issue.
