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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.

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Question reference: S1W-03629

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 10 January 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 19 January 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive when I will receive a reply to my letter dated 22 November to Jackie Baillie regarding Dundee Women's Aid.

Question reference: S1W-02807

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 November 1999
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 18 January 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how many meetings have taken place of the steering group to implement the recommendations of The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry: An Action Plan for Scotland.

Question reference: S1W-02806

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 November 1999
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 18 January 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive when the steering group was established to implement the recommendations of The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry: An Action Plan for Scotland, as announced by Jim Wallace on 20 July 1999.

Question reference: S1W-02808

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 November 1999
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 18 January 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received a letter from the Chhokar Family Justice Campaign requesting a meeting with the Minister for Justice and, if so, when a reply was sent to them.

Question reference: S1W-00975

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 19 August 1999
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 17 January 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive to provide a breakdown of resources allocated for services for people with dementia and their carers within each local authority area.

The resources the Scottish Executive have allocated for local authorities for services for older people in the current year in £000's are:

Aberdeen City	21,206
Aberdeenshire	18,235
Angus	12,851
Argyll & Bute	11,630
Clackmannanshire	5,108
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	4,131
Dumfries & Galloway	16,222
Dundee City	18,294
East Ayrshire	13,044
East Dunbartonshire	7,492
East Lothian	9,470
East Renfrewshire	6,996
Edinburgh, City of	45,986
Falkirk	13,695
Fife	37,081
Glasgow City	74,453
Highland	20,096
Inverclyde	9,998
Midlothian	6,434
Moray	8,072
North Ayrshire	14,898
North Lanarkshire	30,908
Orkney Islands	1,983
Perth & Kinross	14,827
Renfrewshire	16,202
Scottish Borders	13,189
Shetland Islands	2,060
South Ayrshire	13,376
South Lanarkshire	27,184
Stirling	8,286
West Dunbartonshire	9,681
West Lothian	11,109
SCOTLAND	524,197

These figures are the total of three GAE assessments - services for the home based elderly; residential accommodation for the elderly; and casework and related administration: elderly.Information on resources for services for people with dementia and their carers is not available separately.

Question reference: S1O-00913

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 January 2000
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 13 January 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make additional resources available to Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust in the light of the Trust requiring to relax restrictions on overtime and use agency nurses to cope with the increasing number of flu cases.

Question reference: S1W-01258

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 August 1999
Current Status: Answered by Jack McConnell on 16 December 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a gender audit of all appointments to Non-Departmental Public Bodies, by Body, which it has made since 6 May 1999.

Appointments to Non-Departmental Public Bodies since 6 May 1999, by gender, are as follows:

BODY	APPOINTMENTS			RE-APPOINTMENTS			TOTAL
	Male	Female		Male	Female
Executive NDPBs
Crofters Commission	2		1			1	4
Community Learning Scotland				1		1	2
Scottish Agricultural and Biological Research Institutes:
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute	2			3		1	6
Moredun Research Institute	1			2			3
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh	1						1
Scottish Arts Council	1						1
Scottish Conveyancing and Executry Services Board				3			3
Scottish Children's Reporters Administration	1						1
Scottish Environment Protection Agency	6		2	2			10
Scottish Further Education Unit						1	1
Scottish Higher Education Funding Council	2		1	1			4
Scottish Homes	1		1			1	3
Executive NDPBs	Male		Female	Male		Female	TOTAL
Sportscotland	1						1
Advisory NDPBs
Central Advisory Committee on Justices of the Peace (Scotland)	1						1
Justice of the Peace Advisory Committee (32)	1		3				4
Local Government Boundary Commission	2		1				3
Scottish Advisory Committee on Distinction Awards	1						1
Scottish Advisory Committee on the Medical Workforce	2		3				5
Scottish Records Advisory Council	4						4
Public Corporations
East of Scotland Water Authority	2		1	1			4
North of Scotland Water Authority	4		2				6
West of Scotland Water Authority	3		2	1			6
Water Commissioner	1						1
Nationalised Industries
Caledonian MacBrayne Ltd	1						1
NHS Bodies
Argyll and Clyde Health Board	2		1				3
Ayrshire and Arran Health Board	1		1				2
Borders Health Board	1		1				2

NHS Bodies	Male	Female	Male	Female	TOTAL
Dumfries and Galloway Health Board	1	1			2
Fife Health Board	3				3
Forth Valley Health Board	1	1	1		3
Grampian Health Board	2				2
Greater Glasgow Health Board	3	1			4
Highland Health Board	1	1			2
Lanarkshire Health Board	2				2
Lothian Health Board	3				3
Tayside Health Board	2				2
Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland	1	1	1		3
Tribunals
Children's Panels (32)	162	283			445*
Rent Assessment Panel	2	3	15	12	32
TOTALS	227	311	31	17	586

* In addition some 500 re-appointments were also made, breakdown by gender not available.I announced on 13 December that we will be reviewing targets inherited from The Scottish Office for increasing the number of women appointed to public bodies as part of a general consultation about public appointment procedures next month.

Question reference: S1W-02760

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 November 1999
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 8 December 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received a request from Dundee City Council to meet a deputation to discuss recent job losses at Agritay in Dundee and, if so, when it intends to meet the deputation.

Question reference: S1W-02461

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 15 November 1999
Current Status: Answered by David Steel on 26 November 1999

To ask the Presiding Officer whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body will be giving consideration to the budgetary and service implications of holding meetings of the Parliament in Dundee during the period in May 2000 when the Church of Scotland will be using the Assembly Hall.

Under the Standing Orders, it is for the Parliamentary Bureau, rather than the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, to propose to the Parliament that a meeting of the Parliament shall be held in a place in Scotland other than in the Church of Scotland Assembly Hall, The Mound, Edinburgh. The Bureau, in making its recommendations to the Parliament, will take into account budgetary and other considerations. If the Parliament decides on a motion of the Parliamentary Bureau that a meeting of the Parliament should be held in another place in Scotland, including Dundee, the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body will be responsible for providing the necessary staff and services and will do so with an eye to maximising efficiency.

Question reference: S1W-01982

Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 October 1999
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 16 November 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Parliament will have an opportunity to debate the proposed amendments to the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 and the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 as contained within the Immigration and Asylum Bill.