- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 28 June 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to promote arts programmes for young people and children with disabilities.
Answer
Arts programmes are available in all schools to all children. The Executive also provides resources to SENSE Scotland who, as part of their work with the disabled, provide a number of arts programmes for children. The Scottish Arts Council runs various lottery and voted fund schemes that give priority access to arts development projects for young people with disabilities.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 31 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Registrar General for Scotland will publish figures from this year's Census on the number of Gaelic speakers in Scotland.
Answer
The Registrar General for Scotland plans to publish detailed Census results, including counts of Gaelic speakers, by the end of March 2003.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 24 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to address the needs of people with attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Answer
The day to day treatment of people with ADD and ADHD is a matter for health boards in conjunction with education and social work authorities. The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) is currently developing a clinical guideline on Attention Deficit and Hyperkinetic disorders in Children and Young People, which is due to be published in the near future. The guideline will be disseminated to a range of interests including NHS Trusts and health boards.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-10039 by Iain Gray on 30 October 2000, what progress has been made in ensuring that people with a disability continue to have access to the support and advisory services provided by Disability Scotland.
Answer
The Executive hopes to be in a position soon to set out proposals to ensure that disabled people and key organisations in the disability field play a major role in shaping and influencing how their views are represented and their needs met.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 17 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications for each type of work for which assistance is available under the Warm Deal have been made to Energy Action Grants Agency Ltd. (EAGA); how many such applications have been successful, broken down by local authority in each case, and what the average grant awarded by EAGA is for each local authority area.
Answer
Applications for the Warm Deal are not made on the basis of individual insulation measures. They are made for the package of measures. Eaga does not record information on the average grant in each local authority area. In 2000-01, over 27,200 homes were insulated and the average grant was £324.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking in relation to third party rights in local planning decisions.
Answer
Representatives of the Scottish Prison Service and the Prison Officers’ Association attended a conciliation hearing on 1 May 2001 which was chaired by the Director of ACAS for Scotland.As a result, the dispute about staff attendance patterns has been referred for resolution to an Independent Arbiter appointed by ACAS. The hearing will be arranged at an early date and will produce an outcome this month that is binding on both sides.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 5 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it plans to take to address the concerns of the Cawley family over the handling of the prosecution case in relation to the murder of Christopher Cawley in September 2000.
Answer
A number of MSPs have written to me in connection with this matter. I have replied advising them that I have asked the Deputy Crown Agent to meet the Cawley family to discuss their concerns.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 22 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will respond to the Education, Culture and Sport Committee's 3rd Report 2001, Report on Inquiry into Special Educational Needs.
Answer
Ministers hope to respond by 6 April 2001.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 1 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-11809 by Angus MacKay on 22 January 2001, when it expects to make an announcement on new independent assessors to oversee the public appointments system.
Answer
Following consideration of the nominations put forward by the main parties represented in Parliament and by the Convener of the Equal Opportunities Committee, I am pleased to announce that eight new Independent Assessors have been appointed for a period of one year. Brief details of the individuals concerned are as follows:
Maire Whitehead | Primary School Head Teacher, Glasgow |
Anne MacLean | Community Councillor, Chair of Albyn Housing Association, Grantown-on-Spey |
Maureen Watt | Former member of the McIntosh and Kerley Committees, Banchory |
Marcia Campbell | General Manager, Standard Life, Edinburgh |
Lesley Quirk | Business & Management Development Consultant, Aberfoyle |
Selma Rahman | Director of Fife Racial Equality Council, Edinburgh |
Irene Kitson | Ex-EIS Official, Edinburgh |
Rev Eric Cramb | Head of the Industrial Mission of Churches in Scotland, Dundee |
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it is making in establishing a task force to develop a national physical activity strategy as promised in Towards a Healthier Scotland.
Answer
Plans for the launch of the Physical Activity Task Force are now at an advanced stage and I expect to send invitations to potential task force members in the very near future. Meanwhile, we are making arrangements for an initial meeting to take place at the end of March.
