- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the circumstances which led to vaccines being stored at the wrong temperature in a medical practice in Aberdeen have arisen elsewhere in Scotland.
Answer
The national auditof GP Practices is not yet complete. However, since the audit began on 8 November2006 one further GP practice in Grampian and two in Forth Valley have announcedthat certain vaccines may have been stored at temperatures outside the recommendedrange. As a result, some patients were offered booster vaccinations.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the results of its national audit of vaccine storage procedures will be placed in the public domain.
Answer
The results of thenational audit of vaccines will be placed in the public domain once the exerciseis complete.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 18 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when section 62 of the Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 will come into force.
Answer
The Scottish Executivewill continue to have discussions with the Law Society of Scotland and other stakeholdersregarding the commencement of section 62 of the Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007. No commencement date has been decided on atpresent.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 18 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what discretion it has to vary the application of section 62 of the Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 in the case of notaries public who make no charge for their service.
Answer
The Scottish Executivedoes not have the discretion to vary the application of section 62 of the LegalProfession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 in the case of notaries public whomake no charge for their service.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 18 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what discretion it has to vary the application of section 62 of the Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 in the case of solicitors who have retired from practice but continue to act as notaries public.
Answer
The Scottish Executivedoes not have the discretion to vary the application of section 62 of the LegalProfession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 in the case of solicitors who haveretired from practice but continue to act as notaries public.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to examine the issue of the parking costs faced by community nurses and health visitors in the course of their work.
Answer
Provision already exists for local authorities to issue parking passes for use by community nurses and health visitors making visits.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 8 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will issue advice and guidance on the setting up of football supporters' trusts.
Answer
Guidance on the setting up of football supporters' trusts is being prepared at present. Once it is complete we propose to arrange a seminar for interested parties at which the guidance can be disseminated and discussed.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 23 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the outcome is of its recent consultation on the affordability of water and sewerage charges.
Answer
Following consideration of the consultation report I have decided to introduce a scheme on the lines set out in the consultation paper and the threshold of the scheme for year one is to be set at £180.A report compiled following completion of the consultation process has today been placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre and will shortly be available on the Scottish Executive web site.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 30 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of recorded crime was committed in each police force area in 1999 and what percentage of the population lives in each police force area.
Answer
The information requested is given in the table:
Crimes recorded by the police and population, percentage distribution by police force area, 1999
Percentages
Police Force area | Crimes recorded by the police1 | Population as at 30 June 19992 |
| Central | 4 | 5 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 2 | 3 |
| Fife | 6 | 7 |
| Grampian | 11 | 10 |
| Lothian & Borders | 19 | 17 |
| Northern | 3 | 5 |
| Strathclyde | 47 | 44 |
| Tayside | 7 | 8 |
| SCOTLAND | 100 | 100 |
Notes:
1. Source: Scottish Executive Justice Department.2. Source: General Register Office for Scotland.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 30 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of crime was recorded in 1999 per head of population in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Answer
The information requested is given in table 7, page 26 of the Statistical Bulletin Recorded Crime in Scotland 1999 published by the Scottish Executive in April 2000, a copy of which is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. no. 7079).
