- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when its standing committee under Sir John Arbuthnott to review the formula for the allocation of NHS board funding was established.
Answer
Susan Deacon announced on 21 March 2001, in reply to question S1W-14299 lodged on 21 March 2001, the establishment of the Standing Committee on Resource Allocation.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 11 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many sudden deaths from alcohol poisoning have occurred in each NHS board area in each of the last five years showing the percentage change (a) year on year and (b) over the whole five-year period.
Answer
The information requested is not available. The World Health Organisation's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), which is used to classify deaths in Scotland, does not have separate categories for "sudden" deaths.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the European Commission (EC) has sought any assurances from it that it can afford to assume the increased policing and enforcement obligations under the Common Fisheries Policy that are likely to result from the adoption of EC proposals to grant free access to approximately 17,000 Spanish vessels to the North Sea and the EU's north western waters.
Answer
No such assurances have been sought. Spain's increased rights of access do not confer new quota allocations.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had any discussions with Her Majesty's Government with regard to whether it intends to veto any proposal presented by the European Commission that invites the Council of Ministers to rely on majority voting procedures with regard to the principles of (a) relative stability and (b) conservation within the Common Fisheries Policy.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-31980 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to deploy sufficient policing and enforcement measures to monitor any increase in the number of Spanish vessels that might enter the Scottish sector of the EU fishing 'one should the EU decide to grant Spain free access to those waters from the beginning of 2003.
Answer
The Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency will continue to deploy the enforcement resources at its disposal to meet perceived needs and risks within the Scottish zone.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on whether any European nation has more extensive Common Fisheries Policy policing and enforcement obligations than Scotland.
Answer
Common Fisheries Policy requirements in relation to policing and enforcement apply similarly to all EU member states.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Her Majesty's Government on the opening-up of EC fisheries regulations to adjustment, amendment, suspension or repeal without the unanimous consent of member states, given the relative stability principle of the Common Fisheries Policy, and whether the requirement for unanimity has been modified since 25 January 1983.
Answer
All fisheries decisions, including those on relative stability, are taken by Qualified Majority Vote. No member state has a veto in this area. The principle of Qualified Majority Voting for fisheries was first set down in the Treaty of Rome.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to the principle of relative stability of the Common Fisheries Policy, what its position is on the use of EU majority voting procedures to amend that principle.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-31980 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Spanish fishing fleet poses a threat to the stability of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and whether fresh access restrictions ought to be imposed on the Spanish fleet to ensure that the principle of relative stability of the CFP is respected.
Answer
There is no legal basis on which to discriminate against the Spanish fleet. Their fishing activities fall to be regulated by the access and quota allocation arrangements set out in the Common Fisheries Policy.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 9 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many community service order supervisors are currently employed by each local authority.
Answer
The Executive does not hold centrally information on numbers of community service order supervisors employed by individual local authorities. However, figures for the numbers of community service staff employed as of October 2001 are given in the following table.
| Local Authority | Community Service Staff |
| Aberdeen | 12 |
| Aberdeenshire | 9 |
| Angus | 4 |
| Argyll and Bute | 5 |
| Clackmannanshire | 2 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 5 |
| Dundee | 6 |
| East Ayrshire | 10 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 6 |
| East Lothian | 1 |
| East Renfrewshire | 3 |
| Edinburgh | 23 |
| Eileanan Siar | 2 |
| Falkirk | 7 |
| Fife | 3 |
| Glasgow | 47 |
| Highland | 18 |
| Inverclyde | 6 |
| Midlothian | 5 |
| Moray | 5 |
| North Ayrshire | 11 |
| North Lanarkshire | 26 |
| Orkney Islands | 1 |
| Perth and Kinross | 0 |
| Renfrewshire | 10 |
| Scottish Borders | 0 |
| Shetland Islands | 2 |
| South Ayrshire | 6 |
| South Lanarkshire | 18 |
| Stirling | 2 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 3 |
| West Lothian | 2 |
| Total | 260 |
