- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 22 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance is used by NHS staff in audiology clinics when deciding upon whether it is appropriate to refer patients to lipreading services.
Answer
Lip reading services can be part of the wider rehabilitation support for patients with hearing loss visiting NHS audiology departments. At the present time no formal referral pathway exists between the NHS and support services such as lipreading. Patients are supplied with information packs containing details of all local activities and groups which they may find beneficial and where the local audiology service is aware of lip reading classes details of these will be included in the pack. An up to date list of Scottish lip reading classes provided by Action on Hearing Loss has recently been circulated to audiology departments to assist this.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 September 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the impact of the Forestry Commissioners’ review of governance structures will be on research into sustainable forest management for public benefits in Scotland.
Answer
The Forestry Commissioner’s review of governance is underway and will clearly need to address potential impacts on research into sustainable forest management for public benefits in Scotland.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 September 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has for a forestry bill.
Answer
There are currently no plans for a forestry bill.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 September 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how the Forestry Commissioners’ review of governance structures will apply to Forestry Commission Scotland.
Answer
The Forestry Commissioner’s review of governance will include consideration of Forestry Commission Scotland. We have made a manifesto commitment to ‘keep the Forestry Commission as a publicly-owned body and our forestry estate as an asset for the nation’ and ‘we believe the Scottish Parliament should now have full responsibility for all forestry issues in Scotland’.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 September 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the impact of the Forestry Commissioners’ review of governance structures will be on the functions of Forestry Commission Great Britain that service Scotland.
Answer
The Forestry Commissioner’s review of governance is underway and will clearly need to address potential impacts on Forestry Commission GB functions that service Scotland.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 September 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the impact of the Forestry Commissioners’ review of governance structures will be on Forestry Commission Scotland’s delivery of public benefits.
Answer
The Forestry Commissioner’s review of governance is underway and so it is not yet possible to say what impact this review will have on Forestry Commission Scotland or its delivery of public benefits. We have however made a manifesto commitment to maintain the Forestry Commission as a publicly-owned body and our forestry estate as an asset for the nation.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 August 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 20 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average time has been for Transport Scotland to respond to (a) emails and (b) written enquiries regarding the Forth Crossing Project in the last six months.
Answer
From the period March 2011 to date, the average time taken to respond to enquiries to Forth Replacement Crossing project was 4.17 days. The form of correspondence is not recorded.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 August 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 20 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of enquiries received by Transport Scotland between 1 August 2010 and 1 August 2011 were answered within 21 days.
Answer
Transport Scotland do not keep records for all enquiries. However, they hold records for all ministerial and chief executive correspondence, Freedom of Information requests and Environmental Information requests. The aim is to answer all of these within 20 working days.
Between 1 August 2010 and 1 August 2011, they answered 92% of these within 20 working days.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 September 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to review the (a) Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005, (b) Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 and (c) Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 with a view to introducing a village halls licence.
Answer
Depending on the activities carried out in a village hall there may be a need for a particular licence. There are no plans for a specific village halls licence.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 13 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, following the introduction of the European Commission's electronic identification system, what percentage of read rate must be achieved by a sheep farmer to prevent investigations being conducted to establish whether other elements of the identification and traceability rules have been adhered to.
Answer
A minimum of 3% of holdings where sheep are kept are selected for inspections by risk analysis and at random as laid down by European legislation. These inspections cover the full range of requirements of Council Regulation 21/2004 as amended.
All elements of the identification and recording requirements will be checked on all inspections regardless of the percentage of read rate achieved when selling or buying animals through a critical control point.