Section E – Written questions lodged on 16 March 2012
Questions marked with a triangle (Δ) are initiated by the Scottish Executive in order to facilitate the provision of information to the Parliament.
Questions in which a member has indicated a declarable interest are marked with an "R".
S4W-06093 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the sale of different sizes of multipack of the same container of alcohol whereby a larger multipack is sold at a lower price.
S4W-06094 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it can guarantee that the registration of nurses seeking to return to work after a career break will be protected if it expires during their job search, without the need to undergo retraining at their own expense.
S4W-06226 Malcolm Chisholm: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the dates from January 2011 to March 2012 of each incident at the Seafield Wastewater Treatment Works in which odour was emitted from the plant.
S4W-06227 Malcolm Chisholm: To ask the Scottish Executive what operational difficulties arose at the Seafield Wastewater Treatment Works in late February and early March 2012.
S4W-06228 Malcolm Chisholm: To ask the Scottish Executive what risk assessments have been carried out in anticipation of increased flows of sludge through the Seafield Wastewater Treatment Works.
S4W-06229 Malcolm Chisholm: To ask the Scottish Executive whether the operation of an additional mobile centrifuge at the Seafield Wastewater Treatment Works will compromise the efficiency of the odour control units.
S4W-06230 Malcolm Chisholm: To ask the Scottish Executive whether recent reports of odour from the Seafield Wastewater Treatment Plant indicate a failure of its odour improvement plan.
S4W-06231 Malcolm Chisholm: To ask the Scottish Executive when monitoring of the odour improvement plan at the Seafield Wastewater Treatment Works will end.
S4W-06232 Malcolm Chisholm: To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the odour improvement plan at the Seafield Wastewater Treatment Works.
S4W-06233 Malcolm Chisholm: To ask the Scottish Executive how the long-term efficacy of the odour improvement plan at the Seafield Wastewater Treatment Works will be evaluated.
S4W-06234 Malcolm Chisholm: To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the recently reported problem causing odour to be emitted from the Seafield Wastewater Treatment Works was not anticipated during the design of the odour improvement plan.
S4W-06235 Malcolm Chisholm: To ask the Scottish Executive whether the odour improvement plan for the Seafield Wastewater Treatment Works was designed as a holistic plan to significantly reduce odour emissions.
S4W-06236 Malcolm Chisholm: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that odour discharge from the Seafield Wastewater Treatment Works represents a failure of the odour improvement plan even when the odour is not a result of a failure of the system put in place as a result of the plan.
S4W-06237 Malcolm Chisholm: To ask the Scottish Executive who is liable for further improvements if the odour improvement plan at the Seafield Wastewater Treatment Works fails.
S4W-06238 Malcolm Chisholm: To ask the Scottish Executive whether options necessitating further investment have been considered in the event of failure of the odour improvement plan at the Seafield Wastewater Treatment Works.
S4W-06239 Malcolm Chisholm: To ask the Scottish Executive how many employees are normally on duty at the Seafield Wastewater Treatment Works from (a) 8 am to 8 pm Monday to Friday, (b) 8 pm to 8 am Monday to Friday, (c) 8 pm on Friday to 8 am on Saturday, (d) 8 am to 8 pm on Saturday and Sunday and (e) 8 pm on Sunday to 8 am on Monday, and how many will be employed at these times in the weeks beginning Monday 19 and 26 March and 2 April.
S4W-06256 Mary Scanlon: To ask the Scottish Executive how many children have been diagnosed with rickets in each of the last 10 years.
S4W-06257 Mary Scanlon: To ask the Scottish Executive what health problems can result from vitamin D deficiency.
S4W-06258 Mary Scanlon: To ask the Scottish Executive what research has been done in Scotland in relation to vitamin D deficiency.
S4W-06259 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities have not implemented the Food Hygiene Information Scheme.
S4W-06260 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities (a) are and (b) are not awarding Eat Safe awards.
S4W-06261 Christine Grahame: To ask the Scottish Executive how many communications officials are employed in the Crown Office’s communications department and what the cost of employing its communications officials was in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11.
S4W-06262Δ Annabelle Ewing: To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide an update on the Dounreay waste substitution policy for radioactive waste arising from overseas research reactor fuel reprocessing contracts.
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