Section E – Written questions lodged on 13 June 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-07762 David Torrance: To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of street lights have been switched to LED or other energy saving bulbs, broken down by region.
S4W-07763 David Torrance: To ask the Scottish Executive what Barnett consequentials will arise from the UK Government’s proposed high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham.
S4W-07764 David Torrance: To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made in negotiations with the UK Department for Transport and the Welsh Assembly Government to make it easier for seriously injured service personnel and veterans under the age of 60 to access the concessionary travel scheme.
S4W-07768 Lewis Macdonald: To ask the Scottish Executive what powers relating to prison visiting committees and the proposed prison monitoring service will be (a) modified and (b) transferred as part of a Section 14 order under the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.
S4W-07769 Lewis Macdonald: To ask the Scottish Executive what duties other than monitoring people working in the proposed prison monitoring service will be assigned.
S4W-07770 Lewis Macdonald: To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) civilian staff and (b) police officers were employed by each police force to carry out checks on Disclosure Scotland applications in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008, (iii) 2009 and (iv) 2010.
S4W-07817 Sarah Boyack: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-07401 by John Swinney on 31 May 2012, how much has been paid out in council tax discounts through energy efficiency schemes and how many properties are receiving these in each local authority, broken down by (a) type of dwelling and (b) mode of ownership.
S4W-07837 Margaret McDougall: To ask the Scottish Executive how it will allocate the £32 million given to it by the Treasury to expand broadband infrastructure.
S4W-07838 Margaret McDougall: To ask the Scottish Executive what impact the taxation proposals that were announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth on 7 June 2012 will have on first-time buyers.
S4W-07839 Margaret McDougall: To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason it proposes to establish Revenue Scotland and whether this body will work alongside HM Revenue and Customs to deal with tax evasion.
S4W-07840 Margaret McDougall: To ask the Scottish Executive what services will be transferred from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to Revenue Scotland and what information it has on whether this could lead to a reduction in the number of jobs at HMRC.
S4W-07841 Margaret McDougall: To ask the Scottish Executive how many employees Revenue Scotland will have and what information it has on how many people will be transferred to it from HM Revenue and Customs under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006.
S4W-07843 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to complete the cleansing of the data regarding the (a) number of clinical midwives, (b) average and range of midwife to birth ratio and (c) caseload of each full-time equivalent community midwife in each NHS area.
S4W-07844 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive what the average annual caseload is for community midwives in NHS (a) Greater Glasgow and Clyde and (b) Lothian.
S4W-07845 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to ensure that the Scottish Women Held Maternity Record is available in electronic format.
S4W-07846 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive what risk assessment it has carried out of the effect of (a) demographic changes over the next 10 years and (b) an increase in the number of staff taking early retirement on the number of midwives.
S4W-07847 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive what the reduction has been in the number of (a) band (i) 7 and (ii) 8 team leaders and (b) band 2 support workers in midwifery posts following the recent 25% reduction in management costs.
S4W-07848 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take following the Office of Fair Trading’s market study of dentistry.
S4W-07849 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that the Care Commission should be able to investigate a complaint regarding the operation of a care home following a change of ownership in cases where the staff remain the same.
S4W-07850 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-07374 by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 June 2012, whether the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy has questioned the quarterly statistics reports published by ISD on waiting times (a) ever and (b) on the increase in the number of patients who are socially unavailable.
S4W-07851 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Executive what contingency plans are in place in relation to the planned industrial action by the British Medical Association on 21 June 2012.
S4W-07852 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has estimated the likely impact on NHS services of the planned industrial action by the British Medical Association on 21 June 2012.
S4W-07853 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Executive whether doctors taking industrial action on 21 June 2012 will lose their salary for that day and whether advice has been issued to NHS boards on this matter.
S4W-07854 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Executive when ministers met the NHS trade unions to negotiate pension arrangements for 2013-14.
S4W-07856 Richard Baker: To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been provided to deliver alcohol support services in (a) Aberdeen City, (b) Aberdeenshire and (c) Angus in each of the last five years.
S4W-07857 Richard Baker: To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths in NHS Grampian hospitals were alcohol related in each of the last five years and how many of these were of people aged (i) under 18, (ii) 18 to 29, (iii) 30 to 55 and (iv) over 55.
S4W-07858 Richard Baker: To ask the Scottish Executive how much each NHS Grampian hospital has spent on administration in each of the last three years.
S4W-07859 Drew Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how many people are in receipt of housing benefit in each local authority area, broken down by gender, and how this compares with the figures for the two previous years for which the data are available.
S4W-07860 Drew Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how many households in each local authority area have no access to the internet from home, broken down by gender, and how many are single person households.
S4W-07861 Jackson Carlaw: To ask the Scottish Executive how many gastric (a) bypass and (b) band operations were carried out in 2010-11 on people aged (i) under 10, (ii) 11 to 12, (iii) 13 to 14, (iv) 15 to 16, (v) 17 to 19, (vi) 20 to 24, (vii) 25 to 34, (viii) 35 to 49, (ix) 50 to 64 and (x) over 64.
S4W-07881 Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Lothian incident management team dealing with the Legionella outbreak has declined an offer to use Hydrosense testing kits and, if so, (a) for what reason and (b) whether this decision will be reviewed in its evaluation of the outbreak.
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