- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 November 2003
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Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it will give to the 60,000 signatures collected in the Evening Times petition in support of saving the Queen Mother's Hospital.
Answer
I will consider allinformation before me and all representations made to me before I come to adecision.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 November 2003
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to protect skills and jobs in the call centre industry in light of global outsourcing of services to Asia.
Answer
Extensive research on callcentres in Scotland and outsourced competition from India has recentlybeen undertaken by Phil Taylor of the University of Stirling and Peter Bain of the University of Strathclyde.The Scottish Executive supported this study and the findings are expectedto be published later this month. The Scottish Executive will be considering thesefindings most carefully together with other partners to see what conclusions canbe drawn.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 October 2003
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Answered by Nicol Stephen on 11 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what role Strathclyde Passenger Transport will have in Transport Scotland.
Answer
Transport Scotland isproposed to be a strategic body for Scotland as a whole which would work closely with transportbodies across the country. We are currently consulting on the new agency;stronger regional transport partnerships; and Strathclyde Passenger Transportand this consultation will close on 17 December this year.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 October 2003
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Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 10 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to enforce the law on disabled parking bays.
Answer
Under section 47 of the RoadTraffic Regulation Act 1984, a driver may be issued with a fixed penalty noticeif his or her vehicle is not displaying the requisite badge while parked in adesignated disabled person鈥檚 parking bay.
The power to inspect suchbadges, under section 73 of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001, is beingcommenced in January 2004 to address abuse of the badge scheme. This sectionwill bring in a new offence of refusing to produce a badge when requested to doso by the police, traffic wardens or local authority parking attendants.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 October 2003
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Answered by Mary Mulligan on 7 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will cost the implementation of recommendations contained in the University of Glasgow's Department of Urban Studies report Refuges for Women, Children and Young People.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is currently in the process of completing the 拢12 million DomesticAbuse Refuge Development Programme, provided through Communities Scotland. Thisprogramme of funding was developed to either build or purchase new refuges oradapt, extend and upgrade existing ones. Once this funding programme has beencompleted the Scottish Executive will consider what further action is required.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 October 2003
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Answered by Mary Mulligan on 7 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what response it has given to the recommendation for women who have been victims of domestic violence to be housed in purpose-built refuges containing single occupancy flats, communal areas and a children's room contained in the University of Glasgow's Department of Urban Studies report Refuges for Women, Children and Young People.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has accepted the recommendations in the report Refuges for Women,Children and Young People. It has already provided 拢12 million, throughCommunities Scotland, to either build or purchase new refuges or adapt, extendand upgrade existing ones. The programme has given priority to the developmentof new build self-contained flats with communal facilities.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 October 2003
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Answered by Mary Mulligan on 5 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how long the pilot scheme for domestic abuse courts will run in Glasgow before being rolled out across Scotland.
Answer
Detailed proposals for theform of the pilot scheme, which are being considered by two working groupsoverseen by a steering group chaired by Sheriff Principal Edward Bowen, SheriffPrincipal of Glasgow and Kelvinside, have still to be settled. Once we are in aposition to make an announcement we will do so.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 5 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional resources it has allocated to support the pilot scheme for domestic abuse courts in Glasgow.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-3351 on 5 November 2003. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament鈥檚 website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search-wa.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 October 2003
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Answered by Frank McAveety on 5 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what actions will be taken to showcase Scottish musical talent at the MTV 10th anniversary awards to be held in Edinburgh on 6 November 2003.
Answer
The MTV Europe awardspresent an unrivalled opportunity to showcase the Scottish creative industriesand for networking with the global industry and industry journalists. ScottishEnterprise have worked with NEMIS (the Scottish music industry network) toensure that each delegate attending the awards will receive a speciallycommissioned Scottish Music CD, showcasing the best of Scottish music.
The MTV Breakout week ofevents in Scotland will feature new Scottish musical talent. All ofthese events will be recorded for screening on the MTV network, which is aphenomenal opportunity for these bands. Scottish public sector partners wereinstrumental in providing this opportunity.
Scottish music will featureat the reception which the First Minister is hosting for MTV at Edinburgh Castle toshowcase the Scottish creative industries.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 October 2003
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Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners at HM Prison Barlinnie are serving short-term sentences.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows:
559 as at 10 October 2003.
