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Maternity Unit (Glasgow)
Mr. David Marshall: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans there are for financing the proposed new maternity unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary which will serve the Shettleston constituency; and if he will make a statement. [2215]
Mr. Galbraith: The proposed new maternity unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary is part of a package of private finance initiative projects which I am reviewing at present.
Scottish Screen
Mr. Gorrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland which body will be charged with responsibility for the cultural and educational aspects of film and video. [2285]
Mr. Galbraith: Scottish Screen took over the responsibilities of the Scottish Film Council on 1 April 1997.
Ms Roseanna Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what local authority representation there is on the current Scottish Screen Board. [2196]
Mr. Galbraith
[holding answer 6 June 1997]: At present there is no local authority representation on the board of Scottish Screen. This is an omission which I look forward to rectifying at the earliest opportunity.
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Ms Cunningham:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the current staffing of Scottish Screen; and if he will list the job titles of those staff. [2198]
Mr. Galbraith
[holding answer 6 June 1997]: Thirty six people are employed. Under the Chief Executive there are eight departments: Production; Development; Archive; Locations; Marketing, Information & Business Development; Europe (Media Antenna): Training; and Central Services.
The job titles are:
Chief Executive's Office: Chief Executive, Personal Assistant;
Production: Production Business Executive, Projects Producer, Production Assistant, Information Officer;
Development: Development Producer, Development Assistant;
Archive: Development Producer, Development Assistant;
Archive; Archive Curator, Production Library Administrator, Librarian, Assistant Librarian (Cataloguing), Gaelic Television Officer, Preservation and Technical Executive Officer, Access Technician;
Locations: Locations Director, Locations Co-ordinator, Locations Assistant;
Marketing, Information, Business & Development: Exhibition Officer, Marketing Officer, Marketing Assistant, Information Officer;
MEDIA Antenna (Europe): MEDIA Antenna Officer, MEDIA Antenna Assistant;
Training: Training Director, Projects Producer, Training Co-ordinator, Projects Producer, Clerical Assistant;
Central Services: Accountant, Accounting Assistant, Accounting Clerk, Office Manager, Office Assistant, Senior Development Officer, Administration Officer.
Compulsory Competitive Tendering
Mr. Gorrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on his plans for compulsory competitive tendering. [2286]
Mr. Chisholm: I refer the hon. Member to the reply that I gave to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Shettleston (Mr. Marshall) on 2 June, Official Report, columns 67-68.
HIV/AIDS
Ms Roseanna Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what plans he has to provide additional resources for HIV/AIDS therapy in Scotland in light of the increased availability of more effective HIV/AIDS drug treatments; and if he will make a statement; [2433]
- (2) what steps he will take to ensure that there is sufficient funding for HIV/AIDS clinics in Scotland to meet the anticipated increased demand for their services; and if he will make a statement; [2434]
(3) what steps he will take to ensure full availability of combination therapies, counselling services, dietetic treatments, in-patient services, psychiatric support in the community and district nurse services and other necessary services for HIV/AIDS patients; and if he will make a statement. [2435]
Mr. Gorrie:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide additional funds for the provision of the new combination therapies for HIV/AIDS patients. [2289]
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Mr. Galbraith:
It is for health boards to consider the treatment and care to be provided to HIV/AIDS patients in their areas in the light of local needs and of the total resources available to them. The implications of the new combination therapies will be among the factors they consider.
In the current year, health boards in Scotland have been given, within their general allocations, funds totalling £9.6 million to respond to the treatment and care needs of persons with HIV/AIDS. In addition, boards are receiving some £6.4 million to engage in prevention activities.
Mr. Gorrie:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will remove the capital restrictions imposed on the current year's Scottish Homes budget. [2473]
Mr. Chisholm:
The Government is committed to working within current expenditure plans. Under these, Scottish Homes is required to use its capital receipts to repay debt. To remove this requirement would mean having to find offsetting savings from other Scottish Office programmes. We are, of course, continuing to review spending priorities generally across the Scottish Office.
Mr. Dalyell:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has to synchronise the rights of objectors to appeal with the existing rights available to developers. [1970]
Mr. Chisholm
[holding answer 9 June 1997]: The Scottish Office has no plans to extend to objectors the existing rights of applicants to appeal against the refusal of planning permission. Objectors already have a voice and can make representations to the planning authority before a planning application is decided. In particular, they have the opportunity to submit views to their community councils (which are now statutory consultees for all planning applications) and the Council. Councils are required to take these views fully into account when deciding applications.
Special Advisers
Ms McDonagh: To ask the President of the Council, pursuant to her oral answer to the right hon. Members for Eddisbury (Mr. Goodlad) and for East Devon (Sir P. Emery) of 5 June, Official Report, columns 549-50, if she will make a further statement on the arrangements for the positive vetting of special advisers.[3053]
Mrs. Ann Taylor:
Special advisers are vetted as appropriate to the sensitivity of material they see. In the Prime Minister's Office, Mr. Jonathan Powell may from time to time need to have access to sensitive intelligence material. He has previously been positively vetted and his vetting is now being renewed. Some other special advisers in No. 10 are, as a matter of routine, being positively vetted though it is unlikely that they will have access to sensitive intelligence material.
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Mrs. Ewing:
To ask the President of the Council when she expects to move to re-establish the Select Committee on European Legislation and European Standing Committees A and B; and if she will make a statement on her proposals for their responsibilities in the forthcoming parliamentary session. [2567]
Mrs. Ann Taylor:
I hope that the Committees will be re-established soon. They will continue to operate under their current Standing Orders pending the House's approval of any recommendations for change following the review of the process for scrutinising European legislation, which the Government is committed to undertaking.
Mr. Howard:
To ask the President of the Council on which previous occasion or occasions a Bill of constitutional significance has been made subject to a timetable motion before the commencement of the Committee stage. [2153]
Mrs. Ann Taylor
[pursuant to her answer, 9 June 1997, c. 318]: The Scotland Bill and the Wales Bill were the subject of Allocation of Time Orders made on 16 November 1977, having been given a Second Reading on 14 and 15 November respectively.
Minimum Wage
Mr. Tom King: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research has been commissioned and what estimates have been made by his Department and what information presented to him, regarding the costs per annum to the total Home Department budget of the introduction of a minimum wage at (a) £3.50 an hour, (b) 4 an hour and (c) £4.40 an hour; and if he will make a statement. [2110]
Mr. Straw: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him by my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade on 9 June, Official Report, column 310.
London Fire and Civil Defence Authority
Mr. Edward Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to assist the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority with the growth in its pension liabilities; and if he will make a statement.[2366]
Mr. George Howarth:
Fire authorities generally are faced with the cost of meeting increasing pensions commitments from their revenue budgets. The Government will take this into account in reaching its decisions on future local government settlements. My right hon. Friend will also be giving early consideration to taking forward the review that has been undertaken of the fireman's pension scheme.
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