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BUSINESS BULLETIN No. 26/2013 Monday 11 February 2013 BUSINESS BULLETIN No. 26/2013 Monday 11 February 2013 1 Contents The sections which appear in today’s Business Bulletin are in bold Section A: Today’s Business - Meetings of Committees - Meeting of the Parliament Section B: Future Meetings of the Parliament Section C: Future Meetings of Committees Section D: Oral Questions - Questions selected for First Minister’s Questions - Questions selected for response by Ministers and junior Scottish Ministers at Question Time Section E: Written Questions – new questions for written answer Section F: Motions and Amendments Section G: Bills - New Bills introduced - New amendments to Bills - Members’ Bills proposals Section H: New Documents – new documents laid before the Parliament and committee reports published Section I: Petitions – new public petitions Section J: Progress of Legislation – progress of Bills and subordinate legislation Section K: Corrections to the Official Report 2 Business Bulletin: Monday 11 February 2013 Section B – Future Meetings of the Parliament Business Programme agreed by the Parliament on 6 February 2013 Tuesday 19 February 2013 2.00 pm Time for Reflection – Right Reverend Albert Bogle, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Topical Questions (if selected) followed by Scottish Government Debate: Tuition Fees followed by Legislative Consent Motion: Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill – UK Legislation followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business – S4M-04877 Jim Eadie: Lothian Sound Talking Newspaper Celebrates 25th Anniversary (for text of motion see Section F of the Business Bulletin for Tuesday 20 November 2012) Wednesday 20 February 2013 2.00 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.00 pm Portfolio Questions Culture and External Affairs; Infrastructure, Investment and Cities followed by Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Business – Capital Projects followed by Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Business – Health followed by Business Motions 3 followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business – S4M-05003 Chic Brodie: Scotland’s Historic Buildings (for text of motion see Section F of the Business Bulletin for Monday 4 February 2013) Thursday 21 February 2013 11.40 am Parliamentary Bureau Motions 11.40 am General Questions 12.00 pm First Minister’s Questions 12.30 pm Members’ Business – S4M-05086: David Stewart: 50 Miles Per Hour Campaign (for text of motion see Section F of the Business Bulletin for Thursday 13 December 2012) 2.30 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.30 pm Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee Debate: Report on the achievability of the Scottish Government’s renewable energy targets (for text of motion S4M-05596 see Section F of the Business Bulletin for Thursday 7 February 2013) followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time Tuesday 26 February 2013 2.00 pm Time for Reflection followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Topical Questions (if selected) followed by Scottish Government Business followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business Wednesday 27 February 2013 4 2.00 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.00 pm Portfolio Questions Education and Lifelong Learning followed by Stage 3 Proceedings: Water Resources (Scotland) Bill followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motion 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members’ Business Thursday 28 February 2013 11.40 am Parliamentary Bureau Motions 11.40 am General Questions 12.00 pm First Minister’s Questions 12.30 pm Members’ Business 2.30 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.30 pm Scottish Government Business followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time 5 Business Bulletin: Monday 11 February 2013 Section E – Written questions lodged on 08 February 2013 Questions marked with a triangle (Δ) are initiated by the Scottish Government 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-12963 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government whether it will collect data on the (a) number and (b) geographical distribution of GPs in 2012-13 and at regular intervals thereafter. S4W-12964 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government when it last collected data on the (a) number and (b) geographical distribution of GPs and what the data show. S4W-12965 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government what action it will take to (a) provide extra GPs and (b) increase the capacity of surgeries in deprived areas. S4W-12971 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-12122 by Alex Neil on 22 January 2013, whether the investigation into claims of bullying and intimidation at the Scottish Ambulance Service headquarters has been completed and, if so, when the report will be published. S4W-12972 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government whether the claims of bullying and intimidation at the Scottish Ambulance Academy have been investigated and, if so, when the report will be published. S4W-12997 Bob Doris: To ask the Scottish Government how many NHS dental (a) nurses and (b) technicians there were in September (i) 2007 and (ii) 2012. S4W-12998 Liam McArthur: To ask the Scottish Government how much of the National Renewables Infrastructure Fund has been spent in each year; what projects have received funding, and how much private finance each project has received. S4W-12999 Liam McArthur: To ask the Scottish Government how much of the National Renewables Infrastructure Fund it expected to spend in each year of the fund. S4W-13000 Liam McArthur: To ask the Scottish Government how many applications there have been to the National Renewables Infrastructure Fund. S4W-13001 Liam McArthur: To ask the Scottish Government how many applications to the National Renewables Infrastructure Fund it expected in each year of the fund. 7 S4W-13002 Liam McArthur: To ask the Scottish Government whether it will investigate why demand for financial support from the National Renewables Infrastructure Fund has been lower than expected. S4W-13003 Liam McArthur: To ask the Scottish Government how many jobs have been created by projects that have received support from the National Renewables Infrastructure Fund. S4W-13004 Liam McArthur: To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the financial benefit to the economy resulting from the National Renewables Infrastructure Fund. S4W-13005 Liam McArthur: To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact of the release of £15 million from the National Renewables Infrastructure Fund for other projects on the fund’s ability to help deliver (a) 28,000 jobs and (b) £7.1 billion to the economy. S4W-13006 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government when the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing first sought advice regarding the establishment of the orphan medicines fund and when it was received. S4W-13007 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government when it will introduce the draft regulations on passported benefits and for what reason this has been delayed. S4W-13008 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government what current benefits will be covered by the draft regulations for passported benefits. S4W-13009 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government whether the draft regulations for passported benefits will cover all who currently qualify for these. S4W-13010 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government how many people currently qualify for passported benefits, broken down by benefit. S4W-13011 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government how much it costs to provide passported benefits to people who might lose their entitlement to these because of the proposed welfare reforms, also broken down by local authority. S4W-13012 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many people in Scotland claim housing benefit and how many of them are in receipt of disability living allowance. S4W-13013 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how much discretionary housing benefit was awarded by each local authority in 2011-12 and how much of it was allocated to (a) private sector, (b) local authority and (c) housing association tenants. S4W-13014 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government whether it is aware of the level of the Department of Work and Pensions allocation for discretionary housing benefit to each local authority in Scotland. 8 S4W-13015 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to issue additional guidance on the collection of arrears in the context of changes to the housing benefit system and, if so, what the guidance will contain. S4W-13016 Jackie Baillie: To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to issue additional guidance on evictions in the context of changes to the housing benefit system and, if so, what the guidance will contain. S4W-13017 Richard Baker: To ask the Scottish Government what support it is giving to cycling tourism initiatives in North East Scotland. S4W-13018 Richard Baker: To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made by the forum that it established to promote cycling tourism and when its action plan will be published. S4W-13019 Richard Baker: To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school teachers have been employed in (i) Aberdeen and (ii) Aberdeenshire in each of the last five years. S4W-13021 Richard Baker: To ask the Scottish Government what recent assessment it has made of the price of private rented accommodation in Aberdeen. S4W-13022 Richard Baker: To ask the Scottish Government how many departments in NHS Grampian worked below their minimum staffing level in each of the last five years. S4W-13023 Richard Baker: To ask the Scottish Government how many newly qualified nurses have gone into nursing in (a) Aberdeen and (b) Aberdeenshire in each of the last five years.
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