BUSINESS BULLETIN No. 276/2012 Monday 2 July 2012 ANNOUNCEMENT Royal Assent The Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) Scotland Act 2012 (asp 4) received Royal Assent on 29 June 2012. 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 Question Time - 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 2 Business Bulletin: Monday 2 July 2012 Section B – Future Meetings of the Parliament Business Programme agreed by the Parliament on 20 June 2012 Tuesday 4 September 2012 2.00 pm Time for Reflection followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.05 pm Topical Questions followed by Scottish Government Business followed by Business Motions followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members‘ Business Wednesday 5 September 2012 2.00 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions 2.00 pm Portfolio Questions Education and Lifelong Learning (for names of those Members selected for Portfolio Questions see Section D of the Business Bulletin for Thursday 28 June 2012) followed by Scottish Government Business followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members‘ Business Thursday 6 September 2012 11.40 am Parliamentary Bureau Motions 3 11.40 am General Questions (for names of those Members selected for General Questions see Section D of the Business Bulletin for Thursday 28 June 2012) 12.00 pm First Minister‘s Questions 12.30 pm Members‘ Business 2.30 pm Scottish Government Business followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time 4 Business Bulletin: Monday 2 July 2012 Section E – Written questions lodged on 29 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-08355 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive how many graduates there have been of computer science courses that have an emphasis on software engineering since 2007, broken down by institution. S4W-08356 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive how it encourages pupils to consider studying undergraduate courses in science. S4W-08357 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive how it supports participation in equestrian sports. S4W-08358 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive how much it will invest in hockey over the next spending review period and in which areas of the country. S4W-08359 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive how it supports the development of football in schools. S4W-08360 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive how it encourages engagement between denominational and non-denominational schools. S4W-08361 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to introduce additional measures to tackle the issue of vacant shop premises. S4W-08362 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive how it encourages the start-up of new businesses in Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley. S4W-08363 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive what benefits are delivered to communities in Ayrshire by the developers of renewable energy schemes. S4W-08364 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to improve the pre-qualification questionnaire process for the procurement of services from small businesses. S4W-08365 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ask public bodies to adopt recognised quality management systems to aid governance and accountability. 5 S4W-08366 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive how many court cases to resolve family contact disputes there have been under the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006. S4W-08367 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive whether the National Records of Scotland will make available the information that it holds regarding the parish records of the Roman Catholic Church available to all of the country‘s genealogy centres. S4W-08368 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive what screening is available for potential sudden cardiac death victims in younger age groups and whether it plans to widen its availability. S4W-08369 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive how it monitors the impact on communities of odours from industrial premises. S4W-08370 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ask local authorities to review the council tax liabilities of terminally ill people who are hospitalised and who have unoccupied second homes. S4W-08371 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive what consultation it has with local organisations regarding (a) countryside and (b) woodland development. S4W-08372 Willie Coffey: To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the potential impact on businesses in Scotland, what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding signature fraud in financial transactions. S4W-08437 Margaret McDougall: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4O-01121 by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 June 2012 (Official Report, c. 10110) whether it has had discussions with NHS Ayrshire and Arran about breaches of diagnostic waiting time targets in each of the last four quarters and, if so, when and what the outcomes were. S4W-08440 Kezia Dugdale: To ask the Scottish Executive what skills training there is specifically for long-term unemployed people. S4W-08441 Kezia Dugdale: To ask the Scottish Executive how much is spent on skills projects across the country and how much of it is allocated for long-term youth unemployment. S4W-08442 Kezia Dugdale: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to publish a strategy to tackle long-term youth unemployment. S4W-08443 Kezia Dugdale: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to introduce randomised ordering of candidates for local government elections. S4W-08444 Kezia Dugdale: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to introduce randomised ordering of candidates for NHS board elections. 6 S4W-08445 Hugh Henry: To ask the Scottish Executive when it prepared the costings for the proposals on the progress of the reform of post-16 education, which were announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning on 28 June 2012. S4W-08446 Hugh Henry: To ask the Scottish Executive when the costings for the proposals on the progress of the reform of post-16 education, which were announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning on 28 June 2012, will be lodged in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) and for what reason they were not lodged prior to the cabinet secretary‘s statement. S4W-08461 Elaine Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-07973 by Keith Brown on 27 June 2012, what the overhaul costs have been for the MV (a) Hrossey, (b) Hjaltland and (c) Hamnvaoe in each year since 2002. S4W-08462 Elaine Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-07974 by Keith Brown on 27 June 2012, what estimate it has made of the level of public subsidy required to (a) maintain the contract with the Royal Bank of Scotland to lease the MV Hrossey, MV Hjaltland and MV Hamnvaoe and (b) charter two new vessels, for service on the 2012-18 Northern Isles ferry contract. S4W-08463 Mary Scanlon: To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on absenteeism for (a) Scottish Government employees, (b) NHS employees, (c) police service employees and (d) teachers for 2011-12. S4W-08464 Margaret McCulloch: To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on routine testing for group B streptococcus in pregnancy. S4W-08465 Murdo Fraser: To ask the Scottish Executive which broadband exchanges in Perth and Kinross are planned for an upgrade in (a) 2012 and (b) 2013. S4W-08466 Murdo Fraser: To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Perth and Kinross Council regarding broadband upgrades since the publication of Scotland’s Digital Future - Infrastructure Action Plan. S4W-08467 Stewart Maxwell: To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of treating asthma has been to the NHS in each of the last five years. S4W-08468 Stewart Maxwell: To ask the Scottish Executive how many days of hospitalisation have been associated with asthma in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board. S4W-08469 Stewart Maxwell: To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths there have been in each of the last five years in which the main cause of death was asthma, broken down by NHS board. S4W-08470 Stewart Maxwell: To ask the Scottish Executive how many people with asthma there have been in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board. 7 S4W-08471 Liz Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive when it plans to introduce construction compliance plans. S4W-08482 Kezia Dugdale: To ask the Scottish Executive how many apprenticeship starts there were in engineering in 2011-12 and how many were connected to the renewables industry. S4W-08483 David Torrance: To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of S4 school leavers in 2011 entered (a) further education, (b) higher education and (c) apprenticeship schemes. S4W-08484 David Torrance: To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the Student Awards Agency for Scotland reduces the maximum loan entitlement for final year students.