- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 20 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many workers will be affected by the £34 million deficit in respect of the Strathclyde Pension Fund, as indicated in the Fund Actuary's report of 31 March 2004.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-12779, answered on 20 December 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 20 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of the £34 million deficit in relation to the Strathclyde Pension Fund, as indicated in the Fund Actuary's report of 31 March 2004.
Answer
According to the fund actuary, no report was issued by them dated 31 March 2004in relation to the Strathclyde Pension Fund. An actuarial valuation of the fundis carried out on a triennial basis, the next valuation being due as at 31 March 2005. The previous valuation report, as at 31 March 2002, revealed that the fund – which has assets of over £6 billion – was at that time in surplus by £456 million.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 20 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will investigate the reasons for the £34 million deficit in respect of the Strathclyde Pension Fund, as indicated in the Fund Actuary's report of 31 March 2004.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-12779, answered on 20 December 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 14 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the spread was of interest rates applied to the loan funding component of PFI/PPP contracts entered into by it or its agencies in each of the last three financial years.
Answer
The only PPP contract which the Executive or its agencies has entered into in the last three financial years is the M77/Glasgow Southern Orbital (GSO) project which is funded using a bond. Information on the bond taken out by the PPP consortium, Connect M77/GSO plc, is publicly available on the UK official list which can be accessed through the Financial Services Authority’s website on
www.fsa.gov.uk/ukla.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 13 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the spread was of internal rates of return applied to equity funding components of PFI/PPP contracts entered into by it or its agencies in each of the last three financial years.
Answer
It is not appropriate to publish individual internal rates of return (IRR) relating to private sector contractors as this is commercially sensitive. Investors assess each project and its risk individually and attribute an IRR requirement accordingly. A direct comparison of IRRs between bidders is not necessarily meaningful as the bidders gearing structures may be different. Equity IRRs do vary across the PPP sector with an indicative range across the UK of 13% to 16%.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 13 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what input it has had into the audit by the Office of Fair Trading of the supermarket code of practice and whether it made any submission on behalf of farmers.
Answer
The audit into the operation of the supermarket code of practice is being carried out by the Office of Fair Trading, which is independent of ministers. Ministerial input into this audit would therefore be inappropriate before the results become available. Although a reserved matter, Scottish ministers take an interest in competition issues and will make their views known about the audit findings once they become available.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 6 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1353 by Tavish Scott on 29 July 2003, how much its interest in Partnerships UK is now worth and how that valuation was calculated.
Answer
The Scottish Executive’s shares in Partnerships UK (PUK) are held in a share category established specifically for a holding by ministers and are not for open market trading. PUK has a private sector classification and financial information is available from Companies House on
www.companies-house.gov.uk.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 1 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many additional full-time police officers could be employed for #18 million per year.
Answer
The cost of employing a constable, including salary, pension, national insurance and equipment, ranges from £33,000 for a probationary constable to around £43,000 as constables progress up the salary scale. Based on these figures, the numbers of constables that could be employed for £18 million would range from around 420 to around 545. However, because the figures given do not include on-going training, supervision and infrastructure costs, including the costs of senior officers, the numbers would in practice be lower.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 1 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many certificates it has issued to Reliance personnel under section 114 and Schedule 6 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
Four hundred and thirty-one.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 30 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any police hours have been freed up so far as a result of the operation of the Reliance contract.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-10936 answered on 30 November 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
