- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 20 April 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scottish Power was required to undertake a new environmental impact assessment at the site of the proposed wind farm at Whitelee Forest to estimate potential significant habitat impact from the proposed four-fold increase in aggregate to be quarried from the site and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Answer
Scottish Power were advised on29 May 2003 that the increased scale of borrow pits would, in terms of Regulation14 of the Electricity Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations2000, require a further environmental impact assessment.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 20 April 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it advised Scottish Power regarding its request to third party objectors to copy their submissions to Scottish Power in advance of recent local authority planning committee hearings in respect of the proposed wind farm at Whitelee Forest.
Answer
The Scottish Executive issuesgeneral advice to applicants about the contents of notices published in connectionwith applications to the Scottish ministers for consent under the Electricity Act.The request referred to is not included in that advice. The notices published byScottish Power meet the requirements set out in the Electricity (Applications forConsent) Regulations 1990 and it remains a matter for the individuals involved whetherto copy their responses to the applicant.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 20 April 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what advice it has given to planning authorities concerning the assessment and mitigation of peat slide risk at wind farm sites and whether this advice was reassessed following the peat slide at Derrybrien in the Republic of Ireland which a report from Applied Ground Engineering Consultants states was triggered by the construction of a wind farm.
Answer
No such advice has been issued.We are commissioning work to develop a risk assessment tool for use in connectionwith wind farm developments on blanket peat. We shall, if necessary, issue adviceto planning authorities when this work has been completed.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 30 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been allocated under the New Housing Partnership programme in each year since its inception; whether any changes have been made to these allocations and, if so, whether it will detail the changes made, and what underspend there has been in each year, all broken down by local authority.
Answer
Details of the allocations of resources to councils under the New Housing Partnership programme and underspends against those allocations in each year since its inception are set out in the tables. The figures in the following tables are not cumulative. Allocations are determined on an annual basis taking into account the outturn in previous years.
Table 1: Allocation of NHP Resources
| Council | NHP Final allocations in 1998-1999 | NHP Final allocations in 1999-2000 | NHP Final allocations in 2000-2001 | NHP Final allocations in 2001-2002 | NHP Final allocations in 2002-2003 | NHP Final allocations in 2003-2004 |
| Aberdeen City | 330,000 | 302,000 | 390,020 | 446,208 | 0 | 0 |
| Aberdeenshire | 65,000 | 1,028,490 | 2,105,021 | 3,412,410 | 0 | 0 |
| Argyll and Bute | 0 | 95,000 | 71,250 | 100,000 | 150,000 | 582,500 |
| Clackmannanshire | 780,000 | 100,000 | 21,000 | 13,750 | 0 | 0 |
| Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 56,000 | 116,000 | 167,000 | 134,600 | 566,750 | 717,461 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 100,000 | 350,000 | 1,125,425 | 2,576,048 | 799,300 | 118,097 |
| Dundee City | 3,275,000 | 7,081,000 | 8,288,250 | 12,448,349 | 2,615,242 | 1,093,680 |
| East Ayrshire | 1,260,967 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 319,000 | 534,000 | 828,000 | 427,100 | 792,152 | 469,382 |
| East Lothian | 2,945,000 | 2,149,000 | 2,702,850 | 2,720,000 | 1,800,000 | 1,213,925 |
| East Renfrewshire | 25,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| City of Edinburgh | 7,718,000 | 8,958,042 | 13,556,930 | 8,551,520 | 4,873,156 | 4,644,760 |
| Falkirk | 200,000 | 200,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fife | 125,000 | 319,000 | 0 | 573,000 | 475,419 | 0 |
| Glasgow City | 8,915,000 | 8,215,000 | 14,954,289 | 22,988,000 | 27,466,504 | |
| Highland | 993,000 | 1,468,450 | 3,133,108 | 2,780,927 | 524,394 | 0 |
| Inverclyde | 33,000 | 129,000 | 98,333 | 210,000 | 194,493 | 0 |
| Midlothian | 0 | 31,000 | 154,000 | 15,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Moray | 20,000 | 912,640 | 937,000 | 1,629,336 | 9,201,382 | 0 |
| North Ayrshire | 82,000 | 639,000 | 542,056 | 1,817,553 | 809,060 | 41,507 |
| North Lanarkshire | 4,752,000 | 4,581,630 | 2,250,000 | 1,261,400 | 46,000 | 0 |
| Orkney Islands | 0 | 99,500 | 0 | 67,046 | 0 | 0 |
| Perth and Kinross | 187,000 | 113,000 | 47,000 | 275,000 | 310,693 | 0 |
| Renfrewshire | 93,000 | 999,000 | 629,000 | 984,336 | 1,016,318 | 110,845 |
| Scottish Borders | 105,000 | 369,298 | 767,000 | 3,608,894 | 650,343 | 55,949 |
| Shetland | 200,000 | 451,000 | 219,000 | 442,000 | 230,828 | 0 |
| South Ayrshire | | 140,000 | 75,886 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Lanarkshire | 750,000 | 1,706,000 | 2,465,000 | 4,280,000 | 2,180,672 | 0 |
| Stirling | 310,000 | 1,751,000 | 3,236,780 | 1,411,091 | 1,547,141 | 1,078,249 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 15,000 | 0 | 70,000 | 30,000 | 0 | 0 |
| West Lothian | 2,630,000 | 2,393,000 | 1,849,040 | 2,487,037 | 1,834,989 | 1,092,983 |
| Total | 3,705,000 | 45,331,050 | 60,783,238 | 75,690,605 | 58,084,836 | 2,379,533 |
Table 2: Underspend Against Allocation of NHP Resources
| Council | Underspend in 1998-99 | Underspend in 1999-00 | Underspend in 2000-01 | Underspend in 2001-02 | Underspend in 2002-03 |
| Aberdeen City | 187,000 | 100,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aberdeenshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Argyll and Bute | 0 | 856,000 | 71,250 | 100,000 | 42,327 |
| Clackmannanshire | 0 | 20,975 | 13,776 | 0 | 0 |
| Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 35,000 | 63,595 | 44,750 | 0 | 191,563 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 0 | 6 | 0 | 85,048 | 0 |
| Dundee City | 2,563,000 | 5,272,685 | 371,718 | 80,000 | 90,000 |
| East Ayrshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 1,000 | 361,751 | 448,413 | 0 | 95,982 |
| East Lothian | 1,025,241 | 887,822 | 919,000 | 0 | 0 |
| East Renfrewshire | 0 | 100,000 | 20,000 | 0 | 0 |
| City of Edinburgh | | | | | |
| Falkirk | 200,000 | 10,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fife | 29,000 | 185,420 | 0 | 139,669 | 66,463 |
| Glasgow City | | | | | |
| Highland | 77,000 | 120,460 | 139,050 | 524,394 | 0 |
| Inverclyde | 33,000 | 85,100 | 24,133 | 170,360 | 97,988 |
| Midlothian | 0 | 31,000 | 15,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Moray | 12,000 | 7,000 | 98,293 | 0 | 30 |
| North Ayrshire | 4,000 | 187,455 | 536,611 | 740,076 | 0 |
| North Lanarkshire | 226,571 | 86,000 | 11,625 | 0 | 0 |
| Orkney Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perth and Kinross | 113,000 | 47,000 | 41,128 | 43,290 | 0 |
| Renfrewshire | 0 | 979,543 | 103,733 | 7,182 | 0 |
| Scottish Borders | 22,000 | 0 | 0 | 619,294 | 0 |
| Shetland | 0 | 346,208 | 71,749 | 743 | 250 |
| South Ayrshire | 0 | 18,887 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Lanarkshire | -75,000 | 69,300 | 1,138,888 | 1,332,103 | 0 |
| Stirling | 306,000 | 178,788 | 601,319 | 0 | 0 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 4,000 | 0 | 0 | 30,000 | 0 |
| West Lothian | 543,000 | 250,000 | 263,362 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 1,265,571 | 2,406,741 | 3,044,891 | 3,467,442 | 98,268 |
Note: The figures in the Tables include NHP resources allocated through Communities Scotland.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 30 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much expenditure has been set aside for New Housing Partnership challenge funding and (a) what level of and (b) to whom such funding was distributed in each year for which it has been available.
Answer
The information on resources currently earmarked for each council and the spend for each complete year to date is set out in the table. It updates the information provided in the answer given to question S1W-32778 and takes into account changes in NHP allocations and reconciliations on outturn expenditure since then. 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/sch/search.
| Local Authority | Total NHP Resources currently allocated/ earmarked | Outturn 1998-1999 | Outturn 1999-2000 | Outturn 2000-2001 | Outturn 2001-2002 | Outturn 2002-2003 |
| Aberdeen City | 1,181,228 | 143,000 | 202,000 | 390,020 | 446,208 | 0 |
| Aberdeenshire | 6,934,680 | 65,000 | 1,028,490 | 2,105,021 | 3,412,410 | 0 |
| Argyll and Bute | 2,380,400 | 0 | 95,000 | 0 | 0 | 107,673 |
| Clackmannanshire | 880,000 | 780,000 | 79,025 | 7,224 | 13,750 | 0 |
| Comharlie nan Eilean Siar | 2,038,138 | 21,000 | 52,405 | 122,250 | 134,600 | 375,187 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 4,983,816 | 100,000 | 349,994 | 1,125,425 | 2,491,000 | 799,300 |
| Dundee City | 26,348,784 | 712,000 | 1,808,315 | 7,916,532 | 12,368,349 | 2,525,242 |
| East Ayrshire | 1,260,967 | 1,260,967 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 9,054,000 | 318,000 | 172,249 | 379,587 | 427,100 | 696,170 |
| East Lothian | 10,698,712 | 1,919,759 | 1,261,178 | 1,783,850 | 2,720,000 | 1,800,000 |
| East Renfrewshire | 125,000 | 25,000 | 0 | 80,000 | 0 | 0 |
| City of Edinburgh | 52,244,617 | 6,048,532 | 8,300,042 | 12,967,598 | 8,205,570 | 4,613,907 |
| Falkirk | 200,000 | 0 | 190,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fife | 6,125,000 | 96,000 | 133,580 | 0 | 433,331 | 408,956 |
| Glasgow City | 80,950,317 | 6,982,320 | 8,088,535 | 11,457,192 | 18,225,848 | 24,405,154 |
| Highland | 8,038,975 | 916,000 | 1,347,990 | 2,994,058 | 2,256,533 | 524,394 |
| Inverclyde | 385,233 | 0 | 43,900 | 74,200 | 39,640 | 96,505 |
| Midlothian | 154,000 | 0 | 0 | 139,000 | 15,000 | 0 |
| Moray | 12,583,035 | 8,000 | 905,640 | 838,707 | 1,629,336 | 9,201,352 |
| North Ayrshire | 2,829,598 | 78,000 | 451,545 | 5,445 | 1,077,477 | 809,060 |
| North Lanarkshire | 12,566,834 | 4,525,429 | 4,495,630 | 2,238,375 | 1,261,400 | 46,000 |
| Orkney Islands | 166,546 | 0 | 99,500 | 0 | 67,046 | 0 |
| Perth and Kinross | 688,275 | 74,000 | 66,000 | 5,872 | 231,710 | 310,693 |
| Renfrewshire | 2,947,696 | 93,000 | 19,457 | 525,267 | 977,154 | 1,016,318 |
| Scottish Borders | 5,500,535 | 83,000 | 369,298 | 767,000 | 2,989,600 | 650,343 |
| Shetland | 1,123,878 | 200,000 | 104,792 | 147,251 | 441,257 | 230,578 |
| South Ayrshire | 197,000 | 0 | 121,113 | 75,886 | 0 | 0 |
| South Lanarkshire | 8,916,381 | 825,000 | 1,636,700 | 1,326,112 | 2,947,897 | 2,180,672 |
| Stirling | 9,058,861 | 4,000 | 1,572,212 | 2,635,461 | 1,411,091 | 1,547,141 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 81,000 | 11,000 | 0 | 70,000 | 0 | 0 |
| West Lothian | 11,179,500 | 2,087,000 | 2,143,000 | 1,585,678 | 2,487,037 | 1,834,989 |
| Total | 281,823,006 | 27,376,007 | 35,137,590 | 51,763,011 | 66,710,344 | 54,179,634 |
Note: The figures aboveinclude NHP resources allocated through Communities Scotland.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 29 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether section 75 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 is compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.
Answer
Scottish Planning Policy 1:The Planning System sets out the role of the European Convention on HumanRights within the planning system. The Executive undertook a review of existingplanning legislation from the perspective of the European Convention on HumanRights in 1999. We concluded that the current planning system with its inbuiltchecks and safeguards is compatible with the Convention. The Scottish Executive issued guidance on the Human Rights Act 1998 and ECHR to all publicauthorities, including planning authorities in January 2000. However, we keepunder review the need to amend existing law and procedures (whether in theplanning field or elsewhere) to comply with the Convention.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 5 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-4807 by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 January 2004, whether it will publish the mean along with the median figures in each future release of waiting list statistics.
Answer
I refer the member to the answergiven to the question S2W-4812 on 19 January 2004 which is available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_waISD Scotland have no plansto include an arithmetic mean of waiting times on their website, ScottishHealth Statistics.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 27 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what powers social work departments have to assist children and families from whom welfare benefits are withdrawn under clause 7 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants) Bill.
Answer
If as a result of asylumsupport being withdrawn, a local authority considered that any child concernedwas one in need or one for whom accommodation should be provided under section25 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, then it could exercise its powers inthe usual way.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 27 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish the results of its research into right to buy sales and resales.
Answer
The Scottish Executive hasnot yet commissioned further research into right to buy sales and re-sales. Thisis being considered in line with the requirement to assess the impact of theright to buy, as required by section 52 of the Housing (Scotland)Act 2001.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 27 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive which social inclusion partnerships (a) underspent and (b) overspent their budget in 2002-03 and by how much in each case.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is asfollows:
2002-03 figures are beingfinalised at present. The table gives the expenditure claimed to date.
| Social Inclusion Partnership | Total 1 Allocation | Expenditure | Underspend |
| Aberdeen Great Northern | 1,026,631 | 1,026,631 | 0 |
| Argyll and Bute | 493,841 | 485,914 | 7,927 |
| Edinburgh Youth SIP | 663,059 | 646,787 | 16,272 |
| Edinburgh North | 2,621,294 | 2,550,717 | 70,577 |
| Edinburgh Craigmillar | 1,970,891 | 1,969,955 | 936 |
| Edinburgh South | 1,672,832 | 1,652,643 | 20,189 |
| Edinburgh Strategic Programme | 530,607 | 502,257 | 28,350 |
| Alloa South and East | 1,196,115 | 1,132,734 | 63,381 |
| Dundee SIP1 | 2,446,889 | 2,383,387 | 63,502 |
| Dundee SIP2 | 462,428 | 420,955 | 41,473 |
| Dundee Xplore | 575,212 | 514,835 | 60,377 |
| Dundee Young Carers | 199,265 | 176,532 | 22,733 |
| East Ayrshire Coalfields | 1,951,396 | 1,951,118 | 278 |
| Tranent | 223,898 | 223,898 | 0 |
| Levern Valley | 526,273 | 476,947 | 49,326 |
| Falkirk | 533,356 | 533,356 | 0 |
| Fife | 638,093 | 604,674 | 33,419 |
| Frae Fife | 199,540 | 195,247 | 4,293 |
| Glasgow Smaller Areas | 2,213,486 | 1,824,880 | 388,606 |
| Glasgow Big Step | 550,642 | 548,775 | 1,867 |
| Glasgow East End | 3,323,709 | 3,219,094 | 104,615 |
| Glasgow GARA | 855,323 | 817,592 | 37,731 |
| Glasgow North | 3,516,360 | 3,329,030 | 187,330 |
| Glasgow Routes Out | 401,514 | 260,311 | 141,203 |
| Glasgow Gorbals | 919,798 | 913,886 | 5,912 |
| Glasgow Greater Easterhouse | 3,934,691 | 3,903,739 | 30,952 |
| Glasgow Greater Govan | 1,421,857 | 1,402,633 | 19,224 |
| Glasgow Greater Pollok | 3,795,838 | 3,691,778 | 104,060 |
| Glasgow Milton | 964,883 | 909,712 | 55,171 |
| Glasgow Springburn | 1,016,012 | 910,110 | 105,902 |
| Glasgow Drumchapel | 2,945,561 | 2,850,730 | 94,831 |
| Highland & Islands | 971,900 | 830,948 | 140,952 |
| Inverclyde | 2,870,508 | 2,464,011 | 406,497 |
| Moray Youthstart | 529,629 | 513,561 | 16,068 |
| North Ayrshire | 779,384 | 778,730 | 654 |
| Motherwell North | 1,996,147 | 1,748,722 | 247,425 |
| North Lanarkshire | 865,564 | 654,435 | 211,129 |
| South Coatbridge | 894,608 | 853,580 | 41,028 |
| GO – Perth | 288,676 | 228,623 | 60,053 |
| Paisley | 3,445,427 | 3,099,937 | 345,490 |
| Scottish Borders | 324,758 | 280,164 | 44,594 |
| North Ayr | 1,756,673 | 1,756,642 | 31 |
| Girvan | 549,525 | 544,022 | 5,503 |
| Blantyre/ North Hamilton | 3,316,125 | 3,315,505 | 620 |
| Cambuslang | 570,654 | 570,547 | 107 |
| Stirling | 563,236 | 512,733 | 50,503 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 2,514,896 | 2,514,896 | 0 |
| West Lothian | 293,081 | 271,400 | 21,681 |
| Total | 66,322,085 | 62,969,313 | 3,352,772 |
Note: 1. Includes all elements of SIP funding plus EYF adjustments.
