- 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 at what level the decision was taken to extend the construction programme in the application for a wind farm at Whitelee Forest from 24 to 31 months without public consultation.
Answer
The applicant’s proposal to extendthe construction programme will be considered when the proposal comes to be determined.In the meantime the applicant has included this proposal in its amended environmentalstatement, which has been the subject of public consultation.
- 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 when it became aware that the amount of aggregate to be quarried from the site of the proposed wind farm at Whitelee Forest would be increased from three-quarters of a million cubic metres to three million cubic metres and whether this was a factor in the consideration of extending the construction programme from 24 to 31 months.
Answer
This information was given tothe Scottish Executive and the three relevant planning authorities during a meetingwith Scottish Power in May 2003. The reasons for the request for an extension tothe construction period are included in the addendum to the environmentalstatement and all of these matters are still to be considered. A determination of the company’s application for consent is not expected in the near future.
- 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: Thursday, 05 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide a substantive answer to question S2W-3857.
Answer
Question S2W-3857 wasanswered on 17 February 2004.
- 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.
