- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made towards providing less formal day care, as referred to in The same as you? A review of services for people with learning disabilities.
Answer
Provision of day care is amatter for local authorities, who provide such services.
Many local authorities arein the process of reconfiguring their day services, in accordance with therecommendations of The same as you? Information for each area can beobtained from individual local authorities.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made towards the foundation of a Scottish centre for learning disability, as referred to in The same as you? A review of services for people with learning disabilities.
Answer
The Scottish Consortium forLearning Disability was established during 2001 with funding from the ScottishExecutive, and officially launched by Malcolm Chisholm, then Deputy Ministerfor Health and Community Care, on 5 October 2001.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made towards ensuring that more children are educated in mainstream schools, as referred to in The same as you? A review of services for people with learning disabilities.
Answer
We have legislated for theinclusion of all children in mainstream schools, subject to certain prescribedcircumstances. The Executive will monitor the impact of the new legislationwhich took effect from 1 August 2003.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many non-fully-mutual housing co-operatives have applied to alter their status to become a housing association or a fully-mutual housing co-operative since 1 May 1999 and, of these, how many have made such a change, giving dates of application and change of status in each case.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
Two non-fully-mutual housingco-operatives have altered their status to become housing associations – one inMarch 2000 and another in April 2003. A further housing co-operative in Glasgow isproposing to become a housing association and has applied to do so in August2003.
In addition, two non-fully-mutualco-operatives changed their status by deciding to merge with other housingassociations through transfers of engagements in October and December 1999.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received any communications from any organisation regarding the effect the withdrawal of section 54 of the Housing Act 1988 may have on non-fully-mutual housing co-operatives and, if so, from which organisations such communications have been received.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
There has been communicationfrom the Scottish Community Ownership Forum which voiced its concern over thewithdrawal of section 54 tax relief grants and the effect on housingco-operatives.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many housing associations and co-operatives received grants under section 54 of the Housing Act 1988 in (a) 2000-01 and (b) 2001-02 and what the total cash value of such grants was in each year.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
In 2000-01 105 housingassociations and co-operatives received section 54 tax relief grants at a costof £5.0 million.
In 2001-02 49 housingassociations and co-operatives received section 54 tax relief grants at a costof £3.3 million.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many registered non-fully-mutual housing co-operatives there are.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
There are 15 non-fully-mutualhousing co-operatives registered with Communities Scotland.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 27 August 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27752 by Iain Gray on 15 August 2002, what the current status is of the Rethinking Construction Panel and the Core Industry Group.
Answer
The Modernising Construction Strategic Group, involving industry, clients and government, was formed in October 2002 and has been facilitated by Scottish Enterprise. The group has finalised a three-year strategy paper for improving the industry, which was presented to me today and published. A key recommendation within the paper is the creation of a Scottish Construction and Innovation Forum, the chair of which will attend UK-wide groups to share knowledge and learning.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 27 August 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current status is of the Modernising Construction initiative and how this initiative will relate to the recent formation of Construction Excellence as a UK body.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-1813 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, thesearch facility for can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 July 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 19 August 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24490 by Ms Margaret Curran on 13 May 2002, what meetings it has had with Her Majesty's Government regarding the fingerprinting and photographing of visitors to the Dungavel House immigration removal centre and what the outcome of any such meetings was.
Answer
The management and operation of Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre is the responsibility of the Home Office. I have not had any meetings with the Home Office regarding this issue.
