- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 March 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 25 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) children and (b) pensioners it has lifted out of poverty since 1999.
Answer
The Scottish Executive's Social Justice Annual Report,
A Scotland where everyone matters sets out the Scottish Executive's strategy for tackling all aspects of poverty and social exclusion.Low income is one aspect of poverty. Tables 1 and 2 of the document
Households Below Average Income: Figures for Scotland Using the Range of Low Income Thresholds, include the numbers (and proportions) of children and pensioners that were living in low income households in each year from 1994-95 to 2001-02. Table 1 presents numbers of those in absolute low income (compared to the baseline year of 1996-97); table 2 presents numbers of those in relative low income.A copy of the report is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 27023) and is also available on the Scottish Executive website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library4/FCSD/OCEA/00016688.aspx.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 March 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 25 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-34108 by Des McNulty on 26 February 2003, when a decision will be made on the wind farm public inquiry.
Answer
It is not possible to say, at this stage, when a decision will be made on the An Suidhe proposal. Every effort will, however, be made to reach an early decision.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 March 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 24 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8569 by Nicol Stephen on 14 August 2000, what recent assessments it has made of the impact on its responsibilities of the World Trade Organisation.
Answer
The regulation of international trade is a reserved matter and as such the UK Government take the lead on this issue. However, the Scottish Executive maintains close contact with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and other UK Government Departments on trade issues including assessing the potential impact of the WTO on its responsibilities.The Executive is currently working with DTI on the current WTO negotiations on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and the UK position on the initial EC offer to ensure that Scottish interests are considered.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 24 March 2003
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 NHP challenge funding made available to councils in the 1998 and 1999 bidding rounds covered a wide range of projects. These were categorised as regeneration and development projects and transfer and feasibility projects. The information on resources earmarked for each council and the spend for each complete year to date is set out in the table.
| Council | Total NHP Resources Earmarked | Outturn 1998-99 | Outturn 1999-2000 | Outturn 2000-01 | Outturn 2001-02 |
| Aberdeen City | 1,213,228 | 143,000 | 202,000 | 390,020 | 446,208 |
| Aberdeenshire | 6,934,680 | 65,000 | 1,028,490 | 2,105,021 | 3,412,410 |
| Argyll and Bute | 270,000 | 0 | 95,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Clackmannanshire | 880,000 | 780,000 | 79,025 | 7,224 | 13,750 |
| Comharlie nan Eilean Siar | 898,005 | 21,000 | 52,405 | 122,250 | 134,600 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 4,013,000 | 100,000 | 349,994 | 1,125,425 | 2,491,000 |
| Dundee City | 26,004,000 | 712,000 | 1,808,315 | 7,916,532 | 12,368,349 |
| East Ayrshire | 1,260,967 | 1,260,967 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 9,054,500 | 318,000 | 172,249 | 379,587 | 427,100 |
| East Lothian | 10,697,000 | 1,919,759 | 1,244,316 | 1,783,850 | 2,720,000 |
| East Renfrewshire | 125,000 | 25,000 | 16,862 | 80,000 | 0 |
| City of Edinburgh | 56,943,192 | 6,048,532 | 8,300,042 | 12,967,598 | 8,130,400 |
| Falkirk | 200,000 | 0 | 190,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Fife | 6,125,000 | 96,000 | 133,580 | 0 | 433,331 |
| Glasgow City | 85,023,000 | 6,880,000 | 7,989,000 | 11,318,289 | 18,652,900 |
| Highland | 8,045,855 | 916,000 | 1,347,990 | 2,994,058 | 2,256,533 |
| Inverclyde | 385,233 | 0 | 43,900 | 74,200 | 39,640 |
| Midlothian | 154,000 | 0 | 0 | 139,000 | 15,000 |
| Moray | 12,590,000 | 8,000 | 905,640 | 838,707 | 1,629,336 |
| North Ayrshire | 3,045,500 | 78,000 | 473,447 | 5,445 | 1,077,477 |
| North Lanarkshire | 12,586,000 | 4,525,429 | 4,503,630 | 2,238,375 | 1,261,400 |
| Orkney Islands | 563,000 | 0 | 99,500 | 0 | 67,046 |
| Perth and Kinross | 729,000 | 74,000 | 66,000 | 5,872 | 231,710 |
| Renfrewshire | 2,919,330 | 93,000 | 19,457 | 525,267 | 977,154 |
| Scottish Borders | 5,194,798 | 83,000 | 369,298 | 767,000 | 2,989,600 |
| Shetland | 1,127,000 | 200,000 | 104,792 | 147,251 | 441,257 |
| South Ayrshire | 197,000 | 0 | 121,113 | 75,886 | 0 |
| South Lanarkshire | 8,917,000 | 825,000 | 1,636,700 | 1,326,112 | 2,947,897 |
| Stirling | 9,058,000 | 4,000 | 1,572,212 | 2,935,461 | 1,411,091 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 115,000 | 11,000 | 0 | 70,000 | 0 |
| West Lothian | 11,179,500 | 2,087,000 | 2,143,000 | 1,585,678 | 2,487,037 |
| Total | 286,447,788 | 27,273,687 | 35,067,957 | 51,924,108 | 67,062,226 |
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 24 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much private finance has been levered in during each year of the New Housing Partnership initiative.
Answer
The NHP challenge funding made available to councils in the 1998 and 1999 bidding rounds covered a wide range of projects. These were categorised as regeneration and development projects and transfer and feasibility projects.A total of some £175 million of private finance is expected to be generated by approved regeneration and development projects. The amount of private finance generated in each complete year to date is as follows.
| | £ Million |
| 1999-2000 | 11.036 |
| 2000-01 | 24.266 |
| 2001-02 | 29.65 |
It is estimated that a further £110 million of private finance will be generated in completing the approved regeneration and development projects. In addition, the whole stock transfers already completed in Glasgow and Scottish Borders, and likely to be completed shortly in Dumfries and Galloway, will generate private finance of around £1 billion.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 24 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many tenants have benefited from the New Housing Partnership initiative through new or improved housing in each year of the partnership's existence.
Answer
The NHP challenge funding made available to councils in the 1998 and 1999 bidding rounds covered a wide range of projects. These were categorised as regeneration and development projects and transfer and feasibility projects.Some 9,600 new and improved units are expected to be delivered through approved regeneration and development projects. The number of new and improved units provided in each complete year to date is as follows.
| 1999-2000 | 920 |
| 2000-01 | 1,409 |
| 2001-02 | 1,379 |
These figures include both housing for rent and low cost home ownership. In addition, the whole stock transfers already completed in Glasgow and Scottish Borders, and likely to be completed shortly in Dumfries and Galloway, will generate investment in a further 100,000 homes.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 March 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 21 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-33067 on 21 January 2003, what it estimates the likely percentage change will be in school rolls by 2011 in (a) the South Lanarkshire Council area, (b) East Kilbride and (c) Hamilton.
Answer
Projections of pupil rolls cannot be disaggregated below education authority level. Overall, mainstream school rolls in South Lanarkshire are projected to fall by 16% by 2011.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 March 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 20 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-33598 by Ms Margaret Curran on 14 February 2003, whether the announcement on neighbourhood wardens will be made before dissolution of the Parliament.
Answer
The announcement on community wardens was made on 11 March 2003. Copies of the consultation document Building Strong, Safe and Attractive Communities have been placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 27011).
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 5 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the administrative costs were of each social inclusion partnership in 2001-02.
Answer
Up to 2.5% of the Social Inclusion Partnership Fund allocation in any year may be used to meet administration costs incurred by the grant recipient. The amounts claimed in 2001-02 are shown in the following table:
| SIP | Administrative Costs |
| Great Northern | £21,250 |
| Argyle and Bute | 0 |
| Edinburgh North | £57,662 |
| Edinburgh South | £26,118 |
| Edinburgh Strategic Programme | £12,756 |
| Edinburgh Youth SIP | £13,956 |
| Edinburgh Craigmillar | £44,457 |
| Alloa South and East | £23,407 |
| Dundee Young Carers | £2,600 |
| Dundee SIP1 | £52,250 |
| Dundee SIP2 | £10,446 |
| Dundee Xplore | £14,806 |
| East Ayr Coalfields | £30,000 |
| Tranent | 0 |
| Levern Valley | 0 |
| Falkirk | 0 |
| Fife | 0 |
| Fife Frae | 0 |
| Glasgow Smaller Area | £32,292 |
| Glasgow Anti Racist | £14,499 |
| Glasgow Big Step | £11,183 |
| Glasgow Drumchapel | £49,154 |
| Glasgow East End | £53,661 |
| Glasgow Gorbals | £14,941 |
| Glasgow Greater Easterhouse | £64,550 |
| Glasgow Greater Govan | £17,315 |
| Glasgow Greater Pollock | £55,089 |
| Glasgow Milton | £18,262 |
| Glasgow North | £55,992 |
| Glasgow Routes Out | £6,629 |
| Glasgow Springburn | £16,152 |
| Highland Well-being | 0 |
| Inverclyde | £48,330 |
| Moray Youthstart | 0 |
| North Ayrshire | £1,552 |
| Motherwell North | £39,246 |
| North Lanarkshire | £21,140 |
| South Coatbridge | £18,235 |
| GO - Perth | 0 |
| Renfrewshire - Paisley (incl. Ferguslie Park) | £86,725 |
| Scottish Borders | £3,992 |
| Girvan | 0 |
| North Ayr | £38,925 |
| Blantyre/North Hamilton | £1,440 |
| Cambuslang | £1,440 |
| Stirling - SPUR | £11,815 |
| West Dunbartonshire | £50,634 |
| West Lothian | £3,010 |
| Total | £1,045,911 |
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 5 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when the review of the legislation governing burial and cremation that it announced on 19 July 2002 is expected.
Answer
The review of legislation is being taken forward in a two-stage process. The first phase involves the early introduction of amended cremation regulations to address the specific issues identified by the Independent Review Group on Retention of Organs at Post-Mortem.The second phase will involve establishing an external working group to prepare a more comprehensive consultation paper which identifies the issues and options for change, taking appropriate account of the relevant outcomes of the Shipman Inquiry. Details of the membership and remit of the working group will be announced in due course.
