- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 4 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff will be transferred from the employ of Scottish Homes to the executive agency being set up to replace Scottish Homes.
Answer
Around 470 full-time equivalent staff are expected to be transferred to the executive agency being set up to replace Scottish Homes.
Some Scottish Homes staff will remain with the Scottish Homes Residuary Body.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 4 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff the executive agency being set up to replace Scottish Homes will require.
Answer
The current expectation is that Communities Scotland, the executive agency being set up to replace Scottish Homes, will require around 500 full-time equivalent staff.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 3 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-16545 by Jackie Baillie on 31 July 2001, whether it will collect interim information in relation to the number of heating units installed, broken down by housing sector, during each year of the central heating programme and whether it will place such information in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre at quarterly intervals.
Answer
The information specified will be collected and a report will be published each year.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 1 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-17548 by Angus MacKay on 6 September 2001, which organisations the 126 staff who were on secondment during the period May 1999 to July 2001, and whose salary costs the receiving organisation met, were on secondment to.
Answer
Further to the answer provided to question S1W-17548, I can confirm that the organisations of the 126 staff on secondment during the period May 1999 to July 2001 whose salary costs were met by the receiving organisation are as follows:Audit ScotlandCairngorm Partnership Child Support AgencyCivil Service College in ScotlandCommon Services Agency CoSLAEuropean Commission Fife EnterpriseHighlands and Islands EnterpriseInformation Technology Services Agency IPMS
Lord President's Office Lothian Health Meat Hygiene Service Public and Commercial Services UnionScottish and Newcastle Scottish Archive Network Project Scottish Arts CouncilScottish Chambers of Commerce Scottish Council Development and Industry Scottish Criminal Records OfficeScottish EnterpriseScottish Financial Enterprise Scottish Football Association Scottish HomesScottish Natural Heritage Scottish Parliament Scottish University for Industry SportscotlandStrathclyde UniversityThe Household of HRH The Prince of WalesWater Industry CommissionersWest Lothian NHS Trust
Scottish and Newcastle, the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, the Scottish Council Development and Industry and Scottish Financial Enterprise all paid a contribution towards the salary costs of the secondment during the period stated.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 25 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements have been made for the education of any school-age children to be accommodated at Dungavel Detention Centre.
Answer
The operation of Dungavel Detention Centre is the responsibility of the Home Office. I understand Premier Detention Services, who have been contracted by the Home Office to run the centre, have been in discussions with South Lanarkshire Council about the most appropriate way to provide education services for any school aged children at the centre. Officials of the Executive are liasing with the Home Office and South Lanarkshire Council regarding education provision in the centre.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 25 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive which organisations any staff who have been on secondment during the period July 2001 to September 2001, and whose salary costs it has met, have been on secondment to.
Answer
The organisations of the staff on secondment during the period July 2001 to September 2001 whose salary costs are being met by the Scottish Executive are as follows:
European Commission
Glasgow Employer Coalition
Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland
Prince's Trust Volunteers Scotland
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Scottish Business in the Community
Scottish Chambers of Commerce
Scottish Civic Forum
Scottish Council Development and Industry
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations
Scottish Financial Enterprise
Scottish Power
Western Isles Council
Young Scot
The Scottish Chambers of Commerce, the Scottish Council Development and Industry and Scottish Financial Enterprise all pay a contribution towards the salary costs of the secondment.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 25 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-16907 and S1W-16908 by Jackie Baillie on 9 August 2001, whether it will supply the information given broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Further to my answers given on 9 August on grants paid under section 54 of the Housing Act 1988 which relate to accounting periods ending in 1999-2000, the following table shows this information broken down by local authority area.
Local authority area | No. of awards | Value of awards (£) |
Western Isles | 5 | 13,896.70 |
Caithness | 1 | 34,867.80 |
Shetland | 1 | 19,461.40 |
Dundee | 1 | 154,213.02 |
Lochaber | 1 | 21,927.80 |
Skye & Lochalsh | 1 | 40,492.60 |
Orkney | 1 | 44,887.20 |
Fife | 1 | 15,314.20 |
Renfrewshire | 6 | 469,726.53 |
East Renfrewshire | 1 | 37,325.80 |
Inverclyde | 3 | 80,745.70 |
North Lanarkshire | 4 | 203,056.97 |
South Lanarkshire | 3 | 114,779.40 |
East Ayrshire | 2 | 41,893.40 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 1 | 172,166.65 |
Edinburgh | 4 | 382,102.34 |
Stirling | 1 | 23,049.40 |
Midlothian | 1 | 52,098.60 |
Clackmannan | 1 | 98,132.57 |
Glasgow | 33 | 1,591,884.79 |
West Dumbartonshire | 7 | 396,295.80 |
Argyll & Bute | 2 | 36,585.40 |
| National housing associations (across LA boundaries) | 2 | 148,923.95 |
Total | 83 | 4,193,828.02 |
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 21 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether consultation has taken place with Historic Scotland regarding alterations to existing buildings and additional building works at Dungavel House.
Answer
I have asked Graeme Munro, Director and Chief Executive of Historic Scotland, to answer. His response is as follows: "Historic Scotland has not been consulted as the planning authority, South Lanarkshire Council do not consider that Listed Building Consent is required for works being carried out at Dungavel House."
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 21 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-17739 by Mr Jim Wallace on 4 September 2001, on what dates South Lanarkshire Council and the Social Work Services Inspectorate have met the Immigration Service to discuss future working arrangements in connection with the Immigration Detention Centre at Dungavel House and whether such meetings have included discussions in relation to any devolved functions other than social work.
Answer
Officers and members from South Lanarkshire Council have met with representatives of the Immigration Service on a number of occasions in the last year to discuss safety, health and educational arrangements. Strathclyde Police and Lanarkshire Health Board and Primary Care Trust have also been represented at meetings. Social Work Services Inspectorate has been in correspondence and telephone discussions with the Immigration Service, Department of Health and South Lanarkshire Council about standards of care for children.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 21 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what involvement the Scottish Prison Service will have with refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland in this financial year.
Answer
The Home Office Immigration Service is responsible for refugees and asylum seekers and such matters are reserved. The Scottish Prison Service has housed such individuals, mainly in Greenock Prison. However, with effect from 3 September the process began of transferring such individuals from prison to the newly opened Dungavel Immigration Facility for which the Home Office is responsible.
