- 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 are currently employed by Scottish Homes.
Answer
Scottish Homes currently has an establishment of 567 full-time equivalent staff.
- 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, 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 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 Jim Wallace on 21 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has carried out, or intends to carry out, any investigation or research into restorative justice.
Answer
Restorative justice can be defined as the process whereby the parties involved in a specific offence collectively resolve how to deal with the aftermath. In particular, it aims to involve the victim and the offender in discussing the implications of the crime and possible forms of reparation.Elements of restorative justice appear in various current initiatives. The use of mediation and reparation services in certain cases of diversion from prosecution is an example of restorative justice in practice. We also expect many of the Youth Crime Review programmes to have strong restorative justice elements in the light of the increased emphasis on the victims of crime.The Scottish Executive funded and evaluated the SACRO Young Offenders Mediation and Reparation Project in Kirkcaldy in Fife. A report was published in 2000.
- 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 21 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers by Jackie Baillie to questions S1W-16905 and S1W-16904 on 6 and 7 August 2001 respectively, whether the remit of the working group to look at the detailed impact of the withdrawal of Section 54 (tax relief grant) on housing associations will include consideration of an alternative funding mechanism for major repairs.
Answer
The working group will examine the impact of the withdrawal of section 54 grant and, in particular, the effect on repairs programmes. The group is not precluded from considering alternative mechanisms for funding such repairs programmes in the future.
- 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 21 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-16839 by Jackie Baillie on 3 August 2001, how many of the listed members of the (a) Housing Interests Group, (b) Working Group on Single Social Tenancy, (c) Short Life Right to Buy Working Group, (d) Working Group on Implementation of Part 2 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001, (e) Homelessness Task Force, (f) Single Housing Plans Group and (g) Scottish Homes Steering Group are paid officials of the organisations referred to and how many are board members, committee members or equivalent.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
