Chamber and committees

Further to the answer provided to question S1W-17545, I can confirm that the organisations of the 91 staff currently on secondment whose salary costs are met by the receiving organisation are as follows:Cairngorm Partnership Common Services Agency European Commission Highlands and Islands Enterprise

Lord President's OfficeLothian Health Meat Hygiene ServicePublic and Commercial Services Union Scottish Enterprise Scottish Archive Network Project Scottish Arts Council Scottish Chambers of Commerce Scottish Council Development and Industry Scottish Criminal Records Office Scottish Financial EnterpriseScottish Football Association Scottish Natural Heritage Scottish Parliament Scottish University for Industry Sportscotland Strathclyde University The Household of HRH The Prince of Wales West Lothian NHS Trust 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 with the balance met by the Scottish Executive.

The organisations of the staff on secondment during the period July 2001 to September 2001, whose salary costs are being met by the receiving organisation are as follows:Cairngorm Partnership Common Services Agency European Commission Highlands and Islands Enterprise

Lord President's OfficeLothian Health Meat Hygiene ServicePublic and Commercial Services UnionRoyal Bank of Scotland Group Scottish Archive Network Project Scottish Arts Council Scottish Chambers of Commerce Scottish Council Development and Industry Scottish Criminal Records OfficeScottish Enterprise Scottish Financial Enterprise Scottish Football AssociationScottish Natural Heritage Scottish Parliament Scottish Qualifications AuthorityScottish University for Industry Sportscotland Strathclyde University The Household of HRH The Prince of Wales West Lothian NHS Trust 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 with the balance met by the Scottish Executive.

Further to the answer provided to question S1W-17547, I can confirm that the following organisations had staff on loan from the Scottish Executive in the period May 1999 to July 2001: Audit ScotlandBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilCabinet OfficeDepartment of Trade and IndustryForeign and Commonwealth OfficeForestry CommissionHM TreasuryHome OfficeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsOffice of Fair TradingOFSTEDOFTELPrime Minister's Office, Downing StreetRoyal Botanical GardensScottish Court ServiceScottish Environment Protection AgencyScottish Criminal Cases Review CommissionScottish Funding Councils for Further and Higher Education

The Home Office is responsible for the Immigration Detention Centre at Dungavel House. Discussion is taking place with Lanarkshire Health Board about appropriate arrangements for the medical needs of individuals held there.

The number of staff currently on loan to other organisations is 35. Staff on loan move to the pay systems of the receiving organisation with full salary costs met by that organisation. There is no cost to the Scottish Consolidated Fund.

The number of staff on secondment to other organisations in the period May 1999 to July 2001 who have had their salary costs met by the Scottish Executive is 27. The number of staff on secondment to other organisations during this period who have had their salaries met by the receiving organisation is 126. The total cost to the Scottish Consolidated Fund was £1,068,990.

The total number of staff on loan to other organisations at any time in the period May 1999 to date is 61. Staff on loan move to the pay systems of the receiving organisation with full salary costs met by that organisation. There is no cost to the Scottish Consolidated Fund.

The number of staff currently on secondment to other organisations who are having their salary costs met by the Scottish Executive is 17. The number of staff currently on secondment who are having their salaries met by the receiving organisation is 91. The total cost to the Scottish Consolidated Fund in financial year 2001-02 will be £434,970.

No felling licences have been withdrawn when landowners have failed to comply with the conditions in the licence. The Forestry Commission has, however, served 16 enforcement notices on landowners in these circumstances over the last five years.

Section 61(4) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (as it will be amended by section 43(5) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001) provides that section 61 of that Act (which gives the right to buy) does not apply where the registered social landlord (RSL) was, at Royal Assent of the Act, "a recognised body within the meaning of section 1(7) (Scottish charities) of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990". We are currently considering what further provisions may be required in secondary legislation under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 to protect any existing entitlement to the right to buy on the part of tenants whose houses are transferred to a registered social landlord which is exempt from the right to buy as a result of its charitable status.However, most assured tenancies of housing associations do not currently have the right to buy and, following commencement of the relevant provisions of the 2001 Act, they will in any event be subject to the operation of section 44 of the Act which provides for a 10-year exemption from the right to buy.