- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 25 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will support the Clyde Fastlink project.
Answer
Yes. The Scottish Government will support measures to improve public transport in Glasgow, including a financial contribution to the first phase of a Clyde Fastlink initiative.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 25 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has assessed the impact to business and commerce in Glasgow following the cancellation of the Glasgow Airport Rail Link.
Answer
We are committed to delivering £182 million worth of investment in the rail infrastructure between Glasgow Central and Paisley Gilmour Street, which will bring real benefits to the people of Glasgow and the west of Scotland.
Ministers continue to work with others to deliver the largest investment programme in recent times to improve transport infrastructure, particularly in the West of Scotland. There will be significant upgrades of the motorway and rail networks around Glasgow over the next few years including:
Edinburgh Glasgow Improvements Programme (Rail “ complete 2015-16)
Airdrie to Bathgate (Rail “ complete 2010)
The works at Central station and the Glasgow “ Paisley rail corridor (Rail - complete 2012)
M74 Completion project (Road “ complete 2010-11)
M80 Stepps to Haggs (Road “ complete 2011-12).
All these projects combined are already and will continue to support and create thousands of jobs over the next few years.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 23 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how much is set aside for the presumed North Sea capital allocation fund, as referred to in The Herald of 17 September 2009.
Answer
No money has been set aside for the North Sea capital allocation fund as there is no fund nor are there any plans to introduce such a fund.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 23 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the purpose is of the presumed North Sea capital allocation fund, as referred to in The Herald of 17 September 2009.
Answer
I can confirm that the Scottish Government has no plans to introduce a North Sea capital allocation fund.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 23 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many lawyers are employed by it to draft legislation.
Answer
The Scottish Government employs 122 lawyers in the Scottish Government Legal Directorate (SGLD). Lawyers within SGLD are not employed solely to draft subordinate legislation, but drafting Scottish Statutory Instruments makes up a significant part of the work of the Directorate. Of the 10 divisions in SGLD, eight are engaged in drafting Scottish Statutory Instruments as part of the legal services they provide to the Scottish Government.
The Office of Scottish Parliamentary Counsel drafts Scottish Parliamentary Bills and Scottish provisions in UK Bills. OSPC presently consists of 14 lawyers.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 23 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many lawyers were employed by it in (a) 2005, (b) 2006, (c) 2007 and (d) 2008 to draft legislation.
Answer
The table below sets out the number of lawyers employed by the Scottish Government Legal Directorate (known as the Office of the Solicitor to the Scottish Executive before 2007) and the Office of Scottish Parliamentary Counsel in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
| Year | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
| SGLD | 111 | 110 | 111 | 120 |
| OSPC | 16 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
Lawyers within SGLD are not employed solely to draft subordinate legislation, but drafting Scottish Statutory Instruments makes up a significant part of the work of the Directorate. Of the 10 divisions in SGLD, eight are engaged in drafting Scottish Statutory Instruments as part of the legal services they provide to the Scottish Government.
The Office of Scottish Parliamentary Counsel drafts Scottish Parliamentary Bills and Scottish provisions in UK Bills.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 10 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take to safeguard the future of the Lighthouse in Glasgow.
Answer
This question was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0910-01.htm
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 June 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 25 August 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it plans to spend on the National Conversation.
Answer
Expenditure on the National Conversation will be at the level required to ensure that the people of Scotland are in a position to make an informed choice about their future in a referendum.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 June 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 25 August 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it (a) has spent and (b) is planning to spend on distributing (i) Scotland’s Future: Join the Debate: Education and Lifelong Learning, (ii) Scotland’s Future: Join the Debate: Finance and Sustainable Growth, (iii) Scotland’s Future: Join the Debate: Health and Wellbeing, (iv) Scotland’s Future: Join the Debate: Justice, (v) Scotland’s Future: Join the Debate: Rural Affairs and the Environment and (vi) Scotland’s Future: Join the Debate: Scotland’s Place in the World.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-24927 on 25 August 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 June 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 25 August 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost was of producing (a) Scotland’s Future: Join the Debate: Education and Lifelong Learning, (b) Scotland’s Future: Join the Debate: Finance and Sustainable Growth, (c) Scotland’s Future: Join the Debate: Health and Wellbeing, (d) Scotland’s Future: Join the Debate: Justice, (e) Scotland’s Future: Join the Debate: Rural Affairs and the Environment and (f) Scotland’s Future: Join the Debate: Scotland’s Place in the World.
Answer
Scotland''s Future: Join the Debate leaflets are an important contribution to informing the public debate successfully generated by the National Conversation. Over 4,500 people have attended public events, there have been over 500,000 hits on the National Conversation web pages and the voluntary sector, businesses, universities, the media, faith groups, ethnic minorities, and Scotland''s young people are all taking part.
The cost for design, printing, translation and web publication was £20,927. The cost of distribution to almost 600 libraries across Scotland was £3,452. Copies of the leaflets will be available at National Conversation events and on request.
