- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 4 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is planned to reduce the incidence of cancer in the Glasgow area.
Answer
I refer to my answer to question S1W-3720.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 31 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 2 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact the proposed transfer of housing stock will have on the powers of local councillors to intervene on housing matters.
Answer
Transfers to community ownership will enable councils and councillors to develop a more strategic role in the provision of housing in their area. To support this process, we have proposed that Scottish Homes' development funding role should transfer to the council following a whole stock transfer. Councils will continue to have statutory responsibility for the homeless in their area.
Currently, a local councillor may make representations on housing matters to the council on behalf of a constituent who is a council tenant. Transfer need not prevent a councillor from making such representations to the new community landlord on the constituent's behalf. In the case of the Glasgow transfer, there will be councillors on the management boards of the Glasgow Housing Association and the Area Housing Partnerships.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 27 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will outline the new responsibilities given to Scottish Screen from April 2000 in relation to distributing lottery monies.
Answer
Scottish Screen has been added to the list of National Lottery distributing bodies with effect from 7 April. Scottish Screen is responsible for applications relating to film production in Scotland. A strategic plan has been drawn up and new management arrangements put in place.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 27 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria will be set by Scottish Screen in distributing lottery monies to film projects.
Answer
Scottish Screen will set criteria in line with the Policy Directions issued by the Scottish ministers to them as the National Lottery distributor for film production in Scotland. I will place a statement of the criteria in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe).
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 27 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive in how many Scottish films British Screen has invested over the last 10 years.
Answer
British Screen has provided finance for three Scottish feature films and project development finance for a number of others. It has also invested in several short films, including financing the Prime Cuts scheme for three years.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 27 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many film production companies are based in Scotland.
Answer
The Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT) has 40 fully producing members in Scotland, including companies which produce for television. I understand that the great majority of production companies are members of PACT.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 27 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the Scottish Arts Council is #2.5 million funding for Scottish film projects is returned unspent.
Answer
Only a very small part of the funds have been returned. However, in a few cases, funds have not been issued where film-makers have not been able to complete their financing.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 27 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list investment in film projects in Scotland during 1999 by companies located (a) in Scotland and (b) elsewhere.
Answer
The following feature films were shot in Scotland by Scottish based companies:
Aberdeen, Mist Gate (now Lomond Shores), Shaping a Nation, Daybreak and One Life Stand.
The following were shot in Scotland by companies not based in Scotland:
Complicity, The World is Not Enough, Women Talking Dirty, Uddam Singh, The Little Vampire, House of Mirth, The Cup, To End All Wars, Creatures and Strictly Sinatra.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 27 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many films made in Scotland in the last 10 years have been commissioned from London-based companies.
Answer
London-based companies have shot 33 of the 87 feature films made in Scotland between 1991 and 1999.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 26 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-2316 by Susan Deacon on 25 November 1999, in what way the cost to health boards of care provided under the negotiated reciprocal agreement is recognised within the total resources allocated to each health board each year.
Answer
A calculation was made in 1989-90 of the costs incurred on an all-Scotland basis for the care of those overseas visitors referred here for specific treatment or who fall ill while here on a visit. A similar calculation was carried out for Scottish residents treated abroad. The balancing sum was then allocated on a weighted capitation basis to all health boards and included in their general allocation. Although they are not separately identified, these funds continue to form part of each health board's general allocation.
