- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 7 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to commission research into the link between housing conditions and the number of winter deaths.
Answer
Excess winter deaths have many and complex causes. But insofar as they may be related to cold and damp houses they will be tackled by the Central Heating Programme. We have already conducted a study of the feasibility of research on the health effects of the Central Heating Programme and are now commissioning a major study of the associations between the two.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 28 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many times and on what dates the Ministerial Working Group considering the report of the Working Group on Renewing Local Democracy met in the period from 1 September 2000 to 31 November 2001 and which ministers attended each meeting.
Answer
Three meetings of the Ministerial Working Group on Renewing Local Democracy were held during the period from 1 September 2000 to 30 November 2001 on 3 October, 13 November and 13 February. The membership of the committee was announced in July 2000 and comprised the First Minister, the Deputy First Minister, the Minister for Finance and Local Government, the Minister for Parliament, the Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning and the Minister for Rural Development.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish details of the agreed spending by each local authority on public private partnership and private finance initiative projects in each of the next 25 years.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-20080 on 12 December 2001.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish details of its agreed spending on public private partnership and private finance initiative projects in each of the next 25 years, broken down by department.
Answer
The most recent figures on estimated revenue payments under Private Finance Initiative projects in cash terms for signed deals for the next 25 years are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 18064). The information is shown by sector. Information on other forms of partnership is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish details of the total agreed spending on public private partnership and private finance initiative projects in each of the next 25 years, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Information is not currently held centrally on the basis of local authority area. However, I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-20080 on 12 December 2001.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many public sector jobs have been transferred to the private sector as a result of a private finance initiative or public private partnership contract in each of the past five years.
Answer
This is a matter for the bodies concerned. The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 5 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what public bodies Esther Roberton has been appointed to since May 1997 and what the remuneration is for each position.
Answer
The following table details the requested information.
| Name of NDPB | Position | Period | Remuneration (£) |
| Scottish Further Education Funding Council | Member | March 1999 - October 2001 | 4,746, increased to 4,884 from 04/01 |
| Scottish Further Education Funding Council | Chair | November 2001 - October 2005 | 31,464 |
| Fife NHS Board (formerly Fife Health Board) | Chair | April 2000 - April 2004 | 15,000 increased to 26,000 from 1/10 |
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 4 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive on what date Esther Roberton was appointed as Chair of the Scottish Further Education Funding Council.
Answer
She was appointed Chair with effect from 1 November 2001.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 4 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether a press release was issued announcing the appointment of Esther Roberton as Chair of the Scottish Further Education Funding Council; to which media outlets any such press release was sent, and when any such press release was placed on the Executive's website.
Answer
A press release was issued announcing the appointment of Ms Roberton on the morning of Friday 16 November.All media outlets were contacted. Simultaneously, a copy was dispatched to be placed on the Scottish Executive's website. Due to a fault with the system there was a delay before the press release could be placed on the website.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 4 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when and where the position of Chair of the Scottish Further Education Funding Council was advertised.
Answer
Adverts were placed in The Scotsman, The Herald, The Financial Times and Times Educational Supplement and appeared on 6 July 2001. A copy of the advert was also placed on the Scottish Executive's website.
