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Question reference: S2W-32266

Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Johann Lamont on 16 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-32072 by Johann Lamont on 7 March 2007, whether all local authorities were invited to bid for the money confiscated under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and how and when any decision was taken that only certain authorities were eligible for funding.

Question reference: S2W-32265

Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Johann Lamont on 16 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-32072 by Johann Lamont on 7 March 2007, how much funding from the £10 million confiscated under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 was given to each project listed.

Funding was made available tothe local authority areas of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Renfrewshire, North Ayrshire, Inverclydeand West Dunbartonshire for visible community projects, which were listed inthe answer to question S2W-32072 on 7 March 2007.Information on the precise amounts used for each project listed is not held centrally.All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

Question reference: S2W-32072

Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2007
Current Status: Answered by Johann Lamont on 7 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive which community projects have received funding from the £10 million confiscated under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.

Funds recovered through Proceedsof Crime legislation have been reinvested within the six local authorities in Scotland whichsuffer most serious violent crime; Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverclyde,North Ayrshire and West Dunbartonshire. Community projects supported are detailed in the followingtable. In addition to these, each local authority ran a localised Drug Dealers Don’tCare, Do You? Campaign and a twilight basketball project within the community.

Local Authority	Projects
Glasgow City	1. G-Pod – Mobile Youth Unit 2. Govan and Barlanark after schools projects 3. Youth outreach work
City of Edinburgh	1. Two vehicles –CCTV and Graffiti clean up 2. Leisure facilities – Youth outreach work 3. Sport programme Muirhouse 3. Sport programme Holyrood 4. Street workers 5. Open all hours – Leisure facilities
West Dunbartonshire	1. Sports Leadership Courses. 2. Creative Apprentices. 3. Dance Leadership Courses 4. Pulse summer school 5. Environmental Hit Squad
Renfrewshire	1. Teen Action Zone 2. Holiday and evening multi activity programme 3. Reclaim our Community 4. Peer Education – DVD exploring issues surrounding ASB. 5. 4 vehicles for Community Wardens: two graffiti clean up, mobile CCTV and Community Transport.
Inverclyde	1. Lease 4 vehicles (2x Community clean up, 1x internet van, 1x minibus and driver to transport young people.) 2. Two Youth Workers 3. Primary schools programme 4. Cookery bookery 5. Story book time 6. Transitional workshops
North Ayrshire	1. Fullarton detached street work project 2. BUDZ – project for young people to landscape ground in the local community. 3. Equipped to learn – Equipment for computer suite 4. Fullarton youth challenge collaboration 5. Saturday sport and health club 6. Active haycocks 7. Junior youth clubs 8. Street Beat – Project to develop dance activity 9. Eyes, Minds and Hearts – Storytelling project 10. Junior chess clubs

Question reference: S2O-11887

Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 1 February 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to review education provision in Fife.

Question reference: S2W-30202

Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 6 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many attacks there have been on hospital patients by other patients in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-30160

Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 24 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been in fuel poverty in each year since 1999.

Fuel poverty estimates are availableonly for the years for which house condition surveys were conducted. The ScottishHouse Condition Survey (SHCS) estimated that in 1996, 738,000 households (35%) inScotland were in fuel poverty. The 2002 survey estimated that 286,000 households(13%) were in fuel poverty. In the year from October 2003 to September 2004, 328,000households (14.5%) in Scotland were estimated to be in fuel poverty.

Question reference: S2W-30078

Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been transferred from each local authority housing revenue account in aid of general funds in each year since 1999.

The information requested isshown in the following table.

HRARevenue Balances Transferred to the General Services Account (£000)

Local Authority	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
	Near Actual	Near Actual	Near Actual	Near Actual	Near Actual	Near Actual	Near Actual	Estimate
Aberdeen City	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aberdeenshire	0	0	0	0	0	0
Angus	0	0	0	0	0	0
Argyll and Bute	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Clackmannanshire	370	300	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dumfries and Galloway	199	127	0	3,057	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Dundee City	0	0	0	0	0	0
East Ayrshire	882	1,086	0	0	0	0	0	0
East Dunbartonshire	0	0	0	0	0	0
East Lothian	500	1242	1,250	1,060	500	1,021	4,233	3,227
East Renfrewshire	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Edinburgh, City of	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eilean Siar	0	0	0	0	0	0
Falkirk	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fife	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Glasgow	6,358	0	0	1,530	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Highland	0	0	0	0	0	0	758	0
Inverclyde	0	452	0	0	0	0	0	0
Midlothian	458	1,500	1,000	1,000	1,101	1,000	1,000	1,000
Moray	0	0	0	0	78	0	0	0
North Ayrshire	1,650	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
North Lanarkshire	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Orkney Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0
Perth and Kinross	0	0	0	0	0	0
Renfrewshire	0	0	0	1,100	0	0	0	0
Scottish Borders	0	0	800	0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Shetland Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Ayrshire	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Lanarkshire	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stirling	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
West Dunbartonshire	0	0	0	0	0	0
West Lothian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scotland	10,417	4,707	3,050	7,747	1,679	2,021	5,991	4,227

Source: Local authorityhousing revenue account (HRA) returns.

Note: Glasgow, ScottishBorders and Dumfries and Galloway transferred their housing stock in 2003. The 2006HRA returns which provides 2005-06 and 2006-07 data are not yet complete.

Question reference: S2W-27664

Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 August 2006
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many local authorities have closed their waiting lists for (a) housing repair grants and (b) housing repair grants that include some element for lead pipe replacement.

Question reference: S2W-27662

Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 August 2006
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many housing repair grants were awarded in each local authority area in 2004-05 and, of these, how many included some element for lead pipe replacement.

The numberof grants awarded to the private sector for lead repairs in 2004-05 are shownin the following table.

Number OfGrants to the Private Sector for Lead Repair Work by Local Authority Area:2004-05

	Total number of grants	Grants for lead repairs
Scotland	14,916	712
Aberdeen City	587	51
Aberdeenshire	248	2
Angus	396	3
Argyll and Bute	340	6
Clackmannanshire	118	1
Dumfries and Galloway	1,310	2
Dundee City	607	7
East Ayrshire	233	11
East Dunbartonshire	162	19
East Lothian	290	18
East Renfrewshire	276	91
Edinburgh (City of)	474	-
Eilean Siar	461	1
Falkirk	189	34
Fife	238	63
Glasgow City	1,459	91
Highland	858	14
Inverclyde	91	7
Midlothian	77	6
Moray	250	6
North Ayrshire	509	30
North Lanarkshire	1,091	34
Orkney	116	-
Perth and Kinross	373	18
Renfrewshire	517	20
Scottish Borders	148	-
Shetland	64	-
South Ayrshire	202	24
South Lanarkshire	2,245	86
Stirling	188	30
West Dunbartonshire	490	9
West Lothian	309	28

Source:IMP1B returns by local authorities to the Scottish Executive Development Department Analytical Services Division(Housing Statistics).

Note: 1.Nil is denoted by -.

Question reference: S2W-27663

Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 August 2006
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many local authorities have waiting lists for (a) housing repair grants and (b) housing repair grants that include some element for lead pipe replacement.