- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 19 July 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many informal carers of people suffering from mental illness there are.
Answer
This information is not held by the Scottish Executive. The Carers National Association, 91 Mitchell Street, Glasgow, G1 3LN (tel. no: 0141 221 9141, e-mail:
[email protected]) will be able to provide information on carers in Scotland.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 19 July 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many support groups or support programmes for carers of people with mental illness it funds or part-funds in each local authority area and, for those it funds, how much funding it (a) is currently providing and (b) provided in each of the last three years.
Answer
Under Mental Illness Specific Grant, support is given to eight projects which provide specific support to carers, as follows:
Local Authority | Project | £ 1998-99 | £ 1999-2000 | £ 2000-01 |
Aberdeen City | NSF Carers | 13,709 | 13,709 | 13,709 |
Aberdeenshire | NSF Carers | 14,703 | 14,703 | 14,703 |
Angus | Carer support | 33,729 | 33,729 | 33,729 |
Dumfries & Galloway | Alzheimer Scotland Carer Support Service | 32,000 | 31,712 | 31,712 |
Fife | NSF Carers | 29,289 | 28,557 | 28,716 |
Edinburgh City | Care for Carers- Saturday Breaks | 7,720 | 7,720 | 7,720 |
Glasgow City | East End Community Carers | 21,560 | 20,925 | 20,694 |
South Lanarkshire | Rutherglen/Toryglen Carers Association | 67,245 | 78,066 | 78,090 |
Note: Funded 70:30 Scottish Executive/Local Authorities. The figures refer to 100% funding.
In addition, the Scottish Executive offers national carers organisations funds towards their core administration costs, and for specific initiatives. These organisations offer advice and support to carers across Scotland. The information requested is shown in the following table:
Organisation | 1998-99 £ | 1999-2000 £ | 2000-01 £ |
Carers National Association | 106,000 | 109,180 | 109,180 |
Crossroads | 41,008 | 42,238 | 60,088 |
Shared Care Scotland | 53,157 | 71,752 | 71,752 |
Funding Source: Sections 9 and 10 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968.
Funding is also provided by health boards and local authorities from their general allocations to meet their statutory requirements to provide services for people with mental health problems. This includes support and assistance to carers: such funding is not separately identified.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 6 July 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken, or intends to take, in the light of the recent announcement made by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on Post Offices.
Answer
The Scottish Executive welcomes the measures proposed by the UK Government to modernise the Post Office network. The role envisaged for the Post Office fits in well with the Executive`s commitments to rural communities and to addressing the needs of socially excluded people in both urban and rural areas.We will be looking at all of the recommendations in the report prepared by the Performance and Innovation Unit of the Cabinet Office and considering how we can assist the UK Government in taking them forward in Scotland. We will also be considering whether any services provided by the Executive or its agencies might be supplied in future by the Post Office network.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 5 July 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to make representations to Her Majesty's Government to ensure that fines raised from motoring offences committed within each local authority area are retained by that local authority to help finance and develop the local transport network.
Answer
Road traffic matters and related statutory offences are reserved under the Scotland Act 1998. Fines imposed for road traffic offences are therefore remitted to the Consolidated Fund. When offences are decriminalised and fines are replaced with penalty changes (as has happened recently with parking offences in Edinburgh and Glasgow) the local authority may keep the income to maintain the relevant enforcement system and to improve parking facilities and also, if resources are still available, for transport matters generally. The Scottish Executive has no plans to make representations to the Government on this issue.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 30 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dog fouling offences have been reported to Procurator Fiscals' offices in each of the past three years, broken down by region.
Answer
The information requested is detailed in the table below and has been broken down by year and region. As many of these cases are closed relatively quickly some cases reported during 1997 will already have been purged from the Crown Office computer system and are therefore not reflected in the figures given. Similarly the figures for the year 2000 represent only those cases reported thus far. The figures in respect of 1998 and 1999 however reflect the total numbers of cases reported in those years.
| | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
Grampian, Highland & Islands | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 |
Tayside, Central & Fife | 20 | 55 | 35 | 30 |
Lothian & Borders | 2 | 8 | 11 | 3 |
North Strathclyde | 2 | 19 | 6 | 2 |
South Strathclyde, Dumfries & Galloway | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
Glasgow & Strathkelvin | 9 | 23 | 19 | 3 |
Total | 35 | 109 | 86 | 42 |
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 27 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what capital expenditure was on arts, culture and sport, the built heritage, national monuments and national institutions in each of the last six years, broken down by project and specifying in each case the total cost and start date.
Answer
Details of Scottish Executive funding towards major capital projects costing £2 million or more are listed in the following table. The figures do not include minor or maintenance capital projects which are met from running
cost allocations.
CULTURAL HERITAGE |
Body/Project | 1994-95 | 1995-96 | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | Start Date | SE Funding | Total Project Cost |
| | £ million |
National Library of Scotland (NLS) Causewayside | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1991 | 21.0 | 21.0 |
NLS George IV Bridge-fire safety work | 1.0 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 1994 | 12.8 | 13.0 |
National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) - Dean Gallery | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0 | 1996 | £2.9 | 9.3 |
NGS - Granton Research Project | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 1999 | 2.0 | 2.0 |
NGS - Royal Scottish Academy | 0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 1.7 | 1995 | 10.0 | 22.0 |
National Museums of Scotland (NMS) - Museum of Scotland | 5.9 | 3.7 | 7.7 | 11.4 | 7.0 | 1.0 | 1989 | 37.2 | 52.2 |
NMS - Accommodation Strategy | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1990 | 13.0 | 13.0 |
Granton Research Centre | 1.8 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1992 | 3.7 | 3.7 |
ARTS |
CCA Arts Centre- refurbish | 0 | 0.004 | 0.005 | 0.02 | 0.6 | 2.1 | 1995 | 7.6 | 10.6 |
Dundee City Arts Centre | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 0 | 1997 | 5.4 | 9.0 |
Dance Base Dance Centre - Edinburgh | 0.004 | 0 | 0 | 0.004 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 1995 | 4.9 | 6.1 |
Tron Theatre, Glasgow - | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 1997 | 4.6 | 5.1 |
Edinburgh Festival Centre | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 1998 | 3.7 | 8.4 |
Arches Theatre | 0 | 0 | 0.08 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.7 | 1996 | 3.6 | 5.0 |
New Byre Theatre, St Andrews | 0 | 0.003 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 1996 | 4.3 | 5.4 |
Stirling Tolbooth Arts Centre | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.4 | 1997 | 3.1 | 5.5 |
Dundee Rep Theatre | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 1.6 | 1997 | 2.5 | 3.4 |
RSAMD New Opera School, Glasgow | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.05 | 1996 | 2.6 | 5.5 |
Tramway Arts centre, Glasgow | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 1996 | 2.3 | 4.6 |
New Dance Centre, Dundee College | 0 | 0.007 | 0 | 0.001 | 0.06 | 0.2 | 1996 | 2.3 | 4.6 |
Scottish Opera, New Workshop | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 1996 | 2.1 | 3.4 |
Glasgow 1999 Lighthouse- conversion | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 1997 | 2.1 | 11.1 |
Theatre Royal, Glasgow | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 1997 | 1.6 | 2.1 |
Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, Workshop | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 1998 | 1.5 | 3.9 |
Pitlochry Festival Theatre | 0 | 0 | 0.007 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 1996 | 1.6 | 3.0 |
Gilmorehill Theatre, Glasgow | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 1996 | 0.9 | 4.3 |
Gaelic - student homes at Sabhal Mor Ostaig | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 0 | 0 | 1999 | 0.9 | 6.0 |
BUILT HERITAGE |
Stirling Castle | 1.2 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 3.5 | 2.7 | 1991 | 13.4 | 21.9 |
Stanley Mills | 0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 1995 | 5.7 | 11.0 |
SPORT |
Sport scotland (Ss) Hampden redevelopment, Phase II | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 3.5 | 1996 | 4.8* | 51.0 |
S s-Tollcross Leisure Centre | 0.285 | 0.2 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1994 | 0.5 | 10.5m |
S s-Pickaquoy sports hall, Orkney | 0 | 0 | 0.06 | 0.1 | 0.04 | 0 | 1996 | 0.2 | 8.5m |
S s-Tennis, Craiglockhart Edinburgh | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1993 | 0.3# | 2.9 |
S s-Aquadrome, Inverness | 0 | 0.2 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1995 | 0.24 | 9.9 |
* This includes the Scottish Executive's contribution of £2.8 million to the rescue package negotiated during 1999-2000.
# £0.2 million was paid in 1993-94.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 22 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to ensure that fines raised from parking offences committed within each local authority area are retained by that local authority to help finance and develop the local transport network.
Answer
Under existing arrangements, parking infringements are criminal offences and the income generated from parking fines accrues to the Exchequer.
However, the Road Traffic Act 1991 introduced provisions enabling the decriminalisation of most non-endorsable on-street parking offences in London and permitted similar arrangements to be introduced elsewhere. The relevant provisions of the 1991 Act were commenced for Scotland in June 1997.
The purpose of decriminalising parking offences is to enable a local authority to administer its own parking penalty schemes and to retain the penalties collected to finance their parking enforcement procedures. In areas where parking offences are decriminalised, any surplus income must first be used to improve off-street parking and secondly, for general traffic management purposes within the area of the authority.
Decriminalised parking enforcement was first introduced in Scotland in the City of Edinburgh on 5 October 1998. Glasgow City Council introduced a similar scheme on 4 October 1999.
It is for other local authorities, as they see fit, to make application to Scottish Ministers for a designation order to introduce a similar decriminalised parking regime.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 21 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what was the total allocation of money made available to each local authority by it and the Scottish Office in each of the past three years for the purpose of introducing computer and IT equipment in schools and whether this money was for the purposes of capital or revenue expenditure.
Answer
The only year in which specific allocations for computers and IT equipment were made was 1999-2000, and local authority shares are shown in the table below. In July 1997, additional capital resources of £115.7 million were made available to authorities over five years under the New Deal for Schools to tackle the backlog of repairs to school buildings and to improve ICT facilities. There was no specific allocation within this for ICT and the decisions on the balance of expenditure between building repairs and on ICT facilities are matters for each authority. In addition, it is open to authorities to fund the acquisition of ICT equipment from the general resources available to them.
Local Authority | 1999-2000 Allocation (£)* |
Aberdeen City | 874,672 |
Aberdeenshire | 1,203,124 |
Angus | 552,901 |
Argyll & Bute | 439,557 |
Clackmannanshire | 238,904 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 740,820 |
Dundee City | 687,732 |
East Ayrshire | 628,595 |
East Dunbartonshire | 645,516 |
East Lothian | 408,310 |
East Renfrewshire | 524,620 |
Edinburgh, City of | 1,608,426 |
Eilean Siar | 148,516 |
Falkirk | 681,401 |
Fife | 1,753,827 |
Glasgow City | 2,405,824 |
Highland | 1,123,605 |
Inverclyde | 441,572 |
Midlothian | 423,406 |
Moray | 449,991 |
North Ayrshire | 709,307 |
North Lanarkshire | 1,743,447 |
Orkney Islands | 106,719 |
Perth & Kinross | 603,936 |
Renfrewshire | 901,054 |
Scottish Borders | 515,192 |
Shetland Islands | 126,519 |
South Ayrshire | 581,216 |
South Lanarkshire | 1,569,118 |
Stirling | 419,620 |
West Dunbartonshire | 521,544 |
West Lothian | 818,292 |
Total Scotland | 24,597,283 |
* From the Excellence Fund and Capital Modernisation Fund.
Part of this money was originally allocated as capital grant, but this was changed to revenue in response to representations from a number of local authorities.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 21 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail the assessment made by it and The Scottish Office of the capital allocation requirements for education in each local authority area in each year from 1996-97 to 1999-2000.
Answer
Since 1996-97, local authorities have received a single allocation for local authority non-housing capital expenditure, including education, distributed, since 1997-98, on the basis of a formula. The formula is based on five elements, including an education element but also takes account of construction costs in each local authority area and special transport needs. The total formula outcome produces a measure of relative need to spend between councils across the range of the non-housing capital programmes.
At the request of CoSLA, the formula issues as an unhypothecated allocation. It is for each local authority to determine its own spending priorities as they are best placed to assess local needs and circumstances. This includes the assessment of expenditure needs for education. We have, however, agreed with CoSLA that capital expenditure on education should be a priority for local authorities within the overall capital expenditure resources available to them.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 21 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail the total capital allocations made available to each local authority in each year from 1996-97 to 1999-2000.
Answer
I refer the member to my letter of 9 September 1999 in response to questions S1W-743 and S1W-744. A copy is available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
