- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many bank accounts arrested last year recovered sums greater than #63 and how many were of a value that exceeded the value of the debt being recovered.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 14 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what its plans are for tackling unemployment in Kilmarnock and Loudoun.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer I gave to question S1W-7200.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 14 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated value is of the outstanding repair and maintenance requirements of secondary schools in Hamilton North and Bellshill.
Answer
The overall management of their school building stock is a matter for individual education authorities. Detailed information of the kind requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 14 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to review the effectiveness of the national strategy for tenant participation within each local authority area.
Answer
In the case of registered social landlords this will be undertaken by Scottish Homes through its performance management system. In the case of local authorities, the Best Value regime provides a monitoring framework for the review of services in consultation with tenants.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of the number of (i) bank account arrestments and (ii) wage arrestments in each of the past three years.
Answer
The table below sets out the information which is recorded on the number of arrestments which were executed in Scotland in each of the past three years.
| | Earnings Arrestments Executed | Non-Earnings Arrestments Executed | Other Arrestments |
1997 | 88,152 | 89,641 | 4,917 |
1998 | 74,200 | 96,707 | 4,584 |
1999 | 73,464 | 98,613 | 4,612 |
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 14 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown by local authority area of the number of households receiving assistance through the Warm Deal programme including details of the level of grants awarded.
Answer
A total of 38,604 households benefited from the Warm Deal in the year ending 31 March 2000, the most recent period for which figures are available. Local authorities improved 22,554 of their own houses. The number improved by each authority is set out below. Resources go to authorities as landlords: the tenants do not receive grant. 16,050 households received a Warm Deal grant from Eaga, whose expenditure is not recorded by local authority area. The average grant was £315.
Warm Deal as Administered by Local Authorities: Number of Households Benefiting: 1 April 1999 - 31 March 2000 |
Council | Number of households | Council | Number of households |
Aberdeen | 672 | Inverclyde | 1,511 |
Aberdeenshire | 925 | Midlothian | 322 |
Angus | 580 | Moray | 484 |
Argyll and Bute | 433 | North Ayrshire | 1,268 |
Clackmannanshire | 636 | North Lanarkshire | 832 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 398 | Orkney | 78 |
Dundee City | 496 | Perth & Kinross | - |
East Ayrshire | 887 | Renfrewshire | 586 |
East Dunbarton | 421 | Scottish Borders | 414 |
East Lothian | 343 | Shetland | 74 |
East Renfrewshire | 274 | South Ayrshire | 857 |
Edinburgh | 800 | South Lanarkshire | 1,209 |
Falkirk | 694 | Stirling | 291 |
Fife | 2787 | West Dunbartonshire | 1011 |
Glasgow City | 2809 | West Lothian | 124 |
Highland | 255 | Western Isles | 83 |
| | Total | 22,554 |
Perth and Kinross Council is not participating in the local authority part of the Warm Deal.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 14 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to set up a unit or agency to co-ordinate voluntary international aid efforts from Scotland.
Answer
Responsibility for international aid and for the Government's relationship with British voluntary organisations that work overseas lies with the Department for International Development. I recently met with George Foulkes MP at DfID's offices in East Kilbride on 5 June to discuss our common interest in the voluntary sector in Scotland.
A number of international aid/development agencies are based in Scotland. The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), which receives support from the Scottish Executive, is assisting them to interface with DfID and to link with each other.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 14 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will outline the process which will be used in preparing its response to the Hawk and Owl Trust Report; what timetable is envisaged; which organisations will be consulted, and whether it will make available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre all the submissions it receives on the matter.
Answer
The Scottish Executive will not be making a formal response to the report A Study into the Raptor Predation of Domestic Pigeons, which was completed under contract to DETR to inform the work of the UK Raptor Working Group.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 14 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of the number of people over 50 who are on the New Deal by local enterprise company area.
Answer
Employment policy is reserved to the UK Government which takes the lead on funding and delivery of the New Deal throughout Great Britain, although in close consultation with its partners, including the Scottish Executive. Many partner organisations at local level also provide New Deal services under contract or provide funds and other resources, including training funds to enhance the quality of New Deal in their areas. The public and voluntary sector organisations, which contribute in this way fall within the remit of the Scottish Executive.
The following table shows figures for current participation and cumulative starts for over 50 year olds on New Deal 25plus by Local Enterprise Company (LEC) area at end-March 2000.
LEC Area | Aged 50+ Current participation | Aged 50+ Cumulative starts |
Ayrshire | 262 | 909 |
Borders | 39 | 92 |
Dunbartonshire | 157 | 470 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 148 | 377 |
Fife | 123 | 475 |
Forth Valley | 31 | 83 |
Glasgow | 485 | 1,259 |
Grampian | 69 | 260 |
Lanarkshire | 208 | 727 |
Lothian & Edinburgh | 234 | 726 |
Renfrewshire | 174 | 557 |
Tayside | 220 | 753 |
Argyll & Bute | 64 | 188 |
Caithness & Sutherland | 66 | 176 |
Inverness & Nairn | 38 | 116 |
Lochaber | 12 | 30 |
Moray & Badenoch | 34 | 122 |
Orkney | 20 | 58 |
Ross & Cromarty | 29 | 96 |
Shetland | 5 | 29 |
Skye & Lochalsh | 14 | 35 |
Western Isles | 9 | 27 |
Totals | 2,506 | 7,667 |
The New Deal 50 plus was introduced on 5 April 2000 to provide further help for people aged over 50 in their search for work.
Detailed management information is not yet available for New Deal 50plus.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 14 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to review the effectiveness of the tenant consultation and participation procedures being used by South Lanarkshire Council in respect of establishing the feasibility of housing stock transfers in the area and, in particular, to assess whether the council has given due regard to the role of the South Lanarkshire Federation of Tenants.
Answer
The responsibility for consulting tenants about possible housing stock transfers lies with councils.
