- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it made any formal submissions to the UK Government in respect of its pending White Paper on energy and, if so, when such submissions were made and what points were raised.
Answer
The Executive is engaged withthe Department of Trade and Industry on various workstreams which will feed intothe UK Government’s energy white paper. We have responded formally to the UK Government’sconsultation on its proposed policy framework for new nuclear build. Our responsehas been published on the Executive’s website:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/12/NewNuclearBuild.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many outstanding applications for a council house there were in each local authority area in each of the last 60 months.
Answer
The numbers of households onwaiting lists for each local authority are published on an annual basis for 2000-01onwards in the quarterly Scottish Executive Statistical Bulletin (Housing Series)
Housing trends in Scotland: quarters ending 31 March. This is available online in the publications sectionof the housing statistics branch reference site:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Housing-Regeneration/PubHousingTrend.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29751 by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 November 2006, whether it will provide a breakdown of expenditure from the Repayable Grant available to Glasgow Housing Association.
Answer
Glasgow Housing Association has so far claimed £160,150,000 fromthe Scottish Executive under the Secured Repayable Grant Agreement in order to supportthe delivery of its business objectives.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29750 by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 November 2006, whether it will provide details of the positions held in their organisations by each of the officials which have led to their involvement in the joint team.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-30416 on 19 December 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’swebsite, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29750 by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 November 2006, why it does not feel it would be appropriate to provide names of officials involved in the joint team.
Answer
It is not standard Scottish Executivepractice to publish names or information about the positions of those involved inofficial-level working groups.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29751 by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 November 2006, whether it will provide a breakdown of expenditure from the Central Heating Grant available to Glasgow Housing Association.
Answer
Glasgow Housing Association has so far claimed £15,573,346 tocontribute to the cost of installing 5,080 full central heating systems and 4,110partial central heating systems in their properties.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive., further to the answer to question S2W-29751 by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 November 2006, whether it will provide a breakdown of expenditure from the Reprovisioning Grant available to Glasgow Housing Association.
Answer
Glasgow Housing Association has so far claimed £917,198 towardsthe cost of building 28 new units of housing in the Oatlands area of Glasgow.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29751 by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 November 2006, whether it will provide a breakdown of expenditure from the GHA Owner Occupiers Grant available to Glasgow Housing Association.
Answer
Glasgow City Council has so far claimed £16,424,514 from the ScottishExecutive under the Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) Owner Occupiers Grant in orderto provide financial support, on a means-tested basis, to 2592 owner occupiers tohelp them meet the costs of common works being carried out on their properties aspart of GHA’s investment programme.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29751 by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 November 2006, whether it will provide a breakdown of expenditure from the Demolition Grant available to Glasgow Housing Association.
Answer
Glasgow Housing Association has so far claimed a total of £18,255,994from the Scottish Executive under the Demolition Grant. This expenditure covers thefollowing:
Demolition of 27,16 housing units.
Home Loss and Disturbance paymentsfor approximately 2,630 tenants.
Acquisition costs for 90 owneroccupiers.
Building warrant fees.
Other acquisition costs.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional revenues it will receive from HM Treasury in each of the next five years as a result of the announcements made in the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s pre-Budget report on 6 December 2006.
Answer
The Scottish Executive receivedaround £16 million for 2006-07 and 2007-08, as a result of the Chancellor’s Pre-BudgetReport on 6 December 2006. The report also provided indicative 2007 ComprehensiveSpending Review (CSR) consequentials from settlements for a small number of WhitehallDepartments, which will form part of the overall CSR2007 settlement for Scotlandto be announced in summer 2007.
The following table sets outthe resulting allocations over the next five years:
| | 2006-07 (£ Million) | 2007-08 (£ Million) | 2008-09 (£ Million) | 2009-10 (£ Million) | 2010-11 (£ Million) |
| Pre-Budget Report Consequentials | 0.1 | 16.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Indicative CSR2007 Allocations | 0.0 | 0.0 | 21.8 | 69.5 | 176.9 |
Decisions on the allocation of the 2006-07 and 2007-08 resources will be taken in due course. The indicative allocationsfor the CSR period will be considered as part of the Scottish Spending Review processnext year.
