- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
-
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
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
-
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
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
-
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
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has plans to introduce legislation to provide for trials without jury in serious fraud cases, similar to that planned by the UK Government and announced in the Queen's Speech.
Answer
We have no plans to do so.
In response to a public consultationin 1998 the clear view was expressed that there was no case for changing the presentmethod of trial in serious fraud cases in Scotland.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 15 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many apprentices it will help to fund in each of the next five years.
Answer
The Scottish Executive hasprovided funding to the Enterprise Networks in order to achieve the PartnershipAgreement target of having 30,000 modern apprentices (MAs) in training by 2006.This target was achieved two years early and it is intended to maintain thenumber of MAs in training at least above this level up until May 2007. Thereare currently no MA targets for the next five years.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 15 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many households have benefited from free insulation or free central heating in each of the last three years and how many households it estimates will benefit in each of the next three years.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is asfollows:
The number of CentralHeating and Warm Deal Installations for the last three years are shown in the followingtable :
| Year | Central Heating | Warm Deal Measures |
| 2003-04 | 16,788 | 27,520 |
| 2004-05 | 15,207 | 19,013 |
| 2005-06 | 15,992 | 15,499 |
The estimated numbers ofcentral heating and warm deal installations to be completed in 2006-07 are 13,000and 17,500 respectively. These figures are based on using an additional £5 million, between now and the end ofthis financial year, to help up to 5,000 more householders benefit from these Programmes.In 2007-08, the estimated numbers of central heating and warm dealinstallations that will be carried out are 12,000 and 12,800 respectively. Thepresent programme is scheduled to finish in March 2008.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 15 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it intends to spend in each of the next three years in assisting local authorities to encourage community ownership of assets.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is asfollows:
Ministers have agreed tomake £0.5 million available to March 2008,initially targeted on those areas covered by the Regeneration Policy Statement:People and Place, copies of which are available in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 38936)to help build the capacity of smaller community groups in disadvantaged areasto own assets. This will be dispersed with the involvement of local SocialEconomy Partnerships, and will complement the Big Lottery Fund’s £50 milliongrowing community assets programme.
Decisions about fundingbeyond March 2008 will be taken in the light of the next spending review.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 15 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what its capital investment in transport (a) has been in each of the last 10 years and (b) is estimated to be in each of the next five years.
Answer
The following table givesthe information requested for each year from 1997-98 to 2006-07.
| Year | Amount | Source |
| 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 | £248 million £236 million £227 million £276 million £404 million £541 million £769 million | Information from 1997-98 to 2003-04 extracted from The Scottish Transport Statistics (number 24) 2005 Edition (tables 11.1 and 11.4 under the heading “Expenditure on transport within the Scottish Ministers’ responsibility”). |
| 2004-05 2005-06 | £674 million £862 million | Scottish Executive Finance System and Local Authority returns. |
| 2006-07 (From 1 April 2006 to 31 October 2006) | £351 million | Only includes available information extracted from the Scottish Executive accounting system from
1 April 2006 to
31 October 2006. Excludes information on Local Authority capital expenditure which is currently not available. |
Spending plans for the 2007-08year are included in the Scottish Executive Draft 2007-08 Budget which waspublished in 2006 on the Scottish Executive internet at:
http://scotland.gov.uk/Publications.The Chancellor is expectedto announce the outcome of the UK Comprehensive Spending Review in July 2007, whichwill determine the size of the Scottish Budget for 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11.Future investment proposals for Transport will be included in the ScottishSpending Review.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 15 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what its forecast is of economic growth in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08.
Answer
The Scottish Executive doesnot produce forecasts for GDP growth.
However, according to thefour major independent forecasters monitored by the Executive, Scotland isexpected to experience growth above its long-run annual average in both 2006and 2007.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what its estimate is of Scotland’s income per head of population.
Answer
The following table presentsestimates of Scotland’s annual income per head of population based on theDepartment for Work and Pensions’ Family Resources Survey.
| Income measure (£ per head) | 2004-05 |
| Gross household income | 12,573 |
| Net disposable household income (before housing costs) | 9,523 |
| Net disposable household income (after housing costs) | 8,428 |
Source: Households BelowAverage Income datasets, DWP, 2004-05.
Notes:
Gross income: Total income from all sources including from tax credits, beforedeductions of income tax and National Insurance.
Net disposableincome: Gross income afterdeductions for income tax, National Insurance Contributions, council tax,pension contributions and maintenance payments.
Housing costs: Net disposable income but withrent/mortgage payments, water charges, structural insurance premiums, ground rentand service charges deducted.
