- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by John Scott on 10 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether it has investigated the costs involved in installing air-conditioning throughout the Scottish Parliament building.
Answer
The SPCB has not investigated the cost of installing air conditioning throughout the building. Holyrood has been designed as a low energy, environmentally friendly building. Air conditioning would compromise the energy efficiency of the building.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by John Scott on 10 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what the highest room temperature recorded in Tower 1, Tower 2, Tower 3, Tower 4, Queensberry House, 58-60 Canongate and the Canongate Building has been in the last 12 months.
Answer
The following temperatures are the highest recorded within the specified area, but do not cover all rooms within the area:
Tower 1 – 25 degrees Celsius between 17 Aug 04 and 3 Aug 05.
Tower 2 – 25.9 degrees Celsius between 19 Aug 04 and 3 Aug 05.
Tower 3 – no data.
Tower 4 – 26.4 degrees Celsius between 4 March 05 and 3 Aug 05.
QBH – 29.7 degrees Celsius between 7 Nov 04 and3 Aug 05.
Canongate – 26.71 degrees Celsius between 25 Nov 04 and 3 Aug 05.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 26 July 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how it evaluates the success of the Safe City Centres Initiative in its trial areas.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has commissioned Reid Howie Associates to undertake an evaluation of theSafe City Centres Initiative which will be completed in November 2006. The evaluationwill consider the impact of the initiative in the seven areas, including the perceptionsof views of key stakeholders.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 July 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how it definesbusiness crime in relation to the Safe City Centres Initiative.
Answer
The recorded crime statistics collected centrally do not distinguish crimes against businesses. The Executive’s definition of “business crime” is “all crime and disorder committed by or against business and this includes retail crime”. This mirrors the definition used by the Home Office in their Crime Reduction Toolkit for Business and Retail Crime. However, the Safe City Centres Initiative is not exclusively about reducing business crime. It is also about tackling quality of life issues such as graffiti, fly-posting, vandalism and antisocial behaviour, all of which can have a detrimental effect on those who work, live and visit our city and town centres.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 July 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding will be allocated to each of the pilot cities in the Safe City Centres Initiative in the remaining years in which the scheme will operate.
Answer
The Safe City Centres Initiative is a three year pilot programme which started in 2003-04 and concludes in the current financial year 2005-06. I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-17461 on 12 July 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 July 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many business crimes were committed in Stirling in (a) each year since and (b) the five years prior to the commencement of theSafe City Centres Initiative.
Answer
The recorded crime statistics collected centrally do not distinguish crimes against businesses. Research into business crime across Scotland was undertaken and published in 1999 (Counting the Cost – Crime Against Business in Scotland. Bib. number 3925). However, the figures in the report are based on self-reporting of crime incidents, not police statistics and cannot be broken down by city as requested.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 July 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many business crimes were committed in (a) Aberdeen, (b) Dundee, (c) Edinburgh, (d) Glasgow and (e) Perth in (i) each year since and (ii) the five years prior to the commencement of theSafe City Centres Initiative.
Answer
The recorded crime statistics collected centrally do not distinguish crimes against businesses. Research into business crime across Scotland was undertaken and published in 1999 (Counting the Cost – Crime Against Business in Scotland. Bib. number 3925). However, the figures in the report are based on self-reporting of crime incidents, not police statistics and cannot be broken down by city as requested.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 12 July 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how muchfunding has been allocated to each of the pilot cities in the Safe City Centres Initiativein each year since the commencement of the scheme.
Answer
The Safe City Centres Initiative is a three year pilot programme which started in 2003-04 and concludes in the current financial year 2005-06. The following table details the amounts allocated by the Executive to each of the pilot areas over the three year period. Additionally, Executive funding has been matched by the participating authorities, principally “in kind” through the provision of accommodation, equipment and other support.
| Area | 2003-04 (£) | 2004-05 (£) | 2005-06 (£) | Total (£) |
| Aberdeen | 33,066 | 32,878 | 33,238 | 99,182 |
| Dundee | 45,979 | 40,803 | 41,742 | 128,524 |
| Stirling | 35,800 | 36,810 | 36,961 | 109,571 |
| Glasgow | 43,191 | 53,739 | 53,739 | 150,669 |
| Perth | 11,167 | 11,167 | 21,166 | 43,500 |
| Edinburgh | 59,080 | 47,555 | 48,055 | 154,690 |
| Inverness | 36,000 | 34,500 | 34,500 | 105,000 |
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by George Lyon on 12 July 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive when any change to the rules regarding qualifications required by, or disqualifications limiting, those who can stand as candidates in local government elections, such as local authority employees, will be introduced.
Answer
The Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 made a number of changes to the rules governing who can stand for election as a councillor. Section 7 lifts the requirement for council employees to resign upon nomination as a candidate but replaces it with a requirement to resign upon election. Section 8 reduces the age at which a person may stand for election as a councillor from 21 to 18. Both these sections came into force on 20 January 2005. Section 9 removes the salary threshold above which council employees are regarded as holding politically restricted posts and are therefore prevented from standing for election as a councillor. That section will be commenced at a suitable opportunity before the next local government elections.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 27 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much capital funding it has provided to (a) state and (b) independent special schools since 1997, broken down by sector and local authority area.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does notprovide capital funding direct to either state or independent special schools. Capitalfunding is provided to local authorities, but they themselves decide on the detailsof their expenditure programmes.
