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Question reference: S1W-00946

Asked by: Bristow Muldoon, MSP for Livingston, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 1999
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 31 August 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to allocate resources to the development of youth football, and if so, how it intends to allocate these resources.

The Scottish Executive plans to contribute £1 million towards the development of a network of football academies. The academies will seek to attract the most talented youngsters from local communities with the aim of growing a future generation of Scottish stars. This initiative has been welcomed by representatives of the SFA, the Scottish Premier League and the Scottish Professional Footballers Association.

As Minister for Sport in the Scottish Executive I am now taking this initiative forward and I chaired the inaugural meeting of the Football Partnership on 14 June at McDiarmid Park, Perth. The Partnership includes representatives from the SFA, the SPL, the SFL, the SPFA, sportscotland, the Scottish Institute of Sport, the Football Trust and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities. The Partnership agreed that a Taskforce of officials under the Chairmanship of Eamonn Bannon (member of sportscotland) should be set up to draw up detailed proposals for consideration by the Partnership before the end of this year.In addition sportscotland continues to make a significant investment in the development of youth football through a variety of initiatives that include Team Sport Scotland, the Governing Body Sports Development Programme, the National Coach Support Programme and the Talented Athlete Programme. These initiatives and more add up to a total investment of £326,000 for 1999/00.

Question reference: S1W-00934

Asked by: Bristow Muldoon, MSP for Livingston, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 13 August 1999
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 27 August 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average rent was per household in 1997/8 for a) each local authority, and b) each housing association with more than 1000 units.

The information requested is shown in the table below.

Local Authority	Average Weekly Rent £	Housing Association	Average Weekly Rent £

Aberdeen City	27.75	Abertay	31.18
Aberdeenshire	29.75	Albyn	32.74
Angus	25.14	Almond	37.02
Argyll & Bute	35.05	Berwickshire	28.56
Clackmannanshire	29.48	Bield	31.59
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	36.79	Cairn	33.86
Dumfries & Galloway	32.62	Canmore	42.43
Dundee City	36.42	Castle Rock	36.23
East Ayrshire	26.95	Castlehill	30.30
East Dumbartonshire	29.76	Clyde Valley	41.79
East Lothian	28.87	Cube	40.62
East Renfrewshire	28.64	Edinvar	39.05
Edinburgh City	45.35	Eildon	30.13
Falkirk	29.44	Elderpark	33.65
Fife	30.11	Fife Special	38.59
Glasgow	40.23	Gap	36.10
Highland	38.37	Govanhill	29.07
Inverclyde	34.58	Grampian	41.38
Midlothian	25.20	Hanover (Scotland)	32.48
Moray	27.75	Hillcrest	33.72
North Ayrshire	30.22	Irvine	36.60
North Lanarkshire	31.14	Kingdom	36.74
Orkney	33.20	Kirk Care	35.76
Perth & Kinross	28.19	Knowes	38.22
Renfrewshire	32.45	Langstane	38.36
Scottish Borders	29.57	Link	35.78
Shetland Islands	35.94	Linstone	38.64

Local Authority	Average Weekly Rent £	Housing Association	Average Weekly Rent £

South Ayrshire	31.69	Loreburn	35.52
South Lanarkshire	35.47	Margaret Blackwood	38.59
Stirling	34.05	Melville	47.66
West Dumbartonshire	32.93	Parkhead	32.19
West Lothian	32.07	Partick	32.50
		Port of Leith	40.93
		Queens Cross	34.77
		Reidvale	30.86
		Servite	32.68
		Shettleston	30.37
		Shire	40.78
		Springburn & Possilpark	37.89
		Thenew	36.62
		Viewpoint	35.22
		West of Scotland	31.25
		Whiteinch & Scotstoun	36.88

Question reference: S1W-00933

Asked by: Bristow Muldoon, MSP for Livingston, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 13 August 1999
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 26 August 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what the outstanding housing debt for: a) each local authority and b) each housing association with more than 1000 units was for: i) 1996/7, and ii) 1997/8, expressed as a total and broken down into debt per household.

The information requested in respect of local authority housing debt is shown in the table below. Information on housing association debt in 1996-97 and 1997-98 is not available.

	31 March 1997		31 March 1998
Council	Total	Per Household	Total	Per Household
	£	£	£	£
Aberdeen City	142,427,213	4,642	133,239,000	4,574
Aberdeenshire	157,671,543	9,180	153,481,543	9,285
Angus	37,793,914	3,528	34,809,000	3,367
Argyll & Bute	53,906,786	7,278	52,418,000	7,327
Clackmannanshire	27,345,220	4,043	26,187,000	4,002
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	45,757,994	21,493	44,703,239	21,716
Dumfries & Galloway	110,529,667	7,569	109,532,000	7,833
Dundee City	116,284,461	4,960	113,295,971	5,162
East Ayrshire	84,493,508	4,208	83,493,000	4,346
East Dumbartonshire	46,760,519	6,902	45,643,000	7,014
East Lothian	45,204,130	4,182	43,049,000	4,091
East Renfrewshire	26,309,700	5,743	25,328,000	5,854
Edinburgh City	286,118,242	8,595	282,494,832	9,160
Falkirk	98,680,384	4,276	94,653,000	4,251
Fife	214,562,086	4,981	209,959,000	5,067
Glasgow	1,093,506,434	10,341	1,099,416,373	11,047
Highland	225,310,193	11,210	222,047,000	11,569
Inverclyde	100,958,656	7,538	96,216,000	7,748
Midlothian	26,521,880	3,149	24,618,000	3,009
Moray	49,330,940	6,331	49,254,000	6,573
North Ayrshire	90,916,644	5,097	90,553,000	4,960
North Lanarkshire	244,203,645	4,541	231,923,000	4,491
Orkney	5,580,105	5,319	4,760,062	4,803
Perth & Kinross	50,299,659	4,700	48,097,000	4,704
Renfrewshire	156,836,362	6,666	148,160,000	6,623
Scottish Borders	71,476,766	8,300	69,293,000	8,654
Shetland Islands	59,993,899	25,218	60,124,125	25,994
South Ayrshire	60,218,484	5,051	60,470,000	5,422


Council	Total	Per Household	Total	Per Household

South Lanarkshire	252,379,612	6,357	233,204,000	6,166
Stirling	49,880,499	5,597	45,629,000	5,363
West Dumbartonshire	92,276,726	5,877	91,834,000	6,013
West Lothian	84,218,791	4,888	70,163,000	3,918

Scotland	4,207,754,662	6,772	4,098,047,145	6,898

Question reference: S1W-00256

Asked by: Bristow Muldoon, MSP for Livingston, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 1999
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 24 June 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make a statement on the New Community Schools initiative and its plans to enhance the current programme.

Question reference: S1O-00112

Asked by: Bristow Muldoon, MSP for Livingston, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 1999
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 24 June 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make a statement on the New Community Schools initiative and its plans to enhance the current programme.