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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
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Question reference: S2W-22641

Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 January 2006
Current Status: Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 8 February 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to using sporting facilities in West Dunbartonshire and East Dunbartonshire should Glasgow’s bid for the 2014 Commonwealth Games be successful.

Should Glasgow’s 2014 Commonwealth Games bid be successful the consideration of which facilities host events will be made by the venues planning sub-group.

No firm decision on venues has yet been made. However, the Scottish Executive and Glasgow City Council have received advice from the Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland which shows that Scotland’s bid is more likely to be successful if venues are as close together as possible and if the use of these facilities is maximised where possible. All of the bid partners are committed to ensuring the games, if awarded to Glasgow, involve and benefit the whole of Scotland.

Question reference: S2W-22638

Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 January 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 7 February 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were detained under the (a) Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 and (b) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 in 2004-05, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S2W-22639

Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 January 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 6 February 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what assistance is available to people with Alzheimer’s disease.

Decisions on care and support are matters for clinicians in consultation with the individual and the relevant multi-agency professional staff. Care arrangements should be based on individually assessed needs involving carers and family members as appropriate.

A range of clinical, organisational and other guidance for agencies, users of services and carers has been published. The most recent guidance from the Scottish Executive was published in November 2004 (Bib. number 37332). The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network will publish updated clinical guidelines on the management of patients with dementia in March.

Question reference: S2W-22643

Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 January 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 3 February 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how many people used the Forth and Clyde Canal in each of the last five years.

British Waterways hold the following information:

Year	Towpath Visits
2002	7,619,000
2003	8,039,000
2004	6,768,000
2005	8,543,000

British Waterways do not hold data for 2001 as this was the year in which the canal re-opened and counting methods were still being established.

Question reference: S2W-22640

Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 January 2006
Current Status: Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 3 February 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how local authorities neighbouring Glasgow might benefit from a successful bid by Glasgow for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

It is likely that there would be a number of benefits. These include:

increased tourism and other associated business benefits;

the opportunity to host training and preparation camps for competing countries;

increased elite sporting success for Scottish athletes;

complementing existing Executive plans to increase participation in sport at all levels and achieving an associated improvement in general health and well-being;

the opportunity to shape and take part in the complementary cultural programme that would be developed, and

providing some of the thousands of volunteers that will be required to deliver the games and then utilising their experience in helping to run a world class event.

Question reference: S2W-22642

Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 January 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 3 February 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many watercraft have made use of the Falkirk Wheel since it opened.

The following number of watercraft journeys have been made through the Falkirk Wheel since it opened:

Year	Number of Craft
2002	2,511
2003	3,587
2004	4,562
2005	4,697

Question reference: S2W-22645

Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 January 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 3 February 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual cost is of maintaining the Forth and Clyde Canal.

Question reference: S2W-22644

Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 January 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 3 February 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how many people make regular use of the Forth and Clyde Canal.

British Waterways do not collect data on how many people make regular use of the Forth and Clyde canal. Information on the total number of visits is given in the answer to question S2W-22643 on 3 February 2006. 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.

Question reference: S2W-22647

Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 January 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 3 February 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-21295 by Tavish Scott on 19 December 2005, how much of the £360 million per annum provided for roads in 2006-07 and 2007-08 will be made available to East Dunbartonshire Council.

Question reference: S2W-21014

Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 November 2005
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 31 January 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what reduction in the proportion of children living in (a) non-working and (b) low-income households in the (i) West Dunbartonshire and (ii) East Dunbartonshire local authority area there has been since 1996.

(a) Data on the number of children living in non-working households is not available for East and West Dunbartonshire prior to 2003. Data for 2003 and 2004 are shown as follows in table 1.

Table 1 – Proportion of Children¹ Living in Non-working Households, 2003-04

Year	West Dunbartonshire	East Dunbartonshire
2003	21.6%	7.7%
2004	23.3%	6.7%

Source: Annual Scottish Labour Force Survey.

Notes:

1. Children here are defined as all dependent children aged under 19.

(b) The information requested is not available.

The official source of low income data for Scotland is the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) dataset available from 1994-95. This is derived from the Family Resources Survey (FRS). The sample size of the FRS in Scotland is relatively small and can only be used to provide information for Scotland as a whole.

The following link provides the latest low income headline figures for Scotland (2003-04), together with data for previous years. This was published on 30 March 2005:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/03/29170611/06123.