- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 15 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was paid in compensation by each local authority in the last year as a result of claims by motorists for accidents or damage to vehicles caused by the structural condition of the road.
Answer
This is a matter for individual local authorities. The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 15 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of roads, by distance, in (a) Scotland and (b) the west of Scotland is classified as (i) motorways and (ii) A class, (iii) B class and (iv) C class roads.
Answer
The information requested is given in table number 5.2 of Scottish Transport Statistics 2005 edition, copies of which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 37306).
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 15 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the additional (a) £70 million capital and (b) £60 million revenue funding allocated to local authorities in February 2002 for local roads was allocated to East Dunbartonshire Council.
Answer
An additional £70 million of general capital consent was allocated to local authorities as part of Spending Review 2000, of which East Dunbartonshire’s additional allocation was £1.189 million, bringing their total un-hypothecated consent under section 94, Local Government in Scotland Act 1973, to £5.722 million for 2001-02.
£20 million was allocated to local authorities in February 2002 to help tackle the backlog of repairs to roads and bridges. East Dunbartonshire Council’s share of this additional funding was £338,000.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 15 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of each local authority's budget was spent on local road maintenance in the last year for which figures are available.
Answer
The figures provided in the table below were notified by councils in their latest Provisional Outturn Budget Estimates (POBE) return for 2005-06.
| | Roads Maintenance (£000) | Total Net Expenditure (£000) | Roads Maintenance as % of Total Expenditure |
| Scotland | 192,395 | 10,245,362 | 1.9% |
| Aberdeen City | 4,789 | 386,306 | 1.2% |
| Aberdeenshire | 9,859 | 424,141 | 2.3% |
| Angus | 3,584 | 208,989 | 1.7% |
| Argyll and Bute | 6,363 | 210,264 | 3.0% |
| Clackmannanshire | 1,272 | 91,005 | 1.4% |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 9,121 | 304,431 | 3.0% |
| Dundee City | 2,190 | 305,720 | 0.7% |
| East Ayrshire | 4,174 | 231,524 | 1.8% |
| East Dunbartonshire | 2,381 | 199,497 | 1.2% |
| East Lothian | 2,667 | 174,639 | 1.5% |
| East Renfrewshire | 1,525 | 171,855 | 0.9% |
| Edinburgh, City of | 10,334 | 828,938 | 1.2% |
| Eilean Siar | 3,494 | 103,457 | 3.4% |
| Falkirk | 2,614 | 271,900 | 1.0% |
| Fife | 12,346 | 664,517 | 1.9% |
| Glasgow City | 18,007 | 1,384,237 | 1.3% |
| Highland | 10,056 | 465,157 | 2.2% |
| Inverclyde | 2,840 | 184,509 | 1.5% |
| Midlothian | 3,196 | 159,676 | 2.0% |
| Moray | 5,498 | 167,307 | 3.3% |
| North Ayrshire | 5,899 | 270,171 | 2.2% |
| North Lanarkshire | 8,738 | 605,080 | 1.4% |
| Orkney Islands | 3,160 | 61,478 | 5.1% |
| Perth and Kinross | 6,432 | 259,623 | 2.5% |
| Renfrewshire | 8,153 | 340,535 | 2.4% |
| Scottish Borders | 6,676 | 221,454 | 3.0% |
| Shetland Islands | 4,275 | 90,803 | 4.7% |
| South Ayrshire | 3,524 | 216,346 | 1.6% |
| South Lanarkshire | 18,845 | 566,618 | 3.3% |
| Stirling | 3,048 | 176,831 | 1.7% |
| West Dunbartonshire | 2,626 | 202,179 | 1.3% |
| West Lothian | 4,709 | 296,175 | 1.6% |
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 15 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the additional (a) £70 million capital and (b) £60 million revenue funding allocated to local authorities in February 2002 for local roads was allocated to West Dunbartonshire Council.
Answer
An additional £70 million of general capital consent was allocated to local authorities as part of Spending Review 2000, of which West Dunbartonshire’s additional allocation was £987,000, bringing their total, un-hypothecated consent under Section 94, Local Government in Scotland Act 1973, to £5.259 million for 2001-02
£20 million was allocated to local authorities in February 2002 to help tackle the backlog of repairs to roads and bridges. West Dunbartonshire Council’s share of this additional funding was £221,000.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 15 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the additional capital and revenue funding allocated to East Dunbartonshire Council in February 2002 for local roads has been spent on local roads maintenance.
Answer
East Dunbartonshire Council were allocated an additional £338,000 in February 2002. All of this funding was put towards maintenance of local roads and bridges.
This funding was part of the £20 million given to local authorities across Scotland to help them tackle the backlog of repairs and maintenance on local roads and bridges. The award was in revenue form to allow local authorities to target the cash to bring improvements forward quickly.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 15 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of its commitment for Caledonian MacBrayne employees to receive actuarially equivalent pension funds, whether the Executive or the operator of the Clyde and Hebrides lifeline ferry services will be responsible in the long term for ensuring the value of the pensions.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is working closely with the Caledonian MacBrayne and the Trustees of the Caledonian MacBrayne Pension Fund in an effort to finalise this aspect of the proposed restructuring of the company in preparation for the tendering exercise. These discussions are on-going and being taken forward in a constructive manner to ensure that the pension provisions for transferring staff are protected.
We are committed to adopting the policies set out in HM Treasury Guidance, “Staff Transfers from Central Government, a Fair Deal for Staff Pensions”. We will make clear the detail of the proposed changes to the pension arrangements once we have concluded our discussions with the trustees and the company.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 15 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many new agencies and non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) have been created since May 2003; what the total cost has been, and how many people they employ.
Answer
Six new NDPBs and four Executive Agencies have been established since May 2003. Current Scottish Executive funding for these bodies totals £21.6 million and they currently employ a total of 257 staff, including casual/temporary staff.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 14 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what grants were awarded for the provision of mobile CCTV cameras in crime and vandalism hotspots in the (a) West Dunbartonshire and (b) East Dunbartonshire local authority area in each of the last eight years.
Answer
No bids for funding for mobile CCTV cameras were received from the West Dunbartonshire or East Dunbartonshire local authority areas under the CCTV Challenge Competition which ran from 1996-97 to 2001-02.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what success it has had in achieving reductions in the levels of violent crime related to drug use in (a) Scotland and (b) the (i) West Dunbartonshire and (ii) East Dunbartonshire local authority area in each year since 1999 and what targets it has set for such reductions in this period.
Answer
I refer the member to question S2W-21155 answered on 12 December 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.
Information on crimes recorded by the police in Scotland is published in the statistical bulletin Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2004-05, copies of which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 37835).
