- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 26 June 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much expenditure has been invested in new or refurbished homes in Clydebank by Scottish Homes and Communities Scotland since 1999.
Answer
The information requested is set out in the table:
| | CS Grant(£ million) | Private Finance(£ million) | Total(£ million) |
| Actual expenditure 1 April 1999 to 31 March 2002 | 14.617 | 6.260 | 20.877 |
| Planned expenditure 1 April 2002 to 31 March 2003 | 4.488 | 1.920 | 6.408 |
| Total | 19.105 | 8.180 | 27.285 |
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 26 June 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether a reclassification should be undertaken of major trunk roads throughout urban areas of Scotland to ensure that routes such as the A898 Clyde Tunnel can cope with increasing traffic flows.
Answer
The structure and extent of the strategic road network was last reviewed in 1994-96, as part of the reorganisation of local government. There are no plans to extend the trunk road network.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 26 June 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether environmental statements could be improved through a requirement that the statement reflects the broad social impact of development proposals and the cumulative impact of the proposals rather than solely environmental and other aspects.
Answer
It would not be appropriate to require developers to address all material considerations in environmental statements.The minimum information requirements of environmental statements, are specified in regulations. The regulations also specify a wider range of information that must be included in environmental statements where reasonable in the circumstances of the case. This includes information on the proposal's cumulative effects and its effects on the population insofar as these are related to the environment. The regulations represent precisely the requirements of the European Directive on Environmental Impact Assessment.It is for the planning authority to ensure that all other material considerations, including social impact where appropriate, are taken into consideration along with the environmental statement in determining the application. Planning authorities have general powers to require applicants to submit further information which the authority requires to determine a planning application.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Elaine Murray on 26 June 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what lottery funding was received by (a) Glasgow City, (b) Renfrewshire, (c) North Lanarkshire, (d) South Lanarkshire, (e) South Ayrshire, (f) Dundee City, (g) East Dunbartonshire and (h) West Dunbartonshire councils in each of the last three years.
Answer
The following table provides the detail requested for complete years 1999, 2000 and 2001 and to date for 2002:
| | 1999 (£) | 2000 (£) | 2001 (£) | 2002 (£) |
| Glasgow City | 19,399,236 | 17,194,480 | 17,840,244 | 19,785,798 |
| Renfrewshire | 4,500,779 | 909,280 | 1,210,302 | 630,575 |
| North Lanarkshire | 4,614,528 | 2,589,247 | 2,448,522 | 1,665,383 |
| South Lanarkshire | 5,928,908 | 2,303,383 | 1,893,071 | 576,041 |
| South Ayrshire | 1,192,659 | 1,409,531 | 976,007 | 187,290 |
| Dundee City | 1,866,273 | 1,837,720 | 6,033,514 | 1,643,568 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 1,053,565 | 916,671 | 1,438,012 | 171,118 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 1,115,963 | 750,811 | 1,522,760 | 1,073,549 |
The above information has been collated from data received from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Information on lottery awards may be obtained directly from the department's website at:www.culture.org.uk.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 26 June 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been invested in the bioAdventures biotechnology business incubator at Clydebank and how many new local jobs have been created to date as a result.
Answer
The total spend on the bioAdventures business incubator in Clydebank from April 1997 to June 2002 by Scottish Enterprise has been £1,631,884, with an additional £218,851 from the European Regional Development Fund. The number of jobs created currently stands at 38 and is expected to rise to 106 over the next two years.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 25 June 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many three-year-olds are expected to benefit from the implementation of the provisions in the Standards in Scotland's Schools etc. Act 2000 on universal nursery education.
Answer
Under the Standards in Scotland's Schools etc Act, 2000, local authorities have a duty to secure pre-school education provision for all three- and four-year-old children whose parents wish it. Information relating to participation rates for the spring term 2001-02 is currently being collected and we expect to announce the final figures next month. Indications are that the rate for three-year-olds will be around 85% of the eligible population or 51,368 children. It is envisaged that the participation rate for three-year-olds will level off at this rate.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 25 June 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what assistance can be given to companies in Dunbartonshire to boost their businesses through the worldwide web.
Answer
Free or subsidised assistance is available to businesses throughout Scotland on all aspects and levels of ICT adoption, mostly through the enterprise networks. The e-business advisers based in Scottish Enterprise Dumbartonshire, funded by the UK online for business initiative and Scottish Enterprise, provide a range of services that help local businesses to maximise their use of the internet. This includes website audits, advice on skills development for e-business and signposting to other sources of assistance.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 25 June 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many small business start-ups there were in west Dunbartonshire over the last three years and how this number and the rate of business start-ups in the area compares to the average throughout Scotland.
Answer
The following table shows the number of businesses registering for VAT in the period 1998 to 2000 in West Dunbarton and Scotland. This is the measure most commonly used to measure business births. It is not a complete picture as not all businesses register and not all registrations are start-ups, but it is a consistent series based on administrative data that provides a comparison over time and place.
| | Number of registrations | Rate per 10,000 adults |
| | West Dunbartonshire | Scotland | West Dunbartonshire | Scotland |
| 1998 | 130 | 11,825 | 17 | 29 |
| 1999 | 145 | 11,410 | 19 | 28 |
| 2000 | 130 | 11,410 | 17 | 28 |
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 25 June 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how the cost per mile of travelling between Edinburgh and Glasgow by rail compares to similar journeys south of the border.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 25 June 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive (a) how many more operations could be done each year by the NHS, (b) how many people could be taken off NHS waiting lists, (c) how many local jobs would be generated and (d) what the scope would be for bringing preventative services for cancer and heart disease to Clydebank if the Health Care International complex in Clydebank were absorbed into the NHS.
Answer
I refer the member to the statement I made to Parliament on Thursday 20 June.
