- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many homes were built in (a) Clydebank and (b) Bearsden and Milngavie in 2007-08 using Housing Association Grant.
Answer
In Clydebank 36 units of low-cost home ownership, which were given approval in February 2007, were under construction during 2007-08, and were completed in May 2008. In Milngavie another project of 26 units of amenity housing for older people was approved in March 2007 and is due to complete early in 2009.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether cycling, walking and safer streets have been identified as priorities or whether targets have been set for cycling, walking and safer streets in any of the single outcome agreements between local authorities and the Scottish Government and, if so, in which ones.
Answer
Single outcome agreements (SOAs) for 2008-09 have been agreed with all 32 councils and should all now be publicly available.
SOAs reflect the priorities and agreed outcomes for each council and include relevant supporting indicators and targets. As councils were responsible for producing the SOAs and are responsible for the delivery of local services, questions regarding the content of individual SOAs should be directed to them in the first instance.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make an up-to-date assessment of the costs of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route project.
Answer
An up-to-date assessment of the costs of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route will be carried out as part of the procurement process.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what changes there have been in average peak period journey times between Fife and Edinburgh and vice versa following the removal of the Forth Road Bridge tolls.
Answer
The new traffic management arrangements at the Forth Road Bridge came into effect at the end of May 2008. It is therefore too early to make any realistic assessment of the journey time impacts of the abolition of tolls. We will continue to work with the Forth Estuary Transport Authority to monitor traffic flows across the bridge, and to see how any impacts arising directly from the abolition of tolls might be addressed.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the introduction of average speed cameras on the A9 has been considered in order to reduce the incidence of traffic accidents, given the positive outcomes in terms of improved road safety following their introduction on the A77 since June 2005 and on similar roads in other parts of the United Kingdom.
Answer
The Scottish Government is developing a strategy to improve road safety over the next 10 years and has set up a Panel of Experts to advise on possible measures. It is due to publish a report in the autumn.
The potential to introduce more average speed cameras, and at what trunk road locations, will be informed by an assessment of the A77 average speed camera system (SPECS) and of any identified speeding problem where accidents occur. The effectiveness of the A77 average speed camera system will be fully assessed once three full years of data is available. Accident statistics for the A77 for the three year period from July 2005 to July 2008 are expected to be published in October 2008.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much Affordable Housing Investment programme grant has been allocated to (a) West Dunbartonshire and (b) East Dunbartonshire in each year since 2002-03 and how much of these amounts each year was allocated to (i) Clydebank and (ii) Bearsden and Milngavie.
Answer
The amount of Affordable Housing Investment Grant allocated to the areas requested since 2003-04 is as follows:
| | 2003-04 (£ Million) | 2004-05 (£ Million) | 2005-06 (£ Million) | 2006-07 (£ Million) | 2007-08 (£ Million) | 2008-09 (£ Million) |
| West Dunbartonshire | 8.623 | 7.332 | 8.954 | 10.000 | 10.350 | 7.835 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 1.484 | 1.238 | 3.785 | 3.000 | 5.800 | 5.386 |
It should be noted that records prior to 2003-04 are not kept at local authority level.
At the beginning of each financial year the Affordable Housing Investment Programme is allocated at local authority level only and not to sub areas. Therefore no information is available for the second part of this question.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether prices of rail passenger tickets for single and return journeys at peak periods on the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk High route are higher or lower than prices on rail routes between other cities in the United Kingdom a similar distance apart and whether reducing the level of fares on this route was considered during discussions over the extension of the rail franchise.
Answer
Prices of rail passenger tickets for single and return journeys at peak periods on the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk High route are lower than the majority of prices on rail routes between other cities in the United Kingdom a similar distance apart.
No discussion took place on the fare level of any specific rail route as part of the overall discussions over the extension of the ScotRail rail franchise. However, the Franchise Amendment Agreement contains an initiative to create pilot fares schemes designed to encourage modal shift to train. These schemes will also help to evaluate the impact of interventions in fares policy.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what information is available, following the signing of single outcome agreements, about the actual amounts that will be spent by local authorities during 2008-09 on cycling, walking and safer streets projects.
Answer
The following table outlines how much funding local authorities have been allocated for cycling, walking and safer streets (CWSS) projects in 2008-09. The signing of the single outcome agreements has had no impact on the level of funding allocation for CWSS projects.
| Local Authority | 2008-09 (£ Million) |
| Aberdeen City | 0.365 |
| Aberdeenshire | 0.412 |
| Angus | 0.191 |
| Argyll and Bute | 0.163 |
| Clackmannanshire | 0.086 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 0.262 |
| Dundee City | 0.249 |
| East Ayrshire | 0.212 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 0.191 |
| East Lothian | 0.170 |
| East Renfrewshire | 0.165 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 0.818 |
| Eilean Siar | 0.045 |
| Falkirk | 0.267 |
| Fife | 0.639 |
| Glasgow City | 1.021 |
| Highland | 0.374 |
| Inverclyde | 0.146 |
| Midlothian | 0.149 |
| Moray | 0.154 |
| North Ayrshire | 0.241 |
| North Lanarkshire | 0.579 |
| Orkney | 0.034 |
| Perth and Kinross | 0.247 |
| Renfrewshire | 0.304 |
| Scottish Borders | 0.196 |
| Shetland | 0.040 |
| South Ayrshire | 0.199 |
| South Lanarkshire | 0.544 |
| Stirling | 0.160 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 0.164 |
| West Lothian | 0.303 |
| Total | 9.090 |
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13282 by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 June 2008, what practical steps it has taken to address the difficulties registered social landlords have due to different statutory requirements and policies in preventing or stopping antisocial behaviour through the strict application of tenancy conditions or other action, including eviction and suspension of applicants from housing allocation.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-15647 on 8 September 2008. 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: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13317 by Stewart Maxwell on 3 June 2008, why the cost of building an affordable home for low-cost home ownership is nearly £10,000 more than the cost of building an affordable home for rent.
Answer
The cost of building new homes for rent or low cost home ownership is largely dependent on local factors such as land price, building costs, site conditions etc. The figures quoted are average costs per unit across Scotland and do not take into account house sizes or local factors. It should also be noted that the grant input to all low-cost home ownership initiatives within the Low-cost Initiative for First Time Buyers is substantially lower than to housing for rent.
