- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish all guidance given to the Scottish appointee member of Passenger Focus.
Answer
The information the member has requested is given in
Terms and Conditions for Appointment to the Board of the Rail Passengers Council a copy of which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 45603).
In addition, the news release issued on 19 July 2005 at the time of the Scottish appointment to Passenger Focus reflects the terms and conditions of the appointment and the guidance therein.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what role the Public Transport Users Committee for Scotland was expected to play in representing the interests of ferry passengers and whether Passengers’ View Scotland will continue to play a role in that regard.
Answer
It is open to the Public Transport Users Committee for Scotland, which operates under the name of Passengers'' View Scotland, to consider the interests of ferry passengers within the context of its remit.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how the appointment of the new convenor of the Public Transport Users Committee for Scotland, now Passengers’ View Scotland, was decided.
Answer
This was a ministerial decision made in accordance with guidance from the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 21 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-11249 by Michael Russell on 22 April 2008, on what occasions ministers discussed the Laurel Grant Ltd planning application.
Answer
Ministers have not discussed the Laurel Grant planning application. Determination of the application was a matter for the Cairngorms National Park Authority.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 21 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-11249 by Michael Russell on 22 April 2008, when in December 2007 government planning officials learned that the Laurel Grant Ltd application was to be considered by the Cairngorms National Park Authority.
Answer
Government planning officials, through their routine planning liaison responsibilities, received in early December, the agenda for the Cairngorms National Park Authority''s meeting on 14 December. This referred to a number of proposed development applications, including the Laurel Grant proposal, which were to be discussed at the meeting.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 21 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-11249 by Michael Russell on 22 April 2008, which government planning officials knew of the Laurel Grant Ltd application, scheduled to be heard by the Cairngorms National Park Authority on the 11 January 2008, as part of their territorial liaison responsibilities.
Answer
The planning officials were John McNairney and Steve Dowell.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 21 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-11249 by Michael Russell on 22 April 2008, what advice or information government planning officials imparted to ministers on first learning of the Laurel Grant Ltd application, as part of their territorial planning responsibilities.
Answer
No advice was provided to ministers, there having been no representation or concerns raised with the Scottish Government on the issue.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 15 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that any truth and reconciliation process for dealing with the legacy of historic child abuse in Scotland should involve hearings about cases of abuse that have been previously been subject to the time bar and whether victims should be entitled to support in meeting the costs of legal representation at such hearings.
Answer
I put forward the proposal to consider introducing a truth and reconciliation approach in a statement to parliament on 7 February 2008. Public consultation will take place on this during the summer and will inform decisions in relation to time bar and legal representation.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 15 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much transport expenditure there was in each local authority area in each of the last five years, also expressed on a per capita basis.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-32679 on 29 March 2007. 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.
The Scottish Government does not hold records of its own spending split by each local authority area. This is because much of the government''s transport expenditure, for example the ScotRail franchise subsidy, cannot be readily allocated to individual local authority areas. We do however provide information in the annual edition of the Scottish Transport Statistics publication on total expenditure on transport within the Scottish ministers'' responsibility and this information can be found in on page 227, table 1.11 of the 2007 edition of the publication.
Information on their own transport expenditure is provided by each local authority in the same publication on page 228, table 11.3. The following table shows each local authority''s actual expenditure, for 2005-06, as published in Scottish Transport Statistics, divided by the population figures published by GROS (mid-year for the year in question).
| Local Authority | 2005-06 |
| £000 | Population. | Per Capita |
| Aberdeen City | £17,531 | 206,880 | £85 |
| Aberdeenshire | £27,017 | 236,260 | £114 |
| Angus | £15,074 | 109,320 | £138 |
| Argyll and Bute | £14,745 | 91,390 | £161 |
| Clackmannanshire | £3,541 | 48,900 | £72 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | £20,466 | 148,030 | £138 |
| Dundee City | £12,132 | 142,170 | £85 |
| East Ayrshire | £12,145 | 119,290 | £102 |
| East Dunbartonshire | £12,483 | 105,460 | £118 |
| East Lothian | £6,818 | 92,830 | £73 |
| East Renfrewshire | £11,185 | 89,290 | £125 |
| Edinburgh, City of | £22,364 | 463,510 | £48 |
| Eilean Siar | £7,428 | 26,350 | £282 |
| Falkirk | £12,049 | 149,680 | £80 |
| Fife | £35,074 | 358,930 | £98 |
| Glasgow City | £52,574 | 580,690 | £91 |
| Highland | £29,490 | 215,310 | £137 |
| Inverclyde | £8,104 | 81,540 | £99 |
| Midlothian | £7,756 | 79,290 | £98 |
| Moray | £9,779 | 86,750 | £113 |
| North Ayrshire | £13,447 | 135,490 | £99 |
| North Lanarkshire | £30,095 | 323,780 | £93 |
| Orkney Islands | £10,879 | 19,770 | £550 |
| Perth and Kinross | £14,450 | 140,190 | £103 |
| Renfrewshire | £16,275 | 169,590 | £96 |
| Scottish Borders | £15,272 | 110,240 | £139 |
| Shetland Islands | £18,584 | 21,880 | £849 |
| South Ayrshire | £10,941 | 111,670 | £98 |
| South Lanarkshire | £37,166 | 307,670 | £121 |
| Stirling | £8,064 | 87,810 | £92 |
| West Dunbartonshire | £7,604 | 91,240 | £83 |
| West Lothian | £14,556 | 165,700 | £88 |
| Scotland | £535,088 | 5,116,900 | £146 |
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/12/14120610/0.
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files1/stats/mid-2006-population-estimates-scotland/j852700.htm.
Note: Population figures extracted from GROS mid-2006 population estimates Scotland. Table 4. Published April 2007 (revised July 2007).
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 14 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how Passengers’ View Scotland consults rail passengers.
Answer
This is a matter for Passengers'' View Scotland to consider in the context of its remit and the expectation that it will work in close partnership with Passenger Focus to ensure that there is no duplication of responsibilities.
