- Asked by: Duncan McNeil, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 13 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost was of the maintenance, repair and refit of the fisheries protection fleet in (a) 1999-2000 and (b) 2000-01.
Answer
The costs of maintenance, repair and refit of the fisheries protection fleet in 1999-2000 and 2000-01 were as follows:
| 1999-2000 | 2000-01 |
| £1,077,408 | £868,457 |
| (for six vessels) | (for five vessels) |
- Asked by: Duncan McNeil, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 13 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost will be of the maintenance, repair and refit of the fisheries protection fleet in (a) 2002-03, (b) 2003-04, (c) 2004-05 and (d) 2005-06.
Answer
For the current year 2002-03, the estimated cost of maintenance, repair and refit of the five vessels of the fisheries protection fleet is expected to be in the region of £1,340,000. A provision of £950,000 per annum for four vessels remaining in the fleet has been allocated for these costs in each of the years 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06.
- Asked by: Duncan McNeil, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 6 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any additional resources will be made available in 2002-03 to enable local authorities to deal with contaminated and derelict land.
Answer
The Executive announced on 10 July the allocation of £3 million of end-year flexibility funding for cleaning up derelict and contaminated land that is creating health risks or causing blight on local communities. I am pleased to say that I am able to allocate a further £0.883 million to local authorities for this purpose in 2002-03 bringing the total to £3.883 million.The distribution of resources is shown in the table.
| | Allocations for 2002-03(£000) |
| Aberdeen City | 18 |
| Angus | 338 |
| Clackmannanshire | 235 |
| Dundee City | 215 |
| East Ayrshire | 240 |
| East Renfrewshire | 30 |
| Falkirk | 164 |
| Fife | 120 |
| Glasgow City | 299 |
| Inverclyde | 742 |
| Midlothian | 182 |
| North Ayrshire | 315 |
| North Lanarkshire | 500 |
| Perth and Kinross | 261 |
| South Lanarkshire | 224 |
| Scotland Total | 3,883 |
- Asked by: Duncan McNeil, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 27 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive to what extent the victim of a crime or, in the case of murder or culpable homicide, the victim's family has a right to be advised of the launching of any appeal by the perpetrator of the offence.
Answer
In death cases, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service has a system in place for informing next of kin of developments, including appeal proceedings. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service accepts that there is a need to ensure that victims of serious crimes are also kept advised of the progress of cases, including when an appeal is lodged. That is why the Victim Information and Advice Service (VIA) has been established as part of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service. VIA will be operational in all Procurator Fiscal Service areas by the end of 2003.
- Asked by: Duncan McNeil, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mike Watson on 7 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken by VisitScotland to promote educational tourism.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-30954 today. 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/search_wa.
- Asked by: Duncan McNeil, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mike Watson on 7 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what its policy is in relation to educational tourism.
Answer
The policy of the Scottish Executive is to promote tourism of all kinds, but the concept of educational tourism is not one that is recognised by our education colleagues or by VisitScotland.
- Asked by: Duncan McNeil, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 7 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the value to the higher education sector of fees from overseas students.
Answer
According to research carried out by Strathclyde University on behalf of the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals (now Universities Scotland), Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Scotland received £63 million in academic fees from overseas students during 1996-97 (Economic Aspects of Scottish Higher Education Institutions, COSHEP, November 1999). Projecting this forward, it is estimated that Scottish HEIs earned some £70 million in fees from international students in 1999-2000.
- Asked by: Duncan McNeil, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to empower neighbourhood wardens to detain and demand names and addresses from suspects.
Answer
The principal function of neighbourhood wardens is to observe and report incidents to local authority colleagues or the police, as appropriate, with the aim of reducing vandalism and anti-social behaviour. There are no plans for them to be given powers to detain suspects or to demand any personal details.
- Asked by: Duncan McNeil, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what targets it has set for reductions in the levels of street crime.
Answer
The high-level national targets we have set for the Scottish Police Service, although not identifying street crime directly, will impact on the incidence of street crime and help generally to improve the lives of those who live in our communities. The targets include reductions in serious violent crime and vehicle crime as well as increases in drugs seizures. Reductions in street crimes are also intended from a whole range of other policies we are developing or have put in place, such as the Action Plan on Youth Crime we announced in July, as well from the on-going action programmes supported by the Executive under the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland-led "Safer Scotland" campaign.
- Asked by: Duncan McNeil, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what targets it has set for reductions in the levels of violent crime.
Answer
Scottish police forces were set a jointly agreed national target in March 2002 to reduce by 2003-04 the number of recorded incidents of violent crime by five per cent. A related target of an increase of 4.1 percentage points in the detection rate for serious violent crime was also agreed and announced at the same time.
