- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 17 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps have been taken to accommodate the recommendation in the Social Inclusion, Housing and Voluntary Sector Committee's 3rd Report 2000 Housing Stock Transfer that a multi-agency task force be establish for each stock transfer proposal with a specific remit to ensure that maximisation of local labour is a key determinant in the awarding of contracts.
Answer
This is a matter for the parties involved in developing transfer proposals. A multi-agency Housing and Employment Working Group operating at an all-Scotland level is identifying the mechanisms required to maximise employment opportunities and inclusion benefits from future housing investment.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 17 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps have been taken to ensure that neighbourhood forums established to consult on Glasgow stock transfer proposals consult with tenant associations and that those tenant associations relay information to and from their own tenants.
Answer
Neighbourhood Forums were established by Glasgow City Council. The activities and procedures of these organisations is a matter for the council.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 16 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much and what percentage of the #640 million funding for roads projects will be spent in (a) 2001-02, (b) 2002-03 and (c) 2003-04, within each local authority boundary.
Answer
On 27 March 2001 I announced a £680 million programme of investment in motorways and trunk roads for the three years to March 2004. Table 8.2 of the Executive's Annual Expenditure Report published on 30 March sets out detailed categories of spending. The estimated costs of individual schemes costing more than £0.5 million are shown in my answer to question S1W-14599 on 23 April. Details of planned spending are not held by local authority area.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 15 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current level of unemployment is among young people leaving care.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 15 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take to ensure that children identified by a children's panel as being in need of supervision are allocated a social worker within 14 days.
Answer
Local authorities have a legal duty to give effect to supervision requirements made by children's hearings in their area.Inter-agency guidance on national standards for the processing of cases through the children's hearings system sets a maximum target of 15 working days from the issue of a supervision requirement for allocation of a social worker. The Scottish Executive will be monitoring performance against the standards. In individual cases it is for the local authority to be satisfied that it is meeting its statutory obligations.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 15 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-11227 by Susan Deacon on 8 January 2001, why the median waiting time for a first outpatient appointment with a consultant neurologist following GP referral in Forth Valley Health Board has increased from 36 days for the year ending 31 March 1999 to 154 days for the year ending 31 March 2000 and what action it plans to take to address this situation.
Answer
This is a matter for Forth Valley Health Board.Improvements to service provision across the health board area since March 2000 have produced a significant reduction in waiting times. The board reports that all urgent referrals are now seen within seven working days and waiting times for routine neurology appointments have been halved, despite an increase in the number of new outpatients seen.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 15 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to undertake a programme to encourage children to study technological subjects at school.
Answer
As stated in my response to question S1W-13460, the Scottish Executive has reviewed the Standard Grade course with the aim of making it more attractive to pupils and revised courses will be available from academic session 2001-02. A number of other measures have been taken to promote technological studies in schools, as outlined in my response to question S1W-12194. In addition, the Deputy Minister will meet with representatives of education and industry to discuss ways in which the profile of technological studies in schools can be raised.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 15 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what services are currently available for young runaways and what plans it has for the future provision of such services.
Answer
Services for young runaways are provided by a wide range of statutory, voluntary and private agencies. The Scottish Executive is helping to tackle many of the underlying problems which can cause children to run away. We are supporting a variety of initiatives focused on the development and well being of children within the family and others are aimed at improving the quality of care for children who are looked after by local authorities. We will continue to keep this under review, taking account of the recommendations of the Aberlour Trust's publication Missing Out - Young Runaways in Scotland and other related work.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 15 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many users of class "A" drugs there currently are in each local authority area and how much funding has been provided to each local authority to deal with drug misuse in the current financial year.
Answer
Information on the number of users of class "A" drugs is not held centrally. The Executive, however, is currently funding a National Prevalence Study of Problematic Drug Use, which will assist DATs, local authorities and health boards to determine the need for services in their areas.Local authorities fund drug rehabilitation services from within their general allocations. Additional funding of £20.4 million is being allocated specifically for these services over the next three years. Allocations for this financial year are as follows:
| Remaining Social Work Services |
Primary Indicator Total Pop. | GAE (£000) | of which;Drug Rehabilitation (£000) |
| Aberdeen City | 212,650 | 1,992 | 282 |
| Aberdeenshire | 227,440 | 2,131 | 302 |
| Angus | 109,840 | 1,029 | 146 |
| Argyll & Bute | 89,730 | 841 | 119 |
| Clackmannanshire | 48,530 | 455 | 65 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 146,800 | 1,375 | 195 |
| Dundee City | 144,430 | 1,353 | 192 |
| East Ayrshire | 120,940 | 1,133 | 161 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 110,690 | 1,037 | 147 |
| East Lothian | 90,430 | 847 | 120 |
| East Renfrewshire | 89,280 | 837 | 119 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 451,710 | 4,232 | 600 |
| Eilean Siar | 27,560 | 258 | 37 |
| Falkirk | 144,370 | 1,353 | 192 |
| Fife | 349,200 | 3,272 | 464 |
| Glasgow City | 611,440 | 5,729 | 812 |
| Highland | 208,600 | 1,954 | 277 |
| Inverclyde | 85,190 | 798 | 113 |
| Midlothian | 81,680 | 765 | 108 |
| Moray | 85,210 | 798 | 113 |
| North Ayrshire | 139,410 | 1,306 | 185 |
| North Lanarkshire | 327,940 | 3,073 | 436 |
| Orkney | 19,600 | 184 | 26 |
| Perth & Kinross | 134,030 | 1,256 | 178 |
| Renfrewshire | 177,230 | 1,661 | 235 |
| Scottish Borders | 106,400 | 997 | 141 |
| Shetland | 22,740 | 213 | 30 |
| South Ayrshire | 114,250 | 1,070 | 152 |
| South Lanarkshire | 307,520 | 2,881 | 408 |
| Stirling | 84,700 | 794 | 113 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 94,980 | 890 | 126 |
| West Lothian | 154,680 | 1,449 | 205 |
| Scotland | 5,119,200 | 47,964 | 6,800 |
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 15 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much is being spent on heroin addicts on methadone programmes in the current financial year, broken down by health board area.
Answer
Information on the total cost of treating heroin addicts with methadone is not held centrally.Total costs include the cost of the methadone, fees to pharmicists to dispense methadone and to supervise consumption, the cost of counselling and social support and fees to GPs participating in shared care schemes. There are also costs of providing specialist drug services.Current resources for treatment services in this financial year total £14.352 million. This includes £2 million from the £100 million package of additional resources provided through the 2000 Spending Review.
