- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 13 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how much housing association grant was allocated to housing associations in each local authority in each year from 1995-96 to 1999-2000 inclusive, in real terms.
Answer
For the period in question the information was not collected in the form requested.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 11 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide definitive guidance to all Scottish local authorities on the siting of telecommunications masts, particularly the siting of those masts near primary schools and high rise flats and, if not, why not.
Answer
I intend to issue for consultation a draft national planning policy guideline and draft planning legislation on telecommunications development. A planning advice note containing information and advice on siting and design will be issued to accompany the final version of the new legislation and policy guidance.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 11 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8927 by Sarah Boyack on 17 August 2000, why the terms of settlement of the two court actions against the consulting engineers who designed the Kingston Bridge are confidential to the two parties and not open to public scrutiny.
Answer
It was a condition of the settlement that the terms would not be disclosed and would remain confidential to the parties beyond that the actions had been settled out of court without any admission of liability by the defendants and each party had borne its own expenses.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 8 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many full time equivalent jobs there were in each year from 1994-95 to 1999-2000 in each of the textile, footwear, leather and clothing manufacturing sectors.
Answer
The number of employee jobs in Scotland in the textile, footwear, leather and clothing manufacturing sectors is shown in the following table. The leather and footwear sectors have been combined due to confidentiality.
| | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 |
Textiles | 21,300 | 22,200 | 19,200 | 17,700 |
Clothing | 14,000 | 15,100 | 13,500 | 13,700 |
Leather and Footwear | 1,400 | 1,400 | 1,200 | 1,100 |
Source: Annual Employment Survey, Office for National Statistics.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 8 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what output was in each of the last five years for which figures are available in each of the textile, footwear, leather and clothing manufacturing sectors.
Answer
Data on the gross output of manufacturing businesses in Scotland are available from the Scottish Production Database for the five years to 1997 as follows:
| | Gross output (£ million) |
1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 |
Textiles | 913 | 958 | 920 | 1027 | 979 |
Clothing | 714 | 774 | 874 | 967 | 857 |
Leather and Footwear | 120 | 95 | 126 | 110 | 137 |
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 8 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what the NHS capital allocations and actual expenditure were for each health board in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Answer
The following table sets out the capital allocations and expenditure for each health board area for the period 1997-98 to 1999-2000:
Health Boards | 1997-98 Allocation £000 | 1997-98 Expenditure £000 | 1998-99 Allocation £000 | 1998-99 Expenditure £000 | 1999-2000 Allocation £000 | 1999-2000 Provisional Expenditure* £000 |
Argyll & Clyde | 7,167 | 5,404 | 6,200 | 5,043 | 3,750 | 3,500 |
Ayr & Arran | 8,347 | 7,798 | 7,335 | 6,005 | 3,411 | 2,181 |
Borders | 2,172 | 282 | 4,352 | 1,303 | 5,943 | 4,119 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 3,889 | 2,379 | 1,969 | 1,221 | 2,423 | 1,183 |
Fife | 4,332 | 3,207 | 3,266 | 2,478 | 5,837 | 2,687 |
Forth Valley | 3,856 | 2,267 | 4,951 | 3,821 | 6,178 | 4,065 |
Grampian | 10,060 | 7,698 | 12,343 | 10,910 | 8,167 | 6,526 |
Greater Glasgow | 34,901 | 27,759 | 27,535 | 23,876 | 45,341 | 38,918 |
Highland | 7,212 | 6,357 | 5,726 | 4,644 | 5,371 | 3,704 |
Lanarkshire | 9,826 | 7,060 | 19,960 | 16,515 | 10,525 | 6,937 |
Lothian | 30,278 | 19,759 | 33,616 | 22,882 | 39,173 | 27,301 |
Orkney | 758 | 758 | 1,353 | 1,353 | 2,474 | 2,474 |
Shetland | 2,662 | 2,662 | 1,052 | 1,052 | 2,279 | 2,279 |
Tayside | 31,974 | 25,081 | 16,774 | 8,059 | 6,665 | 984 |
Western Isles | 1,132 | 1,132 | 972 | 972 | 3,345 | 3,345 |
TOTAL | 158,566 | 119,603 | 147,404 | 110,134 | 150,882 | 110,203 |
* The 1999-2000 figures are unaudited.
Capital to revenue transfers amounting to £39.0 million, £37.3 million and £40.7 million in 1997-98, 1998-99 and 1999-2000 respectively were made to enable health boards and NHS Trusts to meet the costs of minor projects and non-added value elements of capital schemes.
From 2000-01 onwards, all capital funds must be spent on capital items.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 4 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Voluntary Charter on Smoking in Public Places will improve the current situation where 92% of public houses in areas of deprivation do not have smoking policies in place to protect the health of staff and customers.
Answer
I refer Mr Gibson to the answer to question S1W-8262 on 10 July 2000.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 31 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive who would have jurisdiction over an individual suffering from mental illness in prison and who would deal with any possible lapse in care.
Answer
I have asked Mr Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:
The Prison Governor, supported by medical and nursing staff, has responsibility for the physical and mental wellbeing of all prisoners in his custody. It would be the Governor's responsibility to deal with any identified lapse in care.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 29 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many manufacturing jobs created through inward investment were lost in each of the last five years and how many of these were in Glasgow.
Answer
Records of manufacturing jobs created by inward investors which have been lost over a five year period are not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.The numbers given for loss of manufacturing jobs are based on figures supplied by the Scottish Executive and relate to jobs lost by companies whose ultimate parent is based outwith Scotland regardless of whether the company was initially attracted to Scotland by LiS or its partners. The number of jobs lost in Glasgow since 1995 by companies whose primary activity is manufacturing and whose ultimate parents are based outwith Scotland are listed below:
| 1995-96 | 93 |
| 1996-97 | 1,220 |
| 1997-98 | 400 |
| 1998-99 | 68 |
| 1999-2000 | 167 |
Over the same period, Locate in Scotland and its partners helped attract 776 manufacturing jobs to Glasgow and a total of 9,313 jobs across all sectors.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider introducing conditional offers, similar to those used for speeding offences, for other offences.
Answer
Conditional offers may already be made by Procurators Fiscal for crimes and offences other than road traffic offences. There is extensive use of this power for less serious crimes and offences.
