- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 27 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average weekly traffic flow has been on the A8000 annually since January 1997 and what the estimated average weekly traffic flows are annually until December 2006.
Answer
The A8000 is classified as a local road. This is therefore a matter for City of Edinburgh Council to address.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 25 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) private sector houses, showing separately those built for rent and (b) public sector houses, broken down by (i) local authority and (ii) housing association, were built in Edinburgh in each year since 1997.
Answer
The tables present separately (a) the total number of private sector new dwellings of that were completed in Edinburgh in each calendar year from 1997 to 2000, and (b) the total number of social sector dwellings that were completed in Edinburgh in each financial year from 1996-97 to 2000-01. Each table contains the latest years for which the information is available. Information on the number of private sector dwellings that were built specifically for rent is not held centrally.New Housebuilding in Edinburgh(a) Private Sector New Dwellings Completed: 1997 to 2000 (Calendar)
Period | PrivateSector |
1997 | 1,325 |
1998 | 2,562 |
1999 | 2,457 |
2000 | 1,144 |
New Housebuilding in Edinburgh(b) Public Sector New Dwellings Completed: 1996-97 to 2000-01 (Financial)
Year | Public Sector |
Housing | Local |
Associations | Authority |
1996-97 | 546 | - |
1997-98 | 559 | - |
1998-99 | 345 | - |
1999-2000 | 569 | - |
2000-01 | 424 | - |
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 25 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many speed cameras were located in Edinburgh in each year since 1997.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has funded three speed cameras on the trunk road network in the City of Edinburgh area, which were installed in 1997. Other cameras in Edinburgh are a matter for the City of Edinburgh Council.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 25 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was recovered by NHS Trusts or health boards from motorists following their admission to hospital for treatment following a road traffic accident in each year since 1997, broken down by health board area.
Answer
I refer the Member to the answer given to question S1W-16138 on 15 June 2001.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 25 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made, or plans to make, to the Strategic Rail Authority or the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions regarding direct access to the Channel Tunnel from Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the UK Government on a wide range of issues including European and international rail services using the Channel Tunnel.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Mike Watson on 20 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to monitor the outcome of the campaign by VisitScotland to promote shopping holidays in Edinburgh and Glasgow; whether any such monitoring will include an analysis of the income generated by the promotion, including any increase in the tax revenue to Her Majesty's Treasury, and whether it will seek any additional payments from Her Majesty's Government in respect of tourism as a result.
Answer
Responsibility for devising, delivering and assessing marketing campaigns is an operational matter for VisitScotland. I look forward to receiving VisitScotland's assessment of this new and innovative campaign.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 20 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, for each year since 1997, (a) how much funding was granted (i) in total to social inclusion partnerships in Edinburgh and (ii) to each such partnership, (b) how many private companies were formed using such funding, (c) how many private companies formed using such funding have gone into insolvent liquidation, what the names of any such companies were and with which social inclusion partnership each was associated and (d) what monitoring took place of any such companies and what action was taken subsequent to insolvent liquidation.
Answer
Social Inclusion Partnerships (SIP) were launched in 1999, and there are five in Edinburgh. South Edinburgh and Edinburgh Youth SIP were newly designated in April 1999. North Edinburgh was previously a Priority Partnership Area designated as a SIP in April 1999. Edinburgh Strategic Programme was previously a Regeneration Programme and was designated as a SIP in April 1999. Craigmillar was previously a Priority Partnership Area and was designated as a SIP in April 2000.SIP Fund allocations to each of the SIPs in the financial years 1999-2000, 2000-01 and 2001-02 are as follows:
| Social Inclusion Partnership | 1999-2000 (£000) Allocation | 2000-01 (£000) Allocation | 2001-02 (£000) Allocation |
| North Edinburgh | 2,877 | 2,590 | 2,551 |
| Craigmillar | - | 1,755 | 1,916 |
| Strategic Programme | 1,178 | 550 | 589 |
| South Edinburgh | 740 | 990 | 1,229 |
| Edinburgh Youth | 205 | 567 | 634 |
| Total | 5,000 | 6,452 | 6,919 |
Responsibility for day to day oversight of the deployment of these funds falls to the grant recipient for Edinburgh SIPs, the City of Edinburgh Council. They advise us that no private companies were formed using SIP funds, and it therefore follows that no such companies have gone into liquidation.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 18 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will give details of any councillors who have sat on the Lothian and Borders Joint Police Board in each year since 1974 including (a) party affiliation of and (b) remuneration received by each councillor.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. Appointments to the board are matters for the constituent police authorities in the Lothian and Borders Police area, in line with the arrangements set out, most recently, in The Lothian and Borders Combined Police Area Amalgamation Scheme Order 1995.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 18 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what appointments have been made to the Lothian and Borders Joint Police Board in each year since 1997 and what the (a) party affiliation of and (b) remuneration received by each appointee was.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. Appointments to the board are matters for the constituent police authorities in the Lothian and Borders Police area, in line with the arrangements set out in The Lothian and Borders Combined Police Area Amalgamation Scheme Order 1995.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional resources it will provide to the police or to other criminal justice agencies regarding the prevention of any potential criminal activities following the introduction of the euro in other European countries in January 2002.
Answer
The resources made available to police forces and other criminal justice agencies by the Scottish Executive are not directly linked to the costs of tackling specific criminal activities. Criminal justice agencies across the UK are of course fully apprised of the potential for criminal activity linked to the introduction of the euro.
