- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much European Social Fund money has been clawed back from (a) colleges and (b) other organisations in each year since 1999.
Answer
The amount of EuropeanSocial Fund money clawed back from colleges and others each year in theprogramme which started in 2000 is shown in the following table:
| Year | Colleges (£) | Others (£) | Total (£) |
| 2004-05 | 116,185 | 496,457 | 612,642 |
| 2003-04 | 119,956 | 327,622 | 447,578 |
| 2002-03 | 310,841 | 317,328 | 628,169 |
| 2001-02 | 22,996 | 34,356 | 57,352 |
| 2000-01 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | 5,699,78 | 1,175,763 | 1,745,741 |
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 20 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it plans to take to increase the number of artificial turf football pitches.
Answer
The Executive welcomes and issupportive of proposals which will deliver modern facilities capable of supportingan increase in sports participation. A number of artificial pitches are being developedthrough the New Opportunities for Physical Education and Sports (NOPES) Lotteryprogramme and funding is also available to support their development through sportscotland’sBuilding for Sport programme.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the value of proceeds of district court fines sent to HM Treasury has been in each year since 1999.
Answer
The available information is given in the following table:
Value of fines sent to Exchequer (£000s)
| 1999-20001 | 2000-012 | 2001-023 | 2002-034 | 2003-045 |
| 2,860 | 2,200 | 2,259 | 2,847 | 2,927 |
Notes:
1. Excludes North Lanarkshire and Stirling.
2. Excludes Edinburgh, North Lanarkshire and Stirling.
3. Excludes North Lanarkshire, Stirling and West Lothian.
4. Excludes Eilean Siar, North Lanarkshire and Stirling.
5. Provisional data. Excludes Eilean Siar, North Lanarkshire and Stirling.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what involvement it has in projects associated with the redevelopment of Granton waterfront.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
The redevelopment of the Granton waterfront is being led by Waterfront Edinburgh Limited. This is a joint venture company supported by the City of Edinburgh Council and Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian.
The Scottish Executive is supporting the Granton waterfront initiative through significant investment in a number of areas that are key to the success of this major regeneration initiative. This includes: improved public transport including support to develop the tram network in the city; substantial investment in the provision of affordable housing within the waterfront area, and significant up-front funding to the joint venture company through the Scottish Executive funded enterprise agency Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 17 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-11897 by Ms Patricia Ferguson on 18 November 2004, which football clubs have benefited from, and what funding has been allocated under, the Building for Sport programme since inception.
Answer
Since the establishment of the Building for Sport programme on 1 May 2004, only Kyleakin Football Club has received an award (£46,186) for a new playing field. Over the years 2003–07 of
sportscotland’s Lottery Distribution Strategy, details of which can be obtained from the
sportscotland website at
www.sportscotland.org.uk,£18 million has been allocated to the Building for Sport programme.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 13 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on ad hoc or temporary procurator fiscal deputes in each sheriff court district in each year since 1999.
Answer
Expenditure on temporary procurator fiscal deputes by Procurator Fiscal office for the last five financial years was:
| | 1999-00 (£) | 2000-01 (£) | 2001-02 (£) | 2002-03 (£) | 2003-04 (£) |
| Aberdeen | 860 | 13,665 | 26,650 | 6,075 | 18,289 |
| Airdrie | 41,253 | 36,881 | 18,964 | 21,923 | 47,783 |
| Arbroath | 0 | 0 | 705 | 705 | 0 |
| Ayr | 1,850 | 4,050 | 7,050 | 1,650 | 11,460 |
| Campbeltown | 1,800 | 450 | 4,200 | 450 | 3,995 |
| Cupar | 0 | 705 | 0 | 0 | 2,850 |
| Dumbarton | 4,450 | 17,055 | 14,659 | 15,596 | 3,503 |
| Dumfries | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0- | 3,960 |
| Dundee | 8,039 | 12,670 | 10,676 | 48,274 | 78,167 |
| Dunfermline | 6,607 | 2,291 | 881 | 176 | 476 |
| Duns | 0 | 150 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Edinburgh | 42,433 | 105,993 | 52,069 | 132,004 | 128,667 |
| Falkirk | 16,582 | 0 | 18,454 | 19,046 | 33,761 |
| Forfar | 0 | 0 | 353 | 705 | 0 |
| Fort William | 0 | 1,234 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Glasgow | 178,506 | 150,754 | 236,571 | 194,751 | 113,054 |
| Greenock | 0 | 3,968 | 1,800 | 10,605 | 12,683 |
| Haddington | 0 | 0 | 0 | 450 | 8,250 |
| Hamilton | 25,604 | 40,669 | 89,749 | 87,431 | 55,159 |
| Jedburgh | 0 | 0 | 2,100 | 750 | 0 |
| Kirkcudbright | 3,904 | 2,100 | 3,000 | 2,100 | 2,475 |
| Kirkcaldy | 21,802 | 10,046 | 5,640 | 4,406 | 0 |
| Kilmarnock | 2,795 | 9,595 | 881 | 0 | 329 |
| Kirkwall | 1,500 | 1,500 | 1,500 | 1,125 | 1,875 |
| Lerwick | 1,694 | 1,800 | 1,571 | 1,125 | 1,875 |
| Linlithgow | 47,012 | 12,806 | 22,312 | 19,200 | 14,250 |
| Lanark | 585 | 1,586 | 2,001 | 855 | 176 |
| Oban | 0 | 750 | 1,350 | 326 | 329 |
| Paisley | 10,240 | 12,289 | 35,139 | 29,775 | 29,770 |
| Peebles | 0 | 150 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perth | 16,257 | 39,248 | 21,212 | 27,912 | 19,056 |
| Rothesay | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150 | 0 |
| Selkirk | 0 | 2,231 | 6,880 | 150 | 0 |
| Stranraer | 1,670 | 150 | 0 | 150 | 0 |
| Stirling | 4,574 | 1,058 | 7,705 | 24,641 | 9,900 |
| Stornoway | 375 | 1,500 | 2,250 | 0 | 2,625 |
| Wick | 1,603 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 12 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-time football development officers there are in each local authority area and what their salary costs are, broken down into those employed by (a) it, (b) a local authority, (c) the Scottish Football Association and (d) sportscotland.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. No football development officers are employed by the Executive or sportscotland.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 11 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all funds allocated to community learning strategy partnerships for adult literacy and numeracy projects in 2001 were used for this purpose; if not, what steps will now be taken to ensure that the funds are so used, and what action will be taken against any local authority not using such funds for this purpose; whether funding for adult literacy and numeracy for 2006-08 will be allocated to community learning strategy partnerships, and whether such funding will be ring-fenced.
Answer
Our information is that the funds allocated to the partnerships since 2001 have been used for activities relating to adult literacy and numeracy.
Funding for adult literacy and numeracy for 2006-2008 will be routed as previously through the GAE of local authorities and will not be ring-fenced. We anticipate that these funds will be allocated to the Community Learning Strategy Partnerships.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 10 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many injuries that were reportable to the Health and Safety Executive there were in each prison in each year since 1999.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
The available information is given in the following table:
| Establishment | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
| Aberdeen | 2 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 6 |
| Barlinnie | 6 | 18 | 17 | 47 | 31 |
| Castle Huntly | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Cornton Vale | 4 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 14 |
| Dumfries | 9 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 11 |
| Edinburgh | 9 | 13 | 18 | 21 | 15 |
| Glenochil | 25 | 13 | 19 | 17 | 13 |
| Greenock | 5 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 6 |
| Inverness | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Low Moss | 10 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 13 |
| Noranside | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Perth | 4 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 9 |
| Peterhead | 7 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 15 |
| Polmont | 7 | 13 | 28 | 13 | 28 |
| Shotts | 2 | 25 | 21 | 27 | 17 |
| Total | 94 | 133 | 170 | 195 | 195 |
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 24 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what definition of hardship is used to decide whether the Scottish Legal Aid Board will meet fees or expect deductions to be made from sums recovered in advice and assistance applications.
Answer
The board judges each case onits own merits and applies the ordinary meaning of the terms employed. In particular,the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of hardship is “severe suffering or privation”.The standard to be met before payment can be made from the Legal Aid Fund in suchcases is therefore very high.
