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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S1W-06532

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2000
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 18 May 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how many local authority homes were sold under the right to buy scheme in each council area between 1 January 1980 and 1 January 2000.

The information available is set out in the table. The figures include right to buy, rent to mortgage and voluntary sales, all of which were made under the right to buy legislation. Sales of dwellings owned by the New Towns (when in existence) are shown separately. Information regarding sales of local authority dwellings which were made after the end of September 1999 is not yet available.

Right to Buy Sales of Local Authority and New Town Dwellings
1 January 1980 to 30 September 1999
Local Authority Dwellings Sold	294,560
Aberdeen City	12,852
Aberdeenshire	9,302
Angus	6,153
Argyll & Bute	4,241
Clackmannanshire	3,336
Dumfries & Galloway	9,544
Dundee	10,404
East Ayrshire	8,638
East Dunbartonshire	4,221
East Lothian	6,433
East Renfrewshire	2,332
Edinburgh, City of	21,089
Eilean Siar	1,190
Falkirk	11,028
Fife	23,021
Glasgow City	33,283
Highland	11,468
Inverclyde	5,429
Midlothian	5,412
Moray	5,151
North Ayrshire	7,651
North Lanarkshire	22,230
Orkney	1,749
Perth & Kinross	6,802
Renfrewshire	10,947
Scottish Borders, The	5,943
Shetland	901
South Ayrshire	8,151
South Lanarkshire	16,106
Stirling	5,810
West Dunbartonshire	5,902
West Lothian	7,841
New Town Dwellings Sold	32,441
Cumbernauld	6,876
Irvine	12,487
East Kilbride	5,261
Glenrothes	2,584
Livingston	5,233

Note: Although the current local authorities were not in existence until April 1996, the numbers of sales which took place before then have been assigned to the new areas. Where an old district became divided between more than one new local authority area, population figures for new and old areas at 1996 were used to allocate the sales to the relevant areas on a pro-rata basis. For some areas, therefore, the figures are estimates only.

Question reference: S1W-06531

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2000
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 18 May 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive on what basis it estimates that the annual additional number of homes sold in Scotland as a result of the proposed extension of the right to buy will be 120.

Question reference: S1W-04303

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2000
Current Status: Answered by Susan Deacon on 24 February 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the adult population of Aberdeenshire are registered with an NHS dentist.

Information on registrations is only available centrally based on the postcode of dental practices in an area and not by patient postcode. It is not therefore possible to provide accurate information on patients registered in Aberdeenshire Council area as a number of these patients are registered with NHS dentists in Aberdeen City. The percentage of the adult population registered with an NHS dentist in the Grampian Health Board area (which covers Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Moray) was 49.1 as at 31 December 1999.

Question reference: S1W-03197

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 10 December 1999
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 24 December 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive how many Countryside Premium Scheme applications have been (a) approved in the last 12 months, (b) rejected in the last 12 months, and (c) are still awaiting processing.

Question reference: S1W-03198

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 10 December 1999
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 December 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what the budget for the Countryside Premium Scheme is for the years 1999-2000, 2000-01 and 2001-02.

Question reference: S1W-03196

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 10 December 1999
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 24 December 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans to divert money from the Agri-Environment budget heads in the next 12 months and, if so, how much is to be transferred and to which budgets.

Question reference: S1W-03195

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 10 December 1999
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 24 December 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether money has been diverted from the Agri-Environment budget heads in the last 12 months and, if so, how much has been transferred and to which budgets.

Question reference: S1O-00800

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 December 1999
Current Status: Answered by Frank McAveety on 9 December 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has for Ministers to visit local authorities such as Aberdeenshire to discuss in detail the recommendations of the McIntosh Report.

Question reference: S1W-03188

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 December 1999
Current Status: Answered by Frank McAveety on 9 December 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has for Ministers to visit local authorities such as Aberdeenshire to discuss in detail the recommendations of the McIntosh Report.

Question reference: S1W-00704

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 26 July 1999
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 4 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive how many representations it has received over the last six years opposing the proposed funicular railway on Cairn Gorm or calling for a review and how many it has received in support of the development.