- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 24 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will conduct a consultation on the proposed Aberdeen Crossrail project and, if so, when it anticipates that such a consultation will take place.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S3W-8313 on 24 January 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can befound at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers it expects to redeploy to Grampian over the next three years.
Answer
The deployment and redeploymentof police officers is a matter for which the chief constable is responsible.
We will work with chief constablesand other partners to support the introduction of initiatives designed to reducebureaucracy and strip out red tape and the reinvestment of these efficiency gainsto enable chief constables to redeploy officers to strengthen operational policingin our communities.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 24 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding the area hub of sportscotland in Aberdeen and the Grampian Institute of Sport will receive over the four years up to the 2012 London Olympics.
Answer
Funding for the Aberdeen Huband the Grampian Institute of Sport will be a matter for the new management teamand board of sportscotland to determine once the structures and staffing are inplace.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 23 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Minister for Communities and Sport will meet Aberdeen City Council to discuss the need for an Olympic-standard swimming pool in Aberdeen.
Answer
I have no current plans to meetwith Aberdeen City Council to discuss the proposed swimming pool in Aberdeen.
sportscotland has accepted aninvitation to join the project board, which has been set up to take forward theswimming pool proposal and a meeting has been scheduled for 28 January.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 22 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Scottish Futures Trust will be fully operational.
Answer
The Scottish Futures Trust (SFT)is our alternative funding mechanism to the “standard PFI” and will deliver better,more efficient infrastructure for taxpayers. A consultation paper on SFT was launchedin December 2007 and this can be accessed at:
www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations.Work on the development of SFTis continuing and making good progress.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 22 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much private investment it expects to generate for the Scottish Futures Trust in each of the next three financial years.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-8465 on 22 January. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 22 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many antisocial behaviour orders were issued in Grampian as a result of vandalism-related incidents during (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05, (c) 2005-06, (d) 2006-07 and (e) 2007-08.
Answer
Although the Scottish Governmentcollects data on the number of ASBOs granted in each local authority area, it doesnot collect data on the nature of the misconduct that prompted the ASBO. This informationis not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 22 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will report on its findings in respect of the contents of the Nestrans transport strategy.
Answer
Scottish ministers will consider the Nestrans regional transport strategyfollowing receipt of a revised draft requested recently.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 22 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many antisocial behaviour orders were issued in Aberdeen city during (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05, (c) 2005-06, (d) 2006-07 and (e) 2007-08.
Answer
According to research on theuse of civil antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs) undertaken by DTZ Pieda and Heriot-WattUniversity, 13 ASBOs were issued in Aberdeen City in 2003-04, 14 in 2004-05 and11 in 2005-06.
Since this research has now reported,figures on the use of ASBOs for subsequent years are obtained directly from Aberdeen City. Accordingto their records there were 14 ASBOs issued in 2006-07 and 21 issued from Aprilto September 2007.
These figures include interimASBOs that were later granted as full ASBOs (as well as those that were still inforce as interim ASBOs at the end of the reporting period).
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 22 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much public funding will be allocated to the Scottish Futures Trust in each of the next three financial years.
Answer
The Scottish Futures Trust (SFT)initiative is our alternative funding mechanism to the “standard PFI” and will deliverbetter, more efficient infrastructure for taxpayers. A consultation paper on SFTwas launched in December 2007 and this can be accessed at:
www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations.
