- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 5 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the economic and social impact will be on the West of Scotland parliamentary region of a £30 million reduction in spending at the Faslane naval base.
Answer
HM Naval Base Clyde(Faslane) has launched a project which aims to reduce annual expenditure by £30million by the end of 2011-12. Theproject is planned to report later in the year and no decisions have yet beentaken, with implementation of any proposals unlikely before April 2008. It istherefore not possible to estimate the potential economic and social impacts atthis time, as the specific nature of the spending reductions are unknown.
The project is fullycoherent with the Naval Base Review, which is currently looking atinfrastructure requirements for the Royal Navy.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 5 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the economic and social impact will be on the Scottish parliamentary constituency of Dumbarton of a £30 million reduction in spending at the Faslane naval base.
Answer
HM Naval Base Clyde (Faslane)has launched a project which aims to reduce annual expenditure by £30 millionby the end of 2011-12. The project isplanned to report later in the year and no decisions have yet been taken, withimplementation of any proposals unlikely before April 2008. It is therefore notpossible to estimate the potential economic and social impacts at this time, asthe specific nature of the spending reductions are unknown.
The project is fully coherentwith the Naval Base Review, which is currently looking at infrastructure requirementsfor the Royal Navy.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 5 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the economic and social impact will be on the Glasgow parliamentary region of a £30 million reduction in spending at the Faslane naval base.
Answer
HM Naval Base Clyde(Faslane) has launched a project which aims to reduce annual expenditure by £30million by the end of 2011-12. Theproject is planned to report later in the year and no decisions have yet beentaken, with implementation of any proposals unlikely before April 2008. It istherefore not possible to estimate the potential economic and social impacts atthis time, as the specific nature of the spending reductions are unknown.
The project is fullycoherent with the Naval Base Review, which is currently looking atinfrastructure requirements for the Royal Navy.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 5 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive which organisation is responsible for monitoring, supervising and regulating pilotage in Clyde ports.
Answer
Clydeport is the competent harbourauthority for approximately 450 square miles of the River Clyde, its estuary andsea lochs. It is responsible for regulating arrangements for pilotage in its operationalarea, and also for authorising pilots to conduct pilotage. Part of this duty involveskeeping the need for pilotage and the service provided under review.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 5 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether pilots on the River Clyde can be transferred as part of any sale or acquisition of Clydeport and, if so, what steps the Executive would be able to take in respect of this issue in the event of ownership of the ports by a foreign buyer.
Answer
Clydeport is the competent harbourauthority for approximately 450 square miles of the River Clyde, its estuary andsea lochs and is responsible for regulating arrangements for pilotage in its operationalarea as required by the Pilotage Act 1987. Any potential change of ownership wouldnot affect the designated status of the port and its ability and duty to providepilotage services.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 5 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether pilots and regulation of pilotage on the River Clyde can be sold or acquired as part of any prospective sale of Clydeport and, if so, what steps the Executive can take in event of ownership of the ports transferring to a foreign buyer.
Answer
Clydeport is the competent harbourauthority for approximately 450 square miles of the River Clyde, its estuary andsea lochs and is responsible for regulating arrangements for pilotage in its operationalarea as required by the Pilotage Act 1987. Any potential change of ownership wouldnot affect the designated status of the port and its ability and duty to providepilotage services.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 26 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-10320 and S2W-23761 by Peter Peacock on 17 September 2004 and 16 March 2006 respectively, whether it plans to record the literacy rate of people aged over 16 and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
Answer
Previous research wascarried out in 1996 through the International Adult Literacy Survey. Since thelaunch of Scotland’s Strategy’s for literacy and numeracy of 2001 over137,000 adults have been helped to improve their low levels of literacy andnumeracy. The Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning Department isconsidering commissioning research into how best to determine the current levelof adult literacy rates.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 26 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive which projects received funding from EventScotland and how much each received from (a) EventScotland, (b) other public sector agencies and (c) the private sector in each of the last three financial years.
Answer
EventScotland has provided informationon awards they have made to events and also by partners. This information hasbeen placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 41886).
Private sector support,however, is often provided on a value-in-kind basis or the levels ofsponsorship are not made available to EventScotland. Therefore EventScotland donot hold figures which express a comprehensive value of support from thissector.
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 26 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money was contributed by other public sector agencies to EventScotland projects in each of the last three years.
Answer
In each of the last threeyears the level of funding contributed by other public sector agencies toEventscotland projects is as follows:
| Year | Funding |
| 2004-05 | £1,409,404 |
| 2005-06 | £2,449,938 |
| 2006-07 | £3,315, 606 |
- Asked by: Stewart Maxwell, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 26 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money EventScotland secured in sponsorship from the private sector in each of the last three financial years.
Answer
Private sector sponsorshipfor events supported by EventScotland has provided welcome support to manyevents in the past three years. However, this support is often provided on avalue-in-kind basis or the level of sponsorship is not made available toEventScotland. Therefore EventScotland do not hold figures which express acomprehensive value of private sector support.
