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To ask the Scottish Executive whether many voluntary organisations in Glasgow may face financial ruin if required to pay commercial rents for properties let from Glasgow City Council and whether it can provide any guarantees that voluntary organisations will not be adversely affected following the Glasgow housing stock transfer.
To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions since May 1999 it has used (a) hotels, (b) commercial conference centres and (c) any other non-Executive venues for policy launches, press conferences and business breakfasts and how much was paid to the venue in each case.
Information on the age of the public water supply distribution network is not held centrally by the Executive. This information may be available from Scottish Water, 6 Castle Drive, Carnegie Campus, Dunfermline.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-15517 by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 May 2001, how many local authorities have found illegal imports of meat as part of their routine inspections of food premises.
The Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland is represented on the group, which held its first meeting on 6 February and will meet again on 8 May. S1W-24711
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 April 2002
This information is currently being collated, and a copy of the report will be placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre in early May 2002. S1W-24762
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 March 2002
If a customer is concerned that they may be at risk from lead in their drinking water, as a result of lead plumbing, the water authority will test their supply on request and free of charge.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 February 2002
We have no plans at present to amend the provisions in the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 which provides local authorities with general powers to introduce bylaws which, for example, may ban drinking in public designated areas or streets.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the 37% of recorded incidents of domestic abuse in 1999-2000 referred to the Procurator Fiscal's Office were subsequently referred to diversion from prosecution schemes and on what grounds any such referrals were made. "Domestic abuse" may be constituted by several offences.