- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 14 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-3407 by Stewart Maxwell on 4 September 2007, how many of the 31,720 applications to Scottish Gas for central heating since October 2006 have (a) been assessed, (b) been approved and (c) resulted in installation of a heating system.
Answer
I have askedJames Hynd, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Hisresponse is as follows:
The ProgrammeManaging Agent (Scottish Gas) has indicated that all applicants to the programme,as at 4 September, have been assessed through the call centre process and20,298 have had eligibility survey assessments. The others were deemed noteligible or withdrew their applications for other reasons.
From the totalnumber of applicants assessed 17,458 have been approved for installation and11,827 of those have had central heating installed.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 14 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting times have been in the Scottish Borders from (a) application to assessment and (b) assessment to installation under the central heating programme in each year since its inception.
Answer
I have askedJames Hynd, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Hisresponse is as follows:
Information inthe format requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 14 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications under the central heating programme have been made in each year since its inception.
Answer
I have askedJames Hynd, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Hisresponse is as follows:
Information inthe format requested is not held prior to 2006-07.
In 2006-07,25,133 householders applied to the Programme and in 2007-08 15, 197 haveapplied, to the end of September.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 14 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting times have been from (a) application to assessment and (b) assessment to installation under the central heating programme in each year since its inception.
Answer
I have askedJames Hynd, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Hisresponse is as follows:
Information inthe format requested is not held centrally. However, information is held on theaverage waiting time from application to installation.
The averagewaiting time on the central heating programme reported by the Managing Agentsince 2002-03 is shown in the following table:
Average WaitingTime (Months)
| Year | |
| 2002-03 | 8 |
| 2003-04 | 8 |
| 2004-05 | 5-6 |
| 2005-06 | 5-6 |
| 2006-07 | 5 |
| 2007-08 (current) | 5-6 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 14 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many central heating systems have been installed in the Scottish Borders under the central heating programme in each year since its inception.
Answer
I have askedJames Hynd, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Hisresponse is as follows:
Information aboutthe central heating programme is only available by postcode area.
The number ofsystems installed in the TD postcode area is shown in the table below:
No. of SystemsInstalled in TD Postcode Area
| Year | |
| 2001-02 | 19 |
| 2002-03 | 70 |
| 2003-04 | 244 |
| 2004-05 | 427 |
| 2005-06 | 286 |
| 2006-07 | 179 |
| 2007-08 (to date) | 80 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 9 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to review the Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order 1999.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer I gave to her earlier question on this matter S3O-831 on 4 October 2007 which is available on the Parliament’s website, the searchfacility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/sch/search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 30 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many notices of intended prosecution were served to drivers of foreign-registered vehicles in each year since 1999 and, of these, how many resulted in (a) a fine being paid by the owner or driver and (b) no fine being paid.
Answer
It is not possibleto identify prosecutions of drivers of foreign-registered vehicles from other driversfrom the data held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 30 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many foreign-registered vehicles stopped by police were found not to be in a roadworthy condition in each year since 1999.
Answer
This informationis not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 30 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases involving fraudulent motoring documents being issued by garage owners have been notified to the authorities in each year since 1999, broken down by category of document.
Answer
The availableinformation is given in the following table. The Road Traffic Act 1988 Section173 deals with the forgery of documents such as licences, test certificates,and plating certificates. It is not possible to identify garage owners orcategories of documents from the data held centrally.
Persons ProceededAgainst1 in Scottish Courts for Offences Under the Road Traffic Act1988 Section 1732, 1999-2000 - 2005-06
| Financial Year | Number |
| 1999-2000 | 41 |
| 2000-01 | 25 |
| 2001-02 | 26 |
| 2002-03 | 22 |
| 2003-04 | 37 |
| 2004-05 | 32 |
| 2005-06 | 23 |
Notes:
1.Figures may be slight underestimates due to some under-representation ofacquittals data from SCRO.
2.Where main offence.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Tricia Marwick on 30 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body who is responsible for (a) purchasing and (b) exhibiting art works in the Parliament.
Answer
The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body is responsible for purchasing and exhibiting artworks in the Parliament. In previous sessions, an Art Advisory Group (AAG),comprising members and external representation, has supported the SPCB in thisactivity. The AAG is currently being re-established. An acquisitions anddisposal policy agreed by the SPCB exists to guide the principles and ethicalconsiderations around collecting art appropriate for display in the Scottish Parliament. At official level, the art curator/exhibitions manager is responsiblefor the management and care, including the display, of artworks in the Scottish Parliament building.
