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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: S2W-30512

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 16 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many insulation jobs it estimates will be undertaken under the Warm Deal programme between April 2006 and April 2007.

Question reference: S2W-30517

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 16 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what input Scottish Gas had to the decision to reduce the number of insulation installations under the Warm Deal programme after the tender was awarded.

Question reference: S2W-30599

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 15 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Des McNulty on 12 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to run down the Warm Deal programme for both insulation and heating installations.

Question reference: S2W-30513

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Des McNulty on 12 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to replicate the £250 million programme to tackle fuel poverty in England and Wales, given that an estimated £5 million of funding initially committed to the Warm Deal programme has now been allocated elsewhere.

To March 2006 we spent almost£276 million on fuel poverty programmes. Over 2006-08 we have allocated nearly £108million to these programmes.

In each of the years 2006-08we have allocated £5 million to the Warm Deal. From this year’s Warm Deal resource,£2.5 million has been allocated to work in the private sector and £2.5 million tolocal authorities and housing associations to deliver Warm Deal measures in theirproperties. We have recently allocated an additional £5 million to fuel povertyprogrammes in response to the continued high demand for these programmes.

Question reference: S2W-30515

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Des McNulty on 12 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made any decisions on whether to end the Warm Deal.

Question reference: S2W-30516

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Des McNulty on 12 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many households it estimates would qualify for assistance and insulation under the Warm Deal programme from October 2007 to October 2008.

Question reference: S2W-30150

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 20 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average household incomes have been in each year since 1999, also broken down by parliamentary constituency.

The following income estimatesare based on the Family Resources Survey. As such, year-on-year changes should betreated with caution due to sampling variation. Identification of trends must bebased on data for several years. The Scottish Executive has funded a doubling of the Scottish sample since 2002-03; estimates from 2002-03 should be less prone tofluctuation than those for earlier years.

Estimates are only availableat Scotland level.

Table:Median Equivalised Net-Disposable Household Income in Scotland, 2000-01to 2004-05

	Scotland’s Median (£ Per Week)
	Before Housing Costs	After Housing Costs
2000-01	310	266
2001-02	326	280
2002-03	331	291
2003-04	346	310
2004-05	349	313

Source:Households Below Average Income, DWP.

Notes:

“Equivalised” income is usedto allow comparisons of living standards between different household types.

Net disposable household income:Total income from all sources (including Tax Credits) after deductions for incometax, National Insurance contributions, council tax, pension contributions and maintenancepayments.

Housing costs: Rent/mortgagepayments, water charges, structural insurance premiums, ground rent and servicecharges.

Question reference: S2W-30447

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the first supplementary to question S2F-2596 by Mr Jack McConnell on 30 November 2006 (Official Report, c. 29901), what additional funding has been provided for local authorities to monitor sex offenders within their jurisdiction for individual cases where the expenditure would not have been forseen in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority and indicating the amount (a) applied for and (b) awarded, and which local authorities had applications for such funding rejected.

Question reference: S2W-29781

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it has given to Scottish Women’s Aid in each year since 1999.

Scottish Executive fundingof Scottish Women’s Aid in each year from 1999 is detailed as follows.

Year	Core	Project	Total Amount
1999-2000	£114,957	£125,168	£240,125
2000-2001	£114,957	£266,115	£381,072
2001-2002	£114,957	£174,708	£289,665
2002-2003	£114,957	£183,307	£298,264
2003-2004	£191,486	£223,905	£415,391
2004-2005	£225,576	£428,568	£654,144
2005-2006	£215,540	£274,790	£490,330
2006-2007	£259,001	£215,690	£474,691
Total 1999-2007	£1,351,431	£1,892,251	£3,243,382

These figures set out fundingthat has gone directly to Scottish Women’s Aid from the Scottish Executive andinclude core funding and funding for specific projects, such as training, children’swork and housing.

Question reference: S2W-30149

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by George Lyon on 8 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many lone parent households there have been in each year since 1999, also broken down by local authority area.

The following table shows thenumber of households containing one adult with children, according to the householdestimates and projections made by the General Register Office for Scotland. Thiswill exclude households where an adult with children lives with other adults.

Number of Households ContainingOne Adult and One or More Children, 1999-2006

Local Authority	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Aberdeen City	6,270	6,350	6,420	6,470	6,520	6,570	6,620	6,630
Aberdeenshire	3,410	3,520	3,610	3,720	3,840	3,990	4,150	4,270
Angus	2,360	2,420	2,480	2,540	2,590	2,660	2,740	2,800
Argyll and Bute	1,820	1,850	1,900	1,930	2,000	2,010	2,090	2,150
Clackmannanshire	1,400	1,450	1,490	1,540	1,580	1,640	1,700	1,750
Dumfries and Galloway	2,910	2,970	3,050	3,100	3,180	3,260	3,340	3,410
Dundee City	5,340	5,370	5,400	5,440	5,460	5,510	5,540	5,550
East Ayrshire	2,990	3,040	3,120	3,160	3,230	3,290	3,350	3,410
East Dunbartonshire	1,840	1,910	1,940	1,950	1,980	2,020	2,060	2,100
East Lothian	1,940	2,030	2,090	2,160	2,220	2,280	2,360	2,420
East Renfrewshire	1,490	1,550	1,600	1,640	1,670	1,710	1,740	1,790
Edinburgh, City of	10,020	10,210	10,380	10,490	10,610	10,780	11,020	11,260
Eilean Siar	430	440	450	460	470	490	500	510
Falkirk	3,780	3,900	4,040	4,170	4,320	4,490	4,630	4,780
Fife	8,940	9,250	9,560	9,800	10,050	10,330	10,670	10,980
Glasgow City	24,180	24,440	25,190	25,580	25,990	26,590	27,160	27,700
Highland	4,450	4,560	4,660	4,750	4,850	4,980	5,140	5,260
Inverclyde	2,710	2,760	2,800	2,820	2,840	2,890	2,910	2,930
Midlothian	2,010	2,100	2,160	2,210	2,270	2,320	2,380	2,430
Moray	1,140	1,140	1,140	1,130	1,130	1,120	1,130	1,140
North Ayrshire	4,450	4,540	4,630	4,650	4,660	4,850	4,990	5,090
North Lanarkshire	9,510	9,810	10,140	10,470	10,780	11,100	11,450	11,730
Orkney Islands	280	280	290	290	290	300	310	310
Perth and Kinross	2,630	2,700	2,750	2,810	2,890	2,980	3,070	3,150
Renfrewshire	5,000	5,100	5,190	5,290	5,400	5,450	5,540	5,600
Scottish Borders	1,900	1,970	2,030	2,090	2,140	2,190	2,250	2,300
Shetland Islands	430	440	450	460	470	480	500	510
South Ayrshire	2,450	2,510	2,580	2,630	2,690	2,750	2,820	2,880
South Lanarkshire	7,790	8,040	8,290	8,490	8,710	8,980	9,280	9,570
Stirling	1,790	1,850	1,880	1,910	1,950	1,970	2,000	2,020
West Dunbartonshire	3,420	3,450	3,480	3,490	3,500	3,520	3,580	3,620
West Lothian	4,020	4,220	4,390	4,540	4,690	4,850	5,030	5,200
Scotland	133,130	136,180	139,580	142,140	144,960	148,350	152,040	155,230

Notes:

1. Source: General Register Officefor Scotland household estimates and projections.

2. These figures are estimates,based on changes in the total population and trends in household formation.

3. These figures show the numberof households containing one adult and one or more children. Information on alllone parent families, for 2001 alone, is available from Census Table UV65 (www.scrol.gov.uk).