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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: S1W-10153

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 15 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #350 million for central heating announced on 19 September 2000 will be allocated to tenants of Orkney Islands Council, whether this allocation is from a specific source and over what time period this allocation will be made available.

Question reference: S1W-10155

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 15 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #350 million for central heating announced on 19 September 2000 will be allocated to tenants of Aberdeen City Council, whether this allocation is from a specific source and over what time period this allocation will be made available.

Question reference: S1W-10154

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 15 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #350 million for central heating announced on 19 September 2000 will be allocated to tenants of Shetland Islands Council, whether this allocation is from a specific source and over what time period this allocation will be made available.

Question reference: S1W-10152

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 15 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #350 million for central heating announced on 19 September 2000 will be allocated to tenants of Scottish Borders Council, whether this allocation is from a specific source and over what time period this allocation will be made available.

Question reference: S1W-10150

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 15 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #350 million for central heating announced on 19 September 2000 will be allocated to tenants of Glasgow City Council, whether this allocation is from a specific source and over what time period this allocation will be made available.

The amount to be spent will depend on the precise number of dwellings which lack central heating. About £2,500 will be spent on heating and insulation for each dwelling as part of the post-transfer investment programme. If the tenants vote for transfer the measures will be installed by the new landlord. The cost will be reflected in the valuation of the stock. If transfer does not proceed the Scottish Executive will make the necessary resources available. The time period for the works depends on the outcome of the ballot on stock transfer. This will be the case for all seven authorities currently on the path to a ballot on whole stock transfer.

Question reference: S1W-10148

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 15 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #350 million funding for central heating announced on 9 September 2000 will come from (a) money already allocated to the Warm Deal; (b) new money being made available as a result of the Comprehensive Spending Review; (c) Scottish Homes; (d) resources made available as a result of reduced debt repayments; (e) New Housing Partnership money, and (f) Scottish Gas, Scottish Power, Scottish Hydro-electric and Transco.

For the period covered by the Spending Review, that is 2001-02 to 2003-04, the answers are as follows: (a) £7 million; (b) £103 million: (c) none; (d) and (e) no resources have been reallocated, but presumptions for future years have been adjusted; and (f) we are still in discussion with the companies concerned. Investment to the value of £94 million will be provided through the stock transfer programme. The balance of the resources from the Scottish Executive beyond March 2004 will be set out when the next spending plans are published.

Question reference: S1W-10149

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 15 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive who the "new landlords" referred to in the press statement of 19 September 2000 on the #350 million funding package for central heating are, what obligations these new landlords will be under and how much of the funding package will be generated from those obligations.

The new landlords referred to are those acquiring council houses following a vote by tenants in favour of transfer. These landlords will be required, in submitting transfer proposals to councils, to include the provision of heating and insulation in their capital investment programmes. On the basis of the transfer of an estimated 37,500 council houses without central heating and insulation, this would account for investment to the value of about £94 million of the total £350 million. The costs of providing heating and insulation will be reflected in the valuations of the houses to be transferred.

Question reference: S1W-10151

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 15 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #350 million for central heating announced on 19 September 2000 will be allocated to tenants of Dumfries and Galloway Council, whether this allocation is from a specific source and over what time period this allocation will be made available.

Question reference: S1W-10156

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 15 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #350 million for central heating announced on 19 September 2000 will be allocated to tenants of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, whether this allocation is from a specific source and over what time period this allocation will be made available.

Question reference: S1W-10529

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 19 October 2000
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 9 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what methodology was used in the calculation of the average #550 estimated savings that elderly people are expected to make under the Scottish Executive central heating scheme announced by the Minister for Communities on 19 September 2000.

The figure quoted was based on an analysis of data from the 1996 Scottish House Condition Survey, using the National Energy Rating Scheme modelling programme, Autoevaluator, uprated to 1999 prices. The model used a standard heating regime for elderly households which assumes that their homes will be heated for 16 hours daily; the living room to a temperature of 21 degrees Celsius and the rest of the house to 18 degrees.

The estimated savings arose from the installation of (a) central heating in all private sector elderly households without central heating where the heating fuel is either gas or electricity, and (b) home insulation.