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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-34042

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 25 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what the capital consent has been for (a) Argyll and Bute Council and (b) West Dunbartonshire Council in each year since 1997.

In each year since 1997, Argyll and Bute Council and West Dunbartonshire Council have been issued capital consents for non-housing capital expenditure from borrowing and grants as follows:Argyll and Bute

	£ Million
1997-98	14.962
1998-99	11.521
1999-2000	10.693
2000-01	10.936
2001-02	12.463
2002-03	16.564

West Dunbartonshire

	£ Million
1997-98	4.141
1998-99	5.773
1999-2000	6.650
2000-01	6.439
2001-02	6.213
2002-03	7.587

Outwith the local government settlement, Argyll and Bute and West Dunbartonshire receive allocations of around £1.6 million and £5.7 million respectively each year for housing capital expenditure.

Question reference: S1W-34035

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 25 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people in the (a) Dumbarton parliamentary constituency and (b) West Dunbartonshire local authority area are eligible for free local off-peak bus travel.

Two distinct groups are eligible for concessionary travel in Scotland - elderly people and disabled people. Data on the number of disabled people eligible for concessionary travel is not held centrally.All men and women aged 60 and over will be eligible for concessionary travel from 1 April 2003 when men aged 60 to 64 are added to those currently eligible. The 2001 census results show a total of 12,845 men and women aged 60 and over in the Dumbarton parliamentary constituency and 19,353 in the West Dunbartonshire local authority area.

Question reference: S1W-33848

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the courts are applying drink-driving rehabilitation programmes as part of sentencing procedure and whether it is monitoring uptake of such programmes.

In 2001, Scottish courts referred 562 offenders to the Drink Driving Rehabilitation Scheme as part of the sentencing procedure. In 2002, this number had increased to 1,487. The scheme itself is reserved under section 34A of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988, and it is the Department for Transport which monitors the provision of courses nationally, including the amount of referrals by courts in England, Scotland and Wales, the number of courses run and the total number of offenders completing a course.

Question reference: S1W-33983

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 24 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27798 by Iain Gray on 19 August 2002, whether it will establish a national centre for women's enterprise to promote new businesses run by women and disseminate best practice.

Question reference: S1W-33982

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 24 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27797 by Iain Gray on 19 August 2002, when it will publish the feasibility study undertaken by Paisley Enterprise Research Centre on establishing a National Centre for Women's Enterprise.

Question reference: S1W-33986

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 24 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24446 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 16 April 2002, what percentage of microcredit loans for start-up businesses go to women.

Question reference: S1W-33985

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 24 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has a strategy for promoting businesses run by women.

Within the framework of A Smart, Successful Scotland, the Executive is strongly committed to encouraging and supporting women in business. A range of new measures was introduced by Scottish Enterprise under its New Approach to Entrepreneurship strategy, launched last year. At a strategic level this includes specific targets for the number of start-ups by women supported by the network, together with practical promotional activity, for example the Executive and Scottish Enterprise jointly funding a brochure promoting successful women entrepreneurs last year.

Question reference: S1W-33984

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 24 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had any input into the Department of Trade and Industry's Women's Enterprise Strategic Framework due to be published shortly and how it intends to respond to the recommendations in this report.

Question reference: S1W-34033

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 21 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there have been any new road safety projects in the (a) West Dunbartonshire local authority, (b) Argyll and Bute local authority and (c) Dumbarton parliamentary constituency area in each of the last four years.

Yes. The information is not available in the format requested, however the following road safety schemes have been implemented on trunk roads in these areas in the last four years.

Year	Route	Location	Description of Measures
1999-2000	A82	Garshake Road Junction	Right turn facility
2000-01	A82	Crosslet	Anti-skid treatment
2000-01	A82	Dumbuck Quarry	New signs, anti-skid treatment
2000-01	A82	Milton and Dumbuck	New signs, anti-skid treatment
2000-01	A82	Balloch to Tarbet Route Accident Reduction Plan	Signing, lining, anti-skid treatment, safety fence, chevrons and bollards
2000-01	A82	Stoneymollan Roundabout	Anti-skid treatment, signing, chevrons, transverse yellow bar markings and carriageway markings.
2000-01	A828	Connel to Ballachulish Route Accident Reduction Plan	Signing, lining, anti-skid treatment, chevrons and bollards
2002-03	A82	Barloan Roundabout	Anti-skid treatment, signing, chevrons, refurbishment of yellow bar markings and carriageway markings.

Information about projects undertaken by local authorities on the local road network in their areas is not held centrally.

Question reference: S1W-34038

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 21 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #0/15/15 million to be invested in tackling anti-social behaviour through neighbourhood wardens, support schemes and other local initiatives, as referred to in Building a Better Scotland: Spending Proposals 2003-2006: What the money buys, will be allocated to the (a) Dumbarton parliamentary constituency, (b) Argyll and Bute Council and (c) West Dunbartonshire Council in each year and to what projects.