- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 2 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to increase the availability of socially rented housing in Glasgow.
Answer
TheExecutive is making unprecedented levels of investment available in Glasgow to increase the availability ofgood quality social rented housing through both improvement and new buildprogrammes.
This yearwe are providing £70 million to fund over 1,000 new and improved social rentedhomes in the city.
On top ofthat, our support will lead to a further 900 new homes being approved this yearin Glasgow as part of 6,000 new replacement homes for those affected by GHA’sdemolition proposals.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 31 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is concerned that some local authorities have not yet achieved the target of recycling 25 per cent of household waste and, if so, what action and further support it will consider to improve recycling opportunities for all Scots regardless of where they live.
Answer
The target of recycling/composting25% of municipal waste by 2006 is an all-Scotland target rather than an individuallocal authority target. To increase recycling we are taking action in a numberof areas. These include:
Funding a number ofrecycling facilities for multi-occupancy properties, including in Glasgow.
Working with localauthorities, REMADE Scotland and the Scottish Waste Awareness Group to ensurethat existing recycling facilities, and associated awareness campaigns, work aseffectively as possible.
Providing further financialsupport for new or improved recycling services, where these represent value formoney.
Providing £5 million throughour INCREASE programme to support work by community recycling bodies.
Working with localauthorities and the Community Recycling Network for Scotland on a streamlinedprocedure for applications by local authorities to the Strategic Waste Fund to supportwork by community recycling bodies.
Carrying out a small numberof trials, over the next two years, on the collection of food waste fromhouseholds, to determine if the collection of food waste from households in Scotland isa viable proposition.
The Waste and ResourcesAction Programme have also run trials on the collection of recyclate from smallbusinesses and further trials are planned.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 31 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what special challenges in respect of recycling it considers exist in (a) tenements, (b) high rise properties and (c) other areas of above average population density and what support and guidance is available to local authorities in relation to improving recycling opportunities in such properties and areas.
Answer
Multi-occupancy propertiesface particular problems and difficulties in the storage and collection ofrecoverable waste. The challenge for many local authorities is to implementviable recycling schemes for multi-occupancy properties in a cost effectivemanner.
To help tackle this issue, the Scottish Executive commissioned a research project on multi-occupancy propertyrecycling in 2005. The report on this project, Multi-Occupancy PropertiesRecycling Feasibility Project, will be published shortly.
Following this research, the Scottish Executive is making an award of a maximum of £46 million from theStrategic Waste Fund to a consortium of six local authorities, includingGlasgow City Council, for the period 2006-07 to 2019-20 to provide recycling facilitiesto over 200,000 multi-occupancy properties.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 25 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what information is held on people under 18 who have been found soliciting and on how many occasions the charge of soliciting has been applied to such people in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) age and (b) gender.
Answer
In the five year period2000-01 to 2004-05 there were two females aged under 18 recorded as beingproceeded against for offences related to prostitution.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 21 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider the report, SME Music Businesses: Business Growth and Access to Finance, as it affects Scotland.
Answer
The Executive will considerthis report, and as part of this, will discuss it with both Scottish Enterpriseand Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 17 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to Creative and Cultural Skills in respect of Scotland’s allocation of funding for music.
Answer
The role of Creative andCultural Skills (CCS), the UK sector skills council for the creative andcultural industries, is to be the independent industry-led voice of itssectors, working with employers, employees and the self-employed to identifyskills and productivity needs, the action they will take to meet those needs,and how they will collaborate with funding bodies and providers of educationand training. Therefore the Executive has not made and would not expect to makeany representations to CCS about how it should allocate its own budget. the Executive will continue to discuss with CCS its work in Scotland asit develops its Sector Skills Agreement.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 July 2006
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Current Status:
Awaiting answer
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding Glasgow City Council has received over the last five years to fund recycling services and how this compares with the City of Edinburgh, Aberdeen City, Dundee, East Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire and North Lanarkshire councils.
Answer
Awaiting answer
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 28 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many additional student dental places were created to replace those lost at the Edinburgh Dental School.
Answer
The total intake of UK dental studentsin Scotland reduced from 151 in 1989-90 to 120 in 1996-97. This representsa loss of 31 places available to dental students in Scotland dueto the review of dental student numbers and the closure of Edinburgh Dental School. New placeswere created following the report of the Scottish Advisory Committee on Dental Workforcein 2000, and intake had risen again to 178 by 2005.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 28 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many student dental places in each year of training were lost as a result of the closure of the Edinburgh Dental School.
Answer
The Dental Workforce Planningreport published by the Scottish Executive in 2000 shows that the range of graduatenumbers for full cohorts in Edinburgh over the period 1990-93 was 34 to 45. In thefinal full year of training, 45 students graduated from the school. This representsa potential annual average training capacity of 38 graduates per year lost as aresult of closure.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 28 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Edinburgh Dental School closed.
Answer
The Edinburgh Dental School closedin 1995, following a decision by ministers in 1989. The final full cohort of studentsgraduated in 1993.
