- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #150,000 announced by the Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs on 20 February 2001 for school Public/Private Partnerships in Glasgow will be spent on Hyndland Secondary School.
Answer
I refer the Member to the answer to question S1W-13720.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
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Answered by Wendy Alexander on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what partnership work Scottish Enterprise Glasgow is undertaking to support emerging and existing social firms.
Answer
Our strategy document A Smart Successful Scotland sets out that Scottish Enterprise has a key role in supporting the social economy by providing quality information and business development support.Scottish Enterprise Glasgow co-funded Social Firms UK's annual conference in Glasgow in November 2000.It also co-ordinated meetings on behalf of Social Firms Scotland with the Joint Employment Unit/Greater Glasgow Health Board and voluntary sector representatives to develop a proposal to support social firms' work of job creation. This proposal was approved under the new European Community Initiative, EQUAL, and funding is being provided by Scottish Enterprise.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what support it is giving for setting up social firms.
Answer
Support for setting up social firms is available through the European Social Fund, administered in Scotland by the Scottish Executive.Scottish Enterprise (SEn) has a key role in supporting the social economy by providing quality information and business development support.SEn are currently part-funding a Social Firms Scotland pilot which will assist new and developing projects throughout Scotland.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 January 2001
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Answered by Angus MacKay on 6 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many groups in (a) Glasgow and (b) Glasgow Kelvin have been unsuccessful in their bids for Objective 3 funding.
Answer
Applicants are required to indicate the local authority area within which will be found the addresses of the beneficiaries of their projects, but there is no breakdown below this level available at this stage. On this basis, there were 44 unsuccessful applications made in respect of the Glasgow City Council area. There were also 89 successful applications in respect of the Glasgow City Council area and these projects were awarded grants totalling £14,966,499.
None of these figures take account of those applications which had beneficiaries in more than one local authority area, of which there were 214 successful applications and 154 unsuccessful applications across Lowland Scotland as a whole.In terms of the proportion of applications which were successful in securing funding, I can confirm that, of the 133 applications made in respect of the Glasgow area, 89 were awarded grants, a success rate of 66.9%. By comparison, the overall success rate of applicants to Objective 3 as a whole was only 59.6%.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2001
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Answered by Angus MacKay on 6 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many jobs have been created in Glasgow as a result of moving civil servants responsible for higher education there.
Answer
The transfer of Enterprise and Lifelong Learning from Edinburgh to Glasgow in 1999-2000 means that 21.5 full-time equivalent posts in the Higher Education, Science, and Student Support Divisions are now based in Glasgow.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2001
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Answered by Peter Peacock on 6 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will change the formula used for the funding of social work and education in Glasgow as they have done for health in recognition that concentrations of deprivation make the delivery of these services more expensive.
Answer
The local government grant distribution formula already takes account of the impact of deprivation on the costs of service delivery, and 13 assessments within the formula - mainly those for social work and education - include deprivation adjustments. In addition a number of important social work assessments are influenced by health indicators which reflect deprivation. The Scottish Executive and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities together carried out a thorough review of the account taken of deprivation in the local government finance system this year. As a result we have redistributed an additional £12 million to help councils tackle the effects of deprivation in schools. We have also made available through the Better Neighbourhoods Services Fund an additional £90 million to help improve services within the most deprived neighbourhoods.The National Review of Resource Allocation for NHS in Scotland (the Arbuthnott Review) has only recently resulted in an allocation of resources through a needs-based approach. For 2000-01, Aggregate External Finance (AEF) per head for Glasgow City Council is 22.4% higher than the all Scotland average, while grant per head for Greater Glasgow Health Board is 8.6% above average.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 15 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in reviewing the age of criminal responsibility and the Children's Hearing System in Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish Law Commission are looking at the issue of the age of criminal responsibility as it affects both the criminal justice and children's hearing systems. The Commission will be reporting to the Scottish Ministers towards the end of this year.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 January 2001
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is a significant difference in the number of Catholic prisoners as compared with those from other religious groupings and, if so, whether it will investigate the reasons for any such differences.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
Each prisoner's religion is among routine information collected on admission to prison. As at 29 January the breakdown of the prison population's declared religious beliefs was as follows:
| | % of total |
Baptist | 4 | - |
Buddhist | 5 | - |
Christian - other | 77 | 1 |
Church of England | 65 | 1 |
Church of Scotland | 2,565 | 45 |
Episcopalian | 5 | - |
Hindu | 1 | - |
Jehovah Witness | 5 | - |
Muslim | 48 | 1 |
No Record | 91 | 2 |
No Religion | 1194 | 21 |
Other | 53 | 1 |
Roman Catholic | 1621 | 28 |
Total | 5,734 | |
The Scottish Prison Service accepts all prisoners referred to it by the courts irrespective of their religion.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 January 2001
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Answered by Nicol Stephen on 9 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide any assistance to prevent the possible closure of the Community Service Volunteers in Clyde Street, Glasgow.
Answer
The Executive currently provides grant of £64,890 towards the HQ funding of Community Service Volunteers. CSV's Clyde Street office is not under threat of closure but some of the projects based there may be. Officials are seeking further information from the Director of CSV ScotIand to find out if there is any way in which the Executive can properly assist.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2001
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Answered by Sarah Boyack on 7 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive has any plans to bring forward proposals for a CrossRail scheme to link north and south Glasgow with the airport, along the lines of the Strathclyde CrossRail draft provisional Order in 1995.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has not received any proposals from Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive for a CrossRail scheme to link north and south Glasgow with Glasgow airport.