- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 5 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-30545 by Rhona Brankin in 18 January 2007, whether it considers it appropriate that, if allegations of malpractice come to light which in turn could lead to the withholding of a grant to a local authority, the local authority responsible for administering the grant and in danger of losing the grant should be responsible for investigating such allegations and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is asfollows:
As the accountable body, thelocal authority is responsible for disbursing Community Regeneration Fund grantto organisations. Since the local authority is in control of that stage of thetransfer of grant funding it is appropriate that the local authority should beresponsible for investigating allegations of malpractice.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-30550 by Cathy Jamieson on 19 January 2007, whether the Minister for Justice will meet residents of Milton, Glasgow, to discuss the current situation in that area.
Answer
As stated in the answer to questionS2W-30550 on 19 January 2007, the Executive is fully committed to working withthe Scottish police service and other partners to reduce violence within everycommunity in Scotland. The specific issues facing the community in Milton are amatter for Strathclyde Police.All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament's website the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 5 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much Glasgow City Council has received through the Community Regeneration Fund and other funds for investment in community groups and how the council has allocated this money, broken down by fund and group.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is asfollows:
The Community RegenerationFund and associated Community Voices Programme are allocated to communityplanning partnerships, not local authorities. The GlasgowCommunity Planning Partnership has been allocated around £128 million from bothfunds for the period 2005-08. Neither grant is exclusively for investment incommunity groups, although these groups do access both.
All investment decisions aremade by the Partnership and steered by the Partnership’s Regeneration OutcomeAgreement, a copy of which can be viewed on Communities Scotland’s website
www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 5 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-30545 by Rhona Brankin on 18 January 2007, whether it will detail the various funds it provides to local authorities and community planning partners for investment in community groups, also indicating how it monitors how the funding is subsequently allocated and spent.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is asfollows:
Local authorities and CommunityPlanning Partnerships (CPPs) do not receive funding from the Scottish Executivefor investment exclusively in community groups, although these groups oftenreceive funding through a number of programmes, for example the CommunityRegeneration Fund or Community Voices Programme.
Communities Scotland monitorsuse of the Community Regeneration Fund and Community Voices Programme thoroughscrutiny of the Regeneration Outcome Agreement between the CPP and Scottish ministers.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 5 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-30544 by Rhona Brankin on 18 January 2007, why it has not made any representations to Glasgow City Council regarding the administration of the Chirnsyde Community Initiative.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is asfollows:
The administration ofChirnsyde Community Initiative is a matter for Glasgow City Council. Locally,Communities Scotland in their role as Board members of the local communityplanning partnership, have been updated on investigations into the Initiative.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 5 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-30545 by Rhona Brankin on 18 January 2007, whether it will detail and explain those terms and conditions of Community Regeneration Fund grants that include the provision to withhold grants from local authorities if any allegations of malpractice come to light.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is asfollows:
Full terms and conditionsassociated with the Community Regeneration Fund are published on CommunitiesScotland’s website www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk.Paragraph 40 sets out the circumstances which may lead to grant being withheldfrom the grant recipient (local authority).
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by George Lyon on 24 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it takes to record and publish the number of methadone-related deaths.
Answer
The General Register Office forScotland (GROS) publishes an annual paper on drug-related deaths in Scotland. Theinformation presented in these papers, which includes data on deaths involving methadone,is compiled from death registrations and associated returns from procurators fiscaland forensic pathologists.The papers, which include backgroundinformation on the methodology and definitions used, may be found at
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/library/drug-related-deaths/index.html.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 24 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2O-11655 by Des McNulty on 11 January 2007 (Official Report c. 30992), why it does not believe that there was any breach of EC competition law in the Glasgow stock transfer in respect of the commercial properties referred to in European Parliament petition 0863/2005.
Answer
In European Parliament petition0863/2005, the complainant claims that Glasgow City Council should have put thesale of its commercial properties out to European Union-wide tendering. As far asthe Scottish Executive is aware, the complaint does not allege any breach of competitionlaw, but instead of European Community procurement law.
Furthermore, EU procurement lawdoes not require European-wide competitive tendering for the acquisition of existingbuildings or the disposal of property. The acquisition of existing buildings andother structures is exempt from advertising under Regulation 6 of the Public Contracts(Scotland) Regulations, which give effect to EU procurement Directive 2004/18/EC.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 24 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of all correspondence it has had with the UK Government in respect of Glasgow Housing Association, broken down by year and subject matter.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionatecost.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 24 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executivewhether it will provide a copy of the administrative inquiry from the European Commission regarding European Parliament petition 0863/2005 in respect of the commercial properties acquired by Glasgow Housing Association.
Answer
Correspondence of this type betweenthe European Commission and a member state is regarded as confidential.
