Questions and answers

Question reference: S2W-30887

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by George Lyon on 24 January 2007

Question reference: S2W-30866

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by George Lyon on 24 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what level of net migration into Scotland it estimates is required to offset any population loss resulting from current projections of a birth rate below the replacement level required to maintain a stable population figure.

The General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) publish the populationprojections for Scotland. In addition to the principalprojection, which uses assumptions considered to reflect current trends, GROSalso publish a series of projections reflecting different scenarios which areavailable on the GROS website:http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/library/popproj/index.html#2004-based.

The principal projection,including net inflow of 4,000 per year, envisages a broadly stable populationover the next 25 years. A variant assuming a long-term net inflow of 12,500persons a year would result in a population of today’s size in 70 years butwould result in a small population increase in the meantime.

Question reference: S2W-30644

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 23 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all performance indicators that it requires local authorities to meet.

Question reference: S2W-30691

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 23 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-27816 by Mr Tom McCabe on 11 September 2006, whether it will provide, for each approved Scottish PFI/PPP project listed on its Financial Partnership Unit’s website, information on (a) the initial cost, (b) the annual payments related, (c) the total payments made and due, (d) the contract period, (e) the ownership of assets created, (f) the additional charges made and, for projects where additional charges have been made, whether it will provide details of why such charges were incurred.

For (a) and (d) I refer the memberto the Scottish Executive Financial Partnerships Unit’s website where the informationcan be found at www.scotland.gov.uk/ppp.The initial cost of a PPP project has been interpreted as the capital value whichis defined as “the public sector procuring body’s estimate of the capital valueof the property the private sector purchases or creates for delivering servicesunder a PFI contract.”

For (b) and (c) I refer the memberto the following table A for the information requested from 1999-2000 to 2005-06.I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-28685, on 18 October 2006, forthe information requested from 2006-07 to 2030-31, and the answer to question S2W-30414on 19 December 2006, for the information requested from 2031-32 to 2040-41.All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search. I also refer the member to the following table B forthe information requested as two further projects have just recently reached financialclose.

The unitary charge is the amountpaid by the public sector procuring body to the private sector consortium for theservices it provides over the length of the contract. The services include capitalconstruction, lifecycle maintenance and facilities management, and not just theupfront construction cost of the asset.

For (e), the assets that areimproved or created in a PFI/PPP contract are returned to the public sector at theend of the contract period which is typically up to 30 years. PFI/PPP contractsput the onus on the contractor during the term of the contract to maintain the assetproperly so that when the asset does revert to the public sector there is no significantmaintenance required for up to five years thereafter.

For (f), there are three PFI/PPPcontracts that the Executive has entered into and which are operational, these are the M6 DBFO, the M77/GSO and HMP Kilmarnock.For HMP Kilmarnock, no additional charges have been made. For the M6 DBFO, the additionalcharges made after the Agreement was signed were £1,833,797 for new works and £29,872for operations and maintenance. For the M77/GSO an additional one-off charge of£395,000 was made to the Concessionaire and is a reconciliation of both Companychanges, East Renfrewshire Council (Employer) changes and the sharing of Value forMoney initiatives permitted under the agreement during the New Works phase of theagreement.

There are provisions within thecontract for changes to be made in accordancewith prescribed change procedures. Informationon any additional charges made by other PFI/PPP contracts is not collected by the Executive as it is the responsibility of the relevant public sector procuring body.

Table A

Project Name	1999-2000 (£ Million)	2000-01 (£ Million)	2001-02 (£ Million)	2002-03 (£ Million)	2003-04 (£ Million)
Local Authorities
Schools
Balfron			3.5	3.5	2.5
East Renfrewshire			2.8	2.8	2.9
Glasgow			7.0	35.8	41.3
Falkirk		11.7	11.8	12.0	12.1
Fife					4.2
Highland				1.8	2.9
West Lothian				4.6	6.2
Aberdeenshire			0.2	2.4	3.0
Edinburgh				13.4	18.0
Midlothian					2
East Lothian
Aberdeenshire PPP2
East Renfrewshire PPP2
Renfrewshire
North Lanarkshire
Argyll and Bute
Fife PPP2
East Ayrshire
Highland PPP2
Midlothian PPP2
North Ayrshire
South Lanarkshire
Stirling
IT
Moray Council - Integrated Education Management Service	2.0	2.1	2.1	2.2	1.8
Highland Council - IS/IT Services	5.8	5.2	4.3	4.3	4.2
Waste
Argyll and Bute Waste Management			2.4	3.8	4.1
Baldovie Waste to Energy Plant	0.8	2.4	2.5	2.5	2.6
Dumfries and Galloway Waste Management
Roads
Angus A92 Road Upgrading
Other
Perth and Kinross Council Office Accommodation	0.8	2.0	2.0	2.1	2.2
Water and Sewerage
Inverness Main Drainage/Fort William Sewage Treatment	7.1	7.4	7.0	7.1	7.0
Tay Waste Water Project			8.2	19.4	18.4
Aberdeen sewage and sludge treatment			2.5	14.5	13.5
Moray Coast Waste Water Project				6.0	10.3
Almond Valley, Esk Valley and Seafield Sewage Scheme				17.7	18.3
Levenmouth Purification Scheme				2.7	7.7
Dalmuir Sewage Treatment				6.7	7.0
Daldowie/Shieldhall Sludge Treatment Centres				5.4	14.3
Meadowhead Sewage Treatment				8.2	11.2
Further and Higher Education
Stirling College	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6
West Lothian college			2.5	3.2	3.0
North Ayrshire college		1.1	1.3	1.3	1.3
Health¹
NHS Dumfries and Galloway – Daycare and Maternity Unit			0.2	1.3	1.3
NHS Highland Easter Ross County Community Hospital
NHS Lanarkshire - Bupa Care Homes					3.4
NHS Lanarkshire – Stonehouse Hospital
NHS Lanarkshire – Hairmyres Hospital
NHS Lanarkshire – Wishaw Hospital
NHS Lanarkshire Acute Hospital HISS					0.5
NHS Lothian - Ferryfield House					0.9
NHS Lothian - Ellen’s Glen House					0.9
NHS Lothian - Findlay House					0.5
NHS Lothian – New Royal Infirmary Edinburgh			4.7	18.4	37.8
NHS Lothian - HIS					0.8
NHS Lothian - PACS
NHS Lothian - Tippethill		0.4	0.8	0.9	0.9
NHS Greater Glasgow - South Glasgow Hospital 210 bed DME unit					2.6
NHS Greater Glasgow – South Glasgow Hospital HIS					0.7
NHS Greater Glasgow Yorkhill HIS					0.7
NHS Greater Glasgow - Gartnaval Royal Hospital
NHS Greater Glasgow - Stobhill and Victoria ACADs
NHS Tayside - small projects					0.3
NHS Tayside - Carseview			1.6	1.6	1.7
NHS Tayside – Forfar
NHS Argyll and Clyde – Larkfield					1.4
NHS Ayshire and Arran – Crosshouse					2.1
NHS Ayrshire and Arran - East Ayrshire Community Hospital Cumnock		0.9	1.4	1.4	1.4
NHS Highland - New Craigs Hospital		2.2	3.2	3.1	3.2
NHS Grampian Kincardine Community Hospital					1.9
NHS Argyll and Clyde – Mid Argyll Community Hospital
NHS Greater Glasgow - Stobhill Forensic Unit
Justice ²
National Roads and Transport
M6 DBFO	21.3	22.1	20.0	21.9	20.7
M77/Glasgow Southern Orbital Road (SE/East Renfrewshire) ³					0.6
Social Work
SCRA - Integrated Information System	1.1	1.1	1.9	2.5	3.0
Other
Police Force Training Centre, East Kilbride			2.9	3.0	3.1

Project Name	2004-05 (£ Million)	2005-06 (£ Million)
Local Authorities
Schools
Balfron	2.6	2.6
East Renfrewshire	2.9	2.9
Glasgow	42.1	42.9
Falkirk	12.3	12.4
Fife	6.5	6.5
Highland	3.0	3.0
West Lothian	6.4	6.4
Aberdeenshire	3.2	3.2
Edinburgh	18.6	18.6
Midlothian	4.4	4.4
East Lothian		7.2
Aberdeenshire PPP2		1.2
East Renfrewshire PPP2
Renfrewshire
North Lanarkshire		0.5
Argyll and Bute
Fife PPP2
East Ayrshire
Highland PPP2
Midlothian PPP2
North Ayrshire
South Lanarkshire
Stirling
IT
Moray Council - Integrated Education Management Service	1.8	1.8
Highland Council - IS/IT Services	4.1	4.0
Waste
Argyll and Bute Waste Management	4.3	4.4
Baldovie Waste to Energy Plant	2.7	2.7
Dumfries and Galloway Waste Management		4.3
Roads
Angus A92 Road Upgrading		2.6
Other
Perth and Kinross Council Office Accommodation	2.2	2.2
Water and Sewerage
Inverness Main Drainage/Fort William Sewage Treatment	8.0	7.6
Tay Waste Water Project	19.6	18.9
Aberdeen sewage and sludge treatment	14.1	15.4
Moray Coast Waste Water Project	10.6	10.9
Almond Valley, Esk Valley and Seafield Sewage Scheme	18.2	18.5
Levenmouth Purification Scheme	8.5	8.9
Dalmuir Sewage Treatment	7.1	6.2
Daldowie/Shieldhall Sludge Treatment Centres	15.3	14.3
Meadowhead Sewage Treatment	11.3	11.4
Further and Higher Education
Stirling college	0.6	0.6
West Lothian college	2.8	2.8
North Ayrshire college	1.3	1.3
Health¹
NHS Dumfries and Galloway – Daycare and Maternity Unit	1.4	1.4
NHS Highland Easter Ross County Community Hospital	0.1	1.1
NHS Lanarkshire - Bupa Care Homes	1.4	1.4
NHS Lanarkshire – Stonehouse Hospital	0.4	0.5
NHS Lanarkshire – Hairmyres Hospital	15.5	17.1
NHS Lanarkshire – Wishaw Hospital	22.5	23.1
NHS Lanarkshire Acute Hospital HISS
NHS Lothian - Ferryfield House	0.9	0.9
NHS Lothian - Ellen’s Glen House	0.9	0.9
NHS Lothian - Findlay House	0.6	0.6
NHS Lothian – New Royal Infirmary Edinburgh	39.1	39.7
NHS Lothian - HIS	1.6	2.0
NHS Lothian - PACS	1.1	1.2
NHS Lothian - Tippethill	0.9	0.9
NHS Greater Glasgow - South Glasgow Hospital 210 bed DME unit	2.7	2.8
NHS Greater Glasgow – South Glasgow Hospital HIS	0.7	0.8
NHS Greater Glasgow Yorkhill HIS	0.7	0.7
NHS Greater Glasgow - Gartnaval Royal Hospital
NHS Greater Glasgow - Stobhill and Victoria ACADs
NHS Tayside - small projects	1.5	1.3
NHS Tayside - Carseview	1.7	1.8
NHS Tayside – Forfar		1.3
NHS Argyll and Clyde – Larkfield	1.4	1.5
NHS Ayshire and Arran – Crosshouse	2.1	2.1
NHS Ayrshire and Arran - East Ayrshire Community Hospital Cumnock	1.5	1.5
NHS Highland - New Craigs Hospital	3.3	3.5
NHS Grampian Kincardine Community Hospital	1.9	1.9
NHS Argyll and Clyde – Mid Argyll Community Hospital
NHS Greater Glasgow - Stobhill Forensic Unit
Justice ²
National Roads and Transport
M6 DBFO	20.5	19.5
M77/Glasgow Southern Orbital Road (SE/East Renfrewshire) ³	0.7	10.2
Social Work
SCRA - Integrated Information System	2.1	2.6
Other
Police Force Training Centre, East Kilbride	3.2	3.3

Notes:

1. In health some of the smallerprojects have been grouped together.

2. The total cost for HM PrisonKilmarnock can be found in the question S1W-24355, answered on 10 April 2002, and information on the cost for HM Prison Kilmarnock isavailable in the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) Annual Reports which can be foundat http://www.sps.gov.uk/Default.asp?menuid=230. The total cost for HM Prison Addiewell can be found in the answer to questionS2W-30009 on 5 December 2006, and details of the cost will be published in the SPSAnnual Report and Accounts once the prison opens. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

3. The M77/GSO is a joint projectbetween the Executive, East Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire Councils

Table B

Project Name	2007-08 (£ Million)	2008-09 (£ Million)	2009-10 (£ Million)	2010-11 (£ Million)	2011-12 (£ Million)
Local Authorities
Schools
Angus	0.8	3.0	5.2	5.4	5.5
South Ayrshire	0.3	6.4	8.7	8.9	9.1

Project Name	2012-13 (£ Million)	2013-14 (£ Million)	2014-15 (£ Million)	2015-16 (£ Million)	2016-17 (£ Million)
Local Authorities
Schools
Angus	5.6	5.6	5.7	5.8	5.9
South Ayrshire	9.2	9.4	9.5	9.7	9.8

Project Name	2017-18 (£ Million)	2018-19 (£ Million)	2019-20 (£ Million)	2020-21 (£ Million)	2021-22 (£ Million)
Local Authorities
Schools
Angus	6.0	6.1	6.2	6.3	6.4
South Ayrshire	10.0	10.2	10.3	10.5	10.7

Project Name	2022-23 (£ Million)	2023-24 (£ Million)	2024-25 (£ Million)	2025-26 (£ Million)	2026-27 (£ Million)
Local Authorities
Schools
Angus	6.5	6.6	6.7	6.8	6.9
South Ayrshire	10.8	11.0	11.2	11.4	11.5

Project Name	2027-28 (£ Million)	2028-29 (£ Million)	2029-30 (£ Million)	2030-31 (£ Million)	2031-32 (£ Million)
Local Authorities
Schools
Angus	7.0	7.1	7.2	7.3	7.4
South Ayrshire	11.7	11.9	12.1	12.3	12.5

Project Name	2032-33 (£ Million)	2033-34 (£ Million)	2034-35 (£ Million)	2035-36 (£ Million)	2036-37 (£ Million)
Local Authorities
Schools
Angus	7.5	7.6	7.7	7.8	8.0
South Ayrshire	12.7	12.9	13.1	13.3	13.5

Project Name	2037-38 (£ Million)	2038-39 (£ Million)	2039-40 (£ Million)
Local Authorities
Schools
Angus	5.7
South Ayrshire	13.8	14.0	5.9

Question reference: S2W-30642

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 23 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all inspections and audits of local authorities that have to be undertaken or commissioned by it or any of its agencies and how often each requires to be carried out.

Responsibility forthe timing and frequency of inspections and audits rests with the independent andexternal scrutiny bodies, which report either to the Scottish Parliament or Scottishministers.

A mapping exercise into the externalscrutiny arrangements for public services (including local authorities) in Scotland is being carried out as part of the independent review of current arrangements for scrutiny in Scotland, chairedby Professor Lorne Crerar. Professor Crerar is due toreport in summer 2007.

Question reference: S2W-31081

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 23 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, in respect of its estimates in Government Expenditure and Revenues in Scotland, what assumptions are made about the estimated multiplier effect on the Scottish economy of identifiable expenditure by the UK Government, other than the monies used to fund devolved services in Scotland.

Question reference: S2W-30893

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 23 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of (a) three and (b) four-year-olds are in receipt of (i) pre-school childcare provision or (ii) nursery education.

In January 2006, the latest datefor which figures are available, it is estimated that 96% of eligible three-year-oldsand 99% of four-year-olds were registered for pre-school education. As childrenare counted at each centre where they are registered, children who attend more thanone centre will be counted more than once.

There were 51,610 registrationsfor three-year-olds and 55,690 registrations for four year olds at a pre-schooleducation or day care centre in January 2006, with a further 3,050 registrationsof three-year-olds and 2,840 registrations of four-year-olds attending a childminder.As children are counted once for each centre or childminder that they attend, thesefigures include double counting. It is not possible to disaggregate the figuresfurther to produce figures for the number of children taking up child care and pre-schooleducation as the figures are based on the settings children attend rather than theservices each child receives.

The figures are published inthe Pre-School and Childcare Statistics 2006 (Bib. number 40411).

Question reference: S2W-30706

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on the treatment of motor neurone disease by the NHS in each of the last three years and how much is being spent in the current year, broken down by NHS board; how many patients have been treated in each area in each year, and what plans the Executive has to improve the treatment of patients suffering from the condition.

Information on the cost of treatingspecific conditions such as motor neurone disease is not held centrally.

The number of patients treatedin Scottish hospitals with a main diagnosis of motor neurone disease during thelast three years is shown in the following table:

2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
206	193	199

Source: Scottish Morbidity RecordSMR01 – in-patient/day case discharge summaries. Due to the small numbers of patientsinvolved, a break down by NHS board of residence would risk compromising patientconfidentiality.

The Scottish Motor Neurone DiseaseAssociation has had discussions with officials in the Health Department about developinga national managed clinical network (MCN) for MND. The Association, through itsmembership of the Scottish Neurological Alliance, has been working with NHS QualityImprovement Scotland on the development of standards for all neurological conditions.

Question reference: S2W-30838

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 22 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list any donations, subscriptions and other payments made by it and its agencies to the CBI and other business lobbying organisations during the current and last financial years.

On the basis of information heldon the Scottish Executive Accounting System, including the last and current financialyear to date, I can confirm that monies were paid to the CBI, Scottish Chambersof Commerce, Federation of Small Businesses, Institute of Directors andthe Scottish Council for Development and Industry.

The information requested isprovided in the document entitled SEAS record of monies paid by the ScottishExecutive and its agencies to business organisations for the financial years 2005-06,and 2006-07 (to date). A copy of this document has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 41473).

Question reference: S2W-30631

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 18 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will announce its plans for the demerger of Careers Scotland from Scottish Enterprise and whether it will provide the staff of Careers Scotland with a clear decision in respect of their jobs.

The Deputy Minister for Enterprise andLifelong Learning announced decisions on Careers Scotland on 21 December 2006 inanswer to oral question S2O-11503. That answer indicated that there will be a fulloptions appraisal on the future structure of Careers Scotland, that the outcomesof the options appraisal will be implemented from summer 2007 and that in the meantimeScottish Enterprise (SEn) will make Careers Scotland a more distinct entity withinits structure.

In addition, the work of CareersScotland (in both the SEn and Highlands and Islands Enterpirse areas) will be refocusedon the provision of career guidance to those in transition – young people at school,those who are or are in danger of becoming NEET (Not in education, employmentor training) and adults who need specialhelp e.g. offenders or older people wanting to remain in the workplace.

I have ensured that the staffof Careers Scotland have been fully informed of developments at every stage. Theyhave remained dedicated and committed to carrying out their important work in themidst of this time of change and I am confident that they will continue to do so.

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