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Question reference: S1W-07193

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 May 2000
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 8 June 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated value is of the outstanding repair and maintenance requirements of primary schools in Hamilton North and Bellshill.

Question reference: S1W-06615

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 05 May 2000
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 8 June 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive to detail, by constituency, the number of young people on the New Deal, and the number at each stage within the New Deal programme, namely (a) Gateway, (b) a New Deal option, (c) Follow-Through and (d) employment.

Employment policy is reserved to the UK Government which therefore takes the lead on the funding and delivery of New Deal throughout Great Britain, although in close consultation with its partners, including the Scottish Executive. Many partner organisations at local level also provide New Deal services under contract or provide funds and other resources, including training funds to enhance the quality of New Deal in their areas. The public and voluntary sector organisations, which contribute in this way, fall within the remit of the Scottish Executive.

The table below shows for each constituency in Scotland the number of clients at each stage of the New Deal for Young People as at the end of February 2000.

	Total	Gateway	Options	Employer	FTET	VS	ETF	Follow Through
Aberdeen Central	145	87	38	10	14	6	8	20
Aberdeen North	85	56	15	6	4	2	3	14
Aberdeen South	76	51	14	3	7	3	1	11
Airdrie & Shotts	312	134	126	23	33	23	47	52
Angus	238	104	98	31	26	17	24	36
Argyll & Bute	182	78	68	15	14	8	31	36
Ayr	238	105	83	27	19	19	18	50
Banff & Buchan	79	33	34	8	21	2	3	12
Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross	134	40	67	9	32	8	18	27
Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley	368	154	136	55	22	34	25	78
Central Fife	333	152	130	37	61	14	18	51
Clydebank & Milngavie	209	111	76	21	31	6	18	22
Clydesdale	268	83	137	47	50	23	17	48
Coatbridge & Chryston	242	120	93	32	14	11	36	29
Cumbernauld & Kilsyth	164	72	63	20	26	8	9	29
Cunninghame North	276	157	82	32	16	24	10	37
Cunninghame South	425	211	138	54	41	32	11	76
Dumbarton	300	132	101	23	46	8	24	67
Dumfries	265	135	75	24	36	7	8	55
Dundee East	367	165	133	45	30	30	28	69
Dundee West	360	143	149	57	34	25	33	68
Dunfermline East	198	76	91	14	44	16	17	31
Dunfermline West	169	68	68	7	37	9	15	33
East Kilbride	187	80	69	41	22	3	3	38
East Lothian	103	39	39	23	6	4	6	25
Eastwood	150	80	35	13	10	7	5	35
Edinburgh Central	124	59	47	10	23	12	2	18
Edinburgh East & Musselburgh	139	78	42	14	8	14	6	19
Edinburgh North & Leith	182	101	59	11	21	14	13	22
Edinburgh Pentlands	138	74	39	8	13	10	8	25
Edinburgh South	129	59	51	17	15	10	9	19
Edinburgh West	104	62	28	14	8	3	3	14
Falkirk East	223	92	79	36	24	8	11	52
Falkirk West	278	128	86	42	25	7	12	64
Galloway & Upper Nithsdale	185	76	83	42	19	16	6	26
Glasgow Anniesland	312	155	115	21	42	33	19	42
Glasgow Baillieston	378	163	161	28	41	37	55	54
Glasgow Cathcart	237	100	101	27	39	21	14	36
Glasgow Govan	362	170	125	25	50	23	27	67
Glasgow Kelvin	233	122	73	4	51	13	5	38
Glasgow Maryhill	355	169	126	26	46	30	24	60
Glasgow Pollok	302	130	110	18	62	14	16	62
Glasgow Rutherglen	207	87	70	28	28	5	9	50
Glasgow Shettleston	306	145	107	22	38	26	21	54
Glasgow Springburn	416	231	121	18	54	19	30	64
Gordon	75	34	28	9	8	8	3	13
Greenock & Inverclyde	220	121	67	8	20	20	19	32
Hamilton North & Bellshill	293	144	104	29	32	28	15	45
Hamilton South	265	106	116	37	30	10	39	43
Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber	115	51	43	12	18	5	8	21
Kilmarnock & Loudoun	335	149	126	33	44	32	17	60
Kirkcaldy	341	142	133	26	61	9	37	66
Linlithgow	189	93	58	15	8	19	16	38
Livingston	172	103	44	15	7	15	7	25
Midlothian	114	42	52	22	12	3	15	20
Moray	134	62	43	19	5	12	7	29
Motherwell & Wishaw	343	148	146	32	47	31	36	49
North East Fife	93	42	36	10	12	7	7	15
North Tayside	128	46	53	13	13	12	15	29
Ochil	287	141	109	32	36	14	27	37
Orkney & Shetland	53	20	28	15	4	3	6	5
Paisley North	235	86	94	17	29	25	23	55
Paisley South	204	82	85	20	18	22	25	37
Perth	130	71	46	24	8	10	4	13
Ross, Skye & Inverness West	149	54	74	27	28	8	11	21
Roxburgh & Berwickshire	144	48	70	17	25	11	17	26
Stirling	156	74	58	17	30	5	6	24
Strathkelvin & Bearsden	162	53	74	34	15	5	20	35
Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale	112	42	57	15	7	20	15	13
West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine	71	32	27	10	11	5	1	12
West Renfrewshire	116	46	40	12	7	11	10	30
Western Isles	82	24	52	21	14	2	15	6
Total	15,201	6,923	5,644	1,629	1,852	1,016	1,147	2,634

FTET = Full-Time Education and Training

VS = Voluntary Sector

EFT = Environment Task Force

Question reference: S1W-07195

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 May 2000
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 2 June 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been invested by Scottish Enterprise Lanarkshire in Hamilton North and Bellshill since May 1999.

Question reference: S1W-07199

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 May 2000
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 2 June 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been invested by Scottish Enterprise Ayrshire in Kilmarnock and Loudoun since May 1999.

Question reference: S1W-07196

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 May 2000
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 2 June 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been invested in Regional Selective Assistance in Hamilton North and Bellshill since May 1999.

Question reference: S1W-07198

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 May 2000
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 2 June 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been invested in Regional Selective Assistance in Kilmarnock and Loudoun since May 1999.

Question reference: S1W-04594

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 2 June 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of the capacity of and average number of prisoners detained in each prison during the last twelve months for which figures are available.

The details requested are in the table below.

Prisons	Design Capacity at 26 March 1999	Average Daily Prisoner Population 1998-99¹
Aberdeen	163	181
Barlinnie	943	1,124
Castle Huntly	150	106
Cornton Vale	217	180
Dumfries	150	137
Dungavel	135	113
Edinburgh	637	731
Friarton	90	77
Glenochil	670	573
Greenock	233	236
Inverness	107	122
Kilmarnock	500	*1
Longriggend	176	158
Low Moss	396	362
Noranside	135	102
Penninghame	98	89
Perth	436	477
Peterhead (inc Unit)	305	297
Polmont	422	443
Shotts (inc Unit)	474	467
Shotts NIC	54	48
Legalised Police Cells		1
TOTAL	6,491	6,029

* HMP Kilmarnock opened in March 1999, the first intake of prisoners was on 25 March.

Notes:1. These figures are published in the Scottish Prison Service Annual Report and Accounts for 1998-99 which was laid before the Scottish Parliament by the Scottish Ministers in July 1999.

Question reference: S1W-04592

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 2 June 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how many offences have been committed by prisoners in the past twelve months which have led to (a) internal disciplinary action, (b) a criminal charge being laid and (c) a criminal conviction, in Bowhouse Prison, Kilmarnock, Perth Prison, Peterhead Prison and Barlinnie Prison.

Question reference: S1W-05020

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2000
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 30 May 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown, by local authority area, of the number and value of applications for Regional Selective Assistance which are pending the outcome of the re-drawing of the area assistance map by the European Union.

A large number of RSA applications were received prior to the expiry of the Assisted Areas map in December 1999. We have had a further 28 Regional Selective Assistance applications in the period 1 January to 16 May 2000. Only these 28 applications are pending the outcome of the Assisted areas map and are detailed in the table below:

Region	Number of RSA applications	Value of RSA applications
East Ayrshire	5	104,500
East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire	5	1,305,000
Glasgow	7	2,093,600
Lanarkshire (North and South)	4	3,050,000
North Ayrshire	3	1,175,000
All other assisted areas	4	1,580,600

Note: Local Authority areas have been aggregated in the above table in order to protect the commercial confidentiality of RSA projects.

Question reference: S1W-06230

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 April 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jack McConnell on 23 May 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-4423 by Mr Jack McConnell on 3 April 2000, what percentage of the total capital and set-up costs the #347,000 paid by Scottish Enterprise for establishing of Scotland House represented.

	Disciplinary Action
Kilmarnock	2,187
Perth	1,550
Peterhead	358
Barlinnie	1,186