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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S1W-02041

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 18 October 1999
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 28 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-884 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 27 September 1999, whether it will list the administrative costs covered by the 2.5% of Social Inclusion Partnership revenue budgets allocated for this purpose.

The 2.5% of Social Inclusion Partnerships' revenue budgets which can be allocated to meet administration costs covers the costs of administering the Social Inclusion Partnership Fund grant and includes councils' staff costs, accommodation, printing, stationery, telephone charges, advertising and postage. Administration costs are claimed by councils who are responsible for administering the grant and a detailed breakdown for each SIP is not available. The amount of each revenue budget and the maximum claim for administration costs is set out in the table below.

Social Inclusion Partnership	Revenue budget for 1999-2000 (£)	Maximum administration costs claim (£)
North Edinburgh	2,256,000	56,400
Dundee 1	2,337,000	58,425
Glasgow East End	2,177,500	54,437
Glasgow North	3,254,000	81,350
Greater Easterhouse	2,800,000	70,000
Inverclyde Regeneration Partnership	2,538,000	63,450
Motherwell North	1,380,000	34,500
Paisley	2,881,000	72,025
North Ayr	1,133,000	28,325
West Dunbartonshire Partnership	1,693,000	42,325
Great Northern (Aberdeen)	809,000	20,225
Arbroath	140,000	3,500
The Strategic Programme (Edinburgh)	1,153,000	28,825
Dundee 2	792,000	19,800
Levern Valley Partnership	333,000	8,325
Falkirk Community Urban	550,000	13,750
Fife	751,000	18,775
North Ayrshire	676,000	16,900
North Lanarkshire	800,000	20,000
Stirling	533,000	13,325
Cambuslang	400,000	10,000
Drumchapel	1,125,000	28,125
Glasgow: Care-leavers	283,500	7,087
Glasgow: Routes out of Prostitution	140,625	3,515
Glasgow: Ethnic Minorities*
Gorbals*
Greater Govan	281,250	7,031
Greater Pollok	1,035,000	25,875
Milton*
Springburn*
Argyll and Bute	163,000	4,075
Alloa	538,000	13,450
Dundee - Give Youth a Chance	225,000	5,625
Dundee Young Carers	46,000	1,150
East Ayrshire Coalfields Area	487,000	12,175
Edinburgh - Excluded Young Adults	184,500	4,612
Fife Ethnic Minorities*
Girvan	236,000	5,900
Highland Well-Being Alliance	393,000	9,825
Moray Youthstart	322,000	8,050
Perth and Kinross Care-leavers*
Scottish Borders*
South Edinburgh*
South Coatbridge	250,000	6,250
Tranent Youth and Community	94,000	2,350
West Lothian	188,000	4,700
Blantyre/North Hamilton	300,000	7,500

Figures not available as capital/current split not yet agreed.

Question reference: S1W-02011

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 1999
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 27 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive given that England is receiving #260 million for the first two years of the new Home Energy Efficiency Scheme, how much of the remaining #40 million will be made available to the Scottish Executive over the next two years.

Question reference: S1W-02010

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 15 October 1999
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 27 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive in light of the creation of the new Home Energy Efficiency Scheme in England when is there going to be a similar review of fuel poverty and energy efficiency in Scotland.

Question reference: S1W-02034

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 18 October 1999
Current Status: Answered by Frank McAveety on 27 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-1207 by Mr Frank McAveety on 13 September 1999, what communication it has had with the Controller of Audit regarding the effectiveness of the new financial management system set up in East Ayrshire council.

Question reference: S1W-00192

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 1999
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 26 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to publish an updated forecast of population trends in Scotland over the next thirty years.

Question reference: S1W-01658

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 September 1999
Current Status: Answered by John Home Robertson on 18 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive for how many years Scottish courts have dealt exclusively with fishing industry prosecutions in the sea covered by the Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order.

It remains the case that the overwhelming majority of sea fisheries legislation allows for prosecutions to be taken at any court in the United Kingdom. Scottish courts have not dealt exclusively with prosecutions for alleged fishing offences which occur in the Scottish zone of British fishery limits.No prosecutions have been made in any court during the last 5 years relating to offences in the area between the newly established Scottish zone and 55º 48º north latitude.

Question reference: S1W-01485

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 September 1999
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 18 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of the expenditure on external contracts for public relations and lobbying activities by sportscotland for each of the past two years and its budgets for these activities for the current financial year.

Question reference: S1W-01037

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 1999
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 15 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the rules governing the membership of Local Enterprise Company Boards precludes the appointment of anyone who is a director of a lobbying company.

Question reference: S1W-01205

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 30 August 1999
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 15 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the board members of all the Local Enterprise Companies in Scotland and their political affiliation.

Question reference: S1W-00871

Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 1999
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 15 October 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will announce the outcome of its deliberations on the recommendations made by the Royal Commission on Long Term Care.