- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many outstanding applications for a council house there were in each local authority area in each of the last 60 months.
Answer
The numbers of households onwaiting lists for each local authority are published on an annual basis for 2000-01onwards in the quarterly Scottish Executive Statistical Bulletin (Housing Series)
Housing trends in Scotland: quarters ending 31 March. This is available online in the publications sectionof the housing statistics branch reference site:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Housing-Regeneration/PubHousingTrend.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it made any formal submissions to the UK Government in respect of its pending White Paper on energy and, if so, when such submissions were made and what points were raised.
Answer
The Executive is engaged withthe Department of Trade and Industry on various workstreams which will feed intothe UK Government’s energy white paper. We have responded formally to the UK Government’sconsultation on its proposed policy framework for new nuclear build. Our responsehas been published on the Executive’s website:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/12/NewNuclearBuild.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29751 by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 November 2006, whether it will provide a breakdown of expenditure from the Repayable Grant available to Glasgow Housing Association.
Answer
Glasgow Housing Association has so far claimed £160,150,000 fromthe Scottish Executive under the Secured Repayable Grant Agreement in order to supportthe delivery of its business objectives.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive who represents it on the UK Government’s Coal Forum; what the Executive’s objectives are in relation to the forum; how many meetings of the forum there have been and at how many of these meetings the Executive was represented; what the forum’s remit is; how its work impacts on Scotland, and whether the Executive will report progress on its deliberations to the Parliament.
Answer
A pre-meeting of the forum tookplace on 9 October 2006 and the first meeting of the Forum took place on 14 November 2006. the Executive was represented at both meetings by an official from our Energy PolicyTeam.
The Executive’s objectives for energy policy were set out in our responseto the UK Energy Review:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/06/13161455/0.The coal industry in Scotland makesan important contribution to energy supplies, providing around 25% of the UK’s coal production.Scotland has significant coal reserves, and the on-going development of such reservescontributes to the security of UK energy supplies. But this development must be balancedwith the need to protect Scotland’s natural environment. Coal extraction and consumptionalso leads to significant greenhouse gas emissions. The Executive therefore supportsthe development of measures that reduce carbonemissions from coal combustion – such as carbon capture ready high-efficiency coaltechnology, and co-firing coal with biomass. The Executive believes the potentialfor coal bed methane extraction should also be explored.
The Coal Forum is working toensure that the UK has the right framework to: secure the long-term futureof coal-fired power generation and coal production in the UK; optimisethe use of economical coal reserves, and stimulate investment in clean coal technologies.
The forum is due to report itsfindings next summer. I understand that all papers considered by the forum and notesof its meetings will be published on the Department of Trade and Industry’s website.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive., further to the answer to question S2W-29751 by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 November 2006, whether it will provide a breakdown of expenditure from the Reprovisioning Grant available to Glasgow Housing Association.
Answer
Glasgow Housing Association has so far claimed £917,198 towardsthe cost of building 28 new units of housing in the Oatlands area of Glasgow.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29750 by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 November 2006, whether it will provide details of the positions held in their organisations by each of the officials which have led to their involvement in the joint team.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-30416 on 19 December 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’swebsite, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29750 by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 November 2006, why it does not feel it would be appropriate to provide names of officials involved in the joint team.
Answer
It is not standard Scottish Executivepractice to publish names or information about the positions of those involved inofficial-level working groups.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29751 by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 November 2006, whether it will provide a breakdown of expenditure from the GHA Owner Occupiers Grant available to Glasgow Housing Association.
Answer
Glasgow City Council has so far claimed £16,424,514 from the ScottishExecutive under the Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) Owner Occupiers Grant in orderto provide financial support, on a means-tested basis, to 2592 owner occupiers tohelp them meet the costs of common works being carried out on their properties aspart of GHA’s investment programme.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29751 by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 November 2006, whether it will provide a breakdown of expenditure from the Central Heating Grant available to Glasgow Housing Association.
Answer
Glasgow Housing Association has so far claimed £15,573,346 tocontribute to the cost of installing 5,080 full central heating systems and 4,110partial central heating systems in their properties.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29751 by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 November 2006, whether it will provide a breakdown of expenditure from the Effective Contingencies Grant available to Glasgow Housing Association.
Answer
Glasgow Housing Association hasso far claimed £50,000,000 from the Scottish Executive under the Contingent EfficienciesGrant in order to support the delivery of its business objectives.
