- 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 Demolition Grant available to Glasgow Housing Association.
Answer
Glasgow Housing Association has so far claimed a total of £18,255,994from the Scottish Executive under the Demolition Grant. This expenditure covers thefollowing:
Demolition of 27,16 housing units.
Home Loss and Disturbance paymentsfor approximately 2,630 tenants.
Acquisition costs for 90 owneroccupiers.
Building warrant fees.
Other acquisition costs.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional revenues it will receive from HM Treasury in each of the next five years as a result of the announcements made in the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s pre-Budget report on 6 December 2006.
Answer
The Scottish Executive receivedaround £16 million for 2006-07 and 2007-08, as a result of the Chancellor’s Pre-BudgetReport on 6 December 2006. The report also provided indicative 2007 ComprehensiveSpending Review (CSR) consequentials from settlements for a small number of WhitehallDepartments, which will form part of the overall CSR2007 settlement for Scotlandto be announced in summer 2007.
The following table sets outthe resulting allocations over the next five years:
| | 2006-07 (£ Million) | 2007-08 (£ Million) | 2008-09 (£ Million) | 2009-10 (£ Million) | 2010-11 (£ Million) |
| Pre-Budget Report Consequentials | 0.1 | 16.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Indicative CSR2007 Allocations | 0.0 | 0.0 | 21.8 | 69.5 | 176.9 |
Decisions on the allocation of the 2006-07 and 2007-08 resources will be taken in due course. The indicative allocationsfor the CSR period will be considered as part of the Scottish Spending Review processnext year.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many families have benefited from its shared equity scheme in each year since its introduction and how many families it estimates will benefit from the scheme in each of the next five years.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster,Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is as follows:
The Homestake shared equity schemecan help individuals as well as families. The number of units approved for Homestakesince its introduction in 2005-06 is as follows:
2005-06 - 1,008 units.
We expect to assist around 1,000households in the current financial year but do not have projections for futureyears.
As part of an on-going evaluation,information on the composition of households who have benefited from the schemeis under analysis.
- 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 Cathy Jamieson on 18 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has plans to introduce legislation to provide for trials without jury in serious fraud cases, similar to that planned by the UK Government and announced in the Queen's Speech.
Answer
We have no plans to do so.
In response to a public consultationin 1998 the clear view was expressed that there was no case for changing the presentmethod of trial in serious fraud cases in Scotland.
- 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 Tom McCabe on 15 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it had any input to the UK Government’s planned legislation to create an independent board to enhance confidence in government statistics, as announced in the Queen’s Speech.
Answer
Yes, the Executive has been workingclosely with HM Treasury and the Office for National Statistics on the Statisticsand Registration Service Bill.
- 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 Nicol Stephen on 15 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-28813 by Nicol Stephen on 14 November 2006, whether this policy still applies in cases where a higher education institution refuses entry to second or subsequent years to an individual with a Higher National Diploma.
Answer
It is the current policy of the Scottish Executive that students who have gained a Higher National Diploma(HND) and subsequently choose to enter higher education at first year level areassessed as repeating a first year of study.
This policy also applies incases where a higher education institution has determined that an individualwith a HND is not suitable for entry into second or a subsequent year of adegree course.
This policy is intended toencourage universities to accept students with an HND into the second orsubsequent year of a degree course.
- 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 Tom McCabe on 15 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-28690 by Mr Tom McCabe on 18 October 2006, whether there are any plans to further expand the Relocation Advisory Service and increase the number of staff it employs.
Answer
We currently have no plans toexpand the Relocation Advisory Service or increase the number of staff.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 15 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many households have benefited from free insulation or free central heating in each of the last three years and how many households it estimates will benefit in each of the next three years.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is asfollows:
| Year | Central Heating | Warm Deal Measures |
| 2003-04 | 16,788 | 27,520 |
| 2004-05 | 15,207 | 19,013 |
| 2005-06 | 15,992 | 15,499 |
The estimated numbers ofcentral heating and warm deal installations to be completed in 2006-07 are 13,000and 17,500 respectively. These figures are based on using an additional £5 million, between now and the end ofthis financial year, to help up to 5,000 more householders benefit from these Programmes.In 2007-08, the estimated numbers of central heating and warm dealinstallations that will be carried out are 12,000 and 12,800 respectively. Thepresent programme is scheduled to finish in March 2008.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 15 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what its capital investment in transport (a) has been in each of the last 10 years and (b) is estimated to be in each of the next five years.
Answer
The following table givesthe information requested for each year from 1997-98 to 2006-07.
| Year | Amount | Source |
| 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 | £248 million £236 million £227 million £276 million £404 million £541 million £769 million | Information from 1997-98 to 2003-04 extracted from The Scottish Transport Statistics (number 24) 2005 Edition (tables 11.1 and 11.4 under the heading “Expenditure on transport within the Scottish Ministers’ responsibility”). |
| 2004-05 2005-06 | £674 million £862 million | Scottish Executive Finance System and Local Authority returns. |
| 2006-07 (From 1 April 2006 to 31 October 2006) | £351 million | Only includes available information extracted from the Scottish Executive accounting system from
1 April 2006 to
31 October 2006. Excludes information on Local Authority capital expenditure which is currently not available. |
Spending plans for the 2007-08year are included in the Scottish Executive Draft 2007-08 Budget which waspublished in 2006 on the Scottish Executive internet at:
http://scotland.gov.uk/Publications.The Chancellor is expectedto announce the outcome of the UK Comprehensive Spending Review in July 2007, whichwill determine the size of the Scottish Budget for 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11.Future investment proposals for Transport will be included in the ScottishSpending Review.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 15 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many apprentices it will help to fund in each of the next five years.
Answer
The Scottish Executive hasprovided funding to the Enterprise Networks in order to achieve the PartnershipAgreement target of having 30,000 modern apprentices (MAs) in training by 2006.This target was achieved two years early and it is intended to maintain thenumber of MAs in training at least above this level up until May 2007. Thereare currently no MA targets for the next five years.
