- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many households have lived in (a) council housing, (b) other forms of socially rented housing, (c) privately rented housing and (d) owned homes in each year since 1980, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Information on the tenure ofhouseholds at the time of the 2001 Census by current local authority area is availablefrom the data library in the publications and data section of the Scottish Executivehousing statistics branch website at
www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/housing/hsbrefin the section 2001 Census Adjusted Tenure Tables.Estimates of proportions of householdsby tenure by current local authority are available from Scottish Household Surveyreports for periods 1999-2000 (table 2.2), 2001-02 (table 4.1) and 2003-04 (table4.1). These can be accessed through the Scottish Household Survey Website at:
www.scotland.gov.uk/shs.Information on households bytenure in the form requested by current local authority area is not available forearlier periods.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-21275 by Tavish Scott on 15 December 2005, who made the assessment of these costs.
Answer
I referthe member to answer to question S2W-23923on 20 March 2006. 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.Transport Scotland hasthe operational responsibility for this area, and can be contacted for more informationif required.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many households have had to foreclose on their mortgage in each year since 1980, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has passed on to the police any allegations brought to its attention regarding the possibility that US agencies have used Scottish airports as refuelling stops for flights engaged in the process of “extraordinary rendition” and, if it has not done so, what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-22495 on 2 February 2006. 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.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of all houses bought privately in each year since 1995 have been purchased by first-time buyers, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Information on the proportionof houses purchased by first time buyers is not available by local authority area.Estimates, for Scotland as a whole, from the Regulated Mortgage Survey of theproportion of loans to first time purchasers are given in table 5 of
HousingTrends in Scotland: quarter ending 30 September 2005. Thiscan be accessed through the data library in the publications and data section of the Scottish Executive housing statistics branch website at
www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/housing/hsbref.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many socially rented housing units have been lost to that form of tenure (a) by right to buy, (b) by demolition or (c) for any other reason in each year since 1980, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The tables produced for thisanalysis are too large to be included in this response and have been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
Two tables showing right to buysales for local authorities and registeredsocial landlords (RSL) are available underBib. number 39153. Information on RSL sales by local authority area is only availablefor 2002-03 onwards.
One further table showing alldemolitions by local authority area is available under Bib. number 39152. Data bycurrent local authority area is only available for 1991 onwards.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had (a) with Her Majesty’s Government and (b) internally about the impact of potential exploration for sources of oil in the Atlantic Ocean.
Answer
Scottish ministers meet regularlywith the oil and gas industry and play an active role in PILOT, working throughthis forum with the UK government and the industry to maximise the productivelife of the UK continental shelf – which includes the waters West ofShetland.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many fingerprints from the scene of the Marion Ross murder in Kilmarnock in January 1997 were wrongly identified by the Scottish Criminal Record Office.
Answer
There was one disputed fingerprintmark at the Marion Ross murder scene.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all public inquiries relating to criminal matters which have taken place in Scotland since May 1999 and what the costs involved were.
Answer
There have been no public inquiriesrelating to criminal matters which have taken place in Scotland sinceMay 1999.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-21577 by Cathy Jamieson on 22 December 2005, whether the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service is still responsible for deciding whether evidence in a criminal prosecution meets the essential burdens of proof in Scots Law.
Answer
Yes. In every case that is reportedto the Procurator Fiscal, the decision as to whether criminal proceedings are appropriatewill be made following an objective assessment of the evidence and the public interest.
