- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 18 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ensure that the Housing Supply Task Force makes publicly available details of the land for potential housing development currently owned by public agencies and local authorities.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-4077 on 18 September 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 18 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ensure that the Housing Supply Task Force makes publicly available details of the land with outline planning permission currently owned by major housebuilding firms.
Answer
The Housing SupplyTask Force is continuing to develop its agenda and will make public its findingsat the appropriate time.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it cost to print and distribute Choosing Scotland’s Future: A National Conversation.
Answer
The cost of producingand translating the document is around £35,000 (including the web version, the design,printing and the summary in eight languages and a full Gaelic version). Distributionof the document cost a further £5,000, and the cost of the launch event was £8,000.The total cost of launching the national conversation to date is therefore £48,000.
The costs of carryingout the conversation will depend on how its structure develops, in light of responsesfrom the people of Scotland as to how they wish to be involved. The workis being carried out within existing resources from the government’s constitutionalpolicy and communications teams.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it will cost to run the national conversation set out in Choosing Scotland’s Future: A National Conversation.
Answer
The cost of producingand translating the document is around £35,000 (including the web version, the design,printing and the summary in eight languages and a full Gaelic version). Distributionof the document cost a further £5,000, and the cost of the launch event was £8,000.The total cost of launching the national conversation to date is therefore £48,000.
The costs of carryingout the conversation will depend on how its structure develops, in light of responsesfrom the people of Scotland as to how they wish to be involved. The workis being carried out within existing resources from the government’s constitutionalpolicy and communications teams.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent between August and December 2006 on publicising the previous administration’s campaign against domestic abuse.
Answer
The domesticabuse campaign spend for the period 1 August 2006 to 31 December 2006 was £56,039 gross.
However, valid comparisonscannot be made over quarterly periods as expenditure is based upon bursts of activity,the invoice date and when the payment is released.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent between May and July 2007 on publicising its campaign against domestic abuse.
Answer
There has been noexpenditure on the domestic abuse campaign for the period 1 May 2007 to 31 July 2007 as it is currentlyin the planning and development stage.
However, valid comparisonscannot be made over quarterly periods as expenditure is based upon bursts of activity,the invoice date and when the payment is released.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 12 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much is proposed to be spent between August and December 2007 on its campaign against domestic abuse.
Answer
We are currently inthe planning and development stage for the domestic abuse campaign. It is not possibleat this stage of the process to give an indication of proposed spend.
However, valid comparisonscannot be made over quarterly periods as expenditure is based upon bursts of activity,the invoice date and when the payment is released.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 11 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any decisions on the future of sportscotland will be determined by the needs of sport and not by the Executive’s policy of reducing the number of public bodies.
Answer
The future of sportscotlandwill be determined by the review which is currently being undertaken. The ScottishGovernment is committed to reducing the number of public bodies. However, the needsof sport will be central to the review process and the final decisions on sportscotland.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 11 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to support perpetrator programmes in cases of domestic abuse.
Answer
In the current financialyear the Scottish Government has provided £374,799 to Community Justice Authoritiesfor the specific purpose of delivery of perpetrator programmes by certain of theconstituent local authorities within their areas. This funding is provided undersection 27(1) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968.
In addition, manyother authorities undertake work with perpetrators of domestic abuse as part oftheir overall section 27 grant settlement but it is not possible in these instancesto identify the specific amounts attributable to work with this group of offenders.
The Scottish Governmentsponsored Caledonian System incorporates a programme which seeks to challenge andrehabilitate perpetrators of domestic abuse. This has been submitted to the ScottishAccreditation Panel for Offender Programmes and is due to be considered by the panelthis month. Decisions on future roll-out of the Caledonian System will be informedby the outcomes of the accreditation application.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 11 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive who is undertaking its review of sportscotland.
Answer
The review of sportscotlandis being undertaken by officialsin the sport division of the Scottish Government’s Health and Wellbeing Directorate.
