- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it plans to take to reverse the anticipated population decline over the course of this century.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not operate any specific policies to influence the overall size or age structure of the population. Long-term planning aims to be sufficiently flexible to cope with change in these. However, our Framework for Economic Development in Scotland (laid before the Parliament in June 2000) is focused on instilling a greater economic dynamism that should attract skilled people to stay, return or settle here.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 24 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to ensure that private sewage discharges comply with the provisions of the Control of Pollution Act 1974.
Answer
Without a consent from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, private sewage discharges, like any other discharge of "poisonous, noxious or polluting matter", would in all but exceptional cases - such as, in an emergency, to avoid danger to life and health - be illegal under the terms of the Control of Pollution Act 1974. It is for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to determine whether any individual private sewage discharge may be consented and, if so, what conditions should be placed on the consent under the terms of the 1974 Act to protect the environmental quality of the receiving waters.Where a private sewage discharge has no consent, or fails to comply with the conditions of its consent, any prosecution is a matter for the Procurator Fiscal.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 24 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-13129 by Jackie Baillie on 12 March 2001, whether it will provide a breakdown by local authority area of the 8,000 pensioner households in the private rented sector that it anticipates will benefit from its central heating installation programme.
Answer
A breakdown of this information by local authority area is not available.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 24 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) council tenants, (b) owner-occupiers and (c) private tenants will receive new central heating systems in each year of the operation of its central heating installation programme, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The information is not available in the form requested. Allocations of resources have been made for 2001-02, and allocations for future years will be made at the appropriate time, taking account of progress towards the target.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 24 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-12618 by Jackie Baillie on 1 February 2001, how many pensioners in Glasgow will benefit from the central heating and insulation programme between 1 April 2001 and 31 March 2002, broken down by tenure.
Answer
The information is not available at this time, but the numbers will depend upon the approaches taken by Glasgow City Council in respect of council stock and the Managing Agent in respect of stock in the private sector.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 24 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether elderly people who have central heating installed under its installation programme and who are owner-occupiers or private tenants will be eligible for a further grant if they move to a new home that does not have central heating.
Answer
Yes, further applications for grant will be accepted providing the applicant is using the house as their only or main residence.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 24 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated average cost of installing a central heating system is and what proportion of pensioners do not currently have a central heating system.
Answer
We estimate that the package on offer can be installed at an average cost of £2,500 per dwelling. It will be for the managing agent, the local authorities and housing associations to ensure that this is achieved for their respective sectors. We estimate that 40,000 pensioners in the private sector do not have a central heating system or have a system which is wholly broken down and beyond repair.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 22 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken, or plans to take, in the light of the report by the Aberlour Child Care Trust, the University of York, Extern, Children's Promise and The Children's Society, Missing Out - Young Runaways in Scotland.
Answer
In addition to the information which I gave in my answer to question S1W-15504 in May 2001, I am pleased to announce that we recently awarded funding of just under £100,000 over three years to Aberlour Child Care Trust's project "Running - Other Choices". This pilot project in Glasgow will assist young people to find solutions to the circumstances which have caused them to run away from home and to find alternatives to running.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 22 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to publish its Social Economy Review and whether its publication has been delayed.
Answer
Scoping work for a review of the social economy is under way. The review itself will commence soon and I expect to publish a report by the end of the year.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 July 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 22 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications under the Scottish Community Investment Fund have been made to date and how much funding has been (a) raised since the fund was launched, (b) allocated to projects and (c) spent on projects.
Answer
We announced plans for a loan fund in November 1999. A small development team was established with three members of staff seconded from the Bank of Scotland and Scottish Enterprise to take work forward. The team have recently successfully concluded negotiations with the banks over the terms of the loan finance and Social Investment Scotland will be officially launched on 19 September 2001.
