- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 17 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance is provided to voluntary organisations applying for grants under section 10 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-4604 on 12 December 2003. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 15 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive which organisations received grants for 2002-03 under section 10 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 for the provision of services to disabled persons, stating the level of grant awarded.
Answer
A 2002-03 breakdown of grantoffers for the voluntary sector can be found on the Scottish Executive website at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/?pageID=379.This database includes grant offers for section 10 of the Social Work (Scotland)Act 1968.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 12 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria are used for assessing grant applications under section 10 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968.
Answer
There is no generic guidanceavailable to organisations seeking grants under section 10 of the Social Work (Scotland)Act 1968, as this is the legislative power used to provide funding from anumber of Scottish Executive programmes. Instead, individual departments provideguidance tailored to the specific scheme or schemes they manage.
Similarly, the criteria usedto assess individual grant applications varies across the Scottish Executiveand will depend on the conditions of grant set in respect of the many grantprogrammes from the Scottish Executive.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 November 2003
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Answered by Tom McCabe on 5 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding has been provided to each local authority in each of the last three years to meet the needs of carers, excluding the provision of respite care.
Answer
Under the Carers Strategy £10million a year has been provided to local authorities from April 2000 todevelop local services that support carers. The following table sets out theresources available to each local authority. Councils should be determining, inpartnership with carers, service users and other key planning partners, howbest to use their share of these resources to meet the needs of local carers. Theseresources will be used in a variety of ways, including the provision of respitecare.
Strategy for Carers in Scotland:Resources to Local Authorities
| Local Authority | Resources available each year from April 2000 (£000) |
| Aberdeen City | 411 |
| Aberdeenshire | 378 |
| Angus | 233 |
| Argyll and Bute | 204 |
| Clackmannanshire | 97 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 301 |
| Dundee City | 326 |
| East Ayrshire | 244 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 166 |
| East Lothian | 177 |
| East Renfrewshire | 146 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 887 |
| Eilean Siar | 70 |
| Falkirk | 270 |
| Fife | 699 |
| Glasgow City | 1,355 |
| Highland | 387 |
| Inverclyde | 181 |
| Midlothian | 134 |
| Moray | 155 |
| North Ayrshire | 283 |
| North Lanarkshire | 611 |
| Orkney Islands | 38 |
| Perth and Kinross | 274 |
| Renfrewshire | 322 |
| Scottish Borders | 237 |
| Shetland Islands | 40 |
| South Ayrshire | 244 |
| South Lanarkshire | 546 |
| Stirling | 161 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 183 |
| West Lothian | 242 |
| Scotland | 10,000 |
Source: Grant AidedExpenditure 2000‑01, Carers Service and Respite Care GAE.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 October 2003
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Answered by Margaret Curran on 14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any record of compliance with section 19(2)(b) of the Race Relations Act 1976 by companies operating public private partnerships.
Answer
Although the questionerrefers to section 19(2)(b) of the Race Relations Act 1976, the relevantScottish provision was section 19(3). The whole of section 19 of the 1976 actwas repealed by Schedule 3 of the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 witheffect from 2 April 2001 by virtue of Statutory Instrument 2001/566. In anyevent, the general duty under section 19(1) only applied to educationalauthorities in Scotland by virtue of section 19(6) and companies operatingpublic private partnerships were never subject to this duty.
In July this year theCommission for Racial Equality published guidance for public authorities andpotential contractors on procurement and race relations legislation.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 October 2003
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Answered by Hugh Henry on 7 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive which fire brigades have yet to complete the issuing of jubilee medals; what percentage of operational staff in each brigade are awaiting the issue of their jubilee medal, and when each brigade expects to complete issuing jubilee medals.
Answer
I understand that Grampian, Highland andIslands, and Strathclyde have yet to complete issuing the jubilee medal totheir operational staff. Some staff declined to receive a medal. The percentagestill awaiting medals is as follows: Grampian 11%; Highland andIslands less than 1%, and Strathclyde 50%-60%. The brigades expect to completethe issue of the medals by the end of 2003.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 7 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive which fire brigades have presented all their operational staff with the jubilee medal.
Answer
This is essentially a matterfor brigades. However, I understand that Central Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway, Fife, Lothianand Borders and Tayside have all issued operational staff with the jubileemedal.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 October 2003
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Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 4 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-33964, S2W-1868 and S2O-422 by Mr Jim Wallace on 24 February 2003 and Cathy Jamieson on 1 and 18 September 2003 respectively, whether it is considering any alteration of its contract with the operators of HM Prison Kilmarnock to increase the maximum allowed performance-related revenue deduction, given that the prison operators have been penalised for poor performance to the maximum allowed in the contract in seven quarters out of 17 in which the prison has operated, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
No. The contractual limit is considered by Scottish Prison Service to be at an appropriate level and provides best value for money.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 October 2003
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Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the reasons were for not including in-cell showers in the design of the new Iona houseblock at HM Prison Polmont.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is asfollows:
It is not current SPS policyto provide in-cell showers in mainstream young offender accommodation atPolmont because it would increase the capital cost per cell, thereby reducingthe pace at which the SPS can provide new accommodation, replace unsatisfactoryaccommodation and reduce slopping out.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1869 by Cathy Jamieson on 9 September 2003, why the baseline figures for HM Prison Kilmarnock's performance have been revised.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows:
The proportionate increaseto the baseline figures, to reflect the provision of additional prisoner places,was incorrect.
