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Question reference: S2W-15675

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 28 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that the continued use of Justices of the Peace in district courts represents value for money.

On 22 March this year, the Executive published Smarter Justice, Safer Communities. Summary Justice Reform, Next Steps, our package of reform to improve summary justice and ensure it delivers value for money. It made clear that we are committed to the principle of lay involvement in the justice system and believe that lay justices have an important role to play in an improved system. We will invest in the recruitment, training and appraisal of lay justices in order to ensure a consistently high standard across Scotland.

Smarter Justice, Safer Communities is available on the Executive’s website at:

www.scotland.gov.uk/about/JD/CP/00019008/Homepage.aspx.

Question reference: S2W-15674

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 28 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what importance it places on the continued use of voluntary personnel as Justices of the Peace in district courts.

Question reference: S2W-15971

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 28 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-14552 by Mr Tom McCabe on 17 March 2005, what its estimate is of the amount of public funding required to finance PPP projects in each year from 2019-20 to 2034-35.

The estimated annual expenditure to service PPP projects, in the form of a unitary charge (comprising capital, lifecycle maintenance and services), undertaken by public sector bodies over the period requested is shown in the following table. These figures will increase as more projects become operational.

Existing Deals (Operational and Signed): Total Estimated Service Payments (in cash Terms)

Year	Amount (£ Million)
2019-20	558.2
2020-21	566.3
2021-22	560.9
2022-23	552.4
2023-24	552.9
2024-25	546.8
2025-26	524.5
2026-27	471.5
2027-28	371.0
2028-29	312.7
2029-30	252.5
2030-31	139.6
2031-32	98.3
2032-33	77.8
2033-34	60.7
2034-35	62.4

Question reference: S2W-15818

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 28 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-14461 by Mr Jack McConnell on 15 May 2001, whether it will publish an updated version of the answer reconciling the totals with the data in the table.

There is no need to publish an updated version. The information is correct and the figures are given in full-time equivalent terms and apparent discrepancies result from rounding up or down in both the data and the totals.

The 2004 Teacher Census provides an update of this information on teachers in publicly funded primary schools. Again the data in tables may not sum to the totals because of rounding. The 2004 Census publication can be accessed using the following hyperlink:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/04/25165316/53178.

Question reference: S2W-15838

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-5631 by Jackie Baillie on 28 March 2000, whether it will publish an updated version of the answer reconciling the totals with the data in the tables.

In 2000-01 a total of £1,444,421 was allocated under the Domestic Abuse Service Development Fund (DASDF). £1,339,431 was awarded to 57 DASDF projects with the remaining £104,990 issued to Scottish Homes for projects requesting furnishings and fittings for refuges. The final details of DASDF funding for 2000-01 is set out in the following table:

DASDF 2000-01 Council/Organisation	Provision	Amount
Aberdeen	2 Domestic Abuse Support Workers	25,520
Aberdeenshire	3 p/t Outreach Workers	38,490
Angus	Domestic Abuse Officer (Barnardo's)	29,500
Refuge Worker (Women's Aid)	20,000
Argyll and Bute	Children's Worker	10,310
Sessional Rape Crisis Support	5,360
Outreach Worker - Bute	36,290
City of Edinburgh	Partner Work - Probation Programme	13,800
Development Multi-Agency Strategy	43,750
Rape Crisis Support	12,500	*
Shakti Women's Aid	36,140	*
DAPHNE	6,750	*
Dumfries and Galloway	Domestic Abuse Co-ordinator	46,250
Rape Crisis Support	3,000	*
Dundee	Outreach Training (Women's Aid)	25,720
Rape Crisis Training Project	14,180	*
East Ayrshire	Training Officer	22,500
East Dunbartonshire	Increase Women's Aid Service	38,590
Develop Multi-Agency Forum	18,400
East Renfrewshire	Develop Service/Start up Women's Aid	50,000
F/S/C	Partner Support Work	16,105	*
Support Worker	15,000
Falkirk	Abuse Prevention Worker	30,780
Training Co-ordinator (open Secret)	19,939
Fife	Improve Accessibility East Fife Women's Aid	30,290
Fife Domestic Abuse Forum	30,620
Dunfermline Women's Aid - Service Extension	18,695
Abuse Survivor's Project	4,054
Refuge Feasibility Study	5,000	*
Glasgow	Support Unit Glasgow Partnership	47,930
Women's Aid Worker - Easterhouse	14,700
Educational Resource Worker	29,000
Highland	Strategy Children Support outreach worker	50,000
Inverclyde	Outreach Worker and Zero Tolerance Worker	21,500
Midlothian	Support for Extra refuge spaces	30,500
Moray	Information/Advice worker	21,100
North Ayrshire	Outreach Services/Preventative Work	43,500	*
Rape Crisis Support	5,000	*
North Lanarkshire	Domestic Abuse Co-ordinator	23,000	*
Orkney Islands	Development Worker - Women's Aid	13,040	*
Perth and Kinross	Outreach Work	15,000	*
Renfrewshire	Multi-Agency Development/Work in Schools	34,530
Borders	Research	19,000
Shetland Islands	Outreach Worker and Multi-Agency Development	9,500
South Ayrshire	Multi-Agency Development	7,500
Working in Rural Areas	17,500
Materials For Young People	10,000
Additional Security	7,500
South Lanarkshire	Access to Services	50,000
Furnish 6 Properties	42,300
Stirling	Community Outreach (Women's aid)	22,045
Training Co-ordinator	27,953
Rape Crisis Support	12,800	*
West Dunbartonshire	Development Worker	30,000
Western Isles	Research	15,000
West Lothian	FMS	42,000
Resettlement Worker	10,000
Project total		1,339,431
Scottish Homes Match funding		104,990
Total Spend		1,444,421

The projects marked with an asterisk were allocated funding after the date of the initial question (S1W-5631) and were not on the original table published under that reply.

Question reference: S2W-15817

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 28 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to S1W-27518 by Mr Andy Kerr on 13 August 2002, whether it will publish an updated version of the answer reconciling the totals with the data in the tables.

Question reference: S2W-15972

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the capital cost was of each PPP project in each year since 1997.

The estimated capital spend bythe private sector for each PPP project since 1997 is shown in the table.

Existing Contracts(Operational and Signed): Estimated Capital Spend by Private Sector (in CashTerms £ Million)

Sector	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Schools:
Balfron			2.9	8.1	5.2
East Renfrewshire			3.8	9.5
Glasgow				77.4	107.0	21.4
Falkirk		19.5	34.7	15.9
Fife				3.5	16.9	18.2
Highland				4.8	12.9
West Lothian					17.8	10.0
Aberdeenshire				7.9	7.6
Edinburgh					55.0	25.0
Midlothian				15.1	21.3
East Lothian						7.5	26.9	11.7
Aberdeenshire PPP2								30.0
East Renfrewshire PPP2								10.0
IT:
Moray		2.8	2.8
Highland		5.8	1.4	1.0	0.8	0.8	3.6
Edinburgh				20.0	10.0
Waste:
Argyll and Bute				5.1	10.5
Dundee	10.4	23.1	10.0
Dumfries and Galloway								10.0
Roads:
Angus A92							21.8	23.2
Other:
Perth and Kinross office accommodation			9.6	10.5
Strathclyde Police			4.0	13.0	3.0
Local Authority Total	10.4	51.2	69.2	191.8	268.0	82.9	52.3	84.9
Water and Sewerage:
Highland	9.3	14.9	3.5
Tay			28.2	52.2	3.6
Aberdeen				52.7	3.9	0.0	1.0	9.0
Moray					51.0	9.1
Almond Valley		8.1	66.9	30.1
Levenmouth			8.5	26.0	8.5	2.0	1.0
Dalmuir			16.4	14.7	1.1
Daldowie			13.6	45.1	12.6
Meadowhead				38.9	20.9	1.0	0.5
Water and Sewerage Total	9.3	23.0	137.0	259.7	101.6	12.1	2.5	9.0
Further and Higher Education:
Stirling College	2.8	0.1
West Lothian College			5.0	10.0
North Ayrshire College	0.1	7.0	2.6	0.1
Further and Higher Education Total	2.9	7.1	7.6	10.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Health:
DandG NHS-Maternity Unit			4.0	5.8
Lanarkshire Acute		44.0	77.0	61.0	7.0
Crosshouse Maternity Hospital								3.5
Yorkhill HIS	2.0	1.0
Easter Ross PCRC								7.0
Stonehouse							3.8
Ayrshire and Arran PCT				9.1
Argyll and Clyde Acute				9.4
Lothian PCT			3.5		3.5
West Lothian Tippethill			1.0	2.3	4.0
Tayside University 16 small projects	3.8	5.8		2.5
Highland PCT			10.4	4.0
Tayside PCT			3.3	6.7
RIE Little France		32.0	48.0	49.0	41.0	28.0	8.0
Glasgow Univ 210 bed DME Unit		3.2	4.8	3.6
PACS								7.5
Forfar CRC							4.7	4.9
Radiology Equipment							2.0	0.1
Cytopathology							0.1
Mid Argyll Community Hospital								2.0
Car Park Royal Infirmary								7.0
Tayside E-financials							0.3
Health Total	5.8	86.1	152.0	153.4	55.5	28.0	18.9	32.0
Justice:
Kilmarnock Prison	5.0	27.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Justice Total	5.0	27.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Roads:
M6	41.0	45.0	10.0	0	0	0	0	0
M77	0	0	0	0	0	0	47.0	75.0
National Roads and Transport Total	41.0	45.0	10.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	47.0	75.0
Social Work:
SCRA	0	2.0	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.1	0	0
Social Work Total	0	2.0	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.1	0	0
Nationalised Industries:
HIAL	0	8.0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
Nationalised Industries	0	8.0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	74.4	249.4	377.3	615.5	425.4	123.1	120.7	200.9

Question reference: S2W-15746

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 04 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 27 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many police hours have been lost due to criminal trials or court hearings being (a) delayed and (b) cancelled and how much this has cost in (i) staff pay, (ii) staff holiday time, (iii) staff cover and (iv) overtime since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-15745

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 04 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 27 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how the establishment of the Centre for Child Protection will affect the responsibilities and operation of the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit within the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency in respect of child protection on the internet.

Question reference: S2W-15816

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7472 by Mr Andy Kerr on 6 May 2004, whether it will publish an updated version of the answer reconciling the totals with the data in the tables.