- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 6 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the amount of brownfield land available for new build in (a) Glasgow, (b) Edinburgh, (c) Aberdeen, (d) Stirling, (e) Dundee and (f) Inverness.
Answer
The results of the Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey 2003 show that the amount of land identified as vacant or derelict for which the preferred end use would result in new building is: (a) Glasgow – 1,033 hectares (b) Edinburgh – 80 hectares (c) Aberdeen – 46 hectares (d) Stirling – 88 hectares (e) Dundee – 164 hectares and (f) Inverness – 86 hectares.
The report of the Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey 2003 is available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 30782).
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2004
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Answered by Margaret Curran on 6 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many housing officers entered training in (a) 1999-00, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02, (d) 2002-03 and (e) 2003-04, broken by gender and ethnic background.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to reply. Her response is as follows:
This information is not collected centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 1 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has spent on branding each of its departments since 1999, broken down into (a) consultancy fees, (b) design of, and orders for, new stationery, (c) website design and (d) other material featuring new logos.
Answer
The Executive has not spent any money on branding its departments.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2004
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Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 30 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it costs to train a police officer.
Answer
Police officers receive training throughout their careers. The overall cost of such training will vary from officer to officer depending on their career path. Officers receive training at the Scottish Police College, within their own force and, on occasion, at facilities outside Scotland. While comprehensive information on the costs of such training is not held centrally, an exercise undertaken by the Scottish Police College in 2002-03 gave an estimate of the costs to the college of delivering probationer training to be around £4,250 per probationer.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 30 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many firefighters entered training in (a) 1999-00, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02, (d) 2002-03 and (e) 2003-04, broken down by gender and ethnic background.
Answer
The information requested is given in a table entitled Recruitment to the Fire Service by gender and ethnic minority, a copy of which has been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 33107). It should be noted that not all those recruited to the fire service immediately enter training: some may be placed on a waiting list of successful applicants.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 29 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many social workers entered training in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02, (d) 2002-03 and (e) 2003-04, broken down by gender and ethnic background.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 29 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive which non-departmental public bodies since 1999 have (a) had their functions transferred to (i) another non-departmental public body and (ii) a democratically-elected body, detailing the body in each case, (b) been renamed but continue to perform a similar role and (c) remained unchanged.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. Generic information on public bodies is contained on the Public Bodies and Appointments website at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/government/publicbodies/.Prior to the website’s establishment in 2002, detailed information on public bodies was published in the annual Cabinet Office document Public Bodies. Copies of this document are available from:
http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/agencies-publicbodies/publicbodies/index.shtm.The 2001 report of the Review of Public Bodies, Public Bodies Proposals for Change contained detailed recommendations on the future status of a number of public bodies and identified candidates for abolition, reform and further review. A copy of the report is available at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/government/pbreview.pdf.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 29 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers entered training in (a) 1999-00, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02, (d) 2002-03 and (e) 2003-04, broken down by gender and ethnic background.
Answer
The information available is shown in the following table below.
| | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 |
| White | |
| Male | 344 | 700 | 549 | 573 |
| Female | 140 | 332 | 212 | 267 |
| Total | 484 | 1,032 | 761 | 840 |
| Minority Ethnic | |
| Male | 7 | 14 | 9 | 9 |
| Female | 5 | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 12 | 21 | 9 | 10 |
| Overall Total | 496 | 1,053 | 770 | 850 |
Source: Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary’s Annual Statistical Return.
Notes:
(i) Figures for 2003-04 are not yet available.
(ii) A detailed breakdown of the ethnic background of minority ethnic officers is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2004
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Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the actual or estimated total value of all financial transactions was (a) to and (b) from (i) Liechtenstein, (ii) the Cayman Islands, (iii) Jersey, (iv) Guernsey, (v) the Isle of Man and (vi) other countries with similar tax policies by its departments and agencies and their predecessors, in each year since 1996.
Answer
No financial transactions (a) to and (b) from (i) Liechtenstein, (ii) the Cayman Islands, (iii) Jersey, (iv) Guernsey, and (v) the Isle of Man were recorded in each year since 1999. Information for the years before 1999 is not available.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the actual or estimated total nominal value and number was of any transfers of assets, other than financial transactions, (a) to and (b) from (i) Liechtenstein, (ii) the Cayman Islands, (iii) Jersey, (iv) Guernsey, (v) the Isle of Man and (vi) other countries with similar tax policies by its departments and agencies and their predecessors, in each year since 1996.
Answer
The Executive is not knowingly aware of any such transfers of assets by its departments and agencies since 1996.
