- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 12 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria it will use to determine which operators of PFI/PPP prisons will be designated as public authorities under section 5 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Answer
The Executive will carry outa public consultation by the end of Octoberthis year on the criteria that should beapplied to designate Scottish public authorities under section 5 of the act.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how the capital costs of the NHS have varied as a result of PPP/PFI projects.
Answer
There is no evidence that PPP/PFIhas had an impact on the capital costs of the NHS. PPP/PFI contributes substantiallyto capital investment in NHSScotland and is an additional source of funding.There are currently 27 projects with a capital value of £864 million under development.PPP/PFI does not replace public funding which has seen substantial annual increases,rising from £136 million in 1996-97 to £420million in 2005-06.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 11 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7186 by Lewis Macdonald on 26 April 2004, what impact it considers that wind farms have on the environment.
Answer
The Scottish Executive’s supportfor all forms of renewable energy recognises the contribution that they can maketowards reducing harmful emissions, thus helping to protect and preserve Scotland’s environment.The local environmental impacts of each proposed development will vary, and areassessed against existing and robust planning guidelines as part of a consultativeprocess involving all key stakeholders.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 11 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-2298 by Cathy Jamieson on 9 September 2003, what conclusions the Scottish Prison Service has reached in considering how best to prepare and publish more disaggregated performance information for individual prisons.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
The SPS has now introduced arevised performance framework from 1 April 2004 whichwill provide more disaggregated output performance information for all SPS establishments.This will be incorporated in the future editions of SPS annual reports.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 11 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the costs have been to the Scottish Legal Aid Board in respect of cases appealed to the House of Lords in each of the last five years.
Answer
The figures are:
| | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
| House of Lords | £57,000 | £86,000 | £106,000 | £2,000 | £72,000 |
| Judicial Committee of the Privy Council | | | £228,000 | £99,000 | £110,000 |
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 11 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7186 by Lewis Macdonald on 26 April 2004, what would constitute a new plan or programme for the purposes of the directive.
Answer
Article 2 (a) provides a definitionof “plans and programmes” for the purposes of the Directive. Work on the preciseimplementation of the Directive is currently being taken forward by Executive officials.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 11 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7186 by Lewis Macdonald on 26 April 2004, whether the directive will apply to developments planned before 21 July 2004 and adopted between July 2004 and July 2006.
Answer
Council Directive 2001/42/ECis concerned with plans and programmes, and will not apply to individual developments.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 11 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that liberalisation of the water service under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) would be beneficial for the service and, if not, what steps it is taking to oppose such liberalisation.
Answer
Mattersrelating to the regulation of international trade, including responsibility forGATS negotiations, are reserved to the UK Government. The UK Government has confirmedthat it has no intention of pressing for water services to be included in futureGATS commitments and that to date no requests have been received for the UK to do so in the current round of negotiations.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Elish Angiolini on 11 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-30312 and S2W-113 by Mrs Elish Angiolini on 17 October 2002 and 2 June 2003 respectively, how many reports to procurators fiscal were marked "no proceedings" for reason of (a) time-bar, (b) delay by police/reporting agency, (c) lack of court resources, (d) procurator fiscal staff shortage and (e) delay by procurator fiscal in 2003-04, broken down by sheriff court district.
Answer
The figures requested are asfollows:
| 2003-04 | Time-Bar | Delay Police/RA | Delay PF | Lack of Court Resources | PF Staff Shortage |
| Aberdeen | 1 | 155 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Airdrie | 399 | 494 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| Alloa | 4 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arbroath | 0 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ayr | 11 | 231 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Banff | 1 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Campbeltown | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cupar | 0 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dingwall | 10 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Dornoch | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dumbarton | 0 | 117 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Dumfries | 14 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Dundee | 47 | 101 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Dunfermline | 12 | 51 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Dunoon | 1 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Duns | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Edinburgh | 492 | 1,128 | 81 | 0 | 0 |
| Elgin | 3 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Falkirk | 101 | 89 | 115 | 0 | 0 |
| Forfar | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fort William | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Glasgow | 957 | 1,812 | 77 | 0 | 0 |
| Greenock | 23 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Haddington | 1 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hamilton | 226 | 485 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Inverness | 17 | 93 | 23 | 0 | 0 |
| Jedburgh | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Kilmarnock | 23 | 178 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kirkcaldy | 75 | 108 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kirkcudbright | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Kirkwall | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lanark | 10 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lerwick | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Linlithgow | 47 | 122 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lochmaddy | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oban | 1 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Paisley | 23 | 153 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Peebles | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perth | 5 | 61 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Peterhead | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Portree | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rothesay | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Selkirk | 3 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Stirling | 40 | 64 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Stonehaven | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Stornoway | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Stranraer | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Tain | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wick | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The effective partnership workingbetween Strathclyde Police and the Strathclyde Area Procurators Fiscal has maintainedan overall reduction in the number of cases marked no proceedings because of policedelay in Strathclyde of around 70% when compared to the previous year. Nationally,the number of cases marked no proceedings because of police delay has reduced byaround 60%.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 11 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact PPP/PFI projects have had on the capital costs of each local authority.
Answer
I refer the member to the answergiven to question S2W-7724 on 5 May 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
