- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 2 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make particular provision in respect of non-fully-mutual housing co-operatives in light of the withdrawal of section 54 of the Housing Act 1988.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
The working party that was set up made recommendations abouthow to mitigate the financial effect on small housing associations of thewithdrawal of section 54 tax relief grant. We are considering the introductionof a viability test. A small working group is looking at the detail of theviability test and it is expected that decisions will be based on an registeredsocial landlords (RSLs) financial position rather than constitution.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 2 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it supports the non-fully-mutual housing co-operative model for registered social landlords.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:The consultation paper ModernisingScotland’s Social Housing makes clear ministerial commitment to communityownership. The housing co-operative model is one of a range of constitutionalframeworks that can achieve this objective.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many non-fully-mutual housing co-operatives have applied to alter their status to become a housing association or a fully-mutual housing co-operative since 1 May 1999 and, of these, how many have made such a change, giving dates of application and change of status in each case.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
Two non-fully-mutual housingco-operatives have altered their status to become housing associations – one inMarch 2000 and another in April 2003. A further housing co-operative in Glasgow isproposing to become a housing association and has applied to do so in August2003.
In addition, two non-fully-mutualco-operatives changed their status by deciding to merge with other housingassociations through transfers of engagements in October and December 1999.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received any communications from any organisation regarding the effect the withdrawal of section 54 of the Housing Act 1988 may have on non-fully-mutual housing co-operatives and, if so, from which organisations such communications have been received.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
There has been communicationfrom the Scottish Community Ownership Forum which voiced its concern over thewithdrawal of section 54 tax relief grants and the effect on housingco-operatives.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many registered non-fully-mutual housing co-operatives there are.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
There are 15 non-fully-mutualhousing co-operatives registered with Communities Scotland.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many housing associations and co-operatives received grants under section 54 of the Housing Act 1988 in (a) 2000-01 and (b) 2001-02 and what the total cash value of such grants was in each year.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
In 2000-01 105 housingassociations and co-operatives received section 54 tax relief grants at a costof £5.0 million.
In 2001-02 49 housingassociations and co-operatives received section 54 tax relief grants at a costof £3.3 million.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30119 by Ms Margaret Curran on 11 December 2002, whether it has a working definition of a deprived area.
Answer
I refer the member to theanswers given to questions S1W-30119 and S1W-29338 on 30 September 2002. Allanswers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament'swebsite, the search facility for can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.Information on theindicators for target 3 of the social justice section of the Executive’s2003-06 spending proposals will be collected for deprived areas as defined bythe 2004 Index of Deprivation. This will be published in May 2004.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what support local authorities are statutorily required to provide for adults with learning disabilities who wish to remain in their own home.
Answer
Local authorities have aduty under the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 to assess the needs of, and provideappropriate services to, people who appear to need them.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made towards providing less formal day care, as referred to in The same as you? A review of services for people with learning disabilities.
Answer
Provision of day care is amatter for local authorities, who provide such services.
Many local authorities arein the process of reconfiguring their day services, in accordance with therecommendations of The same as you? Information for each area can beobtained from individual local authorities.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made towards ensuring that more children are educated in mainstream schools, as referred to in The same as you? A review of services for people with learning disabilities.
Answer
We have legislated for theinclusion of all children in mainstream schools, subject to certain prescribedcircumstances. The Executive will monitor the impact of the new legislationwhich took effect from 1 August 2003.
