- Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothians, Independent
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 27 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many competitions or awards for architecture and design it has funded or part-funded in each of the last five years, giving the name and size of each award.
Answer
As an integral part of its policyto raise the quality of the built environment across Scotland, the Scottish Executive sponsors a range of competitions and awards for architectureand design. Information about such funding or part funding during the last fiveyears is as follows:
| Financial year(s) | Name of competition or award | Nature of prize or award | Funding of prize/award by Scottish Executive |
| 1998-99 onwards | The Scottish Design Awards | A wide range of awards for individual achievement and for projects covering the entire design spectrum. Awards consist of trophy and certificate. | Historic Scotland: from 2002-03 -(£2,500-£3,000/year) Communities Scotland: from 2003-04 (£5,000-£6,000/year). Scottish Enterprise: from 2003-04 (£5,000-6,000/year). Many other sponsors. |
| 1999-2000 onwards | Scottish Awards for Quality in Planning | Awards presented by the Executive in association with the Royal Town Planning Institute in Scotland for projects demonstrating outstanding performance. Award certificate and (since 2004) a trophy which passes to the next winner each year. | Original cost of designing and manufacturing trophy (£950). |
| 2000-01 onwards | Saltire Housing Design Awards | Plaque and certificates for individual building projects. Several categories of award, changing each year. | £8,000/year until 2002-03, £10,000/year subsequently. |
| 2001-02 onwards, replacing The Regeneration of Scotland Awards (1985 on) | Dynamic Places Awards | To recognise projects which demonstrate a contribution to the achievement of a dynamic place through development or regeneration projects. Different categories which vary each year. | Communities Scotland: £5,000/year since 2001-02. Scottish Enterprise: £50,000/year since 2001-02. Additional funding by Highlands and Islands Enterprise, and Scottish Natural Heritage for specific awards for non- architecture categories. |
| 2002-03 onwards | Designing Places Award | Award for students of Planning: prize and certificate. | Varies: up to equivalent of £50. |
| 2002-03 onwards | The RIAS Andrew Doolan Award for Architecture | £25,000 prize to the architect of the building the judges decide is the best new building in Scotland. | £15,000/year since the death of Andrew Doolan in 2004, the original sponsor. Remainder of funding now by Doolan family and RIAS. |
| 2003-04 onwards | Six: National Programme Student Awards for Architecture | 4 prizes and certificates for work by students at Scottish architecture schools: RIAS Silver Medal The Lighthouse Award Urban Design Award The SUST Award for Sustainable design. | Total prize money of £3,500. RIAS funds the cost of the Silver Medal. |
| 2004-05 onwards | The Lighthouse Award for achievement in architecture | £5,000 prize to acknowledge contributions to architecture in the broadest sense | £5,000/year |
| 2005-06 only | Archiprix International biennial competition | Prize for best graduation projects by architecture, urban design and landscape architecture students world-wide. Hosted by Scotland this year. | £75,000 in part funding of award ceremony and exhibitions. Prize money of £23,000 provided by others. |
- Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothians, Independent
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 21 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive by what means, and over what period, the Minister for Justice was consulted by the Home Secretary on his decision to create new grounds for the expulsion from, and non-admission to, the United Kingdom of persons accused of inciting racial hatred, glorifying terrorism or encouraging others to commit acts of racial violence.
Answer
Immigration and deportation, including new grounds for the expulsion from and non-admission to the UK, are reserved.
- Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothians, Independent
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by George Reid on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body where advertisements were placed for the post of architectural consultant to the Parliament.
Answer
Since only Dr John Gibbons had the necessary experience and knowledge of the Holyrood Building Project that we sought, the post was not advertised.
- Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothians, Independent
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by George Reid on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many applications were received for the post of architectural consultant to the Parliament.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to S2W-18714.
- Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothians, Independent
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by George Reid on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body which members of the Post-Completion Advisory Group were not members of the Holyrood Project Team.
Answer
Apart from the period June – November 2000 when Dr Gibbons acted as Project Director, no members of the Post Completion Advisory Group were members of the Holyrood Project Team. Dr Gibbons, Andrew Wright and David Manson were members of the Holyrood Progress Group.
- Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothians, Independent
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by George Reid on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body at which of its meetings it agreed to employ Dr John Gibbons as a member of the Post-Completion Advisory Group on the Holyrood Project at an estimated remuneration of £14,000, as reported in the Daily Mail on 26 August 2005.
Answer
Dr Gibbons appointment was approved at the meeting of the Corporate Body on 25 May 2004.
- Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothians, Independent
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by George Reid on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body at which of its meetings it agreed to employ Dr John Gibbons as an architectural consultant to the Parliament on a 12-month contract valued at £34,000, as reported in the Daily Mail on 26 August 2005.
Answer
The appointment was made on 28 April 2005 by the Clerk under delegated authority from the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body.
- Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothians, Independent
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 31 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in the event of the Home Secretary or any other person outwith Scotland calling for the expulsion of a resident or visitor to Scotland judged to have incited racial hatred, glorified terrorism or encouraged others to commit acts of racial violence, the Lord Advocate would be required to prosecute the case against the accused person or whether he would have discretion not to do so.
Answer
In all circumstances where a crime is alleged to have taken place within Scottish jurisdiction, decisions about prosecution will be taken, independently by the Lord Advocate or by prosecutors acting on his behalf and authority. This independence is enshrined in the Scotland Act and no person can require the Lord Advocate to prosecute, nor fetter his discretion as to whether the public interest is best met by prosecution.
- Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothians, Independent
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by John Scott on 16 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what plans it has to improve the working conditions and facilities of translators, in light of the experience of the G8 International Parliamentarians Conference on Development in Africa.
Answer
The interpretation booths inthe Chamber and Committee Rooms comply with the relevant building control standardsand meet the requirements of the building brief. In particular, all the booths aresignificantly bigger than the requirements of ISO 2603. The SPCB have no currentplans to make any changes.
- Asked by: Margo MacDonald, MSP for Lothians, Independent
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 29 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what benchmarks it plans to use to measure the educational successes of its Broadband for Scotland campaign.
Answer
The key benchmark will be uptake. This is because the aim of the campaign was to educate businesses and households on the benefits of broadband in order to increase connections to the technology. It is estimated that business take-up has almost trebled since 2003, when the campaign began.
