- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 28 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many new indoor local authority sports facilities have opened since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-10399 by Ms Margaret Curran on 14 September 2004, how many social rented houses have been completed in each local authority area in 2003-04.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
Ministers have given a commitment to provide 18,000 new and improved homes for social rent and low cost home ownership in the 3 years up to 2006. The principal mechanism for funding this new affordable housing is the Scottish Executive Housing Investment Programme. The following table shows the number of new and improved housing completions made available through the Scottish Executive for social rent in 2003-04.
Number of new & improved housing completions made available through the Scottish Executive for social rented sector housing (2003-04)
| Unitary Authority | Total 2003-04 |
| Aberdeenshire | 125 |
| Angus | 73 |
| Argyll & Bute | 81 |
| City of Aberdeen | 68 |
| City of Dundee | 145 |
| City of Edinburgh | 199 |
| City of Glasgow | 1,338 |
| Clackmannan | 58 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 128 |
| East Ayrshire | 2 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 4 |
| East Lothian | 30 |
| East Renfrewshire | 0 |
| Falkirk | 16 |
| Fife | 145 |
| Highland | 140 |
| Inverclyde | 87 |
| Midlothian | 27 |
| Moray | 2 |
| North Ayrshire | 78 |
| North Lanarkshire | 143 |
| Orkney Islands | 0 |
| Perth & Kinross | 148 |
| Renfrewshire | 121 |
| Shetland Islands | 2 |
| South Ayrshire | 42 |
| South Lanarkshire | 173 |
| Stirling | 61 |
| The Scottish Borders | 62 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 110 |
| West Lothian | 45 |
| Western Islands | 1 |
| Note: Figures include houses by housing associations and other suppliers for the social rented sector and do not include homes destined for low-cost home ownership or other forms of affordable housing. |
The number of completions in an individual year is largely determined by the nature of the projects approved for construction in previous years. Large or complex housing projects, especially when linked to a wider regeneration initiative, can often take over a year to be completed. In some instances, there is a time-lag in the recording of this data and these figures can therefore be subject to revision.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring or guidelines exist to ensure compliance by building managers with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 in respect of disabled access to public buildings.
Answer
The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 is reserved to Westminster and the UKGovernment.
The DDA makes no provision for a system of inspection to enforce ‘compliance’ with the Act. Instead, where an individual considers that they have been discriminated against, they may initiate an action against the service provider on the grounds of said discrimination.
The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) was established by the UK Government in 2000 to “eliminate the discrimination faced by disabled people and promote equality of opportunity”. In relation to the DDA it has a role in providing guidance and assistance to disabled people, service providers and employers and can bring legal cases to enforce and clarify the law.
The DRC also publishes codes of practices to assist employers and service providers in the understanding and execution of their duties under the act and have revised the current code of practice on Access to Goods, Services, Facilities and Premises to reflect the DDA provisions which came into force on the 1 October this year.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by George Reid on 19 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many places have been made available for trainees on the modern apprenticeship scheme to obtain employment on the construction of the new parliament building.
Answer
The Holyrood Project Team has written to all Trade Package contractors involved in the Holyrood project and, from the responses received, a total of 113 apprentices were employed on work relating to the project. Of that number, 38 were employed directly on site.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 14 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many local authorities have taken advantage of the prudential borrowing regime to supply socially-rented houses since its introduction in 2002.
Answer
The prudential borrowing regime came into effect in April 2004 and applies to all councils. It is too soon to say what impact this will have on local authority housing.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 8 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans are in place to meet staff associations at the Queen Mother’s Hospital in Glasgow to address any ongoing concerns over the proposed closure by NHS Greater Glasgow.
Answer
I expect NHS Greater Glasgow to address concerns raised by staff on any aspects of their proposals for maternity services.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been allocated by each NHS board to Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital since 1999 for treatment received at the hospital.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-8664 answered on 15 June 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to fund centrally the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital, given that 50% of patients accessing health care at the hospital come from outside the Glasgow area.
Answer
No.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been referred to the Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital since 1999, broken down by NHS board area that made the referral.
Answer
This is a matter for NHS Greater Glasgow. This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of any shortfalls in the budgets of NHS boards due to lack of payment to them by neighbouring boards.
Answer
NHS boards are still agreeing 2004-05 uplifts in respect of service level agreements (SLA’s) with neighbouring NHS boards. Until these are agreed, NHS boards will not be in a position to identify shortfalls in budgets due to lack of payment to them by neighbouring boards.
The Executive is aware that a number of boards have made assumptions within their budget plans regarding cross boundary flows and that these will need to be resolved further to the agreement of SLA’s.
