- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 5 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much Glasgow City Council has received through the Community Regeneration Fund and other funds for investment in community groups and how the council has allocated this money, broken down by fund and group.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is asfollows:
The Community RegenerationFund and associated Community Voices Programme are allocated to communityplanning partnerships, not local authorities. The GlasgowCommunity Planning Partnership has been allocated around £128 million from bothfunds for the period 2005-08. Neither grant is exclusively for investment incommunity groups, although these groups do access both.
All investment decisions aremade by the Partnership and steered by the Partnership’s Regeneration OutcomeAgreement, a copy of which can be viewed on Communities Scotland’s website
www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 5 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-30546 by Rhona Brankin on 18 January 2007, whether it will provide a breakdown of the investigations carried out into the Chirnsyde Initiative over the last five years and their outcomes.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is asfollows:
Administration of theChirnsyde Community Initiative is a matter for Glasgow City Council. Allinvestigations into the Initiative over the past five years have been conductedby the City Council with assistance from key partner agencies such asStrathclyde Police. Details of the investigations and their outcomes are notheld centrally.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 5 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in ensuring replacement community facilities for the Milton area, in light of the closure of Chirnsyde Community Initiative.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is asfollows:
As owner of the premisesformerly hosting the Chirnsyde Community Initiative and majority funder of allactivities delivered there, Glasgow City Council is currently attempting to sourcealternative accommodation for affected services.
We understand that this workis progressing, with alternative premises already identified for some of theprojects.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 5 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-30544 by Rhona Brankin on 18 January 2007, why it has not made any representations to Glasgow City Council regarding the administration of the Chirnsyde Community Initiative.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is asfollows:
The administration ofChirnsyde Community Initiative is a matter for Glasgow City Council. Locally,Communities Scotland in their role as Board members of the local communityplanning partnership, have been updated on investigations into the Initiative.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-30550 by Cathy Jamieson on 19 January 2007, whether the Minister for Justice will meet residents of Milton, Glasgow, to discuss the current situation in that area.
Answer
As stated in the answer to questionS2W-30550 on 19 January 2007, the Executive is fully committed to working withthe Scottish police service and other partners to reduce violence within everycommunity in Scotland. The specific issues facing the community in Milton are amatter for Strathclyde Police.All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament's website the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 5 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-30545 by Rhona Brankin on 18 January 2007, whether it will detail and explain those terms and conditions of Community Regeneration Fund grants that include the provision to withhold grants from local authorities if any allegations of malpractice come to light.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is asfollows:
Full terms and conditionsassociated with the Community Regeneration Fund are published on CommunitiesScotland’s website www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk.Paragraph 40 sets out the circumstances which may lead to grant being withheldfrom the grant recipient (local authority).
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 24 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2O-11655 by Des McNulty on 11 January 2007 (Official Report c. 30992), why it does not believe that there was any breach of EC competition law in the Glasgow stock transfer in respect of the commercial properties referred to in European Parliament petition 0863/2005.
Answer
In European Parliament petition0863/2005, the complainant claims that Glasgow City Council should have put thesale of its commercial properties out to European Union-wide tendering. As far asthe Scottish Executive is aware, the complaint does not allege any breach of competitionlaw, but instead of European Community procurement law.
Furthermore, EU procurement lawdoes not require European-wide competitive tendering for the acquisition of existingbuildings or the disposal of property. The acquisition of existing buildings andother structures is exempt from advertising under Regulation 6 of the Public Contracts(Scotland) Regulations, which give effect to EU procurement Directive 2004/18/EC.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 24 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it received the administrative inquiry directly from the European Commission regarding European Parliament petition 0863/2005 in respect of the commercial properties acquired by Glasgow Housing Association or whether this request was forwarded from another UK body and, if so, from which body.
Answer
The European Commission sendsall administrative inquiries to the United Kingdom Representation to the EuropeanUnion.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by George Lyon on 24 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many methadone-related deaths there were in each year from 1999 to 2006, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-29476 on 15 November 2006 which gives data for 1999-2005. Data for 2006 will not be available until August 2007.All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 24 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a copy of its reply and any other documents that it submitted to the European Commission relating to the administrative inquiry from the Commission regarding European Parliament petition 0863/2005 in respect of the commercial properties acquired by Glasgow Housing Association.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-31002 on 24 January 2007. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
