Seòmar agus comataidhean

Questions and answers

Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.

Find out more about parliamentary questions

Criathragan Hide all filters

Displaying 1617 questions Show Answers

Order by |

Question reference: S2W-13576

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 28 January 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of directors in local authorities were registered disabled people in (a) 1999, (b) 2000, (c) 2001, (d) 2002, (e) 2003 and (f) 2004, broken down by local authority.

Question reference: S2W-13573

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 28 January 2005

Question reference: S2W-13575

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 January 2005

Information on the Directors (Chief Executives) of non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) is contained in the Public Bodies and Appointments website at www.scotland.gov.uk/government/publicbodies. Prior to the website’s establishment in 2002, detailed information on public bodies, including Chief Executives was published in the annual Cabinet Office document Public Bodies. Copies of this document are available from www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/agencies-publicbodies.

Directors are employees of NDPBs and data is not collected centrally to the same level of detail as for ministerial appointments. There is no centrally held information on the gender of NDPB Directors (Chief Executives).

Question reference: S2W-13537

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 14 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 27 January 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many families were living below the accepted poverty level in Glasgow in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02, (d) 2002-03 and (e) 2003-04, broken down by council ward area.

Estimates of the numbers and proportion of families living in low income households are available at Scotland level only, not by local authority or ward area. Estimates on the full range of income thresholds and explanation of how these estimates are calculated are published in Households Below Average Income 1994-95 – 2002-03, copies of which are available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 32212).

Question reference: S2W-13429

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 27 January 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many social inclusion partnership board members have registered their membership of registered political parties, broken down by party affiliation and local authority area.

I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is as follows:

Full records are not available as there is no obligation on board members to declare political affiliations. The following table provides details in respect of those board members who have voluntarily declared their political affiliations.

	Aberdeen City	Aberdeenshire	Angus	Argyll and Bute	City of Edinburgh	City of Glasgow
Conservative
Green
Labour	1				14	23
Lib Dem	1			2
SNP	2			2		1
SSP						1
Independent				1

	Clackmannanshire	Dumfries and Galloway	Dundee City	East Ayrshire	East Dunbartonshire	East Lothian
Conservative
Green
Labour	1			2		1
Lib Dem
SNP	2			1
SSP
Independent

	East Renfrewshire	Falkirk	Fife	Highland	Inverclyde	Midlothian
Conservative
Green
Labour	8		2		1	2
Lib Dem				3	4
SNP	1		2	1
SSP
Independent	1

	Moray	North Ayrshire	North Lanarkshire	Orkney Islands	Perth and Kinross	Renfrewshire
Conservative
Green
Labour
Lib Dem	1
SNP
SSP
Independent

	Scottish Borders	Shetland Islands	South Ayrshire	South Lanarkshire	Stirling	West Dunbartonshire
Conservative			1
Green
Labour			5	3		3
Lib Dem
SNP						1
SSP
Independent

	Western Isles	West Lothian	Total
Conservative			1
Green			0
Labour	4		70
Lib Dem			11
SNP	3		16
SSP			1
Independent			2

Question reference: S2W-13574

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 26 January 2005

Question reference: S2W-13577

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 26 January 2005

Question reference: S2W-13373

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 25 January 2005

The Executive publishes the number of current appointees who have stated that they consider themselves to have a disability on its public appointments website at www.scotland.gov.uk/government/publicbodies. The Executive does not, however, record this information in terms of location.

The total number of disabled people appointed by ministers to regulated public bodies in each year has been published in the UK Commissioner for Public Appointments’ Annual Report since the year 1999-2000. These Reports can be accessed at:

www.ocpa.gov.uk.

The number and associated percentage of appointments (including reappointments) made to regulated public bodies in Scotland in each of the last four years where the appointee has declared a disability are as follows:

Number and Percentage of Appointees who Declared a Disability

Year
1999-2000	2 (0.9%)
2000-01	1 (0.6%)
2001-02	4 (1.5%)
2002-03	11 (4.3%)
2003-04	12 (5.5%)

Question reference: S2W-13363

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 25 January 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the levels of child poverty were in Glasgow and what monies were allocated to address this issue, broken down by council ward area, in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02, (d) 2002-03 and (e) 2003-04.

Estimates of the numbers and proportion of children living in low income households are available at Scotland level only, not by local authority or ward area. Estimates on the full range of income thresholds and explanation of how these estimates are calculated are published in Households Below Average Income 1994-95 – 2002-03, copies of which are available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 32212).

We do not have information on monies allocated in Glasgow at ward level to address child poverty.

Glasgow has received £110.4 million funding through the Social Inclusion Partnership Fund over the period 1999-2004 (1999-2000 - £16.7 million; 2000-01- £19.9 million; 2001-02 - £22.4 million; 2002-03 - £24.7 million, and 2003-04 - £26.7 million). This funding supports a range of anti-poverty initiatives, including measures to address child poverty.

Glasgow has also received £37.2 million funding through the BetterNeighbourhood Services Fund over the period 2001-04 (2001-02 - £6 million; 2002-03- £9 million; 2003-04 - £12 million, and 2004-05 - £10.2 million). This has primarily been targeted at children and families on income support.

Glasgow will receive £5 million (£2.5 million – 2004-05; £2.5 million – 2005-06) Working for Families funding over 2004-06 which aims to tackle child poverty by providing child care which enables parents in deprived or groups access education, training or employment.

Information on the allocation of these funds at ward level is not available.

Question reference: S2W-13374

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 25 January 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people with a learning disability had regular contact with social work and health services, broken down by local authority area, in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02, (d) 2002-03 and (e) 2003-04.

Statistical information on the number of adults with learning disabilities known to local authorities was first collected in 2003. This showed that at May 2003 18,066 adults with learning disabilities were known to local authorities in Scotland. Information by local authority area can be found on page 7 of the statistics release Adults with learning disabilities: Implementation of ‘The same as you?’ Scotland 2003 on the Scottish Executive website at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00326-00.asp.

Information from 2004 is still being collated and will be published in due course.