- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 17 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent by (a) Scottish Enterprise and (b) Scottish Enterprise Dunbartonshire in the East Dunbartonshire Council area in each year since 1996, broken down by the total amount of funds spent and the amount spent per head of population.
Answer
This is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 17 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the East Dunbartonshire Council area has been designated as a (a) site of special scientific interest, (b) national scenic area, (d) local nature reserve and (e) country park.
Answer
The following proportions of the East Dunbartonshire Council area have been designated as (a) Sites of Special Scientific Interest - 0.8%, (b) National Scenic Area - 0%, (c) Local Nature Reserve - 0% and (d) Country Park - 0.46%.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 17 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the East Dunbartonshire Council area is greenspace.
Answer
Greenspace is defined by Greenspace Scotland as vegetated land adjoining settlements of 3,000 people or more. On that basis, there are 1,207 hectares of greenspace in the East Dunbartonshire Council area, representing 6.9% of the total area.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in improving the recruitment of specialists into the civil service in each year since 1996.
Answer
Responsibility for the recruitment of specialists lies with Heads of Profession and individual agencies. Specialist staff are recruited as and when required.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in improving the recruitment of disabled people into the civil service in each year since 1996.
Answer
The Executive's Diversity Strategy, launched in November 2000, has set demanding targets for the recruitment of under-represented groups, including staff with disabilities. Progress towards these targets is set out in the following table. Information prior to 1998 is not held centrally.In line with the strategy, the Executive will continue to work towards its aim of becoming an organisation that values the contribution of each member of staff and broadly reflects the communities it serves. Scottish Executive Permanent StaffPercentage of Self-Declared Disabled Staff April 1998 to January 2003
| | Target |
| April 1998 | April 1999 | April 2000 | April 2001 | April 2002 | January 2003 | April 2005 |
| Total | 2.4 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 2.8 | |
| SCS and Band C | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.6 |
| Band B | 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 3.2 |
| Band A | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 5.0 |
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 11 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when the new lifelong learning strategy will be published.
Answer
Our interim response welcomed the Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee's Report on their Inquiry into Lifelong Learning. When I spoke at the parliamentary debate on the report on 27 November 2002, I indicated that we would publish a strategy for lifelong learning early this year. That strategy, Life Through Learning; Learning Through Life, will be published today.It sets out the Executive's strategy for lifelong learning and identifies our key goals. The committee's findings have been taken into account in its development. A summary will also be published. My final response to the Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee's Inquiry will be laid before Parliament tomorrow. Copies of these documents will be available in the Parliament's Reference Centre. (Bib. numbers 26050, 26051 and 26052 respectively).
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting times in weeks were, and how many patients were waiting for, a first appointment in the (a) child dental health, (b) conservation, (c) oral medicine, (d) oral surgery, (e) orthodontics, (f) periodontology and (g) prosthodontics department of the Glasgow Dental Hospital on or around (i) 31 July 2002, (ii) 31 0ctober 2002 and (iii) the most recent date for which figures are available.
Answer
Information on out-patient waits is collected centrally only for the period from referral to a first out-patient appointment with a consultant. This information is collected at specialty level only.Due to technical difficulties with its patient information management system, Glasgow Dental Hospital has not been able to provide the Information and Statistics Division (ISD) of the Common Services Agency with information on waiting times for a first out-patient appointment. The Health Department's Chief Dental Officer is discussing with North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust how to achieve an early resolution of these difficulties. However, the Glasgow Dental Hospital has told the department that patients requiring urgent treatment are seen within one week, and any patient with a suspected diagnosis of oral cancer is seen immediately at the oral medicine rapid access clinic.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 6 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the funds announced by the Minister for Social Justice in the ministerial statement on housing on 7 November 2002 will be made available to East Dunbartonshire Council
Answer
My statement referred to the potential funding arising from the Prudential Regime and changes to the arrangements for funding local authority expenditure on private housing. In relation to the Prudential Regime it will be for individual local authorities not the Scottish Executive to determine how much, if any, extra borrowing they might be able to afford. In relation to the new arrangements for funding local authority expenditure on private housing, for 2003-04, our intention is to write to local authorities for advice on the extent to which they wish to covert existing borrowing consents within their agreed, overall single capital allocation to private sector housing grant. Final allocations will be determined when this information is to hand. Allocations for 2004-05 and beyond, when the new arrangements are fully implemented, will be determined in due course.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 5 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what support it will give to the promotion of community speed watch schemes.
Answer
We have no plans to promote community speed watch schemes in Scotland.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 4 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what funds have been made available in each year since 1996-97 to East Dunbartonshire Council for the development of respite services and what funds will be made available in each of the next three years
Answer
All councils in Scotland, including East Dunbartonshire, have received above inflation increases in grant funding in each year of the current spending review, 2001-04. Such increases will continue over the period of the next review. The total revenue grant support for East Dunbartonshire Council over the period in question is set out in the table. From April 2001 this includes resources specifically to expand respite services and we are currently agreeing with the council the outcome measures to be achieved in this area of service delivery. It is for the council to decide how best to use its total grant in order to provide services that meet local needs and priorities, including the provision of short breaks.Revenue Grant to East Dunbartonshire Council
| | £ million |
| 1996-97 | 92.424 |
| 1997-98 | 88.135 |
| 1998-99 | 90.690 |
| 1999-2000 | 97.122 |
| 2000-01 | 97.952 |
| 2001-02 | 107.465 |
| 2002-03 | 120.776 |
| 2003-04 | 132.206 (Provisional) |
| 2004-05 | 139.735 (Provisional) |
| 2005-06 | 145.280 (Provisional) |
