- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 3 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will fully fund the cost of bus travel for pensioners and those with special needs travelling off peak from October 2002.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has reached agreement with COSLA and the local authorities on a funding package to meet the cost of enhancing existing concessionary travel schemes to provide free local off-peak bus travel from October 2002.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 March 2002
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Answered by Wendy Alexander on 28 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what action will be taken to secure continued manufacturing at the Rolls Royce plant in Hillington, Glasgow.
Answer
Along with officials at the Executive and Scottish Development International, I have been in regular close contact with Rolls Royce over a number of months. We are working hard to ensure that this important company continues to develop its manufacturing presence in Scotland.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 March 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 20 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive who the members of the Plotnikoff and Woolfson Report Implementation Group are; when the implementation group has met; when it next expects to meet in the current year, and when it expects to complete its work.
Answer
The Plotnikoff and Woolfson Report was commissioned to assist the Lord Advocate's Working Group on Child Witness Support. The membership of the Child Witness Support Implementation Group, which is taking forward the working group's recommendations, comprises officials of the Scottish Executive, including the Crown Office, and the Scottish Children's Reporters Administration. It met in September, October, and November 2001 and in January 2002. It will meet again in April.Regarding the completion of its work, I refer the member to the answer given to S1O-4737 on 28 February 2002.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2002
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Answered by Wendy Alexander on 12 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to Her Majesty's Government in regard to the establishment of an enterprise 'one for Glasgow.
Answer
The Executive has no plans for the establishment of further Enterprise Zones.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2002
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Answered by Wendy Alexander on 12 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to Her Majesty's Government in regard to the establishment of an enterprise 'one on land near or adjacent to the M74 northern extension.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-22879.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 February 2002
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Answered by Richard Simpson on 28 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to implement the Plotnikoff and Woolfson report An Evaluation of Child Witness Support.
Answer
Plotnikoff and Woolfson's report informed the deliberations of the Lord Advocate's Working Group on Child Witness Support. It also helped to shape the 43 individual recommendations made in the working group's report, published in 1999. These recommendations are being taken forward by a Scottish Executive Implementation Group set up in September 2001. It is the aim of the group to complete the bulk of its work by the end of 2002.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 February 2002
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Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 22 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take to ensure that derelict and vacant land reclamation in sites near or adjacent to the M74 northern extension is carried out simultaneously with the construction of the road.
Answer
The Executive is working with the local authorities and Scottish Enterprise to ensure that they are aware of the opportunities that the M74 will create for the regeneration and reclamation of the land along the road corridor.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 February 2002
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Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what it estimates to be the cost to (a) local authorities and (b) the NHS of the recent severe weather damage.
Answer
No local authority has submitted information on increased costs to the Executive. No information about additional costs has been received by the Executive from NHS trusts.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 February 2002
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Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it plans to take to support and fund the extension of partnerships such as the Challenging Offending through Support and Intervention Project, developed jointly by North Lanarkshire Council Social Work Department and Barnardos, to other local authority areas.
Answer
The Executive is investing £23.5 million over the four years to 2004 to support the development across Scotland of programmes such as CHOSI for persistent offenders. Our Action Programme to reduce youth crime, published in January 2002, states that we will provide an interim report on the use of the first slice of this investment. This will be available within the next two months.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 February 2002
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Answered by Iain Gray on 20 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Her Majesty's Government about the implementation of the proposed Community Investment Tax Credit and what the outcome of any such discussions has been.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the UK Government on a wide range of issues, including the proposed Community Investment Tax Credit. In his Pre-Budget Report in November 2001 the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that the tax credit will be introduced in the 2002-03 tax year. Accreditation of Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) to benefit from the tax credit will be conducted on a UK-wide basis by the Small Business Service (SBS). Officials of the Scottish Executive and the other devolved administrations have been involved in the development of the accreditation processes and will continue to be involved in implementation.
