- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 28 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 14 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-10724 by Mr Andy Kerr on 29 September 2004, whether it will have a direct negotiating role at the G8 summit.
Answer
The G8 Summit is a UK Government responsibility. Whilst the Scottish Executive contributes to the formulation of UK Government policies in many areas, it will not have a direct negotiating role.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it can take to assist the G8 in its aims on non-proliferation of chemical, biological, radioactive and nuclear weapons, with particular regard to source material for such weapons.
Answer
The Scottish Executive plays a full part in helping to formulate commitments the UK Government has made on counter-terrorism, including on the non-proliferation of chemical, biological, radioactive and nuclear weapons. Work is on-going – in co-operation with the UK Government and our partners around the world – to fulfil these commitments.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what influence or direct input it will have on the European Council's contribution to the G8 summit's discussions on the G8's Secure and Facilitated International Travel Initiative (SAFTI).
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-14805 on 9 March 2005. 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/wa.search.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 11 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-13631 by Patricia Ferguson on 31 January 2005, whether any part of the £31.1 million 10-year action plan for youth football will be funded from the Scottish Consolidated Fund.
Answer
The Executive has committed £1.2 million from the Scottish Consolidated Fund to support the implementation of the Action Plan for Youth Football over a 10 year period.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 11 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding it has allocated from the Scottish Consolidated Fund for investment in youth football in each year since 1999.
Answer
All Executive funding for youth football in Scotland funded from the ScottishConsolidated fund is administered by
sportscotland and awarded to organisations against specific programmes and initiatives or through the application-based programme Sportsmatch.
Youth football would have benefited from the awards made from the Scottish Consolidated Fund set out in the following table. However, it is not possible to quantify the precise amount of the award which has benefited youth football. In addition to these, a contribution was made in 2002-03 towards the costs of the review of youth football carried out by independent consultants.
| Year | Annual Development Grant Aid | Sportsmatch |
| SFA | SWFA | No. of awards | £ |
| 1999-2000 | 48,000 | 18,000 | 27 | 44,202 |
| 2000-01 | 48,000 | 18,000 | 29 | 44,832 |
| 2001-02 | 48,000 | 18,000 | 54 | 117,967.47 |
| 2002-03 | 100,000 | 18,000 | 22 | 72,800 |
| 2003-04 | 100,000 | 28,500* | 27 | 80,243.85 |
Note: *18 month award.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 11 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-6333 by Mr Frank McAveety on 15 March 2004, when it expects the legal complications surrounding the transfer of funds from the Football Stadia Improvement Fund to the Scottish Football Partnership to be resolved.
Answer
It is extremely disappointing that the legal complications affecting the transfer of the funds from the Football Stadia Improvement Fund to the Scottish Football Partnership have not yet been resolved. I am given to understand though that it is expected that the outstanding issues should shortly be resolved and that the transfer of the funds will be completed as quickly as possible thereafter.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 11 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding it plans to allocate from the Scottish Consolidated Fund for investment in youth football for each of the next nine years.
Answer
The Executive has committed £1.2 million from the Scottish Consolidated Fund to support the implementation of the Action Plan for Youth Football over a 10 year period. It will be for the Implementation Steering Group to determine how and when the funding is to be allocated against agreed work programmes and targets.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 11 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the existing rules and regulations are in respect of notifying victims of crime of the release of prisoners from custody and whether there are any plans to amend these rules and regulations.
Answer
Section 16 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003, which commenced on 1 November 2004, determines the conditions under which victims of crime are given an opportunity to be notified when a prisoner is released, dies in custody, is transferred outwith Scotland, becomes eligible for early release or is unlawfully at large. These conditions require that the offender who perpetrated the offence against the victim must have been sentenced to four or more years imprisonment or detention and must have been convicted of a prescribed offence.
The Victim Notification (Prescribed Offences) (Scotland) Order 2004 (SSI 2004/411), which came into force on 1 November 2004, prescribes the offences for which a victim will be entitled to receive information relating to the person who perpetrated the offence against them.
Ministers may, by order, change the conditions set out in section 16 of the 2003 Act by amending the period of time to which an offender must have been sentenced, by adding to the information that victims can receive or by altering the list of prescribed offences.
The legislation governing the release of information to victims has been in effect since 1 November 2004. Its effect on victims is subject to evaluation. Once that evaluation is complete, Ministers will consider what changes, if any, are required to the conditions set out in section 16 of the 2003 Act.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had, or plans to have, with the UK Government with regard to the impact of the potential increase in the use of Dungavel House immigration removal centre for the detention of asylum seekers following the UK Government's aim of increasing the use of detention centres for dealing with asylum seekers, as announced in the Home Office document, Controlling our borders: Making migration work for Britain, and what the outcome of any such discussions was.
Answer
The operation and managementof Dungavel are matters for the Home Office. Scottish Executive and Home Officeofficials have regular meetings to keep abreast of developments and discuss asylummatters as they relate to devolved services. The next meeting is scheduled for 23 March 2005 at whichwe expect the Home Office to brief Scottish Executive officials on their document.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how it expects that the UK Government's plans to restrict immigrants to bringing only immediate family to the United Kingdom, as announced in the Home Office document, Controlling our borders: Making migration work for Britain, will impact on the Executive's aim of attracting more immigrants to Scotland, taking account of the countries from where Scotland attracts immigrants that have cultures of extended families.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-14428 on 10 March 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament/webapp/wa.search.
