- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the new Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh is subject to penalty charges if the number of patients treated exceeds a set figure and, if so, what charges the infirmary has incurred.
Answer
No. The contract between NHSLothian and Consort Healthcare for the provision of facilities and services atthe Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh does not provide for penalty charges to be incurredby NHS Lothian. However, should there be a material failure to delivercontractual commitments, for example relating to services, or the availabilityof accommodation, thus restricting the treatment of patients, penalties wouldbe incurred by Consort Healthcare, under the agreed payment mechanism.
A number of elements of thepayment schedule are variable, depending on the number of patients seen andtreated, for example, the cost of patients’ meals.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 4 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding it, or any agency in receipt of public funds, has provided to (a) youth, (b) grassroots and (c) all levels of rugby in each year since 1997, broken down by source of funding.
Answer
Rugby has benefited from considerable funding through
sportscotland since 1997 as noted in the tables below. However, it is not possible to identify funding over the specific categories requested as an award may cover various categories. Rugby has also benefited from the School Sports Co-ordinator Programme and will continue to benefit from the Active Schools Programme. Rugby is also a core sport in the Scottish Institute of Sport and the Area Institutes and will also have benefited from many of the multi-sport awards made under the Lottery Sports Fund.
Sportscotland has also funded the post of Youth Development Manager for women’s rugby at £30,000 per year since 2000-01.
EventScotland is contributing £100,000 with sportscotland contributing £20,000 towards the hosting of the Under 21 rugby world cup in June of this year. Glasgow City Council, the City of Edinburgh Council and Scottish Borders Council have also contributed towards the costs of the tournament.
Funding for rugby from other public sources is not held centrally.
Table A: Lottery Sports Fund
| Year | Capital | Sports Facilities | TAP | Junior Groups | Awards for All | Performance Coach |
| No | £ | No | £ | No | £ | No | £ | No | £ | No | £ |
| 1997-98 | 2 | 359,200 | | | 16 | 44,731 | | | | | | |
| 1998-99 | 2 | 42,726 | | | 28 | 41,790 | | | 4 | 9,618 | | |
| 1999-2000 | 1 | 121,300 | | | 29 | 79,936 | | | 2 | 2,494 | | |
| 2000-01 | | | 1 | 41,288 | | | 1 | 40,000 | 2 | 6,997 | 1 | 8,089 |
| 2001-02 | | | 1 | 80,000 | 33 | 74,250 | 1 | 40,000 | 5 | 15,292 | 1 | 9,999 |
| 2002-03 | | | 1 | 158,960 | 31 | 20,660 | 2 | 56,600 | 3 | 8,759 | | |
| 2003-04 | | | | | 30 | 10,000 | 2 | 70,000 | 8 | 18,636 | | |
| Total | 5 | 523,226 | 3 | 280,248 | 167 | 271,367 | 6 | 206,600 | 24 | 61,796 | 2 | 18,088 |
Table B: Development Grant aid to Governing Body
| Year | Scottish Rugby Union | Scotland Rugby League |
| 1997-98 | 702,000 | |
| 1998-99 | 702,000 | |
| 1999-2000 | 700,000 | |
| 2000-01 | 700,000 | 15,000 |
| 2001-02 | 600,000 | 9,000 |
| 2002-03 | 550,000 | |
| 2003-04 | 500,000 | |
| Total | 4,454,000 | 24,000 |
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 4 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether public private partnerships will be used in any of the proposed schemes to build full si'e indoor football facilities.
Answer
Stage One proposals are currentlybeing assessed and an announcement about which proposal will progress to Stage Two– when financing arrangements will be firmed up – will be made by July 2004.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 4 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what bodies will be responsible for implementing its action plan for youth football; what interaction will be required between such bodies, and at what level.
Answer
The Scottish Football Association,as the sport’s governing body, will be primarily responsible for implementing theAction Plan for Scottish Youth Football but many other bodies which contributedto the review will have a role to play. A steering group including representativesfrom the SFA, the Executive, sportscotland and other relevant organisationswill be established to oversee the implementation process.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 4 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in the event of a hardship fund being created by the Scottish Football Association, government funding would be withheld from football clubs refusing to join up to such a fund.
Answer
The Executive does not provideExchequer funding for football clubs.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 26 April 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive which ports operating ferry services have adequate disabled access; whether there are any plans to address any lack of adequate disabled access to ports and, if so, when these will be implemented; who will meet the cost of any upgrade or enlargements, and what information it has on what action will be taken against any service not offering adequate facilities.
Answer
Passenger terminals and publicbuildings at ferry ports are covered by Part III of the Disability DiscriminationAct (DDA). The DDA is a reserved matter. Part III of the act deals with access togoods, facilities and services and imposes specific duties on service providers.These duties have been introduced incrementally since 1996, with the remainder tocome into force by October 2004. Transport infrastructure, including ports, is alreadycovered by these provisions.
As the duty will be placed onthe harbour authority to comply with the law, any costs incurred in so doing shouldbe met by the harbour authority. Any claim of discrimination under part III of theDDA would ultimately be a matter for the courts.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 23 April 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding is available, and from what sources, to encourage a shift in movement of goods from road to sea and, in particular, what funding is available to promote the carriage of goods by sea from Aberdeen and the Northern Isles to the European ferry service at Rosyth.
Answer
The creation of thefacilities required at Rosyth to operate the direct ferry service from Scotland to mainland Europe dependedon a Scottish Executive funded Freight Facilities Grant (FFG) of over £10 million.This grant scheme is open to any company which requires additional facilities inorder to transfer freight from road to water or rail. As well as this capital grantscheme we are planning to introduce shortly a new Waterborne Freight Grant (WFG)scheme devised to contribute to any revenue short fall during the first three yearsof new shipping operations where freight is transferred from road to water. We arecurrently seeking EU state aid clearance for this grant scheme. Our budget for theFFG and WFG grant schemes for 2004-05 is £14.6 million.
Any companies seekingFFG or WFG support for projects that transfer freight from road to rail and sea,including the carriage of goods by sea to feed into the Rosyth-Zeebrugge ferry service,should approach the Scottish Executive to establish eligibility.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 21 April 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the City of Edinburgh Council's Integrated Transport Initiative will be funded through the #375 million investment in public transport improvements for Edinburgh, announced by the Minister for Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning on 4 March 2003; what information it had prior to the announcement in respect of the (a) implementation and (b) operational costs of the initiative, and whether it expects the fare box revenue to meet the running costs of the initiative.
Answer
On 4 March 2003, the Executive announcedthe future availability of £375 million towards the completion of at least the northEdinburgh tramline and related public transport improvements in Edinburgh. Thatfunding is dependent on City of Edinburgh Council and Transport Initiatives Edinburghproducing a robust business case for the tram.
At the time of the announcementthe Scottish Executive had appropriate estimates of the capital and operatingcosts. Those cost estimates continue to be developed by Transport Initiatives Edinburghas part of the production of the business case. The latest estimates from TransportInitiatives Edinburgh continue to show fare box revenue exceeding operating costsby a significant margin.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 20 April 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, following the review of area tourist boards, any costs will be incurred as a result of facilities currently provided free of charge by local authorities no longer being provided free of charge or withdrawn and, if so, what the estimated costs are as a result for each of the next three years.
Answer
The extent and future provisionof services currently made available to area tourist boards by organisations suchas local authorities will be reviewed quickly as part of the development of thenew tourism network. The overall aim is to maintain such support to tourism as oneof Scotland’s most important business sectors, and one which benefitsevery part of the country.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 20 April 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive for what period any commitment to there being no compulsory redundancies for staff following the review of area tourist boards will apply.
Answer
The current terms and conditionsof area tourist board (ATB) staff will remain unchanged until April 2005. VisitScotlandwill ensure that as the new tourism network is developed, all ATB and VisitScotlandstaff are kept fully informed of developments.
