- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-30357 by Patricia Ferguson on 21 December 2006, whether Glasgow City Council or Aberdeen City Council has requested additional funding over and above the in principle allocation and, if so, how much has been requested.
Answer
As I noted in my response tothe answer to question S2W-30591 on 15 January 2007,in principle allocations at Stage 1 are only intended to give an indication of financialsupport which may be available for any project. However, actual investment decisionsare only made after receipt of a Stage 2 application and after careful considerationof such by sportscotland.
Sportscotland has made investment decisions in relation tothe Stage 2 applications received from Glasgow City Council and Aberdeen City Councilboth of which have been announced.
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- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-30357 by Patricia Ferguson on 21 December 2006, whether any local authority requested additional funding over and above the in principle allocation.
Answer
As I noted in the answer to questionS2W-30591 on 15 January 2007, in principle allocations at Stage 1 are only intendedto give an indication of financial support which may be available for any project.However, actual investment decisions are only made after receipt of a Stage 2 applicationand after careful consideration of such by sportscotland.
Stage 2 applications have beenreceived from Glasgow City Council, in relation to Toryglen and Scotstoun, AberdeenCity Council and Stirling Council. Investment decisions have been made in respectof Glasgow (Toryglen) and Aberdeen and the Stage 2 applications from Glasgow inrelation to Scotstoun and Stirling are currently under consideration.
All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-30357 by Patricia Ferguson on 21 December 2006, how many local authorities have made Stage 2 applications and whether any of those who lodged Stage 2 applications have requested additional funding from the Executive or sportscotland to ensure that the facility is developed.
Answer
As I noted in my response toanswer to question S2W-30591 on 15 January 2007, in principle allocations at Stage1 are only intended to give an indication of financial support which may be availablefor any project. However, actual investment decisions are only made after receiptof a Stage 2 application and after careful consideration of such by sportscotland.
Stage 2 applications have beenreceived from Glasgow City Council, Aberdeen City Council and Stirling Council.
All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 15 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive from what source an additional £2 million has been obtained for the Linksfield sports facility in Aberdeen and whether this provision will have any impact on other projects funded under the National and Regional Sports Facilities Strategy or from sportscotland’s budget.
Answer
In principle allocations at Stage1 are only intended to give an indication of financial support which may be availablefor any project. However, actual investment decisions are only made after receiptof a Stage 2 application and after careful consideration of such by sportscotland.sportscotland approved the investment of £7 million toward the Stage 2 applicationfor the North East facility. The £7 million is made up of a mixture of sportscotlandLottery funding and Scottish Executive Exchequer funding.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 21 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been allocated for the implementation of the Changing Lives social work review.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-30356 on 18 December 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 21 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding for the implementation of the Changing Lives social work review has been allocated to each local authority, showing the purpose for which each amount has been paid.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-30356 on 18 December 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 21 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received representations from any of the local authorities that have been allocated funding under the National and Regional Sports Facilities Strategy for additional financial support to ensure that the facility is developed and, if so, which local authorities have requested additional funding, and how much they have requested.
Answer
Ten projects were allocated fundingin response to their Stage 1 application. However, this is not a funding decisionbut an in principle allocation. A funding decision is made in response to a LocalAuthority’s Stage 2 application and thus far two projects have been awarded fundingat Stage 2: Glasgow City Council for their Toryglen project and Aberdeen City Councilfor their Chris Anderson Stadium project.
Sportscotland has been workingwith each local authority allocated funding at Stage 1 to develop a Stage 2.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 18 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the funding earmarked for implementation of Changing Lives: Report of the 21st Century Social Work Review has been allocated; which local authorities have been allocated funding; how much each has been allocated, and for what purpose.
Answer
The Executive has earmarked £15million over the first two years of the five year implementation programme for ChangingLives. For 2006-07 we plan to spend around £1.5 million. No specific funding withinthis has been allocated to individual local authorities.
The five Change Programmes todrive forward this work have had their initial meetings and their workplans willbe firmed up in the new year. We are also currently analysing the self assessmentreturns from local authorities on the priority areas for work they are undertaking.This will feed into the work of the Change Programmes and inform future allocationof funding, whether directly to individual local authorities or elsewhere.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Elish Angiolini on 7 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions there were for offences related to noise pollution in town centres in the last year for which figures are available.
Answer
Data held by the Executive doesnot indicate how many prosecutions relate specifically to noise pollution in towncentres. Problems of noise can be dealt with in many ways, including prosecution,action under the Antisocial Behaviour Scotland Act 2004, action under the EnvironmentalProtection Act 1990 or through mediation and education. I recognise the tremendousdistress noise causes to people and their communities, and that is why the Executivehas put in place strong and effective measures.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 4 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive why the estimated completion date for the Forthbank curling academy and sports hall in Stirling has moved from October 2007 to April 2008 and whether it expects any further delay to the project.
Answer
The start and completion datesfor the Forthbank project were based on projections from Stirling Council whichhave proved to be unrealistic as the project has progressed. A contributory factorin the delay of this project has been the difficulty Stirling Council have experiencedin financing the project. Stirling Council advise that the estimated completiondate for this project is April 2009.
Sportscotland are concerned aboutdelays in the timescales for the National and Regional Sports FacilitiesStrategy projects and are in regular discussions with Stirling Council to try andresolve any problems as they arise.
