- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 24 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the introduction of average speed cameras on the A78(T) has been considered in order to reduce the incidence of traffic accidents.
Answer
The effectiveness of the A77 average speed camera system will be fully assessed once three full years of data is available. The potential to introduce more average speed cameras will be informed by this assessment towards the end of 2008, once accident data is available for the three full years since implementation.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 23 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial support it is giving to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises to reduce carbon emissions.
Answer
We offer loans of between £5,000 and £100,000 through our interest free loan scheme to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises make capital investments in energy efficiency and microgeneration technologies.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 23 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what new road safety projects there have been in (a) East Dunbartonshire, (b) Inverclyde, (c) Renfrewshire, (d) North Ayrshire, (e) West Dunbartonshire and (f) East Renfrewshire in each year since 2002.
Answer
Road safety on local roads is a statutory responsibility of local authorities. However, local authorities are not required to provide details of each project they undertake, therefore the information requested is not centrally available.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 23 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what practical support it is giving to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises to reduce carbon emissions.
Answer
We are funding the Carbon Trust in Scotland, the Energy Saving Scotland advice network and Envirowise Scotland to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises to reduce carbon emissions. They provide a number of practical support measures including:
Free and impartial information and advice;
Free on-site energy, waste and water audits;
Practical guides and best practice literature;
Low carbon, clean fuel and renewable technologies;
Green fleet reviews and sustainable travel planning;
Relevant training and seminars, and
Signposting to financial support schemes.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 23 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it has put in place to make roads safer.
Answer
The Scottish Government takes road safety very seriously and is committed to making the roads safer for all road users.
We are developing a 10-year road safety strategy for Scotland and have set up a panel of experts to advise on possible measures. The strategy will be published in late 2008.
The Scottish Government provides funding to Road Safety Scotland (RSS) for the production of key road safety education initiatives and publicity messages. RSS brings together the main organisations interested in road safety, including local and central government, the police, fire and rescue service, motoring organisations and voluntary organisations.
Amongst other initiatives the Scottish Government provided funding totalling nearly £50 million between 2003 and 2008 to local authorities for 20mph schemes outside schools and related safety projects, including safer routes to school and home zones.
The implementation of road safety projects is a matter for relevant roads authorities, Transport Scotland for the trunk road network and local authorities for the local roads network.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 23 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been made available to local authorities for the specific purpose of road safety.
Answer
Support for local authority roads is provided through the core local government finance settlement. It is however for the local authorities themselves to determine the level of spending for road safety in their area.
Generally it is the responsibility of each local authority to allocate the total financial resources available to it on the basis of local needs and priorities, having first fulfilled its statutory obligations and the jointly agreed set of national and local priorities including the Scottish Government''s key strategic objectives and manifesto commitments.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 23 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how it is measuring or plans to measure the success of the new streamlined approach to Scottish Enterprise.
Answer
The Scottish Government is working with Scottish Enterprise to develop a performance measurement and evaluation framework that is focused on national outcomes as set out in The Government Economic Strategy.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 18 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many motorists have been caught speeding in (a) Greenock, (b) Gourock, (c) Port Glasgow, (d) Inverkip (e) Wemyss Bay, (f) Bishopbriggs, (g) Kirkintilloch, (h) Bearsden and (i) Paisley in each year since 2002.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. The police recorded crime statistics collected centrally are based on an aggregate return at local authority level.
Strathclyde Police Force may be able to provide this information.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 September 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 18 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many motorists who were caught speeding in each year since 2002 lived in (a) Greenock, (b) Gourock, (c) Port Glasgow, (d) Inverkip, (e) Wemyss Bay, (f) Bishopbriggs, (g) Kirkintilloch, (h) Bearsden and (i) Paisley.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. The police recorded crime statistics collected centrally are based on an aggregate return at local authority level.
Strathclyde Police Force may be able to provide this information.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 August 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 18 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money it has spent on its central heating programme per local authority area in each of the last five years.
Answer
In the private sector the information is not held by local authority areas, but for Scotland as a whole. For Scotland as a whole, the information is shown in the following table:
| Financial Year | Expenditure (£ Million) |
| 2003-04 | 30.34 |
| 2004-05 | 43.46 |
| 2005-06 | 52.20 |
| 2006-07 | 37.64 |
| 2007-081,2 | 48.06 |
| Total | 211.70 |
Notes:
1. The expenditure for 2007-08 is an estimate as the accruals process has still to be finalised.
2. The original budget allocation for the central heating programme in 2007-08 was £40.6 million. Around £8 million in additional resources was provided to meet the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing''s Winter Waiting Time Initiative and install the highest number of systems ever installed in the private sector in any one year.
In the public sector the Programme ended for local authorities in March 2004 and, therefore, no installations were undertaken by local authorities in 2004-05. The information covering 2003-04 is shown in the following table.
| Local Authority Area | Expenditure (£ Million) 2003-04 |
| Argyle and Bute Council | 0.01 |
| Dundee City Council | 0.69 |
| East Ayrshire Council | 0.03 |
| East Renfrewshire | 0.28 |
| Fife Council | 0.60 |
| Inverclyde Council | 0.06 |
| Midlothian Council | 0.01 |
| Orkney Council | 0.01 |
| Renfrewshire Council | 0.10 |
| Shetland Council | 0.04 |
| South Lanarkshire Council | 2.0 |
| West Dunbartonshire Council | 0.05 |
| Total | 3.88 |
With the exception of Glasgow Housing Association (GHA), the programme for housing associations ended in December 2004. Therefore, the information provided covers 2003-04 and 2004-05, the final year the programme was in place for housing associations, and is shown in the following table:
| Local Authority Area | Expenditure (£ Million) 2003-04 | Expenditure (£ Million) 2004-05 |
| Aberdeen City Council | 0.005 | 0.0025 |
| City of Edinburgh | 0.85 | 0.30 |
| Glasgow City Council | 2.69 | 0.95 |
| Highland Council | 0.0025 | 0 |
| Renfrewshire Council | 0.073 | 0.0025 |
| Total | 3.62 | 1.25 |
For GHA, the Programme ended in March 2007. Therefore, all the installations were undertaken in the Glasgow City Council area and the information shown in the following table covers the period 2003-04 until 2006-07.
| Year | Expenditure (£ Million) |
| 2003-04 | 2.99 |
| 2004-05 | 4.12 |
| 2005-06 | 4.80 |
| 2006-07 | 8.22 |
| Total | 20.13 |
