- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 14 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications under the central heating programme have been made in each year since its inception.
Answer
I have askedJames Hynd, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Hisresponse is as follows:
Information inthe format requested is not held prior to 2006-07.
In 2006-07,25,133 householders applied to the Programme and in 2007-08 15, 197 haveapplied, to the end of September.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 14 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting times have been from (a) application to assessment and (b) assessment to installation under the central heating programme in each year since its inception.
Answer
I have askedJames Hynd, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Hisresponse is as follows:
Information inthe format requested is not held centrally. However, information is held on theaverage waiting time from application to installation.
The averagewaiting time on the central heating programme reported by the Managing Agentsince 2002-03 is shown in the following table:
Average WaitingTime (Months)
| Year | |
| 2002-03 | 8 |
| 2003-04 | 8 |
| 2004-05 | 5-6 |
| 2005-06 | 5-6 |
| 2006-07 | 5 |
| 2007-08 (current) | 5-6 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 14 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many central heating systems have been installed in the Scottish Borders under the central heating programme in each year since its inception.
Answer
I have askedJames Hynd, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Hisresponse is as follows:
Information aboutthe central heating programme is only available by postcode area.
The number ofsystems installed in the TD postcode area is shown in the table below:
No. of SystemsInstalled in TD Postcode Area
| Year | |
| 2001-02 | 19 |
| 2002-03 | 70 |
| 2003-04 | 244 |
| 2004-05 | 427 |
| 2005-06 | 286 |
| 2006-07 | 179 |
| 2007-08 (to date) | 80 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 9 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to review the Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order 1999.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer I gave to her earlier question on this matter S3O-831 on 4 October 2007 which is available on the Parliament’s website, the searchfacility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/sch/search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 30 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many notices of intended prosecution were served to drivers of foreign-registered vehicles in each year since 1999 and, of these, how many resulted in (a) a fine being paid by the owner or driver and (b) no fine being paid.
Answer
It is not possibleto identify prosecutions of drivers of foreign-registered vehicles from other driversfrom the data held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 30 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases involving fraudulent motoring documents being issued by garage owners have been notified to the authorities in each year since 1999, broken down by category of document.
Answer
The availableinformation is given in the following table. The Road Traffic Act 1988 Section173 deals with the forgery of documents such as licences, test certificates,and plating certificates. It is not possible to identify garage owners orcategories of documents from the data held centrally.
Persons ProceededAgainst1 in Scottish Courts for Offences Under the Road Traffic Act1988 Section 1732, 1999-2000 - 2005-06
| Financial Year | Number |
| 1999-2000 | 41 |
| 2000-01 | 25 |
| 2001-02 | 26 |
| 2002-03 | 22 |
| 2003-04 | 37 |
| 2004-05 | 32 |
| 2005-06 | 23 |
Notes:
1.Figures may be slight underestimates due to some under-representation ofacquittals data from SCRO.
2.Where main offence.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Tricia Marwick on 30 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body who is responsible for (a) purchasing and (b) exhibiting art works in the Parliament.
Answer
The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body is responsible for purchasing and exhibiting artworks in the Parliament. In previous sessions, an Art Advisory Group (AAG),comprising members and external representation, has supported the SPCB in thisactivity. The AAG is currently being re-established. An acquisitions anddisposal policy agreed by the SPCB exists to guide the principles and ethicalconsiderations around collecting art appropriate for display in the Scottish Parliament. At official level, the art curator/exhibitions manager is responsiblefor the management and care, including the display, of artworks in the Scottish Parliament building.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Tricia Marwick on 30 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what funding has been available for art works in each year since 1999 and how much was spent in each year.
Answer
The Scottish ParliamentaryCorporate Body does not have a specific annual budget for the acquisition ofart. Where the SPCB mightdecide to purchase art, we would look to resource this through capitalcontingency, prioritising against other demands. The expenditure on the acquisition of art, whichincluded the establishment of an art collection for the Parliament, since 2002is as follows:
Expenditure onArtworks
| 2002-03 | £33,425 |
| 2003-04 | £200,890 |
| 2004-05 | £82,426 |
| 2005-06 | £33,000 |
| 2006-07 | £8,000 |
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Since 2005-6, theSPCB has identified a budget to manage the care of the art collection and it isused to resource areas of work such as conservation, loans, framing, display, labelling,installation and art handling services. The expenditure on this is as follows:
Expenditure onCare of Art Work
| 2005-06 | £11,737 |
| 2006-07 | £21,680 |
[s1]Suggestthis is omitted
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 30 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many foreign-registered vehicles stopped by police were found not to be in a roadworthy condition in each year since 1999.
Answer
This informationis not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 26 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many foreign-registered vehicles have been involved in road traffic accidents in each year since 1999.
Answer
Data about injuryroad accidents are collected by the Police and reported to the ScottishExecutive using the Stats 19 statistical report form. These returns cover onlyroad accidents in which one or more people were injured and which become knownto the police. The returns do not cover damage only accidents or accidents ofwhich the police are unaware because they were not reported by the public.
The method ofidentifying foreign vehicles in the Stats 19 returns changed at the start of2005. Up until the end of 2004, Police Forces were asked to identify foreignvehicles by means of special code in the "Vehicle Registration Mark"field. The following table shows the numbers identified using this old method.
| Year | Foreign Vehicles identified in Stats 19 returns as being involved in injury accidents |
| 1999 | 41 |
| 2000 | 33 |
| 2001 | 29 |
| 2002 | 30 |
| 2003 | 41 |
| 2004 | 37 |
Following areview of the Stats 19 specification, with effect from January 2005, police forceshave been asked to identify foreign vehicles by means of a new "ForeignRegistered Vehicle" field. The following table shows the numbersidentified using this new method.
| Year | Foreign Vehicles identified in Stats 19 returns as being involved in injury accidents |
| 2005 | 157 |
| 2006 | 138 |
It is clear thatthe new method has resulted in the identification of more foreign vehicles inthe Stats 19 returns.
