- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 18 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the additional #0.5 billion announced to be spent on police forces, fire brigades and the prison services will be spent in the (a) Argyll and Bute and (b) West Dunbartonshire local authority area on the (i) police, (ii) fire service and (iii) prison service.
Answer
The amount of additional funding, provided from the spending review in 2002 over the three years 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06, was as follows:
| | £ million |
| Police | 317 |
| Fire | 72 |
| Prisons | 15 |
The breakdown for Argyll and Bute and West Dunbartonshire is not available as it is a matter for the relevant Chief Constable, Fire Master or Chief Executive (in conjunction with the Prison Board) to decide how much is allocated within each area. However, the amounts added to Strathclyde Police and Strathclyde Fire Brigade Grant Aided Expenditure, following the spending review were as follows.
| 2003-04(£ million) | 2004-05(£ million) | 2005-06(£ million) |
| Police | 18 | 41 | 71 |
| Fire | 5 | 10 | 16 |
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 18 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any assets sei'ed from illegal drug dealing have been redistributed to the (a) West Dunbartonshire and (b) Argyll and Bute local authority area.
Answer
None of the recovered criminal assets we have redistributed so far have been provided specifically to West Dunbartonshire or Argyll and Bute. However, £180,000 from recovered criminal assets has been earmarked to support families across Scotland affected by drug misuse. A national network of family support groups is being established, and this is being driven by a steering group of family members. This will determine, in due course, how these resources can best be used to support the families of drug misusers, including those in West Dunbartonshire and Argyll and Bute.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 18 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the monetary value is of drugs sei'ed by the L Division of Strathclyde Police and the Scottish Drugs Enforcement Agency since the inception of the policy to reinvest assets recovered from illegal drug dealing.
Answer
During 2001-02, the estimated street value of controlled drugs seized in all operations involving the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency (including those involving Scottish police forces) was £19.9 million. Equivalent figures for individual divisions of police forces are only available on a calendar year basis. The estimated street value of controlled drugs seized by L Division of Strathclyde Police in the calendar years 2001 and 2002 was £686,000. The estimated value of drugs seized is of course different from the value of assets recovered.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 18 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many community safety partnerships there are currently in the Dumbarton parliamentary constituency and when each partnership was established.
Answer
Each local authority area has a community safety partnership. Therefore there are two partnerships in the Dumbarton parliamentary constituency area, one led by Argyll and Bute Council and the other led by West Dunbartonshire Council.The community safety partnership in Argyll and Bute was established on 4 June 1999. The West Dunbartonshire community safety partnership was established on 22 January 1999.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Elaine Murray on 17 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-31383 by Dr Elaine Murray on 18 November 2002, how much additional money has been allocated to school sport in the (a) Argyll and Bute and (b) West Dunbartonshire local authority area in each year since 1998-99.
Answer
Through the School Sports Co-ordinator Programme, school sport in the Argyll and Bute and West Dunbartonshire local authority areas has benefited since 1998-99 by £43,145 and £139,870 respectively as outlined in the following table. West Dunbartonshire Council applied to the programme on behalf of all schools in its area whereas Argyll and Bute Council decided to leave it to individual schools to decide whether to apply to the programme for funding. Neither local authority is involved in the Active Primary School Programme or the TOP Programme.The Executive's aim is to increase participation in sport at all age levels and in particular instil healthy positive attitudes in our children and young people towards sport and physical activity in all parts of Scotland. To assist that objective the Executive has allocated significant additional resources to school sport in particular in its most recent budget.
Sportscotland will work with all education authorities including Argyll and Bute and West Dunbartonshire in developing these programmes further.
| Year | Argyll and Bute | West Dunbartonshire |
| 1998-99 | £0 | £0 |
| 1999-2000 | £1,945 | £0 |
| 2000-01 | £10,440 | £92,830 |
| 2001-02 | £7,340 | £0 |
| 2002-03 | £23,420 | £47,040 |
| | £43,145 | £139,870 |
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #42 million funding for Sure Start Scotland was paid to (a) Argyll and Bute Council and (b) West Dunbartonshire Council and what the money was spent on.
Answer
Argyll and Bute Council received £653,000 during the first three years of the Sure Start Scotland programme. Their allocation has been spent on a range of projects including extending existing childminding provision; improving the existing daycare provision for travelling families; expanding the number of respite and activity groups; establishing parenting services, and offering outreach family support projects.West Dunbartonshire Council received £1,106,000 during the first three years of the Sure Start Scotland programme. Their allocation has been spent on a range of projects including expanding the number of nursery places available for children 0 to 3; increasing the number of childminders; providing mobile crèches, and providing a wide range of parenting support, including parent and toddler groups.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of older people in the (a) Argyll and Bute and (b) West Dunbartonshire local authority area received intensive home care in each year since 1996.
Answer
The statistics requested are available from 1998 onwards, and are contained in the table:Table1: Percentage of People Aged 65 and Over Receiving Intensive Home Care
| Local Authority | Year |
| 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
| Argyll and Bute | 0.94% | 0.90% | 1.24% | 1.23% | 1.46% |
| West Dunbartonshire | 1.59% | 1.67% | 1.63% | 1.72% | 1.85% |
Source: Home Care Statistical Return H1.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 12 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many modern apprenticeships have been taken up by residents of the (a) West Dunbartonshire and (b) Argyll and Bute local authority area in each year since 1999.
Answer
Eighty-eight residents of West Dunbartonshire took up a modern apprenticeship in 1999-2000; 141 in 2000-01; 262 in 2001-02 and 255 in 2002-03 (to end January 2003). The numbers for Argyll and Bute local authority area are not collected centrally.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to its news release SEfm075/2002 on 28 October 2002, how its relocation policy review will be implemented.
Answer
The implementation of the new strand to the relocation policy will be taken forward in consultation with key public sector stakeholders.The Executive has written to bodies covered by the relocation policy requesting that they identify small units of work that could be successfully carried out in more remote areas, without compromising efficiency. Reviews will then be carried out on the most promising opportunities.More detailed aspects of how the scheme will operate have been discussed with Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, and COSLA. The Executive will shortly be writing to all local authorities and local enterprise companies to alert them to the details.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 21 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the timetable is for current and planned relocation reviews as part of the public service job relocation policy.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-32492 on 11 December 2002. 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/search_wa.
