- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 23 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the Scottish Government is doing to promote the Scottish film industry in the wake of the UK film industry's recent success at the Oscars
Answer
This is a matter forNHS Ayrshire and Arran.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-568 by Fiona Hyslop on 18 June 2007, whether any consultation will be held on where free school meals pilot schemes will take place before plans for the pilots are published.
Answer
Details of the localauthorities that have been selected to take part in the free school meals pilotschemes were announced on Wednesday 11 July 2007. The pilots willinvolve all pupils in primary 1 to primary 3 (P1 to P3) in Glasgow City Council,West Dunbartonshire Council, Fife Council, East Ayrshire Council and Scottish BordersCouncil. These authorities have been selected because they include recognised areasof deprivation and cover urban areas as well as small towns and rural areas. Furtherdetails of the pilots will be set out in due course.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has set up a working group on the regulation of houses in multiple occupation.
Answer
The Scottish governmentis mindful of the complex nature of the issues surrounding provision and regulationof houses of multiple occupation and we are considering new guidance to help addressthis. There will be close engagement with stakeholders in developing guidance.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-568 by Fiona Hyslop on 18 June 2007, when plans for free school meals pilot schemes will be published.
Answer
I refer the memberto the question S3W-1215 on 17 July 2007. 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: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 12 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it supports any form of regulation of the bus industry.
Answer
As part of the implementationof
Moving Into the Future – An Action Plan for Buses in Scotland, we arecurrently working with stakeholders to ensure the effective operation of the currentbus regulatory regime in Scotland.
Under the Transport(Scotland) Act 2001, transport authorities have theoption of entering into statutory Quality Partnerships and developing Quality Contractswhere they consider these appropriate. To support transport authorities use of thesepowers we are reviewing the 2001 legislation and will consider what changes maybe required to simplify its operation in due course.
Beyond this, thereare no plans to re-regulate the bus industry in Scotland.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to increase the level of affordable rented accommodation.
Answer
Decisions on affordable housing investment beyond2008 will depend on the outcome of the spending review process later this year.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is monitoring the tenants’ right to buy housing policy.
Answer
Yes, the tenants’right to buy housing policy is monitored by the Scottish Government.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will monitor the operation of pressurised area status exercised by local authorities.
Answer
Whilst pressured areadesignations which suspend the right to buy for some tenants are granted by the Scottish ministers, they are implemented by local authorities. The Scottish Governmentmaintains an overview of all designations in place but it is for local authoritiesto manage the application of designations in their local areas.
The Scottish Governmentmonitors right to buy sales on an on-going basis, and will look in particular atsales from 30 September 2007, when tenants affected by designations beginto be eligible to buy, in order to observe the impact of pressured area designationson sales.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will monitor the number of families living in overcrowded accommodation awaiting suitable tenancies.
Answer
The Scottish Executive collects information on numbers of applicants on housinglists, but this does not include details of individual household circumstances ascollecting such a level of detail would place an excessive burden on social landlords.As part of its regulation and inspection role, Communities Scotland looks at whether or not a local authority orregistered social landlord gives reasonable preference to overcrowded householdsthrough its allocation policy, but does not collect this information routinely.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what priority it will give to housing policy.
Answer
The Scottish Governmentplaces a very high priority on housing policy. We set out our immediate plans duringthe Executive Debate on Housing on 21 June, which include pursuing a new Housing Supply Task Force andimplementing the manifesto proposal for a new Scottish HousingSupport Fund.