- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 21 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how it defines the music industry.
Answer
The music industry has no officialdefinition, but we take it to mean any activity which encourages involvement inmusic making across all age groups and music styles, and recognises and celebratesthe social, personal and economic value of music and music making.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether economic activity in the music sector is measured.
Answer
This information is not routinelycollated nor centrally compiled. The most recent relevant data is contained in the2003 Mapping the Music Industry in Scotland report compiled independentlyon behalf of Scottish Enterprise. Economic and employment data for 2003 obtainedfor the report include the following: £106 million generated annually in sales andmusic services; the industry is made up of approximately 2,040 full-time employeesand 2003 part-time workers, and annual consumer spending of around £331 millionon musical instruments and live and recorded music.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in light of the recent global success of KT Tunstall and Franz Ferdinand, the contribution of this type of economic activity to Scotland’s economy is measured.
Answer
I shall reply to the member as soon as possible.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria are used to judge whether or not its investment in the music industry has been successful.
Answer
The Scottish Executive uses arange of criteria including considering the effects on economic activity, measuredin terms of the impacts on the broader creative industries sector. The ScottishArts Council also measures audience participation figures for the music activitywhich it funds.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been allocated to the music industry in each year from 1999 until 2006 by each of its relevant departments.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally. The majority of funding for the music industry by the Executiveis routed through the Enterprise Networks, the Scottish Funding Council and the Scottish Arts Council. The Executive does not hold details of their expenditureas this is an operational matter for them. In addition, other Executive Departmentshave, in this period, provided substantial funding towards various music initiatives.Examples of these are:
The Health Department’s NationalProgramme for Improving Mental Health and Well-being funding to the Scottish Associationfor Mental Health (SAMH) to fund the One in Four booklet and music CD, plusan associated festival to promote its message, and
The Environment and Rural AffairsDepartment’s Rural Challenge Fund funding for local initiatives to bring music andother cultural opportunities to rural communities, with particular emphasis on enablingyoung people to access facilities and events.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to address disorder in or around marches and parades.
Answer
It is unacceptable that certain individuals latch on to marches purely as an excuse to indulge in bigoted and abusive behaviour. Following the publication of the Action Plan on Tackling Sectarianism in Scotland we now intend to look at the powers currently available to the police to deal with inappropriate behaviour around marches and parades.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 3 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-21897 by Hugh Henry on 18 January 2006, whether it will be making a submission to the UK Government’s review of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme and, if so, whether it will undertake consultation to inform its submission.
Answer
As I made clear in my answer to question S2W-21897, we have urged Scottish stakeholders to respond to the Home Office consultation, and we also intend to give stakeholders the opportunity to express their views directly to Home Office and Scottish Executive officials.
We do not plan to make a submission to the UK Government as part of the current consultation on the review. The Home Secretary is required to consult Scottish ministers on any changes to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme and our stance in response to this will be informed by the submissions of Scottish stakeholders to the consultation.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 20 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it makes any financial contribution to the operation of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority or to the financial compensation which the authority awards to victims.
Answer
Under the terms of an agreement with the Home Office, the Scottish Executive pays a percentage of the total UK cost of both compensation payments made under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme, and the administration costs of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority and Appeals Panel. That percentage is based on a rolling average of Scottish claims on the scheme over the previous three years. Over the past few years this has fluctuated between 11-13%. In 2004-05 the Executive’s contribution was £20.6 million (11%).
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 18 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it will make in respect of the UK Government’s current consultation on the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme.
Answer
I am writing to a range of stakeholders inviting them to respond to the UK Government’s consultation paper on the reform of Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme, and to initiate discussions on developments in the way in which victim services in Scotland are delivered in the light of any changes to the Scheme.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 22 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, following its consultation exercise in summer 2005, when it will announce its plans to reform arrangements for handling complaints about lawyers.
Answer
The Scottish Executive will introducelegislation this session to establish a new independent body to handle such complaints.Our policy is that complaints from clients should be dealt with wherever possibleby the law firm or lawyer who provided the service in question. The new body, the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission, will act as a gateway to receive those complaintsabout lawyers which cannot be resolved at source. The new body will take over thehandling of complaints about inadequate professional service from the legal professionalbodies, the Scottish Legal Services Ombudsman and the Scottish Solicitors DisciplineTribunal.
The legal professional bodiesand their discipline tribunals will retain responsibility for professional discipline.The commission will accordingly refer complaints about the conduct of lawyers tothe professional bodies for investigation, but will have powers to oversee the wayin which conduct complaints are handled. The commission will be led by a board whichwill have a non-lawyer majority and a non-lawyer chair.
The arrangements we propose recognisethe strong message from the response to our consultation that there should be anindependent complaints handling body and that its powers should be vested in a boardrather than a single officeholder. The new system aims to build public confidencein the system for handling complaints against lawyers while the commission willalso have the role of promoting good practice in complaints handling by law firmsand practitioners. The commission will be funded by the legal profession througha general levy on legal practitioners and a levy on complaints. Vexatious or frivolouscomplaints will be sifted out and will not be the subject of a levy.