- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 5 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether funding changes are proposed for any well-man clinics in Glasgow.
Answer
This is a matter for NHS GreaterGlasgow and Clyde. I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-26356on 5 June 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 5 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it provides to well-man clinics in Glasgow, broken down by clinic.
Answer
Funding for well man clinicsacross Scotland was provided by the Executive during 2004-05 and 2005-06.NHS Greater Glasgow was included in this pilot programme.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will usethe experience gained from the well man pilots to build on and engage with men atrisk of ill-health in their area, with particular focus on Prevention 2010 areas.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 2 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what antenatal care is available to mothers with a drug addiction, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
This is a matter for individualNHS boards. The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether conditions are placed on local authorities regarding how they spend the money that they receive to address homelessness and, if so, what these conditions are.
Answer
The “ringfenced” HomelessnessTask Force funding allocated to local authorities to tackle homelessness in theirareas must be spent on the implementation of homelessness strategies, in a way whichis consistent with the achievement of the recommendations of the Homelessness TaskForce. The funding is subject to a set of standard terms and conditions as set outin the offer of grant letters which local authorities receive.
Local authorities also receivefunding which was originally associated with the Rough Sleepers Initiative, anda general homelessness allocation. These, like the Homelessness Task Force funding,are provided for the implementation of homelessness strategies. However, while badgedfor this purpose, these two lines are now distributed via the Revenue Support Grantwhich local authorities receive automatically on a weekly basis. As such they areunhypothecated, and local authorities are not obliged to spend these monies on homelessnessactivity.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 1 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when it last met Dundee City Council to discuss proposals for investment in city schools.
Answer
There was a meeting of officialson 18 August 2005 to discuss the council’s school estate managementplan, and an official attends meetings of the council’s schools PPP projectboard.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil service jobs there are in (a) Edinburgh, (b) Glasgow, (c) Aberdeen, (d) Dundee and (e) Inverness, also expressed as a percentage of the workforce in each of these locations.
Answer
The number of permanent staffemployed in the core departments of the Scottish Executive, Executive agenciesand associated departments in each of the cities, also expressed as a percentageof the working age population, is shown in the following table:
| | City | SE Staff | % of Workforce* |
| (a) | Edinburgh | 7,748.2 | 2.51% |
| (b) | Glasgow | 2,399.5 | 0.63% |
| (c) | Aberdeen | 551.6 | 0.41% |
| (d) | Dundee | 185.7 | 0.21% |
| (e) | Inverness | 282.5 | N/A |
Note: *The workforce figuresare based on the working age populations provided by GRO(S). These are producedby local authority area. Comparable figures for working age population in Inverness arenot available.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 1 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were sentenced to custody as a result of convictions for carrying a knife in (a) Scotland, (b) Aberdeen, (c) Dundee, (d) Edinburgh, (e) Glasgow and (f) Stirling in each of the last five years.
Answer
The following table sets outthe number of custodial convictions for carrying a knife or offensive weapon ina public place, broken down as requested. New guidelines on the prosecution of knifecrime will come into effect on 1 July 2006, following the end of the knife amnesty which commencedon 24 May, which will mean that those carryingor using a knife will be held in custody and may be prosecuted before a sheriffand jury, enabling sheriffs to impose a more severe punishment.
Custodial Convictions in ScottishCourts for Handling an Offensive Weapon1, 2000-01 to 2004-05
| Scotland | Possession of an Offensive Weapon2 | Having in a Public Place an Article with a Blade or a poInt | Total |
| 2000-01 | 281 | 351 | 632 |
| 2001-02 | 264 | 363 | 627 |
| 2002-03 | 276 | 451 | 727 |
| 2003-04 | 264 | 400 | 664 |
| 2004-05 | 303 | 458 | 761 |
| Aberdeen | | | |
| 2000-01 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| 2001-02 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
| 2002-03 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2003-04 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 2004-05 | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| Dundee | | | |
| 2000-01 | 6 | 10 | 16 |
| 2001-02 | 8 | 15 | 23 |
| 2002-03 | 8 | 9 | 17 |
| 2003-04 | 6 | 11 | 17 |
| 2004-05 | 12 | 10 | 22 |
| Edinburgh | | | |
| 2000-01 | 22 | 28 | 50 |
| 2001-02 | 15 | 28 | 43 |
| 2002-03 | 15 | 42 | 57 |
| 2003-04 | 15 | 39 | 54 |
| 2004-05 | 17 | 41 | 58 |
| Glasgow | | | |
| 2000-01 | 135 | 142 | 277 |
| 2001-02 | 119 | 133 | 252 |
| 2002-03 | 137 | 197 | 334 |
| 2003-04 | 121 | 134 | 255 |
| 2004-05 | 132 | 165 | 297 |
| Stirling | | | |
| 2000-01 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2001-02 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2002-03 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2003-04 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2004-05 | - | 3 | 3 |
Notes:
1. Where main offence.
2. Knives cannot be identifiedseparately from other types of offensive weapon in the data held for this crimecategory.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 31 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses in Dundee are now centrally-heated as a result of its central heating installation programme.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster,Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is as follows:
In local authority and housingassociation sectors, 2,260 households in Dundee have received a central heating system through the programme.
In the private sector the programmeis administered by Eaga Partnership, which holds information by main postcode area.From September 2001 to end of April 2006, Eaga has installed 2,825 central heatingsystems in pensioner households in the DD postcode area.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 31 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is any link between the number of homeless people in a given local authority area and the amount of money that the Executive makes available to address homelessness in that area.
Answer
The Rough Sleepers Initiativefunding was originally distributed on the basis of bids made by local authorities.This funding has been included in the Revenue Support Grant since 2002-03, and theproportion of funding allocated to each local authority has continued to be calculatedon the same basis.
The distribution of both HomelessnessTask Force and general homelessness (GAE) funding is based on an historic calculationof the numbers of homelessness applications as a proportion of the population, ineach local authority.
The Rough Sleepers Initiativewas integrated into the local authorities’ strategies and both funding streams nowsupport the implementation of these.
The Executive has made a commitmentto amalgamate currently distinct homelessness funding streams from 2007-08. Considerationis currently taking place around the most appropriate arrangements for doing so.
- Asked by: Shona Robison, MSP for Dundee East, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 31 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been made available to Dundee City Council specifically to deal with homeless people in each year since 1999.
Answer
The following table shows figuresfor funding made available to Dundee City Council since 1999-2000, to deal withissues of homelessness, broken down into the different funding lines.
| 2006-07 |
| Rough Sleepers Initiative in Grant Aided Expenditure (unhypothecated) | 262,000 |
| Homelessness Task Force | 498,867 |
| GAE (unhypothecated) | 111,000 |
| 2005-06 |
| RSI in GAE (unhypothecated) | 260,000 |
| Homelessness Task Force | 486,700 |
| GAE (unhypothecated) | 93,000 |
| 2004-05 |
| RSI in GAE (unhypothecated) | 251,000 |
| Homelessness Task Force | 486,700 |
| GAE (unhypothecated) | 90,000 |
| 2003-04 |
| RSI in GAE (unhypothecated) | 240,000 |
| Homelessness Task Force | 200,000 |
| Housing Act | 270,000 |
| GAE (unhypothecated) | 110,000 |
| 2002-03 |
| RSI in GAE (unhypothecated) | 240,000 |
| Homelessness Task Force | 73,000 |
| Housing Act | 287,000 |
| GAE (unhypothecated) | 105,000 |
| 2001-02 |
| RSI in GAE (unhypothecated) | 203,366 |
| Housing Act | 88,900 |
| GAE (unhypothecated) | 99,000 |
| 2000-01 |
| RSI | 241,459 |
| Temporary accommodation grant | 40,000 |
| GAE (unhypothecated) | 97,000 |
| 1999-2000 |
| RSI | 602,625 |
| GAE (unhypothecated) | 100,000 |
