- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 29 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many manufacturing jobs created through inward investment were lost in each of the last five years and how many of these were in Glasgow.
Answer
Records of manufacturing jobs created by inward investors which have been lost over a five year period are not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.The numbers given for loss of manufacturing jobs are based on figures supplied by the Scottish Executive and relate to jobs lost by companies whose ultimate parent is based outwith Scotland regardless of whether the company was initially attracted to Scotland by LiS or its partners. The number of jobs lost in Glasgow since 1995 by companies whose primary activity is manufacturing and whose ultimate parents are based outwith Scotland are listed below:
1995-96 | 93 |
1996-97 | 1,220 |
1997-98 | 400 |
1998-99 | 68 |
1999-2000 | 167 |
Over the same period, Locate in Scotland and its partners helped attract 776 manufacturing jobs to Glasgow and a total of 9,313 jobs across all sectors.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider introducing conditional offers, similar to those used for speeding offences, for other offences.
Answer
Conditional offers may already be made by Procurators Fiscal for crimes and offences other than road traffic offences. There is extensive use of this power for less serious crimes and offences.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how much additional funding it will allocate to each police force to assist in the establishment of race crime units.
Answer
Race crime units have been suggested in a response to the consultation on our action plan for implementing the recommendations in the MacPherson Report on the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry. The suggestion is being considered by the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Steering Group in Scotland but there are no current plans to establish such units.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 29 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many manufacturing jobs were created through inward investment in Dundee in each of the last five years and how many manufacturing jobs created through inward investment were lost in Dundee in each of these years.
Answer
Locate in Scotland does not keep records of how many jobs are created by individual companies each year. The figures, therefore, reflect the number of jobs planned by a company when its decision to proceed with a project was made. In addition, the figures refer only to projects in which Locate in Scotland and its partners had significant involvement in attracting the project to Scotland. The figures below relate to projects where the company made a decision to locate or expand in Dundee and where manufacturing is the main activity carried out. All jobs in manufacturing projects are not necessarily manufacturing jobs.
1995-96 | 122 |
1996-97 | 11 |
1997-98 | 0 |
1998-99 | 30 |
1999-2000 | 167 |
The job losses in manufacturing jobs are based on figures supplied by the Scottish Executive and relate to jobs lost by companies whose ultimate parent is based outwith Scotland regardless of whether the company was initially attracted to Scotland by LiS or its partners. The number of jobs lost in Dundee since 1995 by companies whose primary activity is manufacturing and whose ultimate parents are based outwith Scotland are listed below:
1995-96 | 39 |
1996-97 | 0 |
1997-98 | 0 |
1998-99 | 333 |
1999-2000 | 107 |
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what capital resources, in real terms, were allocated to each police force in each year from 1995-1996 to 1999-2000 and what the allocations will be in 2001-02.
Answer
There are two sources of capital allocated to police forces. The capital allocations, issued under Section 94 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and financed by borrowing, determines the amount of capital expenditure a police authority may undertake in a given year. In addition, five forces use revenue to fund capital expenditure - known as capital from current revenue (CFCR). CFCR is funded by a combination of police grant and general revenue. It is used mainly for expenditure on vehicles and other items with a relatively short asset life. Forces may also use capital receipts eg arising from the disposal of assets to augment their capital spending. Capital allocations for 2001-02 have not yet been determined.
The information requested, at 2000-01 prices, is shown in the table below.
Police Capital Resources: Section 94 and CFCR at 2000-01 Prices
| 1995-96 | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 |
Force | S94 | CFCR | S94 | CFCR | S94 | CFCR | S94 | CFCR | S94 | CFCR | S94 | CFCR |
Central | 515 | 525 | 962 | 411 | 934 | 336 | 444 | 282 | 352 | 316 | 2722 | 310 |
D&G | 248 | 177 | 827 | 164 | 803 | 135 | 817 | 255 | 666 | 252 | 705 | 260 |
Fife | 5,115 | 0 | 584 | 0 | 1,458 | 0 | 1,182 | 0 | 1,012 | 0 | 765 | 0 |
Grampian | 276 | 1,208 | 668 | 723 | 971 | 910 | 255 | 787 | 1,262 | 767 | 444 | 775 |
L&B | 900 | 1,378 | 1,458 | 1,229 | 1,415 | 1,093 | 1,052 | 1,090 | 1,301 | 1,022 | 2,833 | 1,000 |
Northern | 1,462 | 0 | 2,077 | 0 | 3,031 | 0 | 7,074 | 0 | 2,772 | 0 | 1,198 | 0 |
Strathclyde | 6,784 | 0 | 11,267 | 0 | 10,931 | 0 | 6,550 | 0 | 9,951 | 0 | 8,726 | 0 |
Tayside | 1,198 | 0 | 1,936 | 205 | 1,841 | 183 | 1,242 | 159 | 849 | 153 | 350 | 150 |
Total | 16,948 | 3,288 | 19,779 | 2,732 | 21,385 | 2,658 | 18,618 | 2,573 | 18,164 | 2,510 | 17,743 | 2,495 |
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider using wage or benefit arrestment as a means of recouping fines from offenders who have defaulted.
Answer
Under the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, the courts already have extensive powers to recover fines (including possible seizure of earnings). We have no plans to modify those powers at present.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what the anticipated costs of the European Convention on Human Rights will be to each police force in 2001-02 in terms of additional capital requirements.
Answer
No such estimate of costs has been made. Capital allocations are issued annually on the basis of bids submitted by Forces. Following the distribution of the allocations it is for Forces to determine their spending priorities.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights into Scots law will have on police surveillance operations and informant handling.
Answer
The need to ensure compliance with the Convention on these matters is recognised and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Scotland) Bill currently before the Scottish Parliament will address this.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive which police forces had a financial deficit at end of (a) 1998-99 and (b) 1999-2000; what deficit it anticipates each police force will have at the end 2001-2002 and how it intends to address any such deficits.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. It is the responsibility of police authorities to set their force budgets and to monitor expenditure.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 29 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many manufacturing jobs there were in Scotland in each of the last five years and how many of these were in (a) Glasgow and (b) Dundee.
Answer
Figures for Glasgow and Dundee are available from September 1995 to September 1998. In addition, an estimate for September 1999 is given for Scotland in the table belowEmployee jobs in Manufacturing, 1995-1999 (000s)
Year | Scotland | Glasgow | Dundee |
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 | 321 316 322 316 300 | 34.7 31.3 32.0 31.9 | 10.6 12.1 10.6 12.0 |
Source:
Office for National Statistics, Annual Employment Survey, and quarterly employee job estimates.