- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 5 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the reallocation of fishing opportunities outlined in paragraph 2 of Article 23(4) of EU Council Regulation (EC) No. 2371/2002 would be for one year only or for an indefinite period.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-33475 today. 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.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 5 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether reallocation of fishing opportunities as outlined in Article 23(4) of EU Council Regulation (EC) No. 2371/2002 is compatible with the principle of relative stability.
Answer
Yes.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 3 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the European Commission with regard to funding a compensation scheme for the Scottish fishing industry.
Answer
The question of any compensation arrangements for industry is a matter, in the first instance, for the Executive. I announced the planned £50 million package of measures on 28 January. Officials will be pursuing with the European Commission any necessary matters, such as the need for EC State Aid approvals for the assistance proposed.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 3 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what sources of funding are available to fishing communities from the commission; what discussions it has had with the European Commission in respect of each such funding source, and what its position is on whether each such funding source should be pursued.
Answer
Funding to Scottish fishing communities is available through both European Structural Funds Programmes and other Community Initiatives. For individual communities the availability of funding is determined by the geographic coverage of programmes and initiatives and the specific measures targeted within each. Discussions with the Commission establish and set the total funding available to Scotland for each Structural Fund Programme. On-going discussions with the Commission as part of the monitoring process will assess whether any re-prioritisation of funding between measures is required and also to establish whether co-operation between programmes is required to target aid towards specific communities.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 3 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Her Majesty's Government with regard to funding a compensation scheme for the Scottish fishing industry.
Answer
Following the outcome of the December Fisheries Council, I and officials have had numerous discussions with our Whitehall counterparts about support measures for the industry. We, along with industry representatives, met the Prime Minister on 28 January to discuss issues related to the industry. I announced on the same day a £50 million package of measures to assist the sector.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding, including any agreed changes to the funding formula and additional grants, was received by each police force in each of the last three years and is projected to be allocated to each police force in each of the next two years, expressed per head of population in each police force area and what the average of such funding was per head of population in Scotland as a whole in each of the last three years.
Answer
The information is shown in the following table.Actual and Planned Budget Per Head of Population
| Force Area | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 |
| Central | £122 | £129 | £134 | £146 | £151 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | £148 | £155 | £159 | £169 | £177 |
| Fife | £120 | £127 | £129 | £143 | £151 |
| Grampian | £122 | £132 | £140 | £151 | £160 |
| Lothian and Borders | £152 | £161 | £171 | £182 | £190 |
| Northern | £142 | £156 | £159 | £170 | £177 |
| Strathclyde | £158 | £170 | £178 | £192 | £201 |
| Tayside | £151 | £160 | £165 | £177 | £183 |
| Scotland | £147 | £157 | £165 | £177 | £185 |
Notes:(i) The figures include police Grant Aided Expenditure and, in those years where it was paid separately, additional funding provided to authorities for additional recruitment, DNA testing and the National Intelligence Model. Other additional funding provided to forces for specific purposes (for example in 2001-02 and 2002-03 for additional pressures post 11 September) has not been included. The figures do not include capital expenditure by forces.(ii) Estimated population at 30 June 2000 has been used to calculate the figures for 2000-01. Estimated population at 30 June 2001 has been used for the remainder of the table.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 28 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive where the 15% figure in respect of possible future decommissioning originated and how this figure was calculated.
Answer
Article 6 of Annex XVII of Council Regulation 2341/2002 provides that the Commission may allocate additional fishing days to member states on the basis of the results or expected results of decommissioning programmes in 2002 and 2003. As part of the negotiations during the December 2002 Agriculture and Fisheries Council, the number of days a UK vessel could spend at sea in the regulated area carrying nets of mesh sizes of 100mm or more was negotiated upwards from seven days to 15 days per month. This was partly on the basis that further decommissioning in the UK during 2003 would reduce our fishing effort on cod by a further 15 to 20%.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 27 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of NHS funding has been given to each NHS board area and what percentage of NHS activity has been carried out in each board area in each of the last three years.
Answer
The percentage of NHS expenditure and activity for each board area for the last three years is shown in the following table:Percentage of NHS Expenditure and NHS Activity Per NHS Board Area
| | 2001-02 | 2000-01 | 1999-2000 |
| Board | Funding % | Activity % | Funding % | Activity % | Funding % | Activity % |
| Argyll and Clyde | 7.6 | 7.1 | 7.8 | 6.9 | 7.7 | 6.9 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 6.5 | 7.4 | 6.5 | 7.1 | 6.5 | 7.1 |
| Borders | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.8 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 2.8 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 2.8 |
| Fife | 5.6 | 5.9 | 5.6 | 5.9 | 5.6 | 5.7 |
| Forth Valley | 4.9 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 4.9 | 4.3 |
| Greater Glasgow | 21.3 | 23.1 | 21.2 | 23.3 | 21.4 | 23.0 |
| Grampian | 9.5 | 9.5 | 9.6 | 9.6 | 9.7 | 9.7 |
| Highland | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.1 |
| Lanarkshire | 9.5 | 9.2 | 9.0 | 9.1 | 9.0 | 9.7 |
| Lothian | 15.6 | 15.1 | 15.4 | 15.7 | 15.5 | 15.7 |
| Tayside | 8.8 | 8.0 | 9.1 | 8.3 | 9.0 | 8.3 |
| Orkney | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| Shetland | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
| Western Isles | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Notes:1. Trust reported expenditure has been used as a proxy for funding as this more appropriately relates to activity levels within NHS board areas. The funding percentages are based on the published Annual Accounts of individual NHS trusts and Island Health Boards as presented to Parliament.2. Activity percentages are based on the Scottish Key Indicators Package for Performance (SKIPPER), produced by the Information Services Division (ISD) of the Common Services Agency (CSA). Total activity = elective in-patients + non-elective in-patients + day cases.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 24 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vessels are entitled to fish in the Scottish 'one and whether it will give a breakdown of such vessels registered (a) in and (b) outwith Scotland.
Answer
All UK licensed fishing vessels, just over 6,470, are entitled to fish in the Scottish fishery zone. In addition, vessels from other member states and third countries are also entitled to fish in the zone.Of the UK licensed vessels, 2,333 have a port of registration in Scotland with the remainder having registration markings linked to ports outwith Scotland.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 23 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to address any increase in the level of crack cocaine use and whether any measures already introduced have met with success and, if so, whether it will give details of such measures, with particular regard to Grampian.
Answer
Effective strategic and tactical tasking and co-ordinating arrangements established in Scotland, together with a willingness of agencies to work together, mean that law enforcement is well placed to respond to a crack cocaine threat.In March 2002, the Scottish Drugs Enforcement Agency (SDEA), in collaboration with the National Criminal Intelligence Service, produced an assessment of the impact of cocaine and crack cocaine in Scotland and made recommendations on how enforcement agencies might best respond to the problem. This will be updated in the current financial year. The SDEA is also represented on the Association of Chief Police Officers' Crack Cocaine Group, which provides Scottish Police Forces with information on developments in England and Wales.Since 1997, Grampian Police have proactively targeted individuals involved in the sale or supply of crack cocaine. Long- and short-term operations have been mounted in relation to these individuals, in addition to the continual application of disruption techniques. Grampian Police Drug Squad have forged links with the West Midlands Police and Metropolitan Police in order to improve the flow of intelligence, and this is steadily reaping benefits.Data on the extent of the problem and the number of seizures of cocaine and crack cocaine are provided in the response to S1W-33149 today. 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.
