- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 8 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what output was in each of the last five years for which figures are available in each of the textile, footwear, leather and clothing manufacturing sectors.
Answer
Data on the gross output of manufacturing businesses in Scotland are available from the Scottish Production Database for the five years to 1997 as follows:
| | Gross output (£ million) |
1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 |
Textiles | 913 | 958 | 920 | 1027 | 979 |
Clothing | 714 | 774 | 874 | 967 | 857 |
Leather and Footwear | 120 | 95 | 126 | 110 | 137 |
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 8 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what the NHS capital allocations and actual expenditure were for each health board in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Answer
The following table sets out the capital allocations and expenditure for each health board area for the period 1997-98 to 1999-2000:
Health Boards | 1997-98 Allocation £000 | 1997-98 Expenditure £000 | 1998-99 Allocation £000 | 1998-99 Expenditure £000 | 1999-2000 Allocation £000 | 1999-2000 Provisional Expenditure* £000 |
Argyll & Clyde | 7,167 | 5,404 | 6,200 | 5,043 | 3,750 | 3,500 |
Ayr & Arran | 8,347 | 7,798 | 7,335 | 6,005 | 3,411 | 2,181 |
Borders | 2,172 | 282 | 4,352 | 1,303 | 5,943 | 4,119 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 3,889 | 2,379 | 1,969 | 1,221 | 2,423 | 1,183 |
Fife | 4,332 | 3,207 | 3,266 | 2,478 | 5,837 | 2,687 |
Forth Valley | 3,856 | 2,267 | 4,951 | 3,821 | 6,178 | 4,065 |
Grampian | 10,060 | 7,698 | 12,343 | 10,910 | 8,167 | 6,526 |
Greater Glasgow | 34,901 | 27,759 | 27,535 | 23,876 | 45,341 | 38,918 |
Highland | 7,212 | 6,357 | 5,726 | 4,644 | 5,371 | 3,704 |
Lanarkshire | 9,826 | 7,060 | 19,960 | 16,515 | 10,525 | 6,937 |
Lothian | 30,278 | 19,759 | 33,616 | 22,882 | 39,173 | 27,301 |
Orkney | 758 | 758 | 1,353 | 1,353 | 2,474 | 2,474 |
Shetland | 2,662 | 2,662 | 1,052 | 1,052 | 2,279 | 2,279 |
Tayside | 31,974 | 25,081 | 16,774 | 8,059 | 6,665 | 984 |
Western Isles | 1,132 | 1,132 | 972 | 972 | 3,345 | 3,345 |
TOTAL | 158,566 | 119,603 | 147,404 | 110,134 | 150,882 | 110,203 |
* The 1999-2000 figures are unaudited.
Capital to revenue transfers amounting to £39.0 million, £37.3 million and £40.7 million in 1997-98, 1998-99 and 1999-2000 respectively were made to enable health boards and NHS Trusts to meet the costs of minor projects and non-added value elements of capital schemes.
From 2000-01 onwards, all capital funds must be spent on capital items.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 4 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Voluntary Charter on Smoking in Public Places will improve the current situation where 92% of public houses in areas of deprivation do not have smoking policies in place to protect the health of staff and customers.
Answer
I refer Mr Gibson to the answer to question S1W-8262 on 10 July 2000.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 31 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive who would have jurisdiction over an individual suffering from mental illness in prison and who would deal with any possible lapse in care.
Answer
I have asked Mr Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:
The Prison Governor, supported by medical and nursing staff, has responsibility for the physical and mental wellbeing of all prisoners in his custody. It would be the Governor's responsibility to deal with any identified lapse in care.
- 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 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 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 the registration and monitoring of sex offenders has cost each police force in each financial year since registration was enacted and what additional resources it has given to each police force in each of these years to enable them to carry out regular sex offender profiling and ensure that offenders who are released from prison are registered and regularly monitored without affecting other front-line police services.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. It is for chief constables to allocate resources according to priorities and demands in their force area. Funding from the Executive is not, therefore, earmarked for specific purposes.
- 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 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.
