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Question: 1 (1) Councillor Frank Mcaveety Tabled Question to Ask Question: 1 (1) Councillor Frank McAveety To ask the Leader of the Council to comment on the Glasgow Life Golf Tabled Question Courses consultation. Cllr David McDonald. Responder The City Government remains committed, where we can, to remove the barriers of cost, accessibility and location that can prevent people taking part in sporting activities at all levels. We recognise the importance of golf provision in the city and the role it has had in enabling people to experience the outdoors and the wider health benefits this can bring. However, we are faced with declining participation levels across the city, a challenging financial climate and substantial maintenance costs which raises questions regarding the long term sustainability of this service. The declining participation in the city reflects the trend in Scotland overall, with figures showing we have lost more golfers in recent years than any other European country. Perhaps more significantly there has been a national decline in municipal club membership of 12% in the last year compared with 1.6% for private clubs. For these reasons Glasgow Life has set up a Golf Working Group, chaired by Bailie Norman MacLeod, who you will know is also a member of the Glasgow Life Board. The working group will review the current service and consider potential future options. The group also includes officers from across Glasgow City Council and representatives from partner organisations, including; SportScotland, Golf Scotland and Glasgow Golf Union. The recent golf survey aims to gauge public views on the current golf service, which to date Glasgow Life has received over 1500 completed submissions, which will help inform the review. It should however be emphasised that no decision has been made on future golf provision in Glasgow. Question: 2 (2) Councillor Jane Morgan To ask the Leader of the Council to update on the latest discussions with the UK Tabled Question Government following SERCO’s announcement to evict 300 refugees from their homes? Cllr Susan Aitken, Leader of the Council and City Convener for Inclusive Economic Responder Growth I wish I was able to update the chamber on discussions with the UK Government regarding these threatened evictions of asylum seekers. Unfortunately, despite repeated invitations to the Immigration Minister to visit Glasgow to meet those involved in delivering the dispersal programme, she has been unable, so far, to find time in her diary to take up that invitation. In her most recent response Caroline Nokes MP did indicate that she has asked her office to consider arrangements for a visit, and I will certainly keep the Council informed of progress on that. On the subject of the threatened evictions, I have again written to the Home Office making clear our opposition to the use of lock changes to evict people into destitution on the streets of Glasgow. I would echo the Joint Statement from organisations supporting people affected by eviction threats, who said, “Destitution is a political choice on the part of the Home Office and has no place in a humane and well-functioning asylum and immigration system.” As council is aware, asylum policy is a reserved policy and our ability to respond is limited by law. Members will be aware that Serco is threatening these evictions now because they are leaving the city this autumn to be replaced by another contractor, Mears Group, who are taking up a potential ten-year contract to provide asylum accommodation and support across Scotland. With the support of Cllr Layden, the Chief Executive and other officers, have joined colleagues from across the UK in pressing the Home Office to match this change of contractor by implementing the wider actions needed to improve the dispersal system, including funding for local authorities and other service providers in reception areas. Yesterday, my SNP colleagues in Westminster secured a debate on immigration and raised again the urgent reform of asylum policy including better quality decision, proper financial support, better managed move on period, right to work, funded systems for accommodation to avoid this situation that Glasgow currently finds itself in. Cllr Layden will be attending a meeting with the Immigration Minister in London on behalf of COSLA on 8th July and will once again make the case for change in Home Office policy. Question: 3 (3) Councillor Martin Rhodes To ask the City Convener for Community Empowerment, Equalities and Human Tabled Question Rights for an update on the evaluation process for the Participatory Budgeting pilots. Cllr Jennifer Layden, City Convener for Community Empowerment, Equalities and Responder Human Rights Thank you for your question. In February 2019 Glasgow City Council commissioned the GCPH to undertake an evaluation of the four PB pilot wards in Calton, Canal, Pollokshields and Greater Pollock. The remit of the evaluation is to produce a concise report that captures the learning across the pilot areas. GCPH represents good value in undertaking this work given their recognised expertise in PB, their knowledge of the four pilot wards and their offer of matching the £6k evaluation budget from their core budget; therefore, doubling the evaluation resource. Their evaluation framework can be found on their website. The evaluation began in May 2019 and will conclude in September. It will include interviews with the PB pilot lead within Glasgow City Council, the pilot leads in each ward and focus groups with community members involved in the PB citizens panels. The evaluation will provide a clear account of the activity within each ward and pull together the strengths, challenges and key learning from the pilot overall. The GCPH will also make a series of recommendations for the next phase of PB within the City as well as providing some implications for the ‘mainstreaming’ of PB moving forward. On Tuesday this week, I attended and spoke at a Glasgow Disability Alliance event on disabled people’s experiences of participatory budgeting within the four ward based pilots. There is learning that has come from disabled peoples experiences, including access, resources to take part, peer support. I will ensure that this work will feed into our evaluation of PB. Following recess, I will set up a short life working group with cross party representation and officer support to take PB to the next level following on from the recommendations produced by the GCPH. The roll out of participatory budgeting is a key commitment for all local authorities and is a regular agenda item on the COSLA community wellbeing board, which I sit on. It is important that we as a council get this right, particularly ensuring that participation and community engagement is meaningful and we leave no one behind in this process. There will continue to be ongoing scrutiny and development at various council committees including OPSD, WECCE and Community Planning Partnership. Question: 4 (4) Councillor Malcolm Cunning To ask the City Convener for Neighbourhoods, Housing and Public Realm to Tabled Question update the chamber on discussions with the Scottish Government regarding the proposed Planning Bill. Cllr Kenny McLean, City Convener for Neighbourhoods, Housing and Public Responder Realm As the member will be aware, preparation of the Planning Bill followed a consultation triggered by the paper “Places, people and planning” issued by the Scottish Government in January 2017, and a consultation that ran to April 2017. The Bill was introduced to the Scottish Parliament on 4 December 2017 and passed Stage 3 on 20 June 2019. Over the period of the Bill, the Council considered a number of aspects, such as the possible introduction of third party or equal rights of appeal, and made its views known. The Council worked with the Heads of Planning Scotland to provide input to the detailed legislative process that has taken place over the past two years, and directly with the Scottish Government, including a meeting here in the City Chambers earlier this month. Following a period of four weeks to allow for any challenge through the parliament the bill will move to Royal Assent. Beyond that, there will be a series of secondary legislation procedures over the next few years to take forward the changes it has introduced. As mentioned in the parliamentary debate this will likely involve a large amount of collaborative work with Heads of Planning Scotland and individual local authorities. Question: 5 (5) Councillor Euan Blockley To ask the Leader of the Council, in relation to John Mason’s comments what Tabled Question proportion of Glasgow’s population are “elites”? Councillor Susan Aitken, Leader of the Council and City Convener for Inclusive Responder Economic Growth I’m afraid I can only answer questions which are relevant to the remit of Glasgow City Council. If you want to know more about John Mason MSPs comments I suggest you direct your question to him. Question: 6 (6) Bailie Kyle Thornton To ask the City Convener for Sustainability and Carbon Reduction what measures will be taken to ensure that the failure of the Neighbourhoods service to carry out Tabled Question grass cutting in recent weeks in a timely manner will not be repeated in the future? Responder Cllr Anna Richardson, City Convener for Sustainability and Carbon Reduction Members will be aware that we have a generic workforce and deploy resources according to local priorities, including grass cutting and cleansing services such as bulk uplift. Daily operational meetings continue to take place to monitor the deployment of resources city wide. As part of the neighbourhood approach, neighbourhood liaison teams have been working with all stakeholders to ensure the issues identified locally in relation to grass cutting are addressed. In particular, Neighbourhood Liaison Managers have been engaging directly with elected members on this issue and where there are issues in their areas, these matters are being resolved locally.
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