Parliamentary questions
Elaine Murray
2,411 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
24 Jan 2008 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated under the Specialist Provision Programme - Centres of Excellence fund, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer themember to the answer to question S3W-8859 on 4 February 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can befound at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa…
24 Jan 2008 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated under the Teacher Induction Scheme, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-8859 on 4 February 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa…
24 Jan 2008 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated under the Changing Children’s Services Fund, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-8859 on 4 February 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa…
24 Jan 2008 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated for education for looked after children, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-8859 on 4 February 2008. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan be found at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa…
24 Jan 2008 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated under the European Languages Grant, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer themember to the answer to question S3W-8859 on 4 February 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa…
24 Jan 2008 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated for social work training, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer themember to the answer to question S3W-8859 on 4 February 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can befound at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa…
24 Jan 2008 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated under the National Priorities Action Fund, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer themember to the answer to question S3W-8859 on 4 February 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can befound at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa…
24 Jan 2008 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated under the National Accommodation Strategy for Sex Offenders, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer themember to the answer to question S3W-8859 on 4 February 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can befound at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa…
24 Jan 2008 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated for addressing delayed discharges, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-8859 on 4 February 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa…
24 Jan 2008 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated under the Violence Against Women Fund, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-8859 on 4 February 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa…
24 Jan 2008 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated under the Supporting People Grant, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-8859 on 4 February 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa…
24 Jan 2008 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated for private landlord registration, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-8859 on 4 February 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa…
24 Jan 2008 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated under the Children’s Services Women’s Aid Fund, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-8859 on 4 February 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa…
24 Jan 2008 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated for mental health services, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer themember to the answer to question S3W-8859 on 4 February 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can befound at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa…
24 Jan 2008 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated under the Police Capital Grant, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer themember to the answer to question S3W-8859 on 4 February 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can befound at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa…
24 Jan 2008 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated for community safety partnerships, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer themember to the answer to question S3W-8859 on 4 February 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can befound at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa…
24 Jan 2008 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated for addressing antisocial behaviour, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer · John Swinney: The governmentis not providing a separate funding allocation for this service for 2008-09.Instead, councils will receive an overall allocation and it will be for eachcouncil to determine how this is distributed locally across services to meetits statutory dut…
18 Jan 2008 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether registrars are required to take additional training to be permitted to officiate at civil partnership ceremonies.
Answer · Jim Mather: The registration servicein Scotland is delivered by the 32 local authorities whoare responsible for employing registration staff. Registrars are trained to performa number of duties such as civil marriage ceremonies and civil partnership registrations.The nec…
21 Dec 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Council of Economic Advisors will next meet.
Answer · John Swinney: The Council of EconomicAdvisers will next meet on 8 February 2008.</p>
21 Dec 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the strategic forum for enterprise has met and, if so, what issues have been discussed.
Answer · Jim Mather: The first meeting of theStrategic Forum took place on 20 November 2007. The main issuesdiscussed were the terms of reference of the Strategic Forum and an update onprogress relating to the reform of the enterprise networks and VisitScotland.</p>
21 Dec 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it will make available to each local authority in each of the next three financial years to support the responsibilities transferred to them under the recent review of the structures and functions of the enterprise networks.
Answer · Jim Mather: The transfer ofresponsibilities from the enterprise networks to local authorities will meansome reallocation of funds. The detail of this will be decided when the exactnature of the activity to be transferred is determined.</p>
21 Dec 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it will make available to each local authority in each of the next three financial years to support their responsibilities for the delivery of Business Gateway.
Answer · Jim Mather: The transfer of Business Gatewayfunctions to local authorities will involve a reallocation of funds. The detailof this has still to be determined.</p>
21 Dec 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what support it will provide for the teaching of English as a second language in each year of the 2007-10 spending review and how this support will be distributed.
Answer · Fiona Hyslop: Publicly funded ESOL(English for Speakers of Other Languages) classes are provided in Scotland’s colleges, Community Learning and Development (CLD)partnerships and Adult Literacy and Numeracy (ALN) partnerships and by a small numberof voluntary providers.</p>…
21 Dec 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding will be provided for the Scottish Co-investment Fund in each year of the 2007-10 spending review.
Answer · Jim Mather: The original resources forthe Scottish Co-investment Fund were £20 million with additional ERDF of £25 million.To date the Fund has spent in excess of £30 million leveraging £72.5 millionfrom the private sector.</p><p>Future funding for thisinitiative is unde…
5 Dec 2007 · General Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how tackling antisocial behaviour is being addressed in the 2007 spending review.
Answer · Fergus Ewing: Antisocial behaviouris a very real issue for local communities. We believe local authorities and otherpartners are best placed to decide how to allocate resources to tackle the issue.That is why antisocial behaviour and community safety funding is no longer r…
3 Dec 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what evidence was used to designate the Nith Valley as a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ); when such evidence was collated, and when the designation of the Nith Valley as a NVZ will be reviewed.
Answer · Richard Lochhead: Lower Nithsdale NVZ was designated following a risk assessment undertaken by the BritishGeological Survey (BGS) and the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute in 2001-02.Groundwater sites in the Nith Valley were reported by BGS in 2002 and again in 2004.Designa…
15 Nov 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-5991 by Richard Lochhead on 15 November 2007, on what date Young’s Seafood withdrew its application for a grant of £426,000 under the Fish Processing and Marketing Scheme.
Answer · Richard Lochhead: Young’s Seafoodconfirmed on the 2 May 2007 that the project would not be completed and a claim would notbe submitted.</p>
2 Nov 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will increase support to Co-operative Development Scotland.
Answer · Jim Mather: The Co-operative DevelopmentAgency has already been allocated £3 million over three years to fund it’s activities.There are no current plans to increase this level of funding. Decisions on futurefunding will be informed by a planned evaluation in 2008.</p>
2 Nov 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what communications it received from HM Treasury regarding the consequences for the Scottish budget in 2008-09 of UK programmes and projects that would no longer be funded in that financial year and when these were received.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-6001 on 12 November 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questionsare available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can befound at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/w…
2 Nov 2007 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what communications it has received from HM Treasury regarding changes to the UK Government’s budgets for (a) local government and (b) courts and when these were received.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-6001 on 12 November 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questionsare available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can befound at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/w…