Questions · Lewis Macdonald

15 Jan 2009 · First Minister's Question

To ask the First Minister what additional funding has been provided for Homecoming Scotland 2009 since 5 November 2008.

Answer · Alex Salmond: This PQ was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0115-01.htm">http://www.scottish.p…

12 Jan 2009 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive which parts of the City of Edinburgh Council’s business case for additional funding as part of the capital city supplement were rejected and what the reasons were in each case.

Answer · John Swinney: Capital city supplement was not awarded for those elements of the City of Edinburgh Council''s application that were not considered to be unique to Edinburgh as Scotland''s capital city.

12 Jan 2009 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps other city councils would be required to take in order to access supplementary funding to meet additional costs, similar to the capital city supplement awarded to the City of Edinburgh Council.

Answer · John Swinney: Other councils may receive additional support from time to time in recognition of exceptional or special circumstances. For example, Aberdeen City Council was given initial consent by the Scottish Government in December 2008 to borrow £11.7 million to enable …

12 Jan 2009 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether other city councils have been given the opportunity to submit business cases for supplementary funding to meet additional costs, similar to the capital city supplement awarded to the City of Edinburgh Council.

Answer · John Swinney: The additional capital city supplement funding provided to the City of Edinburgh Council is in recognition of factors that are unique to Edinburgh as Scotland''s capital city. No other city council is eligible for this type of additional funding. Other city c…

12 Jan 2009 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the capital city supplement to the City of Edinburgh Council is intended to contribute to the council’s costs in relation to investment in infrastructure.

Answer · John Swinney: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-19648 on 15 January 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps…

12 Jan 2009 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the capital city supplement to the City of Edinburgh Council is intended to contribute to the council’s costs in relation to investment in connectivity.

Answer · John Swinney: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-19648 on 15 January 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps…

12 Jan 2009 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the capital city supplement to the City of Edinburgh Council is intended to contribute to the council’s costs in relation to investment in the public realm.

Answer · John Swinney: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-19648 on 15 January 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps…

12 Jan 2009 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the capital city supplement to the City of Edinburgh Council is intended to contribute to the council’s costs in relation to affordable housing.

Answer · John Swinney: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-19648 on 15 January 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps…

12 Jan 2009 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the capital city supplement to the City of Edinburgh Council is intended to contribute to the council’s costs in relation to national sports and recreation facilities.

Answer · John Swinney: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-19648 on 15 January 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps…

12 Jan 2009 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the capital city supplement to the City of Edinburgh Council is intended to contribute to the council’s costs in relation to migration.

Answer · John Swinney: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-19648 on 15 January 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps…

12 Jan 2009 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the capital city supplement to the City of Edinburgh Council is intended to contribute to the council’s costs in relation to its World Heritage Site status.

Answer · John Swinney: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-19648 on 15 January 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps…

12 Jan 2009 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the capital city supplement to the City of Edinburgh Council is intended to contribute to the council’s costs in relation to festivals and events.

Answer · John Swinney: How the City of Edinburgh Council allocates the additional funding to be provided is a matter for the council.

12 Jan 2009 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether conditions are attached to the capital city supplement in relation to what it can be spent on and, if so, what they are.

Answer · John Swinney: Subject to approval of the Parliament to the Scottish Government''s Budget Bill and the Local Government Finance Order for 2009-10, the additional funding for the capital city supplement will be included within the general revenue grant provided to the City o…

12 Jan 2009 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what the City of Edinburgh Council’s allocation is under the capital city supplement for each of the next three years.

Answer · John Swinney: Included within the resources in the Scottish Government''s Budget Bill for 2009-10 is an additional sum of £3.5 million which will be allocated to the City of Edinburgh Council in recognition of those unique cost factors the council incurs as Scotland''s cap…

15 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18456 by Kenny MacAskill on 10 December 2008, whether the proposed HM Prison Grampian will have a comparable role to that of HM Prison Peterhead in the rehabilitation of sex offenders through the Sex Offender Treatment Programme.

Answer · Kenny MacAskill: I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows: As intimated in the reply to question S3W-18456 the planned use for HM Prison Grampian will be as a community facing prison for North East…

15 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18456 by Kenny MacAskill on 10 December 2008, whether the proposed HM Prison Grampian will have a comparable role to that of HM Prison Peterhead in the housing of serious sex offenders.

Answer · Kenny MacAskill: I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows: As intimated in the reply to question S3W-18456 the planned use for HM Prison Grampian will be as a community facing prison for North East…

12 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it intends to invest in road improvements at the junction of the A90 and A96 trunk roads at the Haudagain roundabout after detrunking the A90 in Aberdeen city.

Answer · Stewart Stevenson: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-18527 on 17 December 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/App…

12 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to detrunk the A90 in the City of Aberdeen on completion of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route and, if so, whether it intends to do so immediately following the opening of the new trunk road.

Answer · Stewart Stevenson: The existing A90 between Charleston and Blackdog will be de-trunked on 1 April after the date on which the new special roads and trunk roads of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route are all open.

12 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive when work on any future road improvements at the junction of the A90 and A96 trunk roads at the Haudagain roundabout will be completed.

Answer · Stewart Stevenson: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-18527 on 17 December 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/App…

12 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive when work will begin on any future road improvements at the junction of the A90 and A96 trunk roads at the Haudagain roundabout.

Answer · Stewart Stevenson: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-18527 on 17 December 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/App…

12 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will outline its responsibilities for any future road improvements at the junction of the A90 and A96 trunk roads at the Haudagain roundabout.

Answer · Stewart Stevenson: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-18527 on 17 December 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/App…

12 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has given a funding commitment to road improvements at the junction of the A90 and A96 trunk roads at the Haudagain roundabout.

Answer · Stewart Stevenson: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-18527 on 17 December 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/App…

2 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will continue to be its policy that serious sex offenders from all of Scotland serve their prison sentences at a single specialist unit.

Answer · Kenny MacAskill: I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows: It is not the policy of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) that all serious sex offenders serve their sentence at a single specialist unit.…

2 Dec 2008 · Written Question

Answer · Jim Mather: The renewable energy budget is not broken down into support for individual technologies. However, the following figures show the renewable energy budget, including the Green Jobs budget, for each of the years in question. <table border=1 cellsp…

2 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide a substantive answer to question S3W-16850, which received a holding reply on 4 November 2008.

Answer · Jim Mather: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-16850 on 18 December 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/App…

2 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide a substantive answer to question S3W-16851, which received a holding reply on 4 November 2008.

Answer · Jim Mather: I refer the member to the question S3W-16851 on 18 December 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Busines…

1 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to S3W-17293 by John Swinney on 28 October 2008, how many staff are employed in the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT); what the relationship is between it and the Scottish Government, and how many SFT staff members have been involved in discussions held between it, Aberd…

Answer · John Swinney: At present, eight staff are working on Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) projects and programmes under the leadership of the Chair, Sir Angus Grossart. SFT has advertised the post of chief executive and will make appointments to this and further positions soon.</p…

1 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Futures Trust will have a role in the delivery of any future public sector infrastructure projects funded on a non-profit distributing model and, if so, what that role will be.

Answer · John Swinney: As stated in the publication Taking Forward the Scottish Futures Trust (Bib. number 45605), one of the objectives of SFT is to support projects, and to pursue the potential to increase further the benefits of the NPD model. In addition, SFT will pursu…

1 Dec 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Futures Trust has a role in seeking to secure delivery of Aberdeen schools under the 3Rs project and, if so, what that role is.

Answer · John Swinney: Scottish Futures Trust is in regular contact with Aberdeen City Council regarding its 3Rs schools project and is providing expert advice to complement that of the council''s professional advisers to the project. The private sector consortium, which is contrac…

19 Nov 2008 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will underwrite funds already committed by Aberdeen City Council to the Aberdeen 3Rs school project.

Answer · John Swinney: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-17968 on 27 November 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/App…