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Question reference: S3W-09399

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 28 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority received from the Strategic Waste Fund in each year of the 2004 spending review.

The following table shows the total funding awarded to each local authority from the Strategic Waste Fund in each of the three years of the 2004 spending review: 2005-06; 2006-07, and 2007-08.

Council	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	Total
Aberdeen City	2,798,935	1,844,333	1,555,284	6,198,552
Aberdeenshire	4,804,500	6,367,000	4,202,629	15,374,129
Angus	2,815,500	1,284,065	1,262,000	5,361,565
Argyll and Bute	3,599,210	3,149,710	3,153,110	9,902,030
Clackmannanshire	372,104	284,071	284,071	940,246
Dumfries and Galloway	4,404,500	4,326,000	4,438,646	13,169,146
Dundee	1,614,493	1,420,438	3,134,329	6,169,260
East Ayrshire	2,056,500	694,000	859,144	3,609,644
East Dunbartonshire	1,831,500	1,302,000	1,641,000	4,774,500
East Lothian	1,457,500	1,643,000	1,490,000	4,590,500
East Renfrewshire	1,269,500	1,032,000	1,158,398	3,459,898
Edinburgh	9,822,198	6,685,145	5,927,924	22,435,267
Falkirk	485,425	431,655	1,281,699	2,198,779
Fife	5,925,803	6,819,000	4,506,350	17,251,153
Glasgow	5,433,407	3,139,742	5,757,994	14,331,143
Highland	5,962,238	4,480,839	4,419,472	14,862,549
Inverclyde	1,685,398	375,938	541,772	2,603,108
Midlothian	2,101,824	2,271,154	3,828,154	8,201,132
Moray	1,804,500	1,232,605	1,062,279	4,099,384
North Ayrshire	1,179,500	1,682,000	1,404,000	4,265,500
North Lanarkshire	5,484,550	3,832,000	3,192,055	12,508,605
Orkney	567,010	347,000	478,000	1,392,010
Perth and Kinross	1,969,980	3,359,040	1,922,095	7,251,115
Renfrewshire	3,065,500	1,381,000	1,343,000	5,789,500
Scottish Borders	2,987,704	4,217,256	2,492,742	9,697,702
Shetland	591,755	417,296	306,425	1,315,476
South Ayrshire	1,525,412	1,671,000	1,341,000	4,537,412
South Lanarkshire	3,607,894	3,794,650	3,392,000	10,794,544
Stirling	1,804,520	2,354,000	1,696,000	5,854,520
West Dunbartonshire	2,700,184	1,151,863	1,370,300	5,222,347
West Lothian	1,862,500	2,583,000	2,885,750	7,331,250
Western Isles	6,180,500	2,536,000	1,283,800	10,000,300
Total	93,772,043	78,108,800	73,611,422	245,492,265

Question reference: S3W-09393

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 28 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding each local authority received for school travel co-ordinators in each year of the 2004 spending review.

Each local authority was awarded the following grants for School Travel Coordinator posts in each year of the 2004 spending review:

Local Authority	2005-06 (£000)	2006-07 (£000)	2007-08 (£000)
Aberdeen City	34	34	34
Aberdeenshire	48	50	52
Angus	20	22	22
Argyll and Bute	17	17	17
Clackmannanshire	15	15	15
Dumfries and Galloway	28	28	28
Dundee City	26	25	25
East Ayrshire	24	24	25
East Dunbartonshire	23	22	22
East Lothian	18	21	21
East Renfrewshire	19	20	21
Edinburgh	71	73	75
Eilean Siar	15	15	15
Falkirk	28	30	31
Fife	69	71	73
Glasgow	104	101	103
Highland	41	42	43
Inverclyde	16	16	17
Midlothian	17	18	18
Moray	17	18	18
North Ayrshire	28	27	28
North Lanarkshire	64	68	70
Orkney Islands	15	15	15
Perthshire and Kinross	26	27	28
Renfrewshire	33	34	35
Scottish Borders	20	22	23
Shetland Islands	15	15	15
South Ayrshire	21	21	22
South Lanarkshire	59	62	63
Stirling	16	18	18
West Dunbartonshire	19	18	19
West Lothian	34	37	39
Total	=SUM(ABOVE) 1,000	=SUM(above) 1,026	=SUM(above) 1,050

Question reference: S3W-09384

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority received from the schools estate - PPP funding package in each year of the 2004 spending review.

The amounts included in Revenue Support Grant in the years concerned for the 16 authorities to whom support for the current tranche of school PPP projects has so far become payable were as follows:

Local Authority	2005-06 (£)	2006-07 (£)	2007-08 (£)
Aberdeenshire	1,700,000	3,400,000	3,400,000
Angus	-	-	573,216
Argyll and Bute	-	637,581	4,995,193
East Ayrshire	-	-	448,633
East Lothian	2,920,000	2,950,000	2,950,000
East Renfrewshire	330,000	3,110,000	3,950,000
Edinburgh City	-	-	251,556
Fife	-	823,164	3,668,162
Highland	-	-	1,143,470
Midlothian	-	-	1,249,500
North Ayrshire	-	-	2,656,213
North Lanarkshire	70,000	3,494,511	7,541,458
Renfrewshire	-	3,170,000	6,160,000
South Ayrshire	-	-	130,824
South Lanarkshire	-	-	2,167,281
Stirling	-	-	693,382

Question reference: S3W-09389

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority received from the Schools Fund in each year of the 2004 spending review.

Whilst local government had flexibility to allocate other resources for work on the school estate, the amounts allocated to authorities from the Schools Fund in the years concerned were as follows:

	2005-06 (£ Million)	2006-07 (£ Million)	2007-08 (£ Million)
Aberdeen City	3.045	4.766	4.484
Aberdeenshire	4.235	6.629	9.057
Angus	2.076	3.249	3.811
Argyll and Bute	1.943	3.041	3.316
Clackmannanshire	0.962	1.506	1.617
Dumfries and Galloway	2.809	4.396	7.281
Dundee City	2.461	3.852	3.586
East Ayrshire	2.366	3.703	3.610
East Dunbartonshire	2.443	3.824	3.584
East Lothian	1.751	2.740	3.174
East Renfrewshire	1.942	3.039	3.266
Edinburgh City	6.886	10.778	10.730
Eilean Siar	0.830	1.299	1.173
Falkirk	2.576	4.032	3.816
Fife	6.427	10.059	11.360
Glasgow City	10.109	15.822	14.653
Highland	4.332	6.780	7.425
Inverclyde	1.839	2.880	2.671
Midlothian	1.717	2.688	2.656
Moray	1.660	2.598	2.676
North Ayrshire	2.692	4.213	4.270
North Lanarkshire	6.958	10.891	12.066
Orkney	0.598	0.936	0.788
Perth and Kinross	2.348	3.673	5.101
Renfrewshire	3.336	5.221	5.052
Scottish Borders	2.171	3.398	4.001
Shetland	0.692	1.083	1.453
South Ayrshire	2.264	3.544	3.404
South Lanarkshire	6.205	9.712	8.640
Stirling	1.754	2.745	3.097
West Dunbartonshire	1.967	3.078	2.811
West Lothian	3.306	5.175	6.420
Scotland Total	96.700	151.350	161.050

Question reference: S3W-09369

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority received from the Children’s Services - Womens Aid Fund in each year of the 2004 spending review.

The Children''s Services “ Womens Aid Fund was introduced in 2006 in order to develop children''s services in local women''s aid groups. The majority of funding was allocated directly to local groups but in a small number of cases was allocated via the local authority. Details of the funding to local authorities in 2006-07 are set out in the table below.

	2006-07
Aberdeen City	0.042
Aberdeenshire	0.074
Fife	0.070
West Lothian	0.033
Scotland	0.219 million

Question reference: S3W-09249

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Linda Fabiani on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what revenue and capital costs were incurred by the Scottish Records Advisory Council in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07.

Question reference: S3W-09252

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Linda Fabiani on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive which body will be responsible for providing advice to Scottish ministers on matters relating to the keeping of public records in Scotland and on issues of importance to the archive community after the abolition of the Scottish Records Advisory Council.

Question reference: S3W-09245

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Linda Fabiani on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement by the First Minister on 30 January 2008, when the Scottish Records Advisory Council will cease to operate.

Question reference: S3W-09403

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 26 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority received from the Contaminated Land Grant in each year of the 2004 spending review.

Details of the contaminated land grant allocated to local authorities in each of the three years 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08 are shown in the following table:

Capital Grants for Contaminated Land

Local Authority	2005-06 £000	2006-07 £000	2007-08 £000
Aberdeen City	69	69	139*
Aberdeenshire	68	68	258*
Angus	98	98	98
Argyll and Bute	72	72	72
Clackmannanshire	50	50	50
Dumfries and Galloway	163	163	313*
Dundee City	142	142	413*
East Ayrshire	181	181	181
East Dunbartonshire	61	61	61
East Lothian	57	57	57
East Renfrewshire	50	50	50
Edinburgh, City of	181	181	181
Eilean Siar	72	72	356*
Falkirk	126	126	640*
Fife	325	325	1,310*
Glasgow City	580	580	1,120*
Highland	326	326	1,077*
Inverclyde	57	57	532*
Midlothian	133	133	133
Moray	50	50	703*
North Ayrshire	194	194	194
North Lanarkshire	662	662	1,812*
Orkney	50	50	50
Perth and Kinross	77	77	682*
Renfrewshire	300	300	3,547*
Scottish Borders	53	53	743*
Shetland	50	50	50
South Ayrshire	69	69	429*
South Lanarkshire	281	281	281
Stirling	92	92	92
West Dunbartonshire	101	101	2,101*
West Lothian	260	260	510*
Scotland Total	=SUM(ABOVE) 5,050	=SUM(ABOVE) 5,050	18,235

Note: *indicates local authorities offered enhanced grant provision for specific remediation projects.

The figures for 2007-08 include an additional £13.185 million distributed to 18 local authorities for specific remediation projects aimed at cleaning up contaminated land creating a risk to public health or the wider environment.

Question reference: S3W-09400

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 26 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding each local authority received under the Antisocial Behaviour Noise Grant Scheme in each year of the 2004 spending review.

The table below details how much funding each participating local authority received under the Antisocial Behaviour Noise Grant Scheme for each year of the 2004 spending review.

Local Authority	2005-2006	2006-2007	2007-2008
	£	£	£
Aberdeen	265,511.22	260,100.00	148,639.37
Angus	91,443.16	119,067.41	32,455.07
Argyll and Bute	17,636.76	16,131.21	4,421.01
Clackmannanshire	2,858.00	Nil	Nil
Clackmannanshire and Stirling (Joint)	Nil	80,438.94	22,793.55
Dumfries and Galloway	167,275.13	159,835.36	69,438.76
Dundee	Nil	385,020.98	221,110.93
East Dunbartonshire	Nil	122,660.62	76,398.18
East Lothian	86,938.00	74,400.00	18,600.00
East Renfrewshire	5,285.26	62,952.15	14,764
Edinburgh	669,187.97	647,216.81	174,127.02
Falkirk	66,860.01	94,801.71	46,399.63
Fife	Nil	377,936.50	68,980.93
Glasgow	604,998.66	325,631.03	224,170.05
Inverclyde	10,547.60	13,212.76	5,871.34
Midlothian	20,066.83	20,666.90	11,495.24
North, South and East Ayrshire (Joint)	183,658.29	247,936.50	69,108.83
North Lanarkshire	325,058.62	315,124.92	136,959.34
Orkney	11,092.00	Nil	Nil
Perth and Kinross	16,883.03	219,673.17	59,225.09
Renfrewshire	22,985.00	71,451.00	17,704.00
South Lanarkshire	261,265.99	256,511.58	43,038.34
West Dunbartonshire	130,338.48	213,098.40	0.00
West Lothian	132,131.89	213,098.40	69,170.04