- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 4 February 2008
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
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
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 4 February 2008
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
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
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 4 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated under the Early Years and Childcare Workforce Development 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
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
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 4 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated as school estate/PPP funding, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer
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
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 4 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated for school travel co-ordinators, will be allocated in 2008-09, broken down by local authority and also expressed as a percentage of total funding for this purpose.
Answer
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
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 4 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how funding, previously allocated under the Strategic Waste 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
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
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 4 February 2008
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
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
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 December 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 1 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Council of Economic Advisors will next meet.
Answer
The Council of EconomicAdvisers will next meet on 8 February 2008.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 December 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 31 January 2008
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
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.
In March 2007 we launchedan adult ESOL Strategy for Scotland and in 2007-08 £5 million additional fundingwas provided, with an investment of £2.8 million in colleges, £1.7 million in CLDPartnerships and £500,000 retained to fund professional and technical developments.
Discussions areon-going with ministers regarding future funding from 2008 to 2011 with an announcementexpected shortly.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 30 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether registrars are required to take additional training to be permitted to officiate at civil partnership ceremonies.
Answer
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 necessary training is provided by the local authorities in accordance with guidanceon the law and practice of registration issued by the General Register Office forScotland.
