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Question reference: S3W-03746

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 12 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was provided to agencies in Dumfries and Galloway from the Quality of Life Initiative in 2006-07 and how much will be provided in 2007-08.

Dumfries and Galloway’s allocation under the Quality of Life fund for 2006-07 was £1.519 million.For the financial year 2007-08 the allocation is £1.517 million. The Quality ofLife Fund has the scope for funding a wide range of initiatives that respond tolocal needs and priorities, though they must focus on two themes; that of improvingcommunity wellbeing and improving the local environment.

Detailedinformation on Dumfries and Galloway’s decisions regarding its allocation of Qualityof Life funding can be found on its website at:

http://rpu.dumgal.gov.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/committee_minutes/014447.pdf.

Question reference: S3W-03745

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 12 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was provided to agencies in Dumfries and Galloway from the Community Regeneration Programme in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07 and how much will be provided in 2007-08.

Question reference: S3W-03753

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 11 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was provided to agencies in Dumfries and Galloway from the Choose Life suicide prevention programme in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05, (c) 2005-06 and (d) 2006-07 and how much will be provided in 2007-08.

The following tableis a summary of allocation of the Government’s Choose Life funding by the localCommunity Planning Partnership to local agencies in Dumfries and Galloway for theyears 2003-04 up to the current financial year:

Year	Allocation
2003-04	86, 000
2004-05	92,000
2005-06	97,000
2006-07	97,000
2007-08	97,000
Total	469,000

Question reference: S3W-03754

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by Adam Ingram on 10 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was provided to agencies in Dumfries and Galloway by the Executive for services for looked-after children in 2006-07 and how much will be provided in 2007-08.

The Scottish Governmentprovides general financial support for Scotland’s local authorities’ core services, including looked after children, butit is the responsibility of each individual local authority to allocate its totalresources, including collected council tax, on the basis of local needs and priorities.If a council decides to allocate some of its resources to agencies on its behalfthen that is its responsibility. In 2006-07 Dumfries and Galloway local authority received support for coreservices amounting to £251 million. This figure has been increased to £262.5millionin 2007-08.

In addition specificfunding allocated for looked after children initiatives to Dumfries and Galloway local authority are:

Educational attainmentpilots: 2006-07 £96,850; 2007-08 £152,500

Residential care grant:2006-07 £17,465; 2007-08 £8,254

Fostering FundingImprovement: 2006-07 £189,200; 2007-08 £94,600

One-off capital grantfor foster carers and kinship carers: 2006-07 £47,893

One-off training grantto support foster carers and kinship carers: 2007-08 £128,000.

Question reference: S3W-03748

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 7 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was provided to agencies in Dumfries and Galloway from the antisocial behaviour programme in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06 and (c) 2006-07 and how much will be provided in 2007-08.

The following table shows what core antisocial socialbehaviour funding has been provided to Dumfries and Galloway Council:

Year	Funding Provided
2004-05	£642,000
2005-06	£712,800
2006-07	£835,500
2007-08	£880,000

Question reference: S3W-03487

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many residents in care homes received free (a) personal care and (b) nursing care payments in (i) 2004-05, (ii) 2005-06 and (iii) 2006-07, broken down by local authority area.

The information requestedis given in the following tables:

Local Authority	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Aberdeen City	430	430	440
Aberdeenshire	480	470	450
Angus	280	280	280
Argyll and Bute	210	240	250
Clackmannanshire	30	40	50
Dumfries and Galloway	390	280	290
Dundee City	200	210	220
East Ayrshire	140	140	160
East Dunbartonshire	250	270	290
East Lothian	170	170	170
East Renfrewshire	210	210	240
Edinburgh, City of	1,280	1,360	1,320
Eilean Siar	20	20	20
Falkirk	140	140	150
Fife	700	730	800
Glasgow city	610	630	650
Highland	400	400	400
Inverclyde	150	150	160
Midlothian	80	80	90
Moray	160	190	180
North Ayrshire	230	240	250
North Lanarkshire	170	200	230
Orkney Islands	10	10	20
Perth and Kinross	490	470	450
Renfrewshire	200	220	240
Scottish Borders	110	100	100
Shetland Islands	0	0	0
South Ayrshire	330	360	360
South Lanarkshire	450	480	490
Stirling	230	240	220
West Dunbartonshire	70	80	80
West Lothian	110	120	130
Scotland estimate	8,740	8,960	9,200

Source: CommunityCare Quarterly Key Monitoring.

Table b: Numberof Self-Funders in Care Homes Receiving Free Nursing Care

(Yearly Averages)

Local Authority	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Aberdeen City	290	290	350
Aberdeenshire	340	350	330
Angus	110	120	130
Argyll and Bute	80	100	90
Clackmannanshire	30	40	40
Dumfries and Galloway	310	220	220
Dundee City	110	110	130
East Ayrshire	100	90	110
East Dunbartonshire	190	200	230
East Lothian	130	130	140
East Renfrewshire	130	160	170
Edinburgh, City of	970	1,030	1,010
Eilean Siar	10	10	10
Falkirk	120	120	130
Fife	400	410	450
Glasgow city	380	380	370
Highland	170	160	180
Inverclyde	110	110	130
Midlothian	60	60	60
Moray	110	140	140
North Ayrshire	140	150	160
North Lanarkshire	120	140	170
Orkney Islands	0	0	0
Perth and Kinross	230	240	230
Renfrewshire	150	160	180
Scottish Borders	50	50	50
Shetland Islands	0	0	0
South Ayrshire	280	290	290
South Lanarkshire	290	310	330
Stirling	140	150	140
West Dunbartonshire	40	40	40
West Lothian	90	90	100
Scotland estimate	5,690	5,850	6,080

Source: CommunityCare Quarterly Key Monitoring

Notes:

All figures areyearly averages rounded to the nearest 10.

Figures may notsum due to rounding.

Scottish Borders have revised their estimatessince the last publication of Community Care Quarterly Key monitoring.

Question reference: S3W-03755

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by Adam Ingram on 6 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was provided to agencies in Dumfries and Galloway from the Changing Children’s Services Fund in 2006-07 and how much will be provided in 2007-08.

Question reference: S3W-03750

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 6 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was provided to agencies in Dumfries and Galloway from the programme for prevention of domestic abuse in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07 and how much will be provided in 2007-08.

Funding was providedto a variety of organisations in Dumfries and Galloway to address domestic abuse and violence against women.In 2005-06 £184,630 was provided, in 2006-07 £319,865 was provided and in 2007-08£327,255 has been allocated. This amounts to a total of £831,750 of Scottish Governmentfunding to address domestic abuse and violence against women in Dumfries and Galloway over the three year period.

Question reference: S3W-03751

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 6 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was provided to agencies in Dumfries and Galloway from the Community Safety Partnership Award Programme in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07 and how much will be provided in 2007-08.

Dumfries and Galloway Community Safety Partnershiphas been awarded funding as detailed in the following table:

	Funding Granted
2005-06	£85,353.57
2006-07	£103,916.88
2007-08	£93,525.19
Total	£282,795.64

Question reference: S3W-03485

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to receive the interim report of Lord Sutherland's review of free personal care.