- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 29 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total (a) capital and (b) revenue budget is of each local enterprise company in the current financial year.
Answer
The allocation of local enterprise company budgets is an operational matter for Highlands and Islands Enterprise and Scottish Enterprise. Neither body breaks down its allocations in terms of revenue and capital budgets.Initial budget allocations for 2001-02 are set out in the following tables. They will be subject to review during the course of the year and may therefore be amended.Highlands and Islands Enterprise
| Local Enterprise Company Allocations |
| LEC | £000 |
| Shetland | 2,607 |
| Orkney | 2,373 |
| Western Isles | 4,730 |
| Skye & Lochalsh | 1,688 |
| Caithness & Sutherland | 4,676 |
| Ross & Cromarty | 6,148 |
| Inverness & Nairn | 4,315 |
| Moray, Badenoch & Strathspey | 3,652 |
| Lochaber | 2,270 |
| Argyll and the Islands | 7,475 |
| Total | 39,934 |
Scottish Enterprise
| Local Enterprise Company Allocations |
| LEC | £000 |
| Ayrshire | 23,208 |
| Borders | 7,797 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 8,501 |
| Dunbartonshire | 14,800 |
| Fife | 18,768 |
| Forth Valley | 18,070 |
| Glasgow | 49,252 |
| Grampian | 21,002 |
| Lanarkshire | 38,847 |
| Lothian & Edinburgh | 44,688 |
| Moray, Badenoch & Strathspey* | 2,303 |
| Renfrewshire | 18,425 |
| Tayside | 23,622 |
| Total | 289,283 |
*The Highlands and Islands Enterprise Area of Operation (Scotland) Order 2001 amended the boundary of Highlands and Islands Enterprise with effect from 1 April 2001. As a result, responsibility for Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey Enterprise (MBSE) now lies solely with Highlands and Islands Enterprise. Scottish Enterprise's allocation for MBSE will therefore be transferred to Highlands and Islands Enterprise as part of this year's Autumn Budget Review.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 29 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many premises in the Dumfries and Galloway area have been affected by the pre-emptive foot-and-mouth cull strategy, up to and including 15 May 2001.
Answer
996 premises were affected by the sheep, goat and pig cull in the 3km zone.130 premises were affected by the policy of culling all susceptible livestock on contiguous farms.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Alasdair Morrison on 29 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total (a) capital and (b) revenue budget is of each area tourist board in the current financial year.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 24 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-11390 by Nicol Stephen of 10 January 2001, whether it intends to change the current system of funding for pre-school education to enable parents of children born in January and February to choose to defer entry to pre-school and primary education without the local authority losing funding from the Executive.
Answer
The consultation with CoSLA on the report's recommendations has just been completed. I will make a full response next month.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 23 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to the Scottish Ambulance Service's bid for additional staff resources to enable it to comply with the European Working Time Directive and when an announcement on the result of this bid is expected.
Answer
The resources allocated in the Scottish Ambulance Service increased by £5.3 million in 2001-02 and a further £6.6 million in 2002-03 and £3.6 million in 2003-04. The Scottish Ambulance Service is reassessing the impact of the European Working Time Directive on its operations to ensure that consistent, sustainable and high quality ambulance services are provided across Scotland, in a way which puts patients first and ensures that staff are able to give of their best.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 23 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive why it has not adopted the same policy as the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in relation to the protection of hefted flocks in areas affected by foot-and-mouth disease.
Answer
The special circumstances which apply to hefted flock have been and will continue to be recognised when applying SERAD culling policy. The priority, however, has been to avoid any risk of the disease being spread through our hill areas and beyond, with possibly dire consequences for the whole of Scotland's livestock industry. Now that the disease is under control the position of hefted flocks outwith infected premises will be assessed carefully before any cull goes ahead.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 23 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all the areas of its policy on the control and eradication of foot-and-mouth disease which differ from policy in England and Wales.
Answer
FMD Policy in Scotland is a matter for the Scottish Executive. The priority has been to take all action necessary to control and eradicate the disease quickly and effectively based on the veterinary and epidemiological advice put before me which reflected all the circumstances relevant to the outbreak in Scotland.Throughout this outbreak I have liased regularly with Nick Brown and my officials have worked extremely closely with their colleagues in Whitehall and in Wales. A detailed list of any differences of approach or implementation has not been maintained.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 17 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will reconsider the use of Article 33 of the Rural Development Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund as a means of encouraging diversification in rural economies such as Dumfries and Galloway.
Answer
I am currently exploring whether any part of the Rural Development Regulation, not just Article 33, could assist with the recovery of rural economies such as Dumfries and Galloway. The funding available is constrained, but I intend to launch soon new schemes to help farming families to generate new forms of income, and to support the processing and marketing of agricultural products. Elements of both schemes fall within the scope of Article 33 of the EU Rural Development Regulation.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 14 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide additional funding to support the recommendations in its report A Framework for Maternity Services in Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish Executive allocates substantial resources to the NHS throughout Scotland, with every health board receiving at least 5.5% more this year. The NHS locally is best placed to decide how to use these resources most effectively to support national priorities, including those set out in the framework, taking account of local circumstances.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 14 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when the group set up to examine the economic consequences of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak will report to the Parliament.
Answer
The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) Impact Assessment Group which I announced on 8 March is providing ongoing advice to the Ministerial Committee for Rural Development FMD Sub-Group. Expert organisations such as visitscotland, the Enterprise Networks and the Scottish Agricultural College have been feeding in very useful information which have helped inform the Ministerial Group on FMD's decisions on hardship relief and its thinking on recovery. To date much of that information has been qualitative and to provide more quantified information the group has recently commissioned a survey of over 2,000 businesses across Scotland to identify the outbreak's impact. The survey results are currently being collated and the final report will be published on 29 June. Copies of the report will be available in the Parliament's Reference Centre.
