- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 24 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time is for someone with additional support needs who has moved from one local authority area to another to be assessed by their new local authority.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-32328 on 24 March 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 18 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3O-9722 by Keith Brown on 4 March 2010 (Official Report c. 24271), whether it will clarify how many times it has met representatives of the Scottish Funding Council to discuss the New Campus Glasgow complex and proposed merger.
Answer
A total of seven meetings has taken place to discuss one or other of these issues.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 16 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many local authorities have appointed a digital champion to co-ordinate their preparations for the digital terrestrial broadcast switchover.
Answer
Digital UK is the independent, not-for-profit organisation leading the process of digital TV switchover in the UK. For digital switchover, Scotland is divided into two regions “ STV North and STV Central.
Digital UK advise that 25 of the 30 local authorities in the STV North and South regions have Switchover Co-ordinators. This excludes the local authorities in Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders which have already had digital switchover.
Four of the five local authorities that have not appointed a switchover co-ordinator are located in the Central Belt area which is not due for switchover until 2011. They are: East Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, South Ayrshire and Renfrewshire Councils. The other local authority is Moray Council, due for switchover in September 2010.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 15 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made representations to the Scottish Funding Council to maintain funding levels for architecture courses.
Answer
Further to my answer to question S3W-31132 on 4 February 2010, the Minister for Culture and External Affairs met the Scottish Funding Council on 9 March 2010 to discuss concerns raised by the sector about the council''s proposals to reduce the funding level for architecture, built environment and planning courses.
All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 15 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the Scottish Funding Council’s planned reduction in funding for architecture courses.
Answer
This is a matter for the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), not Scottish ministers. The SFC''s proposal to reduce funding for the teaching of architecture formed part of its recent consultation on subject price groups. The responses to the consultation are the subject of further consideration and no final decision on price groups has yet been made by the council.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 15 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the impact on the industry of the Scottish Funding Council’s planned reduction in funding for architecture courses.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-32198 on 15 March 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 15 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has asked the Scottish Funding Council to explain why it has reduced funding for architecture courses.
Answer
I refer the member to the answers to questions S3W-32198 and S3W-32200 on 15 March 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 11 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what its favoured model is for dividing UK assets and liabilities in the event of Scottish independence.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-31757 on 11 March 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 11 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what it estimates Scotland’s share of the UK national debt will be in the event of Scottish independence.
Answer
The proportion of the UK national debt assigned to Scotland under independence would be subject to negotiation as part of a revised constitutional settlement.
The Scottish Government believes any apportionment of the UK national debt should take into consideration the historic balance of expenditures and revenues in Scotland relative to the UK as a whole. For example, the recent Scotland Office report Time Series Analysis of Government Expenditures and Revenues in Scotland estimated Scotland''s fiscal position between 1980-81 and 2007-08 including an illustrative geographical share of North Sea revenue. The results suggest that, over this period, Scotland''s cumulative deficit would have been 40% smaller than if it was assigned a per capita share of the UK''s deficit.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 11 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many local authorities have appointed a digital champion to coordinate their preparations for the digital terrestrial broadcast switchover.
Answer
I have asked Willie Pretswell, Interim Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:
The occupancy of HMP Kilmarnock on the Friday of each week in 2010 is as follows:
Number of Prisoners
| Date | |
| 1 January | 530 |
| 8 January | 536 |
| 15 January | 548 |
| 22 January | 540 |
| 29 January | 547 |
| 5 February | 547 |
| 12 February | 541 |
| 19 February | 547 |
| 26 February | 546 |
| 5 March | 542 |
