- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 28 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimates it has made of the economic impact of a 22% reduction in funding for town planning courses.
Answer
Officials from the Directorate for the Built Environment have met with representatives of Scotland''s planning schools on a number of occasions at which the matter has been discussed. The chief planner is scheduled to meet with the Chief Executive of the Scottish Funding Council to highlight concerns raised.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 28 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the impact of a 22% reduction in funding for town planning courses on its targets for reducing carbon emissions in the built environment.
Answer
Officials from the Directorate for the Built Environment have met with representatives of Scotland''s planning schools on a number of occasions at which the matter has been discussed. The chief planner is scheduled to meet with the Chief Executive of the Scottish Funding Council to highlight concerns raised.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 27 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what work it has carried out to assess future workforce planning requirements for town planners.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not collate information centrally on the supply and demand of planners across Scotland. It is the responsibility of planning authorities to ensure that they have appropriate staff resources in place to meet their statutory responsibilities.
The Scottish Government works does however, work with the planning schools, the RTPI, the Local Government Improvement Service and employers to encourage the availability of appropriate professional skills in the planning service.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 14 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-19785 by Jim Mather on 30 January 2009, whether it will publish all of the (a) questions in and (b) answers to the YouGov Scotland Omnibus studies.
Answer
The questions and the answers to the YouGov surveys will be included in the full report on Homecoming Scotland and this will be published in spring 2010.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 14 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-16990 by Jim Mather on 5 November 2008, what the total marketing cost was of Homecoming Scotland 2009.
Answer
The total budget and cost of Homecoming Scotland''s marketing activity is approximately £2 million.
Homecoming has been delivered within budget and a breakdown of costs, including those for marketing, will be included in the final report.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 14 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the full EKOS report on Homecoming Scotland 2009.
Answer
Yes, the full EKOS report on Homecoming Scotland will be published as an appendix to the final report.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 14 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-20442 by Jim Mather on 26 February 2009, how much it spent on online advertising to promote Homecoming Scotland 2009.
Answer
£481,139 was spent on online advertising from the Homecoming marketing budget. Homecoming Scotland 2009 messages were also an integral part of wider VisitScotland online marketing activity, including campaigns such as Winter White, Perfect Day, European Touring Campaign and long-haul marketing campaigns such as I am a Scot. In addition, Homecoming Scotland 2009 messages featured on gateway websites promoting Scotland.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 14 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a geographical analysis of the new email addresses received during Homecoming Scotland 2009 as a result of online marketing.
Answer
Yes, this information will be included as part of the final report for Homecoming Scotland.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 14 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-20442 by Jim Mather on 26 February 2009, whether it will provide (a) details of the evaluation of the online advertising spend, (b) the results of that evaluation and (c) an analysis of the online advertising spend compared with the total marketing cost of Homecoming Scotland 2009.
Answer
The full report on Homecoming Scotland will be published in spring 2010. This report will include information on the success of the advertising campaign.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 12 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what part of the Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 addresses drainage of moorland for purposes other than intensive agriculture.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-29866 on 12 January 2009. All 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.
