- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 6 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what meetings are planned with representatives of the For Scotland’s Disabled Children campaign to discuss the £34 million allocated to Scotland as a result of the UK Government's announcement of an extra £340 million for disabled children.
Answer
Officials haveheld informal discussions with stakeholders on issues connected with AimingHigh for Disabled Children but no formal meetings are currently planned.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 6 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how the £34 million allocated to Scotland as a result of the UK Government’s announcement of an extra £340 million for disabled children will be spent.
Answer
The ComprehensiveSpending Review settlement for Scotland announced by the Chancellor on 9 October 2007 will become part of the total funding available to the Scottish Government, on which our own Strategic Spending Review considerations willbe based. Scottish ministers decide their own priorities for the use of all moneyin the Scottish Block – including consequentials flowing from the UK Government’sannouncement of an extra £340 million for disabled children - and the Cabinet Secretaryfor Finance and Sustainable Growth will announce how they have decided to use themin mid-November.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 1 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are being put in place to ensure that projects dependant on the Community Regeneration Fund are sustained pending the outcome of the comprehensive spending review.
Answer
A decision on thefuture of the Community Regeneration Fund (CRF) will be taken immediatelyfollowing completion of the Strategic Spending Review. However, I can confirmthat as an interim measure, I have instructed officials to write to allCommunity Planning Partnerships to inform them that in order to ensure amanaged transition to new arrangements, the Scottish Government will guaranteeeach Partnership at least one quarter of their CRF allocation for the currentyear, in 2008-09.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 31 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when the request from Aberdeen City Council regarding housing stock transfer will be agreed.
Answer
I refer themember to the answer to question S3W-4600 on 9 October 2007. 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: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Answered by Adam Ingram on 29 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils in primary 1 to primary 3 in each school in Glasgow were entitled to free school meals in (a) September 2006 and (b) September 2007.
Answer
We do not holdthis information centrally. The most recent school meals data is available on the Scottish Executivewebsite at:
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/SchMeals2007.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 October 2007
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Answered by Richard Lochhead on 26 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment will respond to my letters of 31 May and 27 July 2007 regarding the vessel, Apollo Grimsby.
Answer
I replied to yourletters on 15 October 2007. I very much regret the long wait you hadfor this response and any concern that this may have caused you or your constituent.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 25 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive in what ways its proposed new skills body will address the needs of those furthest from the labour market.
Answer
It will be for thenew skills body to propose how it will seek to address the needs of those furthestfrom the labour market. However, in considering the needs of those furthest fromthe labour market, Skills for Scotland sets out our ambition for an integrated employmentand skills service delivered through partnership working at a local and nationallevel. The new body will have a clear role in ensuring this is achieved.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 25 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-3167, 3168, 3169 and 3170 by Stewart Maxwell on 4 September 2007, whether it will release all the responses made to the consultation on draft Scottish Planning Policy 11: Physical Activity and Open Space (SPP 11) specifying what proportion of these responses opposes a presumption against development on urban green space and what proportion opposes a statutory responsibility to consult where a proposal seeks to develop on greenbelt.
Answer
One hundred andthirty-three responses were received following publication of consultation draftSPP 11. All the consultation responses were published on the Scottish Governmentwebsite and can be viewed at
www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/01/23094522/0.The finalised SPP 11: Open Space and Physical Activity will shortly be published,and will be accompanied by a consultation report and analysis of consultation responses.Policy on green belt is set out in SPP 21: Green Belts, published in April 2006.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 25 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive in what ways the performance of its proposed new skills body will be measured in terms of addressing the needs of those furthest from the labour market.
Answer
It will be for Scottishministers, in discussion with the new skills body, to determine suitable measuresfor the work of the body to address the needs of those furthest from the labourmarket.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 25 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in merging Careers Scotland and learndirect Scotland to form a new skills body.
Answer
Scottishministers, following the announcements on 10 and 26 September 2007 are taking forward the establishment of the new skillsbody with a view to having a shell organisation set up by the start of 2008, witha more formalised body in place by the end of this financial year.
