- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 10 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what further measures it intends to take to improve employability in Glasgow.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-3773 on 10 September 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found 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: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the reported savings of £22 million arising from the decision not to relocate 300 NHS jobs to Glasgow will be spent in Glasgow.
Answer
The £22 million whichwould have been required for the relocation will be invested in front line servicesand in tackling health inequalities in the NHS in Scotland, including those in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will confirm that NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will receive an increase of £22 million to its budget as a consequence of the decision not to relocate 300 jobs to Glasgow and, if so, when this budget increase will take place.
Answer
The £22 million whichwould have been required for the relocation will be invested in front line servicesand in tackling health inequalities throughout the whole of the NHS in Scotland, including those in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 10 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will outline where the reported savings of £22 million arising from the decision not to relocate NHS jobs to Glasgow will be spent.
Answer
The £22 million whichwould have been required for the relocation will be invested in front line servicesand in tackling health inequalities in the NHS in Scotland.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 6 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-2128 and S3W-2129 by Adam Ingram on 9 August 2007, when it will be able to indicate (a) how many children will be involved in the pilot, as distinct from how many could be involved, and (b) how many of those children will be entitled to free school meals who would not previously have been so entitled.
Answer
We will get a snap-shotfigure of how many took a meal, and whether or not they were previously eligiblefor school meals, on a date at the end of February. These figures will be availablenext summer when the report on the evaluation of the trial is published.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 6 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-2913 and S3W-2914 on 20 August 2007 and to question S3W-2129 on 9 August 2007 by Adam Ingram, how many pupils in each pilot school could be entitled to free school meals, given the current data available, who were not previously so entitled.
Answer
We have had no reasonto calculate these figures. The most recent school meals data, including the number of pupils previouslyentitled to free school meals, is available on the Scottish Executive website 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: Friday, 24 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 6 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of school pupils involved in the free school meals pilot it expects, based on the data currently available, will be entitled to free school meals who were previously not so entitled, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-3645 on 6 September 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found 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: Monday, 27 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 6 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to introduce a national accreditation scheme for property managers.
Answer
We are looking atproposals to take forward a voluntary national accreditation scheme forresidential property managers, based on recommendations of the HousingImprovement Task Force and subsequent work. This would involve governmentexpenditure. We will be considering all budget requirements from 2008-09onwards as part of the spending review.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 6 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will meet representatives of the Scottish Consumer Council to discuss its Consumer Experiences of Property Management Services study.
Answer
ScottishGovernment officials have had a number of discussions with representatives of the Scottish Consumer Council about the accreditation of property managers. Itis expected that a discussion of the new report, Consumer Experiences ofProperty Management Services, will take place in the near future.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 6 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much is proposed to be spent between August and December 2007 on publicising its anti-racist strategy.
Answer
I refer themember to the answer to question S3W-3761 on 6 September 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.
