- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 28 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 15 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much Housing Association Grant was allocated to Communities Scotland’s (a) Glasgow, (b) Grampian, (c) Highlands and Islands, (d) Lothians, Borders and Fife, (e) Argyll and Clyde, (f) South West Scotland and (g) Tayside and Forth Valley area offices in 2007-08.
Answer
The following table details the initial amount of Affordable Housing Investment Programme (AHIP) allocated to each area at the beginning of 2007-08. These figures will have changed over the course of the year and the final outturn figures will be published in due course. It should be noted that allocation of housing association grant only is not separately recorded.
| Area Office | AHIP Allocation (£ Million) |
| Glasgow City Council (TMDF) | £83 |
| Glasgow (GHA) | £68.4 |
| Highlands and Islands | £52.625 |
| Grampian | £32 |
| Lothian, Borders and Fife (excl CEC) | £49.145 |
| City of Edinburgh Council (TMDF) | £36.1 |
| Argyll and Clyde | £79.261 |
| South West | £84.5 |
| Tayside and Forth Valley | £54.824 |
The figures above do not include the Shared Equity Open Market Pilot, Mortgage to Rent and AHIP Support costs.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 15 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many school leavers in 2006-07 who did not go into education, training or employment were identified as carers.
Answer
The information requested is not collected centrally.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 19 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional funding has been made available to Glasgow City Council to meet the £14.75 million staffing costs necessary to implement the Scottish Government’s class size reduction policy.
Answer
We have signed a historic concordat with local government that provides record levels of funding of £34.9 billion over the spending review period. This represents an increase of 13.1%. In return local government has agreed to reduce class sizes in primary 1 to primary 3 as quickly as possible.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 19 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional funding has been made available to Glasgow City Council to meet the £32.5 million capital costs necessary to implement the Scottish Government’s class size reduction policy.
Answer
In July 2007, we announced an additional £40 million of capital grant across Scotland for financial year 2007-08 linked to future capital expenditure arising from possible implications for buildings of class size reduction. Glasgow City Council''''s share was £2.174 million.
Our concordat with local government provides record levels of funding over the next three financial years, including significant growth in the capital resources being made available to local authorities. In 2008-09, local government capital increases by £115 million or 13% and that increase is then held up to 2010-11. In total, almost £3 billion is being provided over the three year period to secure investment in schools and other local authority infrastructure.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 14 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many draft outcome agreements have been submitted by local authorities.
Answer
Councils are not required to submit their draft single outcome agreements to the Scottish Government until 31 March 2008.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 12 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-9824 by Stewart Maxwell on 3 March 2008, how much of the £1.7 million to be saved by abolishing Communities Scotland will be (a) staffing, (b) administrative and (c) capital costs.
Answer
We have identified efficiency savings of £1.7 million which arise from the abolition of Communities Scotland. The new and more streamlined structures from 1 April 2008 present savings under a range of headings including staff and administration costs, but we have yet to decide their final distribution.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 12 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-9824 by Stewart Maxwell on 3 March 2008, how much of the £1.7 million to be saved by abolishing Communities Scotland will be made (a) in the first year and (b) year-on-year over the next three years.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-10709 on 12 March 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 6 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether community engagement falls within the remit of the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth or the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing.
Answer
Community engagement is a key element of a wide range of policy areas and contributes towards all of our Strategic Objectives, for which the Cabinet collectively has ownership. The most consistent links are with our Objective to make Scotland wealthier and fairer. As Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, the lead responsibility for this rests with me.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there will be local targets and indicators for those aspects of health and care provision within the remit of local authorities.
Answer
Single outcome agreements will reflect the priorities and agreed outcomes for each council, and will include the relevant and appropriate indicators and targets.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make available the list of local targets and indicators from which single outcome agreements will be negotiated.
Answer
The local indicators will be available shortly on the Improvement Service website at:
http://www.improvementservice.org.uk.
