- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 15 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how MSPs will be able to access local agreements.
Answer
All single outcome agreements will be made publicly available once they have been agreed. clea
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 March 2008
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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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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 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 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, 20 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 5 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the poorest 20% of the population will benefit from the abolition of the graduate endowment payment.
Answer
This information is not available. Under the provisions of the Graduate Endowment Abolition (Scotland) Bill, Scottish ministers will report to Parliament on the proportion of the poorest 20% of the population who will benefit from the abolition of the graduate endowment fee in future years.
Liability for the original graduate endowment fee was not means-tested and so young people from the poorest 20% of the population who are at university and are liable for Graduate Endowment fee will no longer need to pay and will therefore benefit from its abolition.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the poorest 20% of the population will benefit from the freeze on council tax.
Answer
Initial estimates suggest that the proportion of the poorest 20% of households that will benefit as a result of the council tax freeze is 48%. This analysis also estimates that no-one is estimated to lose out as a result of the council tax freeze.
