- 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 3 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in devising single outcome agreements, it is intended to draw on the English experience of adopting a flexible approach to the retention or removal of ring fencing.
Answer
In developing single outcome agreements appropriate for Scotland, we have drawn on a wide range of public and private sector sources, both at home and abroad, to inform our thinking.
- 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 3 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in devising the single outcome agreement process, it is intended to draw on the English experience of local area agreements.
Answer
In developing single outcome agreements appropriate for Scotland, we have had regard to, and have learnt from, experience elsewhere. We have also drawn on a wide range of public and private sector sources, both at home and abroad, and this has helped to inform our thinking.
- 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 3 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to evaluate pilots on single outcome agreements.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-9814 on 29 February 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 3 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in the event of evaluation of pilots on single outcome agreements (SOAs) providing negative results, the SOAs will be abandoned.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-9814 on 29 February 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 3 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how the performance of local authorities in terms of their targets and indicators will be monitored.
Answer
Local authorities will submit an annual report to the Scottish Government showing achievements against their agreed contribution to national outcomes as detailed in the single outcome agreement. The details of the content and timing of this are currently being developed as part of the on-going dialogue between the Scottish Government and local government.
Authorities are also subject to a statutory duty of Public Performance Reporting on an annual basis on issues likely to be of interest to their local community. It is therefore for them to consider how they will report delivery against the commitments in the single outcome agreement locally.
- 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 3 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how the performance of local authorities in respect of aspects of service not covered by local agreed targets and indicators will be monitored.
Answer
Aspects of council services not covered by local agreed targets and indicators will continue to be monitored by inspection and regulatory bodies in the same way as they are currently.
The Scottish Government recently announced further detailed consideration of specific issues raised by the Crerar report on public scrutiny. This will provide an opportunity to consider how systems of audit and inspection can most appropriately reflect the introduction of single outcome agreements.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 3 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been allocated under the heading “Tackling and Preventing Homelessness” or previous equivalents in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07 and (c) 2007-08, showing the amount assumed to be allocated for (i) addressing rough sleeping, (ii) provision of housing information and advice, (iii) provision of temporary accommodation, (iv) hostel decommissioning and (v) any other major identified expenditure items.
Answer
The Tackling and Preventing Homelessness grant was created in 2007-08 as an amalgamation of three previous funding streams “ Homelessness Task Force funding, the Furnished Tenancies Grant and the Glasgow Hostels Decommissioning Programme. The amounts allocated from these sources was as follows:
2007-08: £39.2 million
2006-07: £38.7 million
2005-06: £38.2 million.
Of this, £15 million in each of the years was allocated for the specific purpose of hostel decommissioning in Glasgow. None of the remaining funding was specifically allocated for any of the purposes set out in the question although local authorities were able to use it for these purposes if they so wished.
Separately, funding for addressing rough sleeping was made available to local authorities through the Revenue Support Grant.
- 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 Shona Robison on 29 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the poorest 20% of the population will benefit from the removal of prescription charges.
Answer
The information requested is not available.
We regard prescription charges as a tax on ill health. The removal of prescription charges will end the unfair system and bring equity for all Scots.
- 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 Adam Ingram on 29 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the poorest 20% of children will benefit from the free school meals pilot.
Answer
All P1-P3 pupils in the five local authorities participating in the free school lunch trial, including the poorest 20% in each authority, will have access to free nutritious lunches during the trial. The evaluation of the trial will investigate whether there are differences in the rate of uptake among those previously registered for free school meals and those who were not.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 29 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils in each Glasgow primary school were taking free school lunches in (a) June 2007 and (b) December 2007.
Answer
The most recent school meals data which was collected in February 2007, including the proportion of pupils registered for free school meals in each Glasgow primary school, is available on the Scottish Executive website at
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/SchMeals2007.
