- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 May 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 15 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-14615 by John Swinney on 2 May 2013, on what it will spend the “accumulated police reserves" and what discussions it has had with Police Scotland regarding their allocation.
Answer
Accumulated police reserves in the region of £20 to £30 million will accrue to the Scottish Government Resource Department of Employment and Learning(DEL) budget. As set out in response to S4W-14615, this will help the Scottish Government to minimise the impact of the £54.8 million reduction in its 2013-14 Resource DEL budget. The reallocation of police reserves is part of an agreement between the Scottish Government and COSLA around the sharing of uncommitted resources which have been generated as a result of accumulated underspends by the former police joint boards. The agreement also provides that funding for any commitments that carry forward to the Scottish Police Authority in 2013-14 will be met in full so there will be no impact on the budget of the new body. Discussions around the treatment of reserves have been held with the Scottish Police Authority and Police Scotland.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 May 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 15 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-14615 by John Swinney on 2 May 2013, on what it will spend the £12 million reduction in the level of planned switch between the resource and capital budgets in the housing portfolio.
Answer
As set out in the response to S4W-14615, the three measures described will allow the Scottish Government to almost fully offset the £54.8 million cut that has been made in the Scottish Government Resource DEL budget in 2013-14, without detriment to existing programmes and spending plans.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 May 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 15 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-14615 by John Swinney on 2 May 2013, whether the £10 million additional funding for the further education sector that it announced on 6 February 2013 (Official Report c. 16478) will no longer be spent in that area and, if so, where this will now be allocated.
Answer
The commitment to provide an additional £10 million funding for the college sector has been maintained. As set out in response to S4W-14615, rather than funding this from Barnett consequentials in 2013-14, an additional £10 million in funding has been passed to the Scottish Funding Council in 2012-13 for deployment in the college sector in 2013-14. This enables the Government to address the £54.8 million cut the UK Government has made to the Scottish Government’s resource budget in 2013-14 whilst still delivering in full the commitment to the £522 million funding floor for the sector announced on 6 February.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 May 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 15 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-14615 by John Swinney on 2 May 2013, for what reason there is an “emerging 2012-13 underspend to the college sector” and what correspondence the Cabinet Secretary for (a) Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth and (b) Education and Lifelong Learning has had with the Scottish Funding Council regarding this.
Answer
There is no underspend in the college sector in 2012-13. £10 million in emerging underspend elsewhere in Scottish Government has been redirected as additional funding to the sector through the Scottish Funding Council.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 May 2013
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 9 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government how it supports bus services.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 9 May 2013
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 April 2013
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 2 May 2013
To ask the First Minister what discussions the Scottish Government has had with the European Commission regarding an opt-out from pensions regulations should Scotland become independent.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 2 May 2013
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 March 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 22 April 2013
To ask the Scottish Government how the Deputy First Minister’s reported assertion that welfare spending in Scotland will be reduced by £4.5 billion was calculated.
Answer
The methodology applied to the examination of the reduction to the Scottish welfare bill over the five years to 2014-15 is set out in the report UK Government cuts to welfare expenditure in Scotland which is available at;
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0041/00417011.pdf.
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Current Status:
Withdrawn
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 March 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Angela Constance on 28 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to extend the Employer Recruitment Incentive for Targeted Young People to include (a) 20 to 24-year-olds and (b) people with learning difficulties.
Answer
The Employer Recruitment Incentive for targeted young people is currently available to all young people 16-24 years who meet the eligibility criteria. The Community Jobs Scotland programme has recently been refined to help vulnerable young people who face additional barriers to entering into employment by increasing the age criteria for these young people from 16-19 to 16-24 years.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 March 2013
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Current Status:
Answered by Aileen Campbell on 28 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many (a) premature deaths and (b) suicides there have been among (i) people with learning difficulties and (ii) care leavers in each year since 2007.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
With regards to the deaths of care leavers, we are in the early stages of exploring ways to improve data collection for recording and investigating incidences so that findings can be used to make further improvements to support services.