- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will lodge a motion for consideration for debate in the Parliament on the Scottish Youth Parliament.
Answer
Timetabling of parliamentary business is a matter for the Parliamentary Bureau and selection of motions for debate is a matter for the Presiding Officer.The Executive hopes to bring forward a debate on youth policy after the Easter recess. The Scottish Youth Parliament is likely to form part of this debate.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 21 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what supervisory arrangements it expects local authorities to implement in order that local authority employees dealing in the money markets on behalf of their authorities are adequately monitored at all times.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-23369.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 21 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what training arrangements it expects local authorities to make in order to ensure that all local authority employees dealing in the money markets on behalf of their authorities are suitably qualified.
Answer
These are matters for local authorities, although we would expect them to have regard to the revised CIPFA Code of Practice on Treasury Management in the Public Sector.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 21 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what professional advice it expects local authorities to seek on an on-going basis with regard to risk and performance when placing monies on the money markets.
Answer
This is a matter for local authorities, although we expect them to have regard to the CIPFA Code of Practice for Treasury Management in the Public Services (2001) and professional advice where it is an issue.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 21 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it gives to further and higher education institutions in regard to investment on the money market.
Answer
None. The Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Councils allocate public funds to further and higher education institutions, on the condition that they are used for the purposes for which they are granted.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 20 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish an estimate of the volume of daily transactions by local authorities on the money market.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 March 2002
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Answered by Elaine Murray on 20 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when the final report on the National Audit of Museums will be published.
Answer
The Scottish Museums Councils are responsible for publishing the final report of the National Audit of museum and gallery collections, buildings and services. We expect the report will be published in the summer.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Elaine Murray on 20 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has received regarding funding from (a) the Scottish Museums Council and (b) individual museums.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has awarded an increase in funding of £850,000 over the three years 2001-02 to 2003-04 to the Scottish Museums Council. The Scottish Museums Council has made a bid to the Executive for additional funding for ICT development to enable them to provide more support for the non-national museum sector. We have received representations on funding from six individual non-national museums.The Scottish Executive is responsible for the National Museums and Galleries; the responsibility for non-national museums rests with local agencies and local authorities, which have statutory responsibility to provide cultural facilities for the residents in their areas.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Elaine Murray on 20 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria are applied in the awarding of special grants from the Strategic Change Fund to industrial museums.
Answer
The National Cultural Strategy committed the Executive to initiate a national audit of collections in museums and galleries, beginning with the industrial museums. Resources of £250,000 were made available for the audit and an interim report was published in October 2001. In addition, a Strategic Change Fund of £3 million over three years was announced for the sector. In December 2000, the Executive allocated £1.26 million of this fund over three years towards the running costs of the Scottish Fisheries Museum, the Scottish Maritime Museum and the Scottish Mining Museum in recognition of their financial difficulties. A condition of the package was that the local authorities involved would maintain their level of support over the same three-year period. The three industrial museums were accepted as museums of national importance on the strength of evidence from a number of independent studies and expert advice from the National Museums of Scotland.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 18 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive who the legally responsible employer is of the four fingerprint experts currently under suspension from the Scottish Criminal Record Office following investigations into the Shirley McKie case.
Answer
Civilian staff employed by the Scottish Criminal Record Office are employees of Strathclyde Joint Police Board and are subject to their terms and conditions of employment.