Chamber and committees

Questions and answers

Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.

Find out more about parliamentary questions

Filter your results Hide all filters

Displaying 1909 questions Show Answers

Order by |

Question reference: S3W-07570

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 December 2007
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to increase the funding available for occupational therapy services.

All NHS boards receivean annual allocation of funds. Each board’s allocation will be increased in eachyear of the spending review period. It is for each NHS board to decide how bestto utilise these funds to meet the health care needs of its resident populationtaking account of national and local priorities, including occupational therapyservices. No specific additional funding is being provided for occupational therapyservices. It will be for boards to decide whether any of the additional fundingbeing made available to them is used for this purpose.

Board workforce planspublished in April 2007 have predicted that the overall number of qualified occupationaltherapists is projected to increase by almost 3.6% over the next three years from1,536.3 in 2006 to 1,592.3 in 2009.

Question reference: S3W-07571

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 December 2007
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many occupational therapists there are in each NHS board.

Information on staffemployed in NHSScotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website underWorkforce Statistics at www.isdscotland.org/workforce.

Section F gives detailsof therapeutic, health care science, technical, pharmacy and ambulance staff. Inparticular, tables F1 and F2 show the whole-time equivalent and head count of occupationaltherapists employed in NHSScotland by year and by NHS board and region. Whole-timeequivalent adjusts head count to take account of part-time working. Latest availabledata is at 30 September 2006.

Question reference: S3W-07436

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 December 2007
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 12 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on school education in each year since 1990, broken down into (a) local authority spending and (b) central government grants.

The questionraises two different concepts: spend on school education and how this spend isfunded. The following table outlines (a) gross revenue expenditure on schooleducation by local authorities and (b) central government grants for schooleducation (which excludes Revenue Support Grant, the main route education isfunded by the Scottish Government).

Centralgovernment grants for school education represents funding for both localauthorities and other organisations which support the school education system(for example Scottish Qualifications Authority and HM Inspectorate of Education).Therefore, elements of central government grants will have funded local authoritygross revenue expenditure on school education. Consequently, the two sets offigures should not be aggregated as there is an element of overlap. It is notpossible to identify the exact overlap as some central government grants arenot ring-fenced for school education.

Year	Gross Revenue Expenditure by Local Authorities on School Education	Total Central Government Grants for School Education
1990-91	£1,645 million	£32 million
1991-92	£1,770 million	£42 million
1992-93	£1,893 million	£46 million
1993-94	£1,929 million	£48 million
1994-95	£1,965 million	£51 million
1995-96	£1,967 million	£52 million
1996-97	£1,981 million	£57 million
1997-98	£2,003 million	£56 million
1998-99	£2,107 million	£75 million
1999-2000	£2,268 million	£175 million
2000-01	£2,424 million	£252 million
2001-02	£2,636 million	£360 million
2002-03	£3,128 million	£329 million
2003-04	£3,437 million	£315 million
2004-05	£3,691 million	£387 million
2005-06	£3,887 million	£441 million
2006-07	*	£590 million

Notes:

1. Figures arerounded to the nearest £ million.

2. Gross RevenueExpenditure for 1990-91 to 1994-95 includes pre-school education.

3. Due to changesin the way the data is recorded, Gross Revenue Expenditure figures prior to2002-03 are not directly comparable.

* Figures notpublished yet.

Question reference: S3W-07437

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 December 2007
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 7 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils attended state schools in each year since 1990.

Question reference: S3W-06389

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 28 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has paid to the Equality Network in each year since 1999.

The Scottish Executivehas not given core funding to Equality Network, nor does it fund campaigning activity.Grant Funding awarded to Equality Network has been time limited project fundingfor specific pieces of work relating mainly to consultation and engagement withthe LGBT community

The grant fundingawarded to Equality Network in each year since 1999 is as follows:

Year	Equality Network
1999-2000	Nil
2000-01	Nil
2001-2	Nil
2002-03	£46,097.00
2003-04	£60,009.00
2004-05	£202,472.00
2005-06	£199,300.62
2006-07	£184,541.60
Total	£692,420.22

Question reference: S3W-06390

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 26 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has paid to LGBT Youth Scotland in each year since 1999.

The Scottish Executivehas not given core funding to LGBT Youth Scotland, nor does it fund campaigningactivity. Grant Funding awarded to LGBT Youth Scotland has been time limited projectfunding for specific pieces of work relating mainly to community engagement andcapacity building and services for young people.

The grant fundingawarded to LGBT Youth Scotland in each year since 1999 is as follows:

Year	LGBT Youth Scotland
1999-2000	Nil
2000-01	Nil
2001-02	Nil
2002-03	£12,000.00
2003-04	£23,500.00
2004–05	£129,950.00
2005–06	£181,715.00
2006–07	£280,277
Total	£627,442

Question reference: S3W-05987

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 14 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has paid to the Scottish Inter-Faith Council in each year since 1999.

The ScottishInterfaith Council has received funding from the Scottish Government in eachyear since 1999 as detailed in the following table.

Year	Funding
1999-2000	Nil
2000-01	Nil
2001-02	Nil
2002-03	£34,000
2003-04	£62,090
2004-05	£113,310
2005-06	£117,125.15
2006-07	£186,747
Total	£513,272.15

Question reference: S3W-05988

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 14 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has paid to Stonewall in each year since 1999.

The Scottish Governmenthas not given core funding to Stonewall Scotland, nor does it fund campaigning activity. Grant Funding awarded toStonewall Scotland has been time limited project funding for specific pieces ofwork relating mainly to inclusion in health and housing, and for mainstreamingequality into public services.

The grant fundingawarded to Stonewall Scotland in each year since 1999 is as follows:

Year	Stonewall Scotland
1999-2000	Nil
2000-01	Nil
2001-02	£86,917.66
2002-03	£95,537.84
2003-04	£103,417.66
2004-05	£130,981.00
2005-06	£209,438.80
2006-07	£220,600.00
Total	£846,892.96

Question reference: S3W-05986

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 14 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has paid to Caledonia Youth in each year since 1999.

Caledonia Youth has received funding from the Scottish Government in each year since 1999 as detailed in the following table.

Financial Year	Funding
1999-2000	£ 9,000
2000-01	£159,500
2001-02	£124,807
2002-03	£307,729
2003-04	£469,020
2004-05	£633,528
2005-06	£435,084
2006-07	£355,396

Question reference: S3W-05293

Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what safeguards there are to prevent the exposure of children to (a) political bias and (b) scientific inaccuracy or misrepresentation in the classroom.