- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 October 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-11978 by Jim Mather on 1 May 2008, when it will be possible to identify how much of the funding from the grant of £1,335,338 awarded to VisitScotland for Homecoming Scotland 2009 through the European Regional Development Fund Programme 2007-13 for Lowlands and Uplands Scotland under Priority 4 rural development funding will be allocated to organisations in (a) East Ayrshire and (b) South Ayrshire.
Answer
The application to the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is part of a national, strategic project focusing on the marketing and promotion of Homecoming. Those events taking place in the eight eligible areas, including East Ayrshire, will benefit from marketing activity supported with ERDF funding.
This marketing activity would not be happening to the extent it is without this funding. ERDF funding is claimed back after the expenditure has occurred.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 October 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-11852 by Jim Mather on 24 April 2008, how many signature events have been confirmed for Homecoming Scotland 2009.
Answer
There are fourteen Homecoming Scotland 2009 events funded as part of the signature programme. These sit across five signature programmes of activity: Burns Anniversary Opening Weekend (January); Whisky Month (May); summer programme (June to July); autumn (International Rally Championship and Highland Homecoming), and the finale (November).
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 October 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-11852 by Jim Mather on 24 April 2008, how much funding has been allocated to signature events for Homecoming Scotland 2009 in Ayrshire.
Answer
£220,000 has been allocated to signature events for Homecoming Scotland 2009 in Ayrshire.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 October 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-11980 by Jim Mather on 1 May 2008, when it will be possible to identify how much of the funding from the grant of £1,335,338 awarded to VisitScotland for Homecoming Scotland 2009 through the European Regional Development Fund Programme 2007-13 for Lowlands and Uplands Scotland under Priority 4 rural development funding will be allocated to communities, organisations or rural communities.
Answer
The application to the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is part of a national, strategic project focusing on the marketing and promotion of Homecoming. Those events taking place in the eight eligible areas, including East Ayrshire, will benefit from marketing activity supported with ERDF funding.
This marketing activity would not be happening to the extent it is without this funding. ERDF funding is claimed back after the expenditure has occurred.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 November 2008
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Current Status:
Awaiting answer
To ask the Scottish Executive what priority will be given to applicants for funding for Gypsy/Traveller sites in local authority areas that have residential or transit sites.
Answer
Awaiting answer
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will fund any new (a) health centres, (b) hospitals and (c) other NHS facilities it intends to build between May 2007 and April 2011, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Capital and revenue funds are allocated on a formula basis to geographic NHS boards for them to identify their spending requirements and to prioritise these in line with available resources. NHS boards develop long-term financial plans and it is for them, when developing these plans, to take account of infrastructure investment. NHS boards across Scotland received £324 million pounds of capital funding for 2008-09, and have been notified of indicative capital allocations of £329 million and £334 million for 2009-10 and 2010-11 to build new fit-for-purpose facilities, and upgrade existing facilities.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many GPs were in practice in each year since 1997, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The information requested is available from Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland:
www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=Medical%20and%20Dental%20Trend(A).xls&pContentDispositionType=inline.
Information as at September 2008 is due to be published in December 2008.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) health centres, (b) hospitals and (c) other NHS facilities it intends to have constructed by the NHS within the current spending review period using PPP or PFI as the preferred method of procurement, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
For information on those PPP projects which will be constructed by the NHS within the current spending review period using PPP or PFI as the preferred method of procurement, I refer the member to the Scottish Government''s Infrastructure Investment Unit''s website at
www.scotland.gov.uk/ppp. This includes both project done deals and project future deals tables which provide timescales where held on the various stages of procurement of the projects contained within them.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) health centres, (b) hospitals and (c) other NHS facilities have been constructed by the NHS in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board and showing whether they were procured by the Scottish Executive or the NHS board.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-17699 on 17 November 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 November 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many engineers, electricians and other skilled tradespeople were employed in the NHS in each year since 1997, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The information requested is available from Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland. Data from 1997 to 2006 is available by adding Works and Trades groups together.
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=WFG01_HB_REG.xls&pContentDispositionType=inline.
From 2007, workforce data has changed due to the reclassification of NHS staff under new Agenda for Change bandings. Skilled trades staff are now classified under Support Services. Data for 2007: All other staff in post:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=All other staff(A).xls&pContentDispositionType=inline.
Information as at September 2008 is due to be published in December 2008.
