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Question reference: S3W-09393

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 28 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding each local authority received for school travel co-ordinators in each year of the 2004 spending review.

Each local authority was awarded the following grants for School Travel Coordinator posts in each year of the 2004 spending review:

Local Authority	2005-06 (£000)	2006-07 (£000)	2007-08 (£000)
Aberdeen City	34	34	34
Aberdeenshire	48	50	52
Angus	20	22	22
Argyll and Bute	17	17	17
Clackmannanshire	15	15	15
Dumfries and Galloway	28	28	28
Dundee City	26	25	25
East Ayrshire	24	24	25
East Dunbartonshire	23	22	22
East Lothian	18	21	21
East Renfrewshire	19	20	21
Edinburgh	71	73	75
Eilean Siar	15	15	15
Falkirk	28	30	31
Fife	69	71	73
Glasgow	104	101	103
Highland	41	42	43
Inverclyde	16	16	17
Midlothian	17	18	18
Moray	17	18	18
North Ayrshire	28	27	28
North Lanarkshire	64	68	70
Orkney Islands	15	15	15
Perthshire and Kinross	26	27	28
Renfrewshire	33	34	35
Scottish Borders	20	22	23
Shetland Islands	15	15	15
South Ayrshire	21	21	22
South Lanarkshire	59	62	63
Stirling	16	18	18
West Dunbartonshire	19	18	19
West Lothian	34	37	39
Total	=SUM(ABOVE) 1,000	=SUM(above) 1,026	=SUM(above) 1,050

Question reference: S3W-09381

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 28 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding each local authority received under the Teacher Induction Scheme in each year of the 2004 spending review.

The following table provides details of the amounts paid by specific grant to each local authority in each year of the 2004 spending review. These sums are additional to the £13 million that is included in the local government finance settlement in respect of the teacher induction scheme.

Local Authority	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Aberdeen	£398,836	£687,199	£930,439
Aberdeenshire	£457,844	£540,320	£873,763
Angus	£464,384	£547,152	£627,606
Argyll and Bute	£46,016	£149,696	£389,295
Clackmannanshire	£54,998	£361,425	£595,069
Dumfries and Galloway	£112,174	£145,910	£288,028
Dundee	£57,450	£604,497	£893,587
East Ayrshire	£629,605	£985,066	£1,159,272
East Dunbartonshire	£516,230	£408,849	£788,585
East Lothian	£957,149	£1,294,773	£1,156,553
East Renfrewshire	£1,754,403	£2,176,290	£1,933,777
Edinburgh	£980,292	£1,913,541	£2,237,272
Eilean Siar	£7,896	£112,644	£319,862
Falkirk	£646,526	£1,189,461	£1,128,386
Fife	£612,614	£775,614	£1,583,932
Glasgow	£1,546,230	£2,384,264	£2,382,138
Highland	£200,114	£463,791	£910,017
Inverclyde	£213,574	£715,969	£1,027,112
Midlothian	£316,598	£822,494	£1,017,492
Moray	£408,568	£360,136	£393,458
North Ayrshire	£682,633	£1,087,093	£1,208,386
North Lanarkshire	£2,069,188	£2,754,160	£2,837,715
Orkney Islands	£162,001	£109,195	£180,128
Perth & Kinross	£479,635	£583,875	£648,128
Renfrewshire	£382,058	£1,534,630	£2,272,406
Scottish Borders	£160,638	£83,588	£520,887
Shetland Islands	£58,321	£216,678	£289,866
South Ayrshire	£180,241	£649,701	£766,322
South Lanarkshire	£1,834,564	£2,477,624	£2,354,734
Stirling	£611,356	£1,044,221	£1,340,419
West Dunbartonshire	£948,106	£1,222,342	£1,223,699
West Lothian	£161,030	£1,056,530	£1,859,613
Total	£18,111,272	£29,458,728	£36,137,946

Question reference: S3W-09369

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority received from the Children’s Services - Womens Aid Fund in each year of the 2004 spending review.

The Children''s Services “ Womens Aid Fund was introduced in 2006 in order to develop children''s services in local women''s aid groups. The majority of funding was allocated directly to local groups but in a small number of cases was allocated via the local authority. Details of the funding to local authorities in 2006-07 are set out in the table below.

	2006-07
Aberdeen City	0.042
Aberdeenshire	0.074
Fife	0.070
West Lothian	0.033
Scotland	0.219 million

Question reference: S3W-09249

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Linda Fabiani on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what revenue and capital costs were incurred by the Scottish Records Advisory Council in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07.

Question reference: S3W-09252

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Linda Fabiani on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive which body will be responsible for providing advice to Scottish ministers on matters relating to the keeping of public records in Scotland and on issues of importance to the archive community after the abolition of the Scottish Records Advisory Council.

Question reference: S3W-09245

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Linda Fabiani on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement by the First Minister on 30 January 2008, when the Scottish Records Advisory Council will cease to operate.

Question reference: S3W-09389

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority received from the Schools Fund in each year of the 2004 spending review.

Whilst local government had flexibility to allocate other resources for work on the school estate, the amounts allocated to authorities from the Schools Fund in the years concerned were as follows:

	2005-06 (£ Million)	2006-07 (£ Million)	2007-08 (£ Million)
Aberdeen City	3.045	4.766	4.484
Aberdeenshire	4.235	6.629	9.057
Angus	2.076	3.249	3.811
Argyll and Bute	1.943	3.041	3.316
Clackmannanshire	0.962	1.506	1.617
Dumfries and Galloway	2.809	4.396	7.281
Dundee City	2.461	3.852	3.586
East Ayrshire	2.366	3.703	3.610
East Dunbartonshire	2.443	3.824	3.584
East Lothian	1.751	2.740	3.174
East Renfrewshire	1.942	3.039	3.266
Edinburgh City	6.886	10.778	10.730
Eilean Siar	0.830	1.299	1.173
Falkirk	2.576	4.032	3.816
Fife	6.427	10.059	11.360
Glasgow City	10.109	15.822	14.653
Highland	4.332	6.780	7.425
Inverclyde	1.839	2.880	2.671
Midlothian	1.717	2.688	2.656
Moray	1.660	2.598	2.676
North Ayrshire	2.692	4.213	4.270
North Lanarkshire	6.958	10.891	12.066
Orkney	0.598	0.936	0.788
Perth and Kinross	2.348	3.673	5.101
Renfrewshire	3.336	5.221	5.052
Scottish Borders	2.171	3.398	4.001
Shetland	0.692	1.083	1.453
South Ayrshire	2.264	3.544	3.404
South Lanarkshire	6.205	9.712	8.640
Stirling	1.754	2.745	3.097
West Dunbartonshire	1.967	3.078	2.811
West Lothian	3.306	5.175	6.420
Scotland Total	96.700	151.350	161.050

Question reference: S3W-09384

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 27 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority received from the schools estate - PPP funding package in each year of the 2004 spending review.

The amounts included in Revenue Support Grant in the years concerned for the 16 authorities to whom support for the current tranche of school PPP projects has so far become payable were as follows:

Local Authority	2005-06 (£)	2006-07 (£)	2007-08 (£)
Aberdeenshire	1,700,000	3,400,000	3,400,000
Angus	-	-	573,216
Argyll and Bute	-	637,581	4,995,193
East Ayrshire	-	-	448,633
East Lothian	2,920,000	2,950,000	2,950,000
East Renfrewshire	330,000	3,110,000	3,950,000
Edinburgh City	-	-	251,556
Fife	-	823,164	3,668,162
Highland	-	-	1,143,470
Midlothian	-	-	1,249,500
North Ayrshire	-	-	2,656,213
North Lanarkshire	70,000	3,494,511	7,541,458
Renfrewshire	-	3,170,000	6,160,000
South Ayrshire	-	-	130,824
South Lanarkshire	-	-	2,167,281
Stirling	-	-	693,382

Question reference: S3W-09379

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Adam Ingram on 26 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding each local authority received under the Educational Attainment for Looked After Children scheme in each year of the 2004 spending review.

Funding allocations were based on the level of funding requested by the local authority in their pilot project proposal. Each of the proposals and the level of funding were approved by Scottish ministers. All local authorities who submitted pilot project proposals received funding.

Local Authority	2005-06	2006-07	Allocated funding 2007-08	Total Allocation
East Ayrshire	£180,000.00	£180,000.00	£0.00	£360,000.00
Glasgow	£67,560.00	£225,000.00	£203,446.00	£496,006.00
Highland	£110,000.00	£240,000.00	£50,000.00	£400,000.00
Midlothian	£29,250.00	£29,150.00	£58,600.00	£117,000.00
North Ayrshire	£62,750.00	£113,272.00	£74,978.00	£251,000.00
South Lanarkshire	£130,984.00	£224,432.00	£99,070.00	£454,486.00
Stirling	£65,000.00	£85,800.00	£22,300.00	£173,100.00
Aberdeen City	£0.00	£131,500.00	£165,000.00	£296,500.00
Dumfries and Galloway	£0.00	£96,850.00	£152,500.00	£249,350.00
Dundee	£0.00	£134,200.00	£203,000.00	£337,200.00
East Lothian	£0.00	£110,000.00	£110,000.00	£220,000.00
Edinburgh	£0.00	£133,000.00	£200,000.00	£333,000.00
Falkirk	£0.00	£92,000.00	£92,000.00	£184,000.00
Fife	£0.00	£152,802.00	£73,901.00	£226,703.00
North Lanarkshire	£0.00	£56000.00	£190,000.00	£246,000.00
Renfrewshire	£0.00	£110,807.00	£113,045.00	£223,852.00
South Ayrshire	£0.00	£60,846.00	£89,056.00	£149,902.00
West Dunbartonshire	£0.00	£92,000.00	£112,000.00	£204,000.00
West Lothian	£0.00	£183,890.00	£65,000.00	£248,890.00
Inverclyde	£0.00	£15000.00	£209859.00	£224859.00
Total	£645,544.00	£2,466,549.00	£2,283,755.00	£5,395,848.00

Question reference: S3W-09258

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 26 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive who is legally responsible for clearing up litter dropped or blown on to private land.