- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many times the (a) Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth and (b) Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism met representatives of the Federation of Small Businesses Scotland prior to the Cabinet Secretary’s announcement on 26 September 2007 about the restructuring of Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
Answer
The Cabinet Secretaryfor Finance and Sustainable Growth did not meet with representatives from the Federationof Small Businesses Scotland times prior to the announcement of the reform of theenterprise networks. I met with them twice.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether public sector involvement in Katalyst Projects Ltd will be transferred from Scottish Enterprise Dumfries and Galloway to Dumfries and Galloway Council.
Answer
Work is underway byScottish Enterprise, in consultation with the Scottish Government, to restructureand to refocus its activities. Scottish Enterprise is working closely with its customers,partners and stakeholders, to ensure the delivery of day to day business. Decisionson the future delivery of individual projects will be determined in due course.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many times the (a) Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth and (b) Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism met representatives of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce prior to the Cabinet Secretary’s announcement on 26 September 2007 about the restructuring of Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
Answer
The Cabinet Secretaryfor Finance and Sustainable Growth did not meet with representatives from the ScottishChambers of Commerce prior to the announcement of the reform of the enterprisenetworks whilst I met with them on three occasions to discuss this issue.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will monitor whether the restructuring of Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise increases productivity.
Answer
The government’s newperformance framework, focussed on delivery of the government’s purpose andfive strategic objectives, will be published shortly with the StrategicSpending Review.
The nationaloutcomes and indicators that accompany the spending review will remove theproliferation of competing priorities and act as the basis for discussions ondelivery agreements with local government and other providers, including theenterprise networks. These more detailed plans will be published in due course.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many times the (a) Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth and (b) Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism met representatives of Scottish Financial Enterprise prior to the Cabinet Secretary’s announcement on 26 September 2007 about the restructuring of Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
Answer
The Cabinet Secretaryfor Finance and Sustainable Growth met with representatives from Scottish FinancialEnterprise (SFE) once prior to the announcement of the reform of the enterprisenetworks as did I when we discussed future plans with SFE and other business organisations.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the national Business Gateway website will be maintained after responsibility for Business Gateway passes to local authorities and, if so, who will be responsible for such maintenance.
Answer
In order to ensurenational consistency of the Business Gateway website, Scottish Enterprise will continueto have responsibility for its maintenance after the transfer of the managementof the local Business Gateway contracts to local authorities.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many times the (a) Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth and (b) Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism met representatives of the Institute of Directors prior to the Cabinet Secretary’s announcement on 26 September 2007 about the restructuring of Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
Answer
The Cabinet Secretaryfor Finance and Sustainable Growth did not meet with representatives from the Institute of Directors prior to the announcement of the reform of the enterprise networks. I met with them twice.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise networks’ local enterprise companies will cease to exist.
Answer
Local enterprise companieswill continue to operate until the end of the current financial year.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish its economic strategy.
Answer
I am pleased to announcethat the Government Economic Strategy is being published on 13 November 2007. The strategy sets out how we can deliver the Government’sPurpose of increasing sustainable economic growth. The Government Economic Strategywill be available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre from the 13 (Bib.number 43999).
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 6 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what advice its officials gave to Dumfries and Galloway Council concerning reference to the Scottish Ministers of proposals agreed by Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Education and Community Services Committee on 6 November 2003 to close St Teresa’s Roman Catholic Primary School and St Andrew’s Roman Catholic Primary School and to merge the two schools.
Answer
In a July 2003response to a letter from Dumfries and Galloway Council the former ScottishExecutive set out, in general terms, the operation of the legislation on schoolclosures and the circumstances in which the consent of ministers is required.The response made clear that the Executive could not comment on the specificsituation of the two Roman Catholic schools in Dumfries which had prompted the council’s enquiry.
