- Asked by: Marilyn Livingstone, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 10 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to promote modern apprenticeships for adults.
Answer
Details about the promotion of modern apprenticeships for adults is an operational matter for Skills Development Scotland. The information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Marilyn Livingstone, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 10 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of modern apprenticeship funding by industry sector for (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10.
Answer
Delivery of the national training programme in Scotland, including funding, is an operational matter managed by Skills Development Scotland.
The Skills Development Scotland budget is £176/£170/£170 million for 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 respectively.
- Asked by: Marilyn Livingstone, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 10 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what range of measures and what budgets it has in place to support the range of needs of disabled children and young people.
Answer
The Scottish Government is committed to supporting the delivery of effective, equitable and empowering services which meet the needs of all Scotland’s disabled children and their families. This includes work on disability equality, support for learning in schools, further education and higher education, direct payments for self-directed care, equipment and adaptations (including adaptations in the private sector), wheelchairs and seating, and moving and handling.
The Scottish Government will be providing local government in Scotland with record levels of funding over the spending review period 2008-11. It is the responsibility of local authorities and health boards to allocate appropriate resources to meeting the needs of disabled children and young people. The Scottish Government also sponsors a wide range of organisations providing direct support to children and young people with disabilities, and their families.
- Asked by: Marilyn Livingstone, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 10 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to promote modern apprenticeships in the construction industry to women.
Answer
Details about the MA promotional activities within specific sectors is an operational matter for Skills Development Scotland. The information is not held centrally.
However, we will continue to promote equal opportunities within schools, information, advice and guidance and the promotion of learning across Scotland.
- Asked by: Marilyn Livingstone, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 25 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been made available under the Business Improvement Districts project and what level of funding is still available.
Answer
Over the two years 2006-08, the Scottish Government provided funding of around £1.1 million to establish the framework for the Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) programme and support the six pilot BID projects. With the completion of these stages, funding for the period 2008-11 will be set at around £500,000 per year to provide practical and financial support for the BIDs programme.
- Asked by: Marilyn Livingstone, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 19 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the £12.5 million budget allocated over the next three years for urban regeneration companies, referred to at the Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee on 21 May 2008 (Official Report c. 798) is fully committed or whether there be capacity for new bids.
Answer
The funding referred to is Scottish Enterprise’s budget for supporting urban regeneration companies (URCs) over the next three years. This budget is fully committed to support existing Pathfinder URCs and there will be no capacity for new bids.
- Asked by: Marilyn Livingstone, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 19 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what priority will be given to town centre regeneration over the next three years.
Answer
The Scottish Government is clear that in order to increase sustainable economic growth across the whole of Scotland we need to work across all settlements, supporting regeneration in and building a sustainable future for our towns, villages and cities.
- Asked by: Marilyn Livingstone, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 7 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it is giving to universities on widening access and increasing student numbers.
Answer
Guidance to individualuniversities is issued by the Scottish Further and Higher Education FundingCouncil. The main guidance is the annual grant letter issued to all highereducation institutions. The most recent letter is SFC Circular 16/2007 issuedon 20 March 2007.
In determining its plans andissuing guidance the council has to take account of the policies and prioritiesof the Scottish Government as outlined in the ministerial guidance letter.Current guidance is reflected in the council’s corporate plan for 2006-09 whichgives priority to fair access. I will provide detailed guidance for the period2009-11 including reference to access later this year.
We are fully committed toensuring that access to higher education is available to all on the basis ofability to learn rather than ability to pay. Whilst we have plans for a modestincrease in student numbers we believe that increased access can be largely beachieved from within the current level of funded places.
- Asked by: Marilyn Livingstone, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 1 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact withdrawal of ring-fenced funding would have on the community wardens who cover the regeneration areas of East Kirkcaldy and Dysart in the Kirkcaldy parliamentary constituency.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-5603 on 1 November 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Marilyn Livingstone, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 1 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what ring-fenced funding will be available over the next three years to support Fife’s community warden programme.
Answer
Scottish Executivefunding to tackle antisocial behaviour is supporting community wardens in everylocal authority area in Scotland. It is for each local authority to decidehow best to allocate funding across all their antisocial behaviour services, includingcommunity wardens, based on local needs and priorities. Future funding for antisocialbehaviour services is being considered as part of the spending review.
