- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive in what respect planned efficiency savings in Scotland will exceed those in the United Kingdom.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-10435 answered on 27 October 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, if an (a) 2% per annum or (b) 2% over 3 years efficiency saving was applied to the budget in the current spending review, what sums each saving would yield.
Answer
If a 2% per annum efficiency saving was applied to the Scottish Total Departmental Expenditure Limit for each year of the spending review, as allocated in Stability, security and opportunity for all: investing for Britain's long-term future, this would yield a recurring saving of £1.45 billion by the end of the spending review. If a 2% over three years efficiency saving target was applied to the Scottish Executive Departmental Expenditure Limit for 2004-05, this would yield a recurring efficiency saving of £424 million by the end of the spending review.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will follow the model proposed in Sir Peter Gershon’s report, Releasing resources to the front line - Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency, of publishing, by department, efficiency savings plans to allow transparency in their delivery.
Answer
I refer the member to the question S2W-10435 answered on 27 October 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the source was for the statement that for the United Kingdom the percentage target for cash savings is 1.25% (Official Report col. 10046, 8 September 2004).
Answer
Budget 2004 – Prudence for a Purpose: A Britain of Stability and Strength sets a target for efficiency savings of 2.5% a year over the three years of the 2004 Spending Review period. In most chapters of Stability, security and opportunity for all: investing for Britain's long-term future, the proportion of savings described as cashable, cash-releasing or recyclable is “at least half”.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to publish the efficiency targets that have been agreed for each department comparable to those published in Annex C of Sir Peter Gershon’s report, Releasing resources to the front line - Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency.
Answer
I refer the member to the question S2W-10435 answered on 27 October 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the commitment in Her Majesty’s Government’s Budget 2004 - Prudence for a Purpose: A Britain of Stability and Strength, that the administration costs of all departments will be capped at, or below, the 2005-06 nominal level for the remainder of the 2004 spending review period, is to be matched by the Executive’s departments.
Answer
The Scottish Executive’s spending plans for 2005-08 were set out in
Building a Better Scotland which was published on 29 September. Table 13.01, on page 58, outlines the Executive’s spending on administration. Running costs for the Executive’s core administration will be held flat in cash terms from 2005-06 for the remainder of the Spending Review period.
Capital spending by the core administration will increase by £1.6 million in 2006-07 and £1.8 million in 2007-08. In addition, there are increases in funding for the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) and the National Archives of Scotland. The most significant of these increases is to allow GROS to conduct a census test in 2006-07. Taking these changes into account, the overall administration budget will increase from £260.02 million in 2006-07 to £264.40 million in 2007-08. It will then decrease to £263.77 million in 2007-08.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether and, if so, when, it will publish the process whereby it intends to deliver higher cash efficiency savings than planned in the rest of the United Kingdom and whether the same timetable applies.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-10435 answered on 27 October 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the timetable proposed by Sir Peter Gershon in his report, Releasing resources to the front line Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency, to deliver UK planned efficiency savings applies in Scotland and, if not, how the timetable differs.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-10435 answered on 27 October 2004. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will match the 2.5% per annum efficiency target, first set out in Her Majesty’s Government’s Budget 2004 - Prudence for a Purpose: A Britain of Stability and Strength and confirmed for each UK department in the recent spending review.
Answer
The Scottish Executive will publish its plans for Efficient Government as soon as possible after recess.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how a #500 million saving in its budget by 2007-08 exceeds planned UK cash savings arising from Sir Peter Gershon’s report, Releasing resources to the front line - Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has never claimed that the £500 million saving in its budget by 2007-08 exceeds planned UK cash savings.
