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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S1W-31887

Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #48 million to build and renovate health centres has been, or will be, allocated to Argyll and Clyde NHS Board and what projects the funds will be used for.

Question reference: S1W-31645

Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 15 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 3 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #238/248/248 million to be invested through the Communities Scotland development programme, as referred to in Building a Better Scotland: Spending Proposals 2003-06: What the money buys, will be spent in each year in Paisley North.

Question reference: S1W-31754

Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 3 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how the (a) #175 million for 79 projects from the Scottish Public Transport Fund, (b) #20 million to local authorities for road and bridge repairs and (c) #680 million for improvements to motorways and trunk road network to 2004 will be allocated and how much of these has been, or will be, allocated to the Renfrewshire Council area.

The funding of projects from the Public Transport Fund is set out in the regional leaflets associated with the Scottish Executive transport delivery report, Scotland's Transport: Delivering Improvements published in March 2002. Awards to a further 23 projects from the final round of the Public Transport Fund totalling £59 million were announced on 14 November 2002. A total of £1.835 million has been allocated to Renfrewshire.Funding for local roads and bridges is a matter for local authorities. Of the £20 million allocation made by the Scottish Executive, Renfrewshire Council was awarded £476,000.Spending plans for the motorways and trunk road programme are published in Building a Better Scotland and Scotland's Draft Budget. However, it is a national programme where breakdown by local authority area would not normally be appropriate.

Question reference: S1W-31838

Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 3 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #108 million over three years for higher education has been, or will be, given to the Renfrewshire Council area and how the University of Paisley will use any such funds.

The allocation of this funding is a matter for the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Details of the full amounts offered to the University of Paisley have been provided to the member in the answer given to question S1W-31837 today. 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/search_wa.Higher education institutions are autonomous bodies and it is for them to decide how these funds are used.

Question reference: S1W-31837

Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 3 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how much the Scottish Further Education Funding Council allocated to the (a) Reid Kerr Further Education College and (b) University of Paisley in each year since 1996.

(a) The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has been responsible for allocating funds to further education colleges since 1 July 1999, when it took over that responsibility from the Scottish Office Education and Industry Department. The initial annual allocations to Reid Kerr College were as follows:

Year	£ million
1996-97	8.2
1997-98	8.2
1998-99	7.7
1999-2000	8.3
2000-01	9.3
2001-02	10.4
2002-03	11.0

Note:These figures do not include bursary payments.(b) The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC) is responsible for funding higher education institutions. Since 1996, the council has allocated the following amounts to the University of Paisley:

Year	£ million
1996-97	22.1
1997-98	23.1
1998-99	22.0
1999-2000	26.3
2000-01	25.0
2001-02	26.8
2002-03*	26.7

Note:*This figure is estimated.In recent years the core funding for teaching and research at the University of Paisley has increased steadily. This full allocation figures includes additional funding announcements which are offered throughout the year for various initiatives.

Question reference: S1W-31836

Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Mary Mulligan on 3 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #100 million over four years in the Health Improvement Fund will be allocated to Argyll and Clyde NHS Board and on what projects any such funds will be used.

Argyll and Clyde NHS Board will receive £5.324 million from the Health Improvement Fund for the period 2000-01 to 2003-04. Full details about how the board is utilising its share of the fund are given in the 2001 Investment Report Putting the Pieces in Place, published earlier this year and available from the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 19606) or from the Scottish Executive website at: www.scotland.gov.uk.

Question reference: S1W-31835

Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #17.1 million allocated for mental health services will be given to Argyll and Clyde NHS Board and what instructions the Executive has issued about the use of such funds.

No instructions have yet been issued about the allocation of the resources estimated to be required for the Mental Health (Scotland) Bill currently before the Parliament, if that is the context of this question. The Financial Memorandum accompanying the bill estimated annual costs for the Scottish Executive and local authorities from 2004-05 as totalling £17.1 million, with a further £6 million per annum for NHS Scotland to be met from the substantial funding increases already announced.

Question reference: S1W-31834

Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Frank McAveety on 3 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #250 million for free personal and nursing care was allocated to Renfrewshire Council.

Question reference: S1W-31747

Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 2 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage change has been in recorded crime levels in disadvantaged areas in the Renfrewshire Council area in each year since 1996.

Question reference: S1W-31704

Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 2 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what increases in the proportion of children that attain the appropriate levels in reading, writing and maths by the end of Primary 2 and Primary 7 there have been in the Renfrewshire Council area since 1996.