- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 6 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-12336 by Nicol Stephen on 22 January 2001, which local authorities, schools and organisations have applied for assistance under the Alternatives to Exclusion Grant Scheme and which applications have been granted, specifying the amount awarded in each case.
Answer
The funding available through the Excellence Fund Alternatives to Exclusion programme is allocated to local authorities on a formula basis. It is for each authority to determine how best to use its allocation in line with its implementation plan for the area. The allocations over the three-year period from 1 April 1999 to 31 March 2002 are shown in the table:
| Education authority | Allocation |
1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 |
| Scotland | £5,000,000 | £8,000,000 | £10,000,000 |
| Aberdeen City | £175,032 | £280,052 | £350,065 |
| Aberdeenshire | £251,052 | £401,684 | £502,104 |
| Angus | £113,126 | £181,001 | £226,251 |
| Argyll & Bute | £93,133 | £149,013 | £186,266 |
| Clackmannanshire | £48,331 | £77,330 | £96,663 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | £156,778 | £250,845 | £313,557 |
| Dundee City | £137,800 | £220,480 | £275,600 |
| East Ayrshire | £126,487 | £202,379 | £252,974 |
| East Dunbartonshire | £128,262 | £205,218 | £256,523 |
| East Lothian | £84,089 | £134,543 | £168,179 |
| East Renfrewshire | £104,126 | £166,602 | £208,252 |
| Edinburgh, City of | £319,854 | £511,767 | £639,709 |
| Eilean Siar | £38,354 | £61,367 | £76,709 |
| Falkirk | £136,925 | £219,081 | £273,851 |
| Fife | £352,406 | £563,849 | £704,812 |
| Glasgow City | £487,950 | £780,721 | £975,901 |
| Highland | £235,564 | £376,902 | £471,128 |
| Inverclyde | £88,180 | £141,087 | £176,359 |
| Midlothian | £84,826 | £135,721 | £169,652 |
| Moray | £91,981 | £147,169 | £183,962 |
| North Ayrshire | £142,794 | £228,470 | £285,587 |
| North Lanarkshire | £347,659 | £556,254 | £695,317 |
| Orkney Islands | £26,971 | £43,154 | £53,943 |
| Perth & Kinross | £125,326 | £200,521 | £250,651 |
| Renfrewshire | £179,703 | £287,525 | £359,406 |
| Scottish Borders | £107,029 | £171,247 | £214,058 |
| Shetland Islands | £32,148 | £51,436 | £64,295 |
| South Ayrshire | £116,706 | £186,729 | £233,411 |
| South Lanarkshire | £314,836 | £503,737 | £629,672 |
| Stirling | £85,016 | £136,026 | £170,032 |
| West Dunbartonshire | £103,451 | £165,521 | £206,901 |
| West Lothian | £164,105 | £262,568 | £328,211 |
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 6 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it estimates it will have spent on employing Tactica Solutions from July 1999 until May 2003.
Answer
The current contact with Tactica Solutions expires in August 2001 with options to extend for one year plus one further year. At this point, no decision has been made as to whether to exercise the first year option and it is not possible to estimate expenditure with Tactica Solutions until May 2003.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 5 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive which department and minister will be responsible for representing its interests in relation to the structure of the post office network in Scotland.
Answer
The Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning has the overall responsibility for post office matters within the Scottish Executive but I am the lead Minister on day-to-day issues and in attending relevant meetings at UK level.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 5 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will be participating in the planned review by Her Majesty's Government of the rural post office network due to report in autumn 2001.
Answer
The Postal Services Commission will advise the UK Government on the best way to channel financial assistance to rural post offices. It is due to report by autumn 2001. The Scottish Executive will be participating in the consultation process planned by the Commission.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how it is monitoring the mental health frameworks in place in each health board area and the extent to which managers have regard to the framework in their area.
Answer
The Framework for Mental Health Services in Scotland sets a template by which the visiting Mental Health and Well Being Support Group assess and advise both locally and to the Scottish Executive on local agency progress. Senior managers of the health boards, NHS Trusts and the local authorities are involved in this process. The outcome reports of the visiting group are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre and on the web at
www.show.scot.nhs.uk/mhwbsg. Mental health services will also be included in the new comprehensive performance management framework for NHSScotland as announced in
Our National Health: A plan for action, a plan for change.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will place in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre the visit reports of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Support Group for each health board.
Answer
The outcome reports from the visits of the Mental Health and Well Being Support Group have been placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre. Future reports will also be placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre. The reports and wider information on the work of the support group are available on website
www.show.scot.nhs.uk/mhwbsg.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 22 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide a substantive answer to question S1W-7142 lodged on 24 May 2000.
Answer
The question was answered on 24 November.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 13 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail, for each Executive agency and non-departmental public body, whether or not they have a contract with or employ the services of Tactica Solutions; what the length is of any such contracts, and how much has been paid to Tactica Solutions to date and what services were provided by them, broken down for each body.
Answer
The detailed information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 8 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-10969 by Angus Mackay on 18 January 2001, what the precise role of each sub-contractor is in the design and production process of each document.
Answer
The contract between Tactica Solutions and the Scottish Executive requires Tactica to provide a complete service. It is the responsibility of Tactica to determine the role of its sub-contractors to meet the variations in both the nature and volume of demands placed by the Scottish Executive. Accordingly, the information requested is not held by the Scottish Executive.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 8 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Tactica Solutions changes the content of any documents given to them for design and production on its behalf.
Answer
Tactica Solutions is responsible for managing the design and production of documents but not their textual content which is determined and approved in both draft and published format by the Scottish Executive.
