- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 December 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 17 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what figures it has for viral and other infections passed to haemophiliacs through contaminated blood products since 1970; how many people were affected by each such virus or other infection, and whether it expects these figures to change.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
The routine screening ofblood by the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service for HIV, hepatitis Band C, syphilis and Human T-cell lymphotropic Type 1 (HTLV1) and the viralinactivation undertaken during the manufacture of blood products means thattransmission of these particular viruses by blood transfusion should now bevery rare.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 December 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 17 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has estimated the funding that will be lost in matched funding from the block grant when Objective 1 transitional money ends.
Answer
It is too early to predictthe outcome of the debate on the future of the European Structural Funds forthe Highlands and Islands or anywhere else when the current programmes ceasein December 2006. The European Commission’s third cohesion report due to bepublished early next year will give an indication of the Commission’s thinkingahead of their draft regulations expected next May. Negotiations between memberstates will take place thereafter and are likely to last at least a year.
Public sectormatch funding for structural fund projects comes from the relevant domesticspending programme within the assigned budget. Whatever the future of the funds,public bodies will continue to be able to set their own priorities includingallocating money either to match fund projects they sponsor or to fund themoutright.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 December 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the methodology for this year's Government Expenditure and Revenues in Scotland report (GERS) will show the allocation of Scotland's share of air passenger duty revenue based on the number of flights from or within Scotland and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Answer
The Scottish populationshare has been used to calculate the Scottish share of this tax becauseScottish air passengers tend to use airports throughout the UK.
This treatment follows theprinciple that GERS measures the tax burden that is imposed on Scottishresidents within the UK.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 December 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the methodology for calculating Scotland's share of fuel duty revenue in last year's Government Expenditure and Revenues in Scotland report was based on the site of delivery.
Answer
The fuel duty revenue for Scotland isbased on inland deliveries of each of the different fuel types published in the UK Digest of Energy Statistics.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 December 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the methodology for this year's Government Expenditure and Revenues in Scotland report will show the allocation of Scotland's share of landfill tax revenue on information sought from local authorities and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Answer
The landfill tax has beenallocated on a population share basis.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 December 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the methodology for this year's Government Expenditure and Revenues in Scotland report will show the allocation of Scotland's share of insurance premium tax revenue based on information sought from insurance providers.
Answer
Scotland's share of insurance premium tax revenue is notbased on information from insurance providers.
Scotland’s population share was used to estimate Scotland’s insurancepremium tax share.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 December 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the methodology for this year's Government Expenditure and Revenues in Scotland report will take into account interest on VAT paid and subsequently repaid to Scottish businesses and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Answer
GERS does not take into account explicitly the interest payments in relation to VAT. These are “extrareceipts” by Customs and Excise which enter into “other taxes and royalties”and are allocated by Gross Value Added share.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 December 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the methodology for this year's Government Expenditure and Revenues in Scotland report will take account of business VAT payments when allocating Scotland's VAT revenue and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Answer
Scotland’s share of UK VAT revenue was estimated by Customsand Excise on the basis of Scotland’s share of household expenditure on those goods andservices.
The methodology by Customsand Excise is the best currently available.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 December 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the methodology for this year's Government Expenditure and Revenues in Scotland report takes account of regional variations in fuel prices with particular reference to higher than average prices and mileages in the Highlands and Islands when calculating fuel duty revenue and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Answer
Fuel duties are based on thevolume and not on the price of fuel. The fuel duty revenue for Scotland isbased on inland deliveries of each of the different fuel types for the UKDigest of Energy Statistics. These deliveries reflect the different mileagesacross Scotland.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 December 2003
-
Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 16 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the methodology for calculating Scotland's share of fuel duty revenue in this year's Government Expenditure and Revenues in Scotland report will take account of VAT on sales.
Answer
Fuel duties are based on thevolume, not on the price of fuel. The methodology does not take account of VATon sales.
