- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 24 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals who applied for the Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland scheme graduated in (a) 2005 and (b) 2004.
Answer
Information about the year of graduation of successful applicants will be collected through a questionnaire which the Relocation Advisory Service will issue to all successful applicants. A breakdown of the data collected through the questionnaires will be issued on a six monthly basis. We expect the first breakdown to be published around the turn of the year.
- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 24 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals who successfully applied for a Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland scheme visa in the first month of operation are now resident in Scotland and, of these, how many were resident (a) in Scotland and (b) overseas at the time of application.
Answer
Information about the current place of residence of successful applicants to the Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland scheme will be collected through a questionnaire which the Relocation Advisory Service will issue to all successful applicants. A breakdown of the data collected through the questionnaires will be issued on a six monthly basis. We expect the first breakdown to be published around the turn of the year.
- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 24 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals applied for the Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland scheme in its first month of operation and how many of these applications were made (a) in person, (b) from within the UK by post and (c) from overseas, broken down by country, and how many of the applications in each category were successful.
Answer
We expect information on individuals applying for the Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland scheme to be published in due course.
- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 10 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many businesses (a) are eligible for and (b) apply for the higher level of relief through the small business rate relief scheme.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 9 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many businesses are eligible for the five per cent discount on non-domestic rates through the small business rate relief scheme including, and broken down by, those eligible for (a) charitable rate relief, (b) disabled persons rate rebate, (c) farm diversification rate relief, (d) rural rate relief, (e) derating allowance (stud farms) and (f) relief for premises that remain empty.
Answer
As at 1 April 2005, 137,394subjects on the Valuation Rolls for Scotland were eligible for at least the 5% discount. Informationon how many of these subjects are in receipt of other reliefs is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 9 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) total non-domestic rate income and (b) average non-domestic rate bill paid for businesses with a rateable value (i) £3,000 or less, (ii) £3,001 to £4,000, (iii) £4,001 to £5,000, (iv) £5,001 to £6,000, (v) £6,001 to £7,000, (vi) £7,001 to £8,000, (vii) £8,001 to £9,000, (viii) £9,001 to £10,000 and (ix) £10,001 and above was for (1) each local authority and (2) Scotland as a whole for each year since 1997.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 9 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much the small business rate relief scheme has cost (a) central government and (b) local government in each year since 1997.
Answer
The Small Business RateRelief Scheme was introduced in 2003-04. The estimated cost to the ScottishExecutive since then is given in the following table. The Scheme has no cost tolocal government.
| 2003-04 | £10.7 million |
| 2004-05 | £10.8 million |
| 2005-06 | £12.7 million |
- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 9 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much the small business rate relief scheme has cost businesses with a rateable value of £25,000 and above in terms of the supplement paid on the rate poundage (a) in total and (b) on average in each year since 1997.
Answer
The Small Business RateRelief Scheme was introduced in 2003-04. The estimated cost to larger subjects is:
| Year | Cost to Larger Subjects | Number of Contributing Subjects | Average Cost per Larger Subject |
| 2003-04 (Paid by subjects with a rateable value greater than £25,000) | £19.7m | Not Available | Not Available |
| 2004-05 (Paid by subjects with a rateable value greater than £25,000) | £10.1m | 27,814 | £363 |
| 2005-06 (Paid by subjects with a rateable value greater than £29,000) | £17.8m | 27,862 | £639 |
| Total | £47.8m | | |
- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 4 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16718 by Mr Tom McCabe on 31 May 2005, what the average non-domestic rate bill was of the businesses rated (a) £1 to £2,999, (b) £3,000 to £3,999, (c) £4,000 to £4,999, (d) £5,000 to £5,999, (e) £6,000 to £6,999 and (f) over £7,000 in April 2005 and and whether it will provide a breakdown of the category of business that they represent.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Jim Mather, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 25 July 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what input it had into the decision on fee levels for visas for the Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland scheme.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has beenworking closely with the Home Office on the development of the scheme. However,issues regarding the administrative charges for the processing of application area matter for the Home Office and UK Visas. The fees for the Fresh Talent: Workingin Scotland scheme are the same as other comparable managed migrationschemes.
