- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 August 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 13 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the skills possessed by workers from the A8 countries who have entered the Scottish job market.
Answer
The information is availablein the Accession Monitoring Report May 2004 – June 2006 an online report availablefrom the Home Office’s Immigration and Nationality Directorate.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 August 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 13 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many citizens of the A8 countries have migrated to Scotland since these countries’ entry to the European Union in 2004, broken down by country of origin.
Answer
The information is availablein the Accession Monitoring Report May 2004 – June 2006 an online report availablefrom the Home Office’s Immigration and Nationality Directorate.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 August 2006
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Answered by Colin Boyd on 6 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what average hourly rate is paid for the services of (a) partners, (b) qualified solicitors and (c) unqualified solicitors of private law for work commissioned or instructed by the Executive.
Answer
The average hourly rates chargedby qualified solicitors, trainee solicitors and paralegal staff instructed to acton behalf of the Scottish ministers, the Scottish Executive and its agencies areset out below:
| Senior Partner | £180 |
| Partner | £164 |
| Associate Solicitor | £138 |
| Solicitor | £136 |
| Assistant/Junior Solicitor | £115 |
| Trainee Solicitor | £76 |
| Paralegal | £78 |
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 August 2006
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Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 4 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what average hourly rate for the services of (a) partners, (b) qualified solicitors and (c) unqualified solicitors was paid to agents representing those accused in the Lockerbie trial.
Answer
No public monies were paidto agents representing those accused in the Lockerbie trial. The fees wouldhave been a matter between agent and client and this information is not held bythe Scottish Executive.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 June 2006
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Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 17 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding it has provided for youth theatre in each year since 1999.
Answer
Youth theatre is supportedthrough a variety of sources, the Scottish Arts Council (SAC), localauthorities, a number of lottery distributors (including SAC) and charitabletrusts. There are also some privately run youth theatres.
Youth theatre is often anintegrated part of an arts organisation’s work. For example, the LyceumTheatre, Dundee Rep and Perth Theatre all have youth theatre groups. Thereforeit is not possible to draw out the level of funding directed towards the youththeatre element of these organisations work.
The Scottish Arts Councilprovides revenue funding to two organisations which are specifically involvedin supporting youth theatre: Scottish Youth Theatre and Promote YT – thenational network membership organisation for youth theatres and otherorganisations developing performing arts by young people. In 2005-06 and2006-07, Promote YT was awarded £50,000 per annum by SAC. Scottish YouthTheatre was similarly awarded £113,403 in 2005-06 and £116,340 in 2006-07 ascore funding.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 17 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding it intends to allocate for youth theatre in each of the next three years.
Answer
The Scottish Executive doesnot earmark specific funding for youth theatre within the Scottish ArtsCouncil’s grant-in-aid. However, the SAC has indicated that it intends tocontinue its funding commitment to Scottish Youth Theatre and Promote YT, togetherwith continuing support for theatres which provide a youth theatre service,subject to compliance with its funding conditions.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 17 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current participation rates are in youth theatre, broken down by age group.
Answer
Research carried out for the Scottish Arts Council in 2001 estimated that there were over 7,000 participantsin youth theatre, taking part in over 300 youth theatre groups.
The survey also found that47% of participants were aged under 12, 50% aged 12 – 18 and 3% aged 19 – 25.
Promote YT (Scotland),the national membership network organisation for youth theatre, intends tocarry out a new mapping exercise and survey of youth theatre in the nearfuture.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 June 2006
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Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 17 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions it has held discussions with representatives of youth theatre in each year since 1999; with whom these discussions took place, and what their purpose was.
Answer
Support for youth theatre isan operational matter for the Scottish Arts Council. Information on discussionswith representatives of youth theatre is not routinely collated and istherefore unavailable.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 June 2006
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Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the impact on the daily prison population of the reforms to the automatic early release system, announced on 20 June 2006, whereby all offenders sentenced to over 14 days in prison will be required to serve at least 50 per cent of their sentence in prison.
Answer
The legislation required tosupport the Executive’s plans for the release and post custody management ofoffenders published on 20 June 2006 will be presented to Parliament in the autumn. Workon modelling the framework that will be needed to support the new arrangementsis on-going. I will notify the member in writing when this information is madeavailable.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 June 2006
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Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 17 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it recognises youth theatre as a distinct art form.
Answer
Youth theatre can include adiverse and eclectic range of activity, such as musical theatre, dance theatre,site-specific productions and use of multimedia in performance. The ScottishArts Council supports the definition offered by Promote YT:
Promote YT recognises Youth Theatre as a unique form of theatre practice which:
engages childrenand young people as active participants in the creative process;
encourages thedevelopment of the whole person through the use of performing arts techniques;
views process andproduct as equal & mutually beneficial; and
aspires tostandards of excellence in all areas.
