- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 19 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much the proposed local income tax would raise annually.
Answer
The government published a paper on 18 March 2008 detailing revenue projections for a local income tax. This is available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. The Bib. number for the publication is 45130. perso
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 19 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much the proposed local income tax would raise directly from taxpayers if in force in the (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10 tax years.
Answer
If the local income tax was in force it is estimated to raise £1,312 million in 2007-08, £1,365 million in 2008-09 and £1,432 million in 2009-10.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 19 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it proposes to take to raise awareness of the digital switchover in the south of Scotland.
Answer
Digital UK has been set the task of raising awareness of the digital switchover in the UK. It is an independent, non-profit organisation owned by the UK''s public service broadcasters and multiplex operators. The Scottish Government meets regularly with Digital UK''s Scotland manager to be kept up-to-date on issues about the switchover and to provide advice on issues that relate to switchover in Scotland ensuring Scotland''s interests are sufficiently well represented.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 18 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much additional funding it will receive as a result of the announcements in the UK Budget, broken down by year.
Answer
As a result of the announcements in the UK budget, the Scottish Government will receive the amounts shown in the following table:
| | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | Total |
| | £ million | £ million | £ million | £ million | £ million |
| Resource | 8.1 | 5.6 | 3.0 | 4.5 | 21.2 |
| Capital | 5.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.1 |
| Total | 13.1 | 5.7 | 3.0 | 4.5 | 26.3 |
Note: The £13.1 million for 2007-08 will be added to the Scottish Government''s end-year flexibility balance at HM Treasury.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 18 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement to the Parliament by the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change on 5 March 2008, whether the non-profit distributing vehicle proposed for procurement of the Waverley railway project can be established without (a) primary or (b) secondary legislation.
Answer
The Waverley rail project already has statutory authority from the Scottish Parliament, and Transport Scotland is shortly to take over the role as statutory undertaker. This will allow Transport Scotland to proceed with the necessary procurement. Further primary or secondary legislation will not be required for the non profit distributing method of procurement to be used.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 13 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-5074 by Stewart Stevenson on 25 October 2007, whether the additional winter sailings to Islay received any additional subsidy.
Answer
The additional winter sailings to Islay do not receive any additional subsidy from the Scottish Government.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 3 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what its annual (a) cash, (b) time and (c) total efficiency savings targets have been for each year since 1999; on what date the Parliament agreed the budget for each year at Stage 3, and on what date the detailed technical notes relating to the savings to be achieved in each year were published.
Answer
The targets for the first Efficient Government Programme were set out in
Building a Better Scotland: Efficient Government “ Securing Efficiency, Effectiveness and Productivity which was published in November 2004 and related to efficiency gains to be delivered in 2005-08. It was placed on the Scottish Government Internet and copies were placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib number 34543). There was no efficiency programme prior to that.
Detailed Efficiency Technical Notes setting out where the efficiency gains were to be achieved were published on 31 March 2005 (Bib. number 35843), 8 September 2005 (Bib number 37386), 17 May 2006 (Bib. number 40259), and 28 March 2007 (Bib. number 42641). Technical Notes for three new projects and one amended technical note were published on 14 November 2007 as part of the 2nd Efficiency Outturn Report for 2006-07 (Bib. number 44112). Each of these documents was published on the Scottish Government Internet, paper copies were sent to every member of the Scottish Parliament Finance Committee and additional copies were placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Two more technical notes for newly identified projects have just been published on the Internet on 27 February 2008.
The following table gives the dates of the Budget (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 from 2000-01 to 2008-09. The first Budget Bill was passed in 2000.
| Budget | Date of Stage 3 Budget Bill |
| 1999-2000 | |
| 2000-01 | 10 February 2000 |
| 2001-02 | 8 February 2001 |
| 2002-03 | 14 February 2002 |
| 2003-04 | 13 February 2003 |
| 2004-05 | 12 February 2004 |
| 2005-06 | 9 February 2005 |
| 2006-07 | 9 February 2006 |
| 2007-08 | 14 February 2007 |
| 2008-09 | 6 February 2008 |
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 28 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance is issued to its departments, agencies and other public bodies on non-contractual payments being made at the end of a period of employment.
Answer
Relevant guidance is included in the section of the Scottish Public Finance Manual (SPFM) on severance, early retirement and redundancy. The SPFM is published on the Scottish Government''s website.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of (a) children and (b) adults in each NHS board area would have been classed as registered with an NHS dentist, based on the most recent figures available, if the registration period had not been extended in 2006.
Answer
Centrally held information does not currently allow for the specific identification of everyone who would have been classed as registered with a dentist under NHS arrangements, based on the most recent figures available, if the registration period had not been extended in 2006. However, information on lapsed registrations is available and is published at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/5137.html.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of (a) children and (b) adults in each NHS board area who are registered with an NHS dentist have attended for assessment or treatment within the last 15 months, based on the most recent figures available.
Answer
Centrally held information does not currently allow for the specific identification of everyone registered with a dentist under NHS arrangements who have attended for assessment or treatment within the last 15 months, based on the most recent figures available. However, information on registrations with the NHS general dental service is available and is published at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4680.html.
