- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 27 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what range of population growth in each year to 2011 would be consistent with achieving the target of matching the average (EU-15) population growth over the period from 2007 to 2017, as set out in The Government Economic Strategy.
Answer
Technical notes, outlininghow the targets set out in The Government Economic Strategy will be measuredand monitored, will be published on the Scottish Government website on 30 November 2007.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 27 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how an increase in overall income and proportion of income earned by the three lowest income deciles as a group by 2017, as set out in The Government Economic Strategy, will be measured and reported and how frequently.
Answer
Technical notes, outlininghow the targets set out in The Government Economic Strategy will be measuredand monitored, will be published on the Scottish Government website on 30 November 2007.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 27 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how an increase in healthy life expectancy in Scotland between 2007 and 2017, as set out in The Government Economic Strategy, will be measured and reported and how frequently.
Answer
Technical notes, outlininghow the targets set out in The Government Economic Strategy will be measuredand monitored, will be published on the Scottish Government website on 30 November 2007.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 27 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how the target to increase the proportion of income earned by the three lowest income deciles as a group, as set out in The Government Economic Strategy, defines “income earned” and, in particular, whether this definition excludes income from social security benefits and tax credits.
Answer
Technical notes, outlininghow the targets set out in The Government Economic Strategy will be measuredand monitored, will be published on the Scottish Government website on 30 November 2007.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 27 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what position in labour market participation in each year to 2011 would be consistent with achieving the target of closing the gap with the top five OECD economies by 2017, as set out in The Government Economic Strategy.
Answer
Technical notes, outlininghow the targets set out in The Government Economic Strategy will be measuredand monitored, will be published on the Scottish Government website on 30 November 2007.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 27 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of GDP growth in each year to 2011 would be consistent with achieving the target of matching the GDP growth of the small independent EU countries by 2017, as set out in The Government Economic Strategy.
Answer
Technical notes, outlininghow the targets set out in The Government Economic Strategy will be measuredand monitored, will be published on the Scottish Government website on 30 November 2007.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 27 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what quartile ranking in productivity in each year to 2011 would be consistent with achieving the target of ranking in the top quartile for productivity among our key trading partners in the OECD by 2017, as set out in The Government Economic Strategy.
Answer
Technical notes, outlininghow the targets set out in The Government Economic Strategy will be measuredand monitored, will be published on the Scottish Government website on 30 November 2007.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 26 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what screening programmes are covered by the expenditure shown on page 56 of Scottish Budget: Spending Review 2007 and why spending declines over the period of the spending review.
Answer
I refer the memberto the question S3W-6417 answered on 26 November 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 22 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the incremental additional cost would be for each additional police officer recruited in 2008-09 beyond the plans set out in Scottish Budget: Spending Review 2007, broken down into (a) recruitment costs, (b) training costs, (c) annual salary costs, (d) annual employers’ national insurance costs, (e) annual employers’ pension contributions and (f) any additional costs incurred.
Answer
The informationrequested is not available centrally, but currently a constable’s basic salaryranges from £21,009 to £32,985 and the cost of probationer training is £7,427.These current salary costs do not take into account any increase for 2007-08,which has still to be determined.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 22 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what element of the additional £13.5 million, £18 million and £22 million shown on page 31 of Scottish Budget: Spending Review 2007 for the recruitment, retention and redeployment of police officers relates to recruitment.
Answer
These resourceswill be invested to build capacity and to support, as a first step, therecruitment of 500 new officers. We are working with key partners to ensurethat this substantial investment is used in the most efficient way possible todeliver the government’s commitment of 1,000 additional officers available inour communities through increased recruitment of new officers, improvedretention of skilled and experienced officers and redeployment of officers tofront line tasks.
