- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has utilised the dispute resolution procedure outlined in Section 11 of Funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly - A Statement of Funding Policy.
Answer
In line with Section11.2 of the Statement of Funding Policy, I wrote to the Chief Secretary on 11 October 2007 requesting a meeting to discuss the Scottish Government’sconcerns with its CSR settlement allocation.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the internal financial management review, referred to in section 4.2.12 of the Howat report, has been completed and, if so, what its conclusions were and whether it will be published in full.
Answer
The internal financialmanagement review referred to in Section 4.2.12 of the Budget Review Report, Choicesfor a Purpose, is not yet complete. It is an internal piece of work at officiallevel, not intended for publication.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Public Finance Manual guidance on capital project appraisal was updated in light of section 4.6.4 of the Howat report.
Answer
The recommendationsof the Budget Review Report, Choices for as Purpose remain under consideration.The Scottish Public Finance Manual will be amended if appropriate.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive on what date HM Treasury first notified the Executive on a (a) provisional and (b) final basis of the comparability percentages of each sub-programme for the purpose of applying the Barnett Formula in relation to the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-5352 on 5 November 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questionsare available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can befound 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: Tuesday, 09 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive on what date HM Treasury first notified the Executive on a (a) provisional and (b) final basis which departmental expenditure limits contain comparable expenditure for the purpose of applying the Barnett Formula in relation to the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review.
Answer
HM Treasury notifiedthe Scottish Government of amendment to the comparability factors for the purposeof applying the Barnett Formula on 4 September 2007. The final basis for comparability was notified to the Scottish Government on 9 October 2007.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what maximum number of probationary police officers can be trained at the Scottish Police College at Tulliallan in one year.
Answer
Currently, the maximumnumber of probationary police officers that can be trained at the Scottish Police College in one financial year is 1,080.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many probationary police officers have been trained at the Scottish Police College at Tulliallan in each of the last eight years.
Answer
The number of probationarypolice officers trained at the Scottish Police College in each of the last eight years, on firststage following recruitment, is outlined in the following table:
| Year | Initial Probationer Training |
| 1999-2000 | 358 |
| 2000-01 | 864 |
| 2001-02 | 731 |
| 2002-03 | 785 |
| 2003-04 | 1,126 |
| 2004-05 | 1,407 |
| 2005-06 | 894 |
| 2006-07 | 745 |
| Total | 6,910 |
Note: *The above figureshave been previously published in the Scottish Police College Annual reports.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many probationary police officers will be trained at the Scottish Police College at Tulliallan in each year to 2011.
Answer
This informationis not held centrally.
We willcontinue to work with the Scottish Police College and forces to ensure appropriaterecruitment and training levels.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 2 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it has provided to trade unions in each year since 1999, broken down by (a) union and (b) budget heading.
Answer
Over the period since1999, the Scottish Executive has provided funding to the STUC and a number of individualtrade unions where such funding has been consistent with Executive policy and metappropriate programme criteria. The information requested, for each financial yearand broken down by trade union and budget heading, has been incorporated in a series of tables which have been placedin the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 43956).
The funding providedhas included, for example, support towards the implementation of the Scottish UnionLearning Fund and towards community-based adult learning.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 2 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement on enterprise networks by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth on 26 September 2007, which VisitScotland local offices are under consideration for closure.
Answer
This is an operationalmatter for VisitScotland. I have asked the Chief Executive of VisitScotland to writeto you direct on this matter.
