- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 15 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive which of its officials the members of the Independent Budget Review Group have met since the submission of the report of that group to ministers, and on which dates these meetings occurred.
Answer
Finance officials have met withmembers of the Budget Review Group on four occasions since the submission of thereport to ministers. The dates of the meetings were 12 and 23 October and 1 and7 November.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 8 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals will be affected by proposed transitional protection arrangements for members of the Local Government Pension Scheme in (a) total and (b) each year of transition.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. However, all existing members of the Local Government Pension Schemeare covered by the transitional protection arrangements until 31 March 2008.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 8 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated cost of transitional protection arrangements for members of the Local Government Pension Scheme would have been had the same transitional arrangements been implemented in Scotland as in England and Wales.
Answer
The estimated cost of providingthe same transitional arrangements in Scotland as in England and Wales is between£299.5 million and £307 million.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 7 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much expenditure it has incurred on (a) advertising costs, (b) conference fees and (c) any other expenditure with Holyrood Communications in each year since 2002.
Answer
Payments made to HolyroodCommunications through the Scottish Executive Accounting System, which coversboth the core Executive and many of its agencies, are as follows:
| | 2002-03 | 2003-4 | 2004-5 | 2005-6 |
| Advertising | £0 | £14,115 | £7,516 | £19,807 |
| Conference Fees | £9,802 | £32,763 | £46,700 | £71,581 |
| Other | £6,575 | £1,875 | £64,112 | £98,655 |
| Total | £16,377 | £48,753 | £118,328 | £190,043 |
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 7 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much expenditure has been incurred on the Independent Budget Review Group up to 25 October 2006, broken down by category.
Answer
A total of £124,629.60 hasbeen paid in fees and £9,676.92 in expenses to members of the Budget ReviewGroup up to 25 October 2006.
Time incurred by ScottishExecutive staff involved in supporting the review process and for those othersinvolved at various points in the review process is unquantifiable.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 7 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding its agencies have provided to TRANSform Scotland in each year since 1999-2000, broken down by category of expenditure.
Answer
Executive agencies of the Scottish Executive have not provided any funding to TRANSform Scotland since1999-2000.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 7 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it has provided to TRANSform Scotland in each year since 1999-2000, broken down by category of expenditure.
Answer
The Scottish Executive hasprovided funding to TRANSform Scotland in each year since 1999-2000 as follows:
| Year | Funding |
| 2004-05 | £6,250 |
| 2005-06 | £25,000 |
| 2006-07 | £25,000 |
The funding has been grantedunder the terms of Section 70 of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 towards theorganisation’s core staffing costs.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 7 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been paid in (a) remuneration and (b) expenses to members of the Independent Budget Review Group up to 25 October 2006.
Answer
A total of £124,629.60 hasbeen paid in fees and £9,676.92 in expenses to members of the Budget ReviewGroup up to 25 October 2006.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 November 2006
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Current Status:
Awaiting answer
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) initial set up and (b) annual costs to (i) the Executive, (ii) local authorities, (iii) other public sector organisations or bodies and (iv) other individuals, organisations and bodies of the Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Act 2002 were projected to be in the Financial Memorandum to the Bill and what the actual (1) initial set up costs were and (2) annual costs have been in each year since the Act came into force, in each category.
Answer
Awaiting answer
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 November 2006
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Current Status:
Awaiting answer
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) initial set up and (b) annual costs to (i) the Executive, (ii) local authorities, (iii) other public sector organisations or bodies and (iv) other individuals, organisations and bodies of the interests of Members of the Scottish Parliament Act 2006 were projected to be in the Financial Memorandum accompanying the Bill and what the actual (1) initial set up costs were and (2) costs have been to date since the Act came into force, in each category.
Answer
Awaiting answer
