- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider any request from the promoters of the Waverley Line for additional funding.
Answer
Any request for additional funding by the Waverley Railway Partnership will be considered on its merits by the Scottish Executive.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of what the 2007-08 allocation of £100,975,000, shown under the "Departmental Unallocated Provision" category in table 5.03 of its Draft Budget 2006-07, will be used for.
Answer
The “Departmental Unallocated Funding” is held in reserve to meet any pressures arising between the spending review 2004 settlement and 2007-08. It has not yet been allocated for any specific purpose.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been raised in business rates in each of the last six years, broken down by local authority.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-17228 on 17 June 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on 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: Monday, 05 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18357 by Tavish Scott on 5 September 2005, why the publication of the Executive summary of the A6091/A7 Route Action Plan Study has been delayed from the publication date of autumn 2002, referred to in the answer to question S1W-28234 by Lewis Macdonald on 2 September 2002.
Answer
The answer given to S2W-18357 was that the findings of the A6091/A7 Route Action Plan (RAP) Study would be published following the outcome of the review of all outstanding RAP schemes. The review was completed in November 2002 however, as only one of the 13 schemes recommended in the RAP emerged from the review, the RAP study was not published. The successful schemes which emerged from the review were announced in a press release in March 2003.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of its efficiency savings will be (a) cash releasing and (b) non-cash releasing in each of the next three years.
Answer
The Scottish Executive defines efficiency savings as either “cash releasing” or “time releasing”. A cash release saving is where an efficiency measure generates an actual resource saving because the organisation or function delivers the same service with less money. Time release savings are defined as efficiencies which do not release cash but allow frontline services to deliver more or better services with the same money.
The revised Efficiency Technical Notes published on 6 September (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/09/0895455/54558) show that we have identified cash savings of £407 million and time savings of £88 million in 2005-06, cash savings of £647 million and time savings of £198 million in 2006-07 and cash savings of £912 million and time savings of £337 million in 2007-08. We will continue to work to identify more savings over coming months.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the single electronic patient record system will link with the system in England and Wales.
Answer
There are regular meetings between colleagues working on eHealth systems for Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. An important objective of these meetings is to ensure that information can be shared between these countries effectively. We intend to establish links between the evolving single record systems for the countries of the UK and this will be facilitated by the shared use of common information and technical standards, clinical dictionaries and coding standards and patient identifiers.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 09 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any targets for altering the proportion of people over 65 in employment and, if so, what these targets are.
Answer
Employment policy is reserved to the UK Government. The Scottish Executive has no such targets.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 09 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the rate of inflation for wage-related costs within NHS Scotland.
Answer
Details of the estimated increase in wage-related costs within NHS Scotland are given in Table 5.04 of the Draft Budget 2006-07, copies of which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 37351).
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 09 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the rate of inflation for non-wage-related costs within NHS Scotland.
Answer
Details of the estimated increase in non-wage-related costs within NHS Scotland are given in Table 5.04 of the draft Budget 2006-07, copies of which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 37351).
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 16 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated cost is of the "It's Only Natural" renewable energy information tour, announced on 15 August 2005.
Answer
The tour is estimated to cost around £400,000.
