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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
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Question reference: S4W-04253

Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 8 December 2011

All funding is awarded under the terms of the Scottish Public Finance Manual. In 2007-08, funding to the Improvement Service comprised both core funding and grants for specific projects. Since 2008-09, all funding has been for specific projects. Core funding terms were related to the delivery of an agreed Business Plan. Project funding is based on an individual grant agreement for each project, which includes both standard conditions and specific conditions which include the purpose, outcomes, targets and costs of that project. Project funding has covered a wide range of subjects including Shared Services, Customer First, Planning Development and capacity building for Community Planning Partnerships.

Question reference: S4W-04252

Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 8 December 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been identified for the Improvement Service in the draft budget for 2012-13.

Question reference: S4W-04256

Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 8 December 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it has contributed to Strathclyde Fire and Rescue's Clydesmill Training Facility.

Question reference: S4W-04292

Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 7 December 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how it will support the work of (a) BEMIS and (b) other black and ethnic minority organisations in the areas of active citizenship and human rights education.

The Scottish Government is committed to creating a modern, inclusive Scotland which respects, promotes and realises human rights for all citizens. In the current financial year, we are providing BEMIS with funding of £217,983, part of which helps support them to deliver their objectives in terms of active citizenship and human rights education. Decisions on future funding have not yet been made.

Question reference: S4W-04255

Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 7 December 2011

Question reference: S4W-04249

Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 7 December 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been identified for the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations in the draft budget for 2012-13.

Question reference: S4W-04254

Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 7 December 2011

Question reference: S4W-04250

Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 7 December 2011

2006-09	The grant was to be used as a contribution to core costs (the day-to-day costs of the organisation and all other necessary purposes and for no other purposes whatsoever). Funding on offer was subject to achieving the key outcomes and outputs SCVO agreed to deliver over each year of the three year funding period. The list of outputs and outcomes were set out in a partnership agreement between SCVO and the Scottish Government in June 2006. Payment of the grant was also subject to the standard Scottish Government terms and conditions of grant (with the exception of removal of clause on ownership of Intellectual Property Rights).
2009-11	The grant was to be used as a contribution to core costs (the day-to-day costs of the organisation and all other necessary purposes and for no other purposes whatsoever). Funding on offer was subject to achieving the key outcomes SCVO agreed to deliver over each year of the two year funding period. The list of outputs and outcomes were set out in a strategic partnership agreement between SCVO and the Scottish Government in April 2009. In broad terms, the grant contributed to advancing the values of the shared interests of the sector (50% of the grant) and supporting policy thinking in and around the third sector policy environment (50% of the grant). Payment of the grant was subject to the standard Scottish Government terms and conditions of grant (with the exception of removal of clause on ownership of Intellectual Property Rights).
2011-12	The grant was to be used as a contribution to core costs (the day-to-day costs of the organisation and all other necessary purposes and for no other purposes whatsoever). In broad terms, the grant contributed to advancing the values of the shared interests of the sector and supporting policy thinking in and around the third sector policy environment. The policy conditions included agreement with the Scottish Government on a robust work programme for the year listing the activities, outputs and outcomes that the grant funding will support. Payment of the grant was subject to the standard Scottish Government terms and conditions of grant (with the exception of removal of clause on ownership of Intellectual Property Rights).

Question reference: S4W-04248

Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 6 December 2011

Question reference: S4O-00419

Current Status: Withdrawn

Year of Award	Amount of Core Grant Funding
2006-07	£650,000
2007-08	£650,000
2008-09	£650,000
2009-10	£758,000
2010-11	£776,000
2011-12	£800,000