- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 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, what powers and assets will be transferred from Scottish Enterprise Fife to Fife Council.
Answer
Localregeneration activity and management of the Business Gateway contract willbecome the responsibility of the local authority. This will mean somereallocation of funds from Scottish Enterprise to local authorities but thedetail of this will be decided when the exact nature of the activity to betransferred is finalised, subject to the results of the forthcoming SpendingReview announcement.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 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, what decisions regarding enterprise and economic development will continue to be made at the local level in Fife.
Answer
This will be anoperation matter for Scottish Enterprise. However, as now, such decisions willreflect local Fife priorities and be informed by a continued ScottishEnterprise presence in Fife.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 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, what the financial costs and savings will be of co-locating Scottish Enterprise staff with local authority staff in (a) Fife and (b) Scotland.
Answer
Co-location ofstaff will be an operational matter for discussion between Scottish Enterpriseand relevant local authorities which will be encouraged by the ScottishGovernment. It is thereforenot possible to quantify costs or savings at present.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 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, how it will ensure that aligning VisitScotland with the six new regional enterprise bodies will not lead to a reduction in focus on Fife’s tourist industry.
Answer
This is an operationalmatter for VisitScotland. The aim of re-aligning VisitScotland areas to match thoseof the new enterprise network regions is to increase the effectiveness of partnershipworking with the enterprise network alongside tourism businesses with the potentialto grow, and thus to release resources to deliver more locally. VisitScotland willcontinue to promote Scotland and areas such as Fife – as a must-visit, must-return destinations.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many VisitScotland and Scottish Enterprise staff will be relocated to the Fife region.
Answer
This will be an operationalmatter for VisitScotland and Scottish Enterprise.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish Enterprise full-time equivalent staff are employed in the Fife area and whether the Executive will ensure that these levels do not fall following restructuring of the enterprise networks.
Answer
There are currently43 full-time equivalent staff based at Scottish Enterprise Fife, not including locallybased Careers Scotland staff. Allocation of staff resources is an operational matterfor Scottish Enterprise.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will make a decision on whether to approve the Fife Structure Plan.
Answer
A decision will be taken after Fife Council submit proposed revisions to the Structure Plan at the end of 2007.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the justification is for allowing Fife Council to evaluate only one part of the Fife Structure Plan.
Answer
Fife Council wrote to ministers in June 2007 indicating that, because of new population and housing projections, it wished to re-appraise the housing requirements in the Structure Plan. Ministers agreed to this in July 2007.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to ensure that Fife Council has fulfilled its statutory duties, particularly in respect of public consultation, in undertaking its strategic environmental assessment.
Answer
As the ResponsibleAuthority, it is for Fife Council to ensure it meets all statutory obligations,including those for early and effective public consultation, under strategic environmentalassessment legislation.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 1 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Fife Council will have to re-evaluate the entire Fife Structure Plan following its re-evaluation of requirements for housing development.
Answer
Fife Council is currently re-appraising the housingrequirements in the structure plan which it submitted to ministers in 2006. It willsubmit the results of this process, including any resulting changes that need tobe made to other parts of the structure plan, to ministers at the end of this year.
