- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 21 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what types of music are offered to schools through the Youth Music Initiative in each local authority area.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-12393 on 8 December 2004. 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: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 21 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils will benefit from the Youth Music Initiative, broken down by age group and local authority area.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-12393 on 8 December 2004. 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: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 21 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how legislative measures to protect and develop the Welsh language informed the development of the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Bill.
Answer
The development of the legislative provisions in the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Bill has taken full account of the arrangements which have been put in place to protect and develop the Welsh language. The solutions proposed for Scotland differ from those enacted in Wales in order to safeguard sufficient flexibility to enable the bill to apply to the whole of Scotland.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 15 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact the exclusion of care and nursing homes from the water charges exemptions scheme will have on the pace of closure of care and nursing homes.
Answer
None. We will invest an additional £37 million in 2006-07 and £57 million the following year to increase care home fees and reward those who provide the best quality care home services. This takes the total amount of additional funding for the care home sector to £234 million since 2001.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 15 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement by the Minister for Environment and Rural Development on 31 August 2004, whether it has any plans to revisit the scope, extent and timescale of the conditions which form part of the water charges exemptions scheme for voluntary and charitable organisations and, if so, whether it will make a statement on the issue.
Answer
The Executive has extended the duration of the exemption scheme until 2010, pending decisions on introducing of new arrangements for charging unmetered non-domestic customers of Scottish Water. As the scheme’s eligibility criteria continue to reflect its original objective, there are no plans to review them.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 15 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to request the Auditor General for Scotland to carry out an investigation into the accuracy of the billing database maintained by Scottish Water.
Answer
We have no such plans.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 15 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when the National Review Group's calculations on nursing and care home costs will next be reviewed and whether water charges will be included in the calculation and, if so, how.
Answer
An increase in real terms will be applied to the revenue element of existing care home costs to take account of various pressures, including utility charges, from 1 April 2006.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 9 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what evaluation it is carrying out of the delivery of its youth music initiative in schools.
Answer
The Scottish Arts Council is in the process of producing an Interim Operational Review, and recommendations for the Youth Music Initiative (YMI) Reference Group. This review is due for completion in early 2005.
The YMI Reference Group intends to commission independent research on the full three years of the Initiative (2003-04 to 2005-06). Work on the evaluation will begin in 2005.
In addition, each project funded under the YMI is required to carry out self-evaluation. Guidance will be given to organisers on an appropriate framework for such evaluation.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 8 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what feedback it has had from local authorities on the roll-out of its youth music initiative.
Answer
Local authority feedback is currently being sought following the completion of the first year of Youth Music Initiative (YMI) operation. This will be available by the end of April 2005. In addition, there are representatives of several strands of local authority activity on the YMI Reference Group, including ADES (Association of Directors of Education in Scotland), VOCAL (Voice of Chief Officers for Cultural, Community and Leisure Services), HITS (Heads of Instrumental and Teaching Services) and COSLA.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 8 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what methods and types of music have been chosen by local authorities as part of the roll-out of its youth music initiative.
Answer
The Youth Music Initiative Reference Group, which is made up of representatives from the youth music field (both local authority and independent/informal sectors), the Scottish Arts Council, the Scottish Executive and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama research team, is responsible for steering this initiative.
The Reference Group is aware that a broad range of methods and types of music have been chosen by local authorities. Examples include the partnership between Highland Council and Fèisean nan Gàidheal to integrate the Fèisean workshop style of work with traditional music into the core provision of the local authority and the engagement by several local authorities of the National Youth Choirs of Scotland to provide specialist instruction in vocal music in group work for young people.
More detailed management information currently being collated on overall local authority provision, including details of methods of instruction and types of music, will be available by the end of April 2005.
