- Asked by: Jeremy Purvis, MSP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 26 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the £111 million that was reported as being saved by the Scottish Futures Trust in 2009-10 will be ring-fenced for infrastructure investment and, if so, which projects will be funded.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-36651 on 26 October 2010. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jeremy Purvis, MSP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 26 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what mechanism is in place for deciding how future savings made by the Scottish Futures Trust will be deployed.
Answer
Scottish Ministers will determine how savings accrued through the work of the Scottish Futures Trust are deployed.
- Asked by: Jeremy Purvis, MSP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 26 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the Scottish Futures Trust’s benefits statement, which was independently and externally validated by Grant Thornton LLP and academics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, was audited only in terms of the methodology and underlying assumptions rather than undergoing a formal audit of the amounts stated as savings in the benefits statement.
Answer
I have asked Barry White, Chief Executive of the Scottish Futures Trust, to respond. His response is as follows:
The £111 million of net savings and benefits delivered by the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) in 2009-10 has been externally validated by London School of Economics and Grant Thornton and a full transparent breakdown of the calculations and validation findings are available on the SFT website. There are no plans for further validation or audit as the figures do not form part of SFT''s statutory accounts.
- Asked by: Jeremy Purvis, MSP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 26 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive which budget lines have benefited, or will benefit, from the £111 million that was reported as being saved by the Scottish Futures Trust in 2009-10.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-36651 on 26 October 2010. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jeremy Purvis, MSP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 26 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the £111 million that has been reported as being saved by the Scottish Futures Trust in 2009-10 has been deployed and, if not, in what way it will be.
Answer
The Scottish Futures Trust has identified £111 million of net benefits as a result of work undertaken in 2009-10. These benefits are from a mixture of efficiency gains, additional investment and avoided costs.
- Asked by: Jeremy Purvis, MSP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 21 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was paid to Hudson Global for the (a) original and (b) second recruitment process for the appointment of the chief executive of Scottish Development International that took place between August and September 2010.
Answer
Hudson Global has been paid £10,869 (including VAT) for each executive search activity relating to the recruitment exercise for the chief executive of Scottish Development International to date. There will be a further payment on project completion.
- Asked by: Jeremy Purvis, MSP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 18 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the holiday rights outlined in Agricultural Wages in Scotland: Fifteenth Edition: A Guide for Workers and Employers can be passed directly from grandparent to grandchild.
Answer
No. The rights outlined in the guide apply to all agricultural workers covered by the wages order and are not assignable to any other party.
- Asked by: Jeremy Purvis, MSP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 18 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the future of the Scottish Agricultural Wages Board.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3O-7682 on 3 September 2009. The answer to the oral parliamentary question is available on the Parliament''s website, the official report of which can be viewed at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0903-02.htm - Col19277.
- Asked by: Jeremy Purvis, MSP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 15 October 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what it understands is meant by the ambassadorial role of the chief executive of Scottish Development International.
Answer
The ambassadorial role of the Chief Executive of Scottish Development International covers the requirement to represent Scotland at the highest levels internationally and, working with other public and private sector organisations, to play a leading role in the promotion of Scotland overseas with the overall aim of increasing sustainable economic growth.
- Asked by: Jeremy Purvis, MSP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 29 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has calculated or estimated by how much Scotland’s receipts from (a) corporation tax including from the North Sea oil and gas industry, (b) corporation tax excluding from the North Sea oil and gas industry, (c) capital gains tax, (d) national insurance contributions and (e) VAT have changed since the start of the last spending review and whether this information is publicly available.
Answer
Estimates of the tax revenue raised in Scotland are available in Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) 2008-09. The report is available from
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/06/22160331/0.
