- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 14 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total cost was of sending St Andrew’s Day packs to schools and universities across Scotland, including Saltire flags, booklets and postage, and under which budget heading the cost is covered.
Answer
The total cost for sending out an A5 flyer and merchandise to pre-schools, schools and universities was £10,483.48. The pre-school and school flyers were met from the Schools Directorate Communications budget. The postage for Universities was met from Lifelong Learning budget. The Saltire flags for pre-schools and universities plus the pens, bookmarks and This is Scotland book for universities were met from the International Projects Budget.
Saltire flags were not sent to schools this year as they were included in the St Andrew''s Day packs sent to schools last year. There are approximately 2,800 schools in Scotland.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 14 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it had with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office before appointing Robin Naysmith as the Scottish Government Counsellor in North America.
Answer
The grading of the Scottish Government’s representation in North America and the decision about who to appoint to the post arematters exclusively for the Permanent Secretary. The Foreign and Commonwealth Officewas informed about the intention to widen the duties of the post and to upgradeit in advance of the announcement.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 14 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive in which country the flags included in the St Andrew’s Day packs sent to schools and universities were manufactured.
Answer
Flags are sourced from a variety of manufacturers in Scotland, the UK and overseas markets. The buying decision is made on quality, price and required delivery time. The flags used with the leaflet sent to pre-schools and Student Unions were sourced from Taiwan. In 2006 there was a larger distribution of Saltire flags, as part of a pack sent to all schools in Scotland. The same supplier arrangements were in place.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 14 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has for the appointment of further Scottish Government counsellors at UK embassies and high commissions overseas.
Answer
There are currentlyno plans to make further such appointments elsewhere.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 14 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of free personal care was in 2006-07, broken down by local authority.
Answer
Expenditure informationon the cost of free personal care is only available up until 2005-06.
The most up-to-dateinformation on free personal care in Scotland can be found in tables 8 and 10 inthe annex of the publication Free personal and nursing care, Scotland 2002-03to 2005-06.
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http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/06/22152540/0or Bib. number 43996).
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 13 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive who is responsible for supervision of the Scottish Ministerial Code in respect of the conduct of the First Minister.
Answer
As with allmembers of the Scottish Government, the First Minister is ultimatelyaccountable to the Scottish Parliament for his conduct in carrying out hisresponsibilities.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 13 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to celebrate St Andrew’s Day, other than by sending St Andrew’s Day packs to schools and universities.
Answer
St Andrew’s Daywill be a great opportunity to celebrate Scotland’s culture, history and talents. Our programme for St Andrew’s Dayinvolves events across all of Scotland's six cities, and Scottish Governmentevents in Edinburgh, Brussels, Washington and Beijing. Scottish Government employees have been given the option of swappingan existing holiday for a half day holiday on St Andrew’s Day and we areworking with organisations across Scotland to raise theprofile of our national day. Detailed information about the programme can befound at
www.scotland.org and furtherdetails of the plans will be announced during November.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 13 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what requests it has received in the last three years to provide financial assistance to hospices and what responses it has given in each case.
Answer
We are not awareof any such requests. Guidance on funding arrangements for hospices is providedin HDL (2003)18 which indicates that hospices will receive funding fromthe relevant NHS board in respect of 50% of agreed running costs. This figurewas reached with the agreement of the Scottish Hospices Forum and was set at50% so as not to compromise the essential independence of individual hospices.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 12 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive who has responsibility for deciding whether any proposed expenditure by it is ultra vires.
Answer
It is the responsibilityof Scottish ministers to satisfy themselves that any proposed expenditure is lawful,and in case of doubt first to seek legal advice on the lawfulness or otherwise of the proposed expenditure.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 12 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive which college and university developments will be supported by the funds released by HM Treasury, as announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning on 26 October 2007.
Answer
The allocation offunding to individual colleges and universities is a matter for the Scottish FundingCouncil. They have advised that of the £100 million allocated, £40 million willbe distributed on a formula basis to the university sector and £60 million on aproject and formula basis to the college sector.
In the college sector,the additional funding will help support specific major college projects which havebeen approved by council (and are in progress), including those at Anniesland, Langsideand Motherwell colleges. £20 million has been allocated formulaically to all colleges.
The formulaic allocationof £40 million additional funding to higher education institutions (HEIs) in 2007-08will release resources in future years to support potential large scale HEI capitalprojects such as campus redevelopment at Glasgow School of Art and the University of Paisley’s Ayrcampus. These projects and others are still at the planning stage and are subjectto Scottish Funding Council support for final plans.
Specific allocationsto HEIs and colleges in financial year 2007-08 are noted as follows:
| HEI | Total HEI Allocation (for FY 2007-08) (£) |
| Aberdeen, University of | 2,921,000 |
| Abertay Dundee, University of | 995,000 |
| Dundee, University of | 2,769,000 |
| Edinburgh College of Art | 399,000 |
| Edinburgh, University of | 4,830,000 |
| Glasgow Caledonian University | 3,236,000 |
| Glasgow School of Art | 461,000 |
| Glasgow, University of | 5,148,000 |
| Heriot-Watt University | 1,499,000 |
| Napier University | 2,823,000 |
| Open University in Scotland | 1,084,000 |
| Paisley, University of | 3,004,000 |
| Queen Margaret University Edinburgh | 752,000 |
| Robert Gordon University | 2,130,000 |
| Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama | 319,000 |
| St Andrews, University of | 1,189,000 |
| Stirling, University of | 1,650,000 |
| Strathclyde, University of | 3,672,000 |
| UHI Millennium Institute | 1,119,000 |
| Total | 40,000,000 |
| College | Total College Allocation (for FY 2007-08) (£) |
| Aberdeen College | 1,145,000 |
| Adam Smith College | 956,000 |
| Angus College | 377,000 |
| Anniesland College | 436,000 |
| Ayr College | 486,000 |
| Banff and Buchan College of Further Education | 368,000 |
| Barony College | 168,000 |
| Borders College | 339,000 |
| Cardonald College | 607,000 |
| Central College of Commerce | 433,000 |
| Clydebank College | 482,000 |
| Coatbridge College | 355,000 |
| Cumbernauld College | 312,000 |
| Dumfries and Galloway College | 368,000 |
| Dundee College | 835,000 |
| Edinburgh’s Telford College | 923,000 |
| Elmwood College | 302,000 |
| Forth Valley College | 894,000 |
| Glasgow Metropolitan College | 740,000 |
| Glasgow College of Nautical Studies | 378,000 |
| Inverness College | 382,000 |
| James Watt College of Further and Higher Education | 1,189,000 |
| Jewel and Esk Valley College | 559,000 |
| John Wheatley College | 340,000 |
| Kilmarnock College | 467,000 |
| Langside College | 462,000 |
| Lauder College | 485,000 |
| Lews Castle College | 162,000 |
| Moray College | 283,000 |
| Motherwell College | 659,000 |
| North Glasgow College | 433,000 |
| Oatridge College | 195,000 |
| Orkney College | 135,000 |
| Perth College | 331,000 |
| Reid Kerr College | 664,000 |
| Shetland College of Further Education | 135,000 |
| South Lanarkshire College | 356,000 |
| Stevenson College | 720,000 |
| Stow College | 473,000 |
| West Lothian College | 410,000 |
| The North Highland College | 256,000 |
| Total | 20,000,000 |
