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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)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S4W-03847

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 16 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many young people were in training on the Get Ready for Work programme at the end of September 2010.

Question reference: S4W-03852

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 16 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what Skills Development Scotland funding was for the (a) Get Ready for Work and (b) Lifeskills programme in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2010-11.

Question reference: S4W-03851

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 16 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been allocated to Skills Development Scotland for the (a) Get Ready for Work and (b) Lifeskills programme.

Question reference: S4W-03850

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 16 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many young people were in training on the Lifeskills programme at the end of September 2010.

Question reference: S4W-03848

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 16 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many young people were supported by the Lifeskills programme in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11.

Question reference: S4W-03845

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 16 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many young people were supported by the Get Ready for Work programme in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11.

Question reference: S4W-03620

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that Reshaping Care Change Fund monies are spent exclusively as preventative spend.

Scottish Government guidance on the Reshaping Care Change Fund for 2012-13, to be issued later this year, makes clear the expectation on Partnerships to increase the proportion of funding allocated to preventative and anticipatory care and proactive care and support at home.

Partnerships will be required to record this information, using Integrated Resource Framework mechanisms for analysing spend, activity and variation, in their Change Plans. Progress will be monitored over the whole course of the Change Fund lifecycle.

Question reference: S4W-03840

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 15 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-03016 by John Swinney on 18 October 2011, whether it will seek an independent analysis of the Scottish Spending Review 2011.

The Scottish Government has no plans to add to the scrutiny arrangements that already apply, including parliament’s role in the budget process and the significant amount of evidence it takes from third parties on the government’s spending proposals.

As in previous years, the Scottish Government has published a range of analytical information to assist the scrutiny process, including assessments of the equalities and carbon impacts of its spending plans.

Question reference: S4W-03842

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 15 November 2011

Local authorities are responsible for setting their annual net revenue budgets as well as the amount of those budgets to be funded from the council tax. The latest information available to the Scottish Government provided by local authorities is in respect of 2011-12. Figures for 2012-15 will not be available until the relevant annual financial returns from local authorities’ have been submitted to the Scottish Government.

Question reference: S4W-03841

Asked by: Kezia Dugdale, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 15 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of local authority funding in 2011-12 will come from council tax revenue.

Based on local authorities’ own financial returns to the Scottish Government, they have estimated that 18 per cent of their net revenue income in 2011-12 will be raised from the council tax. This figure includes both anticipated council tax benefit funding and any community charge arrears expected to be collected in-year, but excludes the £70 million per annum the Scottish Government has provided to local authorities to compensate them for the income foregone in freezing the council tax at 2007-08 levels.