The Scottish Government does not hold this information centrally. I will ask the Chief Executive of Skills Development Scotland to respond to you.

Our systems already guard against this. Purchasing or owning a home in Scotland does not in itself qualify an applicant for eligibility for regulated fee status and student support. An applicant must demonstrate that they meet all the relevant residency criteria which includes being ordinarily resident in Scotland.

Institutions of higher education must satisfy themselves of the accuracy and veracity of the residency claimed by an applicant in order to assess eligibility for regulated fee status. This can include, but is not limited to, confirming the address of the school attended by the applicant, the address registered with UCAS, the address to which any child benefit with respect to the applicant is registered and the address of the parental home.

Where supported fees are concerned, the Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) must agree with an institutions assessment that a student has ‘home’ status before such fees are paid.

Information on childcare vouchers for employers is available on HMRC’s website. There have been no specific steps to raise awareness of childcare vouchers among voluntary and private sector employers in Scotland since the January-June 2009 project to do so. However, information is available to voluntary and private sector employees on the Scottish Childcare Information Service website and the Scottish Government website, as well as HMRC’s website.

I refer the member to the answers to questions S4W-03768 on 16 November 2011 and S4W-03769 and S4W-03770 on 15 November 2011. 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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

The Chief Medical Officer and Chief Nursing Officer For Scotland will be writing out shortly to health professionals to raise awareness of the risks associated with Carbon Monoxide and ask for increased vigilance of the signs and symptoms of exposure in their patients.

The Health Protection Agency Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will once again be supporting the UK wide Carbon Monoxide Awareness week, commencing 21 November, by issuing press releases with supporting safety advice. Their web-sites contain useful information for householders and landlords on Carbon Monoxide safety. In addition Health Protection Scotland produced a Carbon Monoxide fact sheet which can be viewed at:

http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/enviro/nonhpspublicationsdetail.aspx?id=39585.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information centrally. I will ask the Chief Executive of Skills Development Scotland to respond to you.

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.

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.

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.

The Accounts Commission is now completing a plan for delivering a review of how Community Planning Partnerships are externally scrutinised including pilot work which will be carried out in 2012. Further information on detail and timings for the review will be announced in due course.