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Any change would have to be approved by the franchise authority.First ScotRail is committed to spend £1 million on refurbishing the passenger accommodation within sleeper vehicles as a franchise commitment.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the commitment in the Partnership Agreement to increase the apprenticeship programme to 30,000 places, how many places there have been on the apprenticeship programme in each of the last three years. 1. The Partnership Agreementcommitment of achieving 30,000 modern apprenticeship (MA) places by 2006, was ach...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 August 2005
The Farm Business Development Scheme Variation (Scotland)Scheme 2005 (SSI 219/2005), which came into force on 1 June 2005, extended thescope of the scheme to allow the payment of grant aid for specific additionalmeasures to support eligible farmers with the aim of assisting them torestructure or re-orientate their agricultural business.
This information is available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre, (Bib. numbers 36818, 36819). Bib. number 36818 contains:Table 1: External agencies which provide statistical data to the Scottish Executive and General Register Office for Scotland; showing external agency and information provided 15 June 2005.Bib. number 36819 contains:Table 2: ...
No charges have been reported to Procurators Fiscal under this section since that date.Section 25 (1)(a) of the Immigration Act 1971 makes it an offence to assist others to enter the United Kingdom illegally and is much wider in scope than people trafficking. 5 people have been reported to the Procurator Fiscal in Stranraer since March 2004 in relation to ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 April 2005
The information requested isset out in the following table.Maintenance Costs (£Million) Financial Year Victoria Quay All Other Buildings 1999-20001 n/a n/a 2000-011 n/a n/a 2001-02 0.7 1.2 2002-03 0.7 1.3 2003-04 0.4 1.4 2004-052 n/a n/a Notes:1. Maintenance costs cannot beseparated out for these years.2.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 April 2005
His response is as follows: The Building (Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2004, which come into force on 1 May, require local authorities to maintain an electronic register for the geographical area of the authority relating to building standards information.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the commitments made during the debate in the Parliament on Institutional Child Abuse on 1 December 2004 and the letter of 21 December 2004 from the Minister for Education and Young People to the Convener of the Public Petitions Committee, what financial support has been given to the In Care Abuse Survivors Group (...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the commitments made during the debate in the Parliament on Institutional Child Abuse on 1 December 2004 and the letter of 21 December 2004 from the Minister for Education and Young People to the Convener of the Public Petitions Committee, whether all relevant files, appropriately redacted, are now available for pu...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 April 2005
Source: MIDAS (Management Information and Dental Accounting System).Note: 1. Consists of capitation fees (£24,326,000) and child item of service fees (£19,214,000), minus the cost of child orthodontic treatment (£8,392,000).