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The budgeted debt repayments for 2008-09 are £56 million compared with budgeted student loan issues of £180.3 million and student loan subsidy costs of £71.4 million.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 November 2008
These are broken down as follows: Staff £471,222 Travel £38,345 Hospitality £1,678 Administration £12,617 The comparative figure for 2006-07 was £638,356.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-11537 by Shona Robison on 18 April 2008, who is carrying out the robust trials to establish the comparative benefits of bilateral implantation.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much grant aided expenditure (GAE) was awarded to West Dumbartonshire Council in 2008-09 and what the comparative figure would have been if the GAE had been increased in line with the average annual increase across all local authorities.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what assumptions lie behind the reduction in resources for Gaelic for (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11 compared with the figure for 2008-09 and what the reasons are for this reduction.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 September 2007
His response is as follows:Some 77% of thosecurrently in prison have previously been held in prison for an offencecommitted at some stage. This figure compares with that in the “Return toCustody” statistical series which shows that around 50% of prisoners releasedfrom custody return within two years of release.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 August 2007
If we were to suggest such a restriction, the effect would be the same for all recesses—with the exception of the February recess, which is only one week.
As a result, its role with regard to the state forest is quite significant compared with what happens in other countries, and the £15 million in question is a very small element of the overall estate.
Will ADES make representations to the Government that it needs to make at least a comparable continuation of the funding that its predecessor made available from 2000 to allow continued investment in the school estate beyond 2008?