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To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-12321 by Stewart Stevenson on 2 May 2008, whether the current Freight Facilities Grant scheme would have adequate resources to provide the funding required to meet a renewed application to site a railhead at Barrhill.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether contracts placed for the construction of vessels, financed partly or wholly from public funds, contain penalty clauses in relation to the late delivery of, or construction faults in, such vessels.
The Scottish Police College is one of the police support services provided by the Scottish Police Services Authority (SPSA). SPSA is funded through grant-In-aid from the Scottish Government.
We have made it clear that first call on this funding is to implement screening for alcohol misuse and delivery of brief interventions where appropriate, in line with a new NHS target.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, given the restrictions placed on it by Schedule 5 to the Scotland Act 1998, it can provide funding to the post office network in Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide (a) Dundee City Council and (b) Angus Council with additional funding in 2009 to pay for an extension of the entitlement to free school meals to pupils from families receiving maximum child or working families tax credit.
Any savings in the first year will be reallocated to the discretionary funds to aid those students who may have their student support reduced as a result of the changes and find themselves in genuine hardship.
The board's NRAC target share is 7.83% To avoid turbulence, no board will receive less funding than it does at present and changes flowing from the NRAC recommendations will be phased in over a number of years, as has been the practice under both the SHARE and Arbuthnott formulae.
The Scottish Government has made clear that NHS boards can use existing private sector capacity, but that we will not invest taxpayers'' money to fund new private sector capacity. S3W-10127