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Date answered:
10 December 2007
S3W-07198
In total, the spending plans for affordablehousing over the period 2008-11 are 19% higher than the spending plans for the period2005-08. With the additional funding provided as a result of the Spending Review,we expect to approve over the period 2008-11 more new affordable houses than willbe approved over the period 2005-08.
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Date answered:
7 December 2007
S3W-06933
This includes investment of an extra £115 million for the first yearof the settlement which can be invested in schools and an increase of 15 per centin capital for local government up to 2011.South LanarkshireCouncil has already received additional funding of £549,900 as its share of the£9 million announced on 20 June 2007 to assist local authorities employ...
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Date answered:
5 December 2007
S3W-07052
This consultation will link with the workcurrently underway within communities to raise awareness of this very serious issue.Members of the Forced Marriage Network are key to this activity and the networkwill reconvene in 2008 to furtherdevelop the Scottish Government’s work in this area.The majority of theorganisations working to support those affected by forced marriage are funded bythe Scottish Government. We recently demonstrated our on-going commitment to tacklingViolence Against Women by allocating £40 million over the next three years to thiswork.
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Date answered:
6 November 2007
S3W-05770
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-4676 by Linda Fabiani on 25 October 2007, why it did not indicate the specific authorisation in terms of the Budget (Scotland) Act 2007 under which funding for the Scottish Broadcasting Commission has been provided in the current financial year and whether it will now provide the informat...
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Date answered:
17 October 2007
S3W-05151
Over the two years2006-08, the Scottish Government has provided significant support for the Business Improvements Districts (BID) pilot programme, allocating around £1.1million to support the six BID pilots; to fund the BID Scotland Project Director,and to provide marketing, publicity and guidance, including the BID Scotland website.
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Date answered:
24 September 2007
S3W-04300
The duty is dischargedmainly through the funding of advertising campaigns aimed at raising awareness of the need to increase organ donation numbers.
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Date answered:
5 September 2007
S3W-03617
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to promote and improve funding for disabled access improvements to public and private buildings.
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Date answered:
20 August 2007
S3W-02461
To ask the Scottish Executive what funds it will provide to the voluntary sector to implement the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (a) for training, (b) for carrying out disclosure checks on any existing staff members that will be within the scope of the Act, (c) for administration costs for organisations within the scope of the scheme, ...
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Date answered:
9 August 2007
S3W-02179
We have announced the first steps indelivering our commitments, with funding for the employment of an additional300 teachers and the increase of 250 training places from this August.We will beannouncing further steps in due course, to a timetable that ensures that we canprotect the quality of the teachers entering the profession and takes intoaccount the ca...
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Date answered:
20 July 2007
S3W-01716
The interim response to theReview of Infertility Services in Scotland published in March 2007 documentedthe action taken to increase the availability of fertility treatment specifically:Increasingthe upper age limit for access to NHS funded level III assisted conception treatmentsto 39 years inclusive, i.e. treatment should be before a woman’s 40th birthday...
