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The Energy Saving Scotland home renewables grant scheme has been very successful in stimulating the market for microgeneration technologies and helping over 4,000 householders to generate their own energy. Continued high demand led to an extra allocation in 2010-11 of £1.5 million.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total extra amount is of 2010-11 non-domestic rates that larger organisations that would have been eligible for transitional relief will pay as a result of the decision by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth not to introduce an upper cap (a) comparable with that in England and (b) as considered by...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities have received supplies of extra salt and grit following contact with the Scottish Government Resilience Room since 22 December 2009 and what the (a) source of the materials supplied, (b) date of delivery and (c) tonnage supplied was, broken down by local authority.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 November 2009
However, despite this pressure we are providing an increase of 3.1% in police grant, which is £586.7 million in 2010-11 and providing direct funding for the 1,000 extra police officers in our communities.
Additionally, while in quarantine, and as an extra precaution, the beavers will have access to baths for them to swim in, containing a solution of full strength sea water.
With effect from this year, staff in its core Directorates, including senior civil servants, and those agencies which make up the Scottish Government main bargaining unit have therefore been given an extra day’s holiday to celebrate St Andrew’s Day.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 December 2007
There are substantialadditional resources available within the local government finance settlement tohelp all local authorities, including South Lanarkshire Council, to secure lowerclass sizes. 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 l...
To ask the Scottish Executive how much will be raised each year from Shetland crofters and farmers for each extra 1% of modulation of their single farm payments.