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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to form a research and development partnership with the pharmaceutical industry in order to fund jointly clinical research for the faster development of new drugs for patients.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 February 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to improve access to qualifications and training in the pre-school and child care workforce. The survey of pre-school and child care workforce, published this month, shows that the numbers of staff with child care qualifications has increased from 67% in 2003 to...
The Scottish Executive has provided significant funding to the City of Glasgow to support the development of Scotland’s first all-through Gaelic school.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 December 2005
This information is not held centrally. Since 2003 the Executive has funded over 50 projects through the Equality Unit’s Scottish Refugee Integration fund.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 December 2004
It is for SEPA to decide how it allocates funding to identified priorities. In addition, we have contributed £71,000 towards development, by the UK Government, of a UK Registry to administer allowances associated with the Scheme.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 August 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has received in respect of any European Commission plans to extend Objective 1 funding for regional development until 2013, as referred to in recent comments by Glenys Kinnock MEP, and whether it has had any discussions with the commission about any such funding for Scotland.
The funding has been allocated as follows: 2001-02(£ million)2002-03(£ million)2003-04(£ million)Total(£ million)Careers Service Companies (Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise)3.5 3.5Careers Scotland (Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise) 5.85.811.6Scottish Further Education Funding Council11.524.5Beattie National Action Group development Projects0.511.53Total 22.6Careers Scotland multi-agency inclusiveness projects and the further education sector are all benefiting from Beattie inclusiveness funding.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many public libraries have been linked to the People's Network since the launch of the initiative, how many remain to be linked up and what the target date is for completion of that process. The development of the network is being funded with £11.5 million from the New Opportunity Fund's Community Access to Lifelong Learning (CALL) programme with the aim of linking all public libraries to the Network by the end of 2002.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 February 2000
All LECs do currently fund Modern Apprenticeships for 18-24 year olds but this funding is applied in each area according to specific criteria designed to meet the skills needs of the local and national economy and to take account of local labour markets.The funding of training for 18-24 year olds is being examined as part of the "Opportunities and Choices" consultation exercise on future developments in post-16 non-advanced education and training.