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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of funding made available to local authorities for carers in the financial year 1999-2000.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 August 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has, in the light of the cut in European Regional Funding for Dumfries and Galloway, to minimise the effect of the shortfall and to improve employment prospects within that region.
The framework of national priorities allows education authorities and schools to take a flexible approach toward class organisation to ensure that the potential of every pupil is maximised.
Will the minister tell the chamber what consultation the Executive undertook prior to its decision to increase SAD's core funding by 50 per cent? Will SAD's future performance be closely monitored and regularly evaluated by the effectiveness unit, particularly in view of the concern that was expressed by Professor Neil McKeganey and others.
"Our National Health: a plan for action, a plan for change", published on 14 December, sets out how the Executive intends to simplify the funding of specialist hospital services that are provided to more than one NHS health board area.
(S1O-1778) Lochaber Ltd is in the process of assessing an application for financial assistance that it has received from the National Trust for Scotland in respect of the trust's visitor centre and other proposed developments in Glencoe. That assessment will address the funding requirement, additionality and the net ...
Although we should acknowledge the need for flexibility in sentencing, sheriffs and judges should reflect the reality in the communities that suffer from knife crime.
I give the First Minister a specific example of where we could do with more diversity, choice and flexibility, about which he and the Minister for Education and Young People are always speaking.
Contrary to what John Sharp said, assessors live in the 20th century and we use methods other than pen and paper, although not all of us have super-duper computer systems—we are all funded by local government—and we do calculations with pen and paper at the end.We could provide statistics on the value of out-of-town developments, rural developments and other properties.