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The recommendations generally sought further information/analysis, greater clarity, transparency, etc. and none related directly to final figures. The CHMA provided pre-appraisal advice, both formally and informally, to most authorities.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 September 2013
The number of passes in Advanced Higher Mathematics actually increased this year from 2,156 in 2012 to 2,303 (pre-appeal figures). The Scottish Government recognises the importance of science, technologies, engineering and maths (STEM) for the Scottish economy.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 August 2013
The Scottish Government has already strengthened the protection for tenants in Scotland against eviction for rent arrears. From 1 August 2012 we brought pre-action requirements for rent arrears into force to ensure that eviction is a last resort.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 November 2012
Data derived from the child health pre-school information system show that there were 58,413 children born in 2011 who were registered on the system as at August 2012.
To help achieve our target for 500 MW of community and locally owned renewables by 2020, we will continue to provide the Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES) loan scheme which provides finance at the high risk pre-planning stage, and which has a budget of 23.5 million over the next three years.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 December 2011
This government’s policy on the location of public sector jobs was set out for the Parliament in evidence to the Finance Committee on 29 January 2008. Following criticism of the policy pre-2007 as set out by the Auditor General for Scotland as well as by the Parliament’s Audit Committee and Finance Committee, the incoming government decided to refocus this ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 August 2011
The Community and Renewable Energy Scheme provides loans of up to £150,000 to farmers, land managers, rural businesses, cooperatives and communities to help meet the pre-planning consent costs of developing a proposal.
We are asking the public to trust their politicians at a time when, pre-Covid-19, trust was a vanishing commodity, and when the Ipsos MORI veracity index recorded politicians as the least trusted profession of all, behind bankers, journalists and estate agents.
The programme includes innovative work—for example, piloting of pre-school family programmes; working with young men to identify pathways to employment; improving training for families and education staff; and trialling of new digital approaches to participation in learning.