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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had, or plans to have, discussions with the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport regarding funding for activities that will deliver the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to (a) introducing "rucksack" funding packages for children with special educational needs, which follow the child throughout his or her education, and (b) funding such packages centrally.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will take steps to address any financial problems faced by Irvine's Compass Centre for mental health and any resultant job losses as a result of the gap in European Objective 3 funding. As I explained to the European Committee on Tuesday 4 April, I am concerned about the position of a number of voluntary organisations sponsoring European Social Fund projects who were facing a gap in funding between the closure of previous structural fund programmes and the introduction of new ones.
I think that the response to recommendation 4 is inadequate.In last year's end-year funding announcement, Andy Kerr said:"the Executive has placed particular emphasis on ensuring effective use of the Scottish budget in line with its priorities."
We have agreed to consider undertaking further work on sustainable development. I suggest that, as part of our scrutiny of the impact of Executive bills, we take evidence from the Minister for Environment and Rural Development on 21 June, when he will come before us to discuss European issues.