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Resources from the Strategic Waste Fund are used to implement waste prevention initiatives, to improve recycling and composting facilities and services, to fund infrastructure to help divert waste away from landfill and to support education and awareness campaigns.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 February 2003
Figures from 2001-2002 are estimates.(3) Payments to Fife Council include capital funding and funds for rolling stock. (4) Awards from the Public Transport Fund relate to Local Authority borrowing consents.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 November 2000
This resulted in a £20 million saving in loan charge expenditure on the HRA, which was used to fund capital expenditure. The net result was, therefore, neutral in terms of overall resources available for expenditure on housing.
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Date answered:
22 August 2000
For example, Lothian relied on one-off funding of more than £44 million in 2003-04 and it is likely that it will need nearly £40 million from one-off resources in 2004-05.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding streams it manages or utilises to fund the work necessary to meet its target of halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010, as set out in the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy, and what steps it is taking to enhance this funding to preven...
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Date answered:
5 February 2007
The Scottish FundingCouncil, and its predecessor the Scottish Further Education Funding Council, hasbeen responsible for allocating funds to further education colleges during theperiod in question.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 January 2007
The Department of Work and Pensions(DWP) provide assistance to low-income families and benefit claimants in order tomeet some of the costs of a funeral through the regulated Social Fund Funeral Grant.The Social Fund as part of the DWP is a reserved matter to the UK Government butthe Executive is in regular contact with colleagues in the DWP on a number of issuesincluding benefits and assistance for low-income families including the Social Fund.