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We have agreed a UK response to the Commission, which has issued on ...118 June 2003. First, this fund does not exist. The European Parliament has suggested its creation.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 November 2002
The Scottish Executive, through its annual school census, collects information on the main learning difficulty of all pupils attending special schools and those pupils with a Record of Needs who attend publicly funded or independent mainstream schools.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what grants or other funds are available to local authorities to encourage kerbside domestic recycling as a way of improving the recycling of paper and plastic and glass bottles.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 October 2002
The Chief Scientist Office (CSO), within the Scottish Executive Health Department has responsibility for encouraging and supporting research into health and care needs in Scotland.The CSO is not currently directly funding any research projects into nutritional deficiencies and requirements of children with behavioural problems but would be pleased to consider funding suitable research proposals into this subject.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 October 2002
I understand that FETA agreed to provide £15,000 towards the costs of this study. Decisions about whether to fund any such ferry service would lie with FETA, not the Executive.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 October 2002
These include the Education Maintenance Allowance pilot programme, the Young Student Retention Fund for Further Education Students and the Young Students Bursary Fund for Higher Education Students.
Also, we are focusing on inequalities in addressing the upstream determinants of health, through demonstration projects, healthy living centres, the Health Improvement Fund and wider work on lifestyles and life circumstances.
To ask the Scottish Executive what projects in (a) Stirling and (b) Clackmannanshire have benefited from funding from the Remote and Rural Areas Resource Initiative in each of the last two years.
There was strong competition for Special Educational Needs Innovation grant funding. The ISEA's application was considered alongside all others received and evaluated by a team of assessors, the majority of which were drawn from outside the Executive.