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Date answered:
24 July 2006
S2W-27083
New public sector buildings,including hospitals, are eligible for assistance from the Carbon Trust’s designadvice scheme, which aims to improve the energy efficiency of buildings at thedesign stage.Eligible public sectororganisations, including local authorities, the NHS and Scottish Water, canapply for funding though the central energy efficiency fund (CEEF) for theinclusion of energy efficiency measures in new builds which will achieve higherenergy efficiency standards than those required under Scottish Buildingregulations.
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Date answered:
17 May 2006
S2W-25275
Localauthorities have a legal duty to provide a free, part-time, pre-schooleducation place for three and four-year-old children.Freepre-school education is provided regardless of a child’s status, citizenship orethnic background, provided the child is residing in Scotland.The ScottishExecutive’s Childcare Strategy aims to provide affordable, accessible, qualitychildcare for children aged 0-14 in all neighbourhoods regardless of children’sstatus. Funding...
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Date answered:
5 May 2006
S2W-25384
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has reviewed its position on culling hedgehogs on Uist, in light of the recent research by Bristol University, funded by the International Fund for Animal Welfare and St Tiggywinkle’s Wildlife Hospital, which recommended the translocation of the hedgehogs to mainland Britain....
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Date answered:
10 April 2006
S2W-24692
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-24306 by Allan Wilson on 24 March 2006, what the cash flow implications will be in terms of the source and application of structural funds from the European Union in (a) 2006-07 and (b) those subsequent years for which data is available.
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Date answered:
24 March 2006
S2W-24062
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was available to Glasgow City Council to spend on council housing in each of the five years before wholescale housing stock transfer; what level of funding has been available to the Glasgow Housing Association since stock transfer, and what proportion of the budget of each organisation was underspent in each financial...
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Date answered:
6 March 2006
S2W-22990
Community Care Providers Scotlandand the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations, who helped produce the materialset out in Supporting people: a view from Scotland’s voluntary sector,are both represented on the group which is helping the Scottish Executive monitorthe impact of the Supporting People budget changes made in the last Spending Reviewand the impact of the local reviews of services funded by the programme.We have indicated to CommunityCare Providers Scotland that the material they have provided will be taken intoaccount in decision making on future funding, alongside the research currently beingconducted on the cost/benefits of the programme as a whole and the monitoring exercisementioned above.
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Date answered:
5 December 2005
S2W-20549
More generally, the Executive provides grant funding to the Energy Saving Trust in Scotland to deliver a range of programmes and advice to promote energy efficiency in the domestic sector.
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Date answered:
12 July 2005
S2W-17635
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the interest rate range, relative to the base rate, within which core funding for PFI and PPP contracts should fall.
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Date answered:
6 June 2005
S2W-16857
Her response isas follows:Two hundred and twentynew-build starts for affordable rent and 22 new-build starts for low-cost homeownership for 2005-06 have received firm funding approval from CommunitiesScotland, which is in line with what would be expected at this early stage inthe new financial year.
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Date answered:
18 February 2005
S2W-13922
It considered that ring fencing the funding in this way to be too prescriptive and that health boards should be allowed to identify and respond to local needs of the priority groups, such as pregnant women, identified in the Smoking Kills White Paper.
