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Date answered:
27 December 2001
S1W-21033
To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to fund the recommendations of the Deferrals Working Group published in December 2000 and the announcement made by the then Deputy Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs on 12 June 2001 that children who become four in January or February and who have their entry to primary school deferred by their parents will be able to access an additional year of publicly funded pre-school education, given the subsequent announcement by the Minister for Finance and Public Services on 6 December 2001 that resources allocated to local authorities for pre-school education will no longer be ring-fenced.
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Date answered:
16 August 2001
S1W-16762
To date, this has proved unnecessary, as the provision in the areas directly concerned with ECHR, principally Courts, Police, Prisons and Legal Aid have had sufficient funding to cope with any increased costs arising from any challenges.
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Date answered:
14 August 2001
S1W-17059
A total of 103,381 three and four year old children were receiving publicly funded pre-school education in the summer term of the last school session.
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Date answered:
10 May 2001
S1W-12551
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail the formula to be used to distribute the Better Neighbourhood Services Fund. Allocations from the Better Neighbourhoods Services Fund were announced on 15 January 2001.
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Date answered:
27 November 2000
S1W-10698
The Chief Scientist Office (CSO) has received no research proposals of a sufficiently high standard on multiple sclerosis (MS) recently and therefore has not directly funded research into this neurological disease in the period mentioned.
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Date answered:
14 August 2000
S1W-08636
The Scottish Executive promotes the use of alternative fuels through its funding of the Energy Savings Trust's "Powershift" cleaner vehicle fuels programme and is currently reviewing funding for Powershift with particular reference to motorists in the Highlands and Islands.
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Date answered:
21 July 2000
S1W-08604
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-6644 by Susan Deacon on 26 June 2000, when the report by the Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones will be made available to the Parliament; whether the research which it is commissioning as a result of this report will include an investigation into the safety of mobile phone use by children, and whether it will make representations to Her Majesty's Government requesting that funding...
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Date answered:
21 June 2000
S1W-07519
In addition, it is open to authorities to fund the acquisition of ICT equipment from the general resources available to them.Local Authority1999-2000 Allocation (£)*Aberdeen City874,672Aberdeenshire1,203,124Angus552,901Argyll & Bute439,557Clackmannanshire238,904Dumfries & Galloway740,820Dundee City687,732East Ayrshire628,595East Dunbartonshire645,516East Lothian408,310East Renfrewshire524,620Edinburgh, City of1,608,426Eilean Siar148,516Falkirk681,401Fife1,753,827Glasgow City2,405,824Highland1,123,605Inverclyde441,572Midlothian423,406Moray449,991North Ayrshire709,307North Lanarkshire1,743,447Orkney Islands106,719Perth & Kinross603,936Renfrewshire901,054Scottish Borders515,192Shetland Islands126,519South Ayrshire581,216South Lanarkshire1,569,118Stirling419,620West Dunbartonshire521,544West Lothian818,292Total Scotland24,597,283* From the Excellence Fund and Capital Modernisation Fund.Part of this money was originally allocated as capital grant, but this was changed to revenue in response to representations from a number of local authorities.
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Date answered:
7 March 2000
S1W-04620
Data for "Urban Areas" are based upon practices in which one third or fewer of all patients on the practice list as at 1 October 1998 were classified as rural patients on whom calculations for Scottish Rural Practice Fund Payments are based. Island health boards are excluded.4.
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Date answered:
16 February 2000
S1W-04157
To ask the Scottish Executive to provide a breakdown, by course type, of the funding paid out under the Post Graduate Students' Allowances Scheme in each of the past five academic years.
