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To ask the Scottish Executive how many, and what percentage of, businesses will pay a business rates surcharge in order to fund the small business rates relief scheme, broken down by local authority area.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to prevent any cutback to the activity of the Scottish Place-Names Survey at Edinburgh University which may result from the current financial position of the survey. The funding of the Scottish Place-Names Survey is a matter for the University of Edinburgh.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps will be taken to identify and monitor the improvements in schools resulting from the money allocated to local authorities from the school buildings improvement fund. The grant application form requires authorities to provide a summary of the projects on which expenditure has been incurred.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the remit is of the Clinical Resource and Audit Group, who its members are and what its annual funding is. The remit and membership of the Clinical Resource and Audit Group can be found on the group's website www.show.scot.nhs.uk/crag.
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Date answered:
24 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much public funding was paid in the last financial year to maintain bus services which Stagecoach UK Bus would otherwise not have operated for profitability reasons.
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Date answered:
17 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money it allocated to Glasgow City Council for reducing class si'es in 2000-01. Within the Excellence Fund class size reduction programme for 2000-01 Glasgow City Council was allocated £2,324,945.
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Date answered:
8 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the value of the surplus of the Scottish Transport Group pension fund currently is. The most recent annual report of the Scottish Transport Group showed the value of the surplus at 31 March 2000 to be approximately £146 million (net of tax).
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether nine working days is a reasonable time to allow organisations to apply for Social Inclusion Partnerships funds which become available as a result of a capital underspend.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what primary and secondary indicators are taken account of in local authority funding settlements. The information requested is given in Grant Aided Expenditure 2000-01, a copy of which is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 7912).