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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 June 2001
S1W-16673
It also received an initial presentation from the commission about the extension of the current multi-annual guidance programme (MAGP) and agreed to extend until 31 December the temporary aid scheme for Spanish and Portuguese vessels affected by the failure to secure a new fisheries agreement with Morocco. This is funded from within existing structural funds allocations.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 December 2000
S1W-11677
To ask the Scottish Executive what amount of funding was made available for managing and protecting (a) Sites of Special Scientific Interest, (b) Special Areas of Conservation and (c) Special Protection Areas in each year since 1990, expressed in today's prices.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 September 2000
S1W-08716
Figures are shown, however, since 1993-94 which provides a consistent series with the previous control total definitions.1993-941994-951995-961996-971997-981998-991999-20002000-01Scotland's total budget (£ million)13,71214,22914,55414,83114,77415,38315,10818,453Scotland as a % of UK budget4.84.84.74.74.64.64.95.0Note: The figures for 1993-94 to 1998-99 are in cash terms, and the figures for 1999-00 and 2000-01 are expressed in resource terms.The following principle changes in responsibility for public expenditure affect overall comparisons of the figures:Date FromFunctionAmount of Transfers in 1st year £ million1 April 1994DNHScottish Arts Council241 April 1994DemEuropean Social Fund...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 June 2000
S1W-07344
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the individual members, together with their remuneration and expenses, of the (i) Race Equality Advisory Forum, (ii) Review of Councils for Voluntary Service, (iii) Strategic Review of Executive Funding to the Black and Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector and (iv) Common Housing Registers Steering Group.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 April 2000
S1W-05803
The additional £1.2 million was not sufficient to close the funding gap but the administrators have negotiated successfully with other parties to achieve this.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 December 1999
S1W-03091
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans to amend the legal aid restrictions so that the receipt of incapacity benefit and other benefits is not taken into account when calculating income in applications for legal aid funding. An applicant for advice and assistance who is in receipt of income support, income-based jobseekers allowance, Disabled Person's Tax Credit (previously Disability Working Allowance) and Working Families Tax Credit (previously Family Credit) and has disposable capital of less than £1,000 will receive advice and assistance with no contribution.An applicant for advice and assistance who is in receipt of a back to work bonus or payments made under the Earnings Top-up Scheme 1996, Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 or section 12B of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, will have these disregarded when calculating his or her disposable income and capital.An applicant for civil legal aid who is in receipt of income support; income-based jobseekers allowance; back to work bonus; payments made under the Earnings Top-up Scheme 1996, Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 or section 12B of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968; disability living allowance; constant attendance allowance; payment made out of the social fund, will have these disregarded when calculating his or her disposable income and capital.When calculating an applicant's disposable income and capital for advice and assistance and civil legal aid, allowances are also made for "dependent persons", the applicant's "tools and implements of trade" and such like.We have no plans for Incapacity Benefit to be disregarded from the calculation of an applicant's disposable income or disposable capital for advice and assistance or civil legal aid.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 September 1999
S1W-01558
First, the location of the Departments and agencies of the Scottish Executive and the bodies it funds should promote efficiency and effectiveness.
Official Report
Meeting date:
26 October 2005
Environment and Rural Development Committee, 26 Oct 2005
I attended the Environment and Rural Development's first meeting on the issue.
Official Report
Meeting date:
10 November 2005
Plenary, 10 Nov 2005
Many such projects make a direct link between producers and local outlets such as farmers markets, farm shops and other retailers.Assistance has also been given under the farm business development schemes. To date, we have approved grant of some £16 million, which has helped farming families to develop projects that ...
Official Report
Meeting date:
26 February 2002
Public Petitions Committee, 26 Feb 2002
It is important to stress that SNH's influence in rural areas of Scotland is pervasive and extends from wildlife conservation—which everybody understands—to industrial developments, such as wind farms and wave power, and objections to housing developments on aesthetic grounds.
