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9 February 2006
S2O-08997
The Scottish Executive has published a booklet giving public authorities guidance on their human rights obligations, and has supplied public authorities with guidance published by the UK Government. We have also provided funding for Human Rights Scotland, formerly the Scottish Human Rights Trust, whose work includes providing human rights training for local...
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12 January 2006
S2W-21648
This led to sportscotland amalgamating their separate funding streams and consolidating their operations into their headquarters building at South Gyle.
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19 December 2005
S2W-21295
To ask the Scottish Executive what assistance it provides to local authorities to maintain local roads adequately. Funding for roads is provided primarily through the local government finance settlement.
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8 December 2005
S2W-20905
The Executive provides help with travel costs for mature students under further and higher education funding. Beyond that, student discounts for travel are commercial decisions made by travel operators at their discretion and information on such schemes is held by the operators concerned and not the Executive.
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8 December 2005
S2W-21143
The Scottish Executive has committed £35 million of funding for 2006-07 and 2007-08 to the new statutory regional transport partnerships towards implementation of their strategies.
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30 November 2005
S2W-20895
The industry benefits from longstanding arrangements which remove the duty which would otherwise be paid on fuel oil. The Scottish Executive is co-funding a long-term project, being undertaken by the Sea Fish Industry Authority (SEAFISH) to identify ways in which the industry might reduce its dependency on fuel oil.
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4 November 2005
S2W-19721
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in light of the research published by Communities Scotland, The impact of second and holiday homes on rural communities in Scotland, it will urge HM Treasury to reconsider the implementation of new tax rules on 1 April 2006 which would allow second homes to be placed in pension funds. One of the conclusions of therece...
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31 October 2005
S2W-19827
Although the Scottish Executive provides funding for salaries and wages as part of the block grant provided to local authorities, it is the responsibility of each authority as to how this money is allocated.
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14 October 2005
S2W-19495
There are a number of local initiatives, supported by Executive and European funds, to help the unemployed, such as the Full Employment Areas Initiative in Glasgow and Genderwise programmes to close the gender gap in the labour market.
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23 August 2005
S2W-18116
In a Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs funded research project, the Centre of Ecology and Hydrology investigated the level of gene flow between cultivated crops and wild relatives in or adjacent to fields used for the farm-scale evaluations (FSE) of genetically modified crops.
