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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it issues any guidelines on the management of ragwort on ground under its ownership or control or under the ownership or control of any of its agencies or local authorities. No. But the Scottish Executive funds the Scottish Agriculture College to provide advice to farmers and horse owners on a wide variety of livestock...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, in the light of its decision on funding the Scottish Mining Museum, whether it will consider giving financial assistance to Dunaskin Industrial Heritage and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 August 2000
It is for chief constables to allocate resources according to priorities and demands in their force area. Funding from the Executive is not, therefore, earmarked for specific purposes.
These include health education and promotion activity; improvement on enforcement measures relating to underage sales; a Voluntary Charter on Smoking in Public Places; allocation of funding to health boards to spend on smoking cessation services and nicotine replacement therapy, and legislation to ban tobacco advertising and sponsorship.
To ask the Scottish Executive what powers it has to deal with any irregularities in relation to Social Inclusion Partnership funding. Grant payments made by the Scottish Executive in respect of expenditure by Social Inclusion Partnerships are governed by standard conditions of grant.
Any measures identified to improve safety will be programmed for implementation in the current financial year subject to the availability of funds and other competing priorities.
So far mainly porpoises rather than dolphins have been encountered but a full report will be submitted to the European Commission, who are funding the project, this summer. S1W-07838
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to assist further education colleges to adapt their buildings to the needs of disabled people. The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has allocated almost £16 million to further education colleges for investment in capital works in 2000-01.
Capital investment in council housing is funded from borrowing consents allocated by the Executive, and usable receipts and revenue surpluses generated by councils themselves.