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I do not have any doubt at all that Scotland's nursery nurses are worth more than the money that they are currently paid, which is why we have supported an increased offer to them and why we have not only consistently funded more child care and early-years workers, but have ensured that they are better paid, too.
Does the minister agree that the chaos and confusion at the heart of London Government policy on the future of Railtrack is hitting rail investment hard, and that Scotland's hard-pressed passengers are suffering at the hands of a range of London-based organisations who have little regard for Scotland?
I do not think that all learning or all good thinking should be certificated.Globalisation affects Scotland. We cannot ring fence Scotland and say, "This is the Scottish solution."
It is clear that, given thesignificant reduction in funding which Scotland will receive, there will be a need for cleartargeting on those key areas and activities and this will be undertaken at alater stage in programme development.
It is, of course, a matter forindividual authorities as how they choose to spend this money.In addition, funding will beprovided to Regional Transport Partnerships (RTPs) across Scotland of £35million in 2006-07 and 2007-08.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
31 March 2006
The Order should providethe necessary vehicle to facilitate this change.Discussions have started betweenthe Scottish Executive, the Scottish Agricultural College and the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) over a possibletransfer of funding from the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Departmentto the SFC.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 August 2005
The funding of GP Registrar(GPR) training places changed on the establishment of NHS Education for Scotland in2002 when the number of places was set at 250.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to increase the number of British Sign Language/English Interpreters in Scotland. The Scottish Executive will support two major new initiatives.The first will provide project funding to the Scottish Association of Sign Language Interpreters to implement a “training of ...
We want to ensure that communities across rural Scotland learnfrom each other. With funding from the Scottish Executive Rural Voices programme in 2003-04, the Collieston community in Aberdeenshirespoke to a wide range of village hall committees to learn from their experience.We will be working with Collieston in the next few months to build on this workand produce comprehensive guidance for rural communities across Scotland on developingvillage halls.