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The Scottish Executive offers centrally funded training at the Scottish Fire Services College, Gullane, East Lothian, and also funds training for Scottish Fire Service personnel at the Fire Services College, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the role of the Forth Estuary Transport Authority will be, given the proposed creation of a national transport agency and regional transport partnerships; what powers the authority will retain and what powers will be ceded to which body; what alternative source of funding will exist for the development of the A8000, and what alternative body will fund it.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-8629 by Mr Tom McCabe on 10 June 2004, why local authority care homes are funded to cover the full cost to the authority of providing care home places while care homes in the independent sector are funded below the cost of providing such places.
I regret the effect of the actions of this practice on availability of NHS dental servicesNHS boards can apply to the Scottish ministers for approval of schemes to assist eligible patients with travel expenses to access primary care NHS dental treatment. The funding for such schemes comes from within the board’s unified budget.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many grants have been awarded under the Nitrate Vulnerable Zones grant scheme; how much funding has been awarded in such grants; what the average value of each grant awarded has been, and how many grants have been awarded in (a) Banff and Buchan (b) Gordon and (c) Moray.
The formula is used to allocate practices global sums. It is not used to allocate funding for out-of-hours cover. This will come from the increased Out-of-Hours Development Fund and from the 6% of global sum payments which practices give over to NHS boards should they decide to transfer this out-of-hours responsibili...
Around 640ex members of pension scheme have yet to make an application for funds that maybe due to them. The Executive is currently considering how to best to distributethe final £4.28 million that remains of the original £126 million made available.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 April 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any guidance will be issued in relation to councillors and council officers participating in governing boards or managing committees of organisations receiving funds from local authorities. The Scottish Executive has no plans to issue any general guidance to councillors or council officersparticipating in governing boards or managing committees of organisations whichreceive funds from local authorities.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Scottish Football Partnership was formally incorporated and whether the partnership is yet able to consider applications for funding and, if not, what the reasons are for the position on the matter.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money, in cash terms, has been available to Scottish Borders Council from the Rural Transport Fund for each year since 1999-2000 and how much will be made available for 2004-05 and any future years for which figures are available.