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I have asked Mr Bob Millar, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. His response is as follows:The following has been made available in the way of capital grants for urban renewal in 2001-02 and 2002-03.Grants for Urban Renewal (2001-02 and 2002-03) 2001-02 (£ Million)Actual Expenditure2002-03 (£ Million) Approved BudgetCommunities Scotland - Development Programme - Capital Grants 163158New Housing Partnership Programme3520 S1W-33804
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Date answered:
24 February 2003
I will say more on this when I have had the opportunity to consider the recommendations of the Audit Scotland report on the first individual learning account scheme in Scotland, which is due to be published shortly.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to update its policy on planning agreements between developers and local authorities made under section 50 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 and set out in Scottish Office Development Department Circular 12/1996.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 February 2003
The priority-based dispatch system is scheduled to be rolled out across Scotland by 2004. The system was introduced into the south east of Scotland on 1 August 2002, and into the Tayside area on 30 September.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 February 2003
The new scheme will be administered by the Students Awards Agency for Scotland. I wish to be sure that the new scheme takes full account of lessons learned from our experience of the original scheme and I shall make a further announcement when I have had the opportunity to consider Audit Scotland's report on the earl...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 February 2003
We achieved our own target of making awards of Freight Facilities Grant, by March 2002, that will remove 18 million lorry miles from Scotland's roads each year. We are also confident of meeting our future targets of making awards by March 2003 and March 2004 that will remove 21 and 23 million lorry miles respectively from Scotland's roads each year.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27513 by Lewis Macdonald on 7 August 2002, what subsequent progress has been made by local authorities in establishing Quality Partnerships and Quality Contract Schemes with bus operators under the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001. The development of Quality Partnership schemes and Quality Contract schemes under the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 is a matter for individual local transport authorities.
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Date answered:
22 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what its response is to the statement in paragraph 163 of the Audit Scotland report, Dealing with offending by young people, that "there is no national information about the number of children in residential schools".
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 January 2003
From the start of the programme in April 1998 to the end of September 2002, 100,100 young people have participated in NDYP in Scotland. Of this total, 1,200 were in East Dunbartonshire and 900 in East Renfrewshire.