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However, that is not necessarily appropriate in some cases, because it might be a farming partnership buying a house for employees to live in. It is not clear that that follows the policy.
To ask the Scottish Government which stakeholders were consulted before the decision was taken to withdraw funding from Scottish Swimming’s Top Up programme. Discussions took place with sportscotland and with Scottish Swimming.
Questions and Answers
Date lodged:
4 December 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what it has done to mitigate against the impact of the cancellation of the fixed broadband capital infill programme of the UK Government's Super Connected Cities broadband initiative.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government how many young people are engaged on activity agreement programmes. As of the 30 September 2012, there were 1,309 young people engaged in an Activity Agreement.
Questions and Answers
Date lodged:
17 October 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what steps have been taken since the introduction of the Road to Recovery programme to monitor the number of patients on methadone who have either had their prescription reduced or have ceased taking it.
For example, such a school in one local authority might have no support assistants, but there might be 33 support assistants in a similar school in another authority.
Those include: £27.5 million, being the previously held back balance of the teachers induction scheme funding; £10 million for maintaining teacher numbers and pupil teacher ratios in 2015-16; £9.7 million funding assistance to enable local authorities to provide support and assistance to communities impacted severely by the emergency weather situations experienced at the end of last year and the beginning of this year; £7.2 million to support implementation of the one-plus-two languages policy; £5.8 million to support the local government contribution to the developing the young workforce programme resulting from the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014; and £5 million for kinship care allowances.
I hope that the cabinet secretary will be prepared to assist with that first—and probably most difficult—step, perhaps in the first instance by meeting me and other key stakeholders.
For example, the credit unions say that they would like the public sector to encourage all employees to join a credit union, and there are various ways in which it could do that.