- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 9 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will explain and expand on the meaning of "constructing", as used in the statement "constructing the Larkhall to Milngavie line" in A Partnership for a Better Scotland.
Answer
In August 2001, the Scottish Executive announced approval in principal for the Larkhall/Milngavie rail link scheme and made available £16 million towards its construction costs. Strathclyde Passenger Transport (SPT) is the lead authority for the project and the Scottish Executive continues to support SPT as they take this project forward.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 9 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what concerns it has following the conclusions of the two reports on the "Miss X" case regarding the professional and personal practice and culture of the social work department of Scottish Borders Council and issues regarding the accountability of those involved.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-455 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 5 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the transport section of A Partnership for a Better Scotland, whether re-instatement of the Borders railway line remains subject to the test of a "business case".
Answer
All transport projects for which funding is sought from the Scottish Executive are subject to appraisal under the Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 4 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive which projects received funding from the Strategic Rail Authority for (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02 and (d) 2002-03 and how much each project received.
Answer
The provision of funds for the UK rail network is a reserved matter. The Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) has administered funding on a UK basis since it was established in 2001. The SRA publish their strategic plan annually, a copy of the 2002 and 2003 documents are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. numbers 18609, 26628 and 26626). The strategic plan sets out the projects that the SRA is seeking to support in Scotland.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 4 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was received from the Strategic Rail Authority for (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02 and (d) 2002-03 and what percentage this represents of the authority's total budget in each year.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-255 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 3 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria are used to assess social exclusion in a rural context.
Answer
Social Exclusion can take many forms and is often complex and multi-dimensional. The Social Justice Milestones are used throughout Scotland to measure a range of issues that can lead to social exclusion. The Scottish Executive is ensuring that the needs of rural areas are identified through urban/rural disaggregation of social statistics. For example, the Social Justice Annual Report's technical report disaggregated 12 of the social justice milestones on an urban and rural basis. A compendium of rural statistics - Social Focus on Urban Rural Scotland - was published on 22 May 2003.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on provision of legal services for Peebles and district if the sheriff court in Peebles is not re-established.
Answer
There is no information currently available on the future provision of legal services in Peebles. It is hoped that the on-going discussions between Scottish Court Service, Scottish Borders Council and Lothian and Borders Police will culminate in court services being re-established in Peebles.If court services cannot be re-established in Peebles, provision of legal services could be considered as part of the consultation process on the delivery of court services.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether transferring sheriff court business arising in Penicuik from Edinburgh Sheriff Court to a sheriff court in Peebles has been considered.
Answer
No.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 3 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what social inclusion funding was available for further education (FE) colleges in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02 and (d) 2002-03.
Answer
Figures across the whole of the time period requested are not available on a consistent basis. This is because the method of funding FE colleges changed when responsibility for the methodology transferred to the Scottish Further Education Funding Council (SFEFC) from 2000-01.Because of the fundamental role that FE colleges have in encouraging people of all ages and from different backgrounds to participate in post-school learning, a large proportion of the resources made available to FE colleges by SFEFC are associated in some way with the promotion of social inclusion. The Scottish Executive expects SFEFC to exercise its the judgement and expertise in allocating the resources placed at its disposal, and does not instruct SFEFC on the proportion of funding which must be applied to social inclusion initiatives. The figures in the following table show, from 2000-01, the sums which SFEFC made available to further education colleges to cover the additional costs of social inclusion over and above the standard funding per student place.
| Year | £ |
| 2000-01 | 5,208,896 |
| 2001-02 | 9,891,576 |
| 2002-03 | 10,986,126 |
Source: Scottish Further Education Funding Council.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 3 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been received by each further education college for social inclusion in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02 and (d) 2002-03.
Answer
Figures across the time period requested are not available on a consistent basis. This is because the method of funding further education (FE) colleges changed when responsibility for the methodology responsibility transferred to the Scottish Further Education Funding Council (SFEFC) from 2000-01.Because of the fundamental role that FE colleges have in encouraging people of all ages and from different backgrounds to participate in post-school learning, a large proportion of the resources available to FE colleges are associated in some way with the promotion of social inclusion. However, the amounts cannot be determined separately.The figures provided in the following table relate to the specific elements that cover the additional costs of social inclusion over and above the standard funding per student place.
| College | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 |
| Aberdeen College | £115,257 | £279,914 | £313,326 |
| Angus College* | £72,942 | £97,586 | £105,396 |
| Anniesland College | £256,365 | £504,858 | £530,400 |
| Ayr College | £82,338 | £194,423 | £228,091 |
| Banff and Buchan College of Further Education* | £87,403 | £109,942 | £115,083 |
| The Barony College* | £27,636 | £24,557 | £24,486 |
| Borders College* | £101,806 | £92,915 | £95,721 |
| Cardonald College | £256,339 | £507,839 | £549,134 |
| Central College of Commerce | £134,295 | £312,708 | £383,692 |
| Clackmannan College of Further Education | £39,253 | £71,797 | £71,157 |
| Clydebank College | £210,907 | £352,497 | £362,290 |
| Coatbridge College | £120,543 | £249,642 | £277,925 |
| Cumbernauld College | £25,657 | £60,515 | £85,598 |
| Dumfries and Galloway College* | £116,836 | £186,400 | £177,781 |
| Dundee College | £270,339 | £522,863 | £607,668 |
| Edinburgh's Telford College | £198,813 | £395,741 | £436,261 |
| Elmwood College* | £57,231 | £83,227 | £100,560 |
| Falkirk College of Further and Higher Education | £92,192 | £181,450 | £207,886 |
| Fife College of Further and Higher Education | £112,473 | £244,891 | £266,292 |
| Glasgow College of Building and Printing | £139,200 | £313,173 | £356,887 |
| Glasgow College of Food Technology | £91,455 | £273,557 | £258,752 |
| Glasgow College of Nautical Studies | £119,644 | £208,757 | £250,934 |
| Glenrothes College | £32,944 | £80,217 | £94,603 |
| Inverness College*@ | £101,968 | £109,356 | £155,683 |
| James Watt College of Further and Higher Education | £281,725 | £771,276 | £781,620 |
| Jewel and Esk Valley College | £79,881 | £151,101 | £164,458 |
| John Wheatley College | £272,332 | £342,172 | £406,437 |
| Kilmarnock College | £87,962 | £227,707 | £255,300 |
| Langside College | £179,501 | £387,034 | £433,678 |
| Lauder College | £50,681 | £104,890 | £144,578 |
| Lews Castle College ***@ | £22,902 | £36,692 | £50,081 |
| Moray College*@ | £113,740 | £90,427 | £85,099 |
| Motherwell College | £211,157 | £445,416 | £528,230 |
| North Glasgow College | £114,838 | £311,894 | £385,984 |
| Oatridge Agricultural College* | £36,080 | £31,980 | £37,288 |
| Perth College*@ | £121,624 | £117,203 | £130,414 |
| Reid Kerr College | £204,736 | £473,557 | £506,320 |
| South Lanarkshire College | £52,604 | £108,815 | £112,477 |
| Stevenson College | £174,005 | £350,942 | £309,010 |
| Stow College | £153,122 | £248,674 | £301,584 |
| The North Highland College**@ | £92,156 | £98,087 | £131,785 |
| West Lothian College | £33,116 | £73,292 | £95,256 |
| Orkney College***@ | £46,461 | £48,282 | £61,181 |
| Shetland College of Further Education***@ | £16,434 | £13,311 | £9,743 |
Source: Scottish Further Education Funding CouncilNotes:1. These figures consist of the entry costs social inclusion premium; retention and achievement social inclusion premium, and remote student element part of the core formula funding provided to colleges by SFEFC. (NOTE - in 2000-01 the retention and achievement premium did not exist.)2. In addition to the figures shown above, colleges in receipt of the remote student element also received a remote institutional based element at a base rate of £176,000 for 2000-01, £178,640 for 2001-02 and £183,999 for 2002-03 (rising to £191,359 in 2003-04). Mainland colleges that are classed as extremely remote received a 15% increase on this base rate and island colleges received a 30% increase. Remote colleges are marked *, extremely remote **, and island colleges ***3. Colleges marked @ are part of the UHI Millennium Institute (UMI). From 2001-02 their advanced level activity was no longer funded via SFEFC and was instead funded via SHEFC as part of UMI. Therefore the figures for these colleges are not stated on a comparable basis for 2000-01 and 2001-02.
