- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 10 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how it measures the impact of its actions to tackle financial exclusion.
Answer
Financial Inclusion is part of the Executive’s wider Closing the Opportunity Gap approach to overcoming povertyand decisions on how this will be evaluated will be made in due course. Individualinitiatives currently being measured include the number of front line money advisersin post in each local authority area, the growth in credit union membership andnumbers receiving financial literacy training.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 10 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when it last met representatives of the Scottish clearing banks to consider the banks’ contribution to tackling financial exclusion and what issues were discussed.
Answer
The Executive met with the banksand other stakeholders on the 17 January this year. Items discussed included:
The First Year ImplementationPlan for the Strategy for the Financial Services Industry in Scotland.
The Scottish Executive’s FinancialInclusion Action Plan.
HM Treasury’s intention to workwith the banking industry regarding reducing the number of people who are “unbanked”– which is a GB-wide initiative.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how many basic bank accounts have been taken up since their inception, broken down by year.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does nothave information about the number of basic bank accounts opened in Scotland.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the number of people in Scotland who are “unbanked” has reduced since 1999.
Answer
The Scottish Household Surveyhas found that, in the first three quarters of 2005, a bank or building societyaccount was held by the respondent or partner in 91.1% of households, compared to85.7% in 1999. In the most deprived 15% of areas the increase was from 67.5% in1999 to 81.6% in the first three quarters of 2005.
These figures do not includepost office or credit union accounts. If they are included then 94.9% of householdsin the first three quarters of 2005 had an account with either a bank, buildingsociety, post office, or credit union. A comparable figure for 1999 is not availablefrom the Scottish Household Survey.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 9 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will assist the Scottish Maritime Museum in accessing funds to protect and promote Scotland’s maritime history.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-25490 on 9 May 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 9 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will pay the annual boat maintenance grant to the Scottish Maritime Museum.
Answer
The Executive is providing £160,000 per year core fundingfor the Scottish Maritime Museum. We have also agreed to continue funding of £30,000 in2006-07 for its curator post. I am pleased to say that the Executive will also provideadditional funding for maintenance of the collection in 2006-07 and we shall writeto the Scottish Maritime Museum with a formal grant offer as soon as possible.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 9 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of support it will provide to the Scottish Maritime Museum in future.
Answer
In the Cultural Statement on19 January 2006 I announced that future funding for non-national museums, includingScotland’s industrial museums, would focus on supporting significant “national standard”collections. In addition to funding of £440,000 set aside for industrial museums,the Executive will make available further funding of £500,000 per annum over thenext two years to continue to support our non-national museums and to enable thelaunch of the museums’ recognition scheme on which the Scottish Museums Councilhas consulted on our behalf. Future funding for the Scottish Maritime Museum will beconsidered in this context.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 9 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial support has been provided to the Scottish Maritime Museum in each financial year since 1999-2000.
Answer
The requested information isin the following table:
| 1999-2000 (£) | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
| 0 | 90,000 | 370,000 | 190,000 | 240,000 | 160,000 | 300,000 | 305,000 |
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 8 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been allocated to NHS boards for learning disability services in each year since 1999, broken down by board.
Answer
No specific funding allocationis made to NHS boards for learning disability services. Each NHS board is givenan annual allocation of funds to meet the health care needs of its residentpopulation, including the cost of learning disability services, taking accountof national and local priorities. It is for NHS boards to decide and prioritiseon what services they provide for their residents. There are no plans toring-fence funds for expenditure on learning disabilities.
A table showing learningdisabilities services expenditure by NHS board has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 39508).
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 8 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will develop guidance to facilitate the development of a community-build play area programme.
Answer
The Executive has no plans todevelop guidance specifically to facilitate the development of a community-buildplay area programme. However, the £318 million Community Regeneration Fund allocatedto Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs) is supporting a range of projects andservices to help deliver better outcomes in disadvantaged communities. It is forCPPs to decide locally whether to support the development of community play facilities.
