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These documents were underpinned by legal advice from both the Scottish Government Legal Directorate and the Law Officers.

I refer the member to the answer to questions S4W-10549 and S4W-10557 on 12 December 2012. 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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

I refer the member to the answer to questions S4W-10549 and S4W-10557 on 12 December 2012. 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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

I refer the member to the answer to questions S4W-10549 and S4W-10557 on 12 December 2012. 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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-10568 on 12 December 2012. 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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

Where possible, responses to Scottish Government consultations are made available to the public within 20 days of the closing date. However, this depends on the number of responses received and the amount of detail in the responses.

The Scottish Government cross-portfolio funding package was allocated to the charity Sistema Scotland, not to a specific community. We are delighted to be able to support this excellent organisation, and that this funding will be used in delivering their ongoing programme of activity and to support the establishment of a second orchestra in Govanhill. Sistema Scotland have secured significant buy-in and in-kind support from local delivery partners in Govanhill which was essential in order to deliver their programme of activity.

The Scottish Government is supportive of Sistema Scotland’s wishes to roll-out the programme in other areas to ensure as many people as possible can benefit. Sistema Scotland will be focussing their efforts on the establishment of the second orchestra in Govanhill to ensure that their expansion is successful and sustainable, making a real and positive difference to communities.

Ultimately our funding is determined by the UK government, which has slashed arts spend in England. We have chosen to protect budgets because of our commitment to artists and culture and their importance to Scotland.

I have not had any recent direct discussions with Glasgow City Council about the 2013-14 local government finance settlement but I wrote to the COSLA President, copied to all local authority leaders, on 20 September 2012 and announced the provisional allocations for next year to Parliament on 27 November 2012.

The information is provided in the following table.

Note:

a. This was a police vehicle which was stopped on the carriage way, protecting a locus, with emergency lights activated. A vehicle collided with the rear of the police vehicle and the driver died as a result of his injuries. It was not responding but had already responded to the incident.

The information is provided in the following table.

Notes:

a. Ambulance transporting 84 yr old female left carriageway on Riverview Drive, Aberdeen on 16.12.11. Female died in hospital on 18.1.12. Vehicle NOT under blue light conditions and no other vehicle involved.

b. These figures represent police vehicles only, Strathclyde Police are unable to provide any figures on other emergency service vehicles.

c. This involved a patient transport vehicle (not an emergency response vehicle) that was not fitted with blue lights.