- Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 1 December 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what bids for funding from the second tranche of the Town Centre Regeneration Fund were rejected at stage four of the four-stage assessment process.
Answer
The fourth stage of the assessment of applications to the Town Centre Regeneration Fund involved decision by ministers on the awards to be offered to projects. In the second tranche, ministers agreed to allocate funding to 30 projects. A further 106 projects were unsuccessful.
- Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 1 December 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what bids for funding from the second tranche of the Town Centre Regeneration Fund were rejected at stage three of the four-stage assessment process.
Answer
No bids were rejected during the third stage of the assessment process. At this stage, bids were considered by the independent advisory panel who offered recommendations to ministers on potential allocations. It was not part of their remit to remove applications from further consideration, and all eligible bids proceeded to stage four.
- Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 1 December 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what bids for funding from the second tranche of the Town Centre Regeneration Fund were rejected at stage two of the four-stage assessment process.
Answer
No bids were rejected during the second stage of the assessment process, which involved consideration and scoring of bids by a team of officials.
- Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 1 December 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what bids for funding from the second tranche of the Town Centre Regeneration Fund were rejected at stage one of the four-stage assessment process.
Answer
Six applications to the second round of the Town Centre Regeneration Fund were found to be ineligible and were not therefore able to be considered for funding.
- Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 16 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will extend the deadline for completion of work being funded by the Town Centre Regeneration Fund in light of the delay in announcing the second round of funding.
Answer
The Town Centre Regeneration Fund consists of capital accelerated from 2010-11 into 2009-10, and requires to be spent in this financial year. It is therefore still the case that grant requires to be claimed in this financial year.
- Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 November 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 13 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to announce the projects that have been successful in the second round of funding from the Town Centre Regeneration Fund.
Answer
The outcome of the second round of the Town Centre Regeneration Fund was announced on Friday 13 November.
- Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 9 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive which of the projects funded through its international development budget are concerned with developing civil society.
Answer
Details of the projects which are concerned with developing civil society are available on the Scottish Government''s website and can be accessed from the following link.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/International-Relations/internationaldevelopment/idffundingguidance/malawidevprog/mdp2008.
- Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 9 November 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of its international development budget is spent on developing civil society.
Answer
The amount allocated from the international development budget this financial year (2009-10) on projects to develop civil society is £400,731.
- Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 30 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils in the City of Glasgow it has since May 2007 lifted out of schools that were in a poor or bad condition and how this has been achieved, broken down by school.
Answer
Glasgow City Council are responsible for assessing and reporting the condition of their schools. Since May 2007, the number of pupils in the City of Glasgow lifted out of schools that were in a poor or bad condition and were subsequently recorded as good or satisfactory condition in the School Estate Statistics 2009, is 3,654.
- Asked by: Patricia Ferguson, MSP for Glasgow Maryhill, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 October 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 28 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether under its £1.25 billion school building programme only existing primary schools will benefit from investment.
Answer
The new school building programme is principally focused on lifting up to 35,000 more pupils out of being educated in poor condition or unsuitable buildings through replacing or upgrading existing schools and where appropriate, the establishment of new schools. Discussions with COSLA and individual councils however are ongoing. Councils have been provided with record levels of capital resources in the local government settlement for other investment in schools.
