- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will follow the model proposed in Sir Peter Gershon’s report, Releasing resources to the front line - Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency, of publishing, by department, efficiency savings plans to allow transparency in their delivery.
Answer
I refer the member to the question S2W-10435 answered on 27 October 2004. 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/wa.search.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will match the 2.5% per annum efficiency target, first set out in Her Majesty’s Government’s Budget 2004 - Prudence for a Purpose: A Britain of Stability and Strength and confirmed for each UK department in the recent spending review.
Answer
The Scottish Executive will publish its plans for Efficient Government as soon as possible after recess.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether and, if so, when, it will publish the process whereby it intends to deliver higher cash efficiency savings than planned in the rest of the United Kingdom and whether the same timetable applies.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-10435 answered on 27 October 2004. 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/wa.search.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Finance and Public Services has completed his spending review.
Answer
Yes. It has been completed and was announced on 29 September 2004.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what it understands by the statement in Sir Peter Gershon’s report, Releasing resources to the front line - Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency that “I note that the Scottish Executive and Welsh Assembly Government have announced that they are engaged in making annual efficiency gains as ambitious as those in England.”
Answer
The Scottish Executive is undertaking an efficiency initiative that is as ambitious as the Gershon review in its scope and will seek to secure comparable or greater gains in efficiency. The Executive was engaged in securing efficiencies in the public sector before the Gershon review. Its Efficient Government initiative will go on until 2010 – longer than the activity outlined in the Gershon report.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the statement in Sir Peter Gershon’s report, Releasing resources to the front line - Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency that “to go further or faster than the savings set out in my Review during the period 2005-06 to 2007-08 would put at risk the delivery of public services.”
Answer
The level of efficiencies set for UK Departments is a matter for the UK Government. The Scottish Executive will judge what is appropriate for public services in Scotland.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is any equivalent Scottish review to that announced in Sir Peter Gershon’s report, Releasing resources to the front line - Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency, that “HM Treasury will conduct a department by department review of the effectiveness of financial management.”
Answer
I refer the member to the question S2W-10435 answered on 27 October 2004. 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/wa.search.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any Scottish-specific analysis comparable to that carried out in Sir Peter Gershon’s report, Releasing resources to the front line - Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency, has been carried out on the potential impact on jobs of planned efficiency savings and, if so, whether such analysis will be published.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-10435 answered on 27 October 2004. 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/wa.search.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to publish the efficiency targets that have been agreed for each department comparable to those published in Annex C of Sir Peter Gershon’s report, Releasing resources to the front line - Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency.
Answer
I refer the member to the question S2W-10435 answered on 27 October 2004. 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/wa.search.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the same percentage of savings that are envisaged as cash-releasing in Her Majesty’s Government’s spending review will apply in Scotland and what percentage this will be.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-10435 answered on 27 October 2004. 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/wa.search.
