- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been invested in Fife for enterprise and local economic development in each of the last five years.
Answer
The funding allocationsfor Scottish Enterprise Fife in each of the last five years, ending 31 March, expressedin £000, are as follows:
2007 - 18,172
2006 - 22,569
2005 - 22,235
2004 - 22,225
2003 - 18,885.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement on enterprise networks by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth on 26 September 2007, who under the new structure will make decisions currently made by Scottish Enterprise Fife and where the new decision-makers will be based.
Answer
This will be an operationalmatter for Scottish Enterprise. However, as now, decisions affecting Fife will reflect local Fifepriorities and be informed by a continued Scottish Enterprise presence in Fife.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement on enterprise networks by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth on 26 September 2007, whether existing Scottish Enterprise Fife staff will remain based in Fife, whether they will be given any decision-making responsibility and, if so, what decisions these will be.
Answer
These are operationalmatters for Scottish Enterprise. However, as now, decisions affecting Fife willreflect local Fife priorities and be informed by a continued Scottish Enterprisepresence in Fife.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement on enterprise networks by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth on 26 September 2007, what body or bodies will make decisions on the allocation of funding to Fife for enterprise and local economic development under the new Scottish Enterprise structure and (a) where the body will be based, (b) from which individuals and organisations it will be formed and (c) for which areas, other than Fife, the body will make such funding decisions.
Answer
These will be operationalmatters for Scottish Enterprise within the parameters set by the Cabinet Secretary’sstatement to Parliament.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement on enterprise networks by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth on 26 September 2007, how community partnerships in Fife will be able to have input to operations at local, regional or Scotland-wide level under the new Scottish Enterprise structure.
Answer
As the CabinetSecretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth made clear in his statement, theproposed regional structure will enable existing partnerships andcollaborations with the enterprise networks to continue, broaden and develop further.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what grants are administered through Scottish Enterprise Fife and, of these, which are (a) under review, (b) to end, (c) to continue to be administered by Scottish Enterprise staff based in Fife without review, (d) to continue without review but administered by Scottish Enterprise staff not based in Fife, (e) to continue without review but administered by non-Scottish Enterprise staff based in Fife and (f) to continue without review but administered by non-Scottish Enterprise staff not based in Fife.
Answer
Scottish Enterprise Fife administers a range of grants for businesses, whichare offered throughout the Scottish Enterprise network. These cover:
Strategy development
Market development
Innovation
Workforce development
Business improvement
Investment, and
Start-Up.
The administrationand delivery of these products is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will make a decision on whether to approve the Fife Structure Plan.
Answer
A decision will be taken after Fife Council submit proposed revisions to the Structure Plan at the end of 2007.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the justification is for allowing Fife Council to evaluate only one part of the Fife Structure Plan.
Answer
Fife Council wrote to ministers in June 2007 indicating that, because of new population and housing projections, it wished to re-appraise the housing requirements in the Structure Plan. Ministers agreed to this in July 2007.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to ensure that Fife Council has fulfilled its statutory duties, particularly in respect of public consultation, in undertaking its strategic environmental assessment.
Answer
As the ResponsibleAuthority, it is for Fife Council to ensure it meets all statutory obligations,including those for early and effective public consultation, under strategic environmentalassessment legislation.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 1 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Fife Council will have to re-evaluate the entire Fife Structure Plan following its re-evaluation of requirements for housing development.
Answer
Fife Council is currently re-appraising the housingrequirements in the structure plan which it submitted to ministers in 2006. It willsubmit the results of this process, including any resulting changes that need tobe made to other parts of the structure plan, to ministers at the end of this year.
