- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 3 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what outside advice it has commissioned in connection with Taking Forward the Scottish Futures Trust.
Answer
Taking Forward the Scottish Futures Trust (Bib. number 45605) was produced by the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) delivery team and was endorsed by the Scottish Futures Trust steering group. The delivery team included professional advice from Partnerships UK and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The SFT steering group has representatives from Society of Local Authority Chief Executives, Partnerships UK, and the Council of Economic Advisers.
The SFT work was informed by many informal discussions with industry and advisory interests, academics, and public sector practitioners, and by the 89 responses to the SFT consultation exercise. This wide ranging consultative background included views and experience from both within Scotland and abroad.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 3 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive which types of public sector projects will be financed by the Scottish Futures Trust.
Answer
The Scottish Government’s document Taking Forward the Scottish Futures Trust (Bib. number 45605), which accompanied the announcement of our decision to set up the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT), sets out the areas where SFT will proceed immediately to assist in effective and more efficient methods of delivery and funding of infrastructure.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 3 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what rail projects it proposes to be financed by the Scottish Futures Trust.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-13264 on 3 June 2008. 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: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 3 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive which private sector companies have expressed support for the concept of the Scottish Futures Trust.
Answer
The Scottish Government has not collated comments on the Scottish Futures Trust in accordance with this question. All the responses to the consultation exercise have been published, subject to any confidentiality requests, on the Scottish Government website at
www.scotland.gov.uk.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive which types of hospital projects will be financed by the Scottish Futures Trust.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-13264 on 3 June 2008. 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: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 3 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what form of governance and democratic accountability is proposed in respect of the Scottish Futures Trust.
Answer
In announcing the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) we published our intentions in the document
Taking Forward the Scottish Futures Trust (Bib. number 45605). An infrastructure board for Scotland is envisaged made up of senior representatives from across the public sector. It would oversee the SFT delivering its strategic objectives and would input to the future strategic direction of SFT.
SFT will not alter the lines of statutory responsibility and accountability which apply across the public sector. SFT will itself be accountable through ministers.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 3 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what form of limited liability partnership the Scottish Futures Trust Finance and Investment organisation will have and what legislation governs this.
Answer
The Scottish Futures Trust will be a company. The Development and Delivery arm will be a public sector classified body and the Finance and Investment arm will sit within the private sector.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 2 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-9292 by Bruce Crawford on 20 March 2008, whether any other countries have replied to his letter in respect of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since 31 January 2008 and, if so, whether they have (a) agreed or (b) refused the publication of their responses.
Answer
There have been no further responses to the First Minister’s letter in respect of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since I replied to S3W-9292.
As regards publication, I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-13034 on 2 June 2008. 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: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 2 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-9292 by Bruce Crawford on 20 March 2008, what invitations the First Minister has had from heads of state to discuss the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and which ones the First Minister has chosen to (a) accept or (b) refuse.
Answer
Invitations to discuss the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty were not sought.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the projected underspend or overspend is for each health authority for 2007-08.
Answer
Based on draft annual accounts submitted by each health board, the 2007-08 projected end year position is show below. Final accounts will be submitted by 30 June 2008.
| NHS Board | £000 |
| NHS Ayrshire and Arran | 9,961 |
| NHS Borders | 522 |
| NHS Dumfries and Galloway | 7,313 |
| NHS Fife | 5,664 |
| NHS Forth Valley | 2,000 |
| NHS Grampian | 6,391 |
| NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 370 |
| NHS Highland | 5,217 |
| NHS Lanarkshire | 11,863 |
| NHS Lothian | 279 |
| NHS Orkney | 4 |
| NHS Shetland | 960 |
| NHS Tayside | 1,807 |
| NHS Western Isles | (3,312) |
| Total Unified Boards | 49,039 |
| Special Health Boards | |
| National Waiting Times Centre | 7,208 |
| NHS 24 | 255 |
| NHS Education for Scotland | 15,179 |
| NHS Health Scotland | 230 |
| NHS NSS | 2,765 |
| NHS QIS | 391 |
| Scottish Ambulance Service | 20 |
| State Hospital | 73 |
| Total Special Health Boards | 26,121 |
| Total NHS Scotland | 75,160 |
