- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-30721 by Nicol Stephen on 21 December 2006, what steps it has taken to allow providers other than BT, such as Tiscali, to provide broadband services to areas such as Galashiels.
Answer
All Scottish telephone exchangeareas can be served by retail providers, other than BT.
The smaller 148 Exchange Activateexchanges upgraded for broadband under the Executive’s supply-side interventionin 2005 also allow other providers, in addition to BT, to offer services. Both BTand the Executive have taken action to make Internet Service Providers (ISP) awareof their opportunities to provide services on these exchanges.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 February 2007
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Answered by Allan Wilson on 19 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many jobs it estimates will be lost in the next 12 months as a direct result of changes it has made to the administration of European structural funds for projects supported and operated by the voluntary sector.
Answer
It is not possible to estimatefully the impacts arising from changes to EU funding as the programmes have notbeen approved by the European Commission. However, changes to the administrationto the funds would not directly lead to job losses in any sector. Any changes thatwill be introduced would be designed to ease administration burdens on project sponsors.
It has been claimed that thedelay to the start of the new programmes would see EU-funded projects close andredundancies ensue. Through a combination of operating a “shadow” European StructuralFund (ESF) round of £12 million of Executive funding from January and recyclingmore than £6 million funding from the existing ESF programmes to prolong currentprojects, the Executive has worked to ensure that this would not happen.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 16 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people (a) directly benefited from projects run by the voluntary sector with European structural funds administered by ministers in each year since 2000 and (b) are expected to benefit from such projects in each year from 2007 to 2010.
Answer
Information is not held centrally on the number of people who benefited from projects run byorganisations in specific sectors.
The last published figures inthe Annual Implementation Reports for the three ESF Programmes show that thetotal number of beneficiaries assisted by each of the European Social FundProgrammes up to December 2005 are as follows:
Objective 1 Programme: 28,678
Objective 2 Programme: 9,107
Objective 3 Programme: 250,620.
In total 288,405 beneficiarieswere assisted from 2000-05. The total isreported on as a cumulative number as many of projects run for more than oneyear.
It is not possible toestimate fully the number of beneficiaries who will benefit from projects forthe 2007-13 period, as the programme priorities and allocations will not befinalised until negotiations with the Commission have completed.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2007
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Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the longest time was for an ambulance to attend an incident following a 999 call in each year since 2000, broken down by Scottish Ambulance Service division.
Answer
The information requestedcould only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 14 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Liberal Democrat councillors have requested a review of a decision by Scottish ministers to withhold information from disclosure under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 by applying exemptions under the Act and what proportion of those decisions were subsequently upheld.
Answer
We do not have any freedomof review requests centrally recorded which identified the requester as a liberaldemocrat councillor.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 14 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many freedom of information requests it received from Liberal Democrat (a) MSPs and (b) councillors in each month since January 2005 and what percentage of those requests resulted in exemptions being applied and non-disclosure of the information requested.
Answer
One FOI request wascentrally recorded which identified the requester as a liberal democrat MSP. Theinformation was disclosed in this case.
We do not have any FOIrequests centrally recorded which identified the requester as a liberal democratcouncillor.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 14 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Labour MSPs have requested a review of a decision by Scottish ministers to withhold information from disclosure under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 by applying exemptions under the Act and what proportion of those decisions were subsequently upheld.
Answer
We do not have any freedomof information review requests centrally recorded which identified therequester as a labour MSP.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 14 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Liberal Democrat MSPs have requested a review of a decision by Scottish ministers to withhold information from disclosure under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 by applying exemptions under the Act and what proportion of those decisions were subsequently upheld.
Answer
We do not have any freedomof information review requests centrally recorded which identified therequester as a liberal democrat MSP.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 14 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many freedom of information requests it received from Labour (a) MSPs and (b) councillors in each month since January 2005 and what percentage of those requests resulted in exemptions being applied and non-disclosure of the information requested.
Answer
We do not have any FOIrequests centrally recorded which identified the requester as a labour MSP.
We do not have any FOIrequests centrally recorded which identified the requester as a Labourcouncillor.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 14 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Labour councillors have requested a review of a decision by Scottish ministers to withhold information from disclosure under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 by applying exemptions under the Act and what proportion of those decisions were subsequently upheld.
Answer
We do not have any freedomof information review requests centrally recorded which identified therequester as a labour councillor.
