- 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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Current Status:
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.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish its social enterprise strategy.
Answer
It is our intention to publisha social enterprise strategy in the near future.
- 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 12 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it will save as a result of changes it has made to the way in which it administers European structural funds for projects operated and supported by the voluntary sector.
Answer
Enterprise, Transport and LifelongLearning Department
Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive howmuch it will save as a result of changes it has made to the way in which it administersEuropean structural funds for projects operated and supported by the voluntary sector.
(S2W-31652)
Allan Wilson One of the key principle fordeveloping future programmes has been a desire to reduce the administrative costsfor all project sponsors. However, it is not possible to quantify the extent ofany savings for projects operated by any individual sector. This will depend onthe final agreed changes in the eligibility criteria for projects, the scope ofeligible activity and final allocations, and other changes in the administrationof projects. Until the Operational Programmes have been finalised and agreed withthe European Commission, these changes cannot be specified.
One set of costs that will notincur to partners in the 2007-13 period is the voluntary management subscription.At present, all projects are invited to make such subscriptions towards paying halfthe costs of the Programme Management Executives. In the new period, the Executivewill pay this share of the costs of the new Intermediate Administration Bodies ratherthan partners. The cost to all partners of such subscriptions was £16.2 millionfor 2000-06.
