- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 14 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-12329 by Susan Deacon on 6 February 2001, how the contracted number of midwifery students at Glasgow Caledonian University was calculated.
Answer
The annual Student Nurse Intake Planning exercise takes into account the overall supply and demand of nurses and midwives in Scotland through a workforce planning survey and modelling exercise. This informs the total number of places for nursing and midwifery students in contracted higher education institutions in Scotland.The total is then divided between the seven institutions, following discussions between the Scottish Executive and the institutions themselves. Year-on-year changes in each institution's intake are usually minimised in the interests of continuity, but the allocations may also take account of factors such as the capacity of each institution and its local NHS partners to provide the education, local NHS demand for qualified nurses and midwives, and local application rates.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive which further education colleges in Glasgow are funding and running English lessons for asylum seekers.
Answer
Five further education colleges in Glasgow are funding provision for asylum seekers on English courses in the current academic year, either on dedicated courses or as in-fill students within mainstream English language courses. The five are: Anniesland College, Cardonald College, Central College of Commerce, Glasgow College of Food Technology and Langside College.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #150,000 announced by the Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs on 20 February 2001 for school Public/Private Partnerships in Glasgow will be spent on Notre Dame High School.
Answer
I refer the Member to the answer given to question S1W-13720.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #150,000 announced by the Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs on 20 February 2001 for school Public/Private Partnerships in Glasgow will be spent on St Thomas Aquinas High School.
Answer
I refer the Member to the answer given to question S1W-13720.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many social firms or emerging social firms exist in (a) Scotland, (b) Glasgow and (c) Glasgow Kelvin.
Answer
In Scotland it is estimated that there are 10 social firms and 15 emerging social firms.There are three emerging social firms in Glasgow, one of which is located in Glasgow Kelvin.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #150,000 announced by the Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs on 20 February 2001 for school Public/Private Partnerships in Glasgow will be spent on Hillhead High School.
Answer
All of the secondary schools managed by Glasgow City Council are being replaced, extended and/or refurbished, according to the needs of each school, under an existing Public/Private Partnership into which the council has already entered, with some financial support guaranteed by the Scottish Executive under an arrangement announced in November 1998.The allocation of £150,000 to Glasgow City Council which I announced on 20 February 2001 is for a different purpose. It is to enable the council, and 20 other authorities who were allocated a share of a total of £5 million, to take forward work on feasibility studies into possible further school PPP projects.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #150,000 announced by the Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs on 20 February 2001 for school Public/Private Partnerships in Glasgow will be spent on Hyndland Secondary School.
Answer
I refer the Member to the answer to question S1W-13720.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what partnership work Scottish Enterprise Glasgow is undertaking to support emerging and existing social firms.
Answer
Our strategy document A Smart Successful Scotland sets out that Scottish Enterprise has a key role in supporting the social economy by providing quality information and business development support.Scottish Enterprise Glasgow co-funded Social Firms UK's annual conference in Glasgow in November 2000.It also co-ordinated meetings on behalf of Social Firms Scotland with the Joint Employment Unit/Greater Glasgow Health Board and voluntary sector representatives to develop a proposal to support social firms' work of job creation. This proposal was approved under the new European Community Initiative, EQUAL, and funding is being provided by Scottish Enterprise.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 13 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what support it is giving for setting up social firms.
Answer
Support for setting up social firms is available through the European Social Fund, administered in Scotland by the Scottish Executive.Scottish Enterprise (SEn) has a key role in supporting the social economy by providing quality information and business development support.SEn are currently part-funding a Social Firms Scotland pilot which will assist new and developing projects throughout Scotland.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 January 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 6 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many groups in (a) Glasgow and (b) Glasgow Kelvin have been unsuccessful in their bids for Objective 3 funding.
Answer
Applicants are required to indicate the local authority area within which will be found the addresses of the beneficiaries of their projects, but there is no breakdown below this level available at this stage. On this basis, there were 44 unsuccessful applications made in respect of the Glasgow City Council area. There were also 89 successful applications in respect of the Glasgow City Council area and these projects were awarded grants totalling £14,966,499.
None of these figures take account of those applications which had beneficiaries in more than one local authority area, of which there were 214 successful applications and 154 unsuccessful applications across Lowland Scotland as a whole.In terms of the proportion of applications which were successful in securing funding, I can confirm that, of the 133 applications made in respect of the Glasgow area, 89 were awarded grants, a success rate of 66.9%. By comparison, the overall success rate of applicants to Objective 3 as a whole was only 59.6%.
