- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 5 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all of the telephone exchanges in Perth and Kinross which are at full capacity for broadband.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-26560 on 5 October 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions area available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 5 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans there are to increase the capacity of telephone exchanges in Angus.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-26560 on 5 October 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions area available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 5 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans there are to increase the capacity of telephone exchanges in Perth and Kinross.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-26560 on 5 October 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions area available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 5 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all of the telephone exchanges in Angus which are at full capacity for broadband.
Answer
BT has confirmed that, as of 3 September 2009, the telephone exchanges in Angus which are at full capacity for broadband are Fern and Menmuir, and that the exchange in Perth and Kinross which is at full capacity for broadband is Strathardle.
The Scottish Government announced on 23 September 2009 that it has agreed with BT a programme of upgrade work for exchanges to resolve the capacity issues currently being experienced. Please refer to our news release at the following website:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2009/09/23114104.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 5 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Tripartite Advisory Group on universities will look at university funding comparisons across the United Kingdom and when those comparisons will be made.
Answer
The Tripartite Advisory Group (TAG) has started work to develop a shared evidence base to support the TAG''s consideration of the level of public investment in Scottish universities required to maintain broad overall comparability with the rest of the UK and to remain internationally competitive. Progress will be reviewed when TAG next meets on 14 October 2009.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 2 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Tripartite Advisory Group on universities will look at comparing funding for student support, including discretionary funds, across the United Kingdom.
Answer
The agreed remit for the Tripartite Advisory Group (TAG) is available on the Scottish Government website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Education/UniversitiesColleges/16640/hetaskforce/TripartiteToR.
It does not include looking at comparative funding for student support or discretionary funds.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 2 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will include student organisations and other stakeholders not on the Tripartite Advisory Group on universities in its work to compare university sector funding levels across the United Kingdom.
Answer
The first meeting of the Tripartite Advisory Group (TAG) agreed to set up a technical sub-group to support TAG''s work on comparative funding. To keep the sub-group to a manageable number, TAG agreed the sub-group would comprise some six to 10 members drawn from the three TAG members (the Scottish Government, the Scottish Funding Council and Universities Scotland).
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 2 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether funding for universities is broadly comparable with funding for universities elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
Answer
It is generally accepted in the university sector that public funding for Scottish universities is broadly comparable with that in other parts of the United Kingdom. Most recently, Professor Steven Smith, President of Universities UK, said while at the Universities UK conference in Edinburgh on 8 and 9 September, that funding levels were roughly comparable (reported in The Times, 11 September 2009).
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 30 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what support it will give to Perthshire golf clubs to capitalise on the Ryder Cup coming to Gleneagles in 2014.
Answer
All Scottish Government funding for the development of sport is routed through sportscotland.
Sportscotland operates a number of funding programmes, such as Awards for All and the Sports Facilities Fund, to which individual golf clubs are eligible to apply.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 30 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it, or its agencies, has or will undertake a feasibility study into the impact on local businesses of a proposed new supermarket in Perth.
Answer
No feasibility study has been undertaken, however, in the event of a planning application being made, the impact of a supermarket on existing shops would be one of a number of considerations taken into account by the planning authority in reaching a decision.
