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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S3W-05651

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what grants are administered through Scottish Enterprise Fife and, of these, which are (a) under review, (b) to end, (c) to continue to be administered by Scottish Enterprise staff based in Fife without review, (d) to continue without review but administered by Scottish Enterprise staff not based in Fife, (e) to continue without review but administered by non-Scottish Enterprise staff based in Fife and (f) to continue without review but administered by non-Scottish Enterprise staff not based in Fife.

Question reference: S3W-05659

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement on enterprise networks by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth on 26 September 2007, what the financial costs and savings will be of co-locating Scottish Enterprise staff with local authority staff in (a) Fife and (b) Scotland.

Question reference: S3W-05653

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been invested in Fife for enterprise and local economic development in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S3W-05662

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement on enterprise networks by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth on 26 September 2007, how it will ensure that aligning VisitScotland with the six new regional enterprise bodies will not lead to a reduction in focus on Fife’s tourist industry.

This is an operationalmatter for VisitScotland. The aim of re-aligning VisitScotland areas to match thoseof the new enterprise network regions is to increase the effectiveness of partnershipworking with the enterprise network alongside tourism businesses with the potentialto grow, and thus to release resources to deliver more locally. VisitScotland willcontinue to promote Scotland and areas such as Fife – as a must-visit, must-return destinations.

Question reference: S3W-05655

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement on enterprise networks by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth on 26 September 2007, what status and function the Fife Economic Forum will have under the new Scottish Enterprise structure.

The formal requirementfor Local Economic Forum structures matching Local Enterprise Company boundarieswill cease at the end of this financial year with the winding up of the localenterprise companies. However, Iam aware that in areas such as Fife there may be excellent examples of effectivelocal collaboration between local offices of the enterprise networks, local authorities,the business community and others. Where such strong local partnerships exist, thesewill be able to continue to operate within the regional model.

Question reference: S3W-05657

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many VisitScotland full-time equivalent staff are employed in the Fife area and whether the Executive will ensure that these levels do not fall following restructuring of VisitScotland.

Question reference: S3W-05658

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many VisitScotland and Scottish Enterprise staff will be relocated to the Fife region.

Question reference: S3W-05654

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement on enterprise networks by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth on 26 September 2007, what assurances it can give that under the new Scottish Enterprise structure funding for enterprise and economic development in Fife will not fall below current levels.

Question reference: S3W-05648

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement on enterprise networks by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth on 26 September 2007, what body or bodies will make decisions on the allocation of funding to Fife for enterprise and local economic development under the new Scottish Enterprise structure and (a) where the body will be based, (b) from which individuals and organisations it will be formed and (c) for which areas, other than Fife, the body will make such funding decisions.

Question reference: S3W-05650

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement on enterprise networks by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth on 26 September 2007, whether existing Scottish Enterprise Fife staff will remain based in Fife, whether they will be given any decision-making responsibility and, if so, what decisions these will be.