- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 26 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has paid to LGBT Youth Scotland in each year since 1999.
Answer
The Scottish Executivehas not given core funding to LGBT Youth Scotland, nor does it fund campaigningactivity. Grant Funding awarded to LGBT Youth Scotland has been time limited projectfunding for specific pieces of work relating mainly to community engagement andcapacity building and services for young people.
The grant fundingawarded to LGBT Youth Scotland in each year since 1999 is as follows:
| Year | LGBT Youth Scotland |
| 1999-2000 | Nil |
| 2000-01 | Nil |
| 2001-02 | Nil |
| 2002-03 | £12,000.00 |
| 2003-04 | £23,500.00 |
| 2004–05 | £129,950.00 |
| 2005–06 | £181,715.00 |
| 2006–07 | £280,277 |
| Total | £627,442 |
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 14 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has paid to the Scottish Inter-Faith Council in each year since 1999.
Answer
The ScottishInterfaith Council has received funding from the Scottish Government in eachyear since 1999 as detailed in the following table.
| Year | Funding |
| 1999-2000 | Nil |
| 2000-01 | Nil |
| 2001-02 | Nil |
| 2002-03 | £34,000 |
| 2003-04 | £62,090 |
| 2004-05 | £113,310 |
| 2005-06 | £117,125.15 |
| 2006-07 | £186,747 |
| Total | £513,272.15 |
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 14 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has paid to Stonewall in each year since 1999.
Answer
The Scottish Governmenthas not given core funding to Stonewall Scotland, nor does it fund campaigning activity. Grant Funding awarded toStonewall Scotland has been time limited project funding for specific pieces ofwork relating mainly to inclusion in health and housing, and for mainstreamingequality into public services.
The grant fundingawarded to Stonewall Scotland in each year since 1999 is as follows:
| Year | Stonewall Scotland |
| 1999-2000 | Nil |
| 2000-01 | Nil |
| 2001-02 | £86,917.66 |
| 2002-03 | £95,537.84 |
| 2003-04 | £103,417.66 |
| 2004-05 | £130,981.00 |
| 2005-06 | £209,438.80 |
| 2006-07 | £220,600.00 |
| Total | £846,892.96 |
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 14 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has paid to Caledonia Youth in each year since 1999.
Answer
Caledonia Youth has received funding from the Scottish Government in each year since 1999 as detailed in the following table.
| Financial Year | Funding |
| 1999-2000 | £ 9,000 |
| 2000-01 | £159,500 |
| 2001-02 | £124,807 |
| 2002-03 | £307,729 |
| 2003-04 | £469,020 |
| 2004-05 | £633,528 |
| 2005-06 | £435,084 |
| 2006-07 | £355,396 |
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Permanent Secretary was informed by the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change of his personal shareholdings, in particular his shareholding in ScottishPower/Iberdrola.
Answer
The Permanent Secretaryhas been in discussion with all ministers about their financial and non financial interests since their appointmentsin May.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Permanent Secretary was informed by the Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism of his personal shareholdings.
Answer
I refer the memberto answer to question S3W-5740 on 8 November 2007. Allanswers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website,the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what safeguards there are to prevent the exposure of children to (a) political bias and (b) scientific inaccuracy or misrepresentation in the classroom.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-5294 on
2 November 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to review any safeguards that exist to prevent the exposure of children to (a) political bias and (b) scientific inaccuracy or misrepresentation in the classroom, following the ruling of Mr Justice Burton in the High Court in London concerning the showing of the film, An Inconvenient Truth, in English schools.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-5294 on 2 November 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-28470 by Nicol Stephen on 28 November 2006, whether it still believes that the SNP proposals on student funding would cost £1.7 billion to implement and, if not, how much it now believes they will cost and whether it will publish the costings on which the then Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning based his statement on 14 September 2006 that these proposals would cost £1.7 billion (Official Report, c. 27508).
Answer
It would not be appropriateto publish costings produced under the previous administration. These proposalswere not Scottish Executive policy at the time and the intentions of the then SNPopposition were not fully understood.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-28470 by Nicol Stephen on 28 November 2006, whether it stands by its statement that there are “estimated costs of around £150 million to replace loans with grants and around £1.6 billion to write off anticipated student loan liabilities” and, if not, what its reasons are for believing that these estimates are inaccurate and whether it will publish revised costings.
Answer
It would not be appropriateto publish costings produced under the previous administration. These proposalswere not Scottish Executive policy at the time and the intentions of the then SNPopposition were not fully understood.
