Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive what the remit of the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society (SAOS) is; how much funding it will give SAOS in the current year and in each of the next two years, and what measures are being undertaken to evaluate the work of SAOS.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive to provide details of the number and location of marketing co-operatives which have been established as a consequence of Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society activity.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive to provide details of the number, nature and expenditure of projects undertaken or assisted by the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to reconsider the planning guidelines for opencast mining operations.
Adam Ingram: Yesterday, the Minister for Communities talked at length about small solutions for small minds. I would not characterise the Executive's approach to community care in that way; on this issue, it is more a case of talking big and acting mean. If we consider the Labour proposals in "Modernising community care: an action plan", we can compare the rhetoric with the reality of community care as...
Adam Ingram: I welcome a change in culture, but we cannot get away from the fact that resources are fundamental to this problem. We need sufficient resources to target. My point is that we do not have those resources. On council funding of social work departments, what purpose is served by forcing councils throughout the country to cope with what Councillor Andy Hill of South Ayrshire Council publicly...
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail the capital expenditure on school buildings in each of the last four years and how this expenditure compares to expenditure on information technology in schools in each of the past four years.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail all of the projects for which funding has been allocated from the Freight Facilities Grant, including in particular the value of grants given to date; how much of the £18.3 million available for Freight Facilities Grants from 1999-2000 to 2001-02 remains to be allocated, and how many road-miles are expected to be made unnecessary as a...
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive to provide details of all applications for Freight Facilities Grant funding received to date, including those applications which did not receive funding, specifying in each case why funding was not granted.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown by local authority area of the grant aided expenditure allocated in each of the last three years for the maintenance of Scotland’s coasts.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown by local authority area of the actual expenditure on maintenance of Scotland’s coasts in each of the last three years.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details, broken down by local authority area, of capital projects to improve (a) coastal defences and (b) public facilities such as piers or promenades which have been approved for funding by local or central government in each of the last three years, detailing the nature of the project, the total cost and a breakdown of the funding...
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail any coastal maintenance projects currently under consideration for capital funding.
Adam Ingram: I support amendment 11. Enshrining the right of any child to receive a school education, as this bill does, is a welcome step forward and brings statute in this country into line with the European convention on human rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is a necessary improvement in the legal framework and it focuses on the rights of the individual. However, it is not...
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive what differences there are in the eligibility criteria for European Regional Development Funding for capital projects between areas designated for transitional funding and areas with full Objective 2 status.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made to date on securing funding for the upgrading of the A77 to motorway standard. (S1O-1885)
Adam Ingram: Has the Executive taken on board the sceptical view expressed by this Parliament's Audit Committee as regards the financial benefits of private finance initiative projects in relation to the building of the M74? Would not it be more prudent to access the substantial Government funding being promised for UK transport projects by John Prescott, or is the minister committed to writing a blank...
Adam Ingram: I will be brief, as I realise that others want to speak. I commend the review of services for people with learning disabilities, which is an area of service provision in which Scotland has lagged behind other countries—including England and Wales—for many years. As my colleagues have said, we welcome the report and its recommendations. However, we are concerned about resources. That...
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of disease caused by exposure to dog fouling have been reported within the NHS in Scotland in each of the last three years, broken down by region.
Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been allocated in grant aided expenditure to local authorities to spend on maintaining council roads in each of the last four years expressed in (i) real terms and (ii) as spend per mile of road to be maintained.
