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Dear Scottish Government,

http://www.gov.scot/News/Releases/2011/0...

Spending Review 2011
21/09/2011
Over three quarters of a billion pounds will be transferred from resource expenditure into the capital investment programme to support economic recovery, it was announced today.

The Scottish Spending Review 2011, published today, confirms that despite a 36 per cent real terms cut to Scotland's capital budget in the UK spending review, Government-supported investment will grow over the next three years.

Scottish public spending plans for the next three financial years target investment to increase sustainable economic growth and transform public services. There will also be a shift towards preventative spending, focussing on earlier intervention.

Managing spending pressures

Presiding Officer, this Spending Review confirms an ambitious programme of delivery that we will take forward over the life of this Parliament.

However, the scale and profile of Westminster's cuts also mean we have been forced to make tough choices. As we have done so, we have given due regard to our equalities ambitions and commitments.
The Equality Statement published today sets out the impact of our approach to continue to invest in building a society where people achieve, regardless of their background and where the barriers to participation and opportunity are removed.

To live within our means and deliver on all of our commitments, we must strive for yet greater productivity, reduce further the costs of Government, pursue a policy of pay restraint and push forward renewal of our public services.

Across Government we have taken a strategic and collective approach to identifying our priorities and savings.

We are reducing organisational costs, including a reduction of 18% in the core Scottish Government's operating costs over three years and with a requirement that all public bodies will bear down on their own comparable costs.

We will continue in our relentless pursuit of further efficiency, taking forward the recommendations in the McClelland Review of ICT Infrastructure, working with the Scottish Futures Trust to deliver efficiencies in our infrastructure programme and building the approaches that have seen us exceed our efficiency target for 2010-11 by some £600 million.

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We are prioritising our investment in Scotland's young people to enable them to achieve their full potential. This includes supporting 125,000 Modern Apprenticeship places during the lifetime of this Parliament, a record level, and delivering on our commitment that every 16-19 year old in Scotland neither in work, part of a Modern Apprenticeship scheme nor receiving education is offered a learning or training opportunity.

We will also ensure our approach to procurement is used as a lever for job creation by ensuring that recipients of public contract work deliver training and apprenticeship opportunities.

And this Spending Review settlement, guarantees that the University sector in Scotland will remain internationally competitive and closes the funding gap with England in full. In addition to keeping our manifesto commitments on free access to higher education, we will also introduce a minimum income for the lowest income students, as we promised during the election campaign, of at least £7,000.

This statement regarding Modern Apprenticeships is a direct violation of the Equalities Act 2010 as Scottish Government Recruitment policy it’s self was directly discriminating against over 25’s snd additionally, the College Curriculum provision directly slashed availability to over 25’s thus creating a skills gap in further education and additionally an unequal provision for Modern Apprenticeships for over 25’s until a change in policy in late October 2017.

1. I now request to be directed to recorded information that shows since the spending review in 2011 equal and parallel opportunities for all regardless of background, age or barriers into participation & achievement have not been removed.

Please supply in electronic format recorded information and/unambiguous links to this request elsewhere in the public domain.

Yours faithfully,

John Gallacher

Scottish Government

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Taylor Scott
 
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The Scottish Government | St Andrews House, Edinburgh, EH1 3DG
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John Gallacher

Dear Scottish Government,

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Yours faithfully,

John Gallacher

Dear Scottish Government,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Scottish Government's handling of my FOI request '2011 Spending Review & The Equalities Act'.

Please now respond.

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Yours faithfully,

John Gallacher

Scottish Government

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Taylor Scott

 

Media Manager | Finance and Economy

The Scottish Government | St Andrews House, Edinburgh, EH1 3DG

T: 0131 244 5193 | M: 07580788730 | E: [1][email address]

 

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