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The bulk of the government’s communication about school education is with local authorities, with whom responsibility for the provision of school education lies, rather than with head teachers themselves.

A trawl of files across government directorates to compile a comprehensive list of the limited instances of direct contact with head teachers could only be carried out at disproportionate cost.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14321 on 10 July 2008. All answers 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.

The Scottish Government Health Directorates issue a weekly bulletin containing a digest of their recent publications and this is available on the Scottish Health on the Web (SHOW) website at http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/. The bulletin is circulated to chief executives of NHS boards and operating divisions to cascade as appropriate, and is also circulated more widely to other interested bodies for information. The table below sets out the number of documents contained within each weekly bulletin issued in each of the last five years:

Table 1 – Number of Documents Issued by Year

2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
337	238	161	166	214

Source: www.show.scot.nhs.uk.

In addition there may be ad-hoc correspondence issued that is not included in the weekly bulletin. Information on the number of these documents is not collected.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14324 on 9 July 2008. All answers 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.

The Beauly Denny public inquiry, the largest in Scotland since devolution, started on 6 February 2007 with public hearings concluding in 20 December 2007.

The inquiry reporters are now preparing their report, which is not expected until the end of 2008.

Scottish ministers will consider the reporters findings in reaching their determination and therefore a decision may be expected in 2009.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14043 on 18 June 2008. All answers 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.

Funding of £5 million per annum over three years, to 2009-10, has been made available to the Scottish Regional Treatment Centre at Stracathro. The contract between NHS Tayside and Netcare has more than a year to run and any decision on its future will not be made before a full evaluation report has been completed.

This would be considered as part of any feasibility study.

Informal discussions have been held with the Scottish Football Association but a feasibility study has not been commissioned.

None.