- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 24 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to ensure that Glasgow is protected against flooding, broken down by area at serious risk of flooding.
Answer
Local authoritieshave powers under the Flood Prevention (Scotland) Act 1961 to mitigate the flooding of non-agricultural land in theirarea. It is entirely a matter for Glasgow City Council to determine, whetherand to what extent, to exercise their powers.
The Executiveannounced on 10 October further funding for the White Cart Flood Prevention Scheme, which will protect some 1,750 propertiesand businesses in Glasgow.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 1 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to ensure that modes of transport used for official government business are more environmentally friendly.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-2830 on 3 September 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: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 10 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what is being done to ensure that there are enough jobs for probationary teachers when they qualify.
Answer
The Scottish Governmentcarries out an annual teacher workforce, whose aim is to broadly balance the supplyof, and demand for, teachers. This year we have provided local authorities with£9 million of supplementary funding to enable them to employ an additional 300 teachersin primary and pre-school from this August. This additional funding will allow usto make an early start to meeting our early years and class size commitments inP1 to P3.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 4 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether allegations about Gerard Sinclair, Chief Executive of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission and temporary sheriff, that were published in The Sun on 14 August 2007 have been authenticated and, if so, whether it considers him to be a suitable person to continue to hold these posts.
Answer
The reported incidentoccurred in 2001 at a private function attended by Mr Sinclair in a personal capacitywhile he was in private employment. Mr Sinclair has been Chief Executive of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission since 1 July 2003 and has held an appointment as a part time sheriff since1 July 2006. I believe he is an entirely suitable personto hold both posts.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 28 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many retired teachers have returned to work for local authorities as teachers in the last five years, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The information requestedis not held centrally.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 27 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many probationary teachers have been unable to find a teaching job in the last five years.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-1391 on 17 July 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.Information on yearsprior to 2005-06 is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 23 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many probationary teachers have been unable to find a teaching job in Glasgow in the last five years.
Answer
Under the teacherinduction scheme which has been running since August 2002, newly qualified, Scottishtrained teachers are guaranteed an offer of a one-year teaching post for their probationaryyear. After the induction scheme, teachers may apply for teaching posts with anylocal authority and local authorities may employ their own teachers and/or thosefrom other authorities.
The information requestedis not held centrally.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 21 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many probationary teachers have had to move abroad for a teaching job in the last five years, broken down by country in which employment has been secured.
Answer
Information on thenumber of teachers moving abroad after completing their Induction year is not heldcentrally. The following table provides the number of probationer teachers who havingbeen offered their one-year teaching post on the teacher induction scheme, haveopted to work/travel abroad or to take up a teaching post outwith Scotland. This information is not available broken down by countryand will include teachers who have moved within the UK.
| | Travel/Work Abroad | Post Outwith Scotland | Total | Total no. of Probationer Teachers |
| 2002-03 | no data available | no data available | no data available | 2,044 |
| 2003-04 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 1,815 |
| 2004-05 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 2,034 |
| 2005-06 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 2,730 |
| 2006-07 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 3,554 |
| 2007-08 | 1 | 13 | 14 | 3,610 |
| Totals | 16 | 70 | 86 | 15,787 |
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been given to Glasgow City Council to tackle antisocial behaviour in each year since 2004, broken down by project.
Answer
The funding given to GlasgowCity Council since 2004 to tackle antisocial behaviour, which is notring-fenced for specific projects, is as follows:
2004-05- £ 2,487,000
2005-06- £ 2,760,950
2006-07- £ 3,238,000
2007-08- £ 3,401,000
Total –£11,869,950
In addition, separate moniesprovided to Glasgow City Council for community safety, youth justice, noisenuisance and violence reduction can all be used to tackle aspects of antisocialbehaviour.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many breaches of antisocial behaviour orders have resulted in a criminal conviction.
Answer
The information requested isprovided in the following table.
Individual offences ofbreach of ASBOs with a charge proved in Scottish Courts, 1999-00 to 2005-06
| Financial year | Proven breach charges |
| 1999-2000 | 5 |
| 2000-01 | 24 |
| 2001-02 | 43 |
| 2002-03 | 51 |
| 2003-04 | 43 |
| 2004-05 | 158 |
| 2005-06 | 237 |
Source: Scottish Executive Court Proceedings Database
The data provided does notinclude cases in which the breach is treated as an aggravating factor in aconviction for another offence.
