- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 July 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 19 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to improve road safety on the A823.
Answer
The A823 is classed as a local road and is, therefore, the responsibility of those local authorities through whose area the route runs. We are making available almost £12 billion in funding for local authorities this financial year. Decisions about local road investment are a matter for individual councils.
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 18 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what (a) advice it has given and (b) time period it has recommended to Scotland’s Colleges regarding the review of bursaries for 2010-11
Answer
It is the responsibility of the Scottish Funding Council to issue guidance on, and any changes to, its bursary policy before the start of each academic year.
The council published the bursary policy for 2010-11 on 11 June 2010.
Ministers have offered to discuss with NUS the overall issue of support to college students.
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 20 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to be able to provide parents, teachers and pupils with full details on the new structure of the SQA examination system.
Answer
SQA have released details of the design principles for the new National 4 and National 5 qualifications and have provided information on how they are taking forward the qualifications development process. They will provide the details of individual qualifications as they are developed. All the key milestones for qualifications are set out in the Curriculum for Excellence programme plan and have been communicated widely.
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 8 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many school hours in secondary schools were taught by supply teachers in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 8 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many school hours in primary schools were taught by supply teachers in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 8 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on supply teachers in secondary schools in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 8 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on supply teachers in primary schools in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 24 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many exercise on prescription schemes there have been in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
This information is not available. However, we have commissioned an audit of exercise referral schemes (ERS) across Scotland which will be completed by summer this year. The audit will supply us with key information on a number of different aspects of ERS, one of which will be the number of ERS currently running in Scotland.
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 24 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has established the sport volunteer programme with schools and after-school clubs as stated in the SNP manifesto and, if so, how many volunteers have been recruited in each year since 2007, broken down by local authority.
Answer
The Scottish Government are working through our manifesto commitments having already delivered a significant number of measures to make Scotland wealthier, safer, healthier, smarter and greener.
We have delivered over 30,000 volunteers in 2008-09 who are directly involved in delivering activity sessions to school pupils outwith the school day as part of the Active Schools programme.
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 15 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many visiting specialist PE teachers there have been in primary schools in each year, broken down by local authority.
Answer
Information on the qualification of centrally employed teaching staff who would fulfil the role of visiting specialists is only available from 2006 and can be found in the statistical bulletins
Teachers in Scotland for the years in question. Links to the information available are set as follows. Information on which sector the teachers worked in is not available.
2006: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/27085753/97.
2007: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/03/18093809/108.
2008: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/04/29102949/103.
2009: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/02/09090009/65.
