- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 23 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to report to the Parliament on the structure and functioning of the protocol between it and the Home Office on asylum seeker children.
Answer
The Executive has committed tokeeping Parliament fully informed of progress with the March Agreement – and wewill report when key measures are implemented. We will, for example, inform Parliamentof the findings of the autumn 2006 joint inspection of services for asylum seekerchildren once ministers receive the formal report from Her Majesty’s Inspectorateof Education. We expect to receive the formal report shortly.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 January 2007
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Answered by Tom McCabe on 23 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive in how many PPP contracts where land has been disposed of by local authorities that land has been transferred to the developer for disposal of surplus.
Answer
This information is not routinelycollected. Local authorities, as public sector procuring bodies, are required todemonstrate that the PPP projects they are undertaking represent value for moneyas compared to a conventional procurement approach. They are also bound by the dutyof Best Value as stated in the Local Government in Scotland Act (2003). Section74 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 allows for disposal of land at less than marketvalue but only in specific circumstances.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2006
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Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students on Erasmus programmes at Scottish universities receive exemption from tuition fees.
Answer
In the academic year 2003-04(the most recent year for which we have figures), 2,168 incoming students attendedScottish Institutions through the Erasmus Programme. It is a condition of the ErasmusProgramme that host institutions may not request payment of tuition fees from incomingstudents on the Erasmus programme. This condition applies to all participating institutions.
Source: Statistics provided bythe UK Socrates Erasmus Council.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students from Scottish institutions have studied at foreign universities under the Erasmus programme in each year since 1998
Answer
The following table shows therequested information for students from Scottish higher education institutions foreach year between 1998-99 and 2005-06.
| Year | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 |
| Number of Students | 1,215 | 1,202 | 1,081 | 1,109 | 949 | 944 | 1,019 | 982 |
This information has been providedby the UK Socrates-Erasmus Council which coordinates the Erasmus Programme withinthe UK and is coded for the location of the higher education institution.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what support it provides to students studying abroad on programmes such as the Erasmus programme and how it will increase this support.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-24258 on 23 March 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’swebsite, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students from Scotland have studied at foreign universities under the Erasmus programme in each year since 1998, also expressed as a percentage of participating students from the United Kingdom.
Answer
Thefollowing table shows the requested information for students from Scottishhigher education institutions for each year between 1998-99 and 2005-06:
| Year | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 |
| Number of Students | 1,215 | 1,202 | 1,081 | 1,109 | 949 | 944 | 1,019 | 982 |
| % of UK Total | 12.1% | 11.9% | 12.0% | 13.1% | 11.9% | 12.5% | 14.1% | 13.8% |
This information has been providedby the UK Socrates-Erasmus Council which coordinates the Erasmus Programme withinthe UK and is coded for the location of the Higher Education Institution.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students from institutions furth of Scotland have studied at Scottish institutions under the Erasmus programme in each year since 1998.
Answer
The following table providesthe figures requested for overseas students studying at Scottish institutions throughthe Erasmus Programme for each year since 1998-99.
| Year | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 |
| Number of Students | 2,320 | 2,455 | 2,376 | 2,261 | 2,165 | 2,245 | 2,168 |
The figures for incoming studentsin 2005-06 are not yet available.
This information has been providedby the UK Socrates-Erasmus Council which coordinates the Erasmus Programme withinthe UK.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Des McNulty on 18 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses have been categorised as “affordable” in the East Kilbride constituency in each year since 1999 and what the projected figure is for each of the next five years.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster,Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is as follows:
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2006
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Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 18 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-28435 by Lewis Macdonald on 2 October 2006, what assurances were received from NHS Lanarkshire about the frequency of the proposed shuttle bus service for patients, relatives and staff between Monklands, Hairmyres and Wishaw General hospitals, following the downgrading of accident and emergency service at Monklands Hospital and what subsidies will be made available to maintain the service should it prove to be commercially unprofitable.
Answer
In announcing my approval ofNHS Lanarkshire’s service reconfiguration proposals under A Picture of Health,I placed a number of requirements on the board. These included the development ofa shuttle bus service between Monklands, Wishaw and Hairmyres Hospitals whichwould be in place by the time accident and emergency provision changes at Monklands Hospital. I understandthat NHS Lanarkshire is actively participating in the Regional Transport Partnershipto consider how wider provision of transport to hospitals and health facilitiesacross Lanarkshire may be improved and the board has confirmed that the frequencyof additional services will depend on the improvements made in public transportservices. The provision of the shuttle bus service will be a matter for NHS Lanarkshireand its planning partners and I have been clear that usage of the service shouldbe kept under review.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 December 2006
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Answered by Des McNulty on 11 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when it is acceptable for a local authority to proactively seek information from tenants in relation to their particular tenancies, in light of the terms of the Executive’s guidance notes for local authorities on private landlord registration and the Data Protection Act 1998.
Answer
It is for each local authorityto decide how to gather evidence to satisfy itself that applicants for landlordregistration are fit and proper. In doing so they must ensure that they act in accordancewith the Data Protection Act 1998. The Scottish Executive’s guidance notes on landlordregistration recommend a light-touch approach, in which authorities refer to anyexisting information they hold about the applicant, including any complaints madeto the authority by tenants. The guidance does not suggest that authorities shouldproactively seek information from tenants in relation to individual applications.
