- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 13 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies there are for educational psychologists in each local authority.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. The Executive will soon meet with the Association of Scottish Principal Educational Psychologists (ASPEP) to review the supply and demand for educational psychologists to ensure that the appropriate balance is achieved.
- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 13 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to review the operation of Records of Needs to ensure similarity of provision across Scotland.
Answer
The new national Special Educational Needs Advisory Forum, chaired by Peter Peacock, Deputy Minister for Children and Education, will review all aspects of the Record of Needs process.
- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 13 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any improvements are needed in the length of time taken to set up Records of Needs across Scotland and what plans it has to bring about such improvements.
Answer
I refer the member to my answer to question S1W-5748.
- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 13 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students are expected to graduate as educational psychologists in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003.
Answer
The information requested is not available. It is not possible to provide analysis at this level of disaggregation. Educational Psychology is a specialism that students might take up in their second, or more likely, their third year of study.
- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 13 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will issue guidelines for planning authorities on the use of barbed and ra'or wire on the perimeters of buildings.
Answer
No. Planning Advice Note 46: Planning for Crime Prevention, published in October 1994, gives advice to planning authorities on how crime prevention and community safety can be taken into account in planning, however, the advice does not address the specific legal issues surrounding the use of barbed and razor wire.
- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review the effectiveness of current legislation affecting the use of barbed and ra'or wire.
Answer
As part of the legislation which we intend to bring forward to establish a right of access to land, there will be powers to enable local authorities to order the removal of obstructions such as barbed and razor wire erected to prevent the exercise of the new right. Other than this, we have no plans at present to review the effectiveness of the law affecting the use of barbed and razor wire.
- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 24 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will announce the outcome of its evaluation of further flood prevention measures in Kilmarnock and Loudoun.
Answer
I am fully aware of the recent flooding in Kilmarnock and Loudoun and of the concerns of those affected. Scottish Executive officials have been consulted informally on East Ayrshire Council's proposed programme of works for reducing flood risk in its area and, in principle, are satisfied with the Council's proposals.
It is for the Council, in conjunction with its consultants, to take forward these proposals and to submit formal Flood Prevention Schemes to the Executive to seek the necessary powers and resources to proceed with the work. It is also for the Council to decide on the timing of any work it intends to carry out and to obtain the agreement of the parties concerned.
- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 22 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether proposed amendments to planning legislation on telecommunications masts will allow local authorities to ban their erection in specific locations.
Answer
No. The planning system exists to secure the efficient and effective development and use of land in the public interest. Refusal of planning permission or the imposition of conditions on planning permissions can be used to safeguard amenity and the environment. As far as masts are concerned, the present proposals for change will add refusal of prior approval regarding siting and design of permitted development to this list. However, these can all be appealed against and so these cannot be interpreted as mechanisms for banning development.
Planning legislation does not allow local authorities to ban development.
- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 22 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether proposed amendments to planning legislation regarding telecommunications masts will be by primary legislation or by statutory instrument.
Answer
Amendments to planning legislation relating to telecommunications development would generally be made by statutory instrument.
- Asked by: Margaret Jamieson, MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 22 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether proposed amendments to planning legislation on telecommunications masts will require operators to submit full applications for mobile phone masts.
Answer
No. The proposals I announced in the chamber on 27 October 1999 do not entail removing existing permitted development rights, but include a procedure whereby developers will be required to obtain the prior approval of the planning authority before exercising these rights.
