- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 21 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers there were in (a) Tayside, (b) Grampian and (c) Scotland in each of the last four years, also showing the percentage of the annual Scottish figures that Tayside and Grampian represented.
Answer
The information requestedfor 2003-04 to 2006-07 is given in the Quarterly Strength Return, published by the Scottish Governmentannually, and updated on a quarterly basis, copies of which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. numbers 39652 (2003-04), 39653 (2004-05),39654 (2005-06) and 40257 (2006-07) respectively).
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2007
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Answered by John Swinney on 6 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to sustain the capital investment in Dundee¿s central waterfront project in the event of the closure of the Cities Growth Fund.
Answer
I recognise the importanceof the regeneration of Dundee’s central waterfront for the development ofDundee and the surrounding region.
The outcome of theSpending Review will be announced in the autumn and any speculation about the futureof the Cities Growth Fund is premature in advance of that announcement. It is, however,for Dundee City Council to manage and fund its capital investment programme.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 July 2007
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Answered by Adam Ingram on 14 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the additional funds that will have to be made available to Angus Council for the full implementation of the commitment to reduce class sizes to 18 and below in P1, P2 and P3.
Answer
Estimates of the additionalfunding for individual local authorities to reduce class sizes in P1 to P3 willbe made following the completion of the Spending Review.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 16 July 2007
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Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 13 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many learners in the (a) Dundee, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire local authority areas have received financial support through Individual Learning Account Scotland since 2004.
Answer
In the Dundee, Angusand Aberdeenshire Local Authority areas the Individual Learning Account Scotland schemehas supported 3,255 learners since 2004. This is broken down by each Local Authorityarea in the following table.
| Council Area | Number of ILA Scotland funded learners |
| Aberdeenshire | 2,030 |
| Angus | 614 |
| Dundee | 611 |
| Total | 3,255 |
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 16 July 2007
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Answered by Maureen Watt on 9 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many school and business partnerships have been set up under the Determined to Succeed initiative in the (a) Dundee, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire local authority areas.
Answer
Initial indicationsfrom the draft 2006-07 Determined to Succeed Annual Reports receivedfrom each local authority, show that the number of school business partnershipsin each area are as follows: (a) Dundee - over 500,(b) Angus – over 240 and (c) Aberdeenshire - 492.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 July 2007
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Answered by Adam Ingram on 9 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Dundee City and Angus councils will receive any additional funding for pre-school education from August 2007 in respect of the provision of additional hours.
Answer
All localauthorities have been informed of the additional funding they will receive forpre-school education following the announcement of the expansion of hours to475 per year. The additional funding that will be made available to Dundee CityCouncil and Angus Council is as follows:
| £000 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
| Angus Council | 309 | 463 |
| Dundee City Council | 384 | 576 |
The funding for2007-08 has been confirmed but for 2008-09 the figures are indicative as thetotal amount of the 2008-09 local government finance settlement and itsdistribution will depend on the outcome of the 2007 strategic spending review.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 July 2007
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Answered by Adam Ingram on 9 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the number of additional teachers required in Angus to implement fully its commitment to reduce class sizes to 18 and below in P1, P2 and P3.
Answer
We areconsidering initially in detail the numbers of teachers needed in order toreduce all P1 to P3 classes to 18 or less and allow all pre-school childrenaccess to a teacher at a national level. Estimates of the numbers required inindividual authorities are not available. We have announced the first steps indelivering our commitments, with funding for the employment of an additional300 teachers and the increase of 250 training places from this August.
We will beannouncing further steps in due course, to a timetable that ensures that we canprotect the quality of the teachers entering the profession and takes intoaccount the capacity of the system to provide training places. Clearly, themost important issue is to ensure the best possible educational outcomes forour children.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 9 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the timetable is for full implementation in Angus of the commitment to reduce class sizes to 18 and below in P1, P2 and P3.
Answer
The ScottishExecutive will be working with Angus Council and Universities deliveringinitial teacher training to ensure we can drive down class sizes in a managedand staged way which maintains teacher quality, recognises classroom pressuresand continuity of class configurations which will deliver practical progress toclasses of 18 in P1-P3. These factors together with the Spending Review willdrive the timeframe for delivery, by making year on year progress towards ourtarget.
This approach hasbeen recognised by teaching professionals as the best way to delivering ourpolicy of class sizes of 18 in P1-P3 across Scotland.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 9 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) P1, (b) P2 and (c) P3 classes in Angus had more than 18 pupils in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer
Information onindividual class sizes from the 2006 pupil census is published on the internetand can be found at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/16412/PrimClassSizesSep06.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 July 2007
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Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 31 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many agency nurses have been employed by NHS Tayside in each of the last three years and what the annual cost has been of employing them.
Answer
Information on staffemployed in NHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics websiteunder Workforce Statistics, at:
www.isdscotland.org/workforce.
Section E gives details of nursingand midwifery staff. In particular, table E13 shows hours, average whole time equivalent(WTE) and costs of agency nursing and midwifery staff by qualification, specialtyand NHS board from 2001 to 2006. WTE adjusts headcount to take account of parttime working. Figures for hours and cost of agency nursing and midwifery staffare produced annually at the end of each financial year.
