Chamber and committees

We wrote to all those whohad responded to “The Scottish Fire Service of the Future” consultation and,where respondents indicated that they were content for their response to belodged, copies were made available to the Parliament’s Reference Centre in lateFebruary 2003. The Bib. number for the responses is 26823.

The Scottish Executive does not currently set targets for the reduction of bullying inschools.

The Executive receivesauthorities’ progress reports on their work towards implementation of the 36recommendations of the Discipline Task Group. The recommendations provide forschools to review all aspects of their behaviour policy and practice.

The projected costs of the anti-bullyingnetwork (ABN) based at Moray House School of Education for financial year2003-04 are as follows:

ABN Component	Cost (£)
Core staffing (salaries)	£69,151
Casual support	£4,000
Recruitment costs	£3,000
Conferences	£1,500
Publicity (including publications production, distribution and web development)	£16,000

 

Accommodation costs are metwithin the overhead charged by the University of Edinburgh, for which the ABNhas secured a 4% reduction this year, down to 46% of the staffing costs(£31,809.46).

The remainder of the Scottish Executive grant-funding of up to £126,051 for 2003-04 is accounted for by generaladministration and telephone costs, travel and subsistence and training anddevelopment.

The Scottish Executive is the sole funder of the anti-bullying network based at Moray HouseSchool of Education. In financial year 2003-04, the network will receivegrant-funding of up to £126,051 from the Executive.

The Executive supports direct flights between Scotland and the rest of Europe, but does not comment on specific initiatives or representations.

The Executive has regular discussions with the Department for Transport on a range of aviation matters affecting Scotland.

Proceedings have been taken under section 7 of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 against a number of individuals and a company. Final orders have been taken against Tony Freeman, Anthony Levinson, Anne McGill and Solutions Recruitment and Management Consultancy Ltd, removing them from management or control of Breast Cancer Research (Scotland). Proceedings are still live against another individual, John Cooper.

The answer was given on the basis that the court order referred to was an interim interdict and therefore the final status of that order remained to be determined by the court. The Lord Advocate is not a party to that action but understands, from information provided to him on 3 July, that the proceedings are now concluded and, in the circumstances, these interdict proceedings are no longer subject to the sub judice rule. The current proceedings under the supervision of charities legislation brought by the Lord Advocate remain active and continue to be subject to the sub judice rule.

The inquiry announced by the First Minister into the Holyrood project on 12 June is an independent inquiry and the conduct of that inquiry is first and foremost for Lord Fraser to determine.The interim interdict granted against Mr Winter relates to business matters flowing from Mr Winter's employment with Solutions RMC and in no way prevented him from speaking to the regulatory authorities.

No.