- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 13 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussion it has had with the President of the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland with regard to the appointment of a vice president.
Answer
The Executive has recently beeninformed of these appointments and will be clarifying with the president the functionsbeing delegated to the members appointed as interim vice presidents.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 13 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the paid post of Vice President of the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland was advertised publicly and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Answer
The Executive understands thatthe title of interim vice president has been given to two legal members of thetribunal, that no additional payments are being made beyond the daily rate payableto legal members of the tribunal and that there was no public advertisement.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 13 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what powers the President of the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland has to appoint a vice president.
Answer
The Mental Health (Care and Treatment)(Scotland) Act 2003 makes no specific provision for a vice president. The actdoes however give the president powers to delegate specific functions to any memberof the Tribunal or its staff in accordance with the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland (Delegationof President’s Functions) Regulations 2004 (SSI 2004/373).
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged between 8 and 16 were arrested by police officers and subsequently charged with an offence in each year since 1999, broken down by police force.
Answer
The available information isshown in the following table. The data is supplied by the Scottish Children’sReporter Administration, and – as such – cannot currently be broken down bypolice force.
The Numbers of Children1Referred to the Children’s Reporter Under Section 52(2)(i) of the Children (Scotland)Act 1995:
| Year | No. children |
| 1999-2000 | 16,261 |
| 2000-01 | 16,318 |
| 2001-02 | 17,132 |
| 2002-03 | 17,900 |
| 2003-04 | 18,608 |
| 2004-05 | 17,494 |
Note: 1. Information is onchildren and young people from eight to 17 years (inclusive) but excludes any involved in the most serious crimeswhich would have been dealt with by the courts.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged under 16 it estimates carried (a) a knife and (b) another type of offensive weapon in each year since 1999.
Answer
The Scottish Executive holdsno estimates of the overall prevalence of carrying offensive weapons by peopleaged under 16. The available information is shown in the following table.
Children and Young PeopleReferred to The Children’s Reporter Under Section 52(2)(I) of The Children (Scotland) Act1995 Where The Offence Type Was Carrying An Offensive Weapon
| 2003-04 | 1,245 |
| 2004-05 | 1,206 |
Source: Scottish Children’sReporter Administration.
The age of criminalresponsibility in Scotland is eight years. This information therefore relatesto children and young people aged eight years and over, to a maximum age of 17,and excludes any involved in the most serious crimes which would have beendealt with by the courts.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many errors were recorded in the mathematics booklet which forms part of the Scottish Survey of Achievement and how many corrections to this booklet were found to be erroneous after they were issued.
Answer
The 2006 Scottish Survey ofAchievement included 96 different numeracy booklets, 24 for each of primary 3,primary 5, primary 7 and S2. Two errors have been identified in these booklets.
The first item is one of 112items at Level E. The error in this item potentially affected a maximum of 360pupils of a total of 8,862 in the sample (approx. 4%).
The second item is one of112 items at Level C. The error in this item potentially affected a maximum of2,160 pupils of a sample of 26,140 (approx. 8%).
SQA issued amendment noticesfor both errors as soon as they were identified. The amendment notice for thesecond error (multiple choice response option item – Level C) contained anerror. No second amendment was issued in order to avoid further confusion. Instead,SQA have been instructed to remove this item from the analysis.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions composite class pupils have been without a teacher as a result of primary 3 pupils undertaking the Scottish Survey of Achievement, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
This information is not held centrally since it is a matter for Headteachers to take forward arrangementsfor the survey in their school.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has calculated the average time which it will take teachers to complete the paperwork required in the administration of personal learning plans as part of the assessment, testing and reporting of 3 to 14-year-olds.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-26376 on 9 June 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can befound at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has received from teachers and teaching bodies about the design of the mathematics booklet which forms part of the Scottish Survey of Achievement.
Answer
No representations have beenreceived from teachers about the design of the mathematics booklet which formspart of the Scottish Survey of Achievement. One representation has beenreceived from the EIS about the level of knowledge required for pupils to readthe graphs in the Level A maths booklet.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 May 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what information is being sought from pupils as part of the Scottish Survey of Achievement.
Answer
Pupils involved in the 2006 ScottishSurvey of Achievement are being asked to complete three assessment bookletscontaining tasks covering two or three of the 5-14 levels. In addition somepupils may be asked to take part in practical assessments. All pupils involvedare asked to complete a questionnaire about their learning and classroomexperiences. Copies of the questionnaires are available on the AifL –Assessment is for Learning website at:
www.ltscotland.org.uk/assess/of/ssa/surveys/2006/index.asp.
