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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S1O-02194

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 August 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sam Galbraith on 7 September 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils in Dumfries and Galloway have received incorrect or incomplete notification of their Standard Grade or Higher results.

Question reference: S1W-05949

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sam Galbraith on 31 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children were granted a record of needs last year, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S1W-05950

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sam Galbraith on 31 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children were assessed to ascertain whether they require a record of needs last year, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S1W-05947

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sam Galbraith on 31 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children have records of need in each local authority area in Scotland.

The information requested is given in the table below.

PQ S1W-5746 - Data collected by the School Census in September 1998
Number of pupils with a Record of Needs, by Education Authority
Local Authority	Primary	Secondary	Special	Total	% of School Roll
Scotland	3,869	4,589	6,934	15,392	1.95%
Aberdeen City	169	150	476	795	2.61%
Aberdeenshire	168	191	292	651	1.76%
Angus	118	159		277	1.66%
Argyll & Bute	51	64	45	160	1.16%
Clackmannanshire	25	71	86	182	2.10%
Dumfries & Galloway	239	215	30	484	2.14%
Dundee City	191	206	188	585	2.62%
East Ayrshire	109	145	169	423	2.18%
East Dunbartonshire	28	28	96	152	0.78%
East Lothian	73	48		121	0.90%
East Renfrewshire	67	107	43	217	1.35%
Edinburgh, City of	225	145	687	1057	1.75%
Eilean Siar	63	45		108	2.44%
Falkirk	98	125	311	534	2.52%
Fife	165	211	216	592	1.10%
Glasgow City	242	226	1895	2363	2.75%
Highland	309	404	156	869	2.56%
Inverclyde	128	140	138	406	2.89%
Midlothian	40	15	131	186	1.44%
Moray	133	150	13	296	2.06%
North Ayrshire	107	185	197	489	2.23%
North Lanarkshire	195	217	493	905	1.70%
Orkney Islands	12	23	8	43	1.34%
Perth & Kinross	143	123	118	384	1.83%
Renfrewshire	169	291	354	814	2.93%
Scottish Borders	126	129	5	260	1.67%
Shetland Islands	52	26		78	1.99%
South Ayrshire	104	176	85	365	2.05%
South Lanarkshire	179	353	432	964	1.97%
Stirling	33	136	68	237	1.80%
West Dunbartonshire	28	20	92	140	0.88%
West Lothian	80	65	110	255	1.01%

Note: The above figures show the Education Authorities that are educating the pupils. Some EAs pay others to educate pupils on their behalf - which limits how much comparison is possible between EAs.

This question was originally answered on 24 May 2000.

Question reference: S1W-05948

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sam Galbraith on 31 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the school population in each local authority area in Scotland is made up of children with records of needs.

Question reference: S1W-08950

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 28 July 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 31 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made any assessment of the impact of the proposed aggregates levy on the cost of road maintenance and road building.

Question reference: S1W-09003

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 August 2000
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 23 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of deer numbers in the area around Rockcliffe and Kippford in Kirkcudbrightshire.

Question reference: S1W-07863

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 June 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 22 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how many heavy goods vehicles entered Scotland through the ports of Stranraer and Cairnryan in each of the last five years.

The latest information available is shown below.

	Inward traffic at Stranraer (thousands of vehicles)			Inward traffic at Cairnryan (thousands of vehicles)
	Road goods Vehicles	Unaccompanied trailers	Total	Road goods vehicles	Unaccompanied trailers	Total
1994	41	23	64	33	20	54
1995	42	24	66	37	22	59
1996	32	21	53	46	23	69
1997	42	24	66	43	26	70
1998	44	23	67	48	39	87

These figures cover :

(a) road goods vehicles, not all of which are classified as heavy goods vehicles; and

(b) trailers that were unaccompanied on the ferry crossing (these are attached to a cab at the dockside and are therefore classified as goods vehicles leaving the port).

The figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand, so totals may differ slightly from the sum of their components.

Question reference: S1W-08949

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 28 July 2000
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 21 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the effectiveness of the Small Towns Initiative.

In November 1999 the Planning & Evaluation unit and the Competitive Place Directorate within Scottish Enterprise commissioned a review of the Small Towns Initiative. This review was carried out by the consultant Malcolm Watson and was completed in May this year. Scottish Enterprise are currently working to produce a policy paper to take to the next Network Rural Leadership Group meeting in August. The policy paper is currently in draft form and will cover the findings and learning points from the review, the current issues facing small towns in Scotland and the possible policy responses to these issues. The review and the policy paper should both be available by 1 September 2000.

Question reference: S1W-08951

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 28 July 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 18 August 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what environmental costs result from the quarries located within Galloway and Upper Nithsdale.