- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the union of the crowns.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-16294 on 28 June 2001.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 26 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total cost was of publishing, producing and distributing its report, Creating our Future: Minding our Past: National Cultural Strategy, First Annual Report.
Answer
The total cost for design, printing and web conversion of the First Annual Report of the Creating our Future: Minding our Past: National Cultural Strategy was £3,175.25.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 26 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive which ministers have met representatives of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland since 1 July 1999 and on which occasions.
Answer
Rhona Brankin, the then Deputy Minister for Culture and Sport, met representatives of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland on 26 June 2000. I met representatives of the commission on 27 September 2001.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 26 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive which ministers have met representatives of the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland since 1 July 1999 and on which occasions.
Answer
Rhona Brankin, then Deputy Minister for Culture and Sport, attended the meeting of the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland in November 1999. I met with representatives of the council last month.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 22 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Deputy Minister for Sport, the Arts and Culture has had any discussions with the chairman or other representatives of the Scottish Arts Council regarding the future of its director.
Answer
Yes, the Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council keeps me generally informed about developments affecting the council and its role. All employment arrangements are matters for the council, and it is the council which employs the director.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 16 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Police STATS 19 form is the most accurate way of identifying the number and type of personal injuries that occur from road accidents, and whether any other record systems have been considered for use for this purpose.
Answer
The STATS 19 system, which is used throughout Great Britain, is designed to gather information for the production of statistics and to assist in the prevention of road accidents. It draws on the expertise of the police to collect information about key features of each accident known to them which occurs on a public road, involves one or more vehicles and results in the death or injury of one or more people. A considerable amount of detail is obtained about the circumstances of each accident. The STATS 19 records whether casualties' injuries were fatal, severe or slight.The system is kept under regular review. A National Statistics Quality Review of the STATS 19 started earlier this year, with the objectives of ensuring that the statistics are fit for purpose, and that improvements are identified and taken forward. It is being conducted by the Standing Committee on Road Accident Statistics, which includes representatives of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Scotland), the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, and the Scottish Executive. The review will consider, for example, whether outputs meet user needs, whether outputs are of adequate quality (eg in accuracy and timeliness), whether appropriate methods and best practice are used, and whether the burden on data suppliers is justified. Among the matters which will be considered are the STATS 19 definition of the severity of injury, the possibility of recording more information about casualties' injuries in the STATS 19 returns, the availability of health service information about casualties' injuries, the coverage of the health service statistics, and the relationship between the STATS 19 and health service classifications of the severity of casualties' injuries. Further information about the review may be obtained from the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions Website, at the following address:
http://www.transtat.dtlr.gov.uk/scras/qareview.htm.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 16 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when it first learned of Scottish Amicable's decision to make 430 compulsory and voluntary job cuts at its headquarters at Craigforth, Stirling.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-19674.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 16 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what meetings it has had with representatives of Scottish Amicable or the Prudential to discuss the 430 job losses at the headquarters of Scottish Amicable in Craigforth, Stirling, and whether it will make available any papers or documents referred to at these meetings.
Answer
The Executive met with senior officers of both Scottish Amicable and their parent company, Prudential Assurance, on 31 October. The discussion covered Prudential's decision to rebrand all Scottish Amicable products and to make further efficiency savings within the group. This meeting was convened on the understanding that commercial confidentiality would be respected. Following the public announcement of Prudential's intentions on 2 November, the scope of that discussion is now effectively in the public domain, including the company's pledge to retain Craigforth as a major business centre with more than 2,000 employed there.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 16 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish details of the total number of students who have registered appeals with the Scottish Qualifications Authority as a result of the 2001 examination diet, broken down into (i) the number of papers appealed; (ii) the proportion of students who made appeals; (iii) the proportion of papers on which a result was appealed, and (iv) the number of appeals that have been completed to date, and whether it will publish comparative data for each of the preceding four years.
Answer
The administration of the appeals process is a matter for the Scottish Qualifications Authority and I will ask the chair to write to you with the details requested. The latest position on appeals will be included in the next quarterly report to the parliament at the end of November.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 12 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many road accidents have occurred on the A827 between Kenmore and Killin in each of the last five years.
Answer
Data about injury road accidents are collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executive using the STATS 19 statistical report form. These returns cover only road accidents in which one or more people were injured: they do not cover damage only accidents.The table gives the numbers of road accidents which were identified in the STATS 19 returns as occurring on the stretch of the A827 between the mid point of Killin and the mid point of Kenmore, over the period 1996 to 2000 inclusive.It should be noted that the statistics given in the table are based upon the data which are held in the central statistical database and which were collected by the police at the time of the accident and subsequently reported to the Executive. They may differ from any figures which the local authority would provide now, because they do not take account of any subsequent changes or corrections that the local authority may have made to the statistical information, for use at local level, about the location of each accident, based upon its knowledge of the road and area concerned.
| Year | Number of injury road accidents that occurred on the A827 between the mid point of Killin and the mid point of Kenmore |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 2 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2000 | 4 |
