- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 4 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to distribute the #101.9 million end year flexibility allocation to education.
Answer
£65 million of the £101.9 million end year flexibility figure results from a planned underspend to meet costs arising from the teachers' pay and conditions settlement. The Minister for Education will announce the use of the balance of the funds in due course.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 4 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to distribute the #6.3 million end year flexibility allocation to culture and sport.
Answer
Some of the £6.3 million end year flexibility allocation to culture and sport will be used to meet some of the costs of the National Galleries of Scotland's refurbishment of the Royal Scottish Academy building, and works in Holyrood Park. Ministers will announce the use of the balance of the funds in due course.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 4 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive which projects in Clackmannanshire have received funding from the New Futures Fund in each of the last two years.
Answer
One project - the Central Scotland Council on Alcohol project in Sauchie - has received funding.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 4 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will reconsider its decision to close its Environment and Rural Affairs Department office in Stirling given the current situation in the agriculture industry.
Answer
No. As I have previously indicated, the decision to close the Stirling Office was taken after careful consideration of a number of options. I reviewed the decision in the light of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease and other difficulties facing the industry, and concluded that this was still the best option.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 1 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many personal injury accidents occurred on the A91 between (a) Stirling and Milnathort and (b) Milnathort and St Andrews in each of the past 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.
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.
The table gives the numbers of injury road accidents which were identified in the STATS 19 returns as occurring on the A91 between (a) Stirling (junction with the A905) and Milnathort (junction with the A911 and A922) and between (b) Milnathort (junction 8 of the M90) and St Andrews (junction with the A917) over the period 1996 to 2000 inclusive.
Year | Injury road accidents which occurred on the A91 between Stirling and Milnathort | Injury road accidents which occurred on the A91 between Milnathort and St Andrews |
1996 | 23 | 32 |
1997 | 38 | 30 |
1998 | 32 | 37 |
1999 | 28 | 27 |
2000 | 30 | 30 |
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 1 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-17518 by Ross Finnie on 29 August 2001, what the financial savings will be from closing each of its Environment and Rural Affairs Department offices in Dundee and Forfar.
Answer
Keeping the Dundee office open, but closing those at Stirling and Forfar would incur additional annual running costs of around £110,000.
Keeping the Forfar office open, but closing those at Stirling and Dundee was not considered to be a practical proposition and therefore no figures are available for this option.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 1 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the announcement on 10 August 2001 of a rationalisation of its agriculture and animal health offices in central Scotland, what consultation it undertook with the farming community in the Stirling area prior to the decision to close its office in the town.
Answer
There were no formal consultations with local farming communities about the rationalisation of the department's agricultural offices.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 1 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-17362 by Nicol Stephen on 22 August 2001, how many secondary school (a) pupils and (b) staff in each local authority area in Scotland have e-mail addresses at school.
Answer
The latest information available is shown in the table. Investment in information and communications technology through the National Grid for Learning programme has continued since September 2000, and the 2001 School Census will provide an updated picture of the provision of e-mail addresses for secondary teachers and pupils.
Number of pupils and teachers in publicly funded secondary schools with e-mail addresses in each Local Authority
| Local Authority | Teachers with e-mail address | % teachers with e-mail address | Pupils with e-mail address | % pupils with e-mail address |
| Aberdeen City | 241 | 24.6% | 2,099 | 19.1% |
| Aberdeenshire | 964 | 77.1% | 10,384 | 67.7% |
| Angus | 548 | 89.4% | 6,467 | 89.7% |
| Argyll & Bute | 23 | 5.0% | 143 | 2.6% |
| Clackmannanshire | 104 | 42.8% | 1,040 | 33.9% |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 821 | 98.0% | 9,747 | 99.9% |
| Dundee City | 17 | 2.2% | 0 | 0.0% |
| East Ayrshire | 37 | 5.9% | 0 | 0.0% |
| East Dunbartonshire | 240 | 35.8% | 1,210 | 13.7% |
| East Lothian | 142 | 32.3% | 2,338 | 44.6% |
| East Renfrewshire | 488 | 86.7% | 6,506 | 89.3% |
| Edinburgh, City of | 1528 | 91.2% | 17,925 | 90.5% |
| Eilean Siar | 79 | 27.3% | 432 | 22.4% |
| Falkirk | 124 | 18.4% | 90 | 1.1% |
| Fife | 365 | 20.1% | 1,860 | 8.0% |
| Glasgow City | 812 | 33.3% | 8,207 | 27.5% |
| Highland | 1034 | 75.3% | 1,788 | 12.2% |
| Inverclyde | 210 | 45.6% | 5,035 | 87.2% |
| Midlothian | 459 | 98.1% | 5,026 | 90.2% |
| Moray | 498 | 100.0% | 5,732 | 100.0% |
| North Ayrshire | 396 | 54.5% | 4,443 | 48.4% |
| North Lanarkshire | 425 | 23.6% | 3,202 | 14.1% |
| Orkney Islands | 143 | 82.7% | 1,297 | 95.4% |
| Perth & Kinross | 349 | 54.4% | 4,567 | 59.1% |
| Renfrewshire | 11 | 1.2% | 1 | 0.0% |
| Scottish Borders | 422 | 73.6% | 4,224 | 63.1% |
| Shetland Islands | 100 | 44.6% | 1,078 | 65.7% |
| South Ayrshire | 52 | 8.7% | 583 | 7.5% |
| South Lanarkshire | 1542 | 98.0% | 19,300 | 95.0% |
| Stirling | 136 | 30.4% | 930 | 16.2% |
| West Dunbartonshire | 193 | 36.0% | 2,395 | 34.8% |
| West Lothian | 715 | 89.3% | 9,238 | 88.5% |
| All | 13218 | 50.5% | 137,287 | 43.2% |
Source: SEED Schools Census September 2000.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 27 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how it decided on the amount to be allocated to each local authority in 2001-02 from the school buildings improvement fund announced on 22 August 2001.
Answer
The resources in the School Buildings Improvement Fund are being distributed to authorities on the basis of the education element of the formula which is at present used for the allocation of capital consents on non-housing programmes under section 94 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 27 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether its school buildings improvement fund is for the current financial year only or whether further allocations are to be made for future years.
Answer
The arrangements announced at this stage for the School Buildings Improvement Fund cover financial year 2001-02. Arrangements for 2002-03 and 2003-04 will be the subject of further consideration following the meeting I intend to have with local authority leaders on 31 October 2001.
