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No petrol stations in these areas have applied for assistance under the scheme.

Under Schedule 5 of the Scotland Act 1998, the provision and regulation of railway services, which includes railway safety, are reserved matters. They are the responsibility of the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR) within the UK Government.The Scottish Executive, however, is in regular contact with DTLR, the Health and Safety Executive and their Railways Inspectorate, Railtrack, the Rail Regulator and the British Transport Police on matters relating to rail safety in Scotland.

The number of personal injury accidents in each of the last five years (1996-2000) on the A92 between Tayport and Glenrothes is as follows:

Year	Fatal	Serious	Slight	Total
1996	1	16	13	30
1997	3	11	20	34
1998	3	8	20	31
1999	1	3	19	23
2000	1	9	29	39
Total	9	47	101	157

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.

STATS 19 returns have so far been received for the period from January to May 2001 inclusive. During that period four injury road accidents were identified as occurring on the A811 between its junction with the A81 and the centre of Stirling. This is a provisional figure as there may be additional injury accidents which occurred in those months but for which returns have not yet been received.It should be noted that this figure is 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. It may differ from any figure which the local authority would provide now, because it does 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.

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 following table gives the numbers of road accidents which were identified in the STATS 19 returns as occurring on the A811 between its junction with the A81 and the centre of Stirling over the period 1990 to 1994 inclusive.

It should be noted that the statistics provided 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	Injury road accidents which occurred on the A811 between its junction with the A81 and Stirling
1990	19
1991	15
1992	22
1993	11
1994	16

The allowances payable to jurors in respect of childminding and babysitting are set by the Scottish Court Service. There are no plans to review these allowances.

A total of 103,381 three and four year old children were receiving publicly funded pre-school education in the summer term of the last school session. The following table breaks down the places they occupied by type of provision. The figures refer to places, not children, since some children attend more than one centre over the five sessions per week of grant funded education available to them.

We will shortly be publishing provisional results of the 2001 Pre-school and Day Care Census, analysing the latest information by the different types of provision within the pre-school education sector.

Number of Part or Full-Time Places Occupied by 3 and 4 Year Olds

Type of Provider	Places Occupied by 3 Year Olds	Places Occupied by 4 Year Olds
Local Authority Nursery Schools and Classes	26,351	44,312
1LA centres (other than nursery schools and classes)	2,304	2,257
Private Day Nurseries	9,551	6,234
Voluntary Sector	8,455	3,346
Independent Schools	556	886
Self Governing Schools	19	9
Child Minders	9	15
Grant Aided Schools	3	6

Data about injury road accidents are collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executive using the STATS 19 statistical report form.

During 2000 there were 13 injury road accidents which were identified in the STATS 19 returns as occurring on the A811 between its junction with the A81 and the centre of Stirling.

It should be noted that this figure is 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. It may differ from any figure which the local authority would provide now, because it does 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 Scottish Executive has plans to undertake improvements identified for a number of sections on the A85 between Lochearnhead and Lix Toll. These include schemes to improve visibility and road realignment at bends. The new Operating Company, BEAR Scotland Ltd, has been instructed to progress the design of the schemes this year. Implementation of the schemes will be progressed subject to availability of funds and other competing trunk road priorities.

In addition, a review of verge safety fences has been undertaken on the A85 and two sites at Glen Ogle have been identified for treatment. The work will be subject to competitive tender and is programmed to be completed this financial year.

The following table shows how many places are expected to be filled at teacher training institutions in each category of study in the academic session 2001-02.

Intakes to initial teacher education courses	2001-02
Primary BEd	701
Primary PGCE	707
Secondary BEd	174
Secondary PGCE	1,044*
Total	2,626

*A minimum of 626 places will be taken from the priority subject list. The current priority subjects resulting from information from education authorities are, computing, English, mathematics, modern languages, music, physics, religious education, technological education and Gaelic-medium in history and geography).

Intake figures to courses of initial teacher education are set annually by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC) following guidance each year from the Education Department on the minimum requirements for newly qualified teachers. SHEFC normally inform teacher education institutions of intake levels to courses in the February prior to the academic session in question. It is not therefore possible at this time, to provide the information for the period beyond 2001-02.