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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
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Question reference: S1W-11263

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 November 2000
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 29 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8508 by Mr Tom McCabe on 30 August 2000, on how many occasions since 10 July 2000 it has asked back-bench MSPs to lodge parliamentary questions in order to enable it to make an announcement and whether it will provide a list of such questions, including the date on which they were lodged and the MSP who lodged them.

Question reference: S1W-09592

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 September 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sam Galbraith on 27 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how often Ministers have met representatives of the Scottish Arts Council since 1 June 1999, on what dates these meetings took place and what issues were discussed.

The following table provides the information requested.Meetings Between the Scottish Executive and Scottish Arts Council

Date	Minister	Subject	SAC officials	Others
14 August 2000	Sam Galbraith	Cultural Strategy	Tessa Jackson & Magnus Linklater	Bob Irvine
3 July 2000	Rhona Brankin	NCS funding	Magnus Linklater
6 June 2000	Rhona Brankin	NCS	Tessa Jackson
23 May 2000	Sam Galbraith	Scottish Opera	Magnus Linklater
20 April 2000	Rhona Brankin	NCS	Tessa Jackson
10 January 2000	Rhona Brankin	Misc. Cultural Issues: Introductory	Tessa Jackson
6 October 1999	Rhona Brankin	Ministerial involvement in SAC and Lottery events.	Barclay Price & S Gavaghan
18 June 1999	Sam Galbraith	No records held	S Reid & Magnus Linklater
14 June 1999	Sam Galbraith & Rhona Brankin	No records held	Magnus Linklater

Question reference: S1W-09595

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 September 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sam Galbraith on 24 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how often Ministers have met representatives of sportscotland since 1 June 1999, on what dates these meetings took place and what issues were discussed.

The following table provides the information requested.

MEETINGS BETWEEN THE SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE MINISTERS AND SPORTSCOTLAND:

Date	Minister	Subject	Standard Meeting/ At request of NDPB
21 June 1999	Rhona Brankin	Introductory meeting with sportscotland and review of draft Corporate Plan	Standard annual meeting
25 August 1999	Rhona Brankin	First formal meeting with Alastair Dempster as new Chairman	At request of NDPB
2 May and 27 June 2000	Rhona Brankin	Chairing Sport 21 Review Group meetings	At request of NDPB
30 May 2000	Rhona Brankin	Review of Draft Corporate Plan	Standard annual meeting
20 June 2000	Rhona Brankin	Presentation On Youth/School Sport	At request of NDPB
10 August	Rhona Brankin	Meeting with Chairman and new Chief Executive	At request of NDPB
4 September 2000	Sam Galbraith	2000 Spending Review and Sport	At request of NDPB

Question reference: S1O-02582

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 November 2000
Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 23 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made since July with regard to the dispersal of civil service jobs to Tayside.

Question reference: S1W-10994

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 21 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how much public money is being contributed towards the Millennium Link canal project and which public agencies are involved.

Question reference: S1W-10996

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 21 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what type of boats will use the Millennium Link canal; whether any traffic projections have been made and, if so, whether it will give details of these projections and where the narrowest point in the canal will be to allow boats to pass through and what the width of that will be.

Question reference: S1W-10995

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 21 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects the Millennium Link canal to open.

Question reference: S1W-10928

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 03 November 2000
Current Status: Answered by Jack McConnell on 17 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how many places at each teacher training institution (a) were not filled in the current academic year and (b) were not filled in each of the last three academic years.

The following table shows the places available and intake to teacher education institutions for pre-service teacher training, 1997-1998 to 2000-01:

	Year
	2000-01	1999-2000	1998-99	1997-98
Primary BEd
Places available	701	600	600	612
Intake	708	636	612	618
Primary Postgraduate
Places available	316	265	210	213
Intake	335	276	238	217
Secondary BEd
Places available	170	181	214	202
Intake	175	218	193	172
Secondary Postgraduate
Places available	1,000	1,015	812	828
Intake	991	1,004	861	826
Total
Places available	2,187	2,061	1,836	1,855
Intake	2,209	2,134	1,904	1,833

Question reference: S1W-10836

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 November 2000
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 15 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-9603 by Henry McLeish on 19 September 2000, when Ministers next intend to meet representatives of the Scottish Further Education Unit and what issues will be discussed.

There are currently no plans for Ministers to meet formally with representatives of the Scottish Further Education Unit. However, Alasdair Morrison, Deputy Minister for Enterprise, Lifelong Learning and Gaelic is planning to attend SFEU's National Conference, "Building the Future", on 23 November 2000. The main themes of the conference will be lifelong learning; social justice; economic competitiveness; Information and Communication Technology, and Research and Development.

Question reference: S1O-02506

Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 November 2000
Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 9 November 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Deputy Minister for Sport and Culture next proposes to meet representatives of the Scottish Arts Council and what issues are likely to be discussed.