- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 14 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many road accidents have occurred in the last five years on the Lochearnhead to Tyndrum stretch of the A85.
Answer
The number of personal injury accidents for each of the last five years which have occurred on the A85 trunk road between Lochearnhead and Crianlarich and the A82 trunk road between Crianlarich and Tyndrum is as follows:-
A85 Lochearnhead to Crianlarich
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total |
| 1995 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 1996 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 14 |
| 1997 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 1998 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Total | 0 | 22 | 22 | 44 |
A82 Crianlarich to Tyndrum
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total |
| 1995 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 1996 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 13 |
| 1997 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 1998 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Total | 3 | 13 | 15 | 31 |
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 14 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many road accidents have occurred in the last five years on the Stirling to Ballat Cross stretch of the A811.
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 below 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 1995 to 1999 inclusive.
It should be noted that the statistics given below 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 |
| 1995 | 17 |
| 1996 | 12 |
| 1997 | 18 |
| 1998 | 21 |
| 1999 | 15 |
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many three-year-olds were eligible for local authority or partnership nursery places in each of the last three years.
Answer
59,870 three-year-olds are eligible for publicly funded pre-school education places in the 1999-2000 school year. This is the first year of grant-funded places for three-year-olds. Comparable information for previous years is not available.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many four-year-olds were eligible for local authority or partnership nursery places in each of the last three years.
Answer
62,466, 61,370 and 59,297 four-year-olds were eligible for publicly funded pre-school education places in the academic years 1997-98, 1998-99 and 1999-2000 respectively. Comparable information for 1996-97 is not available.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 26 July 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many posts in the Scottish Executive, including its agencies, have been created in or transferred to Tayside since 6 May 1999.
Answer
The Scottish Executive and its agencies currently have 763 staff in the three local authority areas covering Tayside. No additional permanent posts have been created in or transferred to Tayside since 6 May 1999.
The Executive's policy on location and relocation of civil service jobs remains as set out by the First Minister in his answer of 15 September 1999 (question S1W-1558, Mr Duncan McNeil MSP). My answer of 6 July 2000 (S1W-8578, Karen Gillon MSP) set out the action the Executive plans to take over the summer to consider the location of a number of bodies covered by the policy.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 25 July 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the proposed new guidelines in relation to section 2A of the Local Government Act 1986 will apply to Scotland's remaining self-governing school, St Mary's Episcopal Primary School in Dunblane.
Answer
The working group set up to review the curriculum guidelines in the light of the repeal of section 2A of the Local Government Act 1986 recommended that the Executive ensure that existing and new materials should impact on the practices of all schools, not just those managed by local authorities.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 25 July 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it, or any of its agencies, owns the esplanade at Stirling Castle.
Answer
Stirling Castle and its esplanade were conveyed to the Secretary of State for Scotland by the Crown Estates Commissioners in 1999. Ownership has now transferred to Scottish Ministers.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 25 July 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8299 by Mr Jack McConnell on 28 June 2000, whether it will detail the end-of-year balance generated for each sub-heading of the Vote 3 Budget and to detail how much of these surpluses will be retained in these budget sub-headings in the financial year 2001-02 and what additional funds will be allocated to these budget sub-headings through end-year flexibility.
Answer
I refer you to the figures I provided in my answer to question S1W-8299. The Appropriation accounts published in the autumn will contain a breakdown of end-year balances. The answer to question S1W-8299 also shows the amounts retained by portfolios and the further allocation of £13 million to Education and Enterprise and Lifelong Learning portfolios.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 July 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 24 July 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority received from the Budget 2000 additional financial resources for schools as outlined in the Education Department circular No. 1/2000.
Answer
The information requested is shown in the table below.
Budget 2000 - Additional Financial Resources for Schools
Education Authority | Amount Received (£) |
| Aberdeen City | 1,066,000 |
| Aberdeenshire | 1,538,000 |
| Angus | 653,000 |
| Argyll & Bute | 736,000 |
| Clackmannanshire | 295,000 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 1,114,000 |
| Dundee City | 773,000 |
| East Ayrshire | 770,000 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 725,000 |
| East Lothian | 467,000 |
| East Renfrewshire | 510,000 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 1,901,000 |
| Eilean Siar | 553,000 |
| Falkirk | 821,000 |
| Fife | 1,953,000 |
| Glasgow City | 3,177,000 |
| Highland | 1,873,000 |
| Inverclyde | 593,000 |
| Midlothian | 531,000 |
| Moray | 562,000 |
| North Ayrshire | 844,000 |
| North Lanarkshire | 2,198,000 |
| Orkney Islands | 289,000 |
| Perth & Kinross | 821,000 |
| Renfrewshire | 1,023,000 |
| Scottish Borders | 696,000 |
| Shetland Islands | 406,000 |
| South Ayrshire | 712,000 |
| South Lanarkshire | 1,853,000 |
| Stirling | 607,000 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 601,000 |
| West Lothian | 950,000 |
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- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 18 July 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list any meetings which have taken place between Ministers and representatives of the seven grant-aided special educational needs schools in Scotland since the publication of the report of the Advisory Committee on the Education of Children with Severe Low Incidence Disabilities.
Answer
I visited Donaldson's College on 1 November 1999 and my colleague, Peter Peacock, has attended two meetings of the SEN Advisory Forum at which the Headteacher of the Royal Blind School has also been present. In addition, Scottish Executive officials have had two rounds of meetings with representatives of all seven schools to discuss the transitional arrangements.
