Questions and answers

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)

Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.

Question reference: S1W-05531

Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 March 2000
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 5 April 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how many primary schools in each local authority area have an on-site IT technical support available to them.

Question reference: S1W-05526

Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 March 2000
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 5 April 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how many schools in Scotland have computers with high-speed connections to the Internet.

Question reference: S1W-05527

Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 March 2000
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 5 April 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how it defines "computer" for education purposes.

Question reference: S1W-05532

Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 March 2000
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 5 April 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how many secondary schools in each local authority area have an on-site IT technical support available to them.

Question reference: S1W-05530

Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 March 2000
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 5 April 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish teachers in each local authority area have a school-provided e-mail address and what progress is being made in ensuring that all Scottish teachers will have an e-mail address.

The Annual Survey of Information and Communications Technology, carried out across a sample of Scottish schools in October 1999, showed that 12% of teachers had access to e-mail. The information requested is not available by local authority area. We are aware that since the survey was carried out a number of local authorities have provided e-mail addresses to all their teachers. We expect that this year's survey will show a considerably higher percentage.

Question reference: S1W-05474

Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 March 2000
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 4 April 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has a Route Action Plan for the A701 and, if so, whether it will publish details and place a copy of the Plan in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.

Question reference: S1W-05417

Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 March 2000
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 30 March 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is taking steps to establish IT literacy targets for teachers in Scottish schools.

Question reference: S1W-05383

Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 March 2000
Current Status: Answered by Henry McLeish on 30 March 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-4196 by Peter Peacock on 18 February 2000, whether it will consider setting targets across the workforce for IT literacy.

Question reference: S1W-05413

Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 March 2000
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 30 March 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in connecting all Scottish schools to the Internet.

Question reference: S1W-05412

Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 March 2000
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 30 March 2000

To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish schools currently have connections to the Internet.

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