- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 14 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ensure that the strategic spending review takes into account that the planned expenditure on low-cost home ownership schemes for 2006-07 was over £30 million.
Answer
The government’s spendingplans for the period 2008-11 were announced on 14 November 2007. Within the tightest settlement for Scotland since devolution, our plans set out how we will fulfil our purpose, achieve our strategicobjectives and deliver for the people of Scotland across all our expenditure programmes, including low cost homeownership.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 12 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will reissue guidance to local authorities in respect of advice in Planning Advice Note 74 that “each site should contribute 25% of the total number of units as affordable housing”.
Answer
PAN 74 on affordablehousing was introduced in March 2005. It will take time both for all local authoritiesto adopt affordable housing policies in line with this advice as part of their overallplanning policies, and for the new homes to be built. Early indications are thatplanning authorities are adopting affordable housing policies that reflect the advicein PAN 74 and that these are beginning to deliver additional affordable housingunits. We are putting monitoring arrangements in place to assess the effectivenessof the advice in PAN 74.
Given the currentstatus of PAN 74 as outlined above, there are no current plans to issue any furtherguidance.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 12 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many foreign nationals were enrolled in schools in 2006-07.
Answer
The information requestedis not collected centrally.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 12 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many foreign nationals were enrolled in schools in 2005-06.
Answer
The information requestedis not collected centrally.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 9 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much additional funding will be made available to employ sufficient numbers of teachers of English as an additional language to address the growing requirement for their services.
Answer
The ScottishGovernment will continue to work with local authorities to improve provisionfor pupils for whom English is an additional language. The funding to beprovided will be as set out in the Scottish Government’s spending plans for2008-11.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 9 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions have been held with COSLA regarding the number of teachers of English as an additional language required in schools.
Answer
The issue ofteachers of English as an additional language was discussed at the teacherworkforce planning meetings at which COSLA was represented.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 9 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many teachers of English as an additional language were employed in schools in 2005-06.
Answer
There were 224.1full-time equivalent of teachers in publicly funded schools as at September 2005whose main subject taught was English as an additional language.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 9 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions have been held with teaching unions regarding the number of teachers of English as an additional language required in schools.
Answer
Scottish Governmentofficials met with the Education Committee of The Educational Institute of Scotlandon 2 November 2007. English as an additional language was anagenda item at this meeting.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 9 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many teachers of English as an additional language were employed in schools in 2006-07.
Answer
There were 192.7full-time equivalent of teachers in publicly funded schools as at September 2006whose main subject taught was English as an additional language.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 6 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how the £34 million allocated to Scotland as a result of the UK Government’s announcement of an extra £340 million for disabled children will be spent.
Answer
The ComprehensiveSpending Review settlement for Scotland announced by the Chancellor on 9 October 2007 will become part of the total funding available to the Scottish Government, on which our own Strategic Spending Review considerations willbe based. Scottish ministers decide their own priorities for the use of all moneyin the Scottish Block – including consequentials flowing from the UK Government’sannouncement of an extra £340 million for disabled children - and the Cabinet Secretaryfor Finance and Sustainable Growth will announce how they have decided to use themin mid-November.
