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We do not hold specific costs for the proposals in your question.

(b) The work which commenced in September 2009 is progressing to programme and budget and is due to be completed by Network Rail by May 2010.

(a) disabled access “ Step free access points to the station are available in Gordon Street, close to the Union Street corner and Hope Street, opposite Waterloo Street. Passenger drop off can take place in areas designated as loading bays in Union Street and Waterloo Street, in both cases a short walk to these step free entrances. An additional disabled access point exists further down Hope Street, close to the Argyle Street corner. This access provides lift connectivity to both the high level and low level stations and is adjacent to a further loading bay in which passenger drop off can be effected.

(b) drop-off and pick up passenger points - As described above, drop off can be achieved in designated loading bays positioned in Union Street, Waterloo Street and Hope Street. Passenger pick up can also be undertaken at these locations but general traffic restrictions will prevent vehicles waiting in these loading bays.

(c) short term parking at Glasgow Central station - in order to carry out the platform work required to provide the much needed capacity enhancement at Glasgow Central Station the short stay car park and pick up / set down facilities within the station closed permanently on 27 September 2009. Commercial car parking facilities in Oswald Street and other locations adjacent to the station also remain available. The NCP Oswald Street car park has step-free access directly onto Platform 15.

The specific information requested is not routinely collated. SPS do collate the number of learners who engage with learning centres on a monthly basis in the education activities detailed in the answer to question S3W-30598 on 25 January 2010. Education activities are designed to underpin the five core skills of communication, numeracy, IT, problem solving and working with others. The following table details the average monthly number of prisoners who engage with the learning centres during the past two years (data was not collected in this way during 2006-07). The average has been used as there would be a high degree for double counting if each monthly total were simply added up.

Note: *Current average monthly figure for Kilmarnock is 64.

The information requested is not routinely collected by SPS. SPS captures the number of SQA units achieved by prisoners, however, this figure does not equate to individual prisoners as one prisoner may achieve more than one unit.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-30598 on 25 January 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

The following table details the number of SQA unit achievements there have been over the last three years broken down by prison and whether the award was vocational or non-vocational. The data has been subdivided as far as is practicable based on the information routinely collated.

The information below captures the main educational opportunities provided through the prison learning centres and our vocational training units including our PE departments. Where these are linked to SQA certification this is noted.