- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 24 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many community hospitals have specific facilities for dealing with psychiatric patients, including an interview room with adequate safety features within the accident and emergency department, as recommended by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Answer
This is an operational matter for NHS boards about which information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 24 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS boards that serve rural areas have set up psychiatric emergency plans, as referred to in the RARARI Bid 79 Report.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-13141, answered on24 January 2005. 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/wa.search.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 24 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made by NHS boards in setting up a rural mental health network, as recommended in the RARARI Bid 79 Report.
Answer
This is an operational matter for NHS boards and their partners. However, a mental health network has been established to support implementation of the new Mental Health Act and I am encouraged that learning networks and other shared interest fora are beginning to develop within this network.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 21 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will introduce enhanced provision for traditional music in schools as part of the 3-18 curriculum review.
Answer
I announced in my response to the Curriculum Review Group’s recommendations that a cycle of continuous updating and reform of the curriculum across all areas of learning will begin immediately, starting with the science curriculum 3-18. A programme board has been established to take forward this work and is still to determine a timetable for the review of other areas of learning.
I am currently exploring what more I can do specifically to strengthen traditional music.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 20 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-11675 by Tavish Scott on 8 November 2004, whether it has now reached a conclusion in respect of whether there will be a review of the Game (Scotland) Acts and, if so, what that conclusion is.
Answer
The Executive is stillconsidering whether to conduct a review of the Game (Scotland)Acts.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 20 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-11675 by Tavish Scott on 8 November 2004, whether it considers the Game (Scotland) Acts to be consistent with the EU Directive on the Conservation of Birds; whether the European Commission has expressed any view on this matter, and how this issue will be addressed in any review of the Game (Scotland) Acts.
Answer
The Game (Scotland) Actsall predate the obligations placed on Scottish ministers by Council Directive79/409/EEC, but they are not inconsistent with those obligations.
Scottish ministers havereceived no formal communication from the European Commission in relation tothis matter.
Any review of the Game Actswould take full account of obligations arising from international commitmentsand European legislation.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 14 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to persuade Gaelic-speaking teachers to teach through the medium of Gaelic.
Answer
In order to address the need for Gaelic teachers the Scottish Executive is taking action in a number of areas, including encouraging local authorities to persuade Gaelic speaking teachers to teach through the medium of Gaelic. The Scottish Executive’s teacher recruitment campaign in 2005 will include an emphasis on recruiting teachers that are both able and willing to teach through the medium of Gaelic. The Scottish Executive is also funding a course at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig to assist Gaelic speaking teachers to transfer to Gaelic-medium teaching. This course will be available for on-line delivery in 2005. In addition, in the Scottish Executive’s teacher induction scheme, every effort is made to allocate newly qualified Gaelic speaking teachers to Gaelic-medium teaching posts.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 14 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish statistics on the number of Gaelic-speaking teachers not currently teaching through the medium of Gaelic.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has published statistics on the number of Gaelic speaking teachers not currently teaching through the medium of Gaelic. This information was published in July 2004 in the Scottish Executive’s survey of Scottish teachers “Teachers in Scotland 2003”. The following information was included in this publication.
Primary School Teachers by Ability to Teach Through Gaelic, 2003
| | Able to Teach Through Gaelic | Currently Teaching Through Gaelic |
| Aberdeen City | 7 | 5 |
| Aberdeenshire | 1 | 0 |
| Angus | 1 | 1 |
| Argyll and Bute | 15 | 8 |
| Clackmannanshire | 0 | 0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 0 | 0 |
| Dundee City | 0 | 0 |
| East Ayrshire | 5 | 4 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 6 | 3 |
| East Lothian | 0 | 0 |
| East Renfrewshire | 1 | 0 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 7 | 5 |
| Eilean Siar | 77 | 44 |
| Falkirk | 0 | 0 |
| Fife | 1 | 0 |
| Glasgow City | 17 | 13 |
| Highland | 69 | 55 |
| Inverclyde | 1 | - |
| Midlothian | 0 | 0 |
| Moray | 0 | 0 |
| North Ayrshire | 1 | 0 |
| North Lanarkshire | 9 | 5 |
| Orkney Islands | 0 | 0 |
| Perth and Kinross | 1 | 1 |
| Renfrewshire | 2 | 1 |
| Scottish Borders | 0 | 0 |
| Shetland Islands | 0 | 0 |
| South Ayrshire | 0 | 0 |
| South Lanarkshire | 7 | 4 |
| Stirling | 3 | 3 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 0 | 0 |
| West Lothian | 3 | 0 |
| All local authorities | 233 | 152 |
Secondary School Teachers by Ability to Teach Through Gaelic, 2003
| | Able to Teach Through Gaelic | Currently Teaching Through Gaelic |
| Aberdeen City | 2 | 1 |
| Aberdeenshire | 1 | 0 |
| Angus | 1 | 1 |
| Argyll and Bute | 2 | 1 |
| Clackmannanshire | 0 | 0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 0 | 0 |
| Dundee City | 0 | 0 |
| East Ayrshire | 0 | 0 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 2 | 1 |
| East Lothian | 0 | 0 |
| East Renfrewshire | 0 | 0 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 2 | 0 |
| Eilean Siar | 40 | 7 |
| Falkirk | 0 | 0 |
| Fife | 1 | 1 |
| Glasgow City | 2 | 0 |
| Highland | 32 | 10 |
| Inverclyde | 1 | 0 |
| Midlothian | 0 | 0 |
| Moray | 2 | 0 |
| North Ayrshire | 0 | 0 |
| North Lanarkshire | 3 | 2 |
| Orkney Islands | 0 | 0 |
| Perth and Kinross | 1 | 1 |
| Renfrewshire | 2 | 0 |
| Scottish Borders | 0 | 0 |
| Shetland Islands | 0 | 0 |
| South Ayrshire | 0 | 0 |
| South Lanarkshire | 4 | 1 |
| Stirling | 0 | 0 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 1 | 0 |
| West Lothian | 1 | 0 |
| All local authorities | 101 | 26 |
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Antisocial Behaviour Orders have been served for offences committed in the (a) Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park and (b) Cairngorms National Park.
Answer
Statistics on the number of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBO) served are collected at local authority level. National park boundaries are not co-terminous with those of local authorities. Each of Scotland’s national parks includes land within the boundaries of four different local authorities. The number of ASBOs granted in these areas over the period 1 December 1999 to 31 March 2004 are setout below. It should be noted, however, that these figures are likely to includeASBOs served in parts of these authorities which are outside the national park boundaries and thus tend to overstate the number of ASBOs granted within the national park areas themselves.
(a) Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
Total ASBOs granted 1 December 1999 to 31 March 2004 in Argyll and Bute, Perth and Kinross, Stirling and West Dunbartonshire council areas = 28.
(b) Cairngorms National Park
Total ASBOs granted 1 December 1999 to 31 March 2004 in Angus, Aberdeenshire, Highlands, Moray council areas = 20.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 24 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) prosecutions have been pursued and (b) convictions have been secured for offences relating to (i) environmental crime, (ii) breach of the peace and (iii) malicious damage in (1) Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park and (2) Cairngorms National Park.
Answer
Information at this level ofdetail is not available within the statistics held centrally.
