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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)
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Question reference: S4W-06317

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 17 April 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how many times the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning and the Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland's Languages have met parent groups and their representatives to discuss the implementation of the Curriculum for Excellence in the last two years and which groups they have met.

Education Ministers are in regular contact with parent groups and their representatives. These have included parents and Parent Councils, the National Parent Forum of Scotland, (NPFS), the SMPA (Scottish Muslim Parents Association Scotland), Black and Ethnic Minority Infrastructure in Scotland (BEMIS), Carers Action Midlothian, Children in Scotland, Families Outside, For Scotland’s Disabled Children, Kindred, Parenting Across Scotland (PAS), Scottish Traveller Education Programme (STEP) and SWIIS Foster Care (Scotland).

Question reference: S4W-06322

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 17 April 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive where the 360 support activities that took place in 2010-11 with regard to the Curriculum for Excellence took place; what the activities were, and how they were delivered.

Education Scotland supported a range of activities including Principal Teacher seminars, school leaders seminars, Quality Improvement Officer seminars, mixed Community Learning Development and school staff seminars.

SQA’s Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Liaison Team also carried out a series of visits to schools, college and local authorities during 2010-11 and continue to do so. This included support for local authority staff, senior managers and subject specialists either within the school or across the LA. In addition, SQA’s CfE Qualifications Development Teams carried out a series of focused subject engagements during 2010-11 with subject specialists and with learners in some instances.

These activities took place across the country.

Question reference: S4W-06321

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 17 April 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how many subjects each school is allowing pupils to choose when making their exam choices.

Question reference: S4W-06325

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 17 April 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how it is auditing schools to establish whether they are ready to implement the Curriculum for Excellence.

Question reference: S4W-06314

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 17 April 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive (a) how many and (b) what (i) schools and (ii) local authorities have asked for additional help in relation to their implementation of the Curriculum for Excellence.

Question reference: S4W-06168

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S4W-05947 and S4W-05950 by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 March 2012, what the concerns were about the corporate governance arrangements that resulted in it taking over NHS Lothian's external audit process and, in light of these, for what reason it does not plan to review the board's corporate governance arrangements.

I detailed my response to the findings of the report by PricewaterhouseCoopers into aspects of NHS Lothian’s waiting times management and processes in a statement to Parliament on 21 March 2012. The official report of this session is available on the Scottish Parliament website at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28862.aspx?r=6922&mode=html#iob_62863.

A copy of the PricewaterhouseCoopers report has been made available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 53792).

Question reference: S4W-06128

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 09 March 2012
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 22 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scottish Water has estimated the loss to (a) households and (b) businesses in Torphichen in West Lothian and the surrounding area as a result of interruption to the water supply since April 2010.

Question reference: S4O-00859

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Cabinet Secretary for Health Wellbeing and Cities Strategy last met NHS Lothian and what issues were discussed.

Question reference: S4W-06130

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 09 March 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 21 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scottish Water is committed to improvements to the water supply infrastructure in Torphichen in West Lothian and the surrounding area.

Question reference: S4W-06127

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 09 March 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 21 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions since April 2010 a notification of an interruption to the water supply was issued to residents of Torphichen in West Lothian and the surrounding area without it taking place as notified.