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

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Question reference: S4W-07258

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 28 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how much the new IT performance platform for police forces will cost.

Question reference: S4W-07257

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 28 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what problems the suppliers of the new IT performance platform for police forces are facing in implementing the system.

Question reference: S4W-07256

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 28 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive where the new IT performance platform for police forces is located.

Question reference: S4W-07259

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 28 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive who the suppliers are of the new IT performance platform for police forces and whether they have been paid.

Question reference: S4W-07253

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 28 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what changes are required to ensure that the new IT performance platform for police forces will operate under a single police force.

Question reference: S4W-07251

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 28 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive when the new IT performance platform for police forces will be in place.

Question reference: S4F-00693

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 21 May 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 May 2012

To ask the First Minister what progress is being made with the criminal investigation of the Lockerbie bombing.

Question reference: S4W-06882

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 8 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-06485 by Alasdair Allan on 24 April 2012, what activities it considers constitute quality physical education.

It is for each teacher to use their professional judgement to design and deliver physical education which engages and motivates children and young people. Curriculum for Excellence defines the experiences and outcomes which physical education should support, and these can be enhanced by a wide range of purposeful, challenging, progressive and enjoyable physical activities, with choice built in for all learners. It would neither be appropriate nor within the spirit of Curriculum for Excellence for the Scottish Government to define which specific activities teachers should use to deliver quality physical education.

Question reference: S4W-06883

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 8 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-06484 by Alasdair Allan on 24 April 2012, whether it plans to work toward the ambition of at least two hours of quality physical education for secondary school pupils and what steps it will take to achieve that ambition.

The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that all pupils in S1 to S4 receive at least two periods of physical education per week by 2014. Delivery of this commitment will be validated through the Healthy Living Survey, with school level data being published in June 2012, 2013 and 2014. In order to ensure consistency in reporting within the survey, a period has been defined as 50 minutes or above. Therefore, we would expect all pupils in S1 to S4 to be receiving at least 100 minutes of physical education per week by 2014.

To support local authorities deliver this important commitment to our children and young people, sportscotland has identified £3.4 million to be distributed to authorities over the next two years. Each authority will be able to access a share of this fund if they commit to delivering the 2014 PE target and agree a plan for achieving this with Education Scotland and sportscotland. However, it will be for each authority to consider how this additional funding can be best used to create those opportunities for their pupils.

The sportscotland funding will be supplemented with a further £2.4 million package of national initiatives led by Education Scotland to increase the support available to authorities, schools and teachers over the same period.

Question reference: S4O-00990

Asked by: Graeme Pearson, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 May 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to meet the international goals agreed in the NASCO Guidance on Best Management Practices to address the impacts of sea lice and escaped salmon on wild salmon stocks.