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To ask the Scottish Executive what the legal status is of a memorandum of understanding and what the impact is when one party withdraws from its previous expression of intent. This is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 February 2008
Local authorities and their schools are best placed to decide which other organisations, including credit unions, should be involved in the delivery of the Curriculum for Excellence, reflecting organisations knowledge and expertise.
Initiatives based around the visual and expressive arts have proved extremely successful in helping to stimulate engagement with education across the prison estate, with HMP Shotts receiving more accolades than any other prison in the United Kingdom at the recent Koestler Trust awards.
At the cabinet secretary’s next meeting with the SPF, will he raise the matter of other serving police officers who have fallen foul of data protection legislation? The SPF has expressed the view that “The whole approach is just wrong.”
The minister has answered the concerns that we expressed about the prevalence of the issue, and I am reassured that it has not been an issue in schools or in science lessons.
It is obviously quite legitimate for authors, public figures or any of us to express a view about that, but I make it clear that ministers do not set the texts that are used daily in schools.
I recognise that that has no effect on the legislative expression of the boundary, but at least it suggests that the issue that we are talking about has been recognised, and an attempt has been made on the map to reflect what would be sensible.
I have also been in contact with the French consul general and have written to President Hollande expressing Scotland’s support for, and solidarity with, the French people.
Of course, we will always take seriously the views of the SSSC, the MWC and others who express a view on these matters. I go back to my original answer and make the point again that the latest mental health officers report indicates a 39 per cent increase in admissions to mental health officer award programmes in 2013-14.