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To ask the Scottish Executive what funding is being provided to bring any areas of Scotland's road network which have a level of skidding resistance lower than the investigatory level set out in the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges up to this standard.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 August 2001
The number of police officers in Scotland reached an all time high in March 2001. The funding made available to the police service, which is more than a third higher in real terms than ten years ago, is intended to sustain this level.
His response is as follows:Additional funding for expanding work performed within the Scottish Prison Service drug strategy has not been allocated to individual establishments, it will be managed centrally.
Using statistics published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency for 1999-2000, the latest year available, the proportion of students in publicly funded higher education institutions in the UK educated in Scotland is 9.1%.
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding has been provided to the Scottish Prison Service chaplaincy service in each of the last three years, broken down by prison.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 April 2001
SHEFC have responded by allocating 10 funded places to Strathclyde University for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education specifically to support primary Gaelic-medium provision.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 March 2001