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To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any mechanisms in place to allow it to pay funds directly to individual schools and, if not, what plans it has to introduce such mechanisms.
The Scottish Executive has no plans to provide Angus Council with special borrowing consent to fund the replacement of the A92 bridge over the South Esk at Montrose.
Also, I have charged the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council to work with institutions to examine their performance in recruiting from areas currently under represented in higher education.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current pupil/teacher ratio is in publicly funded (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools, (c) special schools and (d) pre-school education.
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has for the distribution of funds from the Scottish Bus Group pension fund to the former employees of the Scottish Bus Group.
These funds will enhance the provision of intensive probation and diversion from prosecution schemes and will invest £1.2 million and £1.5 million in 2000-01 and 2001-02 respectively in the piloting of Drug Treatment and Testing Orders.