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To ask the Scottish Executive what the average annual turnover of teachers in publicy-funded schools has been in each year since 1995, broken down by local authority.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 January 2002
In June of each year, the Scottish Executive conducts a survey to collect information on the highest 5-14 attainment level achieved by publicly funded primary and secondary pupils in reading, writing and mathematics.
We considered that question, but we felt that it was important for the commission, as an independent body, to have the flexibility to adjust its rules swiftly in the light of experience.
If there is a clear Executive response, we will not need to guddle up the agenda with a request for evidence. We could be flexible and write to the Executive indicating our position and asking it to provide a written response expeditiously.
If we accept that slight degree of flexibility, I am pleased to proceed in the way that the committee has discussed today.The issues that Lewis Macdonald raised are those which we have discussed for a planning meeting.
Directives are interesting, and I hope that they will come up tomorrow. There is flexibility in the implementation of some directives, and the situation becomes interesting in terms of Whitehall and the Scottish Parliament.I agree in principle with what you are saying, but I am not clear when the meetings will take place if the European Committee is to deal...
A great deal of money could come in—I refer to the capital costs of developments and so on. If an authority is talking about having a major casino development—one of the big ones—at the back of its mind might be the thought that if it does not go for it, the neighbouring local authority, which is only 20 miles down the road, will go for it instead and attract the development to its area.
This approach is led bythe tourism industry with support from the agencies and is based on tourism businessesand the relevant agencies coming together to agree a joint vision for the “destination”and to develop an action plan with responsibility for the actions assigned to therelevant partners.