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Date answered:
27 November 2007
S3W-06705
I have askedJames Hynd, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Hisresponse is as follows:The centralheating programme did not start until September 2001.The averagewaiting time on the central heating programme reported by the Managing Agent,from application to installation, since 2002-03 is shown in the following table: Year ...
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Date answered:
19 November 2007
S3W-06051
In the light of theUK Government’s decision not to pursue the proposed Planning Gain Supplement, the Scottish Government will undertake a review of theoperation of the systems of planning agreements in Scotland. This review will aim to ensure that we have a system that allows the publicto benefit from planning gain and enables sustainable economic developme...
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Date answered:
14 November 2007
S3W-06045
The purpose of the Housing Supply Task Force is to promote action that will make a practicaldifference to the increase of housing supply across all tenures in Scotland. Membership of the core group has deliberately beenrestricted to those in a position to bring about change to the delivery of morehousing.
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Date answered:
14 November 2007
S3W-05980
We carryout an annual national teacher workforce planning exercise which estimates thenumber of teachers that require to be trained in the years ahead taking intoaccount demographic changes in the pupil and teacher populations. The GeneralRegisters of Scotland recently published revised populationprojections that will need to be taken into account in this y...
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Date answered:
12 November 2007
S3W-05854
Indeed the aim is to increase the effectivenessof partnership working with the enterprise network alongside tourism businesseswith the potential to grow, and thus to release resources to deliver more locally.VisitScotland will continue to promote Scotland – including the East Dunbartonshire area – as a must-visit, must-return destination.
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Date answered:
8 November 2007
S3W-05559
To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to publish its programme for the implementation of Skills for Scotland: A Lifelong Skills Strategy, as referred to by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning on 12 September 2007 (Official Report c. 1585).
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Date answered:
8 November 2007
S3W-05863
Our aim is to ensure that every community in Scotland has a clear understandingof the levels of visible, identifiable and accessible policing they have a rightto expect; how communities will know whether those levels are being met, and howcommunities’ views will be taken into account in setting policing priorities.
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Date answered:
5 November 2007
S3W-05300
We entirely endorse the views of the Accounts Commissionand Audit Scotland that occupancy levels alone should not determinewhat councils do and that an occupancy level of below 60% should not automaticallytrigger consideration of a school’s closure.Those views were setout in a letter of 24 January 2007 from the Accounts Commissionto the Convener of the Parl...
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Date answered:
5 November 2007
S3W-05300
We entirely endorse the views of the Accounts Commissionand Audit Scotland that occupancy levels alone should not determinewhat councils do and that an occupancy level of below 60% should not automaticallytrigger consideration of a school’s closure.Those views were setout in a letter of 24 January 2007 from the Accounts Commissionto the Convener of the Parl...
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Date answered:
1 November 2007
S3W-05610
Class size maxima of 30 were introduced inprimary 1 to primary 3 by The Education (Lower Primary Class Sizes) (Scotland) Regulations 1999. Regulation 3 of these regulationsallows a class of over 30 pupils provided a ratio of 30 pupils per teacher is maintained.In extremis this would allow classes of 60 provided there were two teachers.
