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You will be aware that the Auditor General for Scotland expressed concerns about the potentially substantial financial implications of an amendment that was passed at stage 2 of the Standards in Scotland's Schools etc Bill.
The SDNS represents the publishers of Scotland's daily and Sunday newspapers. It has an editors committee and I am here today as the chairman of that committee, not as editor of The Herald.
Should we not say in the introduction that the code of conduct is developing and that we are at the forefront of the process of setting standards for public life in Scotland? That is a good point. Shall we take that on board?
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how and at what frequency inspection of home education is carried out. Section 37 of the Education (Scotland) Act1980 does not give an education authority a power of inspection of home education.Where an authority is not satisfied that a parent is providing a home educated childwith efficient and suitable education it may serv...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions members of the armed forces have been deployed in Scotland in support of policing operations in each year since 1999, broken down by police force.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 February 2007
However, the provision of football pitchesis a matter for local authorities and the footballing authorities and the Executivedoes not maintain a record of football pitches in Scotland. S2O-11998
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 January 2007
Tables from Information and Statistics Division Scotland showingthe number of patients discharged from general and psychiatric hospitals with adiagnosis of eating disorder are available in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 41449).
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what ministerial visits have been arranged, or are being planned, to (a) Banff and Buchan and (b) north-east Scotland between now and 3 May 2007. The information requested isnot held in this format.