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To ask the Scottish Executive how many letters it has received from Cathy Craigie MSP on the issue of school closures in Cumbernauld before 2 December 1999.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has held with MSPs and representatives of local authorities to ensure the continuation of the Highlands and Islands Convention, and when it expects to be able to announce the membership of the Convention.
To ask the Presiding Officer when will the next childcare survey of MSP's, their staff and Parliamentary staff take place and whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body will agree the remit, nature and content of that survey.
That is why the Inverness Gaelic choir have been asked to sing in the courtyard of the Assembly Hall to welcome MSPs and The Queen to the ceremony in the Chamber.
I suggest that a substantially higher threshold should be set—it would probably have to be as high as 10 per cent of an MSP's salary. I will illustrate why I say that.
I refer the Member to myletter to all MSPs of 11 May 2006. A copy of the letter is available at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-06/pa06-046.htm.
To ask the Presiding Officer whether it will provide MSPs with a staff training and development budget to enable them to provide similar personal and career development opportunities to their staff to those offered to staff directly employed by it.
To ask the Presiding Officer, further to the answer to question S2W-7769 by Duncan McNeil on 12 May 2004, how it is decided whether any classroom-based course being offered to its staff is appropriate to MSPs' staff and who makes such decisions.