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It is an exciting opportunity for us to showcase Scotland's world class education system as well as to engage in dialogue with our international partners, with many of whom we have important historic and cultural links.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22286 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 7 February 2002 and the statement that "the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects information on when staff leave institutions, at what age and in many cases which institutions they have come from or gone to", why the information requested on th...
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to action points D2 and D3 of the report Supporting Active Communities in Scotland - A Draft Strategy for Volunteering and Community Action, how many public access points that disseminate information about volunteering opportunities are available.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it uses independent observers in order to determine how many dolphins and other cetaceans are caught accidentally in trawlers' nets.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many contracts, and to what value, it has awarded to (a) Arthur Andersen, (b) Deloitte & Touche, (c) Ernst & Young, (d) KPMG and (e) PricewaterhouseCoopers in each year since 1997.
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Date answered:
13 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff it has seconded to (a) the European Union and (b) Her Majesty's Government, indicating the institution and department respectively in each case both (i) in this year and (ii) in each of the last three years.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children left school in the West Lothian area without attaining a standard grade in (a) English, (b) Mathematics and (c) English and Mathematics in each academic year since 1996.
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Date answered:
24 January 2002
To ask the Presiding Officer how many advertisements for posts within the Parliament have been placed in publications outwith Scotland in each of the past three years and in the current year; what the cost was in each year, and in what publications the advertisements were placed.
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Date answered:
21 December 2001
In Scotland, New Deal for Lone Parents has helped almost 13,300 lone parents to find work by September 2001.The Scottish Executive launched in July a new £24 million package of initiatives which aims to encourage lone parents into Scotland's universities and colleges by making it easier for them to meet the childcare costs that prevent many from taking that...