- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions a school has been found to be non-compliant with Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education's recommendations in each year since 1997.
Answer
I have asked Graham Donaldson, Chief Executive of HM Inspectorateof Education (HMIE), to respond. His response is as follows:
HMIE do not set specificcompliance requirements as a consequence of an inspection. Where improvementsare required, they make recommendations which can often be met in a number ofways.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how often it anticipates using the powers it intends to take under the draft School Education (Ministerial Powers and Independent Schools) (Scotland) Bill.
Answer
We anticipate that the powerswould be used infrequently.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what consultations it has carried out on abolishing the Schools (Scotland) Code.
Answer
On 3 April 2000, we issued thedocument “Improving Our Schools – Consultation on the Schools (Scotland) Code” to key stakeholdersfor comment. On 15 October 2002, we consulted on the terms of The Schools (Scotland)Code Amendment Regulations 2003 (Statutory Instrument 2003 No. 75) used torepeal the provisions identified for the first stage of the repeal. We will beconsulting again later this year on the terms of a statutory instrument whichwill repeal the remaining regulations.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will announce its plans for replacing those parts of the Schools (Scotland) Code still in force.
Answer
We announced on 9 October 2002 ourplans to phase out the extant provisions contained in the Schools (Scotland)Code, and that we intended doing so in two stages. We will consult later thisyear on the terms of the statutory instrument that will implement the repeal of the provisions identified for the second stage.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many teacher training places there have been and what funding has been provided for teacher training in each year since 1995, giving the funding figures also at 1995 prices.
Answer
The following table gives the numbers of students on teacher training courses in Scotland and levels of funding provided for these places:
| Year | Number | Funding | Funding at 95 levels |
| 1995-96 | 7,056 | £27,571,719 | £27,571,719 |
| 1996-97 | 6,782 | £26,713,276 | £26,494,990 |
| 1997-98 | 6,501 | £25,988,501 | £25,394,197 |
| 1998-99 | 6,263 | £26,652,391 | £24,508,549 |
| 1999-2000 | 6,436 | £28,055,450 | £25,087,443 |
| 2000-01 | 6,615 | £30,618,058 | £25,769,357 |
| 2001-02 | 7,176 | £33,414,495 | £27,868,746 |
| 2002-03 | 6,670 | £32,822,129 | £26,024,490 |
| 2003-04 | 6,898 | £35,252,427 | £26,888,049 |
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #78 million announced in its press release SEed539/2004 on 23 February 2004 will be allocated to teacher training.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-4928 on 12 January 2004.All answers to written parliamentary questions are available from the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many initial teacher education student places were unfilled in each year since 1997.
Answer
Information on how many initial teacher education places were unfilled in each year since 1997 is shown in the table:
| 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
| 12 | 37 | 22 | 33 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
The majority of the unfilled places prior 2001-2002 were in BEd Music and BEd Technological Education courses. Higher education institutions have successfully increased the number of students enrolling on to these courses.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education follow-up inspections resulted in an unsatisfactory report in each of the last five years.
Answer
I have asked Graham Donaldson, Chief Executive of HM Inspectorate of Education (HMIE), to respond. His response is as follows:
Details of the percentage of follow up inspections that have resulted in an unsatisfactory report in each of the last five years are as follows:
| Year | Number of follow up inspections carried out | Follow up inspections resulting in an unsatisfactory report | Percentage |
| 1999-2000 | 138 | 7 | 5% |
| 2000-01 | 220 | 8 | 4% |
| 2001-02 | 205 | 10 | 5% |
| 2002-03 | 116 | 13 | 11% |
| 2003-04* | 136 | 10 | 7% |
Note: *data only available for period 1 April 2003 – 31 January 2004.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the contributions to the economy of communities outwith the major cities.
Answer
The Scottish Executive regularly considers the contribution to the economy of different communities in a number of ways using available statistics. One approach is to look at Gross Value Added (GVA). The Office of National Statistics (ONS) estimates of GVA are published by local area, and are shown in the table below for 2001. From this it can be seen that 30% of total Scottish GVA was created in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The estimates are calculated on a workplace basis, i.e. income is allocated to an area based on where people work rather than where they live. Therefore areas with high levels of inward commuting will have higher values and so these figures do not fully explain the contributions to the economy from local areas.
GVA by NUTS3 Area, Scotland 2001 (£ million)
| Area | Total GVA | Percentage of Scottish total |
| Scotland | 69,179 | 100% |
| Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and North East Moray | 9,711 | 14.0% |
| Angus and Dundee City | 3,119 | 4.5% |
| Clackmannanshire and Fife | 4,003 | 5.8% |
| East Lothian and Midlothian | 1,528 | 2.2% |
| Scottish Borders | 994 | 1.4% |
| Edinburgh, City of | 9,954 | 14.4% |
| Falkirk | 1,760 | 2.5% |
| Perth and Kinross and Stirling | 2,673 | 3.9% |
| West Lothian | 2,410 | 3.5% |
| East and West Dunbartonshire and Helensburgh and Lomond | 1,948 | 2.8% |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1,521 | 2.2% |
| East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire Mainland | 2,480 | 3.6% |
| Glasgow City | 11,059 | 16.0% |
| Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire | 4,148 | 6.0% |
| North Lanarkshire | 3,215 | 4.6% |
| South Ayrshire | 1,434 | 2.1% |
| South Lanarkshire | 3,546 | 5.1% |
| Caithness and Sutherland and Ross and Cromarty | 806 | 1.2% |
| Inverness and Nairn and Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey | 1,170 | 1.7% |
| Lochaber, Skye and Lochalsh and Argyll and the Islands | 952 | 1.4% |
| Eilean Siar (Western Isles) | 264 | 0.4% |
| Orkney Islands | 198 | 0.3% |
| Shetland Islands | 286 | 0.4% |
Source: ONS
Figures are shown in 2001 basic prices and are on a workplace basis.
Last year, Scottish Executive statisticians produced the publication Social Focus on Urban Rural Scotland, which analysed many aspects of life in Scotlandcomparing cities, urban and rural areas. This can be found on the Scottish Executive website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00257-00.asp.In particular, the labour market chapter compares economic activity rates. Forexample, in 2002, 64% of economically active people lived outside the four maincities (compared with 63% of the working age population).
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to vary the amount payable under its graduate endowment scheme.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-5756 on 9 February 2004.All answers to written parliamentary questionss are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
