- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 13 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it is making to the UK Payments Council regarding the phasing out of cheques.
Answer
Scottish Government has made no representations to the UK Payments Council regarding the phasing out of cheques and to date has not been made aware of any concerns on this issue by consumers or businesses.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 24 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason a re-assessment of someone with additional support needs who moves from one local authority area to another is necessary when they have already been assessed by a professional in their previous local authority.
Answer
Under the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004, additional support is defined as support that is different in some way from that generally provided for children of the same age in pre-school centres and schools in the area to which the child or young person belongs. It is for the receiving local authority to determine what, if any, additional support for learning may be required for someone moving into their area.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 24 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time is for someone with additional support needs who has moved from one local authority area to another to be assessed by their new local authority.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-32328 on 24 March 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 24 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the national guidelines are regarding the transfer of social work services for children with additional support needs between local authorities.
Answer
Under the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004, the local authority with responsibility for the child''s or young person''s education is under a duty to deliver any social work support services if that child or young person requires such support to benefit from school education. Where a child transfers to another local authority area, the duty to provide appropriate social work services, where required, falls to the receiving authority.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 24 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the maximum waiting time is for someone with additional support needs who has moved from one local authority area to another to be assessed by their new local authority.
Answer
This information requested is not held centrally.
The Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 (the 2004 act) places education authorities under a duty to make adequate and efficient provision for the additional support needs of every child and young person for whose school education they are responsible and who requires additional support for learning.
Under the 2004 act, there are only specified timescales for re-assessing those children and young people with additional support needs who have a co-ordinated support plan. For such persons, the maximum time for reviewing a plan following a move from one local authority area to another is 20 weeks.
It is important to note that if a parent or young person is unhappy with the level of provision being offered by their new authority, the 2004 act provides mechanisms for resolving disagreements.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 18 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3O-9722 by Keith Brown on 4 March 2010 (Official Report c. 24271), whether it will clarify how many times it has met representatives of the Scottish Funding Council to discuss the New Campus Glasgow complex and proposed merger.
Answer
A total of seven meetings has taken place to discuss one or other of these issues.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 16 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many local authorities have appointed a digital champion to co-ordinate their preparations for the digital terrestrial broadcast switchover.
Answer
Digital UK is the independent, not-for-profit organisation leading the process of digital TV switchover in the UK. For digital switchover, Scotland is divided into two regions “ STV North and STV Central.
Digital UK advise that 25 of the 30 local authorities in the STV North and South regions have Switchover Co-ordinators. This excludes the local authorities in Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders which have already had digital switchover.
Four of the five local authorities that have not appointed a switchover co-ordinator are located in the Central Belt area which is not due for switchover until 2011. They are: East Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, South Ayrshire and Renfrewshire Councils. The other local authority is Moray Council, due for switchover in September 2010.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 15 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made representations to the Scottish Funding Council to maintain funding levels for architecture courses.
Answer
Further to my answer to question S3W-31132 on 4 February 2010, the Minister for Culture and External Affairs met the Scottish Funding Council on 9 March 2010 to discuss concerns raised by the sector about the council''s proposals to reduce the funding level for architecture, built environment and planning courses.
All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 15 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the Scottish Funding Council’s planned reduction in funding for architecture courses.
Answer
This is a matter for the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), not Scottish ministers. The SFC''s proposal to reduce funding for the teaching of architecture formed part of its recent consultation on subject price groups. The responses to the consultation are the subject of further consideration and no final decision on price groups has yet been made by the council.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 15 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has asked the Scottish Funding Council to explain why it has reduced funding for architecture courses.
Answer
I refer the member to the answers to questions S3W-32198 and S3W-32200 on 15 March 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
