- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 30 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans there are for the long-term retention of Scottish opera chorus singers after 2005.
Answer
The employment of performers by Scottish Opera is a matter for the management of the company.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 23 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is satisfied with industrial relations in the further education sector.
Answer
I believe that good industrial relations have played an important part in securing the sector’s high level of success. I have seen no evidence to suggest that industrial relations are not generally of a high standard. Where industrial relations do fall short of the standard I expect, I look to all concerned to work maturely and constructively to resolve any areas of specific difficulty, and to do so with the minimum of delay.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 16 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it values the involvement of trade unions in economic development.
Answer
We value the important role trade unions play in improving Scotland’s productivity and contributing to economic growth. Our determination to work with the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), and trade unions generally, is reflected in Partnership Agreement commitments on the economy and skills and learning.
In addition, the STUC are key stakeholders in the Executive policy making process, including the recent revision of the Framework for Economic Development and the current refresh of A Smart Successful Scotland. Trade unions are also represented on a number of specific sectoral or economic development groups at both national and local level.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 10 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #18 million allocated to the Bus Route Development Grant Scheme will be spent on improving the equality and frequency of bus services in Glasgow.
Answer
Transport authorities were invited to submit proposals by 30 July 2004. The proposals received are currently being analysed and an announcement will be made soon.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 6 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to extend free pre-school child care provision to under-threes to ensure that more working parents take up this provision.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-9933 on 6 September 2004. 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/webapp/search.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 6 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to make free pre-school child care provision available full-time to ensure that more working parents take up this provision.
Answer
At this time, the Scottish Executive has no plans to provide free full-time pre-school education but we keep our policy on further developing pre-school provision under review.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 30 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the Minister for Health and Community Care's commitment made in the Parliament on 12 September 2002 to review after two years the Greater Glasgow NHS Board's accident and emergency proposals prior to delivery, when the minister will make a statement on this matter.
Answer
I am advised by NHS Greater Glasgow that the NHS Board will consider a report on the review of the assumptions that underpinned the decision on A&E services at the November 2004 Board meeting. I expect to receive a report of the Board’s conclusions and will need to consider it very carefully before making any statement.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 26 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ensure that classics continue to be taught in schools.
Answer
In Scotland the curriculum is not statutory and responsibility for decisions on curriculum delivery rests with local authorities and headteachers. The Scottish Executive Education Department offers guidance and direction on the curriculum and the outcomes of education. Local authorities must be free to meet these outcomes in a way which best meets local needs in line with available resources. Decisions on whether to run any course depend on pupil uptake, timetable restrictions and staffing and other resources.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 22 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is still considering incorporating a third party right of appeal into planning law.
Answer
On 1 April we launched a consultation on Rights of Appeal in Planning which runs until 30 July. We will not take a decision on rights of appeal until all the responses to that consultation have been carefully analysed.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 21 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether family background is monitored in relation to access to degree-level courses by subject.
Answer
Information on family background and subject studied is collected by the Higher Education Statistics Agency on behalf the Scottish Executive, the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council and other statutory customers across the UK administrations.
The data is published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England at:
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/learning/perfind/2003/reports/.
