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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S3W-31745

Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 February 2010
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 10 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many estimated jobs will be created by its boiler scrappage scheme.

Question reference: S3W-31744

Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 February 2010
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 10 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will apply the £400 discount offered by the UK Government in its boiler scrappage scheme.

Question reference: S3W-31746

Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 February 2010
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 10 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how it will administer the delivery of its boiler scrappage scheme.

Question reference: S3W-31168

Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 28 January 2010
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 11 February 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what targets it has set for implementing the SNP manifesto commitment to “renewable generation in every Scottish school”.

Our ambition is to have renewable generation in every school as we believe that will help contribute towards the challenging emissions reduction targets which are required by the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009. The joint Scottish Government and COSLA school estate strategy, Building Better Schools: Investing in Scotland''s Future, sets out nine guiding principles for the school estate. The sixth of these is that schools should be greener, more sustainable and environmentally efficient.

The Schools Renewables Development Officers, who are funded by the Scottish Government, are continuing to help local authorities secure funding from the extended Low Carbon Buildings Programme and the Community and Renewable Energy Scheme, both of which provide funding towards the eligible capital costs of installing renewable energy generations plant in schools and other buildings.

There are a growing number of world leading examples of sustainable schools which have opened since May 2007, including Acharacle Primary School in Highland, which has very low energy requirements due to its highly innovative design and Inverclyde Academy, which is provided with up to 20% of its electricity from a 50kw wind turbine, one of the largest in any school in the UK.

Question reference: S3W-30996

Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 22 January 2010
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 3 February 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to its news release of 20 January 2010, Russell sets out assessment system, how much funding will be made available to help schools implement the Curriculum for Excellence in the Lothians region, broken down by local authority.

Resources will be transferred to local authorities to help support the additional local activity associated with introducing and operating the quality assurance and moderation scheme for assessment for curriculum for excellence.

The Scottish Government is currently in discussion with local government to quantify the additional activity required to support moderation for the new assessment arrangements and to agree the resources needed to ensure that teachers have the time required to undertake that activity. Local authorities will continue to prioritise CPD towards development and implementation of Curriculum for Excellence including assessment and moderation.

Local government is fully committed to delivery of Curriculum for Excellence. Its representatives on the Curriculum for Excellence Management Board support the approach to moderation set out in the Framework for Assessment.

Question reference: S3W-30883

Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 28 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the impact of a 22% reduction in funding for town planning courses on its targets for reducing carbon emissions in the built environment.

Question reference: S3W-30882

Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 28 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what estimates it has made of the economic impact of a 22% reduction in funding for town planning courses.

Question reference: S3W-30884

Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 27 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what work it has carried out to assess future workforce planning requirements for town planners.

The Scottish Government does not collate information centrally on the supply and demand of planners across Scotland. It is the responsibility of planning authorities to ensure that they have appropriate staff resources in place to meet their statutory responsibilities.

The Scottish Government works does however, work with the planning schools, the RTPI, the Local Government Improvement Service and employers to encourage the availability of appropriate professional skills in the planning service.

Question reference: S3W-30044

Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 14 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 14 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-20442 by Jim Mather on 26 February 2009, whether it will provide (a) details of the evaluation of the online advertising spend, (b) the results of that evaluation and (c) an analysis of the online advertising spend compared with the total marketing cost of Homecoming Scotland 2009.

Question reference: S3W-30045

Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 14 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 14 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-16990 by Jim Mather on 5 November 2008, what the total marketing cost was of Homecoming Scotland 2009.