- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 12 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of any plans to merge school libraries with public libraries.
Answer
Library services, whether public or school, are a matter for the local authorities, who must comply with Section 163 (2) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which places a duty on local authorities to made adequate provision for library services within their area.
The Scottish Government does not collect specific details on plans for school or public libraries.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 12 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of any plans to merge school libraries with public libraries in the Edinburgh area.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33398 on 12 May 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: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 12 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much is spent on (a) school and (b) public libraries, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Local authority expenditure details collected by the Scottish Government provides details of expenditure on public libraries. However, expenditure on school libraries is not separately identified.
The following table provides details of local authority 2008-09 net revenue and gross capital expenditure on library services, which covers: permanent libraries; mobile lending libraries and service to housebound library users; hire of rooms for local clubs and meetings and provision of reference material and, acting in the capacity as an information service, archives and records not kept under the Local Government and Planning Act 1982.
Library Services | 2008-09 |
Net Revenue Expenditure (£000) | Gross Capital Expenditure (£000) |
Scotland | 119,022 | 6,822 |
Aberdeen City | 4,254 | 52 |
Aberdeenshire | 4,448 | 204 |
Angus | 2,185 | 19 |
Argyll and Bute | 1,389 | 1 |
Clackmannanshire | 1,042 | 0 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 2,897 | 0 |
Dundee City | 5,269 | 206 |
East Ayrshire | 2,676 | 169 |
East Dunbartonshire | 3,084 | 22 |
East Lothian | 2,064 | 690 |
East Renfrewshire | 2,402 | 62 |
Edinburgh, City of | 11,509 | 890 |
Eilean Siar | 953 | 0 |
Falkirk | 3,306 | 637 |
Fife | 9,061 | 242 |
Glasgow City | 15,461 | 283 |
Highland | 4,443 | 269 |
Inverclyde | 1,338 | 115 |
Midlothian | 1,483 | 0 |
Moray | 2,156 | 10 |
North Ayrshire | 2,654 | 23 |
North Lanarkshire | 6,978 | 222 |
Orkney Islands | 1,053 | 0 |
Perth and Kinross | 3,923 | 44 |
Renfrewshire | 4,542 | 131 |
Scottish Borders | 1,901 | 8 |
Shetland Islands | 1,186 | 67 |
South Ayrshire | 2,176 | 308 |
South Lanarkshire | 5,669 | 360 |
Stirling | 1,983 | 128 |
West Dunbartonshire | 3,033 | 612 |
West Lothian | 2,504 | 1,048 |
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 12 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the opening hours are in (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) special school libraries, broken down by local authority area, and what they were (i) two and (ii) four years ago.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 10 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-31088 by Michael Russell on 4 February 2010, what information ministers gathered through the Language Fund monitoring exercise for 2007-08.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33400 on 10 May 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: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 10 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the information that it holds on Modern Languages in the Primary School training.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not collect information on the numbers of teachers receiving Modern Languages in the Primary School training, as this is the responsibility of local authorities.
Information on Modern Languages in the Primary School training from the final two years of the Languages Fund, 2006-07 and 2007-08, is provided in the following table. We are unable to provide information for previous years because the information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Teachers Undertaking MLPS Training (from Local Authority Languages Fund Returns, 2006-07 and 2007-08)
| French | German | Spanish | Italian | Gaelic | Total |
2007-08* | 483 | 42 | 95 | 27 | 16 | 663 |
2006-07** | 647 | 108 | 102 | 17 | 2 | 876 |
Notes:
*Based on Languages Fund monitoring exercise returns for 2007-08 received from 26 local authorities.
**Based on Languages Fund monitoring exercise returns for 2006-07 received from 31 local authorities.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 10 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Language Fund monitoring exercise for 2007-08 was repeated in any other year and, if so, when.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33400 on 10 May 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: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 10 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-31088 by Michael Russell on 4 February 2010, what information ministers hold on Modern Languages in the Primary School training for teachers.
Answer
During the years where the ring-fenced Languages Fund operated (2001 to 2008), the Scottish Government requested annual returns from local authorities on how they used the funding. In 2007-08 this included information on the numbers of pupils studying modern languages at different stages; the range of languages offered; the numbers of teachers trained in Modern Languages in the Primary School (MLPS), and other information pertaining to specific priority outcomes highlighted for that year e.g. using new technologies, promoting interdisciplinary work and reflecting on the place of modern languages within Curriculum for Excellence as set out in
Building the Curriculum 1 - the contribution of the curriculum areas.
Languages Fund awards were allocated on a broad basis to support learning and teaching of modern languages in schools - local authorities were responsible for deciding precisely how they would spend their allocations. In addition to funding MLPS training, local authorities used their funding for other purposes, for example to pay for foreign language assistants, employ additional teachers or develop language resources at local level.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 4 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals have been subject to a supervision order in which the grounds of referral were that they had committed an offence.
Answer
This is an operational matter for the Scottish Children''s Reporter Administration (SCRA). The information requested is not held centrally. I have therefore asked the Principal Reporter to provide this information to the member.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 4 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether legal advice it issued to Disclosure Scotland in 2006 indicating that supervision orders in relation to which an offence had been committed should be disclosed on certificates has been challenged in court.
Answer
As noted in my previous answer, it is not the practice of the government to disclose whether it has sought legal advice in relation to a particular matter. Disclosure Scotland has not had a legal challenge relating to the inclusion of information about supervision orders on certificates.