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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-33231

Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 16 April 2010
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many Initial Teacher Education programmes for primary teachers have been accredited and approved since the new Guidelines for Accreditation of Initial Teacher Education and Standard for Initial Teacher Education came into force in December 2006.

The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) is the professional body for the teaching profession and as such has responsibility for accrediting courses of Initial Teacher Education that are either new or that have had any changes made to them. The Scottish ministers subsequently approve these courses.

The current versions of the Guidelines and the Standard for Initial Teacher Education dated December 2006, but were officially launched in September 2007 and have had effect since academic year 2007-08.

Since January 2007, the GTCS has accredited:

Aberdeen''s BEd and PGDE Primary programme (February 2007)

Stirling''s Primary programme (May 2008)

Glasgow''s BEd, MA Primary (Crichton Campus) and PGDE Primary programmes (August 2008)

Strathclyde''s BEd programme (April 2009)

Edinburgh''s BEd and PGDE Primary programmes (August 2009).

Question reference: S3W-33253

Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what information is held on the breadth of the history curriculum in (a) primary schools, (b) S1 and (c) S2, including the coverage of Scottish, British, European and world history, and the balance between those topics.

Question reference: S3W-33255

Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how much time is spent teaching Scottish history in (a) primary schools, (b) S1 and (c) S2.

Question reference: S3W-33256

Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how much time is spent teaching British history in (a) primary schools, (b) S1 and (c) S2.

Question reference: S3W-32940

Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost was of James Black’s investigation into the four Scottish Criminal Record Office fingerprint officers.

Question reference: S3W-32944

Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what (a) legal fees and (b) management time costs were incurred by the Scottish Police Services Authority in appealing the decision of the employment tribunal regarding reinstatement in the unfair dismissal case brought by Fiona McBride.

Question reference: S3W-32938

Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how much public money has been spent on the investigations into the four Scottish Criminal Record Office fingerprint officers following the Shirley McKie case.

Question reference: S3W-32943

Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what (a) legal fees and (b) management time costs were incurred by the Scottish Police Services Authority in defending the unfair dismissal case brought by Fiona McBride.

Question reference: S3W-32939

Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost was of the Mackay investigation into the four Scottish Criminal Record Office fingerprint officers.

Question reference: S3W-33037

Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 April 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive in what proportion of crime scenes was an examination carried out by the Scottish Police Services Authority and its predecessor bodies in each of the last five years, broken down by regional bureau.