- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Elaine Murray on 21 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what its organisational and financial relationship is with the Scottish Libraries and Information Council.
Answer
The Scottish Libraries and Information Council (SLIC) is an independent organisation. In 2002-03 the Executive provided £160,000 towards SLIC's annual operating costs, and an additional £25,000 for continued funding of Network Project Officers.SLIC will receive funding of £250,000 over two years from the Executive to develop a two-year pilot Scottish Cultural Portal project - a recommendation from the National Cultural Strategy; £70,000 in 2001-02, balance £180,000 in 2002-03.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mike Watson on 21 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will support the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Bill introduced on 13 November 2002.
Answer
The Scottish Executive recognises the aspiration for legislation within the Gaelic community but does not consider that the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Bill meets that aspiration; a formal response will be made within the normal parliamentary timetable.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Elaine Murray on 19 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what external assessment has taken place of the performance of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in terms of its contribution to the support and development of the arts in Scotland.
Answer
The Executive recognises the reputation the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art enjoys internationally and considers this of positive value to Scotland.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Elaine Murray on 19 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the official role is of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; to whom the trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland are responsible with regard to ensuring that the gallery fulfils that role; what performance monitoring with regard to that role is undertaken, and by what mechanisms and at what frequency that role is reviewed.
Answer
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art was founded in 1959 with the following remit:
"to acquire and exhibit works by some of the most significant artists, both international and Scottish, active from the 1890s to the present day"The Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland are responsible to the Scottish Executive. In common with other non-departmental public bodies, the National Galleries agree a corporate plan for all their galleries (including the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art) with the Scottish Executive each year and publish regular reports on all their activities (acquisitions, exhibitions etc). The Scottish Executive monitors the National Galleries continuously and measures their performance against the agreed criteria laid down in the corporate plan.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Elaine Murray on 19 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ensure that the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art publishes the cost of acquiring each item on display alongside that item together with a brief explanation of why the item was acquired for the gallery's collection.
Answer
To display the cost of each item acquired would reduce the value of the works of art solely to their monetary value. The gallery already writes explanatory labels about nearly all the works it has acquired and these may indicate a reason for the acquisition where it is relevant to understanding the work in question. However, to concentrate on why a work was acquired rather than trying to give an insight into the work itself would be highly restrictive and divert attention from the work to the gallery.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Elaine Murray on 19 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what policy it expects the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art to follow with regard to supporting artists working in Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art was founded in 1959 to continue the international collections of the National Gallery into the 20th century. It has never been the specific responsibility of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art to support artists working in Scotland, which has been central to the remit of the Scottish Arts Council. However, one of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's aims is to acquire significant works by the best artists working in Scotland and to mount exhibitions of their work. The term "best" is difficult to define but all works acquired by the gallery must be able to stand up to being viewed in an international, as opposed to a local, context. The collective judgement of all the expert curators working at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, as well as broad professional opinion, inform these decisions. Since it moved into its present building in 1984, 50% of its exhibitions have been devoted to modern and contemporary Scottish art, including large surveys such as The Vigorous Imagination (1987) and Scottish Art since 1900 (1989). The first exhibition of a living artist in the refurbished Playfair Galleries in 2004 will be of Douglas Gordon, a Turner Prize-winning Scot.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Elaine Murray on 19 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ensure that the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art publishes, on a regular basis, the list of acquisitions it has made, along with the price of each acquisition and an explanation of why the item was acquired and how it fits into the gallery's official role.
Answer
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art already publishes a list of its acquisitions in its reports. It does not at present publish the price of each acquisition nor give an explanation for the acquisition of each item. This is consistent with the policy of the National Galleries of Scotland as well as with all national museums and galleries in Britain.To explain each acquisition would be voluminous since the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art often acquires several hundred items each year.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will define "improving the quality of life in our schools", as referred to in the education and young people section of Building a Better Scotland - Spending Proposals 2003-06: What the money buys
Answer
In Building a Better Scotland - Spending Proposals 2003-06: What the money buys we indicated that we would invest £60 million in improving the quality of life in our schools. We shall announce shortly the arrangements under which this money will be made available and the purposes for which it is intended.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 18 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average annual turnover of teachers in publicy-funded schools has been in each year since 1995, broken down by local authority.
Answer
Information on the annual turnover of teachers in publicly-funded schools can only be calculated from the Teacher Flow Survey, which has been conducted since 1996. The following tables show the percentages entering and leaving local authority employment from that date.Recorded Percentage Leaving
1 | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 |
| Scotland | 7% | 4% | 3% | 5% | 4% |
| Aberdeen City | 8% | 4% | 3% | 5% | 4% |
| Aberdeenshire | 7% | 4% | 4% | 9% | 4% |
| Angus | 9% | 6% | 5% | 9% | 6% |
| Argyll and Bute | 6% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 4% |
| Clackmannanshire | 9% | 3% | 4% | 5% | 4% |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 5% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 5% |
| Dundee City | 13% | 8% | 8% | 8% | 6% |
| East Ayrshire | 3% | 3% | 2% | 3% | 3% |
| East Dunbartonshire | 6% | 5% | 2% | 4% | 3% |
| East Lothian | 7% | 2% | 3% | 4% | 3% |
| East Renfrewshire | 6% | 3% | 4% | 5% | 5% |
| Edinburgh, City of | 4% | 5% | 4% | 7% | 6% |
| Eilean Siar | 4% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% |
| Falkirk | 8% | 4% | 2% | 6% | 5% |
| Fife | 8% | 3% | 3% | 6% | 5% |
| Glasgow City | 6% | 2% | 2% | 3% | 3% |
| Highland | 9% | 2% | 4% | 4% | 3% |
| Inverclyde | 1% | 2% | 3% | 3% | 4% |
| Midlothian | 5% | 5% | 5% | 3% | 5% |
| Moray | 6% | 3% | 2% | 5% | 3% |
| North Ayrshire | 6% | 4% | 4% | 7% | 2% |
| North Lanarkshire | 5% | 4% | 4% | 7% | 4% |
| Orkney Islands | 7% | 3% | 3% | 3% | 1% |
| Perth and Kinross | 8% | 5% | 2% | 4% | 4% |
| Renfrewshire | 5% | 4% | 3% | 4% | 3% |
| Scottish Borders | 8% | 1% | 1% | 3% | 4% |
| Shetland Islands | 5% | 5% | 4% | 11% | 4% |
| South Ayrshire | 3% | 2% | 2% | 4% | 2% |
| South Lanarkshire | 9% | 2% | 3% | 6% | 4% |
| Stirling | 8% | 6% | 5% | 10% | 4% |
| West Dunbartonshire | 8% | 6% | 3% | 9% | 7% |
| West Lothian | 4% | 3% | 2% | 7% | 4% |
Sources: Teacher Flow Survey, School Census.Note:1. Number of teachers leaving during the year, as a percentage of the number of teachers at the start of the year.Recorded Percentage Entering
1 | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 |
| Scotland | 4% | 4% | 4% | 6% | 4% |
| Aberdeen City | 8% | 6% | 5% | 6% | 5% |
| Aberdeenshire | 5% | 6% | 6% | 6% | 8% |
| Angus | 9% | 8% | 8% | 11% | 5% |
| Argyll and Bute | 5% | 6% | 12% | 7% | 5% |
| Clackmannanshire | 5% | 5% | 2% | 3% | 3% |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 5% | 6% | 6% | 7% | 5% |
| Dundee City | 5% | 4% | 4% | 5% | 4% |
| East Ayrshire | 1% | 2% | 3% | 0% | 6% |
| East Dunbartonshire | 14% | 7% | 7% | 5% | 3% |
| East Lothian | 4% | 4% | 2% | 6% | 1% |
| East Renfrewshire | 3% | 5% | 4% | 4% | 4% |
| Edinburgh, City of | 5% | 7% | 6% | 11% | 7% |
| Eilean Siar | 3% | 4% | 4% | 8% | 6% |
| Falkirk | 9% | 4% | 2% | 5% | 3% |
| Fife | 4% | 2% | 2% | 5% | 4% |
| Glasgow City | 1% | 3% | 1% | 3% | 2% |
| Highland | 4% | 3% | 3% | 5% | 3% |
| Inverclyde | 4% | 4% | 5% | 5% | 7% |
| Midlothian | 1% | 3% | 3% | 4% | 3% |
| Moray | 5% | 5% | 6% | 7% | 7% |
| North Ayrshire | 2% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| North Lanarkshire | 2% | 4% | 5% | 8% | 5% |
| Orkney Islands | 4% | 5% | 2% | 2% | 1% |
| Perth and Kinross | 12% | 7% | 2% | 3% | 2% |
| Renfrewshire | 4% | 2% | 3% | 2% | 6% |
| Scottish Borders | 7% | 4% | 5% | 6% | 3% |
| Shetland Islands | 5% | 5% | 4% | 14% | 5% |
| South Ayrshire | 2% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 0% |
| South Lanarkshire | 2% | 1% | 3% | 7% | 4% |
| Stirling | 5% | 7% | 5% | 13% | 5% |
| West Dunbartonshire | 9% | 9% | 3% | 11% | 7% |
| West Lothian | 3% | 5% | 4% | 7% | 4% |
Sources: Teacher Flow Survey, School Census.1. Number of teachers entering during the year, as a percentage of the number of teachers at the start of the year.
- Asked by: Michael Russell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 15 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many supply teachers were temporarily employed in a publicly-funded secondary school in August in each year since 1995.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
