Chamber and committees

In the 2008 collection of school estate core facts, there were no secondary schools in Stirling with a school roll 100% or more than capacity.

In the 2008 collection of school estate core facts, there were no primary schools in Stirling with a school roll 100% or more than capacity.

Statistics on school capacity, by local authority, are published in School Estate Statistics available at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/PubSchooEstates.

Statistics on school capacity, by local authority, are published in School Estate Statistics available at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/PubSchooEstates.

In the 2008 collection of school estate core facts, the school roll of the following primary schools in Perth and Kinross was 100% or more than capacity:

Abernethy;

Caledonian Road;

Craigie;

Murthly;

St Dominic''s, and

St John''s.

In the 2008 collection of school estate core facts, the school roll of the following secondary schools in Perth and Kinross was 100% or more than capacity:

Crieff High;

Kinross High;

Perth High, and

St Columba''s High.

There are no Roman sites in the care of Scottish ministers in Angus. Historic Scotland currently has no opportunity to promote Roman history in Angus; although the broader interpretation of Roman Scotland, as a whole, is covered in publications such as Roman Scotland, by David Breeze and published by Historic Scotland and Batsford Books, reprinted in 2000. Historic Scotland also raises the profile of our Roman heritage through active marketing of sites such as the Antonine Wall.

Scottish ministers, through Historic Scotland, maintain four Roman sites in Perthshire, including three of the Gask Ridge watchtowers. These sites are featured in our members handbook, which has a distribution of 70,000 and in our Sites Guide, 4,000 of which are sent to media and stakeholders. Their on-site interpretation has been recently replaced incorporating up-to-date research and of course it is recognised that they are only a part of the picture for Roman Perthshire; the broader interpretation of their role within Roman Scotland is covered in publications such as Roman Scotland, by David Breeze and published by Historic Scotland and Batsford Books, reprinted in 2000.

In addition, Historic Scotland has recently provided grant support for an important conference held in Perth (and proceedings recently published as First Contacts), organised by Tayside and Fife Archaeological Committee into the earliest Roman presence in Scotland, looking at archaeological evidence which may show contacts a decade or more before the normally accepted date of the first Roman presence in the north.

BT has trialled its new Broadband Enabling Technology (BET) in sites in Dingwall and Inverness, but has confirmed that at present, it has no plans to extend its pilot programme to Perth and Kinross or Angus.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-27323 on 24 September 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions area 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.