- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 June 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Alasdair Allan on 26 June 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive how the pilot language 1+2 project will be (a) monitored and (b) evaluated.
Answer
Scottish Government will develop an engagement strategy for delivering the 1+2 languages commitment which will involve all key stakeholders. Education Scotland, in particular, will be involved in monitoring and evaluating progress over the period of the pilot project programme in 2012-13 and the wider implementation from 2013-14 onwards.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 June 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Alasdair Allan on 26 June 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive how many teachers will be required to implement the 1+2 language programme and how many will require language training.
Answer
Scottish Government will work with local authorities and initial teacher education providers to take forward the recommendations of the Languages Working Group Report, Language Learning in Scotland: A 1+2 Approach, which includes recommendations for an audit of teacher numbers and skills to support implementation of the 1+2 languages commitment.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 June 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Alasdair Allan on 26 June 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to extend compulsory language teaching to S3 and S4.
Answer
Under Curriculum for Excellence all pupils in secondary schools have an entitlement to learning languages as part of the broad general education to the end of S3. This includes learning across all of the experiences and outcomes to the third level of Curriculum for Excellence.
In the senior phase – from S4 to S6 – young people will have options and choices to take a range of national qualifications, including those which emphasise the value of languages skills for life and work.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 June 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 19 June 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what action is taken by NHS Lothian to ensure that it has sufficient numbers of (a) intensive care and (b) high dependency unit beds to respond to emergency public health concerns while delivering other services as normal.
Answer
NHS Lothian quickly established a daily teleconference and control room as part of NHS Lothian's Business Continuity processes to ensure the availability of adequate intensive care and high dependency unit beds. An increase in capacity within critical care was quickly addressed to enable NHS Lothian to ensure that as many services as possible were conducted as normal.
In addition, NHS Lothian made contact with other NHS boards to make them aware of the potential need to request mutual aid, this was not required but was in place if needed.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 June 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 19 June 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive how many operations have been cancelled as a result of the recent Legionalla outbeak in Edinburgh and what contingencies NHS Lothian has put in place to (a) deal with the outbreak and (b) ensure that other services are conducted as normal.
Answer
NHS Lothian has reported that the number of elective procedures cancelled as a result of the Legionella impact on critical care services has been minimal. The board will continue to monitor the impact until the end of the outbreak has been confirmed. From 4 June until 13 June eight elective procedures were cancelled, all of which have already been rescheduled.
NHS Lothian quickly established a daily teleconference and control room as part of NHS Lothian's Business Continuity processes to ensure the availability of adequate intensive care and high dependency unit beds. An increase in capacity within critical care was quickly addressed to enable NHS Lothian to ensure that as many services as possible were conducted as normal.
In addition, NHS Lothian made contact with other NHS boards to make them aware of the potential need to request mutual aid. This was not required but was in place if needed.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 May 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 June 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-07030 by Roseanna Cunningham on 16 May 2012, which of the recommendations in the Scottish Law Commission's Report on Succession it considers controversial.
Answer
The Scottish Government’s preparatory dialogue on the Scottish Law Commission’s Report on Succession confirmed that the most divisive issue considered by the commission was whether adult children should continue to be protected from disinheritance by a parent’s will. The commission did not make a recommendation on this issue but instead offered two options for the Scottish Government to consider – either to afford all children a right to a legal share of a part of the whole of a deceased’s estate or to allow only dependent children to make an alimentary claim on the estate. Among other potentially controversial issues is whether protection for cohabitants should be extended to testate estates.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 May 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 June 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive when the recommendations in the Scottish Law Commission's Report on Succession will be taken forward.
Answer
The Scottish Government is considering the options arising from the Scottish Law Commission’s Report on Succession and will consult formally when other priorities allow.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 May 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 June 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-07033 by Roseanna Cunningham on 16 May 2012, what the nature is of the "other priorities".
Answer
The Scottish Government’s priorities are set out in our Programme for Government announced by the First Minister on 7 September 2011 – Renewing Scotland: The Government’s Programme for Scotland 2011-12.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 May 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 June 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-07030 by Roseanna Cunningham on 16 May 2012, when it will consult again on the Scottish Law Commission's Report on Succession.
Answer
The Scottish Government will consult formally on the Scottish Law Commission’s Report on Succession when other priorities allow.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 May 2012
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 June 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-07030 by Roseanna Cunningham on 16 May 2012, which stakeholders have real concerns about some of the recommendations in the Scottish Law Commission's Report on Succession.
Answer
Scottish Government officials have met informally with members of the legal profession. That informal preparatory dialogue revealed that a number have concerns about some of the recommendations in the Scottish Law Commission’s Report on Succession. Given the informal nature of discussions, it would not be appropriate to name those involved.