- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when the public consultation on the provision of sheriff court services in Peebles will take place.
Answer
The public consultation in relation to delivery of court services in the Peebles area will commence when discussions between the Scottish Court Service, Scottish Borders Council and Lothian and Borders Police on the relocation of the court to council buildings at Rosetta Road, Peebles have concluded.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 3 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been received by each further education college for social inclusion in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02 and (d) 2002-03.
Answer
Figures across the time period requested are not available on a consistent basis. This is because the method of funding further education (FE) colleges changed when responsibility for the methodology responsibility transferred to the Scottish Further Education Funding Council (SFEFC) from 2000-01.Because of the fundamental role that FE colleges have in encouraging people of all ages and from different backgrounds to participate in post-school learning, a large proportion of the resources available to FE colleges are associated in some way with the promotion of social inclusion. However, the amounts cannot be determined separately.The figures provided in the following table relate to the specific elements that cover the additional costs of social inclusion over and above the standard funding per student place.
| College | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 |
| Aberdeen College | £115,257 | £279,914 | £313,326 |
| Angus College* | £72,942 | £97,586 | £105,396 |
| Anniesland College | £256,365 | £504,858 | £530,400 |
| Ayr College | £82,338 | £194,423 | £228,091 |
| Banff and Buchan College of Further Education* | £87,403 | £109,942 | £115,083 |
| The Barony College* | £27,636 | £24,557 | £24,486 |
| Borders College* | £101,806 | £92,915 | £95,721 |
| Cardonald College | £256,339 | £507,839 | £549,134 |
| Central College of Commerce | £134,295 | £312,708 | £383,692 |
| Clackmannan College of Further Education | £39,253 | £71,797 | £71,157 |
| Clydebank College | £210,907 | £352,497 | £362,290 |
| Coatbridge College | £120,543 | £249,642 | £277,925 |
| Cumbernauld College | £25,657 | £60,515 | £85,598 |
| Dumfries and Galloway College* | £116,836 | £186,400 | £177,781 |
| Dundee College | £270,339 | £522,863 | £607,668 |
| Edinburgh's Telford College | £198,813 | £395,741 | £436,261 |
| Elmwood College* | £57,231 | £83,227 | £100,560 |
| Falkirk College of Further and Higher Education | £92,192 | £181,450 | £207,886 |
| Fife College of Further and Higher Education | £112,473 | £244,891 | £266,292 |
| Glasgow College of Building and Printing | £139,200 | £313,173 | £356,887 |
| Glasgow College of Food Technology | £91,455 | £273,557 | £258,752 |
| Glasgow College of Nautical Studies | £119,644 | £208,757 | £250,934 |
| Glenrothes College | £32,944 | £80,217 | £94,603 |
| Inverness College*@ | £101,968 | £109,356 | £155,683 |
| James Watt College of Further and Higher Education | £281,725 | £771,276 | £781,620 |
| Jewel and Esk Valley College | £79,881 | £151,101 | £164,458 |
| John Wheatley College | £272,332 | £342,172 | £406,437 |
| Kilmarnock College | £87,962 | £227,707 | £255,300 |
| Langside College | £179,501 | £387,034 | £433,678 |
| Lauder College | £50,681 | £104,890 | £144,578 |
| Lews Castle College ***@ | £22,902 | £36,692 | £50,081 |
| Moray College*@ | £113,740 | £90,427 | £85,099 |
| Motherwell College | £211,157 | £445,416 | £528,230 |
| North Glasgow College | £114,838 | £311,894 | £385,984 |
| Oatridge Agricultural College* | £36,080 | £31,980 | £37,288 |
| Perth College*@ | £121,624 | £117,203 | £130,414 |
| Reid Kerr College | £204,736 | £473,557 | £506,320 |
| South Lanarkshire College | £52,604 | £108,815 | £112,477 |
| Stevenson College | £174,005 | £350,942 | £309,010 |
| Stow College | £153,122 | £248,674 | £301,584 |
| The North Highland College**@ | £92,156 | £98,087 | £131,785 |
| West Lothian College | £33,116 | £73,292 | £95,256 |
| Orkney College***@ | £46,461 | £48,282 | £61,181 |
| Shetland College of Further Education***@ | £16,434 | £13,311 | £9,743 |
Source: Scottish Further Education Funding CouncilNotes:1. These figures consist of the entry costs social inclusion premium; retention and achievement social inclusion premium, and remote student element part of the core formula funding provided to colleges by SFEFC. (NOTE - in 2000-01 the retention and achievement premium did not exist.)2. In addition to the figures shown above, colleges in receipt of the remote student element also received a remote institutional based element at a base rate of £176,000 for 2000-01, £178,640 for 2001-02 and £183,999 for 2002-03 (rising to £191,359 in 2003-04). Mainland colleges that are classed as extremely remote received a 15% increase on this base rate and island colleges received a 30% increase. Remote colleges are marked *, extremely remote **, and island colleges ***3. Colleges marked @ are part of the UHI Millennium Institute (UMI). From 2001-02 their advanced level activity was no longer funded via SFEFC and was instead funded via SHEFC as part of UMI. Therefore the figures for these colleges are not stated on a comparable basis for 2000-01 and 2001-02.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 2 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what national guidelines there are for local authorities on priority admissions to primary schools.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-176 today. 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/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 2 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make legal aid available in respect of local authority education appeal committee proceedings.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has no plans to make legal aid available in respect of local authority education appeal committee proceedings. Legal aid is available for appeals from the committees to the sheriff court.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 2 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what policy guidelines it issues to local authorities regarding criteria for primary school placing requests by parents.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not issue such policy guidelines. Education authorities are under a statutory duty (set out in section 1 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980) to ensure that they make adequate and efficient provision of school education for their area. Setting criteria for the allocation of places in schools under their management and for determining priority admissions are matters to be determined by education authorities in meeting their duties under this section. Authorities can only turn down a placing request on one of the grounds set out in law.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 2 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on whether children who have attended a nursery attached to a primary school should be transferred to that school or another school on reaching primary school age.
Answer
This is a matter for local education authorities. Subject to the terms of sections 28A and 28B of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980, it is for the local education authority to set out and make available guidelines indicating how they will place children in schools under their management.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 2 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what publicity is given to procedures for placement requests.
Answer
Section 28 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 requires each education authority to publish or otherwise make available their arrangements for the placing of children in schools under their management.In addition, each year the Scottish Executive publishes a guide for parents entitled
Choosing a School, which includes within it information on the placing request system. This booklet is available at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/education/casg-00.asp.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 2 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether local authority education appeals committees are compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and, in particular, with Article 6.
Answer
Education authority committees are not concerned with the determination of "civil rights and obligations or of any criminal charge" and therefore ECHR, and in particular Article 6, is not applicable. We consider that the system for dealing with cases considered by the committees, which includes the availability of a further appeal to the sheriff court, is nonetheless compatible with the requirements of the convention.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 March 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 20 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what concerns it has identified in respect of the Scottish Borders' economy.
Answer
The Executive's objective for all of Scotland is sustainable improvement in economic performance. A Smart, Successful Scotland sets out strategic direction to the Enterprise Networks and focuses on three key challenges for raising productivity: growing businesses, global connections and learning and skills.In following this direction, Scottish Enterprise Borders takes account of local needs and opportunities. Provision of information on programmes and projects is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise. The Borders Local Economic Forum, of which Scottish Enterprise Borders is a member, provides a mechanism for co-ordinated delivery of local economic development activities.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 14 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how often the complaints procedure established under section 6 of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 has been reviewed and what actions have been taken, or amendments to the procedure made, as a result of any such review
Answer
The review of the complaints procedure established by the Care Commission under sections 6 and 64 of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 1995 is an operational matter for the commission itself. Ministers must consent to any variation of the procedures, however. There have not yet been any such reviews.
