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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.

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Question reference: S1W-27899

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27064 by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 July 2002, whether there is a shortfall between the funding of #754 million allocated to Lothian NHS Board and projected expenditure by the board in 2002-03 and how much any such shortfall is, broken down by NHS trust and hospital.

Question reference: S1W-27819

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 22 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it issues guidance to local authorities on staffing standards in primary schools and, if so, what that guidance is.

Question reference: S1W-27818

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 22 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has done into the effects of being taught in a composite class on the educational attainment of children.

The Scottish Executive has not carried out research into the effect of composite classes on attainment as such. There has been some international research into multi-grade classes that suggests that such classes have no consistent effect upon attainment but there is no consensus on this issue. We intend as part of the Scottish Executive research programme to conduct research into the effect of class organisation on attainment in 2003 and that project will also consider the effect of class size and composite classes.

Question reference: S1W-27820

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 22 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average class si'e is in primary schools, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S1W-27817

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 22 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive (a) how many and (b) what percentage of pupils began primary 1 in a composite class in each local authority area.

Information on class composition is only available centrally from the school census, which does not take place at the start of the school term. Information on the number and percentage of P1 pupils in composite classes for the week of the school census is set out in the table:Percentage of P1 Pupils in Composite Classes in Publicly Funded Primary Schools 2001¹

	Number of P1 pupils in composite classes	Total number of P1 pupils	% of P1 pupils in composite classes
Scotland	9,089	56,528	16.1%
Aberdeen City	119	1,906	6.2%
Aberdeenshire	793	2,644	30.0%
Angus	282	1,210	23.3%
Argyll and Bute	326	931	35.0%
Clackmannanshire	57	573	9.9%
Dumfries and Galloway	649	1,612	40.3%
Dundee City	108	1,565	6.9%
East Ayrshire	225	1,334	16.9%
East Dunbartonshire	90	1,319	6.8%
East Lothian	133	1,143	11.6%
East Renfrewshire	48	1,214	4.0%
Edinburgh City	203	3,952	5.1%
Eilean Siar	231	283	81.6%
Falkirk	151	1,691	8.9%
Fife	603	3,989	15.1%
Glasgow City	654	6,140	10.7%
Highland	875	2,336	37.5%
Inverclyde	75	931	8.1%
Midlothian	79	972	8.1%
Moray	288	1,027	28.0%
North Ayrshire	248	1,616	15.3%
North Lanarkshire	427	4,000	10.7%
Orkney Islands	75	227	33.0%
Perth and Kinross	396	1,436	27.6%
Renfrewshire	124	2,061	6.0%
Scottish Borders	370	1,152	32.1%
Shetland Islands	99	263	37.6%
South Ayrshire	205	1,238	16.6%
South Lanarkshire	647	3,483	18.6%
Stirling	175	981	17.8%
West Dunbartonshire	88	1,129	7.8%
West Lothian	246	2,170	11.3%

Note:1. Source: September 2001 School Census.

Question reference: S1W-27816

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 22 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of primary 1 to primary 3 pupils are taught in composite classes in each local authority area.

The information requested is set out in the table:Percentage of P1-P3 Pupils who are taught in a Composite Class in Publicly Funded Primary Schools¹

	% of P1 - P3 pupils taught in composite classes
Scotland	23.1%
Aberdeen City	11.5%
Aberdeenshire	35.3%
Angus	28.2%
Argyll and Bute	43.3%
Clackmannanshire	14.6%
Dumfries and Galloway	44.2%
Dundee City	10.8%
East Ayrshire	20.8%
East Dunbartonshire	13.9%
East Lothian	17.8%
East Renfrewshire	6.0%
Edinburgh City	11.1%
Eilean Siar	79.1%
Falkirk	14.7%
Fife	23.9%
Glasgow City	19.0%
Highland	45.5%
Inverclyde	17.8%
Midlothian	17.9%
Moray	34.7%
North Ayrshire	19.0%
North Lanarkshire	22.5%
Orkney Islands	32.1%
Perth and Kinross	32.0%
Renfrewshire	8.5%
Scottish Borders	40.5%
Shetland Islands	43.5%
South Ayrshire	20.1%
South Lanarkshire	27.3%
Stirling	24.4%
West Dunbartonshire	16.7%
West Lothian	22.2%

Note:1. Source: September 2001 School Census.

Question reference: S1W-27815

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 22 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many primary 1 to primary 3 classes there are with exactly 30 pupils in each local authority area.

The information requested is set out in the table:Stage P1-P3 Single Stage Classes in Publicly Funded Primary Schools with exactly 30 pupils¹

	Number
Scotland	484
Aberdeen City	9
Aberdeenshire	3
Angus	8
Argyll and Bute	2
Clackmannanshire	11
Dumfries and Galloway	6
Dundee City	32
East Ayrshire	22
East Dunbartonshire	14
East Lothian	10
East Renfrewshire	22
Edinburgh City	50
Eilean Siar	0
Falkirk	26
Fife	21
Glasgow City	47
Highland	10
Inverclyde	9
Midlothian	5
Moray	6
North Ayrshire	21
North Lanarkshire	28
Orkney Islands	0
Perth and Kinross	9
Renfrewshire	26
Scottish Borders	3
Shetland Islands	0
South Ayrshire	12
South Lanarkshire	45
Stirling	4
West Dunbartonshire	6
West Lothian	17

Note:1. Source: September 2001 School Census.

Question reference: S1W-27540

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive when the hospital information computer system at the new Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children will be operational.

Question reference: S1W-27539

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to ensure that McKesson Corporation will be pursued for payment of any fines incurred in respect of work for the NHS.

Question reference: S1W-27541

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will investigate the awarding of a contract by Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust to McKesson Corporation after the company had announced that an audit found #27million of sales recorded improperly.