- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when local authorities will be able to use the Scottish Futures Trust to build new schools.
Answer
I refer the member to thequestion S3W-1736 answered on 24 July 2007. All answers to written ParliamentaryQuestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will monitor the number of students entering higher education from areas of multiple deprivation.
Answer
The number of Scottishdomiciled students from deprived areas entering higher education in the UK ispublished in the Scottish Executive’s annual statistical publication Studentsin Higher Education at Scottish Institutions 2005-06 about the numbersof students in higher education. This will allow trends to be monitored.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority requires to spend to bring its school buildings up to a modern standard.
Answer
Detailed information of thekind requested is not collected centrally, although our recently publishedStatistics Publication Notice (ISSN 1479-7569) indicates the number of schoolsin each authority in each of four condition categories.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to improve public transport services between the three hospitals in Lanarkshire.
Answer
This is a matter for NHSLanarkshire.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when work will begin on the new Plains station as part of the reopening of the Airdrie to Bathgate rail line.
Answer
Transport Scotland is currently reviewing the Plains station feasibilityreport.
A decision on whetherto proceed with a station at Plains will be made following this review.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many probationary teachers were employed in the 2005-06 academic year, broken down by local authority and into primary and secondary schools and, of these, how many obtained full-time employment at the end of their probationary period in each category.
Answer
The following table shows thenumber of probationer teachers employed in publicly funded schools, by local authorityand by sector, on the 2005-06 teacher induction scheme as at September 2005 andhow many were subsequently employed as full time teachers as at September 2006.
There will have been other probationerteachers employed in publicly funded schools on a temporary/supply basis who turneddown their allocation to the scheme, opted not to apply to the scheme, were noteligible to join the scheme, or were employed by independent schools. Data relatingto these categories of probationer teachers are not held centrally.
There will be a number of teacherswho chose to defer taking up employment following successful completion of theirinduction year or were employed on a part-time or supply basis (whether or not bychoice) or were employed in independent schools. While comprehensive data relatingto all these categories are not held centrally, a survey conducted by the GeneralTeaching Council for Scotland found that 91.8% of 2005-06 probationers who respondedto the survey were employed as teachers in some capacity.
| Local Authority | Primary 2005-06 probationers on induction scheme as at September 2005 | Primary 2005-06 probationers who were employed full time as at September 2006 | Secondary 2005-06 probationers on induction scheme as at September 2005 | Secondary 2005-06 probationers who were employed full time as at September 2006 |
| Aberdeen | 27 | 19 | 52 | 36 |
| Aberdeenshire | 73 | 37 | 56 | 37 |
| Angus | 38 | 29 | 27 | 22 |
| Argyll and Bute | 8 | 4 | 11 | 10 |
| Clackmannanshire | 9 | 8 | 7 | 4 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 34 | 15 | 19 | 18 |
| Dundee | 18 | 18 | 15 | 13 |
| East Ayrshire | 33 | 10 | 31 | 23 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 19 | 12 | 34 | 25 |
| East Lothian | 43 | 21 | 39 | 27 |
| East Renfrewshire | 54 | 29 | 59 | 32 |
| Edinburgh | 84 | 43 | 86 | 57 |
| Eilean Siar | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 |
| Falkirk | 46 | 39 | 49 | 41 |
| Fife | 70 | 51 | 67 | 55 |
| Glasgow | 94 | 59 | 114 | 77 |
| Highland | 59 | 33 | 43 | 29 |
| Inverclyde | 8 | 4 | 15 | 8 |
| Midlothian | 18 | 9 | 26 | 19 |
| Moray | 30 | 14 | 28 | 17 |
| North Ayrshire | 46 | 19 | 37 | 28 |
| North Lanarkshire | 151 | 126 | 115 | 88 |
| Orkney | 9 | 4 | 7 | 4 |
| Perth and Kinross | 41 | 21 | 28 | 17 |
| Renfrewshire | 25 | 13 | 20 | 8 |
| Scottish Borders | 25 | 14 | 17 | 12 |
| Shetland Islands | 6 | 3 | 8 | 6 |
| South Ayrshire | 21 | 11 | 14 | 12 |
| South Lanarkshire | 64 | 38 | 89 | 68 |
| Stirling | 28 | 15 | 42 | 29 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 38 | 19 | 38 | 24 |
| West Lothian | 34 | 19 | 29 | 19 |
| Totals | 1,256 | 758 | 1229 | 870 |
Source: Teacher census.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many probationary teachers were employed in the 2006-07 academic year, broken down by local authority area and into primary and secondary schools.
Answer
The following tableshows the number of probationer teachers employed in publicly funded schools, bylocal authority and by sector, on the 2006-07 teacher induction scheme.
There will have beenother probationer teachers employed in publicly funded schools on a temporary/supplybasis who either turned down their allocation to the scheme or opted not to applyto the scheme or were not eligible to join the scheme, and there will have beena number of probationer teachers employed by independent schools. Data relatingto these categories of probationer teachers are not held centrally.
| Local Authority | Primary | Secondary | Total |
| Aberdeen | 57 | 67 | 124 |
| Aberdeenshire | 61 | 62 | 123 |
| Angus | 40 | 32 | 72 |
| Argyll and Bute | 31 | 18 | 49 |
| Clackmannanshire | 19 | 23 | 42 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 27 | 34 | 61 |
| Dundee | 53 | 46 | 99 |
| East Ayrshire | 50 | 51 | 101 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 24 | 27 | 51 |
| East Lothian | 59 | 45 | 104 |
| East Renfrewshire | 59 | 85 | 144 |
| Edinburgh | 139 | 97 | 236 |
| Eilean Siar | 8 | 14 | 22 |
| Falkirk | 57 | 65 | 122 |
| Fife | 90 | 91 | 181 |
| Glasgow | 164 | 157 | 321 |
| Highland | 63 | 57 | 120 |
| Inverclyde | 37 | 37 | 74 |
| Midlothian | 36 | 44 | 80 |
| Moray | 24 | 26 | 50 |
| North Ayrshire | 48 | 61 | 109 |
| North Lanarkshire | 146 | 134 | 280 |
| Orkney | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| Perth and Kinross | 49 | 31 | 80 |
| Renfrewshire | 76 | 83 | 159 |
| Scottish Borders | 21 | 9 | 30 |
| Shetland | 15 | 9 | 24 |
| South Ayrshire | 42 | 39 | 81 |
| South Lanarkshire | 131 | 120 | 251 |
| Stirling | 41 | 54 | 95 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 54 | 49 | 103 |
| West Lothian | 80 | 69 | 149 |
| Total | 1,808 | 1,741 | 3,549 |
Figures as at 29 September 2006.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 16 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the additional 300 new teachers, announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning on 20 June 2007 (Official Report c. 880), will be employed in each local authority area.
Answer
Funding amountingto £9 million in a full year is being distributed on the basis of GAE indicatorsfor primary teaching to employ 300 teachers. The employment of teachers in teachingposts is a matter for local authorities.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 16 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the additional 300 new teachers, announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning on 20 June 2007 (Official Report c. 880), will be employed in teaching P1, P2 or P3 classes.
Answer
The provision of theadditional funding is primarily to allow local authorities to employ additionalteachers in pre-school and in P1 to P3 in deprived areas. The employment and deploymentof teachers is a matter for local authorities.
- Asked by: Karen Whitefield, MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 13 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will assess the success of the Youth Music Initiative.
Answer
Work on this has beencompleted already. The Primary 6 Target Report, published in January 2007, assessedthe success of each local authority in reaching the primary school target set bythe then administration. And an evaluation of the first three years of the YouthMusic Initiative was published in March 2007. Both reports can be accessed on the Scottish Arts Council website. Scottish ministers will consider further evaluationin due course.
