- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 26 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to ensure that the views of businesses, local enterprise companies and other social partners are given due weight in decisions about the provision of new roads.
Answer
The Executive actively seeks the views of business, local enterprise companies and other interests as part of the on-going process of consulting on major road projects. Recently there were public exhibitions of proposals for the Eastern Relief Road at Kincardine and the Fochabers- Mosstodloch Bypass on the A96. Business, industry, local enterprise companies and community interests are also closely involved in the transport corridor studies on the A8/M8, A80/M80 and the M74.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 26 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it holds on the length of time taken by the planning system to deliver improvement schemes for Scotland's motorways and other strategic roads.
Answer
The time taken to process motorways and strategic roads schemes from inception to delivery depends on a number of factors, including the complexity of the proposals, the number of objections received, the time taken at any public local inquiry and the need for any subsequent discussion, for example with landowners. Information on the time taken in all such cases is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 26 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it is giving to fast-track road scheme procedures for areas affected by traffic congestion.
Answer
Action is taken to anticipate significant milestones in the progress of a road scheme and to accelerate processes, for example by identifying potential dates for a public inquiry. There are no plans to reduce rights of public, business or other interests to examine and comment on the road scheme proposals.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 26 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what input it is making to the work on knowledge pools undertaken by the Excellence in Policy Making Network.
Answer
Scottish Executive officials are working with the Cabinet Office Centre for Management and Policy Studies on a wide range of projects, including the Policy Makers' Knowledge Pool, to encourage exchange of best practice throughout the UK Government and devolved administrations.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 26 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on average class si'es in nursery schools in each education authority in each year since 1994.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. As part of our drive towards more consistent regulation of childcare, we are working towards revised staff: child ratios across all sectors. The National Care Standards Committee has proposed a staff: child ratio of 1:8 for children aged three to five and 1:10 for sessions of less that four hours. The results of consultations are expected early in 2002.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 26 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on average class si'es in secondary schools in each education authority in each year since 1994.
Answer
The SEED annual School Census, conducted in September each year, is used to collect statistical information from schools. Summary class size information was collected from secondary schools every two years until 1997. Information on secondary school class sizes has not been collected since 1997. The average class size in publicly funded secondary schools was last published by education authority in the Summary Results of the 1995 School Census bulletin, and nationally in the Summary Results of the 1997 School Census bulletin.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 26 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on average class si'es in primary schools in each education authority in each year since 1994.
Answer
The SEED annual School Census, conducted in September each year, is used to collect statistical information from schools. Class size information was collected from primary schools every two years until 1997. Since 1997, class size figures have been collected every year. Average class sizes in publicly funded schools by education authority are published in the annual School Census Summary Results bulletin, copies of which are available from the Parliament's Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-18272 by Susan Deacon on 15 October 2001, which representatives from within general, medical and surgical practice and among nursing staff in the Greater Glasgow NHS Board area have been invited to the first meeting of the expert group on acute services reviews.
Answer
Our National Health set out the intention to establish an expert group supporting and advising local NHS Boards in managing changes in the configuration of services and advising the Health Department of the appropriateness of local reconfiguration.The expert group, details of which will be announced early in the New Year, will have representatives who have a wide range of community, clinical and public service experience from across Scotland.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what reports it has received from the Greater Glasgow NHS Board or the North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust on the progress in advertising for, and recruitment of, replacements for those consultant oncologists who have announced their resignations from service with the Trust.
Answer
Information provided by local NHS management indicates that there have been five expressions of interest in the six posts advertised.
- Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 December 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-18272 by Susan Deacon on 15 October 2001, when the first meeting of the expert group on acute services reviews will be held.
Answer
Our National Health: A plan for action, a plan for change, set out the intention to establish an expert group to support and advise NHS Boards in managing the changes in the configuration of services and advising the Health Department of the appropriateness of local reconfiguration.Details of the expert group will be announced early in the New Year.
