- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to the decision by Stirling Council to close the denominational Holy Trinity Episcopal Primary School, whether there is any deadline by which ministers must either approve or reject the closure decision.
Answer
No such deadline isspecified in statute. A decision will be reached as soon as is practicable,bearing in mind the need to give the proposal the careful consideration whichit requires.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Education and Young People has any plans to visit Holy Trinity Episcopal Primary School in Stirling.
Answer
I have no plans to visit theschool.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 6 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the outstanding council tax bills from 2000-01 has been written off by local authorities.
Answer
I refer the member to the answergiven to question S2W-5138. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament’s website at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 6 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the outstanding council tax bills from 2001-02 has been written off by local authorities.
Answer
I refer the member to the answergiven to question S2W-5138. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament’s website at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 6 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the outstanding council tax bills from 2002-03 has been written off by local authorities.
Answer
I refer the member to the answergiven to question S2W-5138. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament’s website at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 6 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the outstanding council tax bills from 1999-2000 has been written off by local authorities.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-5138. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 6 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the outstanding council tax bills from 1998-99 has been written off by local authorities.
Answer
I refer the member to the answergiven to question S2W-5138. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament’s website at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 6 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the outstanding council tax bills from 1997-98 has been written off by local authorities.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 12 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the costs were of publishing, printing, distributing and launching Scotland's National Cultural Strategy Annual Report 2003.
Answer
The cost, including webconversion, for publishing and printing the three annual reports of the NationalCultural Strategy amounts to £23,595. The report is disseminated widely throughroutes such as cultural organisations’ networks, local authorities and theExecutive’s website. Final distribution costs are not yet known. This year’s reporthas increased in size compared to last year’s – a tribute to the many varied,wide-ranging cultural initiatives, projects, investment and developments that arerecorded, celebrating substantial activity across Scotland. The launch eventwas also the launch for Scotland’s Culture, the pilot cultural portal.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when Scottish fathers will have the same parental rights and responsibilities as unmarried fathers in England, under the Adoption and Children Act 2002, to jointly register the birth of their child with the mother.
Answer
Unmarried fathers are ableto jointly register the birth of a child with the mother. However, this doesnot automatically give the father parental rights and responsibilities inrelation to the child. These can be secured by marrying the mother, completinga parental responsibilities and parental rights agreement, or through courtaction.
The white paper, Parentsand Children, published in 2000 included a proposal to confer parentalrights and responsibilities on unmarried fathers who jointly register the birthof a child with the child’s mother. This proposal commanded widespread support.
The Executive has made acommitment in the partnership agreement to reform family law for all of Scotland’speople and we will bring forward legislative proposals in due course.
