- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school teachers are expected to retire in 2008 and how this compares with (i) 2006 and (ii) 2007.
Answer
The Scottish Government carries out an annual teacher workforce planning exercise. That exercise estimates the number of teachers leaving each year but does not differentiate between retirals and other reasons for leaving. The estimated number leaving in the years requested is set out in the following table:
| | Primary Trained Teachers | Secondary Trained Teachers |
| 2006 | 2,977 | 2,510 |
| 2007 | 3,064 | 2,630 |
| 2008 | 3,279 | 2,795 |
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school teachers are expected to graduate in 2008 and how this compares with (i) 2006 and (ii) 2007.
Answer
The numbers of students graduating from teacher training in 2006 and 2007 are available at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/03/18093809/110.
Comparable figures are not yet available for 2008 but 2,054 primary sector students and 1505 secondary sector students have been allocated to local authorities for the 2008-09 teacher induction scheme. However, not all of these students will graduate and the numbers eligible to take up their allocations will be smaller.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what properties it has (a) acquired and (b) disposed of since May 2007, showing the cost in each case.
Answer
The detailed information requested is currently being collated and I will write to the member as soon as the information is available and a copy will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 45748).
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each local authority area have their own kitchens for cooking school dinners.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13039 by Kenny McAskill on 21 May 2008, whether it will consider collecting information centrally about the ages of children in Scottish prisons.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
The Scottish Prison Service currently collects information on the ages of children confined in Scottish prisons on its prisoner record database.
The Scottish Prison Service does not collect data on female prisoners’ children and does not intend to do so.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of children had school meals in each local authority area on a specific date in 2007-08 and how this compares with the same date in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07.
Answer
Results of the February 2008 survey of school meals are due to be published later this month. These statistics are published annually on the Scottish Government website and are available using the following link:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/PubSchooMeals.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the arrangements will be for a St Andrew's Day holiday for (a) its, (b) UK Government and (c) private sector staff in 2008 and how this compares with 2007.
Answer
The Scottish Government is committed to marking St Andrew’s Day as a National Day and as a holiday. With effect from this year, staff in its core Directorates, including senior civil servants, and those agencies which make up the Scottish Government main bargaining unit have therefore been given an extra day’s holiday to celebrate St Andrew’s Day. In 2007 staff were given the option of exchanging an existing half day holiday for a half day on St Andrew’s Day.
St Andrew’s Day is a Scottish bank holiday and therefore it does not affect other parts of the UK.
Individual employers are free to decide whether to take St Andrew’s Day as a holiday.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were screened for (a) breast, (b) cervical, (c) bowel, (d) prostate and (e) testicular cancer in each NHS board area in 2007-08.
Answer
The information requested is not yet available for 2007-2008. Information on the number of people that were screened prior to 2007-08 is available on the Information Services Division website:
(a) Breast screening – 2005-06
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/cancer-breast-screening.jsp?pContentID=1622&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&.
(b) Cervical screening – 2006-07
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/cancer-cervical-screening.jsp?pContentID=1673&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&.
(c) Bowel screening – This programme is currently being rolled out across Scotland. Data from the original pilot will be published in August 2008. Data from the roll out will be published in early 2009. Full information on the Scottish Bowel Screening Programme can be accessed on the website at:
http://www.bowelscreening.scot.nhs.uk/.
(d) Prostate screening – No data is available on the number of patients screened for prostate cancer, as this is not a national screening programme.
(e) Testicular screening – No data is available on the number of patients screened for testicular cancer, as this is not a national screening programme.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 4 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies for (a) primary and (b) secondary school teachers are expected for the new academic year 2008-09.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-13205 on 4 June 2008. 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/wa.search.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 4 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to report to the Parliament on the outcome of the Crerar review of scrutiny of public bodies.
Answer
Professor Crerar published
The report of the independent review of regulation, audit, inspection and complaints handling of public services in Scotland on 25 September 2007. This was debated by the Parliament on 3 October 2007. The Scottish Government carefully considered the Crerar Review and the issues raised in the debate and published its response on 17 January 2008.
In the response the government accepted most of the recommendations in the review but identified some recommendations where further work was required. We will provide an update to Parliament on progress with this work by summer recess.
