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The Scottish Government does not hold information on conservation related staff resource in planning authorities, as this is a matter for individual local authorities.

Acting as an Executive Agency on behalf of Scottish Ministers, Historic Scotland currently has a Joint Working Agreement (JWA) with every local planning authority in Scotland. On the 1 October, Historic Environment Scotland (HES) will take on its full powers as lead body on the historic environment. In anticipation of this change, Historic Scotland, working under the authority of the HES Board, has been working with Dumfries and Galloway Council on a new version of the JWA. This new version reflects changes in statutory processes and responsibilities that will take place at that date. A draft version of this Agreement is available on Historic Scotland’s website. All local authorities were informed about these changes on 27 August. In the coming weeks, HES will be developing a programme of work to engage directly with each local authority to review their respective joint working agreements.

The numbers of classes in which team teaching is used, by local authority and by year group, are shown in Table 1.

Table 1: Number of classes with two or more teachers, 2014*

All local authorities have pupils in all primary year groups in composite classes. The numbers of pupils in composite classes, by local authority and by year group, are shown in Table 2.

Table 2: Number of pupils in composite classes by stage, 2014*

*As recorded in the September 2014 Pupil Census

As part of our work in response to the recent campaign about air fares from the Islands to the Scottish Mainland, the Scottish Government is considering various policy options to help address the issue.

None. The Air Discount Scheme, SA. 40925, was notified to the commission under the General Block Exemption Regulation Article 51 – Social aid for transport for residents of remote regions. This is valid from 1 April 2015 until 31 March 2019, and replaces the full notification to the commission for SA.32497 - Aid of a Social Character for Air Services. This notification was made electronically and did not require any discussion with the European Commission.

As part of our work in response to the recent campaign about air fares from the Islands to the Scottish Mainland, the Scottish Government is considering various policy options to help address the issue.

Transport Scotland officials will be discussing airport landing charges with Highlands and Islands Airports Limited shortly.

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In addition, the commission’s work has featured regularly in answers to parliamentary questions and in official press releases. The commission has also set up its own website and twitter account to keep interested parties informed of its work.

The commission’s published remit is consistent with the broad themes outlined in the answer to question S4W-25348.

Both the remit and final membership were made publically available on the commission’s website on 23 June 2015.