- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 2 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S20-5408 by Nicol Stephen on 10 February 2005, what number of community transport projects it will support in (a) 2005-06 and (b) subsequent financial years and how much funding it has allocated for such projects.
Answer
The Executive supported 106 communitytransport projects in 2005-2006 under the Rural Community Transport Initiative,Urban Community Transport Initiative and Rural Demand Responsive Transport Initiative.To date, the Executive has awarded grant to 86 community transport projects in2006-07, 58 in 2007-08 and 34 in 2008-09 under these schemes. These numbers willincrease as further rounds of the Rural Community Transport Initiative will be heldin each of these years.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 2 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many community transport permits were issued under section 19 of the Transport Act 1985 in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 27 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what comparisons it has made of the effectiveness of the education of children with autistic spectrum disorder in mainstream schools and in specialist schools, such as Struan House.
Answer
No comparisons have beenmade. The most important principle is to meet the needs of the individual childor young person in the most appropriate setting, whether that is in amainstream school, a special school, a specialist school like Struan House or acombination.
I recognise however thatthere is a need to evaluate educational provision for pupils with autisticspectrum disorder (ASD) in these settings and that is why Her Majesty'sInspectorate of Education are conducting a specific inspection of educationalprovision for children and young people with ASD across Scotland. Theinspection began in April 2005 and will conclude shortly with a report due inlate summer.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 27 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what research it is undertaking on the effectiveness of the mainstreaming of children with additional support needs.
Answer
In 2003, the Executivecommissioned the Scottish Council for Research in Education (SCRE) to examinethe impact of the policy that requireseducation authorities to, wherever possible, mainstream pupils with specialeducational needs (SEN). The research assessed how education authorities implementedthe new duty and the impact of the mainstreaming policy, and examined the waysin which different policies and practices impacted on parents, teachers, andpupils with SEN, including pupils with autistic spectrum disorder, and theirpeers.
The findings were publishedin the Impact of the Presumption of Mainstreaming Research report on 13 January 2006, acopy of which is available at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/01/05142243/0andhttp://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/01/12121142/0.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 27 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has undertaken on the effectiveness of the mainstreaming of children with autistic spectrum disorder.
Answer
I refer the member to theanswers to questions S2W-24996 and S2W-24998 on 27 April 2006. All answers towritten 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: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 27 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many requests for placement were made by local authorities to (a) Struan House School, Alloa and (b) New Struan in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
Answer
The information requested isnot collected centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 27 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many learning support units there are in mainstream schools suitable for children with autistic spectrum disorder, in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The information requested isnot collected centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 26 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the farms which have been affected by emergency prohibition orders related to the Chernobyl incident in each year since 1995.
Answer
I am advised by the Food StandardsAgency that the following table indicates the number of farms in Scotland whichhave been subject to restrictions as a result of the Chernobyl accidentin each year since 1995.
| Date | Number of Farms Subject to Restrictions |
| 1995 | 41 |
| 1996 | 36 |
| 1997 | 28 |
| 1998 | 23 |
| 1999 | 20 |
| 2000 | 19 |
| 2001 | 18 |
| 2002 | 18 |
| 2003 | 16 |
| 2004 | 14 |
| 2005 | 11 |
| 2006 | 10 |
Farm numbers are approximate since part-farms may have restrictionsremoved; also farms and part-farms may be split and/or amalgamated. Accordingly,restrictions are defined in The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivityin Sheep) Order 1991 No. 20 (as amended) in consistent terms of defined boundariesrather than as individual farms. The remaining farms are located in the East Ayrshireand Stirling Council areas, although established policy is not to identify individualholdings without the consent of the farm owner.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 31 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 26 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has obtained legal advice into the definition of a public building under Article 7.3 of the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.
Answer
I have asked Dr. Paul Stollard,Chief Executive of the Scottish Building Standards Agency (SBSA), to answer. Hisresponse is as follows:
The SBSA works closely with theOffice of the Solicitor to the Scottish Executive (OSSE) on all matters concerningScottish building legislation.
Proposals for the descriptionand characterisation of “public building” will appear in the forthcoming publicconsultation on Articles 7, 8 and 9. This consultation is proposed for May 2006,will have a duration of 12 weeks and will be accessible from the SBSA website
www.sbsa.gov.uk.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 31 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 26 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will interpret Article 7.3 of the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive in respect of the definition of a public building.
Answer
I have asked Dr. Paul Stollard,Chief Executive of the Scottish Building Standards Agency (SBSA), to answer. Hisresponse is as follows:Proposals for the descriptionand characterisation of “public building” will appear in the forthcoming publicconsultation on Articles 7, 8 and 9. This consultation is proposed for May 2006,will have a duration of 12 weeks and will be accessible from the SBSA website
www.sbsa.gov.uk.
