- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Ministry of Defence regarding the introduction of e-learning lesson modules, entitled “Defence Dynamics”, targeted at 14 to 16-year-old school pupils.
Answer
No detailed discussions havetaken place. We have asked MOD to engage with Learning and Teaching Scotland so thatwe can better determine how this resource might complement the school curriculumin Scotland. However, ultimately, it is for schools and local authoritiesto decide on management and delivery of the curriculum in Scottish schools.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Ministry of Defence regarding any specific elements of the current Scottish curriculum that led to Ministry of Defence tri-service teams carrying out 153 visits to Scottish schools in 2005-06, approximately one third of their total number of visits that year.
Answer
None. Such visits would be amatter for schools and local authorities to arrange.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on what proportion of the 15 soldiers under the age of 18 sent to frontline operational duties in Iraq since 2003 had first contact with the military through tri-service teams operated by the Ministry of Defence in schools in Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does nothold information on school leaver destinations or on armed forces recruiting activitywhich could provide the analysis requested.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it offers to pupils and schools in contact with Ministry of Defence recruitment and military career teams to ensure that they are aware of children's rights under UN protocols and UK-signed treaties with regard to the rights of the child, to ensure that no Scottish pupils under the age of 18 are deployed to frontline operational duties in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere.
Answer
The Scottish Executive doesnot offer such guidance to pupils and schools in contact with Ministry ofDefence recruitment and military career teams. Recruitment of those under theage of 18 by the British armed forces is voluntary with the informed consent of the volunteer and his/her parents.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 28 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive after how many 999 calls to emergency call controllers requesting the assistance of police officers took three hours or more to respond in each year since 2000, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of 999 calls requesting police assistance and broken down by police force area and division.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. Chief constables of the individual Scottish police forces are responsiblefor the operation of this service.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 28 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive after how many 999 calls to emergency call controllers requesting the assistance of police officers took an hour or more to respond in each year since 2000, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of 999 calls requesting police assistance and broken down by police force area and division.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. Chief constables of the individual Scottish police forces are responsiblefor the operation of this service.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 26 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many families with children under five are without central heating and what the cost would be of extending free central heating to those families.
Answer
The Scottish House ConditionSurvey estimates that in the year from October 2003 to September 2004 there werearound 7,000 families with children under the age of five without central heating.Individual installation costs vary but it is estimated that it would cost approximately£24 million to provide these families with central heating systems.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 26 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has received from emergency planning officers or emergency planning representatives’ groups in each year since 2002 about any lack of equipment to deal with a civil emergency incident involving a “dirty bomb”, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is notaware of any representation since 2002, from either emergency planning officersor representative groups, about a lack of equipment to deal with a “dirty bomb”.However, the Executive engages constantly with all the key representative organisations,including those covering local government interests, about all aspects of emergencyplanning and response. As a result of this dialogue Scotland’s capabilityfor dealing with all types of emergency is improving continually.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 26 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions members of the armed forces have been deployed in Scotland in support of policing operations in each year since 1999, broken down by police force.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. Scottish police forces may call on support from the armed forces underthe terms of Military Aid to the Civil Authorities. It is for individual Chief Constablesto decide whether they require assistance from the armed forces for specific operations.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish Ambulance Service calculates average response times across Scotland.
Answer
Response times are calculatedfrom the time the main patient complaint is established to the time the first ambulanceresource arrives at the scene. Average response times are calculated by dividingthe total number of incidents by the total of the response times.
