All submissions that have been provided on this matter have been to inform ongoing policy development and will not be published at this time.

There are no plans to implement a Service Pupil Premium in Scotland. The Education Support Fund has been additional to, not instead of, the existing, and different, UK policy measures which support armed forces children’s education. These include Additional Support for Learning legislation in Scotland and the Service Pupil Premium in England.

At a Spending Review, Barnett consequentials are determined on a departmental level as opposed to a programme level, it is therefore not possible to isolate the financial impact of individual spending decisions.

Whilst is not possible to determine the specific impact, any consequentials from Pupil Premium, of which Service Pupil Premium is a sub programme, were reflected in the Scottish Government's total allocation announced in the 2010 Spending Review.

The Additional Support for Learning (ASL) Act places duties on education authorities to identify, provide for and review the additional support needs, long and short term, of their pupils. The supporting statutory Code of Practice is clear that additional support needs encompass a wide range of issues, including those which might impact on children from forces families such as interrupted learning and parental deployment.

The Act makes specific provisions to enable all children and young people with additional support needs, including those from forces families, to receive help in preparation for transitions in school. The support provided and the way that it is managed will depend on individual circumstances and is a matter for the education authority, school and family.

Officials will continue to regularly meet representatives of the MoD to discuss a wide range of matters, including education matters, as part of our commitment to working in partnership with the MoD to improve outcomes for the people of Scotland. The UK-wide Education Support Fund has been discussed at several of the Scottish Service Children Strategy Group quarterly meetings chaired by the Scottish Government.

This information is not held centrally. Local authorities can and do collect the information locally .

The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 defines information as "recorded in any form”, so information held on any new form of communication developed since the introduction of the Act may be within the scope of a Freedom of Information request.

Scottish Government guidance is explicit that official information held in media including, but not limited to: email accounts, social media accounts (eg Facebook, Twitter), text messaging, mobile messaging (eg WhatsApp, Skype, Snapchat), cloud storage and collaboration tools, is subject to the Act.

Our guidance is available to view on an external sharepoint site that can be accessed from the Scottish Government FOI webpage: https://www.gov.scot/publications/freedom-of-information-document-collection/.

This information is not held centrally. Local authorities can and do collect the information locally. Local authorities with military bases, or with Service family accommodation connected to military bases, are likely to account for the greatest number of children from forces families.

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-20424 on 18 December 2018. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx .

Agendas, minutes and papers are available to customer representatives and industry stakeholders but are not publicly available. Preparatory material will be released after the conclusion of the price review. However, the proposals arising from these deliberations are set out in the Decision Papers and other Strategic Review related documentation published by the Water Industry Commission on its website as referred to in the answer to question S5W-20806 on 16 January 2019. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx .

The ‘Shaping the future of your water services’ consultation report which was referred to by the member in question S5W-19740 was presented by Scottish Water on 25 October 2018. The results of this consultation are available on Scottish Water’s website at https://www.scottishwater.co.uk/about-us/publications/key-publications/211218-shaping-the-future-consultation-results .