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Reference	Item	MSP	Type	Date (desc)
S3O-13229	To ask the Scottish Executive what support it gives to the almost 13,000 children who leave primary school each year unable to read, write or count.	Kerr, Andy	Question General Question	10 Mar 2011
S3W-38290	To ask the Scottish Executive how many specialist nursing or occupational therapist roles supporting people with autism exist in NHS Scotland	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Jan 2011
S3M-07604	Winter Resilience 3 linked amendments	Kerr, Andy	Motion Motion For Debate	16 Dec 2010
S3W-38130	To ask the Scottish Executive what remuneration the chair of the National Performance Management Committee received from the Scottish Government in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10 and on wha	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	13 Dec 2010
S3O-12190	To ask the Scottish Executive when ministers last met the National Performance Management Committee and what issues were discussed.	Kerr, Andy	Question General Question	02 Dec 2010
S3O-11984	To ask the Scottish Executive when the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth last met COSLA.	Kerr, Andy	Question General Question	18 Nov 2010
S3M-07330	Managing Scotland’s Finances 3 linked amendments	Kerr, Andy	Motion Motion For Debate	04 Nov 2010
S3W-35860	To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) date and (b) location was of each ministerial visit to the East Kilbride parliamentary constituency since May 2007.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	22 Sep 2010
S3W-34463	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the (a) appointments that have been made to public bodies by ministers since May 2007 and (b) political affiliation, where known, of the appointees.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	22 Jun 2010
S3M-06216.4	Living Wage	Kerr, Andy	Motion Motion For Debate	29 Apr 2010
S3M-06174	The Economy 3 linked amendments	Kerr, Andy	Motion Motion For Debate	22 Apr 2010
S3W-32815	To ask the Scottish Executive how it is measuring the impact of the money allocated under the (a) Social Entrepreneurs Fund, (b) Enterprising Third Sector Fund and (c) Scottish Investment Fund.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Apr 2010
S3W-32814	To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has spent on the campaign to attract people from mainstream businesses onto the boards of enterprising third sector organisations and what success it has had.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Apr 2010
S3W-32813	To ask the Scottish Executive how many procurement officers have been trained in the use of community benefit clauses in each of the last three years and in what public bodies.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Apr 2010
S3W-32812	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has advised COSLA that local authorities’ procurement contracts should be linked to single outcome agreements.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Apr 2010
S3W-32811	To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to the role of social investment bonds in financing third sector organisations.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Apr 2010
S3W-32810	To ask the Scottish Executive what actions it is taking to encourage commercial banks to invest in the third sector.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Apr 2010
S3W-32809	To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth will report to the Parliament on the progress made in the Enterprising Third Sector Action Plan.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Apr 2010
S3M-06129.3	Economic Recovery Plan	Kerr, Andy	Motion Motion For Debate	14 Apr 2010
S3W-32027	To ask the Scottish Executive what the total extra amount is of 2010-11 non-domestic rates that larger organisations that would have been eligible for transitional relief will pay as a result of the d	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	26 Mar 2010
S3W-32026	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish its assessment of the impacts of a possible transitional relief scheme for non-domestic rates, referred to by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance an	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	26 Mar 2010
S3W-32025	To ask the Scottish Executive how many properties and at what rateable value will be subject to increased non-domestic rates in 2010-11 compared with 2009-10 levels of (a) 0 to 5%, (b) 5 to 10%, (c) 1	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	26 Mar 2010
S3W-32223	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-31315 by Jim Mather on 1 February 2010, what the value was of the further private investment from the Shell Technology Ventures Fun	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Mar 2010
S3W-32222	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to questions S3W-26834 and S3W-31314 by Jim Mather on 8 September 2009 and 1 February 2010 respectively, for what reason it has been unable to spen	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	15 Mar 2010
S3W-31250	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is confident that funding for all schools to be built through the schools investment programme will be secured by April 2011.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	12 Feb 2010
S3W-31254	To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects the Scottish Futures Trust schools investment pilot to begin.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Feb 2010
S3W-31253	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received the Scottish Future’s Trust plans for a pilot for the schools investment programme and whether they have been approved.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Feb 2010
S3W-31252	To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made with the pilot for the schools investment programme referred to in the Scottish Future’s Trust corporate plan.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Feb 2010
S3W-31251	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is still the case that local authorities will have to meet a third of the costs of secondary schools and half the cost of primary schools to be built through t	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Feb 2010
S3W-31249	To ask the Scottish Executive when funding will come on stream to fund (a) secondary and (b) primary schools through the schools investment programme.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Feb 2010
S3W-31248	To ask the Scottish Executive what funding mechanisms will be used to build new schools and whether it will list which schools will be built by the different models.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Feb 2010
S3W-31247	To ask the Scottish Executive what the timeframe is for completion of each school under the Scottish Futures Trust schools investment programme.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Feb 2010
S3W-31246	To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects the final school to be completed under the Scottish Futures Trust school investment programme.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Feb 2010
S3W-31245	To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects the first school to be completed under the Scottish Futures Trust school investment programme.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Feb 2010
S3W-31244	To ask the Scottish Executive when a schools investment programme will be published.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Feb 2010
S3W-31243	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has approved a schools investment programme.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Feb 2010
S3W-31242	To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Futures Trust has developed a schools investment programme.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Feb 2010
S3W-31241	To ask the Scottish Executive when a procurement and contracting strategy for the schools investment programme will be implemented.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Feb 2010
S3W-31240	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has approved a procurement and contracting strategy for the schools investment programme.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Feb 2010
S3W-31239	To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Futures Trust has established a procurement and contracting strategy for the schools investment programme.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Feb 2010
S3W-31238	To ask the Scottish Executive how the (a) estimated capital value and (b) timescale of the Scottish Crime Campus at Gartcosh compares with the original project cost and timescale estimates.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	09 Feb 2010
S3W-31233	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail which capital projects experienced cost overruns of £1 million and more in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	09 Feb 2010
S3W-31232	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the profile of every infrastructure project of over £10 million.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	09 Feb 2010
S3W-31235	To ask the Scottish Executive how the (a) estimated capital value and (b) timescale of the Southern General Hospital compares with the original project cost and timescale estimates.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	08 Feb 2010
S3W-31237	To ask the Scottish Executive how the (a) estimated capital value and (b) timescale of the Glasgow Airport Rail Link compares with the original project cost and timescale estimates.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	05 Feb 2010
S3W-31236	To ask the Scottish Executive how the (a) estimated capital value and (b) timescale of the Borders railway project compares with the original project cost and timescale estimates.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	05 Feb 2010
S3W-31234	To ask the Scottish Executive how the (a) estimated capital value and (b) timescale of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route compares with the original project cost and timescale estimates.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	05 Feb 2010
S3M-05637.1	Budget (Scotland) (No.4) Bill	Kerr, Andy	Motion Motion For Debate	03 Feb 2010
S3W-29623	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide the notes and records of visits or studies undertaken by officials in relation to airport rail links.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	15 Dec 2009
S3W-29622	To ask the Scottish Executive what visits and study tours were undertaken by officials regarding airport rail links.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	15 Dec 2009
S3W-29625	To ask the Scottish Executive whether an application has been made for Trans-European Network funds.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Dec 2009
S3W-29624	To ask the Scottish Executive whether an application for Trans-European Network funds has been discussed by officials and ministers.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Dec 2009
S3W-29575	To ask the Scottish Executive to where the £57 million difference in the Other Transport Agency Programmes level 3 budget line between draft Budget 2009-10 and draft Budget 2010-11 has been reallocate	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Dec 2009
S3W-29345	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-29002 by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 November 2009 regarding the capital cost of building the new Southern General Hospital, whether the	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	04 Dec 2009
S3W-29344	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-29003 by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 November 2009, who will be liable if the costs of the new Southern General Hospital contract are exc	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	04 Dec 2009
S3W-28967	To ask the Scottish Executive what reports are available to show what work the Scottish Futures Trust has done to identify continued financing for the Glasgow Airport Rail Link.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	27 Nov 2009
S3M-05071.3	The Scottish Economy	Kerr, Andy	Motion Motion For Debate	29 Oct 2009
S3W-24545	To ask the Scottish Executive how much was provided for unitary charge payments within the revenue element of the Local Government Finance Settlement to local authorities in 2009-10 and how much will	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Jun 2009
S3W-24233	To ask the Scottish Executive how it anticipates bridging the gap between the monies available to local authorities for new school buildings and Audit Scotland’s estimate that approximately £5 billion	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	10 Jun 2009
S3W-24232	To ask the Scottish Executive how Scottish Enterprise unitary charge payments will be funded and from what budget they are to be drawn down.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	03 Jun 2009
S3W-24231	To ask the Scottish Executive whether the capital settlement of £3 billion over three years associated with its concordat with local government is included in the announced £14 billion for capital inv	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	03 Jun 2009
S3W-24230	To ask the Scottish Executive whether the announced £14 billion for capital investment over the three years from March 2008 has been allocated to directorates to fund a range of projects and, if so, w	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	03 Jun 2009
S3W-24234	To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the additional £1 billion capital per annum for local government is already allocated to unitary charge payments on PPP projects.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	02 Jun 2009
S3O-07111	To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to review local courts.	Kerr, Andy	Question General Question	28 May 2009
S3M-04004.3	Budget Implications for Scotland	Kerr, Andy	Motion Motion For Debate	30 Apr 2009
S3W-22190	To ask the Scottish Executive what its latest thinking is on whether people living in England but working in Scotland would be required to pay a Scottish local income tax.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	27 Apr 2009
S3W-22202	To ask the Scottish Executive in what way the Infrastructure Investment Unit and the Scottish Futures Trust offer better value for public money than the disbanded Financial Partnerships Unit.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	23 Apr 2009
S3W-22201	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the functions of the (a) Infrastructure Investment Unit, (b) Scottish Futures Trust and (c) disbanded Financial Partnerships Unit.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	21 Apr 2009
S3W-22200	To ask the Scottish Executive how many employees there will be in the Scottish Futures Trust when it reaches full complement, also broken down by pay grade.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	21 Apr 2009
S3W-22199	To ask the Scottish Executive how many people work in the Scottish Futures Trust, also broken down by pay grade.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	21 Apr 2009
S3W-22198	To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil servants work in the Infrastructure Investment Unit, also broken down by pay grade.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	21 Apr 2009
S3W-22197	To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil servants worked in the Financial Partnerships Unit 12 months before it was disbanded, also broken down by pay grade.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	21 Apr 2009
S3W-22165	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it acknowledges that Strathclyde Partnership for Transport considers that the opening of a direct Ayr to Edinburgh rail service, as contained in the Glasgow Cross	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	21 Apr 2009
S3W-22186	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it decided what groups of people were to be exempt from the proposed local income tax and, if so, what groups these are.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	03 Apr 2009
S3W-22179	To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil servants have worked on its local income tax proposals since May 1997, also broken down by pay grade.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	03 Apr 2009
S3W-22183	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it calculated revenue projections for its proposed local income tax at rates other than 3p in the pound and, if so, what the projections are.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	01 Apr 2009
S3W-22182	To ask the Scottish Executive what the most recent revenue projections are for a 3p in the pound local income tax rate and how they compare with council tax revenue projections.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	31 Mar 2009
S3W-22189	To ask the Scottish Executive what its latest thinking is on whether and how second homes would be taxed under a local income tax.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	30 Mar 2009
S3W-22188	To ask the Scottish Executive what its latest thinking is on how water and sewerage charges would be collected under a local income tax.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	30 Mar 2009
S3W-22187	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it received legal confirmation that its proposed local income tax was compliant with Article 9 of the European Charter of Local Self-Government.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	30 Mar 2009
S3W-22185	To ask the Scottish Executive what it estimated the (a) upfront and (b) annual costs to employers would be of introducing its local income tax.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	30 Mar 2009
S3W-22184	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18225 by John Swinney on 5 December 2008, whether it will publish the financial memorandum and regulatory impact assessment prepare	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	30 Mar 2009
S3W-22181	To ask the Scottish Executive for what reasons it did not publish the most recent version of its local income tax proposals following the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth’s announc	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	30 Mar 2009
S3W-22180	To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil servants are working on its local income tax proposals, also broken down by pay grade.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	30 Mar 2009
S3W-21936	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the second supplementary to question S3F-11526 by Alex Salmond on 12 March 2009 (Official Report c. 15743), whether all contract documentation a	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	27 Mar 2009
S3W-21621	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has ever disallowed a private sector bidder from submitting a traditional PPP as a standard variant for any previous contracts.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	25 Mar 2009
S3W-21878	To ask the Scottish Executive what information it will publish on Scottish Futures Trust bids and invitations to tender.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	23 Mar 2009
S3W-21629	To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish Futures Trust will aggregate contracts.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Mar 2009
S3W-21626	To ask the Scottish Executive what funding models it has selected for projects that are pending.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Mar 2009
S3W-21625	To ask the Scottish Executive what funding models the Scottish Futures Trust has considered and whether there are any that it has rejected.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Mar 2009
S3W-21624	To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria the Scottish Futures Trust will use to decide which funding model is suitable for an individual infrastructure project.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Mar 2009
S3W-21622	To ask the Scottish Executive whether an average length of contract is envisaged under the proposed Scottish Futures Trust model and, if so, what that length is.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Mar 2009
S3W-21620	To ask the Scottish Executive whether the traditional model of PPP will be allowable as a standard variant in future Scottish Futures Trust contracts.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Mar 2009
S3W-21619	To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Futures Trust will adopt the same non-profit distributing model as adopted by the previous administration and, if not, how the models will differ.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Mar 2009
S3W-21628	To ask the Scottish Executive whether Transport Scotland is obliged to take the advice of the Scottish Futures Trust on the funding and delivery of transport projects such as the proposed Forth Replac	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Mar 2009
S3W-21627	To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18829 by John Swinney on 6 January 2009, what method of funding for the proposed Forth Replacement Crossing the Scottish Futures Tr	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Mar 2009
S3W-21623	To ask the Scottish Executive when and for what projects the non-profit distributing model has been used by it or the previous administration.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Mar 2009
S3W-21618	To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Futures Trust will operate as a not-for-profit organisation.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Mar 2009
S3M-03383.2	Borrowing Powers for the Scottish Parliament	Kerr, Andy	Motion Motion For Debate	05 Feb 2009
S3O-05795	To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to protect teachers from violence in schools.	Kerr, Andy	Question General Question	05 Feb 2009
S3O-05082	To ask the Scottish Executive when it last met representatives of NHS Lanarkshire.	Kerr, Andy	Question General Question	04 Dec 2008
S3W-17616	To ask the Scottish Executive whether assets built under the Scottish Futures Trust will be accounted for on public sector balance sheets.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Nov 2008
S3W-17615	To ask the Scottish Executive whether assets built under the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) will be under the control of the SFT company.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Nov 2008
S3W-17614	To ask the Scottish Executive what support it will provide to local authorities under the Scottish Futures Trust.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Nov 2008
S3W-17613	To ask the Scottish Executive whether local authorities will still receive level-playing field support under the Scottish Futures Trust.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Nov 2008
S3W-17612	To ask the Scottish Executive how the community hubs will fit operationally with the Scottish Futures Trust.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Nov 2008
S3W-17611	To ask the Scottish Executive which local bodies that wanted to participate in the community hubs pathfinder territories had signed a letter of intent by 10 October 2008.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Nov 2008
S3W-17610	To ask the Scottish Executive how the community hubs will be financed and, specifically, what the role of the private sector will be.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Nov 2008
S3W-17609	To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish Futures Trust will raise money.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Nov 2008
S3W-17608	To ask the Scottish Executive when the Scottish Futures Trust will have an agreed investment model.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Nov 2008
S3W-17607	To ask the Scottish Executive what the Scottish Futures Trust’s operating model will be.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Nov 2008
S3W-17606	To ask the Scottish Executive what the payroll costs of the Scottish Futures Trust will be.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Nov 2008
S3W-17605	To ask the Scottish Executive what the budget of the Scottish Futures Trust will be.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Nov 2008
S3W-17604	To ask the Scottish Executive when a memorandum of agreement on how the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) will operate will be completed between the Scottish Government and the SFT board.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Nov 2008
S3W-17603	To ask the Scottish Executive when the board and chief executive of the Scottish Futures Trust will be named.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Nov 2008
S3W-17602	To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects the Scottish Futures Trust to have its own funding capability.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Nov 2008
S3W-17600	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of how it aims to save £150 million per annum under the Scottish Futures Trust.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Nov 2008
S3W-17599	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has undertaken an assessment of the market for potential investors to get involved in projects using the non-profit distributing model.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Nov 2008
S3W-17598	To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with banks and financial institutions in the last three months on the subject of the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) and which of them have shown	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Nov 2008
S3M-02862.3	Scottish Futures Trust	Kerr, Andy	Motion Motion For Debate	13 Nov 2008
S3W-17601	To ask the Scottish Executive what the monthly rate of building cost inflation was between May 2007 and October 2008.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	13 Nov 2008
S3W-17142	To ask the Scottish Executive what data it has on the number of children with myalgic encephalomyelitis.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	13 Nov 2008
S3W-17450	To ask the Scottish Executive which aspects of its local income tax proposals will help persuade businesses to set up their corporate headquarters in Scotland.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Nov 2008
S3W-17449	To ask the Scottish Executive whether HM Revenue and Customs was involved in the preparation of the local income tax proposals.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Nov 2008
S3W-17448	To ask the Scottish Executive how many times it has met HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to discuss HMRC collecting local income tax and on what dates these meetings were held.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	11 Nov 2008
S3M-02739	Glasgow Rangers and UNICEF	Kerr, Andy	Motion Standard Motion	20 Oct 2008
S3M-02631.1	Local Government Finance	Kerr, Andy	Motion Motion For Debate	02 Oct 2008
S3M-02057.3	Investment in Scottish Infrastructure	Kerr, Andy	Motion Motion For Debate	05 Jun 2008
S3M-01849.2	Effective Public Services	Kerr, Andy	Motion Motion For Debate	08 May 2008
S3M-01789	Closure of JVC Facility in East Kilbride	Kerr, Andy	Motion Standard Motion	25 Apr 2008
S3W-11455	To ask the Scottish Executive what meetings Scottish Ministers have had with UK Treasury Ministers or officials since May 2007; who was present on each occasion, and what was discussed.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	24 Apr 2008
S3W-11466	To ask the Scottish Executive whether student loans and postgraduate bursaries are considered as income under plans to introduce a local income tax.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	22 Apr 2008
S3W-11465	To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its staff currently work overtime on a regular basis, broken down by pay scale bracket.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	22 Apr 2008
S3W-11464	To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff it currently employs, broken down by pay scale bracket.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	22 Apr 2008
S3W-11461	To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to ensure that local income taxpayers will not pay more for the same local services because of the amount of overtime they work.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	22 Apr 2008
S3W-11460	To ask the Scottish Executive whether overtime would be taxable under plans for a local income tax.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	22 Apr 2008
S3W-11459	To ask the Scottish Executive how many copies of the local income tax consultation were printed and what the estimated costs were of publication and distribution.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	22 Apr 2008
S3W-11458	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it sought any external consultancy services throughout the process of developing and writing the local income tax consultation document, whether there was a tende	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	22 Apr 2008
S3W-11457	To ask the Scottish Executive which directorate wrote the local income tax consultation.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	22 Apr 2008
S3W-11456	To ask the Scottish Executive which directorate initiated the local income tax consultation document.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	22 Apr 2008
S3W-11454	To ask the Scottish Executive what correspondence it has had with HM Treasury regarding HM Revenue and Customs’ role in collecting local income tax.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	22 Apr 2008
S3W-11453	To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of its local income tax (LIT) proposals, what the estimated set-up and running costs are to (a) collect LIT by HM Revenue and Customs, (b) collect water and sew	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	22 Apr 2008
S3W-11452	To ask the Scottish Executive what evidence it has to support the assertion that the cost of local income tax would be less than the cost of abolishing the council tax.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	22 Apr 2008
S3M-01715	Local Income Tax 1 linked amendment	Kerr, Andy	Motion Motion For Debate	17 Apr 2008
S3W-11463	To ask the Scottish Executive how many people currently work for over 40 hours a week.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Apr 2008
S3W-11462	To ask the Scottish Executive what it calculates to be the working population of Scotland, broken down by age and local authority area.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Apr 2008
S3O-02721	To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been put in place to support the new responsibilities of local government to develop local enterprise.	Kerr, Andy	Question General Question	20 Mar 2008
S3O-02529	To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish its proposals for a local income tax.	Kerr, Andy	Question General Question	06 Mar 2008
S3O-02316	To ask the Scottish Executive what provisions have been made for primary care services in Lanarkshire.	Kerr, Andy	Question General Question	21 Feb 2008
S3W-07362	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether “to ensure delivery” means delivery in full or in part.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	08 Feb 2008
S3W-07361	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what its definition is of “delivery of key government policies and programmes”.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	08 Feb 2008
S3W-07235	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what its definitions are of “progress” and “towards” and how these will be measured.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	08 Feb 2008
S3W-07232	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what its definitions are of “outcome”, “target” and “indicator” and what the difference is between (a) each term and (b) the	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	08 Feb 2008
S3W-07228	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether there will be any requirement on local authorities to report progress on the single outcome agreements publicly and	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	08 Feb 2008
S3O-02228	To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make a statement on the progress of the cultural pathfinder projects.	Kerr, Andy	Question General Question	07 Feb 2008
S3M-01110.3	Gould Report 1 linked amendment	Kerr, Andy	Motion Motion For Debate	10 Jan 2008
S3W-07373	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether the expectation that local government will show year-on-year progress toward delivery of class-size reductions appli	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	08 Jan 2008
S3W-07337	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether it will accept variations in class sizes in primary 1 to primary 3 between local authorities across Scotland and, if	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	08 Jan 2008
S3W-07336	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what is meant by “significant progress” in relation to maintaining teacher numbers in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	08 Jan 2008
S3W-07335	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what is meant by “significant progress” in relation to maintaining teacher numbers.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	08 Jan 2008
S3W-07236	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether it agrees that no local authority need achieve progress against each indicator and target in its single outcome agre	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	08 Jan 2008
S3W-07357	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what the 2007-08 value is of each component of the funds that will be rolled together into general capital grant for 2008-09	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	04 Jan 2008
S3W-07354	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what distribution formulae will apply to each of the currently ring-fenced funds that are not currently distributed by formu	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	04 Jan 2008
S3W-07326	To ask the Scottish Executive what budget provision it made in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07 and (c) 2007-08 to meet payments to local authorities for schools PPP projects; what the actual spending against	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	20 Dec 2007
S3W-07435	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether local government will be a full and equal partner in any decisions on the effectiveness and benefits of rolling-out	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Dec 2007
S3W-07432	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether the pilots providing free school meals for all primary 1 to primary 3 pupils will end in June 2008 and there will be	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Dec 2007
S3W-07431	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, how it calculates a 50% increase in pre-school entitlement.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Dec 2007
S3W-07430	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what “the entitlement to pre-school provision will be maintained at the new level” means in relation to making substantial p	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Dec 2007
S3W-07429	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether achieving a (a) 10%, (b) 20% or (c) 30% increase toward the 50% increase in pre-school entitlement would be regarded	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Dec 2007
S3W-07428	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what minimum personal access every pre-school child should have per day to a teacher.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Dec 2007
S3W-07427	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether access to a teacher for every pre-school child should be on every day of the pre-school experience.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Dec 2007
S3W-07426	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether access to a teacher for every pre-school child could mean the teacher being available at the end of a telephone.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Dec 2007
S3W-07425	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether access to a teacher for every pre-school child means having a qualified nursery teacher present in the pre-school en	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Dec 2007
S3W-07416	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what its estimate is of the number of kinship carers likely to be eligible for new allowances.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Dec 2007
S3W-07415	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what “equivalent” means in relation to kinship carers’ allowances and foster carers’ allowances.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Dec 2007
S3W-07411	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether colleges will be expected to meet any additional costs to local authorities in providing more vocational learning op	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Dec 2007
S3W-07410	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether colleges have been given extra resources as part of the spending review to meet any additional costs of extending vo	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Dec 2007
S3W-07409	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether local authorities will be expected to share the costs of colleges assisting them to deliver more vocational opportun	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Dec 2007
S3W-07408	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether local authorities will have to find the cost of giving more school pupils more vocational learning opportunities fro	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Dec 2007
S3W-07330	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what percentage of the £54 million to support recruitment of additional police officers will be for police staffing costs an	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Dec 2007
S3W-07328	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what the estimated police pension costs are over the next three years.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Dec 2007
S3W-07278	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether the £54 million to support recruitment of additional police officers is over and above the sums needed to recruit re	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	18 Dec 2007
S3W-07434	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what its estimate is of the costs of the roll-out of its pilot on free school meals to all schools and how these costs are c	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Dec 2007
S3W-07433	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether it expects local authorities to meet the full costs of any roll-out of free school meals to primary 1 to primary 3 p	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Dec 2007
S3W-07418	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether the cash settlement set by the concordat is expected to cover the introduction of kinship carers’ allowances.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Dec 2007
S3W-07417	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, how eligibility for a kinship carers’ allowance will be assessed.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Dec 2007
S3W-07407	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, how funding costed in the SNP manifesto for free school meals compares with the amount allocated in Scottish Budget: Spendin	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Dec 2007
S3W-07406	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what it estimates the annual cost will be of extending entitlement to those on maximum child tax credit and how that cost wi	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Dec 2007
S3W-07405	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether local authorities will have to meet the costs of extending the entitlement to free school meals to those on maximum	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Dec 2007
S3W-07404	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what legislation is required to extend free school meals to the recipients of maximum child tax credit.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Dec 2007
S3W-07403	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether any individual local authority will have discretion on whether to introduce free school meals for all primary 1, 2 a	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Dec 2007
S3W-07402	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether local government will be able to veto any extension to the free school meals pilot.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Dec 2007
S3W-07346	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what the previous finance allocation per year of each fund referred to in Annex B was since its inception.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Dec 2007
S3W-07345	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, which of the funds identified at Annex B to be rolled into the local government settlement (a) are currently determined by a	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Dec 2007
S3W-07327	To ask the Scottish Executive how many visits the Minister for Europe, External Affairs and Culture has made to parliamentary constituencies since May 2007, broken down by consituency.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	17 Dec 2007
S3W-07424	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, when each local authority will be assessed as to whether it is delivering reduction in class sizes “as quickly as possible”.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07423	To ask the Scottish Executivewhether efficiency savings will be removed from the baseline of all portfolios except local government.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07422	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, how efficiency savings will be reported and when this will be done.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07419	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what “through care homes fees” means in the context of improving care home quality.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07414	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, how many more pupils it would like to benefit from vocational learning in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07413	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether it accepts that there may be variations between local authorities in the number and breadth of skills for work and o	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07412	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether it has any targets for the number of additional skills for work courses that it wants to be made available in the ne	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07401	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what powers it has to act when any local authority consistently fails to meet its single outcome agreement.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07400	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether it sees a role for the Parliament and its committees in oversight arrangements to manage and monitor the concordat.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07398	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether it has no means of intervening and will not intervene in the actions of local authorities to redeploy funds previous	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07397	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether it accepts that removing ring-fenced funding may mean that funds previously guaranteed to support particular client	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07396	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, how it will monitor and assess whether local authorities individually or collectively are meeting their 2% per annum efficie	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07383	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, who will assess whether councils are delivering “as quickly as possible” in relation to reducing class sizes and whether par	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07382	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether “as quickly as possible” in relation to reducing class sizes refers to each council individually or to local governm	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07381	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether each local authority’s single outcome agreement will specify what is meant for the authority by “as quickly as possi	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07380	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether it has specific agreement with COSLA on the meaning of “as quickly as possible” in relation to reducing class sizes.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07379	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what its definition is of “as quickly as possible” in relation to reducing class sizes in primary 1 to primary 3.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07378	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether it will provide details of the action it expects each local authority to take, and for what action the Executive wil	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07377	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, how it intends to monitor whether its commitment to match Labour’s school building plans “brick for brick” is achieved.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07376	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, how much of the total capital grant available to local authorities it intends should be spent on major refurbishments of sch	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07375	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what sanctions it can use against any local authority failing to make year-on-year progress toward delivery of class-size re	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07374	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether achieving size reduction in 10% of classes in primaries 1, 2 or 3 would be regarded as progress toward delivery.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07372	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether the capital grant fund is to fund any extra classrooms in order to meet progress toward class-size reductions.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07365	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether, if one or more council does not freeze its council tax, the entire package will not remain intact.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07364	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA and if no council tax deal is agreed in year two of the spending review period, whether local authorities will have to raise	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07363	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what funding will be made available in year two of the spending review period if no council tax freeze is agreed in that yea	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07359	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what criteria were used to decide which funds were to be kept ring-fenced, showing the specific criteria used for each fund,	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07356	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what increase is planned in local authority capital in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07355	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether all distribution formulae currently used to distribute ring fenced funding will be subject to review over coming mon	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07353	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether ring-fenced funds which are not currently distributed to every local authority, which have been distributed as part	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07352	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether any of the funds to be rolled into the local government finance settlement in 2008-09 contain any part which has bee	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07351	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether the funding to be rolled into the local government finance settlement in 2008-09 from currently ring fenced funds re	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07350	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether there will be a reduction in central monitoring of thew £2.2 billion of currently ring fenced funds that are rolled	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07349	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, how the £0.5 billion set out on page three of the concordat relates to the £0.9 billion set out on page 73 of Scottish Budge	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07348	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, which the most likely candidates are to receive the further £0.2 billion of ring-fenced funds due to be rolled into the gene	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07347	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA and with reference to the paragraph which states “some further funding that will also go to local government but which is add	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07344	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what the current baseline is and what new funding has moved into the new capital resource.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07343	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what the current provision is for prudential borrowing and capital grants.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07341	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether there will be a process of prioritisation and bidding for schools.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07339	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether it will meet any loss of non-domestic rate income for reasons other than its policy of reducing non-domestic rates.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07338	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether universities have the capacity to deliver the teachers required to meet class-size reductions to 18 in primary 1 to	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07334	To ask the Scottish Executive what the specific arrangements are for local authorities to maintain teacher numbers in the face of falling school rolls, as referred to on page five of its concordat wit	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07333	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether the total capital fund includes an assumption of the continuation of the extra £40 million provided in the current y	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07332	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, how long it will take to achieve the class-size target if the target is funded only through the grant and school rolls fall.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07331	To ask the Scottish Executive whether the additional capital allocation shown on page five of its concordat with COSLA refers to capital in addition to the capital fund for local authorities or is inc	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07329	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what percentage of the £54 million to support recruitment of additional police officers will be for police pensions and whet	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07277	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether the council tax freeze will constrain councils’ ability to use prudential borrowing.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07276	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether those councils that agreed to help fund new schools from additional increases in council tax will receive additional	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07275	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether the definition of a freeze in council tax includes any increases above inflation, previously agreed by councils to h	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07274	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether the reference to the “entire package to remain intact” means a commitment from COSLA or from each council to freeze	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07273	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, how many councils will need to freeze council tax for the “entire package to remain intact”.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07272	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether it will provide funds to maintain parity with the English non-domestic rate poundage.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07271	To ask the Scottish Executive when the next revaluation of non-domestic rates in Scotland and England will take place.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07270	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, how much a 1p increase in the non-domestic rate poundage generates.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07269	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what provision it has allowed for the tax liability of small businesses.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07268	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what the estimated non-domestic rate income is for each year of the three-year period.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07267	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether it intends to monitor whether local government meets its efficiency targets or makes any efficiency improvements; wh	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07266	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what commitments have to be delivered from within the funding envelope provided.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07265	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what the separate funding streams are, what their value is and whom they affect.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07262	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what role it sees for the Parliament and its committees in the monitoring of single outcome agreements.	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07261	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what arrangements and levers will be left to it to incentivise change in services toward particular client groups or areas o	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07260	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what guarantees it can give that funding intended to support particular client groups or policy in particular areas of activ	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07259	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, what information it will provide to the Parliament in order to allow it to monitor the deployment and effectiveness of funds	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07258	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether targets associated with currently ring-fenced funds will still need to be met after these funds are no longer ring-f	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007
S3W-07257	To ask the Scottish Executive, under the terms of its concordat with COSLA, whether all indicators within the single outcome agreements will have to be met in full or as a proportion, and how will th	Kerr, Andy	Question Written Question	14 Dec 2007

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Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what support it gives to the almost 13,000 children who leave primary school each year unable to read, write or count.

S3O-13229 · General Question · lodged by Kerr, Andy

Lodged on

10 Mar 2011

Heard / answered on

10 Mar 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what support it gives to the almost 13,000 children who leave primary school each year unable to read, write or count.

The answer

We know from the Scottish Survey of Achievement that the majority of children develop a good grounding in literacy skills in early primary. However, a minority do not and we are determined that everything that needs to be done to support them is done. Curriculum for Excellence is designed to help drive up standards and literacy and numeracy are at its heart. It provides schools and teachers with the framework within which they can develop appropriate assessments in order to recognise and assist pupils with a range of literacy and numeracy support needs. For the first time, literacy and numeracy are the responsibility of all teachers. We expect all local authorities to have effective literacy and numeracy strategies in place and to develop and provide professional development programmes to support their strategies. In addition, the new Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy will sample and assess progress in numeracy and literacy skills in alternate years at P4, P7 and S2 beginning with numeracy in May this year.

Answered by Michael Russell on 10 Mar 2011.