Results 1-20 of 436 for speaker:Elizabeth Smith
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Health: Health (17 March 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take following reports that cases of rickets in children and adults have increased since 2006.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (14 March 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive what its best estimate is of the average carbon payback time for a wind farm development replacing forestry that has been clear felled.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy (14 March 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive what estimated minimum distance is needed between a standard wind turbine and surrounding forestry, taking into account turbulence and required wind speeds.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Culture: Culture (10 March 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive what cultural events it has planned to coincide with the 2014 Ryder Cup.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Education: Education (4 March 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers outdoor learning to be an effective means of delivering the outcomes of Curriculum for Excellence.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Education: Education (4 March 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the need to develop teachers’ confidence and competence through training and guidance to increase the use of outdoor learning for the delivery of Curriculum for Excellence outcomes.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Education: Education (4 March 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that Curriculum for Excellence through outdoor learning is helping to build the confidence and competence of teachers to make effective use of the outdoors to achieve Curriculum for Excellence outcomes.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Education: Education (4 March 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that any momentum generated by implementing Curriculum for Excellence through outdoor learning in building the confidence and competence of teachers to make effective use of the outdoors to achieve Curriculum for Excellence outcomes should not be lost.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Education: Education (4 March 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive how (a) Learning and Teaching Scotland, (b) HM Inspectorate of Education and (c) teacher education institutes support the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence through outdoor learning and whether such support will continue when the Scottish Education Quality and Improvement Agency comes into operation.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Education: Education (4 March 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive how it will maintain any momentum generated by implementing Curriculum for Excellence through outdoor learning in building the confidence and competence of teachers to make effective use of the outdoors to achieve Curriculum for Excellence outcomes.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Schools: Schools (4 March 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive how many school playing fields have been sold in each year since 2007, broken down by local authority
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Schools: Schools (4 March 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority has raised by selling playing fields in each year since 2007
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Education: Education (2 March 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive how many outdoor education centre places have been available to schoolchildren in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Education: Education (2 March 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive how many outdoor education centre (a) instructors and (b) team leaders there have been in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Education: Education (2 March 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive how much support it has made available to outdoor education centres in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Health: Health (23 February 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time was to see a hearing specialist in each of the last 12 months, broken down by NHS board.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Environment: Environment (21 February 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive what changes were made to the methodology used to determine the natural heritage indicator for the area of Scotland unaffected by built development; for what reason, and how comparable the 2009 results are with the results between 2002 and 2008 as a consequence of these changes.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Tourism: Tourism (10 February 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the availability of tourist information following the closure of tourist information offices across Perthshire and Kinross-shire.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Environment: Environment (1 February 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will update the information on the visual influence of built development and land use change recorded in the August 2008 edition of Scottish Natural Heritage’s Natural Heritage Indicator, which stated that, between 2002 and 2008, "the extent of Scotland unaffected by any form of visual influence declined from 41% to 31%."
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Environment: Environment (1 February 2011)
Elizabeth Smith: To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the findings of the final report, commissioned by it, Review of Status and Conservation of Wild Land , by the University of Leeds’ Wildland Research Institute.