Fiona McLeod: To ask the Presiding Officer when the next childcare survey of MSPs, their staff and Parliamentary staff will take place and whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body will agree the remit, nature and content of that survey.
Fiona McLeod: To ask the Scottish Executive what provision it intends to make to include non-teaching school staff, especially school librarians, in the consultation process for the Education Standards Bill.
Fiona McLeod: To ask the Presiding Officer what budgetary provision has been made to allow the 73 partner libraries to provide open access to the official publications of the Parliament.
Fiona McLeod: To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to support efforts to bring major international sporting events to Scotland. (S1O-158)
Fiona McLeod: I notice that Ms Brankin made no mention of the Ryder cup. Is she aware of plans to prepare a bid to bring the Ryder cup to Scotland in 2009? That is a long way away, but it gives us time to set up a cross-party working group to support and promote that bid to bring a major supporting event to Scotland.
Fiona McLeod: I understand that the relevant golf associations need to be involved. The idea is to promote a cross-club bid, which would, in the first instance, bring the event to Scotland. That bid is coupled with the imaginative idea of establishing a youth Ryder cup at another club the week before the main tournament. Will the minister support such a bid?
Fiona McLeod: I wish to ask the minister two questions, one of which is being asked again. Why cannot the document be published before the end of July? As he knows, schools in Scotland are now well into the final countdown period to the summer holidays for both pupils and teachers, and, by delaying the publication of the document for two weeks, he is effectively taking six weeks from the consultation...
Fiona McLeod: I want to address the draft information strategy. We talk about an open, accessible and participative democracy, but to achieve it we need a high standard of parliamentary information services. Any information strategy for this Parliament must be part of an integrated information strategy for the whole country. Already, this small country has a plethora-indeed, some would say a surfeit-of...
Fiona McLeod: With its new Parliament, Scotland is ideally placed to become a world leader in the knowledge century that we are about to enter, but that will happen only if we heed the professionals and adopt a coherent, integrated approach to information management. I commend the work of Janet Seaton, Bill Bell and all the partner libraries. They worked to tight time scales and with often scant or...
