Questions tabled by Marlyn Glen

Questions tabled by Marlyn Glen in the Scottish Parliament since 2007

Employment

11 March 2011

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many women in Dundee aged (a) 50 to 54 and (b) 55 to 59 are unemployed and what percentage of unemployed women in Dundee the groups represent in total.

Angela Constance : It is not possible to provide International Labour Organization (ILO) unemployment data disaggregated below local authority level from survey data (Annual Population Survey and Labour Force Survey) as the numbers are below reliability thresholds.

Claimant count data can be used to measure those claiming unemployment related benefits in Scotland where survey data cannot be used. The table details the number of women claiming unemployment related benefits in Dundee by 50 to 54 and 55 to 59 age-groups, and the percentage of women claiming unemployment related benefits in Dundee these groups represent.

Table 1: JSA Claimant Counts and Proportions for Women Aged 50+, by Age-Group, Dundee City Council, January 2011

Age-Group	Claimant Count¹	Percentage of all Female Claimants
Aged 50-54	120	8.8
Aged 55-59	70	5.2

Source: Office for National Statistics.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many men in Dundee aged (a) 50 to 54, (b) 55 to 59 and (c) 60 to 64 are unemployed and what percentage of unemployed men in Dundee the groups represent in total.

Angela Constance : It is not possible to provide ILO (International Labour Organization) unemployment data disaggregated below local authority level from survey data (Annual Population Survey and Labour Force Survey) as the numbers are below reliability thresholds.

Claimant count data can be used to measure those claiming unemployment related benefits in Scotland where survey data cannot be used. The table details the number of men claiming unemployment related benefits in Dundee by 50 to 54, 55 to 59 and 60 to 64 age-groups, and the percentage of men claiming unemployment related benefits in Dundee these groups represent.

JSA (Jobseeker''s Allowance) Claimant Counts and Proportions for Men aged 50+, by Age-Group, Dundee City Council, January 2011

Age-Group	Claimant Count¹	Percentage of all Male Claimants
Aged 50-54	305	7.6
Aged 55-59	230	5.9
Aged 60 and over	45	1.2

Source: Office for National Statistics.

Health

10 March 2011

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many nurses specialising in Parkinson’s disease there have been in each NHS board area in the last three years for which information is available, expressed as (a) headcount and (b) whole-time equivalent.

Nicola Sturgeon : Information on clinical nurse specialists by specialty, including Parkinson''s disease, by NHS board can be found on the Workforce Statistics website at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=Clinical%20Nurse%20Specialists%202010.xls&pContentDispositionType=attachment.

It is of course for NHS boards to determine their workforce requirements, including specialist nurses, based on the clinical needs of the population and service developments in their area.

Cancer

10 March 2011

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken in response to the recommendations made in Report of a study to identify and explore attitudes leading to low uptake of cervical screening in Scotland with a particular focus on how to improve uptake and address inequalities, published by NHS Health Scotland in August 2009.

Shona Robison: The National Advisory Group for Breast and Cervical Screening commissioned NHS Health Scotland to undertake research into the reasons for non-uptake of the cervical screening invitation.

Following this research a new suite of targeted leaflets were produced which are sent out along with women''s invitation to screening. This includes leaflets which give more specific information for women attending for the first time and lesbian and bisexual women.

These leaflets are also available on NHS Health Scotland''s website at:

http://www.healthscotland.com/topics/health-topics/screening/cervical.aspx.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many new cases of cervical cancer have been diagnosed in the NHS Tayside area in each of the last three years.

Nicola Sturgeon : Data on the number of new cases of cervical cancer, diagnosed in each year since 2006, are available for Tayside NHS Board Area of Residence on the Information Services Division website at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=i_cancer_female_genital_organs.xls&pContentDispositionType=inline.

The most recent year for which numbers are available is 2008.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths there have been from cervical cancer in the NHS Tayside area in each of the last five years.

Nicola Sturgeon : Data on the number of people who died from cervical cancer, in each year since 2005, are available for Tayside NHS Board Area of Residence on the Information Services Division website at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=m_cancer_female_genital_organs.xls&pContentDispositionType=inline.

The most recent year for which numbers are available is 2009.

Smoking

10 March 2011

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage has been of adults in NHS Tayside who smoke 20 or more cigarettes a day in each year since 2006, broken down by gender.

Shona Robison : The information requested is shown in the following table, which shows the percentage of adults (16+) in NHS Tayside who smoke 20 or more cigarettes a day in combined years 2005-06 and 2007-08, broken down by gender.

Percentage of adults (16+) in NHS Tayside who smoke 20 or more cigarettes a day in combined years 2005-06 and 2007-08, broken down by gender. Data for 2009-10 are not yet published.

Year	Males	Females
2005-06	11%	9%
2007-08	12%	8%

Source: Scottish Household Survey, SHS.

Notes:

1. In order to increase numbers of smokers at NHS board level, two years worth of data have been combined.

2. In the table the denominator is the percentage of all adults (16+) and not the percentage of all smokers.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage has been of adults in NHS Tayside who smoke in each year since 2006, broken down by gender.

Shona Robison : The information requested is shown in the following table, which shows the percentage of adults (16+) in NHS Tayside who smoke in combined years 2005-06 and 2007-08, broken down by gender.

Percentage of adults (16+) in NHS Tayside who smoke in combined years 2005-06 and 2007-08, broken down by gender. Data for 2009-10 are not yet published.

Year	Males	Females
2005-06	25%	27%
2007-08	26%	23%

Source: Scottish Household Survey, SHS.

Employment

24 February 2011

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many new jobs have been created in each industrial sector in Dundee in the latest year for which information is available.

John Swinney : This information is not held centrally.

Using the Annual Population Survey, the change in the number of people employed within each broad industrial sector can be estimated. This is shown in the following table.

Table 1: Net change in number of people employed over year, from July 2008 to June 2009 to July 2009 to June 2010, by broad industrial sector, Dundee City local authority.

Industry Sector	Net Change in Number of People Employed over Year
Agriculture and fishing	*
Energy and water	*
Manufacturing	-2100
Construction	-1000
Distribution, hotels and restaurants	500
Transport and communication	0
Banking, finance and insurance etc	1900
Public admin, education and health	2700
Other services	-900
All sectors	1000

Source: Annual Population Survey, Office for National Statistics.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies there are in each industrial sector in Dundee.

John Swinney : The Jobcentre Plus notified vacancies administrative data series can be used to obtain an estimate of the number of vacancies within a specific area. It should be noted that, since not all vacancies are advertised through Jobcentre Plus, this should not be interpreted as the total number of vacancies open within a specified area and timeframe.

The number of notified vacancies in each industrial sector in Dundee City local authority during January 2011 is shown in the following table.

Table 1: Notified vacancies by broad industrial sectors for Dundee City local authority, January 2011.

Industry	Notified Vacancies
1 : Agriculture and fishing (SIC A,B)	1
2 : Energy and water (SIC C,E)	33
3 : Manufacturing (SIC D)	1
4 : Construction (SIC F)	4
5 : Distribution, hotels and restaurants (SIC G,H)	141
6 : Transport and communications (SIC I)	8
7 : Banking, finance and insurance, etc (SIC J,K)	298
8 : Public administration, education & health (SIC L,M,N)	45
9 : Other services (SIC O,P,Q)	11
Total Vacancies	542

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were employed in Dundee in each industrial sector in each of the last three years for which information is available, broken down by gender.

John Swinney : The official source of employment levels at local authority level is the Annual Population Survey (APS). The latest available data is for July 2009 to June 2010. Table 1 shows how many people were employed in Dundee City local authority, in each of the last three years by industrial sector and gender.

Table 1: Employment Levels by Broad Industry Sector and gender for Dundee City Local Authority, 12 months to June 2008, 2009 and 2010

	2008			2009			2010
	Gender		All	Gender		All	Gender		All
	Male	Female		Male	Female		Male	Female
A-B: Agriculture and fishing	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
C,E: Energy and water	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
D: Manufacturing	*	*	7,600	6,500	2,100	8,600	*	*	6,400
F: Construction	*	*	6,200	*	*	5,700	*	*	4,700
G-H: Distribution, hotels and restaurants	7,300	7,000	14,400	9,400	7,300	16,700	8,200	9,000	17,100
I: Transport and communication	*	*	3,400	*	*	3,900	*	*	4,000
J-K: Banking, finance and insurance etc	4,100	5,800	9,900	4,900	5,500	10,300	6,800	5,500	12,300
L-N: Public admin, education and health	10,300	22,600	32,900	8,000	22,000	30,000	10,000	22,800	32,700
O-Q: Other services	2,100	2,500	4,600	3,300	2,500	5,700	*	*	4,800
Total	38,800	41,100	79,900	41,000	40,800	81,800	42,000	40,800	82,800

Source: Annual Population Survey, Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

*Estimate suppressed as below reliability threshold or disclosive

Income

4 February 2011

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross weekly pay has been of full-time employees in each city in each of the last three years for which information is available.

John Swinney : The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics.

ASHE estimates are not available by city. Therefore, estimates for the corresponding Local authorities are provided for the six cities in Scotland (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, and Stirling). Note that local authorities will not be ideal proxies for cities in all cases, for example the Highland local authority and the city of Inverness.

When the ASHE sample is split by both gender and public/private sector classification the resulting earnings estimates are not reliable at local authority level. Estimates by gender and public/private sector classification are provided in separate tables.

Table 1 shows the median gross weekly pay for full-time employee jobs by gender in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Table 2 shows the median gross weekly pay for full-time employee jobs by public/private sector classification in 2007, 2008 and 2009. The median is the recommended measure of average earnings as opposed to the mean.

Table 1: Median Gross Weekly Pay (£) for Full-Time Employee Jobs by Gender

Local Authority	Male			Female			All
	2008	2009	2010	2008	2009	2010	2008	2009	2010
Aberdeen City	599.65	585.06	640.40	452.21	471.17	480.74	532.13	538.41	576.93
Dundee City	502.70	498.73	507.35	391.41	417.15	418.76	465.36	465.41	482.85
Edinburgh, City of	523.84	535.02	545.15	459.12	483.91	500.75	497.75	513.67	527.74
Glasgow City	495.00	524.17	516.92	411.73	428.45	439.54	459.81	475.97	477.48
Highland	463.52	472.97	508.58	387.11	396.62	381.95	416.10	450.84	457.19
Stirling	452.80	494.38	599.41	458.17	433.24	426.08	454.07	460.25	499.15
Scotland	504.87	509.90	521.54	401.13	420.29	431.21	462.60	472.78	488.17

Table 2: Median Gross Weekly Pay (£) for Full-Time Employee Jobs by Public/Private Sector Classification

Local Authority	Public			Private			All
	2008	2009	2010	2008	2009	2010	2008	2009	2010
Aberdeen City	547.19	543.61	587.02	534.00	539.54	583.46	532.13	538.41	576.93
Dundee City	506.86	495.01	539.68	378.04	399.27	420.12	465.36	465.41	482.85
Edinburgh, City of	530.90	567.93	592.36	463.07	448.84	452.10	497.75	513.67	527.74
Glasgow City	509.06	532.82	546.43	426.76	442.63	440.79	459.81	475.97	477.48
Highland	508.54	523.56	526.35	398.32	399.38	399.44	416.10	450.84	457.19
Stirling	421.21	591.16	549.58	412.65	421.48	458.71	454.07	460.25	499.15
Scotland	511.65	538.90	557.52	431.41	431.21	445.20	462.60	472.78	488.17

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross weekly pay has been of employees in each city in each of the last three years for which information is available.

John Swinney : The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics. ASHE estimates are not available by city. Therefore, estimates for the corresponding Local authorities are provided for the six cities in Scotland (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, and Stirling). Note that local authorities are not ideal proxies for cities in all cases, for example the Highland local authority and the city of Inverness.

The following table shows the median gross weekly pay for employee by gender in 2007, 2008 and 2009. The median is the recommended measure of average earnings as opposed to the mean.

Table 1 Median Gross Weekly Pay (£) for Employee Jobs by Gender

Local Authority	Male			Female			All
	2008	2009	2010	2008	2009	2010	2008	2009	2010
Aberdeen City	551.87	556.66	602.13	311.20	336.31	325.28	429.72	442.62	449.02
Dundee City	472.40	471.17	486.91	317.61	325.89	350.12	376.43	376.70	414.34
Edinburgh, City of	485.38	493.99	497.71	369.38	383.30	390.92	423.97	431.60	438.34
Glasgow City	455.06	484.37	473.22	325.99	341.18	344.26	379.20	404.46	402.22
Highland	408.02	451.24	474.66	279.42	271.12	280.91	349.97	352.41	368.84
Stirling	439.16	455.26	507.97	294.98	320.93	328.93	390.30	386.59	406.58
Scotland	465.70	471.04	483.04	303.93	313.02	312.97	375.03	384.49	393.30

Source: ASHE.

Notes:

1. The estimates are based on the number of employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence.

2. The estimates are based on a sample survey, and as such, are subject to sampling error. Care must be taken when interpreting changes over time and differences across categories, especially in Stirling and Highland local authorities.

Cancer

8 February 2011

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage of eligible women screened for cervical cancer has been in (a) NHS Tayside and (b) the Dundee Community Health Partnership area in each year since 2006, also broken down by age group.

Shona Robison : The percentage uptake¹ of women who had a record of a previous screening test taken within the last 3.5 years is in the following table:

NHS Tayside, 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2010.

Age Group	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
	% Uptake	% Uptake	% Uptake	% Uptake
	3.5 Years	3.5 Years	3.5 Years	3.5 Years
20 to 24	53.3	51.0	56.5	56.3
25 to 29	65.4	63.7	67.7	67.8
30 to 34	73.5	72.1	74.9	74.1
35 to 39	77.3	76.4	79.1	78.3
40 to 44	80.3	79.6	81.5	80.3
45 to 49	79.9	79.6	81.6	81.1
50 to 54	80.5	79.4	80.4	79.0
55 to 59	78.5	79.1	79.0	77.6
60 to 64	50.4	70.9	65.3	57.1
Target Age Group (20 to 60)	73.5	72.5	75.0	74.2

The percentage uptake¹ of women who had a record of a previous screening test taken within the last 5.5 years is in the following table:

Age Group	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
	% Uptake	% Uptake	% Uptake	% Uptake
	5.5 Years	5.5 Years	5.5 Years	5.5 Years
20 to 24	56.8	54.2	58.3	57.8
25 to 29	75.0	73.4	74.5	74.1
30 to 34	83.0	81.4	81.3	80.0
35 to 39	86.1	85.3	85.4	84.4
40 to 44	88.8	87.8	87.8	86.2
45 to 49	88.1	87.6	87.9	87.2
50 to 54	88.1	87.1	87.2	85.8
55 to 59	85.6	86.0	85.3	84.2
60 to 64	73.3	86.8	83.5	79.6
Target Age Group (20 to 60)	81.3	80.1	80.8	79.8

Health

26 January 2011

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost was of a consultant outpatient attendance in 2009-10.

Nicola Sturgeon : The average cost of a consultant outpatient attendance at an NHSScotland location in the financial year 2009-10 was £126.

NHS Hospitals

26 January 2011

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost was of an attendance at an accident and emergency unit in 2009-10.

Nicola Sturgeon : The average cost of an attendance at an NHSScotland hospital providing accident and emergency consultant-led outpatient care in the financial year 2009-10 was £107.

Ambulance Service

19 January 2011

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many emergency incidents in the NHS Tayside area ambulances attended in 2009-10.

Nicola Sturgeon : There were 41,630 emergency ambulance incidents in the NHS Tayside area in 2009-10 and this includes all categories of response. This, and a range of other information related to the performance of the Scottish Ambulance Service, is published in their annual report. The 2009-10 report can be found at http://www.scottishambulance.com/AboutUs/Default.aspx.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost was of an emergency ambulance call out in the East Central division of the Scottish Ambulance Service area in 2009-10.

Nicola Sturgeon : The average cost of an emergency ambulance in 2009-10 in East Central division of the Scottish Ambulance Service was £263.24. This, and a range of other information relating to the cost of ambulance activity, is published annually in the ISD Scotland Cost Book. This information can be found at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/costs-overview.jsp?pContentID=3726&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&.

NHS Hospitals

19 January 2011

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost was of an acute occupied bed day in 2009-10.

Nicola Sturgeon : The average cost of an acute occupied bed day in an NHSScotland hospital in the financial year 2009-10 was £595.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many attendances there have been at each NHS Tayside accident and emergency centre in each year since 2007-08.

Nicola Sturgeon: The number of attendances (new and unplanned returns) from July 2007 to September 2010 for each accident and emergency department in NHS Tayside are provided in the following table. The number of monthly attendances at each accident and emergency department across Scotland is published quarterly and can be viewed at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4024.html.

Prior to 1 July 2007 information for accident and emergency attendances was collected centrally from the ISD monthly aggregate return ISD(S)1 but is only published at NHS Board level at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4156.html.

A new data collection system was introduced from 1 July 2007 which provides information on attendances on all accident and emergency departments. Accident and emergency departments are classified as either core or non-core sites. Core sites include all accident and emergency departments within large hospitals. Non-core sites include minor injury units, small hospitals with manual systems and health centres in rural areas that carry out accident and emergency type activity. The information provided in the table covers the periods: 1 July 2007 to 31 March 2008; the full year periods for 2008-09 and 2009-10; and for 1 April 2010 to 30 September 2010.

Total Number of Attendances at Accident and Emergency Departments in NHS Tayside for Financial Years 2007-08 to 2010-11

	Financial Year
Accident and Emergency Department	2007-08*	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11^P
Ninewells Hospital	35,500	48,646	48,045	25,079
Perth Royal Infirmary	18,737	24,854	24,927	13,602
Arbroath Infirmary	6,578	9,045	13,394	7,451
Blairgowrie Community Hospital	1,349	1,906	3,054	1,659
Brechin Infirmary	1,482	1,748	3,374	1,827
Cottage Hospital, Aberfeldy	-	6	202	52
Crieff Community Hospital	-	938	2,598	1,229
Links Health Centre, Montrose	3,431	3,914	7,343	3,876
Pitlochry Community Hospital	443	628	1,324	908
St Margaret''s Hospital	-	8	319	196
Whitehills Health and Community Care Centre	3,809	4,027	6,999	3,900

^{PDates are complete to September 2010.
Source: Accident and emergency data mart, ISD Scotland.
Note: * Data are from July 2007.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many procedures
have been performed in acute specialities in NHS Tayside broken down by
(a) inpatients and (b) day cases, in each year since 2007-08.
Nicola Sturgeon : The following table shows the total
number of inpatient and day case procedures performed in NHS Tayside for
the financial years ending 31 March 2008 to 2010.
Number of Inpatient and Day Case Procedures Performed in NHS Tayside,
Financial Years 2007-08 to 2009-10}

	Financial Year
NHS Tayside	2007-08	2008-09¹	2009-10¹
Inpatients	67,811	35,253	34,250
Day Cases	23,034	23,688	21,071
Total	90,845	58,941	55,321

Source: ISD Scotland (SMR01).

Note: 1. It should be noted that from the 1 April 2008, it was no longer mandatory to record interventions/procedures (such as imaging, injections, infusions, x-rays etc) unless the patient is specifically admitted for this purpose.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many attendances there have been at nurse-led clinics for acute specialities in NHS Tayside, broken down by (a) new and (b) total attendances in each year since 2007-08.

Nicola Sturgeon : Information on the number of attendances at nurse-led clinics for acute specialities in NHS Tayside, broken down by (a) new and (b) total attendances for financial years ending 31 March 2007 to 2010 is published on the Information Services Division (ISD) website at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4453.html.

Please note that this data is developmental and should be treated with caution.

The number of attendances at nurse-led clinics for NHS Tayside for acute specialties is provided in the following table.

Number of attendances at nurse-led clinics for NHS Tayside for acute specialties for financial years 2007-08 to 2009-10

Indicator	Financial Year
	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
New Attendances	11,574	13,260	14,927
Total Attendances	58,608	71,365	105,363

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) inpatient and day case episodes and (b) new and return outpatient attendances there have been in NHS Tayside in each year since 2007-08.

Nicola Sturgeon : Information on (a) inpatient and day case episodes and (b) new and return outpatient attendances in NHS Tayside for financial years ending 31 March 2001 to 2010 is published on the Information Services Division (ISD) website at:

Inpatients and Day Cases: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4066.html

Outpatients: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4156.html.

The number of inpatient and day case episodes are provided in Table 1 and the number of new and return outpatient attendances are provided in Table 2 for NHS Tayside for financial year 2007-08 to 2009-10.

Table 1: Number of Inpatient and Day Cases for NHS Tayside from All Acute Specialties for the Financial Year 2007-08 to 2009-10

Patient Type	Financial Year
	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10^P
All Patient Types	96,127	101,971	96,266
Day Cases	21,279	22,021	16,617
Elective Inpatients	17,709	18,978	18,666
Emergency Inpatients	44,707	46,415	46,083
Transfers	12,432	14,557	14,900

^{P2009-10 data is provisional.
Table 2: Number of New and Return Outpatient Attendances for NHS
Tayside for All Specialties (Excluding Accident and Emergency) for the
Financial Years 2007-08 to 2009-10}

Indicator	Financial Year
	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10^P
New Outpatient Attendances	119,500	131,300	132,747
Return Outpatient Attendances	309,382	319,182	310,644
Total Attendances	428,882	450,482	443,391

^{P2009-10 data is provisional.}

NHS Services

17 January 2011

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are waiting for an appointment with a podiatrist in the (a) Dundee and (b) Angus Community Health Partnership area

Nicola Sturgeon : This information is not held centrally. However, NHS Tayside has informed me that, as of 1 October 2010, the number of new patients waiting to be seen by a podiatrist in the Dundee and Angus Community Health Partnership area is 400 in Dundee and 317 in Angus

Local Authorities

7 January 2011

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether local authorities are required or recommended to keep a permanent written minute of (a) board, (b) committee and (c) sub-committee meetings containing details of (i) attendees, (ii) duration and (iii) matters discussed

John Swinney : Schedule 7 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 sets out the provisions relating to meetings and proceedings of local authorities. Under the provisions of this Schedule, local authorities are required, for example, to record the names of members present at a meeting of a council and also to draw up minutes of the proceedings of a meeting of a council. Section 50C of the Act further states that minutes of meetings shall be open to public inspection for a period of six years from the date of the meeting.

Unemployment

7 January 2011

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were claiming unemployment-related benefits in Dundee at the latest date for which information is available, broken down by 2003 Census Area Statistics ward

John Swinney: The claimant count is a measure of those claiming unemployment related benefits in Scotland. Table 1 gives the claimant count for Dundee City, broken down by 2003 Census Area Statistics ward.

Table 1: Claimant Count in Each Dundee City Council Ward, November 2010

Area	Total Claimants
Dundee City Council	4,858
Ardler	147
Balgay	110
Balgillo	81
Balgowan	198
Barnhill	59
Baxter Park	169
Bowbridge	207
Brackens	163
Broughty Ferry	61
Camperdown	232
Claverhouse	137
Craigiebank	101
Douglas	264
East Port	243
Fairmuir	165
Hilltown	240
Law	225
Lochee East	168
Lochee West	222
Logie	153
Longhaugh	310
Ninewells	168
Pitkerro	298
Riverside	50
Stobswell	262
Strathmartine	112
Tay Bridges	163
West Ferry	30
Whitfield	160

Source: Office for National Statistics.

Note: 2003 CAS Wards.

Construction

16 December 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many construction sector workers in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus are registered as looking for work as (i) bricklayers, (ii) masons, (iii) roofers, roof tilers and slaters, (iv) plumbers, (v) heating engineers, (vi) joiners, (vii) plasterers, (viii) floorers, (ix) wall tilers, (x) painters and decorators, (xi) glaziers and (xii) steel erectors.

Jim Mather : The claimant count is a measure of those claiming unemployment related benefits in Scotland. The information requested is set out in the following table.

Table 1. Number of people on the Claimant Count by Sought Occupation, November 2010.

Occupation	Angus	Dundee City
5311: Steel erectors	0	0
5312: Bricklayers, masons	15	35
5313: Roofers, roof tilers and slaters	10	10
5314: Plumbers, heating and ventilating engineers	10	50
5315: Carpenters and joiners	45	100
5316: Glaziers, window fabricators and fitters	0	5
5321: Plasterers	0	5
5322: Floorers and wall tilers	10	20
5323: Painters and decorators	25	60
Total	120	285

Source. Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Health

16 December 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many anti-obesity drugs were prescribed in NHS Tayside in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10, and what the annual cost was.

Shona Robison : The following table shows the number of items dispensed in the community by community pharmacists and dispensing doctors and the gross ingredient cost for drugs indicated in the treatment of obesity in NHS Tayside for the financial years ended 31 March 2009 and 2010. The data exclude the direct supply of medicines to patients from hospitals and hospital-based clinics.

Financial Year	Number of Dispensed Items	Gross Ingredient Cost (£)
2008-09	5,659	197,942
2009-10	6,902	232,987

Notes:

The data are based on British National Formulary section 4.5.

Gross ingredient cost is the cost of an item before any discounts are applied. It excludes adjustments and broken bulk fees.

The information in the table has been provided by NHS National Services Scotland. Further information on prescribing can be found at www.isdscotland.org/prescribing.

National Health Service

16 December 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many biomedical bursaries of £2,000 have been awarded to students to encourage them to work in the NHS after graduation, in each year since 2007-08, also broken down by institution.

Michael Russell: The following table shows the number of students awarded the Biomedical Science Bursary to date, broken down by Institution and session. The bursary is payable to students on a placement year. Student numbers in this table have been rounded up or down to the nearest five (e.g. one, two round to zero; three, four round to five) to avoid identifying individual students. Totals may not equal the sum of their constituent parts due to rounding.

	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
Robert Gordon University	25	50	50	40
Glasgow Caledonian University	25	60	75	35
University of Abertay	10	20	20	10
University of the West of Scotland	5	10	10	5
Total	60	135	150	90

Justice

16 December 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many charges under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005 have been reported to the procurator fiscal in (a) Dundee and (b) Tayside in 2009-10.

Frank Mulholland : In 2009-10, 13 charges under the Emergency Workers Act 2005 were reported to the Procurator Fiscal at Dundee and a further five charges were reported to other procurators fiscal in Tayside.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many charges under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005 reported to the procurator fiscal in (a) Dundee and (b) Tayside in each year since 2008-09 have resulted in (a) court proceedings and (b) a successful prosecution, also broken down by section of the Act.

Kenny MacAskill : The number of charges reported to the procurator fiscal in 2009-10 is provided in the answer to question S3W-38173 on 16 December 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

The available information on court proceedings and convictions is given in the following table.

Persons proceeded against and convicted in Scottish Courts under the Emergency Workers (Scotland)Act 2005¹ in Dundee City and Tayside² , 2008-09³

Local Authority	Proceeded Against	Convicted
Dundee City
Section 1(1)	3	3
Section 2(1)	1	1
Section 5(1)	2	2
Total Dundee City	6	6
Tayside
Section 1(1)	5	5
Section 2(1)	2	2
Section 5(1)	9	9
Total Tayside	16	16

Housing

20 December 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how much the Affordable Housing Investment Programme has allocated in the Dundee City Council area in each year since 2006-07, also expressed in real terms.

Alex Neil : Most of the Affordable Housing Investment Programme (AHIP) is used to provide grants to registered social landlords (RSLs) to build new homes for rent and low-cost home ownership, but also includes grants and assistance to councils, individuals and private companies.

Dundee City Local Authority Area, AHIP Spend

Year	Actual Spend (£m)	Actual Spend Expressed in Real Terms (£m)
2006-07	12.975	13.951
2007-08	17.606	18.381
2008-09	8.467	8.585
2009-10	12.337	12.337
2010-11	6.128*	6.128*

Note: *Estimate.

All figures based on official published statistics.

Gross domestic product deflators have been used to express the actual spend in real terms from data provided by the Office for National Statistics

Employment

12 December 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37579 by John Swinney on 17 November 2010 and with regard to full-time equivalents, (a) how many women are employed by each local authority and (b) what that figure is expressed as a percentage of all employees.

John Swinney: The information requested is set out in the following table. With regards to full-time equivalents, part (a) shows what percentage of each local authority''s total number of full-time equivalents are women, and part (b) shows the level of full time equivalent women employees within the local authority.

Table 1: Full-time Equivalent Proportions and Levels of Women Employees by Local Authority, Q2 2010

Local Authority	(a) Full-Time Equivalent of Women Employees as Proportion of Total Local Authority Employees: Q2 2010	(b) Full-Time Equivalent of Women Employees: Q2 2010
Aberdeen	64.6%	4,800
Aberdeenshire	69.9%	7,000
Angus	70.4%	3,300
Argyll and Bute	67.2%	2,800
Clackmannanshire	67.5%	1,500
Dumfries and Galloway	66.7%	4,100
Dundee City	61.7%	4,200
East Ayrshire	66.4%	3,600
East Dunbartonshire	68.4%	2,900
East Lothian	66.3%	2,500
East Renfrewshire	69.8%	2,700
Edinburgh City of	62.8%	10,100
Eilean Siar	68.6%	1,300
Falkirk	67.3%	4,400
Fife	65.3%	11,400
Glasgow City	64.3%	13,800
Highland	67.4%	6,700
Inverclyde	69.6%	2,700
Midlothian	66.4%	2,500
Moray	65.9%	2,500
North Ayrshire	68.6%	4,100
North Lanarkshire	70.4%	10,200
Orkney Islands	65.0%	1,100
Perth and Kinross	67.9%	3,500
Renfrewshire	67.9%	4,900
Scottish Borders	65.9%	3,000
Shetland Islands	65.1%	1,700
South Ayrshire	66.7%	2,800
South Lanarkshire	64.6%	8,600
Stirling	66.9%	2,400
West Dunbartonshire	66.7%	3,600
West Lothian	65.0%	4,600

Source: Joint Staffing Watch Survey (Q2 2010), not seasonally adjusted.

The corresponding figures for the percentage of women employed by each local authority as a percentage of all employees in terms of head count, were supplied in the answer to question S3W-37579.

Dentistry

8 December 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students at the University of (a) Dundee and (b) Glasgow who have received a dental bursary since 2006-07 now work in NHS dentistry, also broken down by NHS board, and what percentage of students receiving a bursary this represents.

Shona Robison : The following table reports the number of bursary recipients in the NHSScotland dental workforce data at 30 September 2009 (the latest available data).

NHS Board	Dundee	%	Glasgow	%
Ayrshire and Arran	5	21.74	18	78.26
Borders	0		0
Fife	11	84.62	2	15.83
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	10	15.63	54	84.38
Highland	9	52.94	8	47.06
Lanarkshire	7	12.5	49	87.5
Grampian	15	65.22	8	34.78
Orkney	1	50.00	1	50.00
Lothian	15	50.00	15	50.00
Tayside	49	92.45	4	7.55
Forth Valley	4	21.05	15	78.95
Western Isles			2	100.00
Dumfries and Galloway	1	50.00	1	50.00
Shetland	1	50.00	1	50.00

The following table reports the proportion of students who received a bursary, have graduated and were in the NHSScotland dental workforce data at 30 September 2009. This is not broken down by NHS board because dentists may work in multiple NHS boards simultaneously.

	Proportion of Bursary Recipients
Dundee	0.84
Glasgow	0.82

Marlyn Glen: To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students at the University of (a) Dundee and (b) Glasgow received a bursary in 2009-10.

Shona Robison: The information requested is shown in the following table.

Number of Students who have Received a Dental Bursary at Glasgow and Dundee University for the 2009-10 Session.

Institution	2009-10 Session
Dundee University - Dental Bursary Recipients	242
Glasgow University - Dental Bursary Recipients	312

Marlyn Glen: To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on dental bursaries in 2009-10 for students at the University of (a) Dundee and (b) Glasgow.

Michael Russell : The Dental Bursary scheme provides £4,000 per year to anyone studying Dentistry in Scotland who can commit to the required retention period with NHS Scotland (up to a maximum of five years or equivalent part-time period). For University of Glasgow and University of Dundee students it is available from year two of their degree.

The following table shows the total amount of money paid in dental bursaries to students at University of Dundee and University of Glasgow in academic session 2009-10.

Payments made in Dental Bursaries to Students at University of Glasgow and University of Dundee " 2009-10

University of Dundee	University of Glasgow
£968,000	£1,248,000

Further and Higher Education

Marlyn Glen: To ask the Scottish Executive (a) how many and (b) what percentage of school leavers entered full-time higher or further education in the (i) Dundee City and (ii) Angus Council area in each of the last four years for which information is available.

Michael Russell : This information has been published as background data to the annual Destinations of Leavers from Scottish Schools publication. It can be found on the Scottish Government website at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/leavedestla.

Employment

1 December 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of employed adults in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus worked from home in their main job in each of the last five years for which information is available.

John Swinney : The information requested is set out in the following table. The data for Dundee City cannot be given as the estimates were found to be unreliable. Part (a) shows the percentage of employed adults who worked from home in their main job.

Percentage of Employed Adults in Angus who Worked from Home in their Main Job

Year
April 2004 to March 2005	5.1%
April 2005 to March 2006	5.0%
April 2006 to March 2007	4.5%
April 2007 to March 2008	5.8%
April 2008 to March 2009	5.3%
April 2009 to March 2010	4.3%

Source: Annual Population Survey, April to March datasets.

Notes:

1. Employed adults includes all aged 16 and over in employment or self-employment.

2. Adults who worked from home includes those who work from home and those who work in the same grounds or buildings as their home. The estimates do not include those who work in different places but use their home as a base.

3. Data based on sample surveys. None of the changes between years are statistically significant.

Higher Education

1 December 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-time university students in the (a) Dundee City and (b) Angus Council area have received a bursary in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Michael Russell: Bursary (i.e. non-repayable) support for full-time university students is available from the Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS). The most recent available data comes from academic session 2009-10. The following table shows the number of bursary recipients from Angus and Dundee city in academic sessions 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10.

Table 1: Number of full-time University students from Angus or Dundee City who received non-repayable bursary support, 2007-08 to 2009-10:

Academic Year	Angus	Dundee	Total
2007-08	1,015	1,350	2,365
2008-09	895	1,370	2,265
2009-10	900	1,415	2,315

Source: Management information provided to Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) by institutions.

Notes:

Scottish Funding Council

1 December 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the Scottish Funding Council allocation has been to (a) the University of Dundee, (b) the University of Abertay, Dundee, and (c) Dundee College in each of the last four financial years for which information is available, also expressed in real terms.

Michael Russell : Details of the Scottish Funding Council''s (SFC''s) allocations to colleges and universities, in cash terms, can be found on its website at http://www.sfc.ac.uk/.

Details of the allocations to the institutions referred to above, in cash and real terms, are shown in the following tables.

	Financial Year
	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
University Abertay (cash)	£21,145,902	£20,897,766	£20,061,700	£23,733,253
University of Dundee (cash)	£92,230,829	£78,268,473	£88,451,050	£89,980,671
Dundee College (cash)	£26,071,274	£24,943,081	£35,432,758	£48,818,481

	Financial Year
	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
University of Abertay (real terms " 2009-10 prices)	£22,724,578	£21,832,412	£20,395,990	£23,733,253
University of Dundee (real terms - 2009-10 prices)	£99,116,449	£81,769,004	£89,924,919	£89,980,671
Dundee College (real terms - 2009-10 prices)	£28,017,661	£26,058,652	£36,023,178	£48,818,481

Sources: SFC and Scottish Government.

Higher Education

1 December 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how much research–related funding the Scottish Funding Council has provided to the University of (a) Dundee and (b) Abertay, Dundee, in each of the last four financial years for which information is available.

Michael Russell : Over the last four academic years, the Scottish Funding Council has provided the Universities of Dundee and Abertay Dundee with the following levels of research-related funding:

	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
Dundee	26,446,462	28,495,296	26,271,928	27,046,430
Abertay Dundee	1,266,380	1,238,820	1,284,834	1,195,688

The Scottish Funding Council''s research-related funding is provided on an academic rather than a financial year basis and comprises:

Research Excellence Grant or Main Quality Research Grant

Research Postgraduate Grant

Knowledge Transfer Grant

Research Development Foundation Grant

(Scottish) Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme

Strategic Research Development Grant.

An additional £10 million is also being provided over three years to support the development of the Scottish Institute for Cell Signalling at the University of Dundee.

Employment

25 November 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many private sector jobs have been created in Dundee and how many of these were full-time in each of the last three years for which information is available.

John Swinney : This information is not held centrally.

Using the Annual Population Survey, the change in the level of private sector jobs can be estimated. This shows that within Dundee City:

between 2007 and 2008, there was a net reduction in private sector jobs of 200, of which all were full-time;

between 2008 and 2009, there was a net reduction in private sector jobs of 1,100, of which 800 were full-time;

between 2009 and 2010, there was a net reduction in private sector jobs of 300, of which 100 were full-time.

Source: Annual Population Survey, April " March datasets, ONS.

Notes:

1. Data rounded to nearest hundred.

2. As data is based on sample survey, the changes may not be statistically significant.

Culture

30 November 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive, following publication of Scotland’s Spending Plans and Draft Budget 2011-12, how much capital funding it will provide for the V&A at Dundee project.

Fiona Hyslop: The Scottish Government''s Draft Budget for 2011-12 includes sufficient funding for the project feasibility and design stages to proceed. Overall the Scottish Government will make a significant capital contribution to the project, providing a sound funding basis to which the partnership can add from other sources to enable the project to proceed. Details are being discussed with the partnership.

Prescription Charges

25 November 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many prescriptions have been issued for cancer-related treatment in (a) Scotland and (b) NHS Tayside in each year since 2007-08, and what the gross cost was of dispensing these.

Shona Robison : Information is not held centrally on the number of prescriptions issued, only on prescription items dispensed in the community by community pharmacists and dispensing doctors. These data exclude the direct supply of medicines to patients from hospitals and hospital-based clinics.

The information in the table shows drugs in sections 8.1, 8.2.3, 8.3.1, 8.3.2 and 8.3.4 of the British National Formulary which lists products indicated for use in the treatment of cancer. Some of the products listed can be used in the treatment of other conditions and it is not possible to identify from the prescription form why a particular drug was prescribed. In addition, there will be other drugs used in the treatment of cancer, for example, analgesics for pain, steroids as adjunct therapy and some prescribing of these drugs will be for reasons other than cancer.

NHS Tayside

Financial Year	Number of Dispensed Items	Gross Ingredient Cost (£)*
2007-08	14,784	1,530,848
2008-09	15,206	1,576,926
2009-10	15,440	1,522,317

Scotland

Financial Year	Number of Dispensed Items	Gross Ingredient Cost (£)*
2007-08	209,453	22,780,691
2008-09	214,560	24,013,151
2009-10	220,793	22,140,699

Note: *Gross ingredient cost is the cost of an item before any discounts are applied. It excludes adjustments and any dispensing or broken bulk fees.

The information in the table has been provided by NHS National Services Scotland. Further information on prescribing can be found at www.isdscotland.org/prescribing.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many prescriptions were issued by (a) Dundee and (b) Angus Community Health Partnership in each year since 2006-07 and what percentage was free.

The table below shows the number of items dispensed and the percentage of items dispensed free of charge in the Dundee and Angus Community Health Partnerships in each year since 2006-2007.

Dundee Community Health Partnership

Financial Year	Number of Dispensed Items	Percentage Free-of-Charge
2006-07	2,338,661	89.2%
2007-08	2,393,230	89.1%
2008-09	2,487,850	89.3%
2009-10	2,556,693	89.4%

Angus Community Health Partnership

Financial Year	Number of Dispensed Items	Percentage Free-of-Charge
2006-07	1,688,760	87.5%
2007-08	1,702,734	87.5%
2008-09	1,770,971	88.0%
2009-10	1,850,842	88.4%

Notes:

Data on the percentage of prescribed items dispensed free of charge is derived using the patient exemption check boxes on the back of the prescription form. These data exclude items written on Minor Ailment Service or Stock Order forms.

The information in the table has been provided by NHS National Services Scotland. Further information on prescribing can be found at www.isdscotland.org/prescribing

Employment

22 November 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many women are employed by each local authority, expressed as a percentage of employees.

John Swinney : The information requested is set out in the table below. Part (a) shows what percentage of each local authority''s headcount are women.

Table 1: Headcount of Women Employees as a Percentage of All Employees by Local Authority, Q2 2010

Local Authority	Percentage of All Employees
Aberdeen	70.2%
Aberdeenshire	76.2%
Angus	73.6%
Argyll and Bute	70.8%
Clackmannanshire	71.3%
Dumfries and Galloway	72.5%
Dundee City	64.7%
East Ayrshire	70.8%
East Dunbartonshire	71.9%
East Lothian	70.3%
East Renfrewshire	72.8%
Edinburgh City of	66.1%
Eilean Siar	74.6%
Falkirk	70.9%
Fife	70.3%
Glasgow City	66.6%
Highland	72.6%
Inverclyde	73.5%
Midlothian	69.7%
Moray	72.5%
North Ayrshire	72.5%
North Lanarkshire	74.3%
Orkney Islands	69.0%
Perth and Kinross	71.3%
Renfrewshire	71.6%
Scottish Borders	70.4%
Shetland Islands	73.7%
South Ayrshire	70.2%
South Lanarkshire	69.0%
Stirling	70.8%
West Dunbartonshire	69.7%
West Lothian	69.9%

Note: Figures based on total headcount (includes both full-time and part-time employees).

Source: Joint Staffing Watch Survey (Q2 2010), not seasonally adjusted.

People with Dementia

22 November 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what total number of patients is recorded in Quality and Outcomes Framework dementia registers in NHS Tayside GP practices.

Ms Nicola Sturgeon : This information is published annually by ISD Scotland. The most recent information relates to the 2009-10 financial year and can be viewed at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/files/QOF_Scot_200910_HEAT_dem_prevalence.xls

The published figures include data from nursing homes etc from NHS Lothian and Greater Glasgow and Clyde which do not participate in the Quality and Outcomes Framework but are part of the current Dementia HEAT targets. This does not affect the figures from NHS Tayside as they do not have these extra components.

Health

29 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospital admissions there have been of people aged 65 and over in Angus as a result of falls in each of the last three years for which information is available, broken down by intermediate geographical zone, also expressed as a rate per 1,000 of population.

Answered by Nicola Sturgeon : The information requested is shown in the following table:

Table 1. Number of Hospital Admissions for Patients Aged 65 and over in Angus as a Result of a Falls¹ for Financial Years 2007-08 to 2009-10.

Intermediate Geographical Zone	2007-08		2008-09		2009-10^P
	Episodes	Rate per 1,000 population	Episodes	Rate per 1,000 population	Episodes	Rate per 1,000 population
Monifieth West	11	17.4	8	12.3	8	12.2
Monifieth East	28	23.1	28	22.6	24	19.0
Carnoustie West	13	16.9	8	10.2	7	8.6
Carnoustie East	26	22.9	19	16.5	23	19.4
Monikie	5	8.9	6	9.7	*	*
South Angus	8	8.0	7	6.9	14	13.3
Arbroath Keptie	18	19.9	10	10.9	11	12.0
Arbroath Harbour	21	22.3	34	35.3	30	31.7
Arbroath Kirkton	22	23.7	14	14.9	18	18.2
Arbroath Cliffburn	15	18.6	14	17.5	10	12.1
Arbroath Warddykes	10	15.3	13	18.9	4	5.7
Letham and Glamis	7	7.3	14	13.9	8	7.6
Kirriemuir Landward	11	20.3	9	15.9	12	21.4
Forfar West	21	21.7	18	18.6	11	11.1
Forfar Central	17	18.0	14	14.8	15	15.7
Forfar East	23	25.9	20	22.9	13	14.6
Lunan	8	16.9	5	10.6	7	14.4
Friockheim	19	17.8	14	12.6	9	7.9
Kirriemuir	14	11.6	25	20.0	14	11.0
Montrose South	34	31.5	19	17.5	29	27.1
Montrose North	17	19.1	17	19.2	15	16.8
Brechin East	10	18.0	11	19.1	12	21.2
Brechin West	18	22.2	16	19.3	12	13.8
Hillside	6	12.2	3	5.8	3	5.5
Angus Glens	11	16.9	10	14.8	18	26.7

^{P2009-10 Data is provisional.
Source: Information Services Division Scotland, Scottish Morbidity
Record Scheme

To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospital admissions there have
been of people aged 65 and over in Dundee as a result of falls in each
of the last three years for which information is available, broken down
by intermediate geographical zone, also expressed as a rate per 1,000 of
population.
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon (Wednesday, September 29, 2010):
The information requested is shown in the following table:
Table 1. Number of Hospital Admissions for Patients Aged 65 and Over
in Dundee as a Result of a Falls¹ for Financial Years 2007-08
to 2009-10}

Intermediate Geographical Zone	2007-08		2008-09		2009-10^P
	Episodes	Rate per 1,000 Population	Episodes	Rate per 1,000 Population	Episodes	Rate per 1,000 Population
Ardler and St Marys	20	20.0	14	14.2	24	23.9
Balgay	10	10.4	17	17.7	11	11.6
Barnhill	26	20.5	23	18.0	31	23.6
Baxter Park	7	12.6	7	12.7	4	7.0
Broughty Ferry East	17	18.8	11	11.7	13	13.8
Broughty Ferry West	30	22.1	25	18.0	28	20.0
Caird Park	3	6.4	7	14.8	8	16.8
Charleston	9	12.2	15	21.1	7	10.2
City Centre	17	33.3	8	16.0	4	7.9
Craigie and Craigiebank	30	22.0	32	24.0	39	30.4
Docks and Wellgate	19	30.6	13	21.2	14	23.8
Douglas East	12	17.9	14	21.8	10	15.7
Douglas West	12	16.3	13	17.7	11	15.2
Downfield	17	17.3	10	10.0	9	9.0
Fairmuir	15	13.6	25	23.2	18	16.5
Fintry	13	16.3	19	23.1	18	21.4
Hilltown	28	25.9	21	19.5	15	13.8
Kirkton	9	19.0	9	18.1	8	15.5
Law	26	22.0	29	25.3	26	23.6
Linlathen and Midcraigie	22	32.2	22	30.8	12	16.6
Lochee	33	27.2	22	18.3	26	22.2
Logie and Blackness	26	29.1	22	25.6	9	11.0
Menzieshill	18	20.4	22	25.4	17	20.4
Perth Road	6	15.3	8	20.2	12	31.4
Stobswell	6	12.3	15	30.5	11	22.5
The Glens	28	26.5	15	14.8	23	23.0
West Ferry	20	20.8	12	12.1	18	18.0
West Pitkerro	3	8.4	6	15.4	4	9.7
Westend	18	18.5	15	15.6	11	11.5
Western Edge	10	27.2	7	18.3	13	30.8
Whitfield	8	12.2	10	15.3	12	17.8

^{P2009-10 Data is provisional.
Source: Information Services Division Scotland, Scottish Morbidity
Record Scheme 01 (SMR01), General Register Office for Scotland
population estimates.
Note: 1. A fall is defined as International Classification Disease 10
(ICD-10) codes W00 " W19 in any diagnosis position.}

Homecoming Scotland

21 September 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated financial benefit to the local economy in Dundee has been from Homecoming Scotland 2009 events.

Jim Mather : An independent evaluation of the economic impact of Homecoming Scotland 2009 was done by Glasgow-based EKOS Ltd, a leading independent UK consultancy specialising in economic and social development. EKOS concluded that Homecoming Scotland 2009 generated net additional expenditure for Scotland of £53.7 million. The evaluation did not breakdown this impact on a regional basis.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) temporary and (b) permanent jobs have been created in Dundee as a result of Homecoming Scotland 2009 events.

Jim Mather : An independent evaluation of the economic impact of Homecoming Scotland 2009 was done by Glasgow-based EKOS Ltd, a leading independent UK consultancy specialising in economic and social development. In terms of net additional employment, EKOS concluded that Homecoming generated an additional 1,536.4 full-time equivalent. The evaluation did not breakdown this impact on a regional basis.

Employment

17 September 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many jobs in Dundee are classified as (a) medium and (b) high-tech manufacturing and what percentage of all manufacturing jobs in the city this represents.

John Swinney : Information on the number of employee jobs by industry is collected each year from the Annual Business Inquiry (ABI). Table 1 shows the number of employee jobs in the high-tech and medium-high-tech manufacturing industries, and the percentage of all manufacturing jobs each industry represents, in Dundee City. The most recent year for which data is available is 2008.

Table 1: Employee Jobs in the High-Tech and Medium-High-Tech Manufacturing Industries in Dundee City, 2008

Industry	Number of Jobs	Percentage of Total Manufacturing
High-Tech Manufacturing	1,500	20.6%
Medium-High-Tech Manufacturing	900	12.6%

Source: Annual Business Inquiry 2008.

Notes:

1. In line with Eurostat/OECD definitions the SIC (2003) codes used for each industry are:

High-tech manufacturing " 24.4, 30, 32, 33, 35.5

Medium-high-tech manufacturing " 24 (except 24.4), 29, 31, 34, 35.2, 35.4, 35.5.

2. These data are based on employee jobs rather than people in employment i.e. one person may have more than one job. Self-employed jobs are not included.

3. Data are rounded to the nearest hundred.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive (a) how many and (b) what percentage of jobs in Dundee are classified as being in knowledge-intensive services.

John Swinney : Information on the number of employee jobs by industry is collected each year from the annual business inquiry (ABI). Table 1 shows the number and percentage of employee jobs in the knowledge-intensive services industry, in Dundee City. The most recent year for which data is available is 2008. The ABI does not include self-employed jobs.

Table 1: Employee jobs in the Knowledge-Intensive Services Industry in Dundee City, 2008

Industry	Number of Jobs	Percentage of Total Jobs
Knowledge-Intensive Services	8,700	11.8%

Source: Annual Business Inquiry 2008.

Notes:

1. In line with Eurostat/OECD definitions the SIC (2003) codes used are:

knowledge-intensive services " 61, 62, 64, 72, 74

2. These data are based on employee jobs rather than people in employment i.e. one person may have more than one job. Self-employed jobs are not included.

3. Data are rounded to the nearest hundred.

Lifelong Learning

8 September 2010

Marlyn Glen :To ask the Scottish Executive how many economically active people in Dundee in each of the last three years (a) were qualified at level (i) NVQ4 and above, (ii) NVQ3, (iii) NVQ2 and (iv) NVQ1, (b) had another qualification or (c) were on a trade apprenticeship, also expressed as a percentage, and how this compares with the figures for Scotland.

Keith Brown : The Annual Population Survey (APS) is the official source for data on people who are economically active. Table 1 shows the latest estimates from the APS, covering each year since 2007, of the number of economically active people in Dundee City Council of working age (16 to 64 for males and 16 to 59 for females) by level of qualification. Table 2 shows the same for Scotland. Table 3 shows the latest estimates from the APS, covering each year since 2007, of the number of economically active people in Dundee City Council of working age (16 to 64 for males and 16 to 59 for females) who have completed a trade apprenticeship. Table 4 shows the same for Scotland.

Table 1: Economically Active Working Age people by Highest NVQ Level, Dundee City Council, 2007-09, Dundee City

	NVQ4 and above		NVQ3 and equivalent		NVQ2 and equivalent
	Level	Rate (%)	Level	Rate (%)	Level	Rate (%)
2007	27,000	39.5%	17,200	25.1%	11,100	16.2%
2008	25,900	38.6%	18,700	27.9%	9,900	14.7%
2009	26,400	39.0%	17,800	26.3%	10,500	15.5%
	NVQ1 and equivalent		No Qualifications		Other Qualification
	Level	Rate (%)	Level	Rate (%)	Level	Rate (%)
2007	*	*	*	*	4,400	6.4%
2008	*	*	*	*	4,300	6.4%
2009	*	*	*	*	5,100	7.5%

Source: Annual Population Survey, January " December.

Notes:

1. Levels are rounded to the nearest 100.

2. * figures have been suppressed as levels lie below the reliability threshold.

3. Rates refer to the proportion of economically active people whose highest qualification is at the level specified.

Table 2: Economically Active Working Age people by Highest NVQ Level, Scotland,
2007-09, Scotland

	NVQ4 and above		NVQ3 and equivalent		NVQ2 and equivalent
	Level	Rate (%)	Level	Rate (%)	Level	Rate (%)
2007	949,800	37.5%	694,900	27.4%	436,800	17.2%
2008	964,300	38.0%	706,400	27.8%	429,200	16.9%
2009	984,100	38.6%	681,100	26.7%	443,100	17.4%
	NVQ1 and equivalent		No Qualifications		Other Qualification
	Level	Rate (%)	Level	Rate (%)	Level	Rate (%)
2007	54,200	2.1%	240,200	9.5%	157,400	6.2%
2008	53,500	2.1%	222,300	8.7%	165,100	6.5%
2009	54,300	2.1%	218,300	8.6%	168,600	6.6%

Source: Annual Population Survey, January - December

Notes:

1. Levels are rounded to the nearest hundred.

2. * figures have been suppressed as levels lie below the reliability threshold.

3. Rates refer to the proportion of economically active people whose highest qualification is at the level specified.

Table 3: Economically Active Working Age People who have Completed a Trade Apprenticeship, Dundee City Council, 2007-09

	Trade Apprenticeship
	Level	Rate (%)
2007	8,700	12.8%
2008	9,500	14.2%
2009	8,600	12.8%

Source: Annual Population Survey, January to December.

Notes:

1. Levels are rounded to the nearest 100.

2. Rates refer to the proportion of economically active people who have completed a trade apprenticeship.

Table 4: Economically Active Working Age People who have Completed a Trade Apprenticeship, Scotland, 2007-09

	Trade Apprenticeship
	Level	Rate (%)
2007	368,900	14.7%
2008	369,300	14.7%
2009	350,800	13.9%

Source: Annual Population Survey, January to December.

Employment

6 September 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the most recent job density value is for (a) Dundee, (b) Angus and (c) Scotland.

John Swinney : Job density value is defined as the number of employee jobs in an area divided by the working age population (males aged 16 to 64 and females aged 16 to 59) residing in the area. The official source for employee jobs in Scotland is the annual business inquiry. Table 1 shows the most recent job density value for Scotland, Dundee City and Angus.

Table 1: Job Density Value for Scotland, Dundee City and Angus, 2008

	Rate (%)
Angus	53.6
Dundee City	82.6
Scotland	74.8

Source: Annual business inquiry, 2008 and mid-year population estimates, 2008.

Regional Selective Assistance

1 September 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many jobs were (a) created and (b) safeguarded in Dundee through Regional Selective Assistance in each of the last four years for which information is available.

Jim Mather : Regional Selective Assistance projects involve the creation and / or safeguarding of a specified number of jobs over the duration of the grant contract. This includes a specified period after the final payment has been made when the project jobs have to be maintained. Typically, projects can be undertaken over a number of years. Records are not maintained of jobs created or safeguarded by financial year as it is the overall number of jobs created or safeguarded over the duration of the grant contract which is important.

Information on accepted offers and the associated planned job creation and job safeguarding can be found within the report section of the Scottish Business Grants website at:

http://www.scottishbusinessgrants.gov.uk/rsa/208.html.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the average value has been of offers of Regional Selective Assistance to indigenous firms in Dundee in each of the last four years for which information is available.

Jim Mather : The average value of Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) offers made by the Scottish Executive, during the last four full years in which it operated the RSA scheme, to indigenous firms in Dundee is as follows:

Year	Amount
2008-09	£159,000
2007-08	£350,333
2006-07	£442,143
2005-06	£143,250

From 1 October 2009 Scottish Enterprise assumed responsibility for making new offers of RSA. Information on RSA can be found on the Scottish Business Grants website at:

http://www.scottishbusinessgrants.gov.uk/rsa/208.html.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what total amount of Regional Selective Assistance has been given to indigenous firms in Dundee in each of the last four years for which information is available.

Jim Mather : The Scottish Executive has, since April 2002, routinely published information on Regional Selective Assistance (RSA). Scottish Enterprise assumed operational responsibility for making new offers of RSA from 1 October 2009 and continues to publish information on new RSA offers. Information on accepted offers, payments and recoveries can be found in the report section of the Scottish Business Grants website at http://www.scottishbusinessgrants.gov.uk/rsa/208.html.

Unemployment

6 September 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were claiming unemployment-related benefits in each Dundee City Council ward at the most recent date for which information is available, broken down by gender.

John Swinney : The claimant count is a measure of those claiming unemployment related benefits. Claimant counts are not yet available for the new wards as used in the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary Elections. However, data is available for the 2003 Census Area Statistics (CAS) wards. Table 1 contains claimant counts for each ward within Dundee City.

Table 1: Claimant Count in Each Dundee City Council Ward by Gender, July 2010

	Male	Female	All People
Dundee City Council	3,728	1,366	5,094
Ardler	106	46	152
Balgay	90	35	125
Balgillo	69	18	87
Balgowan	144	48	192
Barnhill	38	20	58
Baxter Park	142	50	192
Bowbridge	166	46	212
Brackens	128	46	174
Broughty Ferry	48	20	68
Camperdown	177	73	250
Claverhouse	123	53	176
Craigiebank	82	24	106
Douglas	191	75	266
East Port	188	83	271
Fairmuir	143	37	180
Hilltown	182	59	241
Law	193	60	253
Lochee East	132	47	179
Lochee West	156	61	217
Logie	106	45	151
Longhaugh	221	78	299
Ninewells	122	41	163
Pitkerro	213	92	305
Riverside	39	21	60
Stobswell	184	69	253
Strathmartine	82	30	112
Tay Bridges	132	66	198
West Ferry	26	11	37
Whitfield	148	37	185

Note: 2003 CAS wards are used.

Source: Office for National Statistics.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual average number of people in Dundee claiming unemployment-related benefits has been in each of the last three years for which information is available, broken down by (a) age group and (b) duration of unemployment.

John Swinney : The claimant count is a measure of those claiming unemployment related benefits in Scotland. Table 1 gives the claimant count for Dundee City, broken down by age and table 2 gives the claimant count for Dundee City, broken down by duration of claim.

Table 1: Claimant Count in Dundee City Council by age, Annual Average 2007-09

	18 to 24	25 to 49	50+
2007	990	1,830	550
2008	1,015	1,875	490
2009	1,410	2,570	670

Note: Levels have been rounded to the nearest five.

Source: Office for National Statistics.

Table 2: Claimant Count in Dundee City Council by duration, Annual Average 2007-09

	Claiming for up to 6 Months	Claiming for More than 6 Months and up to 12 Months	Claiming for More than 12 Months
2007	2,290	630	565
2008	2,490	590	400
2009	3,240	975	525

Note: Levels have been rounded to the nearest five.

Source: Office for National Statistics

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what (a) annual average number and (b) percentage of people in Dundee has claimed unemployment-related benefits in each of the last three years for which information is available.

John Swinney : The claimant count is a measure of those claiming unemployment related benefits in Scotland. Table 1 gives the number and proportion of people claiming unemployment related benefits in Dundee City for those aged 16-64 in 2007-09.

Table 1: Claimant Count Levels and Rates for those aged 16-64, Dundee City, 2007-09

	Level	Rate (%)
2007	3,489	3.8
2008	3,481	3.7
2009	4,738	5.0

Source: Office for National Statistics

NHS Staff

18 August 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) hospital microbiologists are employed and (b) vacancies there are for such posts in NHS Tayside, expressed as (i) headcount and (ii) whole-time equivalent.

Nicola Sturgeon : (a) Information on hospital microbiologists employed in NHS Scotland is not specifically held. However, information showing headcount and whole time equivalent for medical microbiology and virology staff in post is collected and published by NHS Services Scotland Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland. Latest data as at 30 September 2009 is available at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=HCHS%20by%20specialty_2009reva.xls&pContentDispositionType=attachment..

(b) Information on vacancies for hospital microbiologists in NHS Scotland is not specifically held. However, information on consultant vacancies for medical microbiology and virology is collected. Latest vacancies as at 30 September 2009 are available at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=Consultant_Vacancies_2009.xls&pContentDispositionType=attachment.

Mental Health

12 August 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many prescriptions for antidepressants were issued in the (a) Dundee and (b) Angus Community Health Partnership areas in (i) 2008 and (ii) 2009

Nicola Sturgeon : Information on prescriptions issued for antidepressants is not collected but the number of antidepressant items dispensed in 2008 and 2009 for these Partnerships is shown in the following table:

Prescribing Community Health Partnership	Calendar Year 2008	Calendar Year 2009
Angus Community Health Partnership	80,057	85,456
Dundee Community Health Partnership	131,875	139,524

Source: Prescribing Information System, ISD Scotland. IR2010-01887.

It should be noted that prescribing rates can be influenced not only by prevalence and detection rates of depression, but also prescribing practice around the dosage and duration of the prescription " for example the same people might be staying on antidepressants for longer periods, or they may be receiving a higher dose.

We will ensure those who need antidepressants will continue to receive them in accordance with clinical guidelines, while investing in alternatives that increase choice for clinicians and service users through improved access to evidence based interventions such as psychological therapies.

NHS Expenditure

16 August 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the expenditure on hospital drugs in NHS Tayside was in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10.

Nicola Sturgeon : NHS Tayside spent £22.378 million on hospital drugs in 2008-09; information is not yet available for the 2009-10 expenditure.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the expenditure on staffing costs in NHS Tayside was in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10.

Nicola Sturgeon : NHS Tayside''s expenditure on staffing costs was £420.587 million in 2008-09 and £435.043 million in 2009-10.

Employment

14 July 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the population was of working age in Dundee in the last year for which information is available and what that percentage will be in 2033 if current proposals to increase the pensionable age are implemented.

Jim Mather : In mid-2009, 62.6 per cent of the population of Dundee City was of working age. In 2033, the projections published by the General Register Office for Scotland suggest that 60.2 per cent of the population of Dundee City will be of working age, assuming that the planned increases in the working age to 66 years are implemented.

Care of Elderly People

26 July 2010

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the projected number of staff who will be required to provide care in (a) care homes, (b) home care and (c) day care in Dundee in the period up to 2033, based on 2007-08 figures.

Shona Robison : Modelling work has been undertaken at a national level as part of the reshaping care for older people programme. This work is focussed on the need for care for people over 65 only, and it does not drill down into individual local authority or NHS board areas. All information on the modelling work can be accessed at the following web address:

http://www.jitscotland.org.uk/action-areas/reshaping-care-for-older-people/workstream-b---future-funding-of-long-term-care-demographic-pressures

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the projected number of people who will receive care in (a) care homes, (b) home care and (c) day care in Dundee in the period up to 2033, based on 2007-08 figures.

http://www.jitscotland.org.uk/action-areas/reshaping-care-for-older-people/workstream-b---future-funding-of-long-term-care-demographic-pressures

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the projected number of people who will receive care in NHS long-stay beds in the NHS Tayside area in the period up to 2033, based on 2007-08 figures.

http://www.jitscotland.org.uk/action-areas/reshaping-care-for-older-people/workstream-b---future-funding-of-long-term-care-demographic-pressures

NHS Expenditure

26 July 2010

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated expenditure was on (a) hospital, (b) community and (c) family services for people aged 65 or over in NHS Tayside in the last year for which information is available.

Shona Robison : This information requested is not held centrally.

Health

26 July 2010

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) estimated health care cost by International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) code and (b) figures for each NHS board area were for (i) ischaemic heart disease, (ii) cerebrovascular disease, (iii) breast cancer, (iv) colon/rectal cancer and (v) diabetes mellitus in the last year for which information is available.

Shona Robison : Information on the costs of specific diagnoses is not available centrally.

Dentistry

23 July 2010

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentages of P7 schoolchildren would be recorded in the National Dental Inspection Programme with no obvious decay experience in their permanent dentition in each report since 2007 if the figures for each NHS board were expressed by community health partnership area.

Shona Robison: The percentages of P7 schoolchildren recorded in the National Dental Inspection Programme with no obvious decay experience in their permanent dentition, by community health partnership area, are not held centrally for 2007. Table 1 shows, by community health partnership area, the percentage of P7 children inspected in the National Dental Inspection Programme of 2009 with no obvious decay experience in their permanent dentition.

Table1: Percentage of P7 schoolchildren with no obvious decay experience in permanent dentition, as recorded in the National Dental Inspection Programme of 2009; by community health partnership area.

Percentage with no Obvious Decay Experience in Permanent Dentition

Community Health Partnership Area
East Ayrshire Community Health Partnership	69.6
North Ayrshire Community Health Partnership	67.7
South Ayrshire Community Health Partnership	72.4
Scottish Borders Community Health and Care Partnership	70.9
Dumfries and Galloway Community Health Partnership	57.8
Dunfermline and West Fife Community Health Partnership	67.2
Glenrothes and North East Fife Community Health Partnership	67.2
Kirkcaldy and Levenmouth Community Health Partnership	67.2
Clackmannanshire Community Health Partnership	68.7
Falkirk Community Health Partnership	68.7
Stirling Community Health Partnership	68.7
Aberdeen City Community Health Partnership	63.7
Aberdeenshire Community Health Partnership	63.7
Moray Community Health and Social Care Partnership	63.7
East Dunbartonshire Community Health Partnership	61.3
East Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	51.1
East Renfrewshire Community Health and Care Partnership	73.0
Inverclyde Community Health Partnership	54.9
North Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	49.5
Renfrewshire Community Health Partnership	57.8
South East Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	67.6
South West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	52.2
West Dunbartonshire Community Health Partnership	56.6
West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	52.3
Argyll and Bute Community Health Partnership	65.8
Mid Highland Community Health Partnership	76.6
North Highland Community Health Partnership	57.2
South East Highland Community Health Partnership	68.9
North Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership	55.8
South Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership	58.6
East Lothian Community Health Partnership	71.1
Edinburgh Community Health Partnership	75.6
Midlothian Community Health Partnership	61.1
West Lothian Community Health and Care Partnership	54.9
Orkney Community Health Partnership	67.9
Shetland Community Health Partnership	76.2
Angus Community Health Partnership	67.0
Dundee Community Health Partnership	67.0
Perth and Kinross Community Health Partnership	67.0
Western Isles Community Health and Social Care Partnership	55.5

Source: ISD Scotland, Ref: IR2010-01820.

Older People

23 July 2010

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated expenditure by Dundee City Council was on (a) care at home, (b) care homes and (c) day care for people aged 65 or over in the last year for which information is available.

Shona Robison: The information requested is given in the table below:

Dundee City Council - Net Expenditure on Older People Services 2008-09

	Net Expenditure (£000)
(a) Care at Home	12,323
(b) Care Homes	18,039
(c) Day Care	1,314

Source: Local Government Finance LFR3 return.

Employment

14 July 2010

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the population was of working age in Dundee in the last year for which information is available and what that percentage will be in 2033 if current proposals to increase the pensionable age are implemented.

Employment

29 June 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) claimant count number and (b) claimant count unemployment rate has been in each ward of (i) Dundee City and (ii) Angus Council in the most recent month for which figures are available.

Answered by Jim Mather : Claimant Counts and rates are not yet available for the new wards as used in the 2007 Scottish parliamentary elections. However, data is available for the 2003 CAS Wards. Tables 1 and 2 contain claimant counts and rates for each ward within Dundee City and Angus councils respectively.

Table 1: JSA Claimant Count Unemployment Number and Rate¹ for Wards² in Dundee City Council, May 2010

	Claimant Count	Claimant Count Rate (%)
Ardler	142	6.8
Balgay	116	3.9
Balgillo	92	2.3
Balgowan	176	5.3
Barnhill	49	1.7
Baxter Park	168	5.3
Bowbridge	203	7.1
Brackens	172	5.0
Broughty Ferry	62	2.1
Camperdown	252	8.0
Claverhouse	167	5.5
Craigiebank	96	4.4
Douglas	267	8.3
East Port	250	7.8
Fairmuir	177	6.8
Hilltown	232	6.4
Law	237	6.8
Lochee East	152	5.9
Lochee West	201	8.1
Logie	128	4.2
Longhaugh	280	7.9
Ninewells	153	4.8
Pitkerro	302	9.0
Riverside	58	1.6
Stobswell	233	8.1
Strathmartine	116	3.9
Tay Bridges	172	3.2
West Ferry	35	1.3
Whitfield	183	8.0
Dundee City	4,871	5.4

Source: Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

1. Rates for wards are calculated using the claimant count unemployment level as the numerator, and a measure of economically active residents as the denominator.

2. 2003 CAS Wards.

Table 2: JSA Claimant Count Unemployment Number and Rate¹ for Wards² in Angus Council, May 2010

	Claimant Count	Claimant Count Rate (%)
Arbirlot and Hospitalfield	79	3.6
Arbroath North	55	2.0
Brechin North Esk	68	2.9
Brechin South Esk	133	7.7
Brechin West	52	2.1
Brothock	143	6.7
Carnoustie Central	56	2.8
Carnoustie East	27	1.1
Carnoustie West	89	3.5
Cliffburn	107	5.2
Forfar Central	74	3.3
Forfar East	74	3.6
Forfar South	78	4.2
Forfar West	69	3.5
Harbour	138	6.8
Hayshead and Lunan	67	3.0
Keptie	67	3.1
Kirriemuir East	72	3.2
Kirriemuir West	45	1.9
Letham and Friockheim	47	1.8
Monifieth Central	32	1.7
Monifieth West	36	1.5
Montrose Central	80	4.0
Montrose Ferryden	104	4.5
Montrose Hillside	54	2.2
Montrose West	62	2.7
Sidlaw East and Ashludie	64	2.7
Sidlaw West	43	1.6
Westfield and Dean	51	1.9
Angus	2,066	3.2

Source: Office for National Statistics

Notes:

1. Rates for wards are calculated using the claimant count unemployment level as the numerator, and a measure of economically active residents as the denominator.

2. 2003 CAS Wards.

Diabetes

8 June 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the most recent estimate is of the cost to the NHS budget of treating diabetes and its complications, also expressed as a percentage.

Shona Robison: Accurate estimates for the overall cost of treating people with diabetes are difficult to obtain, due to the complex nature of the condition and the co-morbidities and complications associated with it.

NHS Quality Improvement Scotland’s National Overview Report on Diabetes Standards, published in 2008, suggests that the overall cost of treating the disease may account for about 10% of the total NHSScotland budget.

The Scottish Diabetes Research Network Epidemiology Group has commissioned researchers at the University of Glasgow to provide estimates of the inpatient and prescription cost of diabetes in Scotland.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many people in NHS Tayside are classified as having (a) type 1 and (b) type 2 diabetes and what the estimated number is of undiagnosed cases.

Shona Robison: The figures for type 1 and type 2 diabetes prevalence in NHS Tayside are summarised in the following table:

Table 1a. Diabetes Prevalence in NHS Tayside

Type 1		Type 2		Other typesof diabetes	Not Recorded/Not Known	Total
Number	%	Number	%
1,771	9.8%	16,283	89.7%	42	61	18,157

Source: Scottish Diabetes Survey 2009. http://www.diabetesinscotland.org.uk/Publications.aspx.

The estimated numbers of people with undiagnosed diabetes are shown in the following table:

Table 1b. Estimated¹ Numbers of Undiagnosed Diabetes in NHS Tayside

PBS Estimate 2008 (A)	Scottish Diabetes Survey 2008 (B)	Undiagnosed Persons (A - B)
19,769	17,311	2,458

Source: Scottish Public Health Observatory.

Note: 1. Estimated numbers of undiagnosed diabetes are produced using the Public Health Observatories/Brent/ScHARR (PBS) statistical model.

3 June 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of diabetes-related drugs prescribed in NHS Tayside has been in each of the last three years.

Shona Robison : Gross Ingredient Cost of drugs prescribed in NHS Tayside for the treatment of Diabetes, in each of calendar years 2007 to 2009 is shown in the following table.

NHS Tayside: Gross Ingredient Cost for Drugs Prescribed to Treat Diabetes, 2007 to 2009

Calendar Year	Gross Ingredient Cost (£)
2007	4,203,516
2008	4,204,014
2009	4,474,227

Source: Prescribing Information System, ISD Scotland. Ref: IR2010-01324.

Pharmacists

20 May 2010

Marlyn Glen

To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to assist NHS Tayside to fill its vacant posts for hospital pharmacists.

Nicola Sturgeon : Recruitment to vacant hospital pharmacist posts in Scotland is a matter for NHS boards. However, where any board is encountering difficulty in recruiting to a vacancy, it is open to them to apply for a local recruitment and retention premium which allows the salary on offer to be increased beyond the nationally agreed rate in an attempt to aid recruitment and/or retention. No such applications have been received to date for pharmacists.

I am aware of results from the Pharmacy Establishment and Vacancy Survey which suggest there are recruitment and retention difficulties in areas of Scotland amongst the more junior hospital pharmacy grades. Officials are currently conducting a full analysis of any issues and the results will be considered in partnership. Findings will then be included in this year's evidence to the NHS Pay Review Body together with proposals detailing what, if any, further action is required.

Diabetes

11 May 2010

Marlyn Glen

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged 12 and over with diabetes in NHS Tayside were referred to ophthalmology as a result of diabetic retinopathy screening in the last year for which information is available.

Answered by Shona Robison : During the period 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010, 494 people aged 12 and over with diabetes in NHS Tayside were referred to ophthalmology as a result of diabetic retinopathy screening.

Marlyn Glen

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged 12 and over with diabetes in NHS Tayside who were eligible for diabetic retinopathy screening were (a) offered an appointment for screening and (b) screened in the last year for which information is available.

Shona Robison: The diabetic retinopathy screening programme in NHS Tayside has robust processes in place to ensure that all people who are eligible for diabetic retinopathy screening are offered regular appointments.

Invitations to attend for diabetic retinopathy screening were sent out to 17,355 people during the period 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010 in NHS Tayside. The number of invitations issued is higher than the number of people eligible for screening, due to people who did not attend appointments being invited again and to the fact that some people with diabetes require to be screened more than once a year.

Twelve thousand, eight hundred and ninety-four people aged 12 and over with diabetes in NHS Tayside who were eligible for diabetic retinopathy screening were screened during the period 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010. This represents 83% of those eligible. The NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS) standard is that 80% of people who are eligible are screened within each twelve month period.

Marlyn Glen

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated number was of people aged over 12 with diabetes in NHS Tayside eligible for diabetic retinopathy screening in the last year for which information is available.

Shona Robison : During the period 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010 there were 15,590 people aged over 12 with diabetes in NHS Tayside who were eligible for diabetic retinopathy screening. This figure excludes those people who were suspended by their GP from the diabetic retinopathy screening programme for clinical reasons, and people under the care of an ophthalmologist.

Vaccinations

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage MMR2 immunisation rate has been in NHS Tayside for children up to five years of age in each year since 1998.

Shona Robison : MMR vaccination uptake rates by NHS board are published on the Information Service Division (ISD) Scotland website under Child Health at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/1987.html.

Uptake statistics by five years of age are only available from 2006 onwards. In Scotland uptake rates have historically been reported by one, two and six years of age. In 2006, Scottish uptake rates of MMR vaccination by five years of age began to be reported, in line with other parts of the UK. Table 8 in the workbook in the above website shows the trend in uptake by six years with data going back to 1996.

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage MMR1 immunisation rate has been in NHS Tayside for children up to (a) two and (b) five years of age in each year since 1998.

Shona Robison : MMR vaccination uptake rates by NHS board are published on the Information Service Division (ISD) Scotland website under Child Health at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/1987.html.

Cancer

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what the European age-standardised incidence rate of survival for (a) breast and (b) prostate cancer is at (i) one year and (ii) five years in each of the last three four-year periods in Tayside.

Nicola Sturgeon : The data illustrated in the following tables show the number of breast and prostate cancer patients (respectively) in Tayside and percent surviving for one and five years over the period 1996-2007. The data collected is not routinely age standardised.

Table 1. Number of Breast Cancer Patients and Percent Surviving One and Five Years, Tayside, 1996-2007

	1996-99	2000-03	2004-07
Registrations	1,041	1,036	1,169
1 year	90%	92%	93%
5 years	67%	70%	n/a

Source: ISD Scotland, Ref: IR2010-01060.

Table 2. Number of Prostate Cancer Patients and Percent Surviving One and Five Years, Tayside, 1996-2007

	1996-99	2000-03	2004-07
Registrations	617	652	701
1 year	82%	87%	88%
5 years	45%	54%	n/a

Source: ISD Scotland, Ref: IR2010-01060.

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what the European age-standardised incidence rate of survival for colorectal cancer is at (a) one year and (b) five years in each of the last three four-year periods in Tayside, broken down by gender.

Answered by Nicola Sturgeon (Tuesday, May 04, 2010): The following table shows the number of colorectal cancer patients in Tayside and the related percent surviving for the period 1996-2007. This data is not available as age standardised.

Table: Number of Colorectal Cancer Patients and Percent Surviving One and Five years, Tayside, 1996-2007

		1996-99	2000-03	2004-07
Males	Registrations	602	592	548
	1 year	68%	71%	75%
	5 years	36%	44%	n/a
Females	Registrations	539	517	515
	1 year	63%	65%	68%
	5 years	34%	39%	n/a

Source: ISD Scotland, Ref: IR2010-01060.

Note: Observed survival was calculated as Kaplan-Meier survival at one and five years from diagnosis for patients aged 15-99, based on the patient''s first cancer registration.

05 May 2010

Smoking

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage of (a) female and (b) male smokers has been in NHS Tayside in each year since 2004.

Shona Robison : The answer is shown in the following table.

Table 1. Male and Female Smoking Prevalence, Aged 16+ in NHS Tayside, from 2003-04 to 2007-08.

Year	Males	Females
2003-04	26.2	25.2
2005-06	25.2	26.8
2007-08	25.5	23.3

Source: Scottish Household Survey. Two year averages were used for the breakdown of smoking prevalence in males and females because of small numbers.

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive how many attempts to quit have been made with smoking cessation services in NHS Tayside in each year since 2005 and what percentage remained successful 12 months later.

Shona Robison: Information on quit attempts made via NHS smoking cessation services is available from the agreed national minimum dataset for cessation services. The national smoking cessation database (the primary data collection mechanism) was established in July 2005. Calendar year 2006 is the first year for which national cessation monitoring data are published.

National monitoring is based on clients who set a quit date/make a quit attempt with a cessation service. This will not include persons referred to services or who make initial contact with a service, but who do not go on to set a quit date.

Table 1 shows the number of quit attempts made with smoking cessation services in NHS Tayside and the percentage of these recorded as a successful outcome at 12 months after the quit date. Data for 2009 are not yet published.

Year	Total Quit Attempts	% Successful at 12 Months After Quit Date
2006	2,071	11%
2007	2,960	11%
2008	3,028	9%

Source: Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland. Figures are based on total quit attempts, rather than total number of clients with a quit attempt and could include repeat quit attempts by the same client.

The data shown are based on self-reported not smoked, or smoked no more than five cigarettes, since one month follow-up. The remainder of the quit attempts, those not recorded as successful at 12 months after quit date, will include both known smokers and cases lost to follow-up/smoking status unknown. In Tayside in 2008, for example, the cumulative percentage of cases lost to follow-up/smoking status unknown at 12 months after quit date was 60%, with 31% of cases known smokers and 9% known quits.

22 April 2010

Health

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive how many admissions there have been for acute coronary syndrome in NHS Tayside in each year since 2005.

Nicola Sturgeon : The information requested is provided in the following table. The rise in the number of admissions for acute coronary syndrome since 2008 is thought to be accounted for by the introduction of more sensitive diagnostic tests, using biomarkers such as troponin.

Table: Number of Admissions for Acute Coronary Syndrome¹ in NHS Tayside for the Years Ending 31 March

2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
1,495	1,273	1,221	1,516	1,606

Source: ISD Scotland, SMR01.

Note: 1. Acute coronary syndrome includes unstable angina and myocardial infarction. It has been defined using the following International Classification of Disease Codes (version 10) I20.0, I21-I22 and I24.8.

Higher Education

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of graduates from the University of (a) Dundee and (b) Abertay was in full-time employment (i) six and (ii) 12 months after graduation in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Michael Russell : The following table shows the percentage of qualifiers from the University of Abertay and the University of Dundee who were in full-time employment six months after qualifying. This is based on the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey carried out by higher education institutions and collated by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). This survey is not repeated at 12 months so data for the percentage of qualifiers in full-time employment at that stage is not held centrally.

Percentage of Qualifiers from Abertay and Dundee in Full-Time Employment after Six Months by Institution: 2005-06 to 2007-08

	2005-06 (%)	2006-07 (%)	2007-08 (%)
University of Abertay Dundee	49.3	45.8	35.7
The University of Dundee	70.9	72.8	68.5

Notes:

1. Data supplied by HESA.

2. Underlying values are weighted to take account of non-response.

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive how many graduates of the University of (a) Dundee and (b) Abertay have participated in the Graduates for Business programme in the last two years.

Michael Russell : The information requested is not held centrally. This is a matter for Scottish Enterprise.

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive how many biomedical science bursaries to encourage students to work in the NHS after graduation have been awarded in 2009-10, broken down by institution.

Nicola Sturgeon : The following table shows how many bursaries were awarded to biomedical science students in 2009-10, broken down by institution:

Glasgow Caledonian University	74
Robert Gordon University	49
Abertay University	19
University of West of Scotland	10

Dentistry

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students at the University of (a) Dundee and (b) Glasgow since 2006-07 who received a dental bursary in their final year of study are now in vocational training in Scotland, also broken down by NHS board area.

Shona Robison: Dental vocational training normally lasts for one year and takes place after graduation. 127 dentists who graduated in 2009, and received a dental bursary in their final year of study, are currently in dental vocational training, as follows:

NHS Board	Dundee Dental School	Glasgow Dental School	Total
Ayrshire and Arran	2	8	10
Borders	0	0	0
Dumfries and Galloway	1	0	1
Fife	5	2	7
Forth Valley	2	5	7
Grampian	10	2	12
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	2	19	21
Highland	5	6	11
Lanarkshire	1	16	17
Lothian	6	11	17
Orkney	0	1	1
Shetland	1	1	2
Tayside	16	4	20
Western Isles	0	1	1
Total	51	76	127

In total 316 dentists who graduated in 2007, 2008, and 2009, and received a dental bursary in their final year of study, have been in dental vocational training, which includes the 127 in the above table.

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students at the University of (a) Dundee and (b) Glasgow have received a dental bursary in each year since 2006-07.

Shona Robison: The information requested is shown in the following table.

Number of Students who have Received a Dental Bursary at Glasgow and Dundee University for 2006-09 Sessions

Institution	2006-07 Session	2007-08 Session	2008-09 Session	2009-10 Session to Date	Total
Dundee University- Dental Bursary Recipients	214	222	236	239	911
Glasgow University- Dental Bursary Recipients	232	270	295	310	1,107

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on dental bursaries for students at the University of (a) Dundee and (b) Glasgow in each year since 2006-07.

Shona Robison : The information requested is shown in the following table.

Spend on Dental Bursaries for Students at Glasgow and Dundee University for 2006-2009 Sessions

Institution	2006-07 Session	2007-08 Session	2008-09 Session	2009-10 Session to Date	Total
Dundee University- Value of Dental Bursaries Awarded	£856,000	£888,000	£944,000	£956,000	£3,644,000
Glasgow University- Value of Dental Bursaries Awarded	£928,000	£1,080,000	£1,180,000	£1,240,000	£4,428,000

08 April 2010

NHS Finance

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what the formula capital allocation for NHS Tayside is in 2010-11 and was in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07, (c) 2007-08, (d) 2008-09, (e) 2009-10, also expressed in 2010-11 values.

Nicola Sturgeon : The formula capital allocations to NHS Tayside from 2005-06 and the inflation adjusted figures are shown in the following table:

Year	Formula Capital Allocation £ Million	Expressed at 2010-11 Values £ Million
2005-06	16.906	17.955
2006-07	20.276	20.915
2007-08	24.347	24.410
2008-09	24.650	24.107
2009-10	25.030	24.907
2010-11	21.226	21.226

The figures expressed at 2010-11 prices have been adjusted from their original value using the HM Treasury GDP deflator.

16 April 2010

Health

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on the Counterweight programme in NHS Tayside in each year of its operation.

Shona Robison: The cost of delivering the Counterweight programme in NHS Tayside between April 2006 and September 2008 was £328,000. Of that, £288,000 was awarded to Robert Gordon University who lead the development of Counterweight in Scotland and £40,000 was allocated to NHS Tayside. The programme is designed to be self‘sustaining after two years as a key element is training staff that allows the Counterweight team to withdraw direct involvement in delivery.

NHS Funding

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what the initial revenue allocations to NHS Tayside were in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10 and is for 2010-11 and what the equivalent values would be using the NHS Scotland Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) target allocations.

Nicola Sturgeon : The initial revenue allocations to NHS Tayside from 2007-08 and the equivalent values would be using the NRAC formula are shown in the following table (note the 2007-08 and 2008-09 figures are based on the Arbuthnott formula):

	Initial Allocation	Adjusted Figure
Year	£m	£m
2007-08	549.1	548.2
2008-09	566.4	565.6
2009-10	578.6	567.0
2010-11	592.9	583.1

I have confirmed that no Board will receive less funding than it does at present as a result of the transition to the NRAC formula and any changes will be phased in over a number of years as has been the practice under both the previous SHARE and Arbuthnott formulae.

30 March 2010

NHS Finance

Marlyn Glen :

Nicola Sturgeon : The initial revenue allocations to NHS Tayside from 2007-08 and the inflation adjusted figures are shown in the following table:

Year	Initial Allocation £m	Adjusted Figure £m
2007-08	549.1	587.2
2008-09	566.4	590.8
2009-10	578.6	591.6
2010-11	592.9	592.9

Teachers (Workforce Planning)

25 March 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to make progress on teacher workforce planning.

Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning (Michael Russell): It has been evident over many years that there has been a mismatch between the number of teachers being trained and those entering employment after their induction year. We have taken action in this Government to address that situation by initially reducing intakes to initial teacher education courses by 42 per cent between 2009 and 2010. We have also brought forward the publication of the teacher census to better inform the planning process. I will take decisions on workforce planning at the end of this year and I am determined that I will do so on the best information available on the numbers of teachers leaving the profession and the local authority demand for teachers.

Marlyn Glen: The cabinet secretary says that he is satisfied with workforce planning, as he said last week in reply to a question on teacher numbers from my colleague Rhona Brankin. Is he satisfied with the situation for the coming year in terms of placing requests? What measures is he planning to ensure a decrease in the number and in legal challenges from parents, which is surely a measure of dissatisfaction?

Michael Russell: I have said not that I am satisfied, but that we need to improve the system—by definition, I am not satisfied. I am completely mystified by the connection that the member makes between workforce planning and the issues she raises on the numbers. The reality is that we need the right number of teachers for the right number of pupils in the right number of schools. That was my answer to the question from her colleague last week, to which the member referred. I hope that the member is not suggesting that we have the wrong number of teachers for the wrong number of pupils in the wrong number of schools

Income

18 March 2010

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what the median hourly rates of pay were for (a) men in full-time employment, (b) women in full-time employment and (c) women in part-time employment in the private sector in each of the last three years for which information is available.

John Swinney : The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics.

The following table shows the median gross hourly pay excluding overtime for full-time and part-time employee jobs in the private sector in Scotland by gender in 2007, 2008 and 2009. The median is the recommended measure of average earnings as opposed to the mean.

Median gross hourly pay excluding overtime for full-time and part-time employee jobs in the private sector in Scotland by gender (£):

	2007		2008		2009
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Full time	10.81	8.56	11.21	8.95	11.44	9.00
Part time	6.11	6.11	6.29	6.33	6.50	6.48

Source: Annual Survey for Hours and Earnings.

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what the median hourly rates of pay were for (a) men in full-time employment, (b) women in full-time employment and (c) women in part-time employment in the public sector in each of the last three years for which information is available.

John Swinney: The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics.

The following table shows the median gross hourly pay excluding overtime for full-time and part-time employee jobs in the public sector in Scotland by gender in 2007, 2008 and 2009. The median is the recommended measure of average earnings as opposed to the mean.

Table " Median gross hourly pay excluding overtime for full-time and part-time employee jobs in the public sector in Scotland by gender (£):

	2007		2008		2009
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Full-time	13.08	12.53	13.77	13.06	14.54	13.76
Part-time	11.17	8.26	9.49	9.22	10.67	9.80

Source: Annual Survey for Hours and Earnings.

Notes:

1. The estimates are based on the pay excluding overtime for employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence.

2. The estimates are based on a sample survey, and as such, are subject to sampling error.

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what the median hourly rates of pay were for (a) men in full-time employment, (b) women in full-time employment and (c) women in part-time employment in each of the last three years for which information is available.

John Swinney : The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics.

The following table shows the median gross hourly pay excluding overtime for full-time and part-time employee jobs in Scotland by gender in 2007, 2008 and 2009. The median is the recommended measure of average earnings as opposed to the mean.

Median gross hourly pay excluding overtime for full-time and part-time employee jobs in Scotland by gender (£):

	2007		2008		2009
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Full-time	11.59	10.21	12.04	10.74	12.39	11.33
Part-time	7.09	7.24	7.07	7.84	7.62	8.04

Source: Annual Survey for Hours and Earnings.

Notes:

1. The estimates are based on the pay excluding overtime for employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence.

2. The estimates are based on a sample survey, and as such, are subject to sampling error.

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what the median hourly rates of pay were for (a) full-time and (b) part-time employment in each of the last three years for which information is available.

John Swinney: The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics.

The following table shows the median gross hourly pay excluding overtime for full-time and part-time employee jobs in Scotland in 2007, 2008 and 2009. The median is the recommended measure of average earnings as opposed to the mean.

Median gross hourly pay excluding overtime for full-time and part-time employee jobs in Scotland (£):

	2007	2008	2009
Full-time	10.98	11.48	11.99
Part-time	7.21	7.68	8.00

Source: Annual Survey for Hours and Earnings.

Notes:

1. The estimates are based on the pay excluding overtime for employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence.

2. The estimates are based on a sample survey, and as such, are subject to sampling error.

Employment

18 March 2010

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive how many men were in (a) full-time and (b) part-time employment in the last year for which information is available.

John Swinney : Annual estimates of full-time and part-time employment levels are available from the Annual Population Survey (APS) carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Updated APS data is published on a quarterly basis.

The following table shows the number of full-time and part-time employed men for Scotland from the latest available survey (July 2008 to June 2009), as well as data for the same period in the preceding year (July 2007 to June 2008).

Full-time and part-time Employed Workers, Men, Scotland (thousands), not Seasonally Adjusted

	Full-time Workers	Part-time Workers
Jul 2007 to Jun 2008	1,204	136
Jul 2008 to Jun 2009	1,168	141

Source: Office for National Statistics.

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive how many women were in (a) full-time and (b) part-time employment in the last year for which information is available.

John Swinney: Annual estimates of full-time and part-time employment levels are available from the Annual Population Survey (APS) carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Updated APS data is published on a quarterly basis.

The following table shows the number of full-time and part-time employed women for Scotland from the latest available survey (July 2008 to June 2009), as well as data for the same period in the preceding year (July 2007 to June 2008).

Full-time and Part-time Employed Workers, Women, Scotland (thousands), not Seasonally Adjusted

	Full-time Workers	Part-time Workers
Jul 2007 to Jun 2008	707	493
Jul 2008 to Jun 2009	704	491

Source: Office for National Statistics.

Substance Misuse

11 March 2010

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent by (a) Dundee City and (b) Angus Council on community care for adults with addictions or a substance misuse problem in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Fergus Ewing : Local authorities hold data on the expenditure/costs associated with community care services for all people aged 18 to 64 where the primary reason for care relates to a drug, alcohol, or other substance addiction or misuse. Table 1 provides the net revenue expenditure on adults with addictions and substance misuse for Angus and Dundee City for the last three years for which data are available. 2008-09 figures will be published on 25 March 2010.

Table 1: Local Authorities'' Net Revenue Expenditure on Adults with Addictions and Substance Misuse Problems

Local Authority	2005-06 (£ 000)	2006-07 (£ 000)	2007-08 (£ 000)
Angus	248	250	313
Dundee City	285	280	276

Source: Local Financial Return LFR 3 (Social Work).

Children

11 March 2010

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what the net revenue expenditure on children and family services was by (a) Dundee City and (b) Angus Council in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Adam Ingram : The following table provides net revenue expenditure by Dundee City and Angus councils on children and family services from 2005-06 to 2007-08. This information is reported by councils to the Scottish Government in the annual local financial return for social work.

Council	2005-06 (£000)	2006-07 (£000)	2007-08 (£000)
Dundee City	19,131	21,381	22,301
Angus	9,848	10,893	12,728

Source: LFR 3 returns.

Alcohol Misuse

03 March 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many GP consultations were directly connected with alcohol-related conditions in the last year for which information is available and what the estimated cost was.

Shona Robison: The exact number of GP consultations that were directly connected with alcohol-related conditions in Scotland, is not available centrally.

However, national estimates can be given based on the number of consultations there have been relating to alcohol abuse, from a sample of Scottish general practices participating in PTI (Practice Team Information).

Based on PTI data, the estimated number of consultations with a GP for alcohol abuse in Scotland, during the financial year 2007-08, was 102,268. This equates to a rate of 19 per 1,000 registered patients.

These figures are likely to considerably underestimate the true number of GP consultations connected with alcohol-related conditions in Scotland.

The figures relate only to consultations with a GP where alcohol abuse was specifically recorded as an issue.

Many other consultations may have been due to alcohol-related conditions even though alcohol abuse was not specifically recorded.

Furthermore, other members of the practice team (such as nurses) will also see patients for alcohol-related problems.

Information on estimated costs of consultations for alcohol-related conditions is not available centrally. Although figures on general practice expenditure are collected and published routinely, the data are not split down to provide a measure of costs associated with individual reasons for each GP consultation.

Health

25 February 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many attendances at accident and emergency units there were in NHS Tayside in the last year for which information is available.

Nicola Sturgeon: There were 109,109 accident and emergency (A&E) attendances in NHS Tayside between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2009. The following table includes core and non-core subtotals.

A&E Department Type	Number of A&E Attendances
Total for core sites	73,967
Total for non-core sites	35,142
Total for all sites	109,109

Source: A&E data mart, ISD Scotland.

A&E departments are classified as either core or non-core sites. Core sites include all A&E departments within large hospitals. Non-core sites include minor injury units, small hospitals with manual systems and health centers in rural areas that carry out A&E type activity.

Further information for A&E attendances can be found on the ISD website at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4024.html.

Marlyn Glen: To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost was of an attendance at an accident and emergency unit in the last year for which information is available.

Nicola Sturgeon: The average cost of an attendance at a hospital providing accident and emergency outpatient care in financial year 2008-09 was £100.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost was of an acute occupied bed day in the last year for which information is available.

Nicola Sturgeon: The average cost of an acute occupied bed day in an NHSScotland hospital in financial year 2008-09 was £569.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many new outpatient attendances there were in NHS Tayside in the last year for which information is available.

Nicola Sturgeon: Provisional, published statistics show that the number of new outpatient attendances in NHS Tayside for the financial year ending 31 March 2009 was 131,046.

As a result of changes to the Patient Administration System in NHS Tayside this figure includes some estimation and may be subject to revision.

Further information on outpatient attendances can be found on the ISD website at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4156.html.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost was of a consultant outpatient appointment in the last year for which information is available.

Nicola Sturgeon: The average cost of a consultant outpatient attendance at an NHSScotland location in financial year 2008-09 was £112.

Ambulance Service

11 February 2010

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive how many emergency ambulance incidents there were in NHS Tayside in the last year for which information is available.

Nicola Sturgeon :

The Scottish Ambulance Service have advised that in 2008-09 there were 27,825 emergency ambulance incidents in NHS Tayside.

Marlyn Glen :

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost is of an accident and emergency ambulance incident.

Nicola Sturgeon : The average cost of ambulance activity is published annually in the ISD Scotland Cost Book. This information can be found at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/costs-overview.jsp?pContentID=3726&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&.

Higher Education

04 February 2010

Marlyn Glen

To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage of full-time first degree entrants from (a) state schools or (b) colleges has been at each higher education institution in each of the last three years for which information is available and what the respective benchmarks were.

Mike Russell

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) annually publishes higher education performance indicators for all higher education institutions in the UK, including the percentage of entrants from state schools or colleges combined. The most recently published performance indicators relate to the academic year 2007-08.

HESA''s groups performance indicators on the participation of under-represented groups can be found at:

www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1434&Itemid=141.

Table T1a contains the percentage of full-time first degree entrants from state schools or colleges combined for each Scottish higher education institution alongside the respective benchmarks. Data for earlier years can also be found on HESA''s website.

Marlyn Glen

To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage of students not continuing full-time first degree courses beyond the first year has been at each higher education institution in each of the last three years for which information is available and what the respective benchmarks were

Michael Russell

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) annually publishes higher education performance indicators for all higher education institutions in the UK, including the percentage of students not continuing following year of entry. The most recently published performance indicators relate to the academic year 2006-07.

HESA''s performance indicators on non-continuation rates can be found at:

www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1438&Itemid=141.

Table T3a contains the percentage of full-time first degree entrants not continuing following year of entry for each Scottish higher education institution alongside the respective benchmarks. Data for earlier years can also be found on HESA''s website.

Marlyn Glen

To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage of full-time first degree entrants from national statistics socioeconomic classification groups 4, 5, 6, and 7 combined has been at each higher education institution in each of the last three years for which information is available and what the respective benchmarks were.

Michael Russell

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) annually publishes higher education performance indicators for all higher education institutions in the UK, including the percentage of entrants from low socioeconomic classification groups. The most recently published performance indicators relate to the academic year 2007-08.

HESA''s performance indicators on the participation of under-represented groups can be found at:

www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1434&Itemid=141.

Table T1a contains the percentage of full-time first degree entrants from national statistics socioeconomic classification groups 4, 5, 6 and 7 combined for each Scottish higher education institution alongside the respective benchmarks. Data for earlier years can also be found on HESA''s website.

Alcohol

01 February 2010

Marlyn Glen

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-30406 by Shona Robison on 19 January 2010, whether the figures on alcohol consumption in other countries quoted in its news release of 21 February 2010, Scotland’s drinking habit, are adjusted to reflect the alcohol abstention rate.

Shona Robison

None of the figures (for Scotland or other countries) quoted in the news release of 22 February 2009 were adjusted to reflect the alcohol abstention rate.

Life Expectancy

01 February 2010

Marlyn Glen

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated non-disabled life expectancy is at (a) birth and (b) age 65 in each local authority area, also broken down by gender.

Shona Robison

Estimates of non-disabled life expectancy (disability-free life expectancy) are not available for local authority areas within Scotland, but estimates at birth and at age 65 for the country as a whole are available from table 1, page 78 in Health Statistics Quarterly no. 40, winter 2008 from the Office for National Statistics:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_health/HSQ40-winter-2008.pdf.

Marlyn Glen

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated healthy life expectancy is at (a) birth and (b) age 65 in each local authority area, also broken down by gender.

Shona Robison

Estimated healthy life expectancy (HLE) is not available for Scotland at local authority level. However (HLE) estimates split by age and sex for each community health partnership (CHP) within Scotland are available on the Scottish Public Health Observatory website as table 3 at:

http://www.scotpho.org.uk/home/Populationdynamics/hle/hle_data/hle_chps.asp.

and for NHS board areas at:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_health/HSQ40-winter-2008.pdf.

Twenty-nine of the 32 local authorities within Scotland have boundaries that are coterminous with CHPs; the remaining three (Glasgow, Highland and Fife) are similar to NHS boards.

Marlyn Glen

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated non-disabled healthy life expectancy is at (a) birth and (b) age 65 in each community health partnership area, also broken down by gender.

Shona Robison

stimates of disability-free life expectancy (non-disabled healthy life expectancy) are not available for community health partnership areas but estimates for the whole of Scotland are available in table, page 78 in Health Statistics Quarterly no. 40, winter 2008, published by the Office for National Statistics http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_health/HSQ40-winter-2008.pdf.

Marlyn Glen

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated healthy life expectancy is at (a) birth and (b) age 65 in each community health partnership area, also broken down by gender.

Shona Robison

The latest information on estimated healthy life expectancy (HLE) at birth and age 65, for males and females, in each community health partnership (CHP) area is produced and published by Information Services Division Scotland on the Scottish Public Health Observatory website, in table 3 http://www.scotpho.org.uk/home/Populationdynamics/hle/hle_data/hle_chps.asp.

Nursing

26 January 2010

Marlyn Glen

To ask the Scottish Executive how many midwives employed by NHS Tayside are aged 55 and over, also expressed as (a) full-time equivalents and (b) a percentage.

Nicola Sturgeon

The information on the number of midwifery* staff employed by NHS Tayside aged 55 and over expressed as a whole-time equivalent (WTE) is available from National Services Scotland, Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland from the website link:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4352.htm#staff_in_post.

Taken from nationally published data, the following table provides the number of midwifery staff employed by NHS Tayside over 55 as (a) whole-time equivalent and (b) as a percentage of the total midwifery staff.

Midwifery* Staff NHS Tayside
Age 55"59	28.2
% of Total Staff (WTE)	11.64
Age 60-64	5.9
% of Total Staff (WTE)	2.43
Age 65+	0.5
% of Total Staff (WTE)	0.2
Total Over 55	34.6
% of Total Staff	14.29
Total All Age Groups	242.1

Source: Information Services Division ISD Scotland, data as at 30 September 2009.

Note: The data on midwifery staff are for Agenda to Change bands 1"9, which include midwifery support.

Marlyn Glen

To ask the Scottish Executive how many midwives who graduated in Scotland in the last three years are now working in England.

Nicola Sturgeon

Once they have graduated, newly qualified midwives are free to apply for and take up posts wherever they wish. The Scottish Government does not track where newly qualified midwives obtain posts.

Marlyn Glen

To ask the Scottish Executive how many midwives have graduated from the University of Dundee in each of the last three years.

Nicola Sturgeon

The following table shows the number of midwives who graduated from the University of Dundee in each of the last three years:

2006-07	17
2007-08	24
2008-09	26

Marlyn Glen

To ask the Scottish Executive what the attrition rate for midwifery students has been in each of the last three cohorts for which information is available (a) at the University of Dundee and (b) in Scotland.

Nicola Sturgeon

The following table shows the latest information available about midwifery student attrition rates for the University of Dundee and for Scotland.

Cohort	University of Dundee	Scotland
2002-03	38.5%	23.8%
2003-04	17.4%	22.5%
2004-05	22.7%	22.7%

Smoking

19 January 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the latest estimated percentage is of smokers in Scotland, also broken down by gender, and what information it has on how these figures compare with the corresponding information for Sweden.

Shona Robison : The following information is available on smoking prevalence in Scotland and in Sweden.

For Scotland, the most recent information available is from 2008, when 25.2% all of those aged 16+ smoked. By sex the figure was 24.9% and 25.4% for males and females respectively.

The data source is the Scottish Household Survey.

For Sweden, the most recent information available is from 2005, when 15.9% of those aged 15+ smoked. Data is not available by sex.

The data source is the Health for All Database, which is hosted by the Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO).

Smoking

19 January 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been (a) allocated to and (b) spent on smoking cessation services and related tobacco control activity in each year since 2006-07, also (i) expressed in real terms and (ii) broken down by NHS board.

Shona Robison: The following table contains a breakdown by Health Board of smoking cessation allocations/spend.

Health Board	2006-07	2007-08		2008-09		2009-10
	Actual	Actual	Real Terms	Actual	Real Terms	Actual	Real Terms
Ayrshire and Arran	£387,000	£542,000	£530,161	£542,000	£510,759	£542,000	£502,032
Borders	£118,000	£170,000	£166,287	£170,000	£160,201	£170,000	£157,464
Dumfries and Galloway	£160,000	£231,000	£225,954	£231,000	£217,685	£231,00	£213,966
Fife	£326,000	£462,000	£451,909	£462,000	£435,371	£462,000	£427,932
Forth Valley	£264,000	£373,000	£364,853	£373,000	£351,500	£373,000	£345,495
Grampian	£418,000	£597,000	£583,960	£597,000	£562,589	£597,000	£552,977
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	£2,096,000	£2,569,000	£2,512,887	£2,569,000	£2,420,924	£2,569,000	£2,379,559
Highland	£323,000	£455,000	£445,062	£455,000	£428,774	£455,000	£421,448
Lanarkshire	£936,000	£1,147,000	£1,121,947	£1,147,000	£1,080,887	£1,147,000	£1,062,419
Lothian	£1,048,000	£1,311,000	£1,282,365	£1,311,000	£1,235,435	£1,311,000	£1,214,326
Orkney	£35,000	£53,000	£51,842	£53,000	£49,945	£53,000	£49,092
Shetland	£41,000	£59,000	£57,711	£59,000	£55,599	£59,000	£54,649
Tayside	£790,000	£949,000	£928,272	£949,000	£894,300	£949,000	£879,020
Western Isles	£58,000	£82,000	£80,209	£82,000	£77,274	£82,000	£75,953
Total	£7,000,000	£9,000,000	£8,803,419	£9,000,000	£8,481,244	£9,000,000	£8,336,331

Notes:

1. The figures above include £2 million per annum in support of the Keep Well projects in Greater Glasgow (£800,000 p.a.), Lanarkshire (£400,000 p.a.), Lothian (£400,000 p.a.) and Tayside health boards (£400,000 p.a.).

2. Additional to the funding outlined above £2 million per annum is contained in NHS board baselines from the Smoking Kills and Health Improvement Fund.

3. The values have been adjusted to real terms using the Consumer Prices Index (CPI). Ratios were calculated for each year relative to 2006-07. Figures were not available for the full year 2009-10 so the CPI from April to November 2009 has been used instead.

In addition a smoking cessation service was introduced as part of the community pharmacy contract at end August 2008. The following figures represent payments to community pharmacies providing a smoking cessation service.

2008-09 until September 2008 to March 2009.

(part year service began end August 2008) = £3,461,230*.

2009-10 until April to October 2009 (latest available figures) = £2,079,356.

*The 2008-09 figure includes one-off readiness and administration payments to each pharmacy providing a smoking cessation service to cover set up and training costs.

An additional £9 million (£4.5 million to NHS boards and £4.5 million to local authorities) has also been allocated for 2008-09 to 2010-11 to support Scotland''s future is smoke-free: A Smoking Prevention Action Plan. This represents a significant increase in Scottish Government investment to tackle tobacco problems.

Alcohol

19 January 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated annual consumption of pure alcohol per litre per head of population of people aged 16 and over would be where this figure took into account the estimated alcohol abstention rate, broken down by gender.

Shona Robison : Data on consumption of pure alcohol are not available. Data on alcohol sales are often used as a proxy for consumption but it should be noted that this does not necessarily measure the same thing.

The following table provides data on annual sales of pure alcohol, calculated as litres per head of population aged 16+ where the population has been adjusted to exclude those who abstain from alcohol.

Gender breakdowns are not available. Scottish data are only currently available from 2005 onwards.

Sales of pure alcohol, litres per head of population aged 16+ (adjusted to exclude abstainers), Scotland:

Litres of Pure Alcohol Per Head of Population Aged 16+ (Adjusted to Exclude Abstainers)¹

2005	2006	2007	2008	2008X³	2009X^2,4
13.5	13.4	13.4	13.2	13.2	13.4

Source: NHS Health Scotland (data supplied from the Nielsen Company).

Notes:

1. Data relate to calendar years.

2. Data for 2009 are currently only available up to end September 2009 for on sales and week ending 3 October 2009 for off sales. The figures for 2009X therefore represent the 12 month period to end September 2009 for on sales and week ending 3 October 2009 for off sales.

3. A comparable period has been provided for 2008 (column titled 2008X) which covers the 12 month period to end September 2008 for on sales and week ending 4 October 2008 for off sales.

4. The 2009 population is based on a projection as the mid-year estimate is not yet published.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated alcohol abstention rate is, broken down by gender.

Shona Robison : According to the 2008 Scottish Health Survey, 10% of men and 13% of women reported that they have never drunk alcohol or no longer drink alcohol.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated annual consumption of pure alcohol per litre per head of population of people aged 16 and over has been in each of the last 10 years, broken down by (a) age group and (b) gender.

The following table provides data on annual sales of pure alcohol, calculated as litres per head of population aged 16+. Further age and gender breakdowns are not available. Scottish data are only currently available from 2005 onwards.

Sales of Pure Alcohol, Litres per Head of Population Aged 16+, Scotland

Year¹	2005	2006	2007	2008	2008X³	2009X^2,4
Litres of pure alcohol per head of population aged 16+	11.9	11.8	11.9	11.6	11.7	11.8

Source: NHS Health Scotland (data supplied from the Nielsen Company).

Notes:

1. Data relate to calendar years.

3. A comparable period has been provided for 2008 (column titled 2008X) which covers the 12 month period to end September 2008 for on sales and week ending 4 October 2008 for off sales.

4. The 2009 population figure is based on a projection as the mid-year estimate has not been published yet.

Local Government Finance

19 January 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive which of its funding streams available to local authorities have been under-subscribed in the last two years.

John Swinney : The vast majority of the funding provided by the Scottish Government to local authorities is provided by means of a block grant. Local authorities retain any under spend associated with this block grant. The remainder of the funding is provided by means of ring-fenced grants. In the last two years the only ring-fenced grants that have been under-subscribed have been the Criminal Justice Social Work, paid directly to the Criminal Justice Authority (£5.38 million in 2008-09 and £0.6 million in 2009-10), and the Fire Capital Grant (for 2009-10 only of £0.410m).

Gypsies/Travellers

19 January 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how it assesses local authority homelessness and social housing policies for compliance with section 106 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001, particularly in relation to Gypsies/Travellers.

Alex Neil: The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) inspects the housing and homeless services of local authorities. The SHR always assess landlords'' approaches to diversity and equality on inspections and through a range of other regulatory engagements. The SHR undertook a thematic study in 2002 and 2006 to assess how well social landlords promote equal opportunities and take into account the requirements of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001. The SHR also undertook a thematic study into services for Gypsies/Travellers in 2002 and 2006.

The SHR considers the need for thematic inspections on an annual basis from emerging policies and priorities and will consider the need for a future thematic inspection of services for Gypsies/Travellers on this basis.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how it monitors reference to the circumstances and needs of Gypsies/Travellers in local housing strategies, in accordance with planning guidance.

Alex Neil : The Scottish Government and COSLA will jointly review each local housing strategy and, as part of the review, will examine whether there is evidence that equalities issues have been addressed, including the specific housing needs of Gypsies/Travellers.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how it monitors the prevalence and duties of local authority-based Gypsy/Traveller liaison officers.

Alex Neil : The appointment of Gypsy/Traveller Liaison Officers is the responsibility of individual local authorities and the Scottish Government does not routinely monitor this.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how it monitors take-up of the model tenancy agreement for Gypsies/Travellers developed by the former Advisory Committee on Scotland’s Travelling People.

Alex Neil : The Scottish Government does not routinely monitor the take-up of the model tenancy agreement developed by the Advisory Committee on Scotland''s Travelling People.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to ensure that the needs of Gypsies/Travellers are taken into account in policy development.

Alex Neil: The Scottish Government Race Equality Statement, published in December 2008, highlights the needs of Gypsies/Travellers as a priority in race equality work.

We are working to make sure that the policies we develop and the activities we undertake can be of benefit across all our communities. To achieve this we are committed to mainstreaming equality across all that we do " by integrating equality considerations into our everyday work. Tools such as Equality Impact Assessment ensure that the impact on different groups - including Gypsies/Travellers - is considered.

NHS Finance

13 January 2010

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) revenue and (b) capital resource outturn has been for NHS Tayside in each year since 2001, also expressed in real terms and showing the percentage change.

Nicola Sturgeon : The revenue outturn and percentage change of NHS Tayside since 2001, expressed in absolute and real terms has been:

			Real Terms
	Revenue Outturn (£000)	% Change	Revenue Outturn (£000)	% Change
2001-02	419,287		506,000
2002-03	438,846	4.7%	513,054	1.4%
2003-04	468,457	6.7%	532,658	3.8%
2004-05	543,669	16.1%	601,457	12.9%
2005-06	576,009	5.9%	625,560	4.0%
2006-07	599,490	4.1%	632,353	1.1%
2007-08	633,061	5.6%	649,034	2.6%
2008-09	655,804	3.6%	655,804	1.0%

The capital outturn and percentage change of NHS Tayside since 2001, expressed in absolute and real terms has been:

			Real Terms
	Capital Outturn (£000)	% Change	Capital Outturn (£000)	% Change
2001-02	6,699		8,084
2002-03	6,845	2.2%	8,002	-1.0%
2003-04	4,472	-34.7%	5,085	-36.5%
2004-05	7,689	71.9%	8,506	67.3%
2005-06	11,689	52.0%	12,695	49.2%
2006-07	17,342	48.4%	18,293	44.1%
2007-08	42,520	145.2%	43,593	138.3%
2008-09	33,320	-21.6%	33,320	-23.6%

Healthcare Acquired Infection

10 December 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated cost is of treating a case of preventable healthcare associated infection in hospital.

Nicola Sturgeon : The Scottish HAI Point Prevalence Survey (PPS) published in July 2007, estimated that, on average, it costs an additional £2,105 to treat a patient with a healthcare associated infection (HAI) in an acute hospital and that the annual cost of HAI in acute hospitals in Scotland, in terms of both harm to patients and consumption of healthcare resources, is estimated to be around £183 million per year.

The PPS provides a more detailed breakdown of hospital costs in chapter 6.13 of the PPS. The PPS can be found at:

http://www.documents.hps.scot.nhs.uk/hai/sshaip/publications/national-prevalence-study/report/full-report.pdf

The estimates provided above should be treated with some caution. It is not possible to provide any accurate figure of the cost of treating a case of healthcare associated infection in Scotland as the actual cost in each case would vary, depending on the underlying medical condition of the patient, their age, their length of stay and the medicines required to treat them.

Employment

10 December 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were employed in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus in each of the last three years for which figures are available, broken down by (a) sector and (b) gender.

John Swinney : The official source of employment levels by local authority is the Annual Population Survey (APS). The latest available APS data is for April 2008 to March 2009. Table 1 shows the number of people employed in Dundee and Angus in each of the last three years by sector and table 2 provides the data by gender.

Table 1: Employment Levels by Broad Industry Sector, 12 months to March, 2007, 2008, and 2009

	Dundee City			Angus
	2007	2008	2009	2007	2008	2009
A-B: Agriculture and fishing	*	*	*	1,700	2,200	2,600
C,E: Energy and water	*	*	*	1,500	2,100	1,800
D: Manufacturing	6,900	5,600	6,800	7,000	6,700	6,000
F: Construction	4,900	5,000	4,100	5,700	5,800	5,400
G-H: Distribution, hotels and restaurants	13,800	13,400	13,500	9,700	9,100	10,000
I: Transport and communication	4,400	3,200	3,600	2,000	2,200	2,300
J-K: Banking, finance and insurance etc	7,100	7,600	7,200	5,200	4,900	5,200
L-N: Public admin, education and health	24,000	25,900	24,000	16,300	17,200	17,500
O-Q: Other services	4,200	5,500	4,000	4,000	3,400	3,500
All	66,400	67,000	64,400	53,300	53,900	54,500

Source: Annual Population Survey, Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

*Estimate suppressed as below reliability threshold.

1. Employment levels are for those aged 16 and over.

2. Data may not sum due to rounding.

Table 2: Employment Levels by Gender, 12 months to March, 2007, 2008, and 2009

	Dundee City			Angus
	2007	2008	2009	2007	2008	2009
Male	34,300	32,800	32,600	28,100	28,600	28,700
Female	32,000	34,300	31,800	25,200	25,300	25,800
All	66,400	67,000	64,400	53,300	53,900	54,500

Source: Annual Population Survey, Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

1. Employment levels are for those aged 16 and over.

Data may not sum due to rounding.

Economy

10 December 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated gross value added was for (a) Angus and (b) Dundee City in each of the last three years for which figures are available, also expressed per head.

John Swinney : The regional GVA estimates published by the Office for National Statistics are available at the NUTS 3 level, which gives a combined figure for Angus and Dundee City in current basic prices.

The latest three years available are 2005, 2006 and 2007, for which the total GVA was £3,890 million, £4,107 million and £4,369 million respectively. GVA per head for the region was £15,491 in 2005, £16,331 in 2006 and £17,335 in 2007. These figures are updated annually in December and are available at http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=14650.

Equalities

05 November 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will name the research projects on equality issues undertaken jointly by it and the Economic and Social Research Council during the period 2007 to 2009.

Alex Neil: The Scottish Government undertakes joint funded PhD schemes with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The Internship scheme enables second or third year ESRC PhD students to work in the Scottish Government on short three-month placements. The PhD scheme enables the Scottish Government and ESRC to joint fund PhDs on areas of common interest. The Scottish Government has participated in 10 such projects on equality issues between 2007 and 2009, as outlined below:

No relevant research projects were undertaken in 2007.

The following three-month internships took place in 2008 and 2009:

1. Independent living literature review, from February to May 2008.

2. Review of evidence on the experiences of domestic violence, from May to August 2008.

3. Review of the evidence on Islamophobia in Scotland, from July to October 2008.

4. Review of the evidence on the attitudes of people in Scotland to children of LGBT parents, September to November 2008.

5. Evidence review for British Sign Language as a curriculum subject at school, from April to July 2009.

6. Experiences of being transgender in Scotland, from July to October 2009.

7. Occupational segregation (OS): study exploring how deeply OS is ingrained in public attitudes from September to December 2009.

The following three PhDs are being jointly funded by the Scottish Government and the Economic and Social Research Council:

1. Transgender people''s experiences of Health and Social Care Service Provision in Scotland is being undertaken at the University of Edinburgh from September 2009 until September 2013.

2. Muslim Women in Scotland: global events, national issues, local lives Institution is being undertaken at Newcastle University from September 2008 until September 2011.

3. Muslim women''s experiences of extended family violence in Scotland is being undertaken at the University of Edinburgh from September 2008 until September 2012.

Domestic Abuse

05 November 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the names of refuge centres for abused women in each local authority.

Alex Neil: The Scottish Government will not list this information. Scottish Women''s Aid publish on their website a full list of women''s aid groups which includes both affiliated and unaffiliated organisations. Refuges themselves are not publicised for the safety of women and children using these services.

Employment

05 November 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many redundant apprentices have achieved employment through the ScotAction programme since its launch in May 2009.

Fiona Hyslop : Since the launch of Adopt an Apprentice on 10 June 2009, Skills Development Scotland has received 181 applications from employers seeking to recruit redundant apprentices. One hundred and seventy five of these applications were approved by 29 October 2009.

Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005

3 September 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many charges under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005 reported to the Procurator Fiscal in (a) Dundee and (b) Tayside in each year since 2005 resulted in a successful prosecution.

Kenny MacAskill : The available information is given in the following table.

Persons with a charge proved under the Emergency Workers Act 2005¹ in Dundee City and Tayside², 2005-06 - 2007-08³:

Area/Section	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Dundee City	-	2	15
Section 2(1)	-	2	5
Section 5(1)	-	-	10
Tayside	1	6	19
Section 1(1)	1	2	-
Section 2(1)	-	4	7
Section 5(1)	-	-	12

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many charges under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005 reported to the Procurator Fiscal in (a) Dundee and (b) Tayside have been the subject of court proceedings in each year since 2005, broken down by section of the Act.

Kenny MacAskill : The available information is given in the following table.

Persons proceeded against under The Emergency Workers Act 2005¹ in Dundee City and Tayside², 2005-06 - 2007-08³

Area/Section	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Dundee City	-	3	16
Section 2(1)	-	2	6
Section 5(1)	-	1	10
Tayside	1	7	21
Section 1(1)	1	2	1
Section 2(1)	-	4	8
Section 5(1)	-	1	12

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many charges under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005 have been reported to the Procurator Fiscal in (a) Dundee and (b) Tayside in each year since 2005.

Frank Mulholland: The following table shows the number of charges under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005 that were reported to the Procurator Fiscal in Dundee and Procurators Fiscal in the Tayside Area since the financial year 2005-06.

Charges: Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005^1,2

Total Charges Reported	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	Grand Total
Dundee	5	15	9	15	44
Tayside Area	12	22	21	31	86

Student Finance

19 August 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many biomedical science students have applied for and received a bursary of £2,000 to encourage them to work in the NHS after graduation in each academic year since 2007-08, broken down by university.

Nicola Sturgeon: In response to the question above, the table below details the number of bursaries for each institution. All students who applied for the bursary were awarded it.

Institution	Number of Biomedical Bursaries Awarded in the 2007-08 Session	Number of Biomedical Bursaries Awarded in the 2008-09 Session
Glasgow Caledonian University	23	62
The Robert Gordon University	23	49
University of Abertay Dundee	10	17
University of the West of Scotland	3	8
Total	59	136

Source: The data was supplied from the SAAS NHS Bursary Database.

Dentistry

24 August 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the change was in the number of three to five-year olds registered with an NHS dentist in each community health partnership between December 2007 and March 2009.

Shona Robison : The following table shows the percentage change in the number of three to five-year-olds registered with an NHS dentist, by Community Health Partnership between December 2007 and March 2009.

Community Health Partnership	Number of 3-5 Registrations at December 2007	Number of 3-5 Registrations at March 2009	% Change from December 2007 to March 2009
Scotland	117,258	134,601	14.8%
East Ayrshire Community Health Partnership	2,294	2,656	15.8%
North Ayrshire Community Health Partnership	3,107	3,626	16.7%
South Ayrshire Community Health Partnership	3,094	3,576	15.6%
Scottish Borders Community Health and Care Partnership	2,128	2,423	13.9%
Dumfries and Galloway Community Health Partnership	3,128	3,475	11.1%
Dunfermline and West Fife Community Health Partnership	2,688	3,153	17.3%
Glenrothes and North East Fife Community Health Partnership	2,006	2,347	17.0%
Kirkcaldy and Levenmouth Community Health Partnership	2,692	3,059	13.6%
Clackmannanshire Community Health Partnership	1,097	1,288	17.4%
Falkirk Community Health Partnership	3,682	4,362	18.5%
Stirling Community Health Partnership	2,079	2,175	4.6%
Aberdeen City Community Health Partnership	4,043	5,090	25.9%
Aberdeenshire Community Health Partnership	4,587	4,798	4.6%
Moray Community Health and Social Care Partnership	1,236	1,240	0.3%
East Dunbartonshire Community Health Partnership	2,635	2,833	7.5%
East Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	3,010	3,861	28.3%
East Renfrewshire Community Health and Care Partnership	2,533	2,717	3.3%
Inverclyde Community Health Partnership	2,052	2,393	16.6%
North Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	1,863	2,277	22.2%
Renfrewshire Community Health Partnership	3,999	4,548	13.7%
South East Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	2,958	3,554	20.1%
South West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	2,665	3,197	20.0%
West Dunbartonshire Community Health Partnership	2,133	2,542	19.2%
West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	4,054	4,705	16.1%
Argyll and Bute Community Health Partnership	1,611	1,912	18.7%
Mid Highland Community Health Partnership	1,098	856	-22.0%
North Highland Community Health Partnership	353	222	-37.1%
South East Highland Community Health Partnership	2,969	4,086	37.6%
North Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership	8,105	9,185	13.3%
South Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership	7,386	8,301	12.4%
East Lothian Community Health Partnership	2,322	2,459	5.7%
Midlothian Community Health Partnership	1,758	1,988	13.1%
West Lothian Community Health and Care Partnership	4,880	5,582	14.4%
Orkney Community Health Partnership	279	342	22.6%
Shetland Community Health Partnership	510	657	28.8%
Angus Community Health Partnership	2,337	2,550	9.1%
Dundee Community Health Partnership	3,839	4,243	10.5%
Perth and Kinross Community Health Partnership	3,039	3,206	5.5%
Western Isles Community Health Partnership	399	412	3.3%
Edinburgh Community Health Partnership	10,610	12,448	17.3%

Source: MIDAS (Management Information and Dental Accounting System).

Notes:

1. The Community Health Partnership is based on the postcode of the dental practice.

2. 2007 Mid-year population estimates are used to calculate the percentage registered and are sourced from the General

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage was of three to five-year olds registered with an NHS dentist in each community health partnership in (a) December 2007, (b) March 2008, (c) June 2008, (d) September 2008, (e) December 2008 and (f) March 2009.

Shona Robison : The information is published on ISD''s website at: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4680.html.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many registered NHS dentists there have been in each year since 2006, broken down by community health partnership

Shona Robison: The number of NHS dentists (head count) who have provided NHS general dental services, broken down by community health partnership for years ending 31 March 2006 onwards is shown in the following table.

Community Health Partnership	2006	2007	2008	2009
Scotland	2,301	2,474	2,576	2,739
Aberdeen City Community Health Partnership	98	105	133	137
Aberdeenshire Community Health Partnership	77	87	76	90
Angus Community Health Partnership	59	57	59	69
Argyll and Bute Community Health Partnership	53	50	56	56
Clackmannanshire Community Health Partnership	22	21	20	20
Dumfries and Galloway Community Health Partnership	46	62	70	71
Dundee Community Health Partnership	93	102	95	111
Dunfermline and West Fife Community Health Partnership	60	59	63	73
East Ayrshire Community Health Partnership	42	44	51	63
East Dunbartonshire Community Health Partnership	71	69	65	70
East Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	56	57	64	65
East Lothian Community Health Partnership	45	47	55	56
East Renfrewshire Community Health and Care Partnership	52	54	52	52
Edinburgh Community Health Partnership	258	274	289	310
Falkirk Community Health Partnership	56	70	82	98
Glenrothes and North East Fife Community Health Partnership	39	40	44	49
Inverclyde Community Health Partnership	35	40	46	43
Kirkcaldy and Levenmouth Community Health Partnership	73	81	79	85
Mid Highland Community Health Partnership	44	50	25	40
Midlothian Community Health Partnership	26	31	29	30
Moray Community Health and Social Care Partnership	26	29	28	37
North Ayrshire Community Health Partnership	58	54	55	65
North Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	36	33	42	41
North Highland Community Health Partnership	18	26	15	14
North Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership	129	134	143	159
Orkney Community Health Partnership	11	16	13	17
Perth and Kinross Community Health Partnership	85	87	90	105
Renfrewshire Community Health Partnership	97	99	96	109
Scottish Borders Community Health and Care Partnership	48	52	52	55
Shetland Community Health Partnership	15	20	18	25
South Ayrshire Community Health Partnership	55	66	74	65
South East Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	72	76	89	90
South East Highland Community Health Partnership	64	74	89	98
South Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership	138	136	155	159
South West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	51	54	61	60
Stirling Community Health Partnership	49	37	39	48
West Dunbartonshire Community Health Partnership	37	40	41	44
West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership	128	140	150	156
West Lothian Community Health and Care Partnership	69	72	91	98
Western Isles Community Health Partnership	12	13	15	18

Justice

17 August 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many successful prosecutions there have been in Dundee under the Prostitution (Public Places) Scotland Act 2007.

Frank Mulholland : Of the 17 charges in which a decision to prosecute in court has been taken by the procurator fiscal at Dundee since 2007, 10 have resulted in a conviction, five are ongoing and two have resulted in a decision to

take no further action.

NHS Staff

3 August 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-23034 by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 May 2009, whether the contract to evaluate the community health nurse pilots has been awarded and what the estimated cost of the evaluation is.

Nicola Sturgeon: The contract to evaluate the community health nurse pilots has not yet been awarded and therefore the estimated cost has yet to be determined.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether the decision by NHS Tayside to continue with the community health nurse pilot will result in additional funding being provided.

Nicola Sturgeon: The Scottish Government remains fully committed to supporting pilot sites who wish to test the community health nurse role.

Justice

17 August 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many successful prosecutions there have been in Dundee under the Prostitution (Public Places) Scotland Act 2007.

Dentistry

3 August 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students at (a) the University of Dundee and (b) the University of Glasgow who received a dental bursary in their final year of study are now in vocational training in Scotland, broken down by NHS board.

Shona Robison : The information requested is shown in the following table:

NHS Board	Dundee Dental School	Glasgow Dental School
Ayrshire and Arran	0	12
Borders	0	0
Dumfries and Galloway	0	0
Fife	5	0
Forth Valley	3	3
Grampian	7	3
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	4	18
Highland	4	5
Lanarkshire	2	13
Lothian	7	7
Orkney	1	0
Shetland	1	0
Tayside	15	0
Western Isles	0	1
Total	49	62

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many dentists working in the General Dental Service were previously recipients of a bursary from the NHS Dental Bursary Scheme initiated by the previous administration in September 2006.

Shona Robison: There are currently 181 dentists, including vocational trainees, working in General Dental Services in Scotland who were in receipt of a dental bursary.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-time equivalent dentists have been employed in the General Dental Service in each of the last three years, also broken down by NHS board.

Nicola Sturgeon : Information on the full-time equivalent of staff working in the NHS general dental service is not available, as the working hours of each dentist are not collected.

Head count information, broken down by NHS board, is available and can be accessed at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/5898.html.

Ministerial Visits

15 June 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions ministers have visited Ninewells Hospital in Dundee on official business using ministerial cars since May 2007.

John Swinney : Scottish Ministers have visited Ninewells Hospital in Dundee four times since May 2007 on official business, using ministerial cars.

Nursing Specialists

1 June 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) cancer, (b) diabetes, (c) infection control, (d) palliative care and (e) accident and emergency clinical nurse specialists there were in (i) NHS Tayside and (ii) Scotland in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Nicola Sturgeon : The following table details the number of clinical nurse specialists there were in (a) cancer, (b) diabetes, (c) infection control, (d) palliative care and (e) accident and emergency in NHS Tayside and NHS Scotland in the last three years as requested.

Table 1: Number (Head Count) of NHS Tayside and NHS Scotland Clinical Nurse Specialists as at 30 September

	2006		2007		2008
	NHS Tayside	NHS Scotland	NHS Tayside	NHS Scotland	NHS Tayside	NHS Scotland
Cancer	12	165	14	189	21	180
Diabetes	9	109	10	104	10	102
Infection Control	2	63	1	48	2	47
Palliative Care	20	86	17	72	22	76
Accident and Emergency	7	129	6	104	6	132

Table 2: Number (Whole-Time Equivalent) of NHS Tayside and NHS Scotland Clinical Nurse Specialists as at 30 September.

	2006		2007		2008
	NHS Tayside	NHS Scotland	NHS Tayside	NHS Scotland	NHS Tayside	NHS Scotland
Cancer	11.9	153.5	13.7	173.9	20.2	165.3
Diabetes	8.1	93	8.3	86.3	8.5	86.4
Infection Control	2	59.1	1	45.8	2	44.9
Palliative care	18	79	15.6	65.5	19.6	68.9
Accident and Emergency	6.9	111.5	6	90.6	6	116.9

Source: Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many clinical nurse specialists there were in (a) NHS Tayside and (b) Scotland in each of the last three years for which information is available, expressed as whole-time equivalent and as a percentage of all NHS nurses and midwives.

Nicola Sturgeon: The following table provides the number of clinical nurse specialists in (a) NHS Tayside and (b) NHS Scotland in the last three years, expressed as whole-time equivalent and as a percentage of all NHS nurses and midwives as requested.

	Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS)		Nurses and Midwives		Percentage of CNS to total Nurses and Midwives
	NHS Tayside	NHS Scotland	NHS Tayside	NHS Scotland	NHS Tayside	NHS Scotland
2006	110.5	1,346.2	4,912.3	56,783.9	2.2	2.4
2007	111.6	1,287.6	4,995.2	57,050.4	2.2	2.3
2008	136.7	1,433.3	5,029.4	57,949.6	2.7	2.5

Source: Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland.

Note: Figures shown are whole-time equivalent.

Ministerial Visits

1 June 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether ministers have visited locations in the United States of America where the Family Nurse Partnership scheme is in operation and, if so, which ministers; on how many occasions, and on what dates.

Shona Robison: Nicola Sturgeon, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, visited a Nurse Family Partnership Project in Harlem, New York on Friday 10 April 2009.

Family Nurse Partnership

1 June 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Family Nurse Partnership pilot in Lothian will operate under the same type of licence agreement as that in England.

Shona Robison: The Family Nurse Partnership pilot in Lothian will operate under the same type of licence conditions as those in England.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what adaptations would be required to the Family Nurse Partnership programme in England to allow it to be provided in Scotland.

Shona Robison : No adaptations are required.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what grades of nurses are participating in the Lothian pilot of the Family Nurse Partnership.

Shona Robison: There will be seven nurses included in the pilot. The job descriptions are adapted from the American requirements, which form part of the core model elements. The job descriptions are currently going through the Scottish Agenda for Change process, and these should be finalised during summer 2009.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what funding is being made available for the Lothian pilot of the Family Nurse Partnership.

Shona Robison: Funding for the pilot is still being assessed, and is partly dependant on the grades agreed for the nurses. However, the intention is to fully fund the nursing posts, administration, implementation lead and clinical psychologist for two years. Set up costs will also be included and these will be paid directly to NHS Lothian.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive when the Lothian pilot of the Family Nurse Partnership will be completed and when it will be evaluated.

Shona Robison : Evaluation of the programme is key to assessing its success. The evaluation tender is being considered now, and the researchers will be in place when client recruitment begins in January 2010. The programme will be continually monitored, using agreed quality control measures, to ensure measurable outputs are met. It is intended that evaluation of outcomes will be undertaken on three occasions over the term of the pilot; at the end of pregnancy phase (summer 2011), infant phase (summer 2012) and toddler phase (summer 2013). It is expected the pilot for this initial cohort will finish around March 2013.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether its staff posts related to the piloting of the Family Nurse Partnership involve secondment to the Family Nurse Partnership programme in England and, if so, for what period of time.

Shona Robison : We are working collaboratively with the central Family Nurse Partnership team in England. No formal secondment is envisaged.

Family Nurse Partnership

1 June 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its staff are employed in the piloting and evaluation of the Family Nurse Partnership model; when these posts were advertised, and when they commence.

Shona Robison : We currently have one policy lead involved in programme management of the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) pilot who started work in post just before Christmas 2008. We also have one FNP Implementation Lead, which is a seconded post from the NHS for two years. The post was advertised in January 2009, and the Implementation Lead began work on 20 April 2009.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has discussed with the UK Department of Health the development of the Family Nurse Partnership programme in England since 2007 and, if so, on how many occasions.

Shona Robison: We have met with the central Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) team in England on a number of occasions to discuss how the programme could be developed. The licensing agreement is usually accompanied by a consultancy agreement, with the US. However, we have gained agreement from both Professor Olds and the UK Department of Health, that the central FNP team will offer Scotland the consultancy support.

NHS Staff

1 June 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many allied health professionals there were in NHS Tayside in (a) arts therapy, (b) dietetics, (c) occupational therapy, (d) orthoptics, (e) orthotics, (f) podiatry, (g) prosthetics, (h) speech and language therapy and (i) radiography in each of the last two years for which information is available, expressed as headcount and as full-time equivalent.

Nicola Sturgeon : The numbers of allied health professionals in NHS Tayside in (a) arts therapy, (b) dietetics, (c) occupational therapy, (d) orthoptics, (e) orthotics, (f) podiatry, (g) prosthetics, (h) speech and language therapy and (i) radiography in each of the last two years are provided in the following tables:

Table 1. Number (head count) of NHSScotland Allied HHHhhealth Professions as at 30 September, NHS Tayside

	2007	2008
Arts therapy	4	4
Dietetics	60	58
Occupational therapy	248	245
Orthoptics	10	8
Orthotics	17	20
Podiatry	75	71
Prosthetics	1	1
Speech and language therapy	86	89
Radiography	229	237

Source: Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland.

Table 2. Number (Whole-Time Equivalent) of NHSScotland Allied Health Professions as at 30 September, NHS Tayside

	2007	2008
Arts therapy	3.0	3.0
Dietetics	49.8	48.7
Occupational therapy	205.2	201.4
Orthoptics	8.8	7.1
Orthotics	15.2	18.2
Podiatry	56.5	53.4
Prosthetics	1.0	1.0
Speech and language therapy	71.1	74.0
Radiography	192.8	201.8

Source: Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland.

Education

27 May 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils in Angus were presented for Spanish at (a) standard and (b) higher in each of the last three years, also expressed as a percentage of the year group.

Keith Brown : The available information is given in the following table.

Presentations for Spanish, Angus

Year	Standard Grade		Higher
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
2006	24	1.7	14	1.0
2007	17	1.2	21	1.5
2008	45	3.2	15	1.0

Notes:

1. The data in the table does not include equivalent qualification levels to standard grade (Access 3, Intermediate 1 and Intermediate

2). Presentations are for all pupils in publicly funded secondary schools. Percentages for Standard Grades relate to the S4 roll, although not all presentations are by S4 pupils. Percentages for higher relate to the combined S5/S6 roll, although not all presentations are by S5 or S6 pupils.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils in Angus were presented for German at (a) standard and (b) higher grade in each of the last three years, also expressed as a percentage of the year group.

Keith Brown : The available information is given in the following table.

Presentations for German, Angus

Year	Standard Grade		Higher
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
2006	242	17.1	39	2.9
2007	328	22.8	32	2.2
2008	340	24.4	35	2.4

Notes:

1. The data in the table does not include equivalent qualification levels to standard grade (Access 3, Intermediate 1 and Intermediate 2).

2. Presentations are for all pupils in publicly funded secondary schools. Percentages for standard grades relate to the S4 roll, although not all presentations are by S4 pupils. Percentages for higher relate to the combined S5/S6 roll, although not all presentations are by S5 or S6 pupils.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils in Angus were presented for French at (a) standard and (b) higher in each of the last three years, also expressed as a percentage of the year group.

Keith Brown: The available information is given in the following table.

Presentations for French, Angus

Year	Standard Grade		Higher
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
2006	729	51.5	75	5.6
2007	637	44.3	81	5.7
2008	730	52.4	71	4.9

Notes:

1. The data in the table does not include equivalent qualification levels to standard grade (Access 3, Intermediate 1 and Intermediate 2).

Presentations are for all pupils in publicly funded secondary schools. Percentages for standard grades relate to the S4 roll, although not all presentations are by S4 pupils. Percentages for higher relate to the combined S5/S6 roll, although not all presentations are by S5 or S6 pupils.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils in Dundee were presented for Spanish at (a) standard and (b) higher grade in each of the last three years, also expressed as a percentage of the year group.

Keith Brown : The available information is given in the following table.

Presentations for Spanish, Dundee

Year	Standard Grade		Higher
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
2006	165	9.8	21	1.3
2007	173	10.4	19	1.2
2008	188	11.3	19	1.2

Notes:

1. The data in the table does not include equivalent qualification levels to standard grade (Access 3, Intermediate 1 and Intermediate

2).Presentations are for all pupils in publicly funded secondary schools. Percentages for standard grades relate to the S4 roll, although not all presentations are by S4 pupils. Percentages for higher relate to the combined S5/S6 roll, although not all presentations are by S5 or S6 pupils.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils in Dundee were presented for German at (a) standard and (b) higher grade in each of the last three years, also expressed as a percentage of the year group.

Keith Brown : The available information is given in the following table.

Presentations for German, Dundee

Year	Standard Grade		Higher
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
2006	331	19.6	21	1.3
2007	307	18.5	24	1.5
2008	298	17.9	33	2.1

Notes:

1. The data in the table does not include equivalent qualification levels to standard grade (Access 3, Intermediate 1 and Intermediate

2). Presentations are for all pupils in publicly funded secondary schools. Percentages for standard grades relate to the S4 roll, although not all presentations are by S4 pupils. Percentages for higher relate to the combined S5/S6 roll, although not all presentations are by S5 or S6 pupils.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils in Dundee were presented for French at (a) standard and (b) higher grade in each of the last three years, also expressed as a percentage of the year group.

Keith Brown : The available information is given in the following table.

Presentations for French, Dundee

Year	Standard Grade		Higher
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
2006	808	47.9	42	2.7
2007	702	42.3	55	3.5
2008	686	41.3	63	4.0

Notes:

1. The data in the table does not include equivalent qualification levels to standard grade (Access 3, Intermediate 1 and Intermediate 2).

14 May 2009

Exports

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated value is of exports to each European country in the last year for which information is available, also expressed as a percentage of total exports.

Jim Mather :

Table 1: Estimated Total of Overseas Scottish Exports, 2007

	Estimated Value of Scottish Exports (£ Million)	Estimated Percentage
All countries	20,665	100.0%

Table 2: Estimated Scottish Exports to EU Countries within the Top 20, 2007

	Estimated Value of Scottish Exports (£ Million)	Estimated Percentage
France	1,475	7.1%
Netherlands	1,420	6.9%
Germany	1,335	6.5%
Eire	1,040	5.0%
Spain	895	4.3%
Italy	685	3.3%
Belgium	510	2.5%
Denmark	425	2.1%
Sweden	405	2.0%

Table 3: Estimated Scottish Exports to Remaining EU Countries, 2007

	Estimated Value of Scottish Exports (£ Million)	Estimated Percentage
Greece	230	1.1%
Portugal	180	0.9%
Finland	140	0.7%
Poland	115	0.6%
Austria	60	0.3%
Czech Republic	60	0.3%
Cyprus	55	0.3%
Hungary	50	0.2%
Estonia	50	0.2%
Malta	45	0.2%
Romania	30	0.1%
Luxembourg	25	0.1%
Latvia	20	0.1%
Bulgaria	15	0.1%
Slovak Republic	15	0.1%
Slovenia	5	0.0%
Lithuania	5	0.0%
Slovakia	0	0.0%

Source: Scotland''s Global Connections 2007.

Note: All value estimates are rounded to the nearest £5 million.

NHS Staff

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many physiotherapists employed by NHS Tayside are 55 or over and what percentage of physiotherapists employed by NHS Tayside this represents.

Nicola Sturgeon: Taken from nationally published data, the following table provides the number of physiotherapists employed by NHS Tayside as at 30 September 2008 that are 55 or over and the percentage of physiotherapists employed by NHS Tayside this represents.

Total	Aged 55+	% Aged 55+
238.0	18.0	7.6%

Source: Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many physiotherapists were employed by NHS Tayside in each of the last three years for which information is available, expressed both as whole-time equivalent and in headcount figures, also broken down by (a) junior and (b) senior grades.

Nicola Sturgeon: Taken from nationally published data, the following tables provide the details of the number of physiotherapists employed in NHS Tayside as at 30 September in each of the last three years. Due to the assimilation of the workforce onto Agenda for Change bandings it is not possible to provide band groupings before September 2007.

NHS Tayside - Physiotherapists

2006	Head Count	Whole-Time Equivalent
Unqualified	3	2.1
Qualified	191	152.5
Total	194	154.6

2007	Head Count	Whole-Time Equivalent
Band 1-4	33	24
Band 5-9	161	130.2
Not assimilated	34	26.3
Total	228	180.5

2008	Head Count	Whole-Time Equivalent
Band 1-4	38	26.5
Band 5-9	197	157.7
Not assimilated	3	2.8
Total	238	187.0

Source: Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland of NHS National Services Scotland.

Parkinson's Disease

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many specialist nurses dealing with Parkinson’s disease there have been in each NHS board area in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Nicola Sturgeon : Numbers are as shown in the following table:

Nurses Specialising in Parkinson's Disease

	2006	2006	2007	2007	2008	2008
	HC	WTE	HC	WTE	HC	WTE
Scotland	12	10.5	14	12.1	13	11.9
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	-	-	-	-	1	1
NHS Borders	-	-	-	-	-	-
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	-	-	-	-	-	-
NHS Fife	2	1.6	1.6	1.6	2	1.6
NHS Forth Valley	1	1	1	1	1	1
NHS Grampian	1	1	1	1	1	1
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	6	4.9	5.5	5.5	5	4.3
NHS Highland	1	1	1	1	1	1
NHS Lanarkshire	-	-	-	-	-	-
NHS Lothian	-	-	-	-	-	-
NHS Orkney	-	-	-	-	-	-
NHS Shetland	-	-	-	-	-	-
NHS Tayside	1	1	2	2	2	2
NHS Western Isles	-	-	-	-	-	-

Source: Scottish Workforce Information Standard System (SWISS).

11 May 2009

Nursing

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how much additional money was given to each participating NHS board to develop the community health nurse pilot scheme in 2008-09.

Nicola Sturgeon : The total additional funding provided in 2008-09 to each NHS health board participating in the community health nurse pilot is as follows.

NHS Board	£
NHS Borders	122,000
NHS Highland	222,000
NHS Lothian	282,000
NHS Tayside	282,000

NHS Staff

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how much the evaluation of the community health nurse pilot scheme is estimated to cost and to which organisation the contract has been awarded.

Nicola Sturgeon : The cost of the evaluation of the community health nurse pilots is yet to be determined as the contract for the evaluation is yet to be awarded.

The timescale for the project was extended as the planning and transition phase has taken longer than originally anticipated.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to announce its decision on the evaluation of the community health nurse pilot scheme.

Nicola Sturgeon : A decision on the future of community nursing services will be made once the full implications of the research, which is not expected to be concluded until the autumn of 2010, have been considered. However, ministers will also consider an interim evaluation report in December 2009.

05 May 2009

NHS Staff

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many employees of NHS Tayside receive pay point 1 or pay point 2 and what percentage of the workforce they comprise.

Nicola Sturgeon: Under the terms of the UK-wide Agenda for Change agreement, current numbers of employees within NHS Tayside who receive either pay point 1 or pay point 2 are as follows:

Total Number of Employees at 30.09.08 (excluding GPs and GDPs)	Number of Employees currently on pay points 1 and 2 of Agenda for Change	Numbers of Employees on pay points 1 and 2 expressed as a percentage of total number of employees
13,607	834	6%

Pay point 1 is currently £6.76 per hour and pay point 2 is £6.94 per hour. Both are significantly above the national minimum wage.

01 May 2009

Life Expectancy

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executivewhat the figures for life expectancy have been for (a) Scotland and (b) the NHS Tayside area since 2004.

Nicola Sturgeon : The information is as follows:

	2003-05		2004-06		2005-07
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Scotland	74.2	79.2	74.6	79.6	74.8	79.7
NHS Tayside	75.0	79.5	75.4	80.1	75.6	80.4

Life expectancy for administrative areas within Scotland is calculated and published annually by the General Register Office for Scotland:

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/life-expectancy/index.html.

Expectancy

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what estimates are available of healthy life expectancy for the NHS Tayside area since 2004, broken down by community health partnership.

Nicola Sturgeon: Life expectancy (LE) and healthy life expectancy (HLE) estimates for NHS board and Community Health Partnership (CHP) areas, including those in Tayside, are based on deaths and populations aggregated over a five-year period for statistical robustness. HLE also requires a third essential component, self-assessed health (SAH), which is only available for NHS board and CHP areas within Scotland, from the last census carried out in 2001.

Therefore, HLE has been estimated for the period 1999-2003, using SAH from the 2001 Census. Data in the following tables have been published on the Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) HLE pages: www.scotpho.org/uk/hle data sections for NHS boards and CHP''s.

Table 1. Male LE and HLE at Birth in NHS Tayside, and by CHP

Males	1999-2003		2001-05
Area	LE	HLE	LE	HLE
Scotland	73.3	66.3	73.9	n/a
NHS Tayside	74.1	68.1	74.7	n/a
Angus CHP	74.9	69.4	75.3	n/a
Dundee CHP	71.8	64.6	72.5	n/a
Perth and Kinross CHP	75.9	70.8	76.4	n/a

Source: Information Services Division Scotland.

Table 2. Female LE and HLE at birth in NHS Tayside, and by CHP

Females	1999-2003		2001-05
Area	LE	HLE	LE	HLE
Scotland	78.7	70.2	79.1	n/a
NHS Tayside	79.2	71.8	79.4	n/a
Angus CHP	79.2	72.7	79.6	n/a
Dundee CHP	78	68.8	78.1	n/a
Perth and Kinross CHP	80.5	74.2	80.6	n/a

Source: Information Services Division Scotland.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what estimates are available of healthy life expectancy for the NHS Tayside area since 2004.

Nicola Sturgeon : Life expectancy (LE) and Healthy life expectancy (HLE) estimates for NHS board, including those in Tayside, are based on deaths and populations aggregated over a five-year period for statistical robustness. HLE also requires measurements of a third essential component, self-assessed health (SAH).

For NHS board areas within Scotland SAH can only be obtained from the Census, which was last carried out in 2001. Therefore, HLE has been estimated for the period 1999-2003, using SAH data from the 2001 Census. The NHS board data in tables 1 and 2 have been published on the Healthy Life Expectancy pages of the Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) website:

http://www.scotpho.org.uk/home/Populationdynamics/hle/hle_data/hle_nhsboards.asp.

Estimates of LE and HLE for males and females in NHS Tayside are shown in the following tables:

Table 1. Male LE and HLE at birth, NHS Tayside 1999-2003.

Males	1999-2003		2001-05
Area	LE	HLE	LE	HLE
Scotland	73.3	66.3	73.9	n/a
NHS Tayside	74.1	68.1	74.7	n/a

Source Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland.

Table 2. Female LE and HLE at birth, NHS Tayside 1999-2003.

Females	1999-2003		2001-05
Area	LE	HLE	LE	HLE
Scotland	78.7	70.2	79.1	n/a
NHS Tayside	79.2	71.8	79.4	n/a

Source Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland.

Health

03 March 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the initial revenue allocations to NHS Tayside (a) were in each financial year since 2004-05 and (b) will be in 2009-10 and what the value is of these amounts taking inflation into account.

Nicola Sturgeon : The initial revenue allocations to NHS Tayside from 2004-05 and the inflation adjusted figures are shown below:

Year	Initial Allocation (£ million)	Adjusted Figure (£ million)
2004-05	451.9	511.3
2005-06	483.5	536.1
2006-07	517.0	557.9
2007-08	549.1	575.5
2008-09	566.4	574.9
2009-10	578.6	578.6

The adjusted figures are shown at 2009-10 prices.

Health

26 February 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of mothers smoked during pregnancy in (a) the NHS Tayside area and (b) Scotland in each of the last three years.

Shona Robison: Information on women smoking at booking is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under the Births & Babies website at (http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/2911.html).

For access to the data, please click on the chart titled "Smoking at booking by NHS board of residence: 2007", then select the NHS board or Scotland tab at the bottom of the sheet and the year tab at the top of the sheet.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the fertility rates were per 1,000 of female population in age groups (a) 20 to 24, (b) 25 to 29, (c) 30 to 34, (d) 35 to 39 and (e) 40 to 44 in (i) Dundee and (ii) Angus in the last two years for which information is available.

Shona Robison: The information requested is given in the following tables for 2006 and 2007. Figures for 2008 will be available in August 2009.

(i) Fertility Rates Per 1,000 of Female Population in Dundee

Age Group
Year	20-24	25-29	30-34	35-39	40-44
2006	63.5	79.0	85.8	34.8	7.5
2007	65.6	92.4	86.4	39.5	6.8

(ii) Fertility Rates Per 1,000 of Female Population in Angus

Age Group
Year	20-24	25-29	30-34	35-39	40-44
2006	82.8	121.6	105.7	41.6	6.5
2007	87.0	136.7	106.4	45.2	6.5

Source: General Register Office for Scotland.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the average age of mothers was at time of giving birth in each of the last two years in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus.

Shona Robison: The information requested is given in the following table for 2006 and 2007. The corresponding figures for 2008 are not yet available.

Average Age of Mothers at Time of Giving Birth in Dundee and Angus, 2006 and 2007

Year	Dundee	Angus
2006	27.5	29.2
2007	27.5	29.2

Bursaries

24 February 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-time university students in (a) Dundee City and (b) Angus council areas have been in receipt of bursaries in each of the last three years.

Fiona Hyslop: The following table presents the number of full-time university students domiciled in Dundee City and Angus local authority areas who were in receipt of bursary support from the Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) in academic years 2005-06 to 2007-08. The total number of Scottish domiciled full-time university students in receipt of bursaries in each academic year is also shown.

Number of Full-Time University Students Receiving Bursary Support

Local Authority	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Angus	1,055	1,020	1,020
Dundee City	1,350	1,380	1,355
Scotland	42,810	43,030	42,790

NHS Finance

23^rd. February 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the value was of each capital allocation to NHS Tayside in each financial year since 2005-06 taking inflation into account.

Nicola Sturgeon: The value of the formula capital allocations to NHS Tayside from 2005-06 taking inflation into account are shown in the following table:

Year	Formula Capital Allocation £ Million	Adjusted for Inflation £ Million
2005-06	16.906	18.748
2006-07	20.276	21.883
2007-08	24.347	25.516
2008-09	24.650	25.008
2009-10	25.030	25.030

The figures are adjusted for 2009-10 prices.

NHS Finance

13 February 2009

Marlyn Glen: To ask the Scottish Executive what the capital allocations have been to NHS Tayside in each year since 2005-06.

Nicola Sturgeon: The formula capital allocations made to NHS Tayside since 2005-06 are shown in the following table:

Year	£ Million
2005-06	16.906
2006-07	20.276
2007-08	24.347
2008-09	24.650
2009-10	25.030

Vaccinations

13 February 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the MMR vaccination uptake rate was in NHS Tayside in each of the last three years, broken down by community health partnership.

Shona Robison: MMR vaccination uptake rates by community health partnership are published on the Information Service Division (ISD) Scotland website under Child Health at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/ch-immunisation.jsp?pContentID=5407&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&.

Data is available by calendar year for 2006 and 2007 and by quarter from the period ending 30 June 2006 to 30 September 2008. Data for the quarter and calendar year ending 31 December 2008 will be published at the end of March 2009.

Dentistry

21 January 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on dental bursaries for dental students at the University of Dundee in (a) each financial year since the introduction of the scheme and (b) 2008-09.

Shona Robison: The information requested is shown in the following table.

Financial Year	Amount of Bursary Paid
2006-07	856,000
2007-08	888,000
2008-09 (to date)	864,000

Student Finance

21 January 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many dentistry students at the University of Dundee have (a) applied for and (b) received a dental bursary in 2008-09, broken down by year of study and also expressed as a percentage of the total number of undergraduate students in each year.

Shona Robison : The information requested is shown in the following table.

Course Year	Number of Applicants in Receipt of Bursary	% Uptake of Bursary
2	41	62
3	55	81
4	76	84
5	40	59

Homecoming Scotland

21 January 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been allocated to themed events in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus for Homecoming Scotland 2009 and whether it will list each event being supported financially.

Jim Mather : The Homecoming themed events taking place in Angus and Dundee are the Angus and Dundee Roots Festival, including the Fest''n''Furious, taking place late September, early October and receiving £19,000 funding and Doors Open Days which includes venues in Dundee. Doors Open Days take place across Scotland and are receiving £20,000 funding.

Pre-School Education

14 January 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how the number of whole-time equivalent General Teaching Council for Scotland registered teachers employed to provide pre-school education by (a) Dundee City and (b) Angus councils compares with the number required in those areas to meet the SNP manifesto commitment to ensure that every child of nursery age has access to a qualified nursery teacher.

Adam Ingram : The 2008 pre-school and childcare census includes a table which shows the percentage of children who had access to a teacher during census week in each local authority area. This can be viewed on the Scottish Government''s website at the following address:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/09/12150803/29.

I refer the member to the answer to questions S3W-11417 and S3W-16579 on 16 April 2008, and 9 October 2008 respectively. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

These answers referred to above set out the Scottish Government''s position on setting a minimum level of access.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many whole-time equivalent General Teaching Council for Scotland registered teachers are employed to provide pre-school education by (a) Dundee City and (b) Angus councils.

Adam Ingram : The latest information on the whole-time equivalent of GTCS registered teachers employed to provide pre-school education in each Scottish local authority (as at January 2008), by type of provider, was published by the Scottish Government on 17 September 2008 (table 26).

This publication can be found using the following link:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00682.

Employment

6 January 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross hourly earnings were for full-time employees resident in (a) Dundee, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire in the last year for which information is available, also broken down by gender.

John Swinney : The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics.

Table 1 shows the median gross hourly earnings for full-time employees resident in Dundee City, Angus and Aberdeenshire local authorities. The latest year for which data is available is 2008.

Table 1 " Median Gross Hourly Pay (£) for Full-Time Employee Jobs¹ of People Resident in selected Local Authorities (2008)

Local Authority	All	Male	Females
Dundee City	11.00	12.12	10.14
Angus	11.75	12.30	11.18
Aberdeenshire	12.46	13.21	11.05

Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.

Central Heating Programme

5 January 2009

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been on the waiting list for a free central heating system in the DD postcode area in each month since, and including, July 2008 for which information is available.

Stewart Maxwell : Information provided by the managing agent, for the DD postcode area, on the number of applicants on the waiting list in each month during the period requested is shown in the following table:

Month of Application	Number of Applicants on Waiting List
July 2008	305
August 2008	284
September 2008	216
October 2008	175
November 2008	183

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many new applications have been received for a free central heating system in the DD postcode area in each month since, and including, July 2008 for which information is available and how many have been considered as eligible.

Stewart Maxwell : Information provided by the managing agent, for the DD postcode area, on the number of applications and the number accepted, subject to survey, in each month during the period requested is shown in the following table:

Month of Application	Number of Applications	Accepted Subject to Survey
July 2008	42	9
August 2008	41	18
September 2008	41	15
October 2008	82	62
November 2008	119	86
Total	352	190

NHS Hospitals

16 December 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing’s statements on 11 September 2008 that a buy-out of the PFI contract for car parking at Ninewells Hospital "would cost tens of millions of pounds" (Official Report c. 10734 and 10736) and subsequent notification in a letter dated 12 November 2008 to Marlyn Glen MSP that this estimated cost emerged in a telephone conversation between her officials and representatives of NHS Tayside, for what reason the cabinet secretary is unable to provide a copy of the written record of the telephone conversation, as stated in a letter to Marlyn Glen dated 18 November 2008.

Answered by Nicola Sturgeon: The written record of the conversation contained officials'' initial assessment of the potential negotiating position of the PFI provider. It would undermine NHS Tayside''s negotiating position if that figure was in the public domain and therefore it is not in the public interest to release it.

Healthcare Associated Infection

12 December 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will introduce a minimum age of two years for the national surveillance programme for Clostridium difficile associated disease.

Nicola Sturgeon: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-16201 on 19 September 2008.

All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which

Dentistry

21 November 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many attendances there were at the accident and emergency department of Dundee Dental Hospital in each month since January 2008.

Shona Robison : The information requested has been provided by NHS Tayside and is shown in the following table. The figures cover complete months from January to October 2008.

Month	Attendances
January	634
February	752
March	727
April	799
May	689
June	784
July	800
August	686
September	743
October	770
Total	7,384

Health

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of P1 pupils was classified as (a) overweight, (b) obese and (c) severely obese in the last year for which information is available.

Shona Robison : Obesity statistics for children in P1 are collected through the Child Health Surveillance Programme. The most recent figures available are for school year 2006-07: 21.0% of children in P1 were overweight, including 8.5% who were obese and 4.3% who were severely obese. The full set of statistics and background notes are published on the NHS Information Services website at www.isdscotland.org/child_obesity (click on Obesity Statistics and BMI background).

School Meals

18 November 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what participation rates among P1 to P3 pupils receiving free school meals from August 2010 were assumed in the local government finance settlement for the period up to 2011.

Adam Ingram: We have assumed participation rates of 70% of P1 to P3 pupils that would not otherwise be entitled to free school meals.

Health

11 November 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of drugs prescribed in NHS Tayside was generic in each of the last two years for which information is available.

Nicola Sturgeon : The rate of generic prescribing in primary care in NHS Tayside for financial year 2006-07 was 83.23% and for 2007-08 was 82.38%.

NHS Expenditure

11 November 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on medicines in hospitals in NHS Tayside in each of the last two years for which information is available.

Nicola Sturgeon : Hospital drugs expenditure in NHS Tayside was £19.036 million in financial year 2006-07 and £17.332 million in 2005-06.

Cancer

12 November 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of eligible women was screened for cervical cancer in each of the last 10 years, also broken down by age group.

Shona Robison : Information Services Division (ISD) have provided the percentage of uptake for Cervical Screening by age group in Scotland¹, 1 April 1997 to 31 March 2008, these are:

Percentage Uptake^2,3 of Females Who Had a Record of a Previous Smear Taken Within Last 5.5 Years

Age group	1997-98	1998-99	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
20-24	66.3	64.7	63.3	64.2	64.1	63.5	62.6	60.7	58.8	56.6	53.2
25-29	85.9	85.3	84.9	84.5	84.1	83.5	83.0	81.8	80.7	79.0	73.3
30-34	89.8	89.5	89.4	89.2	88.9	88.2	87.8	86.9	85.9	84.9	78.4
35-39	91.3	91.0	91.1	90.9	90.8	90.4	89.9	89.0	88.4	88.5	82.0
40-44	92.2	91.9	92.0	91.6	91.6	91.2	90.2	89.9	89.6	88.7	84.1
45-49	93.1	92.9	92.7	92.3	92.2	91.7	91.2	90.3	89.7	88.8	85.0
50-54	91.0	91.0	91.3	91.0	91.1	90.9	90.6	89.8	89.3	88.4	84.5
55-59	85.5	85.6	86.7	87.1	87.6	87.8	87.7	87.3	86.8	86.1	82.9
60-64	70.2	71.3	72.0	72.4	74.0	75.6	76.7	77.2	76.9	76.9	81.1
Target age group 20-60	87.0	86.6	86.7	86.5	86.5	86.0	85.5	84.6	83.8	82.6	77.9

Percentage Uptake^2,3 of Females Who Had a Record of a Previous Smear Taken Within Last 3.5 Years

Age group	1997-98	1998-99	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
20-24	64.2	62.6	61.3	62.1	62.3	61.7	60.9	59.1	57.2	55.2	50.2
25-29	80.6	79.8	79.5	79.0	78.9	78.2	77.5	76.1	74.5	72.3	63.3
30-34	84.7	84.2	84.1	84.1	83.9	83.2	82.3	81.0	79.4	78.0	68.8
35-39	86.0	85.5	85.7	85.6	85.8	85.4	84.5	83.2	82.0	80.6	72.8
40-44	86.3	85.9	86.1	86.1	86.4	86.1	84.9	84.2	83.1	82.0	75.3
45-49	86.8	86.4	86.5	86.4	86.8	86.1	85.5	84.3	83.2	82.1	76.5
50-54	84.5	84.6	85.1	85.1	85.7	85.5	85.0	84.0	82.8	81.7	76.3
55-59	79.2	79.5	80.8	81.4	82.5	82.7	82.3	81.6	80.5	79.6	75.3
60-64	53.2	54.2	55.4	54.7	56.8	58.8	59.5	59.4	57.7	57.8	67.6
Target age group 20-60	81.7	81.2	81.4	81.4	81.7	81.2	80.6	79.3	78.0	76.5	69.7

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of eligible women was screened for cervical cancer in the NHS Tayside area in each of the last 10 years, also broken down by age group.

Shona Robison : Information Services Division (ISD) have provided the percentage of uptake for Cervical Screening by age group in Tayside NHS Board, 1 April 1997 to 31 March 2008, these are:

Percentage Uptake^1,2 of Females Who Had a Record of a Previous Smear Taken Within Last 5.5 Years

Age group	1997-98	1998-99	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
20-24	61.0	58.5	58.7	67.9	67.5	67.0	64.7	61.6	59.2	56.8	54.2
25-29	82.3	81.5	82.2	83.4	84.0	82.7	81.4	79.4	77.5	75.0	73.4
30-34	87.5	87.0	87.0	88.5	88.5	87.9	86.9	85.7	84.1	83.0	81.4
35-39	89.1	89.1	89.9	91.6	91.1	91.0	90.5	88.8	87.5	86.1	85.3
40-44	90.6	90.1	90.4	92.0	91.6	91.1	91.1	90.7	90.0	88.8	87.8
45-49	92.2	91.8	91.4	92.6	92.4	91.8	91.0	90.0	89.0	88.1	87.6
50-54	91.4	91.4	91.8	92.0	91.5	91.2	90.9	89.7	88.8	88.1	87.1
55-59	87.1	86.5	87.4	88.6	88.7	88.8	88.7	87.8	86.7	85.6	86.0
60-64	72.8	73.0	74.1	70.5	69.7	69.9	69.8	72.1	71.9	73.3	86.8
Target age group 20-60	85.4	84.5	84.9	87.2	87.1	86.6	85.8	84.3	82.8	81.3	80.1

Percentage Uptake^1,2 of Females Who Had a Record of a Previous Smear Taken Within Last 3.5 Years

Age group	1997-98	1998-99	1999-00	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
20-24	58.2	55.5	55.6	64.1	64.1	63.2	61.0	57.9	55.8	53.3	51.0
25-29	73.4	74.1	74.7	75.3	76.4	75.4	74.0	70.8	68.4	65.4	63.7
30-34	81.1	80.2	80.2	80.9	81.3	81.2	79.5	76.8	75.0	73.5	72.1
35-39	83.0	82.7	83.4	84.4	84.3	84.5	83.2	80.2	78.5	77.3	76.4
40-44	84.2	83.7	84.3	85.2	85.1	85.0	84.4	82.9	81.4	80.3	79.6
45-49	85.8	85.6	85.3	85.9	86.1	85.4	83.9	82.4	81.0	79.9	79.6
50-54	84.8	85.3	85.1	85.4	85.7	85.5	84.4	82.4	81.4	80.5	79.4
55-59	80.7	80.9	81.9	82.2	82.9	83.4	82.4	81.0	79.6	78.5	79.1
60-64	48.4	51.9	51.9	42.1	44.3	47.3	47.0	49.5	49.4	50.4	70.9
Target age group 20-60	79.4	78.5	78.9	80.5	80.9	80.6	79.2	76.8	75.1	73.5	72.5

Dentistry

12 November 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dental patients have been deregistered in NHS Tayside in each of the last 12 months for which information is available.

Shona Robison : The available information is shown in the following table.

NHS General Dental Service Patients Whose Registration Status Shows Withdrawn^1,2 for NHS Tayside; Between July 2007 and June 2008

Month	2007-08
July	36
August	116
September	54
October	84
November	48
December	55
January	54
February	47
March	45
April	64
May	42
June	73

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dental patients have been newly registered in NHS Tayside in each of the last 12 months for which information is available.

Shona Robison: Latest available information on newly registered patients in NHS Tayside in each of the last 12 months is presented in the following table.

Number of newly registered NHS dental patients in NHS Tayside in each month from November 2007 to October 2008:

Number of Newly Registered Patients not Previously Registered with a Dentist in Tayside

Month	in 12 Months Preceding^1,2	Since October 1990^2,3
November 2007	2,155	1,178
December 2007	1,547	852
January 2008	2,043	1,145
February 2008	2,305	1,281
March 2008	2,201	1,159
April 2008	2,241	1,261
May 2008	2,090	1,167
June 2008	1,981	1,048
July 2008	1,824	984
August 2008	2,262	1,301
September 2008	2,056	1,213
October 2008	1,189	792
Total	23,894	13,381

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many general, hospital and community dentists there were in NHS Tayside in (a) March 2008 and (b) March 2007, expressed as a headcount and by whole-time equivalent.

Shona Robison: The head count information for NHS Tayside is shown in the following table.

Hospital and community dentist data is only available as at 30 September and is also shown. Information on the whole-time equivalent of staff working in the NHS general dental service is not available as the working hours of each dentist are not collected.

Number of Dentists¹ Providing NHS General Dental Services; in NHS Tayside; at 31 March

	2007	2008
Number of Dentists (Head Count)	216	220

Whole-Time Equivalent (WTE) and Head Count of Hospital and Community Dentists; in NHS Tayside; at 30 September²

	2006		2007
	Head Count	WTE	Head Count	WTE
Hospital dentists	77	51.9	70	51.0
Community dentists	29	23.9	40	33.0

12 November 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of (a) adults and (b) children was registered with an NHS dentist in June 2008, broken down by community health partnership area, and what the comparable figures were in March 2008.

Shona Robison : The information by Community Health Partnership for March 2007 to June 2008 is published at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=dent_reg_table2_june08.xls&pContentDispositionType=attachment.

The information does not represent the percentage of people in each Community Health Partnership who are registered. Registrations (numerator) are based on the postcode of the practice where the patient has registered with a general dental practitioner. The population (denominator) is based on where the patient resides, in this case the Community Health Partnership. In some cases, the number of registrations may exceed the actual number of people in the chosen population.

Healthcare Associated Infection

10 November 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether the target set for NHS boards of a 30% reduction in the rate of Clostridium difficile in people over 65 by 2011 will be accompanied by additional allocations to NHS boards outwith the £54 million already to be allocated over the next three years to tackle healthcare-acquired infection.

Nicola Sturgeon: Additional funding to support the new target of up to £2 million is being made available to NHS boards from within the resources provided to tackle healthcare associated infection in Scotland.

Justice

6 November 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to develop alternatives to custody for women offenders to counter the unprecedented intake of women to HM Prison Cornton Vale.

Kenny MacAskill : This government is committed to radical action to end the cycle of offending and re-offending. Prison will always remain the right place for those who commit serious crimes and present a risk to our communities. But tough community penalties delivered swiftly and consistently are more effective in dealing with those whose offences are of a less serious nature.

We know that custody is often not the most appropriate option for women offenders. The Community Justice Authorities have identified women as a priority group and this is reflected in schemes such as diversion from prosecution and supervised bail. We are spending over £600,000 per year on piloting Drug Treatment and Testing Orders for all lower tariff offenders including women and have increased spending on supervised bail by over 40%. Additional funding of £190,000 per year has been made available to the South West Community Justice Authority for piloting an innovative approach making use of mentors/link workers for adult female offenders given a community sentence.

28 October 2008

Education

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the projected number is of pupils who will be in P1 to P3 in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus in August 2010.

Maureen Watt : Projected pupil numbers in each stage for each local authority are not generally produced centrally. However, using trends in the five to seven year old population from GRO Scotland''s projections and 2007 participation rates, pupil projections would be 4,550 in Dundee City and 4,100 in Angus.

28 October 2008

School Meals

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost was of providing a school meal in the free school meals pilot for P1 to P3 pupils.

Adam Ingram : Information on the costs associated with the free school meals trial for P1 to P3 pupils is included in the report on the findings of the independent evaluation of the trial which is available on the Scottish Government website at:

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/08/29114033/0.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was given to each local authority to participate in the free school meals pilot for P1 to P3 pupils.

Adam Ingram : The following table sets out the amount of funding we provided to each of the local authorities participating in the free school meals trial for P1 to P3 pupils.

Local Authority	£
East Ayrshire	561,000
Fife	1,714,000
Glasgow City	1,309,000
Scottish Borders	593,000
West Dunbartonshire	455,000

School Meals

3 October 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3O-4300 by Fiona Hyslop on 25 September 2008, what the estimated cost is to each local authority of extending entitlement to free school meals to all primary and secondary pupils whose parents or carers are in receipt of maximum child and working tax credit

Adam Ingram : I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-11245 on 16 April 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

Hospital-Acquired Infection

19 September 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive why Health Protection Scotland’s Report on Review of Clostridium difficile Associated Disease Cases and Mortality in all acute hospitals in Scotland from December 2007- May 2008 has recommended an age of 15 for the minimum limit for the extension of the national surveillance programme for Clostridium difficile-associated disease.

Nicola Sturgeon : I am advised by Health Protection Scotland (HPS) that existing testing methods for Clostridium difficile are not recommended for children under the age of 15. Younger children are carriers of Clostridium difficile without any symptoms and the disease does not appear to occur in childhood. Given the lack of appropriate tests and the probability that this group of individuals is at very low risk it does not seem appropriate to recommend testing which is unproven and could lead to unnecessary treatment. HPS will, however, keep the situation under review.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to study the effect of the introduction of a minimum age limit of two years on the mandatory surveillance of Clostridium difficile-associated disease in (a) England from April 2007, (b) Wales from September 2008 and (c) Northern Ireland from April 2008.

Nicola Sturgeon : Yes. As with all areas of healthcare associated infection, Health Protection Scotland (HPS) regularly monitors developments around the UK and in other countries. It will continue to study all the research evidence to determine whether testing in this age group should be introduced here.

Domestic Abuse

4 September 2008

Marlyn Glen : What resources are being put in place to roll out the ASSIST victim support services needed to match the extended responsibilities of the Domestic Abuse Court in Glasgow and how similar support services across Scotland will be funded.

Kenny MacAskill : In June 2008, I announced that, alongside the roll-out of the Domestic Abuse Court in Glasgow, the Scottish Government will be extending provision for the ASSIST service to support victims and their children in the 3 police divisions of the city of Glasgow.

Ministers are currently considering a proposal from ASSIST and I expect a decision to be made shortly.

The Scottish Government accepted the conclusion of the feasibility study group that to assist the support to victims and their children across Scotland, development work is required to:

Develop occupational standards for working with victims of domestic abuse;

Increase the collaboration and opportunity for joint activity between key agencies working with victims of domestic abuse and other forms of violence against women;

Work with local partners providing services to victims to develop enhanced support provision, and

Develop an operational manual that could be used to improve support for victims of domestic abuse and enable organisations to develop co-ordination and advocacy work.

Further details can be found in section 5 of the feasibility study group report.

This work will be taken forward over the next three years.

Economy

2 September 2008

Marlyn Glen To ask the Scottish Executive what effect the classification of students as economically inactive has had on the reported figure for the rate of economic activity in Dundee City in each of the last three years.

Jim Mather: The number of students classified as economically inactive in Dundee City during the last three calendar years is shown in the following table. This also shows the level of economically inactive students as a percentage of the working-age population in Dundee City.

It should be noted that not all students are classified as economically inactive. A student who does at least one hour paid work or has stated that they are actively seeking and available for work is classified as economically active. The effect on Dundee City''s economic activity rate of some students being classified as economically inactive is not quantified as the Scottish Government does not hold information on whether those individuals would be economically active or inactive if they were not students.

Year	2005	2006	2007
Number of Inactive Students	5,700	5,000	5,200
Percentage of Working-Aged Population	5.9%	5.6%	5.9%

Source: Annual Population Survey (APS).

Notes:

1. Working age population refers to men aged 16 to 64 and women aged 16 to 59.

2. Figures on number of Inactive Students are rounded to the nearest hundred.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the rates of economic activity have been in (a) Dundee City and (b) Scotland in each of the last three years.

Jim Mather : The official source of economic activity rates by local authority is the Annual Population Survey (APS). The following table shows the economic activity rates in Dundee City and Scotland for the last three calendar years.

Year	2005	2006	2007
Economic Activity Rate - Dundee City	76.6%	76.6%	77.6%
Economic Activity Rate - Scotland	79.2%	80.0%	79.9%

Note: Rate applies to working age population (i.e. men aged 16 to 64 and women aged 16 to 59).

Further information from the 2007 Annual Population Survey can be viewed on the Scottish Government website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/06/25095306/0.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated gross value added was for Angus and Dundee City in each of the last three years for which figures are available, also expressed per head.

John Swinney : The gross value added and gross value added per head estimates for the area of Angus and Dundee City for the latest three years (2003, 2004 and 2005) are reported in the following table:

Headline Gross Value Added (£ Million)and Gross Value Added Per Head at Current Basic Prices

	2003	2004	2005¹
Gross Value Added	3,502	3,709	3,894
Gross Value Added per head	13,973	14,806	15,506

Note: 1. Provisional.

These figures were published by the Office for National Statistics and can be found in tables NUTS3.1 and NUTS3.2 of the Regional, sub regional and local gross value added publication:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/gva1207.pdf.

Vaccinations

4 September 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether nursing staff other than school nurses will participate in the implementation of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination programme from September 2008 as part of the community health nurse pilot scheme in NHS Tayside.

Shona Robison : Within NHS Tayside, school nurses will lead the implementation of the HPV vaccination programme supported by the other nursing staff. The other nursing staff will consist of both community staff nurses and public health staff nurses. All nurses will undergo a training programme if required.

NHS Staff

3 September 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many school nurses there were in the NHS Tayside area in each of the last three years for which figures are available, expressed in (a) full-time equivalent and (b) headcount terms.

Nicola Sturgeon: The following table provides the number of whole-time equivalent (WTE) and head count school nurses in Tayside in 2003, 2004, 2005. These figures are collected by Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland.

Data for 2006 is unavailable due to the non-direct match between Whitley Council grades and new Agenda for Change grades. Data for 2007 has not been included as accuracy cannot yet be guaranteed. This reflects the fact that the assimilation of NHS staff to Agenda for Change bandings by NHS boards is on-going. There may also be anomalies with the coding which may affect correct numbers of staff being identified.

NHS boards are currently working through a process of cleaning up the data to ensure future high quality data standards. Once full assimilation to Agenda for Change has been achieved, the publication of workforce statistics will be updated to reflect this.

	Number of WTE Qualified School Nurses	Number of Head Count Qualified School Nurses
2003	22.0	40
2004	20.8	37
2005	21.6	37

Dentistry

28 August 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether the target set for NHS boards, in Better Health, Better Care: Action Plan, that 80% of all three to five-year-olds should be registered with a NHS dentist by 2010-11 also means that a target of 80% registration has been set for the same age group in each Community Health Partnership in each NHS board.

Shona Robison : It is for NHS boards to manage the delivery of the target through their local delivery plans and there is therefore no explicit national target set at the level of Community Health Partnership areas.

NHS Hospitals

1 September 2008

Marlyn Glen MSP : To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage acute bed occupancy has been in each hospital in NHS Tayside in each year since 2003.

Nicola Sturgeon : The percentage acute bed occupancy for hospitals in NHS Tayside is shown in the following table.

Table 1: Percentage Occupancy in Acute Specialites in NHS Tayside by Hospital¹

	Financial Year Ending
	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008^P
NHS Tayside	81.4	81.4	81.5	82.3	82.4	81.9
Ninewells	82.9	81.5	83.4	82.7	84.9	82.8
Fernbrae Hospital²	x	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	..
Ashludie Hospital³	91.9	90.8	76.2	x	x	x
Royal Victoria Hospital	77.6	84.9	83.3	84.6	81.0	87.1
Perth Royal Infirmary	87.4	84.1	86.0	85.5	87.8	81.3
St Margaret''s Hospital	66.5	66.9	66.5	63.7	65.0	69.2
Aberfeldy Community Hospital	68.9	66.0	68.0	54.3	70.6	64.0
Irvine Memorial Hospital	54.1	51.4	48.0	53.2	54.9	59.6
Blairgowrie Community Hospital	83.0	82.1	85.7	80.6	81.5	79.0
Beechgrove House⁴	83.9	49.7	x	x	x	x
Arbroath Infirmary	73.2	68.4	65.7	68.2	79.1	86.9
Brechin Infirmary	78.7	61.9	68.7	58.5	61.2	58.5
Forfar Infirmary⁵	70.1	62.0	67.0	21.7	x	x
Montrose Royal Infirmary	82.6	100.0	82.5	73.4	60.2	59.8
Stracathro²	68.7	65.6	61.7	57.1	64.9	..
Crieff Community Hospital	74.0	75.8	72.8	72.5	84.9	74.2
Whitehills Health and Community Centre⁶	x	x	x	71.5	82.1	77.6

Source: ISD(S)1.

Hospital-Acquired Infection

22 August 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many recorded cases of Clostridium difficile there have been in (a) NHS Tayside and (b) Scotland in the latest available 12 month period, broken down into people aged (a) two to 44, (b) 45 to 64, (c) 65 to 74 and (d) 75 and over.

Nicola Sturgeon : Mandatory surveillance on the total number of cases of Clostridium difficile reported by NHS board was introduced in September 2006. This information is collected by Health Protection Scotland (HPS) and is published in quarterly reports on their website. HPS does not hold processed (i.e. de-duplicated) and reviewed data for patients below 65 years old. Data are not held by the requested age groups.

Information for NHS boards since September 2006, for patients over 65, is in the following table:

	October 2006 - December 2006	January 2007 - March 2007	April 2007 - June 2007	July 2007 -September 2007	October 2007 - December 2007	January 2008 - March 2008
Total number of cases in Scotland	1,213	1,775	1,588	1,459	1,608	1,861

Since the beginning of the mandatory surveillance programme for Clostridium Difficile Associated Disease (CDAD) in Scotland started in October 2006, a total of 999 cases of CDAD have been reported in NHS Tayside in those aged 65 years and over.

During the past 12 months (from July 2007-June 2008), a total of 550 cases of CDAD have been reported.

All cases, except for those in the most recent quarter (from Apr 2008-June 2008) have been reviewed and confirmed by the local laboratories in NHS Tayside.

	July 2007 " September 2007	October 2007 " December 2007	January 08 " March 2008	April 2008 " June 2008
Cases of CDAD aged 65 and over	131	135	139	145*

Note: *Data not reviewed yet.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many recorded cases of clostridium difficile there have been in NHS Tayside in each month since January 2008, broken down by (a) PCR ribotype and (b) recording hospital.

Nicola Sturgeon: Health Protection Scotland (HPS) collects information, by NHS board, on cases of c-diff and on PCR ribotyping. C-diff is identified in laboratories by testing for the presence of a toxin, and does not routinely require ribotyping. Ribotyping is currently only carried out in c-diff cases which meet certain national protocol criteria. Information on PCR ribotypes is therefore collected at a national level and is not broken down by NHS board.

The information requested on c.diff cases is published quarterly by HPS at http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/haiic/newsdetail.aspx?id=160. Latest information on the number of cases of c-diff reported in NHS Tayside, since January 2008 year is provided in the following table. Information is not broken down by hospital.

	Jan 2008 - March 2008
Total number of cases in Scotland	1,861
NHS Tayside	139

Source: Health Protection Scotland.

Higher Education

7 August 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) employment, (b) unemployment and (c) further study or training rates were six months after graduation for graduates in (i) English, (ii) mathematics, (iii) science and (iv) psychology from Scottish institutions in the latest year for which information is available.

Fiona Hyslop : The statistics the member requested are shown in the following table.

Destination of Full-Time Higher Education Graduates from Scottish Institutions Six Months after Graduating by Subject Area: 2005-06

	Total	Study/Training	Permanent Home Employment	Temporary Home Employment	Overseas Employment	Believed Unemployed	Other
Total	5,835	1,865	2,260	670	175	350	510
English	825	280	270	110	40	40	80
Mathematics	420	125	180	55	5	25	35
Science (Excluding Psychology and Mathematics)	3,625	1,250	1,390	375	100	220	295
Psychology	965	215	425	135	25	70	100

Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), Scottish Funding Council (SFC).

Notes:

The overall response rate, including both HESA and SFC data, for the subject groups in the above table was 78%.

Figure have been rounded to the nearest five. 0, 1, 2 have been rounded to 0. Figures may not sum exactly to totals due to rounding.

Figures in this table have been weighted according to response rates by subject of study

Believed unemployed includes graduates from higher education institutions that are looking for employment, further study or training or are due to start a job in the next month plus graduates from further education colleges who have no arrangement for further study or employment.

Other destinations include those who are unable to work, looking after the home or family, taking time out in order to travel, or are not otherwise included under an alternative heading.

Fiona Hyslop : The statistics are presented in the following table.

Full-Time Higher Education Graduates Gaining Employment Six Months After Graduation from Scottish Institutions by Industry of Employer and Subject Studied (%): 2005-06

	Total	Banking and Finance	Business Services	Manufacturing	Transport and Communication	Wholesale and Retail	Other Industry
Total	100%	21%	29%	15%	18%	5%	12%
French	100%	24%	28%	17%	16%	5%	10%
German	100%	24%	24%	16%	18%	3%	16%
Spanish	100%	20%	20%	15%	17%	7%	20%
Italian	100%	23%	43%	10%	3%	10%	10%
Other European Language	100%	15%	32%	12%	26%	5%	11%

Source: Higher education Statistics Agency (HESA) and Scottish Funding Council (SFC).

Note: The overall response rate, including both HESA and SFC data, for the subject groups in the above table was 78%.

Central Heating Programme

8 August 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many new applications have been received for a free central heating system in the DD postcode area in each of the last 12 months for which information is available and how many were considered to be eligible.

Stewart Maxwell: The number of applications received in the DD postcode area during each of the last twelve months, as notified by the Managing Agent, is shown in the following table.

Period	Applications Received	Applications Taken Forward (Subject to Survey)
July 2007	136	108
August 2007	119	104
September 2007	93	82
October 2007	139	127
November 2007	130	108
December 2007	67	55
January 2008	115	94
February 2008	112	83
March 2008	121	88
April 2008	124	97
May 2008	126	95
June 2008	73	19
Total	1,355	1,060

Note: An initial assessment on the application is made, normally by telephone, and those applications are recorded for a home survey visit. The information collected during the initial assessment is then confirmed during the survey stage in the applicant’s home.

7 August 2008

Fiona Hyslop : The statistics the member requested are shown in the following table.

Destination of Full-Time Higher Education Graduates from Scottish Institutions Six Months after Graduating by Subject Area: 2005-06

Total

Study/Training

Permanent Home Employment

Temporary Home Employment

Overseas Employment

Believed Unemployed

Other

Total
5,835

1,865

2,260

670

175

350

510

English
825

280

270

110

40

40

80

Mathematics
420

125

180

55

5

25

35

Science (Excluding Psychology and Mathematics)
3,625

1,250

1,390

375

100

220

295

Psychology
965

215

425

135

25

70

100

Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), Scottish Funding Council (SFC).

Notes:

The overall response rate, including both HESA and SFC data, for the subject groups in the above table was 78%.

Figure have been rounded to the nearest five. 0, 1, 2 have been rounded to 0. Figures may not sum exactly to totals due to rounding.

Figures in this table have been weighted according to response rates by subject of study

Other destinations include those who are unable to work, looking after the home or family, taking time out in order to travel, or are not otherwise included under an alternative heading.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many European language graduates from Scottish institutions had found employment in the (a) business services, (b) wholesale and retail, (c) manufacturing, (d) banking and finance and (e) transport and communications sector six months after graduation in the latest year for which information is available.

Fiona Hyslop : The statistics are presented in the following table.

Full-Time Higher Education Graduates Gaining Employment Six Months After Graduation from Scottish Institutions by Industry of Employer and Subject Studied (%): 2005-06

Total

Banking and Finance

Business Services

Manufacturing

Transport and Communication

Wholesale and Retail

Other Industry

Total
100%

21%

29%

15%

18%

5%

12%

French
100%

24%

28%

17%

16%

5%

10%

German
100%

24%

24%

16%

18%

3%

16%

Spanish
100%

20%

20%

15%

17%

7%

20%

Italian
100%

23%

43%

10%

3%

10%

10%

Other European Language
100%

15%

32%

12%

26%

5%

11%

Source: Higher education Statistics Agency (HESA) and Scottish Funding Council (SFC).

Note: The overall response rate, including both HESA and SFC data, for the subject groups in the above table was 78%.

Central Heating Programme

8 August 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many new applications have been received for a free central heating system in the DD postcode area in each of the last 12 months for which information is available and how many were considered to be eligible.

Stewart Maxwell: The number of applications received in the DD postcode area during each of the last twelve months, as notified by the Managing Agent, is shown in the following table.

Period
Applications Received

Applications Taken Forward (Subject to Survey)

July 2007
136

108

August 2007
119

104

September 2007
93

82

October 2007
139

127

November 2007
130

108

December 2007
67

55

January 2008
115

94

February 2008
112

83

March 2008
121

88

April 2008
124

97

May 2008
126

95

June 2008
73

19

Total
1,355

1,060

Note: An initial assessment on the application is made, normally by telephone, and those applications are recorded for a home survey visit. The information collected during the initial assessment is then confirmed during the survey stage in the applicant’s home.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many free central heating systems were installed in the DD postcode area in the period from 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008.

Stewart Maxwell : The managing agent has indicated that between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2008, a total of 892 central heating systems were installed in the DD postcode area.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many free central heating installations have taken place in the DD postcode area since 1 April 2008.

Stewart Maxwell : The managing agent has indicated that between 1 April and 30 June 2008, a total of 147 central heating systems were installed in the DD postcode area.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been on the waiting list for a free central heating system in the DD postcode area in each of the last 12 months for which information is available.

Stewart Maxwell : The number of applicants on the waiting list in the DD postcode area for each of the last 12 months, as notified by the managing agent, is shown in the following table.

Period

Number of Applicants on Waiting List

July 2007
577

August 2007
631

September 2007
675

October 2007
710

November 2007
652

December 2007
635

January 2008
604

February 2008
529

March 2008
446

April 2008
416

May 2008
434

June 2008
375

Population

6 August 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the projected population of Dundee in 2018 is, broken down into (a) men aged 16 to 64 and (b) women aged 16 to 59.

John Swinney: The most recent, 2006-based, population projections show that the projected population of Dundee City in 2018 is 137,597 and that this includes (a) 41,138 men aged 16 to 64 and (b) 40,443 women aged 16 to 59.

Higher Education

4 August 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) employment, (b) unemployment and (c) further study or training rates were six months after graduation for graduates in (i) French, (ii) German, (iii) Spanish, (iv) Italian and (v) other European languages from Scottish institutions in the latest year for which information is available.

Fiona Hyslop : The statistics the member requested are shown in the following table.

Destination of Full-Time Higher Education Graduates from Scottish Institutions Six Months after Graduating by Subject Area (%): 2005-06

Total Study/Training Permanent Home Employment Temporary Home Employment Overseas Employment Believed Unemployed Other

Total 100% 21% 29% 15% 18% 5% 12%

French 100% 24% 28% 17% 16% 5% 10%

German 100% 24% 24% 16% 18% 3% 16%

Spanish 100% 20% 20% 15% 17% 7% 20%

Italian 100% 23% 43% 10% 3% 10% 10%

Other European Language 100% 15% 32% 12% 26% 5% 11%

Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), Scottish Funding Council (SFC).

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) employment, (b) unemployment and (c) further study or training rates were six months after graduation for graduates in (i) English, (ii) mathematics, (iii) science and (iv) psychology from Scottish institutions in the latest year for which information is available.

Fiona Hyslop : The statistics the member requested are shown in the following table.

Destination of Full-Time Higher Education Graduates from Scottish Institutions Six Months after Graduating by Subject Area: 2005-06

Total Study/Training Permanent Home Employment Temporary Home Employment Overseas Employment Believed Unemployed Other

Total 5,835 1,865 2,260 670 175 350 510

English 825 280 270 110 40 40 80

Mathematics 420 125 180 55 5 25 35

Science (Excluding Psychology and Mathematics) 3,625 1,250 1,390 375 100 220 295

Psychology 965 215 425 135 25 70 100

Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), Scottish Funding Council (SFC).

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many European language graduates from Scottish institutions had found employment in the (a) business services, (b) wholesale and retail, (c) manufacturing, (d) banking and finance and (e) transport and communications sector six months after graduation in the latest year for which information is available.

Fiona Hyslop : The statistics are presented in the following table.

Full-Time Higher Education Graduates Gaining Employment Six Months After Graduation from Scottish Institutions by Industry of Employer and Subject Studied (%): 2005-06

Total Banking and Finance Business Services Manufacturing Transport and Communication Wholesale and Retail Other Industry

Total 100% 21% 29% 15% 18% 5% 12%

French 100% 24% 28% 17% 16% 5% 10%

German 100% 24% 24% 16% 18% 3% 16%

Spanish 100% 20% 20% 15% 17% 7% 20%

Italian 100% 23% 43% 10% 3% 10% 10%

Other European Language 100% 15% 32% 12% 26% 5% 11%

Source: Higher education Statistics Agency (HESA) and Scottish Funding Council (SFC).

NHS Staff

29 July 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many epilepsy nurse specialists there are in (a) NHS Tayside and (b) Scotland, shown on a (i) whole-time equivalent and (ii) headcount basis.

Shona Robison : The requested information is as follows:

Epilepsy Nurse Specialists (as at 30 September 2007)

NHS Tayside Scotland

Whole-Time Equivalent 2.0 15.0

Head Count 2 16

Source: Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland.

Scottish Government Funding

24 July 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the core allocation to the Dundee Science Centre will be in each financial year to 2011-12, also expressed in real terms.

Fiona Hyslop : The core allocation for each of the years requested is given in the following table:

Year Core allocation
£ million
Value in real terms
(at 2007-08 prices)

£ million

2008-09 0.2 0.194

2009-10 0.228 0.216

2010-11 0.26 0.24

Enterprise

1 July 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many businesses were located in Dundee in (a) 2000 and (b) the most recent year for which figures are available.

Answered by Jim Mather : Data on the VAT-registered stock of businesses are released annually by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR). The latest available data refers to the stock of VAT-registered businesses in Scotland at the beginning of 2007. These figures are consistent with the VAT registration and de-registration data published by BERR.

The following table shows the VAT stock of businesses (start of year) in Dundee City local authority in 2000 and 2007:

Local Authority

2000

2007

Dundee City
2,290

2,495

Scotland
125,935

136,890

Source: BERR.

Note: These figures do not account for all business activity as only companies with a turnover above the VAT threshold are required to register.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many VAT registrations there have been in Dundee in each of the last three years for which figures are available, also expressed as a rate per 1,000 of the population aged 16 and above.

Answered by Jim Mather : Data on the number of VAT registrations are released annually by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR). The latest available data refers to all VAT registrations taking place in Scotland in 2006.

The following table shows the number of VAT registrations and the rate per 1,000 resident population (aged 16+) in Dundee City local authority from 2004 to 2006:

Local Authority

VAT Registrations

VAT Registrations

(Rate per 1,000 Population)

2004

2005

2006

2004

2005

2006

Dundee City
265

255

225

2.2

2.2

1.9

Scotland
11,980

11,665

11,825

2.9

2.8

2.8

Health

17 June 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many employers with over 250 employees were registered in (a) Dundee and (b) Tayside with SHAW (Scotland's Health at Work) in each of the last three years for which information is available and, of these, how many received (i) bronze, (ii) silver and (iii) gold awards.

Answered by Shona Robison : The following table gives the number of organisations in Dundee and Tayside with more than 250 employees registered with the Scotland’s Health at Work (SHAW) Award scheme. There are no details held centrally of numbers in this category achieving an Award.

Number of Organisations Registered with SHAW

Year

Dundee

Tayside

2004-05
3

43

2005-06
7

49

2006-07
8

52

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many small and medium enterprises were registered in (a) Dundee and (b) Tayside with SHAW (Scotland's Health at Work) in each of the last three years for which information is available and, of these, how many received (i) bronze, (ii) silver and (iii) gold awards.

Answered by Shona Robison : The following table gives the number of organisations with less than 250 employees registered with the Scotland’s Health At Work (SHAW) Award scheme. There are no details held centrally of numbers in this category achieving an award.

Year

Dundee

Tayside

2004-05
21

108

2005-06
41

138

2006-07
48

157

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many organisations were registered in (a) Dundee and (b) Tayside with SHAW (Scotland's Health at Work) in each of the last three years for which information is available and, of these, how many received (i) bronze, (ii) silver and (iii) gold awards.

Answered by Shona Robison: The following table records the number of organisations registered for SHAW for the period 2004-07.

Year

Dundee

Tayside

2004-05
24

151

2005-06
48

187

2006-07
56

209

The following table records the awards presented in Tayside for the period 2004-07.

Year

Bronze

Silver

Gold

2004-05
30

1

0

2005-06
23

2

0

2006-07
21

16

3

Dentistry

17 June 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of three to five-year-olds were registered with an NHS dentist in each of the last three years for which information is available, broken down by community health partnership.

Answered by Shona Robison: The information requested is not available prior to March 2007 for all community health partnership areas. The tables present information as at March, June, September and December 2007. They do not represent the percentages of people in each Community Health Partnership who are registered. Registrations (numerator) are based on the postcode of the practice where the patient has registered with a general dental practitioner. The population (denominator) is based on where the patient resides, in this case the Community Health Partnership. In some cases, the number of registrations may exceed the actual number of "people" in the chosen population.

Percentage of Three to Five-Year-Olds Registered with an NHS Dentist; by Community Health Partnership

Community Health Partnership

March

2007

%

June

2007

%

September

2007

%

December

2007

%

East Ayrshire Community Health Partnership
59.4

58.9

60.3

61.9

North Ayrshire Community Health Partnership
66.0

67.6

70.4

72.4

South Ayrshire Community Health Partnership
91.9

91.9

96.0

99.2

Scottish Borders Community Health and Care Partnership
58.8

58.0

58.6

61.2

Dumfries and Galloway Community Health Partnership
66.3

69.3

73.2

76.5

Dunfermline and West Fife Community Health Partnership
55.8

55.2

56.8

56.2

Glenrothes and North East Fife Community Health Partnership
52.6

52.8

54.2

55.9

Kirkcaldy and Levenmouth Community Health Partnership
82.6

83.6

86.8

91.4

Clackmannanshire Community Health Partnership
64.0

63.3

64.7

69.3

Falkirk Community Health Partnership
66.3

68.3

71.4

74.7

Stirling Community Health Partnership
69.0

70.5

73.5

73.7

Aberdeen City Community Health Partnership
65.6

67.1

69.3

70.2

Aberdeenshire Community Health Partnership
57.1

56.1

58.6

59.3

Moray Community Health and Social Care Partnership
49.6

48.8

49.8

49.4

East Dunbartonshire Community Health Partnership
74.6

74.8

78.3

79.9

East Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership
76.2

77.2

80.8

84.1

East Renfrewshire Community Health and Care Partnership
78.3

78.7

80.9

82.2

Inverclyde Community Health Partnership
74.5

77.7

80.8

85.4

North Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership
53.3

54.5

56.8

61.0

Renfrewshire Community Health Partnership
67.9

69.3

72.5

74.2

South East Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership
84.9

86.7

90.5

93.8

South West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership
65.4

66.0

69.3

71.3

West Dunbartonshire Community Health Partnership
70.3

71.9

75.4

77.5

West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership¹
101.7

103.1

109.1

112.3

Argyll and Bute Community Health Partnership
61.5

62.3

64.7

65.9

Mid Highland Community Health Partnership
44.6

42.8

40.3

39.8

North Highland Community Health Partnership
36.7

32.6

32.1

32.0

South East Highland Community Health Partnership¹
80.1

87.6

101.0

106.9

North Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership
67.3

68.4

70.4

72.2

South Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership
70.0

70.3

73.7

75.6

East Lothian Community Health Partnership
75.3

75.3

76.8

76.4

Midlothian Community Health Partnership
65.6

64.3

66.6

66.5

West Lothian Community Health and Care Partnership
73.8

74.2

78.3

81.1

Orkney Community Health Partnership
38.6

44.4

52.0

53.3

Shetland Community Health Partnership
60.3

58.5

65.0

69.4

Angus Community Health Partnership
70.5

69.0

68.6

67.4

Dundee Community Health Partnership
84.0

85.8

92.1

93.5

Perth and Kinross Community Health Partnership
68.4

69.6

71.7

71.1

Western Isles Community Health Partnership
39.1

45.7

48.6

52.6

Edinburgh Community Health Partnership
79.3

80.6

83.9

86.3

Source: ISD Scotland.

Note: Registrations (numerator) are based on the postcode of the practice where the patient has registered with a general dental practitioner as opposed to the postcode of the patient. The population (denominator) is based on where the patient resides, in this case the Community Health Partnership. In some cases, the number of registrations may exceed the actual number of "people" in the chosen population.

Housing

17 June 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13563 by Stewart Maxwell on 4 June 2008, what figures were used for the cost of building council houses of various sizes in determining that £25 million would be spent on an incentive package to build new council houses over the next three years.

Answered by Stewart Maxwell : The provision of £25 million by the Scottish Government does not presuppose the construction of homes of a particular size or type. The Scottish Government has provided these funds as an encouragement to local authorities in the use of their own resources to fund new homes, and is currently discussing with COSLA the principles that will apply to the disbursement of these funds.

Drug Misuse

3 June 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the numbers were of those prosecuted for being found in possession of drugs and in possession of drugs with intent to supply in (a) Dundee and (b) Tayside in each of the last three years.

Fergus Ewing: The information for the last three years available is given in the following table.

Persons Prosecuted in Scottish Courts for Drugs Possession Offences, for Dundee City and Tayside Police Force Area, 2003-04 -2005-06

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

Dundee City

Supply and possession with intent to supply drugs

38

45

42

Possession of drugs

263

234

243

Total

301

279

285

Tayside police force area

Supply and possession with intent to supply drugs

150

168

163

Possession of drugs

503

415

383

Total

653

583

546

Primary Fires

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how many primary fires there have been in Tayside in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Fergus Ewing: The information requested is provided in the following table.

Number of Primary Fires in Tayside Fire and Rescue Service Area, 2004-06

2004

1,207

2005

1,156

2006

1,117

Local Income Tax

3 June 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether it believes that the introduction of a nationally-determined level of local income tax will diminish the status of local government.

John Swinney: No. Under our proposals, all income raised under a local income tax will go to fund local authority expenditure and local authorities will continue to decide how funding for their area is spent. In the consultation paper we issued in March 2008, we recognised that there would need to be an adjustment to local authority funding to take account of differences between the amounts raised under the council tax and under a local income tax and we pledged to work with local government to provide a stable funding environment to ensure people get the vital front-line services they need.

Mortality Rates

29 May 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the standardised mortality rates were per 1,000 population for (a) Dundee, (b) Angus, (c) Tayside and (d) Scotland in the most recent period for which figures are available, broken down also by deprivation quintile.

John Swinney: Standardised death rates per 1,000 population for individual local authority areas, and for Scotland as a whole, for 2006 are given in table 2 of Scotland’s Population 2006, the Annual Report of the Registrar General, published by the General Register Office for Scotland in 2007, copies of which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 43115). These figures also appear, together with rates for individual health board areas, in Vital Events Reference Table 1.3, which is available from the GROS Website via this address:

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/vital-events/vital-events-reference-tables-2006/section-1-summary.html.

The other information requested is given in the following table.

Standardised Death Rates and Numbers of Deaths Registered in Scotland in 2006 - by Area¹ and SIMD Quintile²

Standardised Death RatePer 1,000 Population³

Number of Deaths^4,5

SIMD Quintile

Dundee

Angus

Tayside H.B.

Scotland

Dundee

Angus

Tayside H.B.

Scotland

1

12.0

12.4

12.2

14.2

614

99

796

13,349

2

11.0

10.3

10.9

11.8

429

215

815

12,440

3

8.9

9.9

9.9

10.6

132

308

791

11,304

4

9.7

8.1

9.2

9.5

225

353

1,324

10,104

5

7.1

9.9

8.1

8.0

169

218

661

7,896

Note:

1. Deaths of Scottish residents are counted on the basis of the addresses of their usual residences (as recorded when their deaths were registered); deaths of non-residents are counted on the basis of where they died.

2. The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) is produced using a range of statistical information for each of the "datazones" in Scotland (which have 500-1,000 residents each). For Scotland as a whole, quintile 1 contains the most deprived 20% of datazones, and quintile 5 contains the least deprived 20% of datazones, when classified on the basis used for the SIMD. In the case of the other geographic areas, the figures for each quintile were produced from the data for the parts of those areas that are in each SIMD quintile - so the figures for (e.g.) quintile 1 of a particular area could have been produced from the data for considerably more (or less) than 20% of that area: it all depends upon what percentage of the area is in SIMD quintile 1.

3. These figures were produced by using the distribution by age of the overall Scottish population for 2006. That is the same method as was used to produce the standardised death rates which appear in table 2 of Scotland’s Population 2006.

4. The total number of deaths from which the standardised death rate was calculated. This may be small because only a small proportion of an area was in a particular SIMD quintile: if so, the standardised death rate for a single year might not provide a reliable indication of the normal level of mortality because there could be large year-to-year percentage changes in the number of deaths. For example, if a particular quintile tended to have around 100 deaths per year, it would not be surprising if its figures fluctuated by 10-20% between one year and the next.

5. The sum of the figures for all the quintiles may differ slightly from the published total number of deaths for an area. There may be a number of reasons for this: for example, some of the datazones used in the SIMD might not fit properly within the boundary of the area, or corrections may have been made to some of the underlying data after the published figures were produced.

Police

29 May 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the total cost of policing in Tayside has been in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Kenny MacAskill: The Police Grant Aided Expenditure figures (£000) for Tayside for the last three years are as follows:

2005-06

76,393

2006-07

79,211

2007-08

81,187

Children’s Hearing System

29 May 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many referrals to the children’s hearing system in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus were on the grounds of misused drugs or alcohol in the last three years for which information is available.

Adam Ingram: Referrals to the Reporter under Section 52(2)(j) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (i.e. "has misused alcohol or any drug, whether or not a controlled drug within the meaning of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971"):

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

Dundee

20

37

27

Angus

<5

<5

<5

Source: Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration.

Notes:

These figures relate to referrals received by the Children’s Reporter and not to the numbers of children referred.

Years run from 1 April to 31 March.

Health

29 May 2008

Marlyn Glen: To ask the Scottish Executive whether training in clinical care takes priority over training in health promotion and protecting the public in the community health nurse pilot scheme.

Nicola Sturgeon: Community nurses who take part in the Community Health Nurse pilots will undertake training to enable them to be competent in the new role which will cover all of these areas.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how community nurses will work with condition-specific nurse specialists in the community health nurse pilot in NHS Tayside.

Nicola Sturgeon: Nurses working in community settings already refer to a condition specific nurse should a patient’s condition indicate that this is necessary. This will not alter under the community health nurse pilot.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects that the findings of the review of specialist nursing roles being undertaken by its Health Directorate General will be published.

Nicola Sturgeon: In Scotland, under the auspices of the UK-wide Modernising Nursing Careers initiative, an advanced practice toolkit to identify the capabilities and competences of nurse practitioners at senior, advanced and consultant level, whether in a specialist or generalist setting, is under development. The toolkit which will be launched in autumn

Children’s Hearing System

27 May 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many referrals to the children’s hearing system there were in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus in the last three years for which information is available.

Adam Ingram: Referrals to the reporter on grounds (Section 52(2) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995)

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

Dundee

2,994

2,995

2,319

Angus

778

1,189

1,096

Source: Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration.

These figures relate to referrals received by the Children’s Reporter and not to the number of children referred. These figures include referrals on all grounds (both offence and non-offence). Years run from 1 April to 31 March.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many referrals to the children’s hearing system in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus were on the grounds of lack of parental care in the last three years for which information is available.

Adam Ingram: Referrals to the Reporter under Section 52 (2)(c) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (i.e. "is likely to suffer unnecessarily; or be impaired in his health or development, due to lack of parental care").

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

Dundee

448

467

389

Angus

142

149

272

Source: Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration.

These figures relate to referrals received by the Children’s Reporter and not to the numbers of children referred. Years run from 1 April to 31 March.

Alcohol Misuse

22 May 2008

Marlyn Glen: To ask the Scottish Executive how many acute occupied bed days in NHS Tayside were directly connected with alcohol-related conditions in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Nicola Sturgeon: Table 1 provides the total length of stay of patients treated in acute hospitals in NHS Tayside for alcohol-related conditions in 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07; the most recent years for which information is available. The 2006-07 figure is provisional and may be subject to further revision.

Table 1: The total Length of Stay of Patients Treated in Acute Hospitals in NHS Tayside for Alcohol-Related Conditions: 2004-05 to 2006-07

Year Total Length of Stay(days)

2004-05
14,530

2005-06
13,524

2006-07
17,263

The figures in table 1 relate to those individuals who are treated as in-patients. They do not include individuals managed as out-patients.

Alcohol Misuse

20 May 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of drunkenness or drink driving were recorded by police in Tayside in each of the last three years for which information is available, also expressed as a percentage of all recorded crime in Tayside.

Kenny MacAskill: The figures requested for the number of offences of drunkenness and drink driving recorded by Tayside police force are shown in table 4A of the statistical bulletins Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07. Copies of these publications are held in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. numbers 37835, 40365, 43510 respectively).

Crimes of Offences of Drunkenness and Drunk Driving Recorded by Police in Tayside, 2004-05 to 2006-07, as Percentage of Total Recorded Crime in Tayside.

2004-05 2005-06 2006-07

Drunkenness
0.62%

0.68%

0.51%

Drunk Driving
1.08%

1.15%

1.13%

Total Crimes and Offences
90,388

88,690

88,360

Smoking

15 May 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been allocated to NHS Tayside for smoking cessation services in each year since 2006-07, also expressed in real terms.

Shona Robison: The Government will spend £33 million this spending review period on NHS smoking cessation services in comparison to £27 million spent over the previous spending review period.

In addition to its share of funding available from NHS boards’ general allocations – around £162,000 per annum – the following table provides information on the specific allocations made to NHS Tayside for smoking cessation services and related tobacco control activity in each year from 2006-07 to 2010-11, also expressed in real terms at 2006-07 prices.

Decisions will be made shortly about the increased allocations which will be made to NHS boards over the next three years from the additional £3 million per annum which has been earmarked under Spending Review 2007 for tobacco control activity.

Year Allocation
£000
Allocation in Real Terms at 2006-07 Prices £000

2006-07 790 790

2007-08 949 919

2008-09 949 892

2009-10 949 868

2010-11 949 845

Charities

30 April 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the funding allocation to the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator was in 2007-08 and what it will be in 2008-09.

Fergus Ewing: The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) has been allocated operating expenditure of £3.6 million for the year 2007-08 and £3.6 million for the year 2008-09. The OSCR, as an independent non-ministerial department, is responsible for determining the level of funding it requires to enable it to carry out its core functions.

Science

29 April 2008

Marlyn Glen: To ask the Scottish Executive in which year the Scottish Institute for Cell Signalling will open.

Fiona Hyslop: I will be discussing plans to take forward the institute, including its opening, when I visit Sir Philip Cohen in Dundee next week. My expectation is that the institute will open towards the end of this year.

28 April 2008

Dentistry

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of people have been registered with an NHS dentist in the (a) Dundee City Council and (b) Dundee Community Health Partnership area in each of the last two years, broken down by age group.

Shona Robison: Dundee City Council and Dundee Community Health Partnership (CHP) have the same geographical boundaries. As a result, the number of registrations is the same for both. Latest available information (as at 30 September 2006 and 2007) is presented in the following table.

Dundee City Council/Dundee CHP Registrations¹ by Age Group, as at 30 September

2006 2007

Number Registered % of Population Registered Number Registered % of Population Registered

All Ages
91,297

64.2

96,395

67.8

0-2
1,949

42.8

2,097

46.0

3-5
3,345

81.5

3,783

92.1

6-12
9,481

93.7

9,871

97.6

13-17
6,897

81.3

7,342

86.5

18-24
7,295

41.5

7,837

44.6

25-34
10,511

58.2

10,940

60.6

35-44
14,965

77.7

15,108

78.4

45-54
13,835

75.9

14,572

80.0

55-64
11,256

69.6

12,006

74.2

65-74
7,370

55.3

7,812

58.6

75+
4,393

35.8

5,027

40.9

25 April 2008

Cancer

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths there have been from cervical cancer in the NHS Tayside area in each of the last three years.

Nicola Sturgeon: The numbers of deaths from cervical cancer which occurred in the NHS Tayside area were as follows:

2005: 8

2006: 10

2007: 7.

The figure for 2007 is provisional. The final figure will not be published formally until after the appearance of Scotland’s Population 2007 (the Registrar General’s Annual Review of Demographic Trends), which is scheduled for August 2008. However, past experience suggests that the figure is unlikely to change much.

NHS staff

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-11190 by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 April 2008, how much additional finance NHS Tayside has been given to administer the community health nurse pilot in 2008-09.

Nicola Sturgeon: Additional finance to support transitional education for the community health nurse pilot will be provided to NHS Tayside in 2008-09 when their training plan has been received.

23 April 2008

HPV vaccination

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive whether further resources will be made available to NHS Tayside for administration of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination scheme in 2008-09 to take account of the community health nurse pilot currently operating there.

Shona Robison: The Scottish Government has provided additional funding of £119,746 to NHS Board Tayside to assist with implementation of the HPV programme from 1 September 2008. This additional funding was made in recognition of the complexity of the delivery challenge facing NHS boards and the high-priority of this programme.

The Scottish Government has provided additional funding to NHS Tayside separately for the development of the Community Health Nurse pilot, which was announced under the previous administration.

Hospital-Acquired Infection

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-11585 by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 April 2008, to what year or years the figures quoted in the table for Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland refer.

Nicola Sturgeon: The figures for Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland relate to the most recent year of published results, January to December 2006 and are taken from the latest report of the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Scheme (EARSS) which can be found at:

http://www.rivm.nl/earss/Images/EARSS%202006%20Def_tcm61-44176.pdf.

Cancer

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many new cases of cervical cancer were diagnosed in the NHS Tayside area in each of the last three years.

Nicola Sturgeon: Data on the number of women diagnosed with cervical cancer are available by NHS board and year (1980 to 2004) on the NHS Information Services Division (ISD) website at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/files/cancer_cervix_inc.xls.

The latest year for which cancer registration data are complete is 2004.

Dentistry

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students who received a dental bursary in their final year of study in 2006-07 are now in vocational training in Scotland, broken down by NHS board.

Shona Robison: One hundred and one dental students at the Universities of Glasgow and Dundee who received a dental bursary in their final year of study in 2006-07 are now in vocational training in Scotland.

A breakdown, by NHS board, is provided in the following table.

NHS Board Number of Vocational Trainees

Tayside
14

Forth Valley
4

Grampian
5

Fife
5

Lothian
14

Lanarkshire
20

Greater Glasgow and Clyde
24

Ayrshire and Arran
8

Highland
4

Dumfries
1

Orkney
1

Borders
1

Total
101

Children in care

17 April 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of children in care in (a) Dundee and (b) Scotland achieved at least one qualification at or above SCQF Level 3 in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Maureen Watt: The available information, based on pupils in S4 in publicly funded secondary schools identified as being looked after in the pupil census, is given in the following table.

Percentage of Looked-After Children with At Least One Qualification at SCQF Level 3 or Above by the End of S4

Year Dundee Scotland

2004-05
51.0

63.2

2005-06
55.3

65.6

2006-07
50.0

73.3

Note: Data on looked-after children in education is known to be incomplete and the figures given here may not show a representative sample of looked-after children.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of children in care in (a) Dundee and (b) Scotland achieved qualifications at or above SCQF Level 3 in both English and mathematics in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Maureen Watt: The available information, based on pupils in S4 in publicly funded secondary schools identified as being looked after in the pupil census, is given in the following table.

Percentage of Looked-After Children with Qualifications in both English and Mathematics at SCQF Level 3 or Above by the End of S4

Year Dundee Scotland

2004-05
40.8

47.2

2005-06
29.8

51.8

2006-07
43.2

54.3

Note: Data on looked-after children in education is known to be incomplete and the figures given here may not show a representative sample of looked-after children.

Housing

Marlyn Glen: To ask the Scottish Executive how much will be invested in affordable housing for rent in Dundee in each year from 2008-09 to 2010-11 and how many such homes will be made available in each year.

Stewart Maxwell: Over the period 2008-11 we will be providing investment of over £1.5 billion for affordable housing across Scotland and aim to deliver at least 21,500 new affordable homes nationally over this three year period.

I will announce the allocation of affordable housing investment programme resources to each area for 2008-09 shortly.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how much was invested in affordable housing for rent in Dundee in each year from 2004-05 to 2007-08 and how many such homes were made available in each year.

Stewart Maxwell: Funding for the provision of affordable housing for rent and the number of rented homes approved for development in the Dundee City Council area in each year since 2004-05 is detailed:

Year Total Amount (£ Million) Homes Approved for Rent

2004-05
9.837

179

2005-06
10.343

205

2006-07
11.470

162

2007-08¹
14.699

38

Total
46.349

584

Note: 1. Provisional outturn figures as final year end accounts are still to be completed.

School Meals

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been budgeted for the independent evaluation of the free school meals pilot for P1 to P3 pupils.

Adam Ingram: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-4073 on 19 September 2007, the original cost of the evaluation of the free school meals trial was approximately £60,000 (including VAT). The revised cost of the evaluation is approximately £76,200 (including VAT) reflecting extensions to the parents’ survey element including a boost to the samp

Health

16 April 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of clostridium difficile were reported in (a) NHS Tayside and (b) Scotland in each of the last four quarters for which information is available.

Nicola Sturgeon: The following table sets out the information requested:

Total Number of Cases of Clostridium difficile Associated Disease: (CDAD) Reported

January-March 2007 April-June 2007 July-September 2007 October-December 2007

NHS Tayside
172

169

131

135

Scotland
1,775

1,588

1,459

1,608

Health Protection Scotland publish quarterly reports on the Surveillance of CDAD in Scotland. The latest report, covering the period October 2007 to December 2007 is available at: http://www.hps.scot..nhs.uk/ewr/article.aspx.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of clostridium difficile there were per 1,000 acute occupied bed days in people aged 65 and over in (a) NHS Tayside and (b) Scotland in each of the last four quarters for which information is available.

Nicola Sturgeon: The following table sets out the information requested:

Rates of CDAD per 1,000 Acute Occupied Bed Days

January-March 2007 April-June 2007 July-September 2007 October-December 2007

NHS Tayside
2.60

2.61

1.82

1.80

Scotland (overall rate)*
2.38

2.51

1.81

1.95

Note: The overall rate for Scotland is calculated as: rate = (total number of cases x 1000) / total number of acute occupied bed days.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the quarterly rates have been of clostridium difficile per 1,000 total occupied bed days for those aged 65 and over in (a) NHS Tayside and (b) Scotland in each of the last four available quarters.

Nicola Sturgeon: The following table sets out the information requested:

Rates of CDAD per 1,000 Total Occupied Bed Days

January-March 2007 April-June 2007 July-September 2007 October-December 2007

NHS Tayside
1.76

1.75

1.27

1.3

Scotland (overall rate)*
1.47

1.47

1.16

1.26

Note: The overall rate for Scotland is calculated as:rate = (total number of cases x 1000) / total number of acute and non-acute occupied bed days.

Hospital-Acquired Infection

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the rate was of MRSA bloodstream infections as a proportion of all staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections in the most recent year for which figures are available and what comparative information it has for (a) Norway, (b) Denmark, (c) Sweden and (d) Finland.

Nicola Sturgeon: The following table sets out the information requested:

Proportion of Antibiotic Non-Susceptible Staphylococcus Aureus Isolates

Country

Scotland
42%

Norway
<1%

Denmark
2%

Sweden
<1%

Finland
3%

Note: The figures in the table should be treated with some caution. For example, the surveillance systems used to compile the data for the Scandinavian countries above are derived from the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Scheme (EARSS). Health Protection Scotland, who collect the data for NHSScotland, uses the UK definition of 14 day episodes while EARSS records one episode per quarter.

Consequently, the surveillance system used in Scotland may result in a patient who experiences more than one bacteraemic episode per quarter being counted for each episode, whereas the EARSS definition used by the other countries in the table means that each of their patients is counted only once during a quarter, even if they have more than one bacteraemic episode per quarter.

It is encouraging that the most recent – but as yet unpublished - results for Scotland from HPS data for the last calendar year indicate that the Scotland figure for the proportion of antibiotic non-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus isolates has reduced considerably to 26%.

NHS Staff

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many whole-time equivalent infection control nurses were employed in (a) NHS Tayside and (b) Scotland in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Nicola Sturgeon: The following table sets out the information requested:

Year Whole-Time Equivalent Infection Control Nurses in Scotland Whole-Time Equivalent Infection Control Nurses in NHS Tayside

2005
132.6

14

2006
139.8

16.8

2007
140.8

18

Note: The census date for whole-time equivalent (WTE) infection control nurses recording within the year for each NHS board may differ and the WTE may be variable within a year within a board, although this should not vary substantially.

School Meals

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the anticipated cost is of the P1 to P3 free school meals pilot, broken down by local authority

Adam Ingram: The following table sets out the amount of funding we have already provided to each of the local authorities participating in the free school lunch trial.

Local Authority

East Ayrshire
£561,000

Fife
£1,714,000

Glasgow City
£1,309,000

Scottish Borders
£593,000

West Dunbartonshire
£455,000

Note: We have agreed to cover any additional costs, if there are any, for the extension of the trial until the end of the current academic year.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to receive the results of the independent evaluation of the free school meals pilot for P1 to P3 pupils.

Adam Ingram: We expect to receive the final report on the findings of the independent evaluation of the free school lunch trial at the end of July 2008.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the cost of extending the entitlement to free school meals in 2009 to pupils from families in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus receiving maximum child or working families tax credit.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide (a) Dundee City Council and (b) Angus Council with additional funding in 2009 to pay for an extension of the entitlement to free school meals to pupils from families receiving maximum child or working families tax credit.

Adam Ingram: We will be providing local government with record levels of funding over the period covered by the spending review 2008-11. The vast majority of the funding will be provided by means of a block grant. It is the responsibility of each local authority to allocate the total financial resources available to it on the basis of local needs and priorities having first fulfilled its statutory obligations and the jointly agreed set of national and local priorities including the Scottish Government’s key strategic objectives and the full terms of the concordat. This includes extending entitlement to free school meals to all primary school and secondary school pupils whose parents or carers are in receipt of both maximum child tax credit and maximum working tax credit from August 2009, subject to the necessary legislation being passed by the Parliament.

15 April 2008

Student Finance

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many biomedical science students in the third and fourth years of study of their degree courses have applied for and received a bursary of £2,000 in each year since 2006 to encourage them to work in the NHS after graduation, broken down by university.

Fiona Hyslop: The following table gives the number of biomedical students who have applied for and who have been awarded a bursary of £2,000 to encourage them to work in the NHS after graduation, broken down by institution. The bursary was introduced in academic session 2007-2008. In academic year 2007-2008 it is available to third year (second year in Robert Gordon University) students only. As this academic session is not yet complete and institutions can nominate students to receive the bursary at any point during the academic year the numbers shown below may increase as the session progresses. The table shows numbers of applicants and numbers of recipients from start of the 2007-08 academic year up until 19 March 2008.

Institution Number of Biomedical ScienceBursary Applicants Number of Biomedical ScienceBursaries Awarded

Glasgow Caledonian University
25

25

Robert Gordon University
25

25

University of Abertay Dundee
10

10

University of the West of Scotland
5

5

Total
60

60

Source: Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) 2007-08 interim data To protect the identity of students, figures have been rounded to the nearest five.

Note: In the above table all students are in their third year with the exception of those at Robert Gordon University who are in their second year.

14 April 2008

Alcohol

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many alcohol-related admissions of under-18-year-olds there were to the accident and emergency department of Ninewells Hospital in NHS Tayside in each of the last four years.

Shona Robison: Information held centrally on attendances at accident and emergency departments does not include the diagnosis of the patient. However, information held on hospital discharges includes information on whether a patient was admitted to hospital with an alcohol-related diagnosis as an emergency.

The following table sets out this information for those under 18 years of age at Ninewells Hospital, for each of the years 2003-04 to 2006-07. These figures are likely to be an undercount as not all those who attend an accident and emergency department will be admitted to hospital.

Number of Discharges^1,2,3 from Ninewells Hospital in NHS Tayside for Patients Aged Under 18 Years with an Alcohol-Related Diagnosis⁴ (Emergency Admissions Only), 2003-04 to 2006-07

Financial Year Number of Discharges

2003-04
62

2004-05
57

2005-06
70

2006-07
53

Notes:

1. Caution is necessary when interpreting these figures. Where alcohol misuse is suspected but unconfirmed it may not be recorded by the hospital.

2. Information on patients discharged from acute non-obstetric, non-psychiatric hospitals is available from the Scottish Morbidity Record, SMR01.

Dentistry

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the general dental services indicative allowance to NHS Tayside (a) has been in each year since 2004-05 and (b) will be in 2008-09, also expressed at constant prices.

Shona Robison: The general dental services indicative allocation to NHS Tayside since 2004-05 has been (also expressed in constant prices):

Year GDS Indicative Allocation £000 Allocation at Constant Prices (2006-07) £000

2004-05
17,569

18,455

2005-06
18,166

18,687

2006-07
18,525

18,525

2007-08
18,850

18,257

2008-09
N/A

N/A

The actual expenditure on general dental services for NHS Tayside since 2004-05 has been (also expressed in constant prices):

Year GDS Indicative Allocation £000 Allocation at Constant Prices (2006-07) £000

2004-05
17,208

18,076

2005-06
17,882

18,395

2006-07
19,898

19,898

2007-08
N/A

N/A

2008-09
N/A

N/A

Boards are fully funded for this expenditure therefore any differences between the indicative allocation and actual expenditure does not cause a problem for the NHS board.

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students at the University of Glasgow applied for and received a dental bursary in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08.

Shona Robison: The information requested is set out in the following table:

University of Glasgow Number of Students who Applied for a Dental Bursary Number of Students who Received a Dental Bursary

2006-07 Session
233

233

2007-08 Session to Date
259

258

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students at the University of Glasgow who received a dental bursary in their final year of study in 2006-07 are now in vocational training in Scotland, broken down by NHS board.

Shona Robison: 58 dental students at the University of Glasgow who received a dental bursary in their final year of study in 2006-07 are now in vocational training in Scotland. A breakdown, by NHS board, is provided in the following table.

NHS Board Number of Vocational Trainees

Tayside
2

Forth Valley
4

Grampian
3

Fife
2

Lothian
4

Lanarkshire
16

Greater Glasgow and Clyde
19

Ayrshire and Arran
6

Highland
1

Dumfries
1

Total
58

NHS Staff

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) district nurses, (b) health visitors, (c) school nurses and (d) family health nurses will participate in the community health nurse pilot in NHS Tayside.

Nicola Sturgeon: Exact numbers will not be known until the completion of a detailed analysis of learning needs and mapping of existing professional/educational knowledge and qualifications. Following acquisition of any additional training or education, NHS Tayside will identify the first cohort of staff to test the new model within a phased approach to implementation.

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how the commitment in Principles and Priorities: The Government’s Programme for Scotland to "increase the number of school nurses" is compatible with the introduction of the community health nurse pilot in NHS Tayside and three other board areas which will amalgamate the posts of school nurse, district nurse, health visitor and family health nurse into the post of generic community health nurse.

Nicola Sturgeon: Our proposed health care support model for children and young people is being developed to meet the commitment in Principles and Priorities: The Government’s Programme for Scotland to increase the number of school nurses and the manifesto commitment to double the number of school nurses.

The community health nurse is a generalist model which is currently being tested in four NHS boards across Scotland. The two policies are being developed in parallel to allow an informed decision to be made on the best way to deliver effective health care to schools.

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how the NHS Tayside community health nurse pilot intends to demonstrate that a generalist nurse can be skilled in the respective separate disciplines of school nurse, district nurse, health visitor and family health nurse.

Nicola Sturgeon: The concept of a generalist nurse in the community is not new in Scotland with examples being family health nurses, practice nurses and nurse practitioners. In other countries, notably Republic of Ireland, Iceland, Netherlands and Finland, community nurses work as generalists and in England the community matron is a generalist role. However, the success of the generalist model will require specific support and enhanced co-ordination of care for individuals with complex care needs. The ability to identify when to refer individuals to a more appropriately qualified person is a central aspect of professional accountability. These two issues are intrinsic to the community health nurse model.

The impact of the new service model will be independently evaluated and will examine the benefits and experiences of individuals, families, communities, nurses and professional colleagues.

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how much additional finance NHS Tayside has been given to administer the community health nurse pilot.

Nicola Sturgeon: The Scottish Government has provided additional funding to NHS Tayside to develop the community health nurse pilot as follows:

2006-07: £115,000

2007-08: £172,000.

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how much the evaluation of the community health nurse pilot in NHS Tayside will cost.

Nicola Sturgeon: This is unknown as the contract for the evaluation is not yet in place and has yet to be advertised or awarded.

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what additional time and resources staff in NHS Tayside will be given for training during the community health nurse pilot.

Nicola Sturgeon: Community Nurses who take part in the Community Health Nurse pilot will be given the time and resources required to develop the skills needed for the new role.

This will be determined through detailed learning needs analysis, mapping existing professional/educational knowledge and qualifications to the appropriate new job description and Capability Framework (NES 2007). Where new knowledge or skills are required, no practitioner will be expected to deliver care without receiving training/education and professional support to ensure that they practice safely.

9 April 2008

Health Expenditure

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing on 22 February 2008 on the implementation of the NRAC recommendations and in particular that "no Board will receive less funding than it does at present and any changes will be phased in over a number of years", whether the phrase "no Board will receive less funding" refers to increases equal to or greater than the rate of inflation.

Nicola Sturgeon: No board will receive less than at present, taking account of inflation.

7 April 2008

NHS Finance

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-9957 by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 February 2008, what the initial allocations of revenue to NHS Tayside were in each year from 2004-05 to 2008-09 expressed at constant prices.

Nicola Sturgeon: The initial revenue allocations to NHS Tayside from 2004-05 expressed in constant prices have been:

Year Baseline Allocation Allocation at Constant Prices (2006-07)

£000 £000

2004-05
429,648

451,311

2005-06
485,260

499,182

2006-07
516,958

516,958

2007-08
549,382

532,089

2008-09
566,400

533,889

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what the year-end overspend or underspend has been for NHS Tayside in each of the last four financial years.

Nicola Sturgeon: NHS Tayside has had a year-end underspend for the last four financial years which are specified in the following table:

Year £000

2003-04
4,298

2004-05
4,460

2005-06
1,141

2006-07
3,080

4 April 2008

Dentistry

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS general dental practitioners there were in the (a) Dundee and (b) Angus local authority areas in each of the last five years, also expressed as a rate per 100,000 of the population.

Shona Robison: The information requested is shown in the following table.

Number of Dentists¹ Providing NHS General Dental Services; in (a) Dundee City and (b) Angus Local Authority Areas; at 31 March

Local Authority Area 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

Angus

Number of dentists (Head Count)
49

47

45

54

56

Dentists per 100,000 population
45.3

43.7

41.5

49.5

50.9

Dundee City

Number of dentists (Head Count)
79

82

84

91

105

Dentists per 100,000 population
54.8

57.3

59.2

64.0

73.9

Source: MIDAS (Management Information and Dental Accounting System). General Registers Office (GRO) mid year populations estimates as at 30 June 2002-2006.

Note: 1. The number of NHS non-salaried and salaried principals, assistants and vocational dental practitioners, based on the location of the dental practice.

NHS

20 March 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in developing a system of accreditation for bowel screening colonoscopists and a programme of training to guarantee sufficient numbers of colonoscopists to enable the national roll-out of the bowel cancer screening programme.

Nicola Sturgeon: NHS Education Scotland (NES) was commissioned in March 2006 to develop a national programme to support the education and training of health care professionals undertaking endoscopy. The estimates of numbers required were 150 clinicians and 25 non-medical endoscopists to help increase endoscopy capacity as part of the preparation for roll-out of the bowel screening programme. Since 2006 NES have trained 171 clinicians and 31 non-medical endoscopists. NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS) Clinical Standards for the Bowel Screening Programme were published in February 2007 for all aspects of the Programme, including colonoscopy. These can be accessed on the NHS QIS website.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing on 22 February 2008 on the implementation of the NHS Scotland Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) recommendations, which NHS boards presently (a) above the target allocation will receive smaller annual percentage increases and (b) below the target allocation will receive higher percentage increases, in the unified budget over the period until their NRAC target share is reached.

Nicola Sturgeon: All heath boards have received a standard increase of 3.15% in 2008-09. In addition, the Scottish Government has provided additional resources to those boards who are below both their current formula and NHSScotland Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) target allocations in 2008-09 in advance of NRAC’s implementation in 2009-10. These boards are NHS Lothian, NHS Fife, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Grampian, NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Orkney. The average increase is 3.3%.

For future years the exact amounts received by each health board will depend on the overall funding available and their changing relative position when the formula is calculated. Uplift levels, including parity uplifts, will be considered and announced each financial year in line with the parliamentary process and taking into account funding earmarked for Scottish health priorities within the overall Scottish Government financial settlement. This reflects the practice established under the previous SHARE and Arbuthnott formulae. It means that each health board will receive a standard uplift each year to meet inflationary pressures whilst those boards whose actual funding remains below their target level, as indicated by the NRAC formula, would receive an additional parity uplift from within the remaining resources available.

NHS Finance

12 March 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the capital allocations have been to NHS Tayside in each year from 2004-05 to 2008-09, expressed also at constant prices.

Nicola Sturgeon: The following table shows the formula capital allocations NHS Tayside received in each year from 2004-05 to 2008-09, expressed also at constant prices:

Year Formula allocation (£ Million) Constant Prices (£ Million)

2004-05
15.445

15.445

2005-06
16.906

16.556

2006-07
20.277

19.304

2007-08
24.348

22.450

2008-09
24.650

22.120

Dentistry

11 March 2008

Marlyn Glen: To ask the Scottish Executive how many dentistry students at the University of Dundee applied for and received a dental bursary in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08.

Shona Robison: In 2006-07, 214 students at the University of Dundee applied for and received a dental bursary. In 2007-08 (to date), 219 students at the University of Dundee applied for and received a dental bursary.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on dental bursaries in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08.

Shona Robison: In 2006-07 the total cost of the dental bursary was £1,788,000. To date, in 2007-08, the total cost of the dental bursary is £1,888,000.

Sport

7 March 2008

Marlyn Glen: To ask the Scottish Executive whether the SNP’s priority of free access to council swimming pools, as referred to on its website, is also a priority of the Scottish Government.

Stewart Maxwell: Yes, I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-6557 on 3 December 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

Community Care

6 March 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been awarded in capital allocations under the Primary and Community Care Premises Modernisation Programme to projects within the NHS Tayside area in each year since 1999.

Shona Robison: A total of £9.618 million has been awarded for projects within the NHS Tayside area since 1999, in four tranches as set out in the table:

Tranche Amount (£)

1999-2004
1,618,000

2004-06
1,818,000

2006-08
4,920,000

2008-09
1,262,000

Total
9,618,000

Health

5 March 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the revenue allocations to NHS Tayside were in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09 and what their corresponding values would be if the NHS Scotland Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) target allocations were used.

Nicola Sturgeon: Details are as follows:

Year Actual Initial Allocation (£000) NRAC Target Initial Allocation (£000)

2007-08
549,382

537,865

2008-09
566,431

555,483

These allocations are NHS Tayside’s initial allocations for 2007-08 and 2008-09 which are calculated on the basis of the Arbuthnott formula. Further in year allocations are made for specific purposes.

To avoid turbulence, no board will receive less funding than it does at present and changes flowing from the NRAC recommendations will be phased in over a number of years, as has been the practice under both the SHARE and Arbuthnott formulae.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what NHS Tayside’s percentage share is of the total general allocation to territorial NHS boards and what that percentage would be if the NHS Scotland Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) calibration was used.

Nicola Sturgeon: In 2008-09, NHS Tayside’s percentage share is 7.98%. The board’s NRAC target share is 7.83%

To avoid turbulence, no board will receive less funding than it does at present and changes flowing from the NRAC recommendations will be phased in over a number of years, as has been the practice under both the SHARE and Arbuthnott formulae.

3 March 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to questions S3W-8587 and S3W-8588 by Shona Robison on 28 January 2008, when it will publish details of the scheme to increase the percentage of all three to five-year-olds who are registered with a dentist to 80% by 2010-11, promised by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing on 12 December 2007 (Official Report c. 4291).

Shona Robison: As part of the local delivery plan each NHS board has been asked to put in place plans to take forward plans to meet this target.

A number of measures have been introduced over the last few years to recruit and retain dentists in the NHS, including recruitment and retention allowances, remote areas and deprived areas allowances, reimbursement of practice rental costs and the general dental practice allowance.

Funding has also been provided under the 2006-07 and 2007-08 Primary and Community Care Premises Modernisation Programme to provide new or substantially improved premises to support the delivery of NHS dentistry in areas currently with gaps in service provision. A number of these projects are due to be completed in this financial year.

In November 2006, a dental bursary was introduced in Scotland for dental students at Glasgow and Dundee Dental Schools. The bursary scheme has proved extremely popular. There are over 460 students currently in receipt of the dental bursary which ties the students in to the NHS Scotland for a period of up to five years following graduation.

The number of dental students graduating from the dental schools has increased and the new Aberdeen dental school will also increase the number of dentists available for working in Scotland.

Marlyn Glen To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-8587 and S3W-8588 by Shona Robison on 28 January 2008, in which financial year it will publish details of the scheme to increase the percentage of all three to five-year-olds who are registered with a dentist to 80% by 2010-11, promised by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing on 12 December 2007 (Official Report c. 4291).

Shona Robison: The Better Health, Better Care Action Plan (December 2007) outlined our target for NHS Boards to ensure that 80% of all children are registered with a NHS dentist by 2010-11.

This will be achieved in a number of ways:

As part of the local delivery plan each NHS board has been asked to put in place plans to take forward plans to meet this target.

A number of measures have been introduced over the last few years to recruit and retain dentists in the NHS, including recruitment and retention allowances, remote areas and deprived areas allowances, reimbursement of practice rental costs and the general dental practice allowance.

Funding has also been provided under the 2006-07 and 2007-08 Primary and Community Care Premises Modernisation Programme to provide new or substantially improved premises to support the delivery of NHS dentistry in areas currently with gaps in service provision. A number of these projects are due to be completed in this financial year.

In November 2006 a dental bursary was introduced in Scotland for dental students at Glasgow and Dundee Dental Schools. The bursary scheme has proved extremely popular. There are over 460 students currently in receipt of the dental bursary which ties the students in to the NHS Scotland for a period of up to five years following graduation.

The number of dental students graduating from the dental schools has increased and the new Aberdeen dental school will also increase the number of dentists available for working in Scotland.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dental patients were deregistered in NHS Tayside in each month from April 2006 to March 2007.

Shona Robison: The latest available information is shown in the following table.

NHS General Dental Service Patients whose Registration Status Shows "Withdrawn"^1,2 for NHS Tayside; by Month

2006-07

April
410

May
177

June
248

July
194

August
77

September
130

October
116

November
172

December
259

January
48

February
207

March
112

Source: MIDAS (Management Information & Dental Accounting System).

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dental patients have been deregistered in NHS Tayside since April 2007 up to the latest date for which information is available.

Shona Robison: The latest available information is shown in the table.

NHS General Dental Service Patients whose Registration Status Shows "Withdrawn"^1,2 for NHS Tayside; by Month

2007-08^P

April
75

May
93

June
151

July
34

August
112

September
32

October
23

November
23

December
25

January
33

February
n/a

March
n/a

Source: MIDAS (Management Information & Dental Accounting System).

27 February 2008

Marlyn Glen: To ask the Scottish Executive what the revenue allocations to NHS Tayside (a) have been in each financial year since 2004-05 and (b) will be in 2008-09, expressed also at constant prices.

Nicola Sturgeon: The revenue allocations to NHS Tayside from 2004-05 expressed in constant prices have been:

Year Initial Allocation (£000) In-Year Allocations (£000) Total (£000) Total at Constant Prices (2006-07) (£000)

2004-05
429,648

118,481

548,129

575,766

2005-06
485,260

91,890

577,150

593,709

2006-07
516,958

85,612

602,570

602,570

2007-08
549,382

84,283

633,665

613,719

2008-09
566,400

-

566,400

533,889

The 2007-08 figure has not yet been finalised and further in year allocations are likely. The 2008-09 total is the baseline allocation and does not include any in-year allocation.

26 February 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated rate of health inflation was in the most recent year for which figures are available.

Nicola Sturgeon: In line with the HM Treasury estimate of the GDP deflator, the Scottish Government is using 2.7% as an estimate of average annual cost inflation across the full NHS resource budget.

21 February 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive in which year financial support was initially provided to NHS Tayside to administer the Counterweight Programme.

Shona Robison: Funding for delivery of Counterweight in NHS Tayside is for two years from April 2006. The programme is designed to be self-sustaining after two years as a key element is training of staff that allows the Counterweight team to withdraw direct involvement in delivery.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been awarded to NHS Tayside to administer the Counterweight Programme in each year since commencement.

Shona Robison: The cost of delivering Counterweight in NHS Tayside between April 2006 and March 2008 will be £308,000. Of that, £268,000 goes to Robert Gordon University who lead the development of Counterweight in Scotland and £40,000 to NHS Tayside. The programme is designed to be self-sustaining after two years as a key element is training of staff that allows the Counterweight team to withdraw direct involvement in delivery.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make available the statistical evidence that demonstrates that the Counterweight Programme has produced positive results in the NHS Tayside area.

Shona Robison: We are monitoring progress of the Counterweight programme on a regular basis. In addition Robert Gordon University are, as part of the roll-out, evaluating its performance. We expect to make available analysis on the delivery of Counterweight across all health boards at an appropriate point in the future.

School Nurses

21 February 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether the commitment in Principles and Priorities: The Government’s Programme for Scotland to "increase the number of school nurses" is the equivalent of the commitment on page 10 of the SNP manifesto to "a doubling of the number of school nurses".

Shona Robison: Our plans are to increase the range of nursing and other health care support available to school aged children and young people. A health care model targeted at deprived and other areas with high numbers of disadvantaged children will be developed in 2008. School nurses will have an important part to play in this.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the number of whole-time equivalent qualified school nurses that it will make provision for by 2011 in the (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire local authority areas and in total.

Shona Robison: The exact number of school nurses employed by 2011 in the local authority areas in question is a matter for the relevant health boards and will depend on a number of factors yet to be determined. Our intention is that those school aged children and young people in areas of greatest need will in the future have easier access to a wider range of nursing and other health care support. A health care model targeted at deprived and other areas with high numbers of disadvantaged children will be developed in 2008.

Dentistry

19 February 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many attendances there were at the accident and emergency department of Dundee Dental Hospital in the last year for which figures are available.

Answered by Shona Robison :The information requested has been provided by NHS Tayside and is shown in the following table. The information relates to walk in patients, the majority of whom are not registered with a general dental practitioner.

Accident and Emergency Attendances at Dundee Dental Hospital: January to December 2007

January
887

February
729

March
838

April
819

May
907

June
784

July
791

August
846

September
685

October
750

November
723

December
636

Total
9395

Source: Medical Records at Dundee Dental Hospital.

Class sizes

31 January 2008

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what legal advice it has been given on the impact on parental choice legislation of its pledge to reduce class sizes to 18 in primary 1 to primary 3. (S3O-2124)

The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning (Fiona Hyslop): As members may be aware, the Scottish Government's practice is neither to confirm nor to deny whether legal advice has been received on any issue.

Marlyn Glen: I thank the minister for her answer, although it is not particularly helpful.

What will happen? I think that everyone understands that the Scottish Government intends to make local authorities responsible for delivering many of its promises. In some areas, class sizes will fall naturally as a result of reductions in the number of children in those areas, but the expectations of teachers and parents throughout Scotland have been raised.

How will the minister make it possible to fulfil the promises on classrooms and teacher numbers throughout Scotland, while still allowing parental choice? Will she, for example, clarify what will happen to parental choice if local authorities choose to reserve places for pupils who are moving into catchment areas? How will such an approach fit in with the pledge that has been made?

Fiona Hyslop: I am pleased to say that the Government has a positive and constructive relationship with local government—indeed, I had a positive meeting on class sizes with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities only this week. My officials have met representatives of a number of local authorities—six, I think—to discuss the practical implications of the popular policy of reducing class sizes. One important thing about Scottish education is that the vast majority of parents want to send their children to local schools because those schools are effective and excellent. It is important that that continues.

We have no plans to change our parental choice policy. We trust local authorities to manage their school estate, allocations and catchment areas in a satisfactory manner.

Dentistry

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were waiting for first outpatient appointments following referral at Dundee Dental Hospital in each of the last four quarters for which figures are available, broken down by department.

Shona Robison (30 January 2008): The information requested is not held centrally. Information held relates only to the number of patients waiting for a first out-patient appointment with a consultant in all facilities providing dental specialties in Tayside, including Dundee Dental Hospital, Perth Royal Infirmary and Stracathro Hospital. The following table shows this information for the quarter end dates between 31 December 2006 and 30 September 2007.

Quarter Ending

Specialty

Number of patients waiting

December 2006 Oral Medicine
105

Oral Surgery
225

Orthodontics
30

Paediatric Dentistry
76

Restorative Dentistry
487

March 2007 Oral Medicine
151

Oral Surgery
258

Orthodontics
74

Paediatric Dentistry
50

Restorative Dentistry
478

June 2007 Oral Medicine
224

Oral Surgery
328

Orthodontics
88

Paediatric Dentistry
33

Restorative Dentistry
442

September 2007 Oral Medicine
238

Oral Surgery
311

Orthodontics
114

Paediatric Dentistry
60

Restorative Dentistry
465

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) : To ask the Scottish Executive what the median waiting times were for first outpatient appointments at Dundee Dental Hospital in the last 12-month period for which figures are available, broken down by (a) quarter and (b) speciality.

Shona Robison (30 January 2008): The latest available information is shown in the table below. Later data are not currently held centrally because of changes to NHS Tayside’s patient administration records.

NHSScotland Median Waiting Times in Days for a First Out-Patient Appointment following Referral by a General Medical or Dental Practitioner to Dundee Dental Hospital. Years Ending 30 September 2004 to 30 June 2005

Speciality
Median Wait in Days for the Year Ending

September 2004

December 2004

March 2005

June 2005

Oral Medicine
71

80

101

101

Oral Surgery
97

98

98

98

Orthodontics
52

69

81

83

Paediatric Dentistry
36

36

40

40

Restorative Dentistry
83

81

86

88

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental practices have stopped offering NHS general dental services in NHS Tayside since April 2007.

Shona Robison : Three dental practices stopped providing NHS general dental services in NHS Tayside in the relevant period.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental practices have begun offering NHS general dental services in NHS Tayside since April 2007.

Shona Robison (30 January 2008): One dental practice began providing NHS general dental services in NHS Tayside in the relevant period.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental practices stopped offering NHS general dental services in NHS Tayside from April 2006 to March 2007.

Shona Robison (30 January 2008): One dental practice stopped providing NHS general dental services in NHS Tayside in the relevant period.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental practices began offering NHS general dental services in NHS Tayside from April 2006 to March 2007.

Shona Robison (30 January 2008): Three dental practices began providing NHS general dental services in NHS Tayside in the relevant period.

Student Finance

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-time university students domiciled in the (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire local authority areas have been in receipt of bursaries in the most recent academic year for which figures are available.

Fiona Hyslop (29 January 2008): The following table gives the number of full-time university students domiciled in Aberdeenshire, Angus and Dundee City local authority areas who were in receipt of bursary support from the Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) in academic year 2006-07. The total number of Scottish domiciled full-time university students in receipt of bursaries is also shown.

Local Authority Area
Number of Full-Time Students Receiving Bursary Support

Aberdeenshire
1,770

Angus
1,020

Dundee City
1,370

Scotland
42,995

Dentistry

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost will be and what resources will be made available from 2008-09 to increase the percentage of all three to five-year-olds in NHS Grampian who are registered with a dentist from 75% in June 2007 to 80% by 2010-11, as promised by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing on 12 December 2007 (Official Report c. 4291).

Shona Robison (28 January 2008): The costs are yet to be determined but will be made available through the general dental services budget.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost will be and what resources will be made available from 2008-09 to increase the percentage of all three to five-year-olds in NHS Tayside who are registered with a dentist from 75% in June 2007 to 80% by 2010-11, as promised by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing on 12 December 2007 (Official Report c. 4291).

Shona Robison (28 January 2008): The costs are yet to be determined but will be made available through the general dental services budget.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental nurses will be involved in implementing the Childsmile School programme in NHS Tayside.

Answered by Shona Robison (28 January 2008): Nine dental nurses will be involved in implementing Childsmile School in NHS Tayside.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive when the Childsmile School programme will be introduced into primary schools in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus.

Shona Robison (28 January 2008): It is anticipated that Childsmile School will be introduced into primary schools in Dundee in February 2008 and Angus in March 2008.

Maternity Services

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of mothers in the NHS Tayside area were recorded at their six-to-eight-week review as breastfeeding in the most recent year for which figures are available.

Shona Robison (28 January 2008): The requested information is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Child Health at www.isdscotland.org/child_breastfeeding. The latest available statistics are for children born in 2006.

Dentistry

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students attended Dundee Dental School in each undergraduate year in the most recent academic year for which figures are available.

Fiona Hyslop (23 January 2008): The number of undergraduate students studying pre-clinical and clinical dentistry at the University of Dundee (Dundee Dental School) during the academic year 2006-07 (the latest year for which the figures are available) are shown in the following table.

Number of Undergraduate Dentistry Students at Dundee University - 2006-07

Year of Study programme 1 2 3 4 5 Total

Number of students 75 90 70 55 55 345

Sources: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)

Scottish Government Funding

21 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive in which financial year it intends to establish a Scottish National Institute for Life Sciences in Dundee.

To ask the Scottish Executive how the £2 million for Life Sciences in 2008-09, as shown on page 114 of Scottish Budget: Spending Review 2007, will be spent.

Fiona Hyslop: My officials have been in active discussion with the Scottish Funding Council and Scottish Enterprise over the last few months to clarify the best way of delivering the institute. Once this is clarified, we should have a better idea of the timescale for delivery, but I expect that funding support will be introduced from 2008-09 in line with the Scottish Budget: Spending Review 2007.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the draft budget expenditure for Life Sciences, as shown on page 114 of Scottish Budget: Spending Review 2007, of (a) £2 million in 2008-09, (b) £3 million in 2009-10 and (c) £5 million in 2010-11 represents expenditure associated solely with the proposed Scottish National Institute for Life Sciences in Dundee.

Fiona Hyslop: The funding of £2 million/£3 million/£5 million represents expenditure which is intended to be associated solely with the proposed life sciences institute.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are tables other than table 22.06 on page 114 of Scottish Budget: Spending Review 2007 that refer to expenditure associated with the proposed Scottish National Institute for Life Sciences in Dundee.

Fiona Hyslop: There are no other tables in the Scottish Budget that refer to expenditure directly associated with the proposed institute.

Dentistry

21 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students attended Dundee Dental School in each undergraduate year in the most recent academic year for which figures are available.

Fiona Hyslop: The number of undergraduate students studying pre-clinical and clinical dentistry at the University of Dundee (Dundee Dental School) during the academic year 2006-07 (the latest year for which the figures are available) are shown in the following table.

Number of Undergraduate Dentistry Students at Dundee University - 2006-07

Year of Study programme 1 2 3 4 5 Total

Number of students
75

90

70

55

55

345

Dentistry

To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it is taking to expand the provision of NHS dentistry in north-east Scotland.

Answered by Shona Robison (20 December 2007): NHS Grampian has a number of developments underway to provide increased access to NHS dental services.

A four surgery dental facility opened in Banff in October 2007.

Building work has commenced in respect of new dental facilities in Buckie and Keith and a further development in Elgin is underway.

A two surgery dental facility is scheduled to open in Lossiemouth in March 2008.

Good progress is also being made towards the establishment of a third dental school in Aberdeen.

NHS Tayside were allocated £3.4 million under the Primary and Community Care Premises Modernisation Programme for the redevelopment of the Kings Cross site in Dundee. The Dundee Primary Care Dental Access Centre at Kings Cross will have 10 chairs in total and is due to open in early 2008.

Environment

To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it is taking to encourage teleworking.

Answered by Stewart Stevenson (13 December 2007): The Scottish Government encourages teleworking in several ways. This includes the provision of laptops, Blackberry mobile devices and Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) connected to the Scottish Government network. In addition, flexible working has formed a key part of the Diversity Strategy, Positive About You, since its launch in November 2000 and its aim is to ensure that staff are able to enjoy a satisfactory work-life balance. Teleworking can also play an important role in mitigating the impacts of transport.

The Scottish Government is working with a number of organisations to promote, develop and implement travel plans to deliver measures, including teleworking where appropriate, which help to reduce the environmental, social and economic impacts associated with travel, both the commute to work as well as business trips. We are funding the Regional Transport Partnerships and Energy Saving Trust to work with public and private organisations to promote and deliver travel plans.

Education

To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding has been provided to organisations addressing bullying among school pupils in each of the last three years and what level was projected at the beginning of each year.

Answered by Maureen Watt (12 December 2007): Organisations addressing bullying among school pupils have been provided with £384,491 in 2005-06, £451,164 in 2006-07 and £502,420 in 2007-08 against budgets of £445,197 in 2005-06, £433,000 in 2006-07 and £510,000 in 2007-08.

Employment

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated number of teleworkers was in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

Answered by Jim Mather (11 December 2007): Teleworkers are defined as people who work at home and require the use of both a telephone and computer to carry out their work. Table 1 shows the estimates of the number of teleworkers in Scotland in each of the last 3 years.

The estimates are taken from a statistical survey and may be subject to a degree of sampling variation.

Table 1 Teleworkers in Scotland, 2005-07

Year
Number of Teleworkers

2005
97,000

2006
130,000

2007
141,000

Source: Labour Force Survey, April to June quarters.

Note: 1. Data are rounded to the nearest thousand and are not seasonally adjusted.

Domestic Violence

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated annual cost is of domestic violence under the categories (a) the criminal justice system, (b) health care, (c) social services, (d) housing and (e) economic output.

Answered by Stewart Maxwell (3 December 2007): I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-6608 on 29 November 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated annual cost to society is of domestic violence.

Answered by Stewart Maxwell (29 November 2007): This information is not available.

Police

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether the 43 police officers recruited by Tayside Police from April to September 2007 are to be included in Tayside Police’s proportionate share of "the equivalent of 1,000 additional police officers", as outlined in Principles and Priorities: The Government's Programme for Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers will be added to the 1,141 officers working in Tayside Police force as at March 2007 as a result of Tayside Police receiving its proportionate share of "the equivalent of 1,000 additional police officers", as outlined in Principles and Priorities: The Government's Programme for Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive what role it envisages for any of the 137 police officers who are projected to retire from Tayside Police from January 2008 to December 2011 so that Tayside Police can receive its proportionate share of "the equivalent of 1,000 additional police officers", as outlined in Principles and Priorities: The Government's Programme for Scotland.

Answered by Kenny MacAskill (15 November 2007): Recruitment plans are the responsibility of Chief Constables, but as a result of the Government’s announcement on 12 November, Tayside Police will be able to recruit an additional 11 police officers this financial year, over and above the recruitment plans developed under the previous administration.

Further additional officers will be recruited by Tayside police in subsequent years as a result of the Government’s commitment to increase policing capacity.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what role it envisages for any of the 297 police officers who retired or left Tayside Police from April 2002 to September 2007 so that the force can receive its proportionate share of "the equivalent of 1,000 additional police officers", as outlined in Principles and Priorities: The Government's Programme for Scotland.

Answered by Kenny MacAskill (14 November 2007): The deployment of resources is an operational matter for chief constables. The Scottish Government will continue to work with key stakeholders to ensure that more of the skills and experience of those officers recently retired or about to retire are retained.

Class Sizes

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning or her ministers have met members of the administration of Dundee City Council to discuss the commitment to reduce class sizes to 18 and below in primary 1 to primary 3.

Answered by Adam Ingram (14 November 2007): Discussions have been held with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities on the development of outcome agreements that cover our class size commitments.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the additional funds that will have to be made available to Dundee City Council for the full implementation of the commitment to reduce class sizes to 18 and below in primary 1 to primary 3.

Answered by Adam Ingram (14 November 2007): No estimate has been made of the additional funding required by individual authorities for the full implementation of our class size commitment. We are working with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities to develop outcome agreements that will cover reduction in class sizes. Dundee City Council has already received an additional £235,000 as is share of the £9 million additional Funding announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning on 20 June 2007.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the number of additional teachers required in Dundee to implement in full its commitment to reduce class sizes to 18 and below in primary 1 to primary 3.

Answered by Adam Ingram (14 November 2007): No estimate has been made of the additional teachers required by individual local authorities to reduce class sizes in primary 1 to primary 3 to a maximum of 18. We carry out an annual national teacher workforce planning exercise which estimates the number of teachers that require to be trained in the years ahead taking into account demographic changes in the pupil and teacher populations. The General Registers of Scotland recently published revised population projections that will need to be taken into account in this year’s exercise. That exercise will not be complete until around the end of this year.

Alcohol Misuse

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-5467 by Shona Robison on 31 October 2007, whether it intends to make more up-to-date estimates than for 2002-03 in respect of health service resource use and costs associated with alcohol misuse.

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-5468 by Shona Robison on 31 October 2007, whether it intends to make more up-to-date estimates than for 2002-03 in respect of the total cost to society of alcohol misuse.

Answered by Shona Robison (13 November 2007): While there are currently no plans to update the estimates, we will consider ways in which the alcohol misuse cost estimates could be revised and updated. This will be informed by commissioned research to develop a robust methodology for estimating the social and economic cost of illicit drug use in Scotland. This research is due to be completed in March 2008.

Ophthalmic Services

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS sight tests and eye examinations were carried out in (a) NHS Tayside and (b) NHS Grampian in the (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07 financial years.

Answered by Shona Robison (14 November 2007): The information requested is shown in the following table.

The Number of Sight Test and Eye Examinations¹ by NHS Board for Year Ending 31 March

Grampian

Tayside

2006
94,103

79,355

2007²
169,323

128,179

Source: These data are extracted from the ophthalmic payment system OPTIX.

Notes:

1. On 1 April 2006, a new nhs eye examination was introduced and entitlement was extended to all in Scotland. The traditional NHS sight test was replaced by a comprehensive eye examination appropriate to the patient’s needs. An initial eye examination is carried out (primary eye examination) and where necessary this is followed by a further eye examination (supplementary eye examination).

2. These figures include both primary and supplementary NHS Eye examinations.

Education

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the timetable is for full implementation in Dundee of the commitment to reduce class sizes to 18 and below in primary 1 to primary 3.

Answered by Adam Ingram (12 November 2007): The Scottish Government will be working with Dundee City Council and the universities delivering initial teacher training to ensure we can drive down class sizes in a managed and staged way which maintains teacher quality, recognises classroom pressures and continuity of class configurations which will deliver year-on-year progress to classes of 18 in P1-P3. On 20 June 2007 the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning announced the provision of £9 million additional funding to allow local authorities to employ 300 additional teachers in pre-school and primary 1-3 in deprived areas. Dundee City Council’s share of this funding is £235,800.

This approach has been recognised by teaching professionals as the best way to deliver our policy of class sizes of 18 in P1-P3 across Scotland.

Alcohol Misuse

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many alcohol-related deaths have been recorded in Tayside in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Answered by Jim Mather (12 November 2007): The information requested is given in the following table. It uses a definition of alcohol-related deaths agreed with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in 2006, following wide consultation. Figures only include cases where the selected causes were the main cause of death.

Alcohol-Related Deaths¹, Tayside NHS Board Area, 2004-06

Year

Number of Deaths

2004
128

2005
109

2006
103

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many alcohol-related deaths have been recorded in Dundee in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Answered by Jim Mather (12 November 2007): The information requested is given in the following table. It uses a definition of alcohol-related deaths agreed with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in 2006, following wide consultation. Figures only include cases where the selected causes were the main cause of death.

Alcohol-Related Deaths¹, Dundee City Council Area, 2004-06

Year

Number of Deaths

2004
68

2005
54

2006
51

Waste Management

Marlyn Glen To ask the Scottish Executive what role it envisages for composting in the sustainable management of biodegradable resources.

Richard Lochhead (9 November 2007): Home composting, community composting and centralised composting have a significant role in the sustainable management of biodegradable waste. The Scottish Government is providing support to local authorities and other delivery bodies in relation to home and community composting, the collection of material from householders for composting, composting infrastructure and developing markets for compost.

Marlyn Glen (9 November 2007): To ask the Scottish Executive how it promotes the importance of small-scale producers in the production of compost.

Richard Lochhead: Where the production and storage of compost from appropriate materials is less than 400 tonnes at any one time (1,000 tonnes in the case of farm businesses), producers benefit from an exemption from the full requirements of waste management licensing and consequently lower regulatory charges.

We support the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to provide advice and run capital grant schemes for composting infrastructure. Both WRAP and REMADE Scotland also carry out work on the development of markets for recycled products.

The government has also supported a number of community composting projects.

Drug Misuse

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug-related deaths have been recorded in Tayside in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Answered by Jim Mather (6 November 2007): The information requested is given in the following table.

Drug-Related Deaths, Tayside NHS Board Area

2004

2005

2006

23

26

35

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug-related deaths have been recorded in Dundee in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Answered by Jim Mather (6 November 2007): The information requested is given in the following table.

Drug-Related Deaths, Dundee City

2004

2005

2006

11

11

16

Money Advisers

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many money advisers funded through Executive sources there have been in each local authority area in north-east Scotland in each of the last three years.

Answered by Stewart Maxwell (1 November 2007): Information on the numbers of money advice posts paid for through Scottish Executive funding streams is not collected on a regular basis and is available for 2005 and 2006 only. Figures for each local authority area in north-east Scotland are given in the following table.

Total Number of Money Advisers (Full-Time Equivalent)

Local Authority
July 2005

July 2006

Aberdeen City
4.00

5.34

Aberdeenshire
3.80

4.30

Moray
3.50

2.75

Population

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the average age was of (a) the population of Dundee and (b) people who have migrated to Dundee in the last year for which information is available.

Answered by John Swinney (1 November 2007): At 30 June 2006 the average age of (a) the population in Dundee City Council area, was 40 years and (b) people who have migrated to Dundee City Council in the previous year, was 27 years.

The figure for (b) includes migrants from elsewhere in Scotland, migrants from the rest of the United Kingdom and migrants from abroad. The UN definition of an international migrant is someone who changes their country of residence for 12 months or more. Therefore, short-term seasonal migrants (likely to include some migrant workers from eastern europe) will not be counted in the migration estimates nor in the population estimates.

Alcohol Misuse

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many emergency alcohol-related hospital admissions there have been in each relevant hospital in NHS Tayside in each of the last three years.

Answered by Shona Robison (1 November 2007): Patients discharged from hospitals in NHS Tayside who came into hospital through emergency admission, and for whom there was an alcohol-related diagnosis are shown in tables 1 and 2 which have been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 43926).

Table 1 shows the number of discharges of patients treated in NHS Tayside from general acute hospitals with an alcohol-related diagnosis (emergency admission only) by hospital in the years 2002-03 to 2004-05.

Table 2 shows the number of discharges of patients treated in NHS Tayside from mental and psychiatric units with an alcohol-related diagnosis (emergency admission only) in the years 2002-03 to 2004-05

Information regarding the numbers of emergency admissions for specific diagnoses is not held centrally.

Abortion

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to address inequalities in the provision of abortion services across Scotland.

Answered by Shona Robison (31 October 2007): Respect and Responsibility contains a recommendation that each NHS board must ensure women have access to appropriate termination of pregnancy services which are in line with the guidelines produced by the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

In addition, NHS Quality Improvement Scotland is developing national Sexual Health Standards. The draft standards, which are currently available, contain a specific recommendation for each NHS board to ensure that women receive safe termination of pregnancy with minimal delay, followed by a contraceptive review and counselling. The introduction of the draft standard, which is also in line with the guidelines produced by the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, will allow NHS boards to test themselves against what is proposed and to work towards it.

Employment

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive to what extent the skills strategy is designed to address occupational segregation.

Answered by Fiona Hyslop (31 October 2007): Equality is a guiding principle of the skills strategy. In order to fully consider the equalities implications of each policy area on its relevant audience and to mitigate against occupational segregation, we will ensure that each programme underpinning this strategy will be equality impact assessed across six strands (race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, age and religion/faith) to make sure that they are appropriate. We will also ensure that they are monitored thereafter, to mitigate against any potential negative impact, to be proactive in promoting positive actions and to ensure that our policies supporting the skills strategy are as robust and effective as they can be for as many people as possible.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the remit is of the Advisory Group on Occupational Segregation.

Answered by Stewart Maxwell (31 October 2007): The cross-directorate group was set up in 2006 as the main vehicle for taking forward our work to tackle gender stereotyping and occupational segregation – and to implement the recommendations of the UK Women and Work Commission’s report of February 2006 to close the gender pay and opportunity gap within a generation.

Recognising that currently employment is a reserved matter, the group is considering what effective policy interventions might be made to tackle occupational segregation and are looking at the possibilities in the early years and throughout the various stages of formal education, in vocational training and in employment, i.e. throughout a person’s life-course, with a view to reporting to ministers early in 2008.

Alcohol Misuse

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what its estimate is of the total cost to society of alcohol misuse in the most recent year for which figures are available, also broken down into the cost to (a) NHS Scotland, (b) social work services and (c) criminal justice and emergency services, (d) wider economic costs and (e) human costs.

Answered by Shona Robison (31 October 2007): The information requested is given in the following table. The estimated cost of alcohol misuse for 2002-03, the year for which latest data is available, comes from Cost to Society of Alcohol Misuse in Scotland: An Update to "Alcohol Misuse in Scotland Trends and Costs" (Scottish Executive, 2005). The full methodology on which these costs are based is provided in Alcohol Misuse in Scotland Trends and Costs (Scottish Executive, 2001).

Annual Costs of Alcohol Misuse: 2002-03

Resource Groupings £ Million

NHS Scotland
110.5

Social Work Services
96.7

Criminal Justice and Emergency Services
276.7

Wider Economic Costs
417.8

Human Costs
223.8

Estimated Cost to Society
1,125.5

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the resource use figures were in respect of alcohol misuse, broken down into the number of (a) GP consultations, (b) laboratory tests, (c) hospitalisation tests, (d) outpatient visits, (e) day hospital attendances and (f) ambulance responses in the most recent year for which figures are available.

Answered by Shona Robison (31 October 2007): The information requested is given in the following table, which provides an estimate of health service resource use and costs associated with alcohol misuse in 2002-03, the year for which latest data is available The estimates come from Cost to Society of Alcohol Misuse in Scotland: An Update to "Alcohol Misuse in Scotland Trends and Costs" (Scottish Executive, 2005). The full methodology on which these figures are based is provided in Alcohol Misuse in Scotland Trends and Costs (Scottish Executive, 2001).

Resource Use and Costs of Alcohol Misuse: 2002-03

Resource Use

Cost

(£ million)

GP consultations
246,694

4.4

Laboratory tests
171,744

2.2

Hospitalisation days
284,469

57.9

Outpatient visits
97,341

8.7

Day hospital attendances
59,974

3.3

Ambulance responses
64,044

10.1

Drug and Alcohol Misuse

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have used combined drug and alcohol services in Dundee in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Answered by Shona Robison (31 October 2007): The Scottish Government does not hold complete information in the format requested. Some information on the number of people who have used combined drug and alcohol services in Dundee in the last three years is contained within Dundee City’s Alcohol and Drug Action Team’s (ADATs) annual Corporate Action Plans.

This can be obtained from the following website:

http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/dat/cap/dat.htm.

Alcohol Misuse

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab) (Date Lodged 16 October 2007) : To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have used combined drug and alcohol services in Tayside in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Answered by Shona Robison (31 October 2007): The Scottish Government does not hold complete information in the format requested. Some information on the number of people in Tayside in each of the last three years who have used combined drug and alcohol services is contained within the Corporate Action Plans (CAPs) of the three Alcohol and Drug Action Teams (ADATs) within the Tayside area.

The relevant ADATs are Angus, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross and the CAPs can be obtained from the following website - http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/dat/cap/dat.htm.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have used dedicated alcohol services in Tayside in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Answered by Shona Robison (31 October 2007): The Scottish Government does not hold complete information in the format requested. Some information on the number of people in Tayside in each of the last three years who have used dedicated alcohol services is contained within the Corporate Action Plans (CAPs) of the three Alcohol and Drug Action Teams (ADATs) within the Tayside area.

The relevant ADATs are Angus, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross and the CAPs can be obtained from the following website http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/dat/cap/dat.htm.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have used dedicated alcohol services in Dundee in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Answered by Shona Robison (31 October 2007): The Scottish Government does not hold complete information in the form requested. Some information on the number of people in Dundee who have used dedicated alcohol services is contained within Dundee City’s Alcohol and Drug Action Team’s (ADAT) annual Corporate Action Plans.

This can be obtained from the following website:

http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/dat/cap/dat.htm.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what rate of emergency alcohol-related hospital admissions there have been in NHS Tayside in each of the last three years.

Answered by Shona Robison (31 October 2007): Patients discharged from hospitals in NHS Tayside who came into hospital through emergency admission from 2003-04 to 2005-06, and for whom there was an alcohol-related diagnosis are shown in tables 1 and 2 as follows. The age standardised rates for these years are also shown.

Information regarding the numbers of emergency admissions for specific diagnoses is not held centrally.

Table 1. The numbers of discharges of patients resident in NHS Tayside from general acute hospitals with an alcohol related diagnosis (emergency admissions only) for the years 2003-04 to 2005-06.

Numbers Age-Standardised Rates

2003-04 2004-05 2005-06^P 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06^P

Tayside 2077 1937 2011 517 469 486

Table 2. The numbers of discharges of patients resident in NHS Tayside discharged from mental hospitals and psychiatric units with an alcohol-related diagnosis (emergency admissions only) for 2002-03 to 2004-05.

Numbers Age-Standardised Rates

2002-03 2003-04 2004-05^P 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05^P

Tayside 139 171 103 36 43 26

Some patients resident in Tayside will have been treated outside the area but age standardised rates can only be calculated for the population resident in Tayside.

Apprenticeships

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what actual amount of money the Scottish Government has provided to each modern apprenticeship framework, broken down by age, in each year for which information is available.

Answered by Maureen Watt (29 October 2007): The cost of each modern apprentices framework is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. This information is not held centrally.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) men and (b) women are in modern apprenticeships, also broken down into (i) age and (ii) occupation.

Answered by Maureen Watt (29 October 2007): The number of modern apprentices (MA) broken down by gender, age and occupational area is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. This information is not held centrally.

However, Scottish Enterprise have published MA figures for males and females in the top 12 frameworks since 1998-99, as well as the gender split for each framework by age groups 16 to 24 and over 25s for the year ending 31 March 2005.

These tables are available on the Scottish Enterprise website:

www.scottish-enterprise.com/sedotcom_home/training-providers-top/training-providers/performance-and-reports.htm?siblingtoggle=1.

Pre-School Education

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated cost is in Angus of fulfilling the 2007 SNP manifesto commitment to provide access to a fully qualified teacher for every nursery child.

Answered by Adam Ingram (29 October 2007): No estimate of costs have been made for individual local authority areas. The overall cost of implementing this and other commitments is the subject of discussion with local government as part of negotiations on outcome agreements.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many General Teaching Council for Scotland registered teachers will be required in Angus to implement the 2007 SNP manifesto commitment to provide access to a fully qualified teacher for every nursery child.

Answered by Adam Ingram (29 October 2007): No estimate has been made of the number of teachers required in individual local authority areas. The latest statistics show that around 48% of pre-school education centres in Angus have at least one General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) registered member of staff. The figures vary between types of provider. On purely numerical grounds, approximately 63 centres do not employ a teacher. However, children in some of these centres may have access to a teacher by other means such as a peripatetic teacher visiting on a regular basis or some other flexible teaching support service.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated cost is in Dundee of fulfilling the 2007 SNP manifesto commitment to provide access to a fully qualified teacher for every nursery child.

Answered by Adam Ingram (29 October 2007): No estimate of costs have been made for individual local authority areas. The overall cost of implementing this and other commitments is the subject of discussion with local government as part of negotiations on outcome agreements.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many General Teaching Council for Scotland registered teachers will be required in Dundee to implement the 2007 SNP manifesto commitment to provide access to a fully qualified teacher for every nursery child.

Answered by Adam Ingram (29 October 2007): No estimate has been made of the number of teachers required in individual local authority areas. The latest statistics show that almost 63% of pre-school education centres in Dundee have at least one General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) registered member of staff. The figures vary between types of provider. On purely numerical grounds, approximately 34 centres do not employ a teacher. However, children in some of these centres may have access to a teacher by other means such as a peripatetic teacher visiting on a regular basis or some other flexible teaching support service.

Income

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross (a) hourly and (b) weekly pay was for full-time employees in Aberdeenshire in (i) 2004, (ii) 2005 and (iii) 2006, broken down by gender.

Answered by John Swinney (26 October 2007): The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics.

(a) The median gross hourly earnings for full-time employees resident in Aberdeenshire are given in the table below.

Median Gross Hourly Pay (£) for Full-Time Employee Jobs¹ of People Resident² in Aberdeenshire

2004

2005

2006

All
10.01

10.39

11.54

Male
10.14

10.56

12.27

Female
9.74

9.78

10.08

Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

1. Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence.

2. Estimates have been supplied for employees who are resident in Aberdeenshire local authority area. Estimates for those who work in the area are also published on the National Statistics website.

3. The estimates are based on a sample survey, and as such, are subject to sampling error.

(b) The median gross weekly earnings for full-time employees resident in Aberdeenshire are given in the table below.

Median Gross Weekly Pay (£) of Full-Time Employee Jobs¹ of People Resident² in Aberdeenshire

2004

2005

2006

All
417.9

446.0

468.1

Male
451.1

470.0

526.3

Female
365.1

379.8

386.5

Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

1. Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence.

2. Estimates have been supplied for employees who are resident in Aberdeenshire local authority area. Estimates for those who work in the area are also published on the National Statistics website.

3. The estimates are based on a sample survey, and as such, are subject to sampling error.

4. The estimates have been rounded to the nearest 10p.

Environment

25 October 2007

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what plans there are to promote the use of compost on agricultural land to enhance the organic content of soils.

Answered by Richard Lochhead (25 October 2007): We are keen to promote the use of compost to improve soil and are working with industry to ensure confidence in the quality of such products.

Income

23 October 2007

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) : To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross (a) hourly and (b) weekly pay was for full-time employees in Aberdeen in (i) 2004, (ii) 2005 and (iii) 2006, broken down by gender.

Answered by Jim Mather (23 October 2007): The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics.

(a) The median gross hourly earnings for full-time employees resident in Aberdeen City are given in the following table.

Median Gross Hourly Pay (£) for Full-Time Employee Jobs¹ of People Resident² in Aberdeen City

2004

2005

2006

All
10.07

10.94

11.50

Male
10.78

11.66

11.70

Female
9.26

10.22

10.65

Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

1. Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence.

2. Estimates have been supplied for employees who are resident in Aberdeen City local authority area. Estimates for those who work in the area are also published on the National Statistics website.

3. The estimates are based on a sample survey, and as such, are subject to sampling error.

(b) The median gross weekly earnings for full-time employees resident in Aberdeen City are given in the following table.

Median Gross Weekly Pay (£) of Full-Time Employee Jobs¹ of People Resident² in Aberdeen City

2004

2005

2006

All
398.90

441.30

459.50

Male
446.60

495.20

498.20

Female
360.50

379.40

414.00

Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

1. Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence.

2. Estimates have been supplied for employees who are resident in Aberdeen City local authority area. Estimates for those who work in the area are also published on the National Statistics website.

3. The estimates are based on a sample survey, and as such, are subject to sampling error.

4. The estimates have been rounded to the nearest 10p.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross (a) hourly and (b) weekly pay was for full-time employees in Angus in (i) 2004, (ii) 2005 and (iii) 2006, broken down by gender.

Answered by Jim Mather : The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics.

(a) The median gross hourly earnings for full-time employees resident in Angus are given in the following table.

Median Gross Hourly Pay (£) for Full-Time Employee Jobs¹ of People Resident² in Angus

2004

2005

2006

All
9.68

10.02

10.63

Male
10.25

10.74

10.97

Female
8.79

9.26

10.08

Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

1. Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence.

2. Estimates have been supplied for employees who are resident in Angus local authority area. Estimates for those who work in the area are also published on the National Statistics website.

3. The estimates are based on a sample survey, and as such, are subject to sampling error.

(b) The median gross weekly earnings for full-time employees resident in Angus are given in the following table.

Median Gross Weekly Pay (£) of Full-Time Employee Jobs¹ of People Resident² in Angus

2004

2005

2006

All
387.00

391.50

415.50

Male
425.40

438.00

456.30

Female
328.40

335.50

362.30

Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

1. Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence.

2. Estimates have been supplied for employees who are resident in Angus local authority area. Estimates for those who work in the area are also published on the National Statistics website.

3. The estimates are based on a sample survey, and as such, are subject to sampling error.

4. The estimates have been rounded to the nearest 10p.

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) : To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross (a) hourly and (b) weekly pay was for full-time employees in Dundee in (i) 2004, (ii) 2005 and (iii) 2006, broken down by gender.

Answered by Jim Mather (23 October 2007): The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics.

(a) The median gross hourly earnings for full-time employees resident in Dundee City are given in the following table.

Median Gross Hourly Pay (£) for Full-Time Employee Jobs¹ of People Resident² in Dundee City

2004

2005

2006

All
9.03

9.83

10.01

Male
9.50

10.02

10.62

Female
8.23

9.38

8.75

Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

1. Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence.

2. Estimates have been supplied for employees who are resident in Dundee City local authority area. Estimates for those who work in the area are also published on the National Statistics website.

3. The estimates are based on a sample survey, and as such, are subject to sampling error.

(b) The median gross weekly earnings for full-time employees resident in Dundee are given in the following table.

Median gross weekly pay (£) of full-time employee jobs¹ of people resident² in Dundee City

2004

2005

2006

All
356.10

375.10

407.10

Male
371.50

391.70

424.70

Female
309.20

343.60

336.20

Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

1. Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence.

2. Estimates have been supplied for employees who are resident in Dundee City local authority area. Estimates for those who work in the area are also published on the National Statistics website.

3. The estimates are based on a sample survey, and as such, are subject to sampling error.

4. The estimates have been rounded to the nearest 10p.

Health

18 October 2007

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost of consultant out-patient appointments was in the last financial year for which the information is available.

Answered by Nicola Sturgeon : The average cost of an attendance at a consultant out-patient clinic in financial year 2005-06 was £107.

National Health Service

12 October 2007

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive how many first appointments patients failed to attend at consultant-led out-patient clinics in NHS Tayside in the last year for which figures are available.

Answered by Nicola Sturgeon : Provisional figures for the year ended 31 March 2007 indicate that 8.8% of a total of 124,874 new outpatients in all specialties (excluding Accident and Emergency) did not attend their appointments in NHS Tayside.

Housing

1 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the number of first-time house buyers in cities in the most recent year for which figures are available.

Stewart Maxwell : Information on numbers of first-time buyers is available from the Council of Mortgage Lenders but only for Scotland as a whole.

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the number of first-time house buyers in the most recent year for which figures are available.

Stewart Maxwell The most recent estimates of the number of loans issued for house purchase to first-time buyers in Scotland are set out in the following table. These data are sourced from the Council of Mortgage Lenders. The notes to the tables explain the coverage of the estimates.

Number of Loans Issued for House Purchase - Scotland

Year

August 2006 to July 2007
37,900

January to December 2006
38,900

Source: Council of Mortgage Lenders; Regulated Mortgage Survey (RMS).

Notes:

The estimates cover loans to first-time buyers taking out a loan to secure house purchase (including those exercising the right-to-buy their social rented property). The estimates exclude cash purchases and remortgaging activity. The estimates also exclude buy-to-let purchases and second-charge mortgages, as these transactions are not regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

This data is drawn from the Regulated Mortgage Survey, which contains transaction-level data on approximately 85% of all new regulated mortgages issued in Scotland. RMS data is based on statutory Financial Service Authority returns.

3. Internal analysis indicates that the grossed figures for 2005 and 2006 are likely to be accurate to around 4%.

Civil Service Relocation

26 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many posts have been relocated to Scottish cities under the Scottish Government’s relocation policy in each year since 1999, broken down by city.

John Swinney : This information is not held centrally. The Scottish Government holds details of the decisions taken by the previous administration under its relocation policy on how many posts were considered for relocation in each location review. Due to changes in organisational structures, the number of posts that have subsequently been located in different localities do not correspond exactly with the number of posts reviewed.

A full list of relocation decisions made by previous ministers under the policy of the previous administration may be found on the Scottish Government website www.scotland.gov.uk.

To date, the new Scottish Government has not taken the decision to relocate any Scottish Government staff from any of its existing locations. I will make an announcement of the future of the policy on the location of public sector jobs at a suitable juncture.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many organisations await decisions on relocation under the Scottish Government’s relocation policy and how many posts are involved in each such organisation.

John Swinney: The Scottish Government is still considering the future of the policy on location of public sector jobs and we have not yet determined how we will handle the location reviews begun but not completed by the previous administration.

The organisations for which location reviews had begun but not been completed are Creative Scotland (130 staff) and the Scottish Funding Council (163 staff).

The final locations of the Secretariat for the Scottish Charity Appeals Panel (c. four staff) and of the Co-operative Development Service (c.10 staff) also remain to be determined. In line with the previous administration’s decisions based on the specific circumstances of these two organisations, we do not propose to decide on the permanent locations of these bodies before 2008.

Diabetes

26 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the hospital admission rate for diabetes was in Angus in the last year for which information is available, broken down by intermediate geographical zone.

Shona Robison : Table 1 presents the number and rates per 1,000 population of acute hospital admissions for Diabetes Mellitus, resident in Angus council area broken down by Intermediate Geographical Zone.

Table 1. Number and Rates Of Hospital Admissions for Diabetes Mellitus¹, Resident in Angus Council Area; for Year Ending 31 March 2006

Intermediate Geographical Zone

Number of Admissions

Rate per 1,000 population

Angus council area
1,264

11.58

S02000105 - Monifieth West
23

7.72

S02000106 - Monifieth East
66

13.51

S02000107 - Carnoustie West
45

9.66

S02000108 - Carnoustie East
55

9.77

S02000109 - Monikie
27

7.70

S02000110 - South Angus
50

8.28

S02000111 - Arbroath Keptie
39

10.84

S02000112 - Arbroath Harbour
94

22.66

S02000113 - Arbroath Kirkton
38

7.11

S02000114 - Arbroath Cliffburn
52

12.24

S02000115 - Arbroath Warddykes
89

18.25

S02000116 - Letham and Glamis
45

8.48

S02000117 - Kirriemuir Landward
48

16.91

S02000118 - Forfar West
36

7.26

S02000119 - Forfar Central
68

15.19

S02000120 - Forfar East
47

12.47

S02000121 - Lunan
30

10.60

S02000122 - Friockheim
62

9.53

S02000123 - Kirriemuir
75

12.65

S02000124 - Montrose South
81

15.94

S02000125 - Montrose North
55

12.08

S02000126 - Brechin East
47

16.66

S02000127 - Brechin West
41

11.60

S02000128 - Hillside
33

10.59

S02000129 - Angus Glens
18

5.09

Source: SMR01 linked databse.

Note: 1. Up to six diagnoses (one principal, five secondary) are recorded on SMR01 returns.

All six positions have been used to look for admissions for Diabetes Mellitus.

The following codes were used from the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Other Health Related Problems, tenth revision (ICD10) to define this condition: E10 - E14.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the hospital admission rate for diabetes was in Dundee in the last year for which information is available, broken down by intermediate geographical zone.

Shona Robison : Table 1 presents the number and rates per 1,000 population of acute hospital admissions for Diabetes Mellitus, resident in Dundee City council area broken down by Intermediate Geographical Zone.

Table 1. Number and Rates of Hospital Admissions for Diabetes Mellitus¹, Resident in Dundee City Council Area; for Year Ending 31 March 2006

Intermediate Geographical Zone

Number of Admissions

Rate Per 1,000 Population

Dundee council area
2,073

14.58

S02000199 - Perth Road
44

8.21

S02000200 - Westend
31

4.85

S02000201 - City Centre
36

6.75

S02000202 - Logie and Blackness
49

9.82

S02000203 - Docks and Wellgate
62

13.66

S02000204 - Balgay
74

17.78

S02000205 - Menzieshill
118

25.15

S02000206 - Broughty Ferry Wes
65

12.56

S02000207 - Craigie and Craigiebank
98

23.66

S02000208 - Stobswell
70

14.09

S02000209 - Law
78

21.35

S02000210 - West Ferry
53

16.56

S02000211 - Hilltown
67

11.67

S02000212 - Barnhill
45

8.98

S02000213 - Broughty Ferry East
58

14.93

S02000214 - Lochee
102

18.81

S02000215 - Baxter Park
63

18.97

S02000216 - Charleston
47

11.70

S02000217 - The Glens
121

26.11

S02000218 - Douglas East
63

18.50

S02000219 - Fairmuir
85

19.15

S02000220 - Western Edge
18

5.84

S02000221 - Linlathen and Midcraigie
89

17.11

S02000222 - Douglas West
110

26.33

S02000223 - Caird Park
50

14.74

S02000224 - West Pitkerro
23

5.14

S02000225 - Ardler and St Marys
105

19.49

S02000226 - Whitfield
55

9.95

S02000227 - Downfield
48

9.49

S02000228 - Kirkton
79

20.10

S02000229 - Fintry
67

12.28

Source: SMR01 linked database.

Note: 1. Up to six diagnoses (one principal, five secondary) are recorded on SMR01 returns.

All six positions have been used to look for admissions for Diabetes Mellitus.

The following codes were used from the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Other Health Related Problems, tenth revision (ICD10) to define this condition: E10 - E14.

Older People

26 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the hospital admission rate was for older people in Angus as a result of falls in the last year for which information is available, broken down by intermediate geographical zone.

Nicola Sturgeon : Table 1 presents the number and rates per 1,000 population of acute hospital admissions as a result of a fall, for older people (65+), resident in Angus Council area, broken down by Intermediate Geographical Zone (IGZ).

Number of Hospital Episodes^1,2 and Crude Rate per 1,000 Population³ as a Result of a Fall⁴; by Intermediate Geographical Zone (IGZ)⁵; for People Aged 65 Years and Over Resident in Angus; for Financial Year of Discharge 2005-06⁶

IGZ Name

IGZ Code

Number of Episodes

Crude Rate per 1,000

Monifieth West S02000105
14

22.40

Monifieth East S02000106
22

18.20

Carnoustie West S02000107
16

24.24

Carnoustie East S02000108
19

17.42

Monikie S02000109
6

15.71

South Angus S02000110
14

17.18

Arbroath Keptie S02000111
8

11.22

Arbroath Harbour S02000112
19

19.37

Arbroath Kirkton S02000113
11

12.97

Arbroath Cliffburn S02000114
10

13.28

Arbroath Warddykes S02000115
7

24.31

Letham and Glamis S02000116
11

17.00

Kirriemuir Landward S02000117
10

20.12

Forfar West S02000118
9

13.12

Forfar Central S02000119
18

21.00

Forfar East S02000120
10

15.02

Lunan S02000121
5

11.24

Friockheim S02000122
12

12.96

Kirriemuir S02000123
24

22.45

Montrose South S02000124
23

21.34

Montrose North S02000125
15

18.75

Brechin East S02000126
9

16.85

Brechin West S02000127
15

17.61

Hillside S02000128
3

7.56

Angus Glens S02000129
11

25.35

Angus -
321

15.64

Notes:

1. These figures are derived from linked records on discharges from non-obstetric and non-psychiatric hospitals (SMR01) in Scotland.

2. The number of episodes does not necessarily reflect the number of individual patients admitted as one patient may be admitted multiple times throughout the year.

3. Crude rate per 1,000 population calculated using GRO (General Registrar Office) mid-year population estimates of residents 65 years old or over.

4. Hospital episodes as a results of a fall are defined by SMR01 admission type codes 33 to 35 (patient injury) and ICD-10 diagnosis codes W00.- to W19.- in any secondary diagnosis position.

5. Only those data zones where there was at least one hospital admission are included in the table.

6. Financial year runs from 1 April to 31 March.

7. These figures are derived from linked records on discharges from non-obstetric and non-psychiatric hospitals (SMR01) in Scotland.

8. The number of episodes does not necessarily reflect the number of individual patients admitted as one patient may be admitted multiple times throughout the year.

9. Crude rate per 1,000 population calculated using GRO (General Registrar Office) mid-year population estimates of residents 65 years old or over.

10. Hospital episodes as a results of a fall are defined by SMR01 admission type codes 33 to 35 (patient injury) and ICD-10 diagnosis codes W00.- to W19.- in any secondary diagnosis position.

11. Only those data zones where there was at least one hospital admission are included in the table.

12. Financial year runs from 1 April to 31 March.

Following the work of the Falls Prevention Group, the Scottish Government published guidance earlier this year for health boards, Community Health Partnerships and others on actions to prevent falls by older people and improve bone health.

The guidance is available on the Scottish Government website at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/care/OlderPeopleCare/fallsgroup.

Research evidence indicates that up to 30% of falls amongst community-based older people could be prevented through comprehensive multidisciplinary assessment.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the hospital admission rate was for older people in Dundee as a result of falls in the last year for which information is available, broken down by intermediate geographical zone.

Nicola Sturgeon : Table 1 presents the number and rates per 1,000 population of acute hospital admissions as a result of a fall, for older people (65+), resident in Dundee City Council area, broken down by Intermediate Geographical Zone (IGZ).

Number of Hospital Episodes^1,2 and Crude Rate per 1,000 Population³ as a Result of a Fall⁴; by Intermediate Geographical Zone (IGZ)⁵; for People Aged 65 Years and Over Resident in Dundee City; for Financial Year of Discharge 2005-06⁶

IGZ Name

IGZ Code

Number of Episodes

Crude Rate per 1,000

Perth Road S02000199
7

26.52

Westend S02000200
24

28.92

City Centre S02000201
6

18.24

Logie and Blackness S02000202
21

24.17

Docks and Wellgate S02000203
16

31.13

Balgay S02000204
13

13.66

Menzieshill S02000205
18

21.53

Broughty Ferry Wes S02000206
27

20.12

Craigie and Craigiebank S02000207
31

21.74

Stobswell S02000208
13

28.51

Law S02000209
22

21.93

West Ferry S02000210
14

14.71

Hilltown S02000211
19

18.77

Barnhill S02000212
16

16.24

Broughty Ferry East S02000213
11

12.69

Lochee S02000214
23

18.07

Baxter Park S02000215
10

24.10

Charleston S02000216
16

20.43

The Glens S02000217
18

16.45

Douglas East S02000218
13

21.00

Fairmuir S02000219
18

16.41

Western Edge S02000220
6

27.27

Linlathen and Midcraigie S02000221
10

18.55

Douglas West S02000222
14

20.35

Caird Park S02000223
6

14.85

West Pitkerro S02000224
8

31.25

Ardler and St Marys S02000225
29

33.88

Whitfield S02000226
5

17.48

Downfield S02000227
10

12.95

Kirkton S02000228
10

22.42

Fintry S02000229
10

18.32

Dundee City -
464

18.08

Notes:

1. These figures are derived from linked records on discharges from non-obstetric and non-psychiatric hospitals (SMR01) in Scotland.

2. The number of episodes does not necessarily reflect the number of individual patients admitted as one patient may be admitted multiple times throughout the year.

3. Crude rate per 1,000 population calculated using GRO (General Registrar Office) mid-year population estimates of residents 65 years old or over.

4. Hospital episodes as a results of a fall are defined by SMR01 admission type codes 33 to 35 (patient injury) and ICD-10 diagnosis codes W00.- to W19.- in any secondary diagnosis position.

5. Only those data zones where there was at least one hospital admission are included in the table.

6. Financial year runs from 1 April to 31 March.

Police

21 September

To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers there were in (a) Tayside, (b) Grampian and (c) Scotland in each of the last four years, also showing the percentage of the annual Scottish figures that Tayside and Grampian represented.

Kenny MacAskill : The information requested for 2003-04 to 2006-07 is given in the Quarterly Strength Return, published by the Scottish Government annually, and updated on a quarterly basis, copies of which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. numbers 39652 (2003-04), 39653 (2004-05), 39654 (2005-06) and 40257 (2006-07) respectively).

Regeneration

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to sustain the capital investment in Dundee¿s central waterfront project in the event of the closure of the Cities Growth Fund.

John Swinney : I recognise the importance of the regeneration of Dundee’s central waterfront for the development of Dundee and the surrounding region.

The outcome of the Spending Review will be announced in the autumn and any speculation about the future of the Cities Growth Fund is premature in advance of that announcement. It is, however, for Dundee City Council to manage and fund its capital investment programme.

Education

14 August 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the additional funds that will have to be made available to Angus Council for the full implementation of the commitment to reduce class sizes to 18 and below in P1, P2 and P3.

Adam Ingram (14 August 2007): Estimates of the additional funding for individual local authorities to reduce class sizes in P1 to P3 will be made following the completion of the Spending Review.

Individual Learning Accounts

To ask the Scottish Executive how many learners in the (a) Dundee, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire local authority areas have received financial support through Individual Learning Account Scotland since 2004.

Fiona Hyslop : In the Dundee, Angus and Aberdeenshire Local Authority areas the Individual Learning Account Scotland scheme has supported 3,255 learners since 2004. This is broken down by each Local Authority area in the following table.

Council Area
Number of ILA Scotland funded learners

Aberdeenshire
2,030

Angus
614

Dundee
611

Total
3,255

Education

9 August 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Dundee City and Angus councils will receive any additional funding for pre-school education from August 2007 in respect of the provision of additional hours.

Adam Ingram : All local authorities have been informed of the additional funding they will receive for pre-school education following the announcement of the expansion of hours to 475 per year. The additional funding that will be made available to Dundee City Council and Angus Council is as follows:

£000
2007-08

2008-09

Angus Council
309

463

Dundee City Council
384

576

The funding for 2007-08 has been confirmed but for 2008-09 the figures are indicative as the total amount of the 2008-09 local government finance settlement and its distribution will depend on the outcome of the 2007 strategic spending review.

Class Sizes

9 August 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the timetable is for full implementation in Angus of the commitment to reduce class sizes to 18 and below in P1, P2 and P3.

Adam Ingram : The Scottish Executive will be working with Angus Council and Universities delivering initial teacher training to ensure we can drive down class sizes in a managed and staged way which maintains teacher quality, recognises classroom pressures and continuity of class configurations which will deliver practical progress to classes of 18 in P1-P3. These factors together with the Spending Review will drive the timeframe for delivery, by making year on year progress towards our target.

This approach has been recognised by teaching professionals as the best way to delivering our policy of class sizes of 18 in P1-P3 across Scotland.

To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the number of additional teachers required in Angus to implement fully its commitment to reduce class sizes to 18 and below in P1, P2 and P3.

Adam Ingram : We are considering initially in detail the numbers of teachers needed in order to reduce all P1 to P3 classes to 18 or less and allow all pre-school children access to a teacher at a national level. Estimates of the numbers required in individual authorities are not available. We have announced the first steps in delivering our commitments, with funding for the employment of an additional 300 teachers and the increase of 250 training places from this August.

We will be announcing further steps in due course, to a timetable that ensures that we can protect the quality of the teachers entering the profession and takes into account the capacity of the system to provide training places. Clearly, the most important issue is to ensure the best possible educational outcomes for our children.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) P1, (b) P2 and (c) P3 classes in Angus had more than 18 pupils in the most recent year for which figures are available.

Adam Ingram: Information on individual class sizes from the 2006 pupil census is published on the internet and can be found at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/16412/PrimClassSizesSep06.

Schools

9 August 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many school and business partnerships have been set up under the Determined to Succeed initiative in the (a) Dundee, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire local authority areas.

Maureen Watt : Initial indications from the draft 2006-07 Determined to Succeed Annual Reports received from each local authority, show that the number of school business partnerships in each area are as follows: (a) Dundee - over 500, (b) Angus – over 240 and (c) Aberdeenshire - 492.

NHS Staff

20 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many agency nurses have been employed by NHS Tayside in each of the last three years and what the annual cost has been of employing them.

Nicola Sturgeon: Information on staff employed in NHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics, at: www.isdscotland.org/workforce.

Section E gives details of nursing and midwifery staff. In particular, table E13 shows hours, average whole time equivalent (WTE) and costs of agency nursing and midwifery staff by qualification, specialty and NHS board from 2001 to 2006. WTE adjusts headcount to take account of part time working. Figures for hours and cost of agency nursing and midwifery staff are produced annually at the end of each financial year.

NHS Staff

31 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many bank nurses have been employed by NHS Tayside in each of the last three years and what the annual cost has been of employing them.

Nicola Sturgeon : Information on staff employed in NHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics, at:

www.isdscotland.org/workforce.

Section E gives details of nursing and midwifery staff. In particular, table E16 shows hours, average whole time equivalent (WTE) and costs of bank nursing and midwifery staff by NHS board from 2001 to 2006. WTE adjusts headcount to take account of part time working. Figures for hours and cost of agency nursing and midwifery staff are produced annually at the end of each financial year.

Domestic Abuse

16 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to develop an overarching national structure of domestic abuse courts and a national action plan to consider the lessons of the Glasgow pilot scheme and the roll-out of best practice across Scotland.

Kenny MacAskill : I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-1296 on 16 July 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will agree in principle to a phased roll-out of the Domestic Abuse Court at Glasgow Sheriff Court to cover the whole of Glasgow.

Kenny MacAskill: I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-1296 on 16 July 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to continue the operation of the Domestic Abuse Court at Glasgow Sheriff Court.

Kenny MacAskill : I am considering how best the Executive can support how the courts deal with cases of alleged domestic abuse. I will take into account the independent evaluation of the pilot court in Glasgow Sheriff Court and also the progressive implementation of summary justice reform.

The pilot court has brought a range of benefits to victims and families. At the same time, the research does not recommend simple replication of the Glasgow model. It stresses the need for local solutions to meet local needs.

Domestic abuse touches on portfolios of several Cabinet Secretaries and, together, we are committed to finding a way forward which:

reflects the seriousness of domestic abuse as a crime and sends a strong message of zero tolerance;

capitalises on the learning of the pilot;

provides adequate and timely support to victims of domestic abuse and their children, who can often be the unseen "victims" of this crime;

respects the discretion of the judiciary to organise court business as they see fit;

recognises that court-based action is one of a range of measures for combating domestic abuse which must be fully integrated and mutually supportive, and

Is affordable and sustainable for the long-term.

We will announce our conclusions shortly.

Digital Technology

9 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of households have had a domestic (a) broadband and (b) dial-up internet connection in each of the last three years.

Jim Mather : I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-1266 on 9 July 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of households in (a) Scotland and (b) each parliamentary constituency have a domestic internet connection.

Jim Mather: The information requested is not collated on a comprehensive Scotland-wide basis and therefore no such data is held within the Executive.

Sport

5 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what funding sportscotland has provided to (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire councils in each of the last three years.

Nicola Sturgeon : In each of the last three years sportscotland has provided funding to (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire councils as follows:

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

Dundee
£542,357

£530,936

£1,230,393

Angus
£276,507

£617,209

£329,097

Aberdeenshire
£358,474

£579,253

£675,830

Regional Selective Assistance

28 June 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average value has been of offers of Regional Selective Assistance made to indigenous firms in (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire in each of the last five years.

Jim Mather : The average value of RSA offers to indigenous firms in the Dundee City Council Area is as follows:

Year Amount

2006-07 £442,143

2005-06 £143,250

2004-05 £337,500

2003-04 £181,400

2002-03 £120,000

There were no RSA offers made to firms in the Angus and Aberdeenshire local authority areas in these years.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many offers of Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) have been made to indigenous firms in (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire, also expressed as a percentage of the total number of RSA offers.

Jim Mather: The following table provides details of the number of RSA offers made to indigenous firms in the Dundee City Council Area in the last five financial years. It also shows what percentage these are in relation to the total number of RSA offers.

There were no RSA offers made to firms in the Angus and Aberdeenshire Council Areas in these years.

Financial Year
Total No. of RSA Offers

RSA Offers made in Dundee City Council Area

Offers made to Indigenous Firms in Dundee City Council Area

%

2006-07
164

11

7

4.3%

2005-06
157

5

4

2.5%

2004-05
174

5

4

2.3%

2003-04
167

10

5

3.0%

2002-03
193

7

4

2.1%

Waste Management

28 June 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to promote a diverse rural economy though waste management improvements.

Richard Lochhead : The Waste and Resources Action Programme provides a number of capital grants to support the provision of recycling and composting infrastructure. Some of these grants in the past have gone to rural enterprises and some of the infrastructure may take agricultural waste.

Culture

21 June 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what value it places on the role of the arts and culture in the regeneration of Scotland’s cities.

Linda Fabiani: I am convinced of the positive impact that arts and culture make to Scotland’s communities. Local authorities and others do much in this area already, and I think there is much more to do.

Justice

21 June 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many convictions there have been for possession of an offensive weapon in Tayside in each of the last four years.

Kenny MacAskill: The available information is given in the following table.

Persons in Tayside Police Force Area with a Charge Proved in Court for Carrying Knives or Possessing an Offensive Weapon¹, 2001-02 to 2005-06

Year Having in a Public
Place an Article with a Blade or Point Possession of an
Offensive Weapon Total

2001-02
62

81

143

2002-03
72

72

144

2003-04
46

82

128

2004-05
74

90

164

2005-06
88

89

177

Note: 1. Where main offence.

To ask the Scottish Executive how many convictions there have been of people aged under 18 for possession of an offensive weapon in Tayside in each of the last four years.

Kenny MacAskill:

Persons Aged Under 18 in Tayside Police Force Area with a Charge Proved in Court for Carrying Knives or Possessing an Offensive Weapon¹, 2001-02 to 2005-06

Year Having in a Public Place an
Article with a Blade or Point Possession of an
Offensive Weapon Total

2001-02
6

12

18

2002-03
5

7

12

2003-04
9

10

19

2004-05
7

10

17

2005-06
15

10

25

Note: 1. Where main offence.

Sport

20 June 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what financial resources it has provided towards the staging of the Open Championship at Carnoustie.

Linda Fabiani : The Open Championship at Carnoustie is supported by almost one hundred and forty six thousand pounds (£146,000) of Scottish Government funding through equal payments of £72,850 each from EventScotland and VisitScotland. This is supplemented by a further £72,850 from Scottish Enterprise.

School Meals

18 June 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it will take to increase the uptake of free school meals throughout all years of primary school.

Fiona Hyslop : I refer the member to answer to question S3W-595 on 18 June 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it will take to increase the uptake of free school meals throughout all years of secondary school.

Fiona Hyslop: The Scottish Government supports Education Authorities to promote uptake of school meals by making funds available through the National Priorities Action Fund and sharing good practice through the Scottish Health Promoting Schools Unit. The Schools (Health Promotion and Nutrition) (Scotland) Act 2007 places a duty on all education authorities to promote the uptake of school meals, and in particular free school meals. This duty will commence in August 2008 and progress will be monitored by HM Inspectorate of Education.

14 June 2007

Scottish Commission for Human Rights

Marlyn Glen (North East Scotland) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether the process of setting up the Scottish Commission for Human Rights will commence before the summer recess.

Mike Pringle: The nomination to the Parliament of a chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission will be made by a selection panel of members of the Parliament in line with Rule 3.11 of Standing Orders. Whilst the panel is not a matter for the SPCB, I do understand that the process for appointing a chair of the commission will commence before the summer recess.

13 June 2007

Regional Selective Assistance

To ask the Scottish Executive how much regional selective assistance was given to companies based in (a) Dundee, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire in 2006-07 and how many jobs were (i) created or (ii) safeguarded.

Jim Mather : In the financial year 2006-07, businesses in the Dundee City Council Area accepted Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) offers totalling almost £5 million for projects that involved the planned creation of 459 jobs and the safeguarding of a further 20.

There were no RSA offers accepted by businesses in the Angus and Aberdeenshire Council Areas.

Employment

To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what percentage of people were long-term unemployed in each council ward in (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire on the most recent date for which figures are available.

John Swinney : The claimant count gives the number of people claiming unemployment related benefits and is produced by the Office for National Statistics.

Tables 1 to 3 show the number of long-term unemployed people claiming unemployment related benefits in each council ward in Dundee City, Angus and Aberdeenshire respectively and also the long-term unemployed as a proportion of total unemployment in each ward. Long-term unemployed are defined as those claiming unemployment related benefits for over 12 months. The latest data available is for April 2007.

Table 1 Claimant Count Unemployment for Wards in Dundee City, April 2007

Ward Number of Long-Term Unemployed Long-Term Unemployed as % of Total Unemployment

Ardler 15 15.0%

Balgay 15 24.2%

Balgillo 0 -

Balgowan 25 16.0%

Barnhill 5 18.5%

Baxter Park 15 14.0%

Bowbridge 35 20.5%

Brackens 15 12.5%

Broughty Ferry 5 10.0%

Camperdown 20 13.2%

Claverhouse 25 17.7%

Craigiebank 15 20.5%

Douglas 40 20.4%

East Port 30 18.6%

Fairmuir 20 17.5%

Hilltown 30 15.0%

Law 20 12.3%

Lochee East 20 17.1%

Lochee West 35 23.0%

Logie 15 14.2%

Longhaugh 45 20.9%

Ninewells 25 17.7%

Pitkerro 30 15.1%

Riverside 5 17.9%

Stobswell 35 19.1%

Strathmartine 5 6.4%

Tay Bridges 20 17.7%

West Ferry 0 -

Whitfield 25 18.0%

Dundee City 590 16.8%

Source: Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

1. Long-term unemployed defined as those claiming for over 12 months.

2. Data on number of long-term unemployed rounded to the nearest five.

Table 2 Claimant count unemployment for wards in Angus, April 2007

Ward Number of Long-Term Unemployed Long-Term Unemployed as % of Total Unemployment

Arbirlot and Hospitalfield 5 8.2%

Arbroath North 5 11.6%

Brechin North Esk 15 28.3%

Brechin South Esk 20 22.0%

Brechin West 5 17.2%

Brothock 15 12.6%

Carnoustie Central 0 -

Carnoustie East 0 -

Carnoustie West 15 28.8%

Cliffburn 10 12.5%

Forfar Central 5 12.2%

Forfar East 10 20.4%

Forfar South 5 11.4%

Forfar West 5 17.2%

Harbour 30 24.0%

Hayshead and Lunan 10 16.9%

Keptie 5 8.3%

Kirriemuir East 5 10.0%

Kirriemuir West 5 20.0%

Letham and Friockheim 5 21.7%

Monifieth Central 0 -

Monifieth West 5 15.6%

Montrose Central 25 23.4%

Montrose Ferryden 20 17.4%

Montrose Hillside 5 10.0%

Montrose West 15 20.8%

Sidlaw East and Ashludie 5 13.9%

Sidlaw West 5 17.2%

Westfield and Dean 5 12.8%

Angus 275 17.4%

Source: Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

1. Long-term unemployed defined as those claiming for over 12 months.

2. Data on number of long-term unemployed rounded to the nearest five.

Table 3 Claimant Count Unemployment for Wards in Aberdeenshire, April 2007

Ward Number of Long-Term Unemployed Long-Term Unemployed as % of Total Unemployment

Aberchirder 5 20.0%

Aboyne 5 45.5%

Alford 5 62.5%

Banchory East and Crathes 0 -

Banchory West 0 -

Banff 5 9.3%

Banff West and Boyndie 5 18.5%

Belhelvie 0 -

Blackhouse 0 -

Boddam-Inverugie 0 -

Buchan North 0 -

Buchan North East 0 -

Buchanhaven 5 13.5%

Central Buchan 0 -

Chapel and Gadie 0 -

Clerkhill 0 -

Cruden 0 -

Dales-Towerhill 0 -

Donside and Cromar 5 35.7%

Durn 5 19.2%

Echt 0 -

Ellon Town 0 -

Elrick 0 -

Fraserburgh East 0 -

Fraserburgh North 0 -

Fraserburgh South 0 -

Fraserburgh West 0 -

Fyvie-Methlick 5 33.3%

Gamrie-King Edward 0 -

Huntly East 5 19.2%

Huntly West 5 18.5%

Insch 5 31.3%

Inverbervie, Gourdon and Johnshaven 5 20.8%

Inverurie Central 5 33.3%

Inverurie North 0 -

Inverurie South and Port Elphinstone 5 35.7%

Kemnay 5 23.8%

Kinellar and Westhill North 0 -

Kintore and Keithhall 0 -

Logie Buchan 0 -

Lonmay and St Fergus 0 -

Lower Deeside 0 -

Macduff 0 -

Mearns Central 5 33.3%

Mearns North 5 41.7%

Mearns South 5 16.7%

Meldrum 5 50.0%

Mid Deeside 0 -

Mintlaw-Longside 0 -

Mintlaw-Old Deer 0 -

Newmachar and Fintray 0 -

Newtonhill, Muchalls and Cammachmore 0 -

Peterhead Central-Roanheads 15 13.3%

Portlethen North 0 -

Portlethen South 0 -

South Buchan 0 -

Stonehaven Central 0 -

Stonehaven North and Fetteresso 0 -

Stonehaven South 0 -

Strathbogie 5 29.4%

Tarves 0 -

Turriff East 0 -

Turriff West 0 -

Udny-Slains 5 45.5%

Upper Deeside 5 27.8%

Upper Ythan 0 -

Westhill Central 0 -

Ythan 0 -

Aberdeenshire 150 11.6%

Source: Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

1. Long-term unemployed defined as those claiming for over 12 months.

2. Data on number of long-term unemployed rounded to the nearest five.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the number and percentage of jobs in the public sector have been in each of the last five years in (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire local authority areas.

John Swinney : The official source for data on public sector employment is the Quarterly Public Sector Employment (QPSE) series. However, the QPSE is not available below a national level.

Data on public sector employment is available from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the Annual Population Survey (APS) by local authority area. However, it is known that the LFS/APS overestimates the number of people employed in the public sector. This is due to the fact that sector of employment is determined by the individual and some people believe they work in the public sector when in fact they do not

Table 1 shows the number and proportion of people working in the public sector within Dundee City, Angus and Aberdeenshire for five years up to 2005 (the latest calendar year which reliable data are available at a local authority level) taken from the LFS/APS. Please note, as stated above, these are not directly comparable with the official public sector employment estimates from the QPSE series.

Also please note the estimates are based on a sample survey, and as such, are subject to some sampling error. Taking account of sampling error there are no statistically significant differences in public sector employment levels between any of the years within Aberdeenshire, Angus or Dundee City.

Table 1 Public Sector Employment in Selected Local Authorities, 2001-05

Level

Percentage of Total Employment

Aberdeenshire

Angus

Dundee

Aberdeenshire

Angus

Dundee

2001
26,000

14,000

20,000

21.3%

23.5%

31.4%

2002
22,000

11,000

19,000

19.3%

21.9%

30.7%

2003
22,000

13,000

17,000

18.9%

25.7%

27.4%

2004
26,000

14,000

19,000

21.8%

28.4%

31.8%

2005
27,000

14,000

20,000

22.8%

26.8%

31.8%

Sources: Labour Force Survey (LFS), Quarters combined for 2001-02. In 2003 the Scottish figure is taken from the Annual Scottish LFS (ASLFS). In 2004 and 2005 the figures are taken from the APS. The APS and ASLFS include boosts to the main LFS. This means there is a discontinuity in the series.

Notes:

1. Data are based on head counts.

2. Data are based on a sample survey and therefore are subject to a degree of error.

3. Those who are known to work in the further and higher education have been removed to ensure that the data are as comparable as possible with the official public sector series.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average annual number of long-term unemployed people has been in Aberdeenshire and what percentage of the total number of unemployed they accounted for in each of the last five years.

John Swinney: The Claimant Count gives the number of people claiming unemployment related benefits and is produced by the Office for National Statistics.

Table 1 shows the number of long-term unemployed people claiming unemployment related benefits in Aberdeenshire and also the long-term unemployed as a proportion of total unemployment in the authority.

Annual averages are provided from 2002 to 2006, and cover the period January to December inclusive.

Long-term unemployed are defined as those claiming unemployment related benefits for over 12 months.

Table 1 Claimant Count Unemployment, Aberdeenshire, 2002-06

Number of Long-Term Unemployed

Long-Term Unemployed as % of Total Unemployment

2002
155

8.8%

2003
165

8.5%

2004
195

10.0%

2005
185

11.1%

2006
165

11.4%

Source: Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

1. Data covers the period January to December (inclusive).

2. Long-term unemployed defined as those claiming for over 12 months.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average annual number of long-term unemployed people has been in Angus and what percentage of the total number of unemployed they accounted for in each of the last five years.

John Swinney: The Claimant Count gives the number of people claiming unemployment related benefits and is produced by the Office for National Statistics.

Table 1 shows the number of long-term unemployed people claiming unemployment related benefits in Angus and also the long-term unemployed as a proportion of total unemployment in the authority.

Annual averages are provided from 2002 to 2006, and cover the period January to December inclusive.

Long-term unemployed are defined as those claiming unemployment related benefits for over 12 months.

Table 1 Claimant Count Unemployment, Angus, 2002-06

Number of Long-Term Unemployed

Long-Term Unemployed as % of Total Unemployment

2002
290

14.1%

2003
260

12.9%

2004
270

14.1%

2005
285

15.7%

2006
310

17.4%

Source: Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

1. Data covers the period January to December (inclusive).

Long-term unemployed defined as those claiming for over 12 months.

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average annual number of long-term unemployed people has been in Dundee and what percentage of the total number of unemployed they accounted for in each of the last five years.

John Swinney : The Claimant Count gives the number of people claiming unemployment related benefits and is produced by the Office for National Statistics.

Table 1 shows the number of long-term unemployed people claiming unemployment related benefits in Dundee and also the long-term unemployed as a proportion of total unemployment in the authority.

Annual averages are provided from 2002 to 2006, and cover the period January to December inclusive.

Long-term unemployed are defined as those claiming unemployment related benefits for over 12 months.

Table 1 Claimant Count Unemployment, Dundee, 2002-06

Number of Long-Term Unemployed

Long-Term Unemployed as % of Total Unemployment

2002
985

20.9%

2003
790

18.0%

2004
645

17.0%

2005
585

15.7%

2006
575

15.3%

Source: Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

1. Data covers the period January to December (inclusive).

2. Long-term unemployed defined as those claiming for over 12 months.

11 June 2007

Sexual Offences

To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to take forward the recommendations of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s review of the investigation and prosecution of sexual offences in Scotland.

Elish Angiolini QC : Following publication of the Report last June, a COPFS Implementation Team was established to implement the fifty recommendations of the review over the three year programme to which the Law Officers committed.

Fourteen recommendations have now been implemented in full. Prosecutors have been provided with new guidance on fundamental aspects of revised practice and policy, including instructions about the basis on which prosecutors take decisions about prosecution and bail in such cases. At the heart of the work scheduled over the remaining two years is the development of a programme of specialist training to found the basis of the system of certification for COPFS staff. The training will commence in spring 2008 and all staff investigating serious sexual offence cases within COPFS will be certified according to departmental criteria by June 2009.

8 June 2007

Marlyn Glen: To ask the Scottish Executive what the average daily traffic flow for the Tay Road Bridge was in each four-monthly period in 2006.

Mr Stewart Stevenson:

The average daily traffic flows for the Tay Road Bridge are a matter for the Tay Road Bridge Joint Board.

However, the Tay Road Bridge Joint Board has informed the Scottish Executive that the average daily traffic flows (southbound only) for each quarter during 2006 were:

Quarter (2006) Flow (southbound only)

January – March 11421

April – June 12665

July – September 12866

October – December 12207

Marlyn Glen: To ask the Scottish Executive what latest information it has on the average daily traffic flow for the Tay Road Bridge in 2007.

Mr Stewart Stevenson:

The latest information on the average daily traffic flows for the Tay Road Bridge in 2007 is a matter for the Tay Road Bridge Joint Board.

However, the Tay Road Bridge Joint Board has provided the Scottish Executive with the average daily traffic figure (southbound only) covering the period 1 January 2007 to 31 May 2007.

The average daily traffic flow (southbound only) for this period is 12157.

Marlyn Glen: To ask the Scottish Executive what the average daily traffic flow over the Erskine Bridge was in each of the 12 months (a) before and (b) after the removal of tolls.

Mr Stewart Stevenson:

The annual average daily (traffic) flow for the 12 month period prior to the removal of tolls (April 2005 to March 2006) was 27024.

The annual average daily flow for the twelve month period following removal of the tolls (April 2006 to March 2007) was 34019.

Marlyn Glen : To ask the Scottish Executive what the average daily traffic flow over the Skye Bridge was in each of the (a) 12 months (i) before and (ii) after the removal of tolls and (b) last 12 months.

Mr Stewart Stevenson:

The annual average daily traffic flow for the twelve months (December 2003 to November 2004) prior to the removal of tolls was 2480.

The annual average daily traffic flow for the twelve months (December 2004 to November 2005) following removal of the tolls was 3294.

The annual average daily traffic flow for the most recent twelve month period (June 2006 to May 2007) was 3415.

6 June 2007

Marlyn Glen: To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what percentage of local government employees were aged (a) 16 to 24, (b) 25 to 34, (c) 35 to 44, (d) 45 to 54 and (e) 55 to 64 in each of the last five years and what the most up-to-date figures are.

Mr John Swinney:

The official source of data on the number of people employed in Local Government organisations is the Quarterly Public Sector Employment series. The Following
table 1 shows the number of people employed in Local Government Organisations in each of the last 5 years.

The Public Sector Employment data does not include information on the age of employees within Local Government. However, the Labour Force Survey (LFS) does provide estimates by age of employee although it does not correspond exactly to the official measure of Local Government employment. For illustrative purposes the following table 2 contains a breakdown of the proportion of people employed in Local Government in each age group for each of the last 5 years based on the LFS.

Table 1 Total employment in Local Government organisations including police, fire and related services

Total Local Government Including Police, Fire and Related Services

Q2 2002
301,300

Q2 2003
307,700

Q2 2004
315,500

Q2 2005
321,200

Q2 2006
323,300

Source: quarterly public sector employment in Scotland

Notes:

1. Data relates to Q2 (March) each year

2. Data are based on headcounts

Table 2 Proportion of Local Government employees (including fire, police and related services) by age group

16-24

25-34

35-44

45-54

55-64

Spring 2002
6.5%

16.6%

31.2%

31.8%

14.0%

Spring 2003
4.9%

17.2%

30.5%

32.2%

15.2%

Spring 2004
6.1%

16.5%

31.7%

28.3%

17.4%

Spring 2005
6.6%

18.5%

30.3%

28.6%

16.0%

Spring 2006
6.1%

17.3%

31.2%

27.6%

17.9%

Source: Labour Force Survey

Notes:

1. Data relates to the Spring Quarter (March-May) each year

2. Data are based on headcounts

3. Data are based on a sample survey and therefore are subject to a degree of error.

6 June 2007

Marlyn Glen: To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what percentage of its employees were aged (a) 16 to 24, (b) 25 to 34, (c) 35 to 44, (d) 45 to 54 and (e) 55 to 64 in each of the last five years and what the most up-to-date figures are.

Mr John Swinney:

The information requested is provided in the following table and reflects the position at the end each year from 2002 to 2006. The most up-to-date figures available give the position at end April 2007.

Number and percentage of permanent staff in the Scottish Executive core departments by age group

Age 16 to 24

Age 25 to 34

Age 35 to 44

Age 45 to 54

Age 55 to 64

As at

Number

%

Number

%

Number

%

Number

%

Number

%

31-12-2002
346

8%

1099

25%

1288

29%

1239

28%

433

10%

31-12-2003
280

6%

1126

25%

1373

30%

1274

28%

509

11%

31-12-2004
234

5%

1142

25%

1402

30%

1294

28%

552

12%

31-12-2005
188

4%

1130

25%

1391

30%

1308

28%

584

13%

31-12-2006
139

3%

1048

24%

1358

31%

1281

29%

594

13%

30-04-2007
122

3%

1033

24%

1346

31%

1278

29%

596

14%

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