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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S2W-17815

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Elish Angiolini on 9 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16432 by Colin Boyd QC on 8 July 2005, how many charges involving a statutory racial offence and separately racial aggravation were referred to the Reporter to the Children’s Panel in each year since 2002-03.

Information on the number ofcharges referred by Procurators Fiscal to theReporter to the Children’s Panel is setout in the following table:

Charges Referred to the Reporter to theChildren’s Panel

	Police Force Area	1. FY 02-03	2. FY 03-04	3. FY 04-05	Grand Total
Racial Charge	Central	12	16	44	72
	Fife	7	11	6	24
	Grampian	4	0	5	9
	Lothian and Borders	20	17	19	56
	Northern	1	0	1	2
	Strathclyde	61	124	116	301
	Tayside	0	7	5	12
Charge Total		105	175	196	476
Aggravation	Fife	0	2	2	4
	Lothian and Borders	17	10	16	43
	Northern	0	0	2	2
	Strathclyde	25	55	52	132
	Tayside	2	3	0	5
Aggravation Total		44	70	72	186

Note : The information inthe table relates to the number of charges and not to the number of accusedpersons. The 476 charges involving racial offences involved a total of 399accused. The 186 charges involving a racial aggravation involved a total of 84accused.

Question reference: S2W-18037

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 9 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what allowances or reimbursement of travelling expenses are available to those who have to travel by necessity outwith their NHS board area for dental treatment.

Question reference: S2W-18034

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 9 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) salaried dentists and (b) vacancies for salaried dentists there have been in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.

Question reference: S2W-18036

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 9 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients had to travel outwith their NHS board area for dental treatment in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area of residence.

Question reference: S2W-18035

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 9 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been on a waiting list to register for a community dentist in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.

Question reference: S2W-17912

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 15 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 4 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many registered and unregistered nurses there have been in the NHS Borders area and what the breakdown has been between the hours attributable to nurses employed directly by NHS Borders and the hours attributable to agency nurses in each year since 1999.

Information on nursing staffin NHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website underWorkforce Statistics, at:

www.isdscotland.org/workforce.

Section E gives details of nursing andmidwifery staff employed in NHS Scotland. In particular, tables E1 and E2 showthe whole time equivalent (WTE) and headcount number of registered and nonregistered nurses, broken down by NHS board area. Latest available figures areat 31 March 2005.

Table E13 shows the average whole timeequivalent (WTE) and actual hours worked for agency nursing staff, broken downby NHS board area, by financial year from 2000-2001 to 2004-2005. WTE adjustsheadcount staff figures to take account of part-time staff.

At March 2005, the total number of nurses and midwives employed by NHS Borders was at a record level of1,446 headcount.

Question reference: S2W-17911

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 15 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 4 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many midwives have been employed in the NHS Borders area and what the breakdown has been between hours attributable to midwives employed by NHS Borders and the hours attributable to agency midwives in each year since 1999.

Information on midwives inNHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website underWorkforce Statistics, at:www.isdscotland.org/workforce.

Section E gives details of nursing andmidwifery staff employed in NHS Scotland. In particular, tables E1 and E2 showthe whole time equivalent (WTE) and headcount number of midwives, broken downby NHS Board area. Latest available figures are at 31 March 2005.

Table E13 shows the average whole timeequivalent (WTE) and actual hours worked for agency midwifery staff, brokendown by NHS Board area, by financial year from 2000-2001 to 2004-2005. WTEadjusts headcount staff figures to take account of part-time staff.

At March 2005, the totalnumber of nurses and midwives employed by NHS Borders was at a record level of1,446 headcount.

Question reference: S2W-17783

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 4 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many apprenticeships there have been in (a) manufacturing and (b) service industries in each year since 1999 in (a) the Scottish Borders and (b) East Lothian.

The Scottish Executive doesnot hold information on the number of MAs broken down by sector andgeographical area centrally. This detail is an operational matter for ScottishEnterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.

Data on the number of peoplestudying MAs in Scotland since 1999 is given in answer to question S2W-17784,answered on 4 August 2005 . All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can befound at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

Question reference: S2W-17788

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 4 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) total number of jobs and (b) employment growth rates have been in the (i) energy, (ii) water, (iii) manufacturing, (iv) construction, (v) distribution, (vi) hotel, (vii) restaurant, (viii) transport, (ix) communications, (x) banking, (xi) finance, (xii) insurance, (xiii) public administration, (xiv) education and (xv) health sector in each local authority area in each year since 1995.

Question reference: S2W-17784

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 July 2005
Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 4 August 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many apprenticeships there have been in (a) manufacturing and (b) service industries in each year since 1999.

While a breakdown byindustrial sector is not held centrally by the Executive we do hold totalnumbers of modern apprenticeships (MAs) for Scotland for each year since1999. The figures relate to the first quarter in each year and are given in thetable below.

Year	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Number of MAs	11,568	14,002	15,767	23,399	27,768	31,392	33,683

The specific number of MAsbroken down by sector is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise and Highlands andIslands Enterprise.