- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 30 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage is of female officers at each rank within each Scottish police force and within the Scottish Crime Squad.
Answer
The percentage of female officers at each rank within each Scottish police force and within the Scottish Crime Squad as at 31 March 1999 are shown below.
Percent
| | Assistant | | | | | |
| Chief | Chief | | Chief | | | |
Force | Constable | Constable | Superintendent | Inspector | Inspector | Sergeant | Constable |
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Central | - | - | - | - | 2.9 | 6.9 | 16.3 |
Dumfries& Galloway | - | - | - | - | 5 | 7.1 | 21.2 |
Fife | - | - | 11.1 | 8.3 | - | 4.6 | 17.9 |
Grampian | - | - | - | 5 | 4.3 | 5.9 | 20.4 |
Lothian& Borders | - | - | 5.6 | 2.7 | 3.9 | 7.5 | 17.5 |
Northern | - | - | - | - | - | 3.7 | 15.6 |
Strathclyde | - | 14.3 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.2 | 6.5 | 18 |
Tayside | - | - | 7.1 | - | 5.1 | 7 | 20 |
The percentages shown are for female officers as a percentage of the total officers at that rank within each force.16.6% of the constables in the Scottish Crime Squad are female. There are no female officers above that rank.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 November 1999
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Answered by Sarah Boyack on 29 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what its estimate is of the number of vehicle kilometres travelled on Scotland's roads, broken down by classification of "built-up" roads and "non built-up" roads, for each of the last five years.
Answer
The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) produces estimates of the total numbers of vehicle kilometres travelled on Scotland's major roads (motorways and A roads). These figures appear in Chapter 6 of Scottish Transport Statistics no. 18 / 1999 edition, copies of which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. The last four rows of Table 6.1 give the DETR estimates for the past ten years for all major roads, for Motorways, for "built-up" A roads (those for which the speed limit is no more than 40 mph), and for "non built-up" A roads (those for which the speed limit is over 40 mph).DETR has recently published provisional estimates of the volume of motor vehicle traffic on minor roads (B, C and unclassified roads) in Scotland in 1998: 5,700 million vehicle kilometres on non-built up roads and 11,300 million vehicle kilometres on built up roads. Figures cannot be provided for earlier years because, as Scottish Transport Statistics explains, the sample which collects the data from which the minor road traffic estimates are produced was designed only to be the basis of estimates for Great Britain as a whole: prior to 1998, the Scottish part of the sample could not provide reliable estimates of minor road traffic for Scotland. From 1998, DETR has increased the size and improved the design of the sample, and Scottish estimates can now be published: they will appear in future editions of Scottish Transport Statistics.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 26 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what has been the rate of progress on the decontamination or treatment of contaminated land in each of the last three years in each local enterprise company area and, at the current rate of dealing with identified contaminated land in each area, how long it will take to decontaminate or treat currently identified contaminated land in each area.
Answer
The information required is not available in the form requested. Local Enterprise companies do not maintain records of the treatment of contaminated land separately from the reclamation of vacant and derelict land. The Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey 1998 which is published in the Environmental Series of the Scottish Executive Statistical Bulletin provides a breakdown of known contaminated land by Local Enterprise Company area for 1998. Copies of the Bulletin are available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe).
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 26 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-1812 and S1W-1875 by Sarah Boyack on 18 October and 20 October 1999, whether it will undertake to collate the information requested centrally and make it publicly available and, if not, whether it will state the reasons why.
Answer
The Executive has no plans to collect estimates of the total time lost because of congestion. The Executive believes policy and investment decisions should be informed by well-established techniques for predicting the amount of time that would be saved as a result of specific proposals, rather than using estimates of total time lost which rely on a comparison between actual traffic conditions and a hypothetical free flowing scenario.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 25 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has received regarding any difficulties faced by Scottish coal producers wishing to move coal by rail and what action it has taken in response to these representations.
Answer
The Executive has received representations from Scottish Coal about the service offered by English, Welsh and Scottish (EWS) Railways. This matter is also the subject of a complaint to the Office of the Rail Regulator. This is a reserved issue being handled by the Scotland Office, with whom the Executive is in close contact.7
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 22 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-1788 by Sarah Boyack on 26 October 1999, whether the information requested is available at a sub-national level and, if so, whether it will place the information in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
Answer
Scottish Household Survey information is not yet available at a sub-national level. The survey began in February this year. While results are available for Scotland as a whole for each quarter, the survey is not designed to provide sub-national figures for any period which is less than a calendar year. In summer 2000, when a year's sample has been collected and checked, results for 1999 will be publicly available for the local authorities with the largest populations, and for groups of other local authorities. In summer 2001, results will be publicly available for every local authority, based upon the combined samples for 1999 and 2000.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 22 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what its forecast is of the rate of traffic increase over the next 10 and 20 years nationally and by travel to work area on the basis of continuation of current policies.
Answer
The National Road Traffic Forecasts (Great Britain) 1997, which was produced by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, provides the latest forecasts of the projected growth in the volume of motor traffic on roads in Great Britain until the year 2031. This forecast shows an estimated growth in traffic levels from 1996 to 2011 of 28% and from 1996 to 2021 of 46% based on the capacity of the current road network, current policies and current behaviour.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 16 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what consultation it has undertaken to inform its input into developing Her Majesty's Government's position for the forthcoming World Trade Organisation negotiations on trade and investment.
Answer
SE is in regular contact with DTI on a wide range of issues, including WTO negotiations impacting on Executive's responsibilities.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 16 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has commissioned into the potential impact of road charging and workplace parking charges on the pattern of land use in and around Scotland's towns and cities.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is preparing a research programme in association with the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions and the key Scottish local authorities. This research will include the potential impact on land use in urban areas.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 October 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 16 November 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has commissioned into the potential impact of road charging on the rate of traffic accidents and the number of resultant injuries and fatalities.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is preparing a research programme in association with the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions and the key Scottish local authorities. This research will include road safety.