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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
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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

SE is in regular contact with DTI on a wide range of issues, including WTO negotiations impacting on Executive's responsibilities.

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.

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.