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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: S3W-21571

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many new council houses have been built in each of the last 10 years broken down by local authority.

The requested information is available to download in Excel format from the Housing Statistics for Scotland website at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Housing-Regeneration/HSfS/NewBuildLA.

This spreadsheet contains time series tables of quarterly, calendar year and financial year starts and completions by councils, broken down by local authority area. The second last sheet in the workbook shows the latest financial year completions.

Question reference: S3W-21574

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what the combined sale value was of all properties sold under right-to-buy legislation by registered social landlords in each of the last 10 years, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S2W-32520

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 2 April 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many families there were in which at least one adult and one child were diagnosed with autism in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board and showing year-on-year percentage changes.

Question reference: S2W-32525

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 2 April 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many community psychiatric nurses were employed by each NHS board in each year since 1999, showing year-on-year percentage changes.

The table shows the head count for community psychiatric nursesemployed by each NHS board in each year since 1999 and year-on-year percentage changes.

Community Psychiatric Nurses by NHS Board

	Head Count at 30 September
	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Scotland	624	664	742	783	929	982	1,065
NHS Argyll and Clyde	60	69	78	86	85	83	83
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	103	123	119	119	118	130	127
NHS Borders	17	16	18	16	16	19	20
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	37	38	41	43	46	43	41
NHS Fife	29	30	35	34	35	38	39
NHS Forth Valley	53	53	52	48	48	47	48
NHS Grampian	61	59	60	55	54	53	55
NHS Greater Glasgow	33	34	50	57	183	179	188
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
NHS Highland	47	46	65	70	58	92	95
NHS Lanarkshire	80	75	74	81	82	83	78
NHS Lothian	42	48	70	103	110	130	207
NHS Orkney	1	4	4	5	5	6	5
NHS Shetland	5	5	7	7	7	7	7
NHS Tayside	51	59	60	57	54	58	60
NHS Western Isles	5	5	5	2	1	1	1
NHS 24	-	-	-	-	-	13	11
NHS National Services Scotland	-	-	4	-	-	-	-

	Change 1999-2000	Change 2000-01	Change 2001-02	Change 2002-03	Change 2003-04	Change 2004-05	Change 2005-06
Scotland	6.4%	11.7%	5.5%	18.6%	5.7%	8.5%	..
NHS Argyll and Clyde	15.0%	13.0%	10.3%	-1.2%	-2.4%	0.0%	..
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	19.4%	-3.3%	0.0%	-0.8%	10.2%	-2.3%	..
NHS Borders	-5.9%	12.5%	-11.1%	0.0%	18.8%	5.3%	..
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	2.7%	7.9%	4.9%	7.0%	-6.5%	-4.7%	..
NHS Fife	3.4%	16.7%	-2.9%	2.9%	8.6%	2.6%	..
NHS Forth Valley	0.0%	-1.9%	-7.7%	0.0%	-2.1%	2.1%	..
NHS Grampian	-3.3%	1.7%	-8.3%	-1.8%	-1.9%	3.8%	..
NHS Greater Glasgow	3.0%	47.1%	14.0%	221.1%	-2.2%	5.0%	..
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	x	x	x	x	x	x	..
NHS Highland	-2.1%	41.3%	7.7%	-17.1%	58.6%	3.3%	..
NHS Lanarkshire	-6.3%	-1.3%	9.5%	1.2%	1.2%	-6.0%	..
NHS Lothian	14.3%	45.8%	47.1%	6.8%	18.2%	59.2%	..
NHS Orkney	300.0%	0.0%	25.0%	0.0%	20.0%	-16.7%	..
NHS Shetland	0.0%	40.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	..
NHS Tayside	15.7%	1.7%	-5.0%	-5.3%	7.4%	3.4%	..
NHS Western Isles	0.0%	0.0%	-60.0%	-50.0%	0.0%	0.0%	..
NHS 24	x	x	x	x	x	-15.4%	..
NHS National Services Scotland	x	x	x	x	x	x

Question reference: S2W-32519

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 2 April 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) adults and (b) children were diagnosed with autism in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board and showing year-on-year percentage changes.

Question reference: S2W-32529

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 29 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many road deaths occurred where the driver was using a mobile phone in each police board area in each year since 1999, showing year-on-year percentage changes.

Data about injury roadaccidents are collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executiveusing the Stats 19 statistical report form. Statistics about the factors whichmay have contributed to the occurrence of an accident are only available witheffect from the start of 2005, when the Stats 19 specification was expanded toinclude such information. It must be emphasised that the contributory factors shown in the Stats 19returns reflect the reporting officer'sopinion at the time of making the report, and are not necessarily the result ofextensive investigation: subsequent enquiries could lead to a change in the opinionof the reporting officer. The factors are largely subjective, and depend uponthe skill and experience of the reporting officer in reconstructing the eventswhich led directly to the accident, based upon the information available at thetime of making the report. There may be accidents for which the reportingofficer cannot identify any contributory factors.

Prior to 2005, therefore, nofigures are available. In Scotland in 2005, there was only one road death in accidentsfor which a driver using a mobile phone was believed to be a contributoryfactor. That death occurred in the Northern Constabulary area. Figures for 2006should become available in June.

Question reference: S2W-32527

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 29 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many road deaths there were (a) in each police board area and (b) on each individual road in each year since 1999, showing year-on-year percentage changes.

Data about injury roadaccidents are collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executiveusing the Stats 19 statistical report form.

The numbers of road deathsby police force area in 2005 are given in table 37 of Road Accidents Scotland2005, which was published by the Scottish Executive in November 2006, a copy ofwhich is available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number41118). Figures for earlier years are available in the corresponding tables inearlier editions. In addition, the numbers of road deaths in each police forcearea in every year from 1981 to 2005 inclusive can be found in a spreadsheetwhich is available at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Transport-Travel/RoadAccidentTables/TablesNovember2006.

Figures for 2006 shouldbecome available in June.

The Stats 19 data includethe road class and number, if any. Figures for the numbers of accidents onindividual roads can only be produced from the central statistical database incases where the roads are of class M, A(M), A and B. The following tablesprovide these. They are based upon data which were collected by the police atthe time of the accident and subsequently reported to the Executive. They maydiffer from any figures which the relevant local authorities would provide now,because they do not take account of any subsequent changes or corrections thatlocal authorities may have made to the statistical information, for use at alocal level, about the location of each accident, based upon their knowledge of the roads and areas concerned. In the case of roads, such as the A1, which crossthe border, the figures relate only to accidents which occurred in Scotland. Percentagechanges have not been provided because they would be practically meaningless, asthe figures are so small.

Road Deaths in Scotland:1999 to 2005

Road	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
M73	0	0	2	1	3	0	1
M74	6	7	0	5	1	4	3
M77	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
M8	1	9	4	2	3	2	1
M80	0	0	1	3	2	1	1
M876	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
M9	2	0	2	1	0	0	0
M90	0	0	2	4	0	0	2
A(M)74	0	0	0	5	3	1	2
A(M)823	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
A1	5	7	3	7	1	1	5
A1107	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
A1140	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
A198	0	0	1	0	1	1	0
A199	2	0	2	0	0	0	2
A6093	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
A6094	3	0	0	0	1	1	1
A6105	1	2	0	1	2	0	1
A6137	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
A68	2	3	2	2	2	2	1
A697	0	0	0	1	0	2	1
A698	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
A699	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
A7	2	3	0	2	1	1	4
A70	4	0	4	1	0	4	4
A700	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
A701	2	2	6	2	3	3	3
A702	0	5	1	2	2	3	0
A703	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
A704	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
A705	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
A706	1	2	0	0	1	2	2
A7066	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
A708	0	0	0	1	1	1	0
A709	0	0	3	1	1	0	0
A71	7	5	5	2	4	4	3
A710	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
A711	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
A712	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
A713	1	0	3	2	4	1	3
A714	0	0	0	1	2	0	0
A716	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
A719	1	1	0	3	0	1	1
A72	0	1	1	3	7	3	0
A720	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
A721	0	2	1	2	0	0	0
A723	1	0	1	2	1	0	1
A724	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
A725	0	0	1	2	1	1	1
A726	1	1	2	0	3	0	0
A728	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
A73	2	0	0	0	2	1	0
A730	1	1	2	0	0	1	0
A735	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
A736	1	0	1	2	0	0	1
A737	1	2	1	2	1	1	0
A739	2	0	0	0	0	1	0
A74	0	0	1	1	0	0	1
A741	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
A743	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
A745	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
A749	0	1	0	0	0	1	2
A75	3	1	3	8	3	1	5
A759	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
A76	5	4	2	2	2	0	4
A760	1	1	3	0	0	1	2
A761	1	0	1	1	2	0	1
A762	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
A763	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
A77	3	4	7	10	12	12	3
A770	0	0	0	1	5	0	1
A78	6	2	5	2	3	1	0
A780	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
A79	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
A8	4	5	5	7	4	3	2
A80	1	3	2	0	2	0	1
A800	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
A8004	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
A801	1	2	1	0	0	1	0
A8010	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
A8011	1	0	1	0	1	1	0
A8014	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
A803	3	2	3	0	0	0	1
A809	0	1	1	2	0	1	0
A81	1	1	1	0	2	1	0
A810	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
A811	0	3	4	0	5	2	3
A813	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
A814	0	1	0	4	2	0	3
A815	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
A816	0	0	2	0	0	2	0
A817	0	2	0	0	0	1	0
A819	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
A82	13	9	7	12	7	7	10
A820	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
A822	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
A823	1	0	0	2	1	0	0
A824	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
A827	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
A828	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
A83	3	7	5	0	1	3	2
A830	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
A832	1	3	1	3	1	0	1
A834	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
A835	1	0	1	1	2	1	3
A836	0	3	2	0	2	1	0
A838	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
A839	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
A84	0	1	3	0	4	0	1
A841	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
A844	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
A848	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
A85	0	8	8	2	5	7	7
A855	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
A857	0	1	0	1	0	1	2
A858	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
A859	0	0	2	0	0	3	0
A86	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
A861	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
A862	0	0	3	0	0	0	1
A865	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
A866	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
A87	0	2	3	0	0	3	1
A872	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
A875	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
A876	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
A879	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
A88	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
A883	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
A887	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
A888	2	0	1	0	2	0	0
A889	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
A89	3	4	1	1	3	2	3
A890	0	1	2	0	0	1	0
A891	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
A894	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
A899	1	1	0	0	1	0	0
A9	17	15	21	9	21	17	5
A90	9	10	18	10	13	13	9
A900	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
A902	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
A903	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
A904	0	1	0	1	0	1	0
A905	0	0	1	1	3	0	2
A907	2	2	1	1	2	2	1
A908	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
A909	1	0	3	1	0	1	0
A9096	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
A91	2	2	5	3	3	5	1
A910	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
A911	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
A912	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
A913	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
A914	0	0	1	1	2	0	0
A915	1	0	1	1	1	0	2
A916	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
A917	0	0	1	2	0	1	0
A919	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
A92	6	4	8	2	5	7	7
A920	0	0	0	1	0	1	1
A921	1	1	1	1	0	0	2
A923	1	2	3	1	2	2	5
A926	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
A928	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
A929	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
A93	2	5	3	3	4	3	2
A930	0	1	1	0	0	1	1
A932	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
A933	0	0	0	2	0	2	1
A935	2	0	1	0	3	1	0
A937	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
A938	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
A939	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
A94	3	0	0	2	2	0	1
A940	0	3	0	1	0	0	1
A941	1	3	2	1	1	2	2
A944	3	1	1	2	1	1	3
A945	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
A947	1	1	1	5	3	1	6
A948	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
A949	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
A95	0	4	2	1	2	0	1
A950	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
A952	1	1	2	0	1	2	1
A955	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
A956	3	1	1	1	0	2	2
A957	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
A96	1	9	2	6	11	7	4
A960	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
A961	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
A965	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
A968	0	1	2	1	0	1	0
A97	1	2	0	0	1	1	2
A970	0	3	1	1	1	0	1
A975	2	0	1	0	0	0	1
A977	2	3	2	5	0	0	0
A98	1	3	3	1	1	3	1
A980	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
A981	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
A985	1	2	0	0	0	2	1
A99	3	2	0	0	0	1	1
B1345	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B1347	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B1348	1	1	0	1	0	0	0
B1361	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B1377	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
B6350	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
B6355	1	1	0	0	0	0	1
B6357	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
B6359	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
B6374	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
B6397	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
B6401	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
B6415	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
B6438	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
B6456	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
B7001	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
B701	1	4	1	0	0	0	0
B7015	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
B7016	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
B7019	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
B7021	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B7023	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
B7026	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
B7029	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
B7031	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B7037	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
B7046	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
B705	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
B7052	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
B706	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
B7065	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B7066	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
B7069	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
B7070	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
B7076	1	2	0	0	0	0	0
B7078	2	0	1	0	5	2	1
B7081	0	0	0	1	0	2	0
B7083	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B710	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B717	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
B718	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
B721	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
B723	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
B724	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
B729	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
B730	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B742	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
B743	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
B751	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
B754	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
B757	1	2	0	0	0	0	0
B758	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
B762	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
B764	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
B765	0	2	1	1	0	1	0
B766	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
B767	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
B768	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
B769	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
B774	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B775	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
B777	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
B778	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
B780	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
B784	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
B787	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
B789	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
B790	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
B796	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
B797	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
B799	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
B800	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
B8019	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
B802	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
B803	0	0	2	2	0	0	1
B8033	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B8039	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
B8046	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
B8048	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B8050	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
B8053	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B8058	0	0	0	0	1	2	0
B806	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
B8068	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
B8070	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
B8079	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B810	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
B812	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
B816	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
B817	0	1	0	0	1	0	1
B819	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
B822	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
B825	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B827	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
B832	1	0	2	0	0	0	0
B833	1	0	0	0	2	0	0
B842	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
B843	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
B844	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
B846	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B857	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
B862	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
B867	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
B871	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
B880	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
B892	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
B895	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
B898	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
B9000	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
B9001	0	0	0	1	0	2	1
B9002	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
B9005	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
B9006	0	0	0	0	2	1	0
B9008	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
B9009	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
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B9015	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
B902	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
B9022	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
B9023	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
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B9032	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
B9033	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
B9040	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
B9068	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
B9074	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
B9077	1	0	0	0	1	1	0
B908	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
B9080	0	0	2	0	0	0	1
B9089	1	1	0	0	0	1	0
B9096	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
B9103	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
B9106	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
B9113	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
B9119	0	0	0	1	1	2	0
B9127	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
B9128	0	0	1	1	0	0	1
B9130	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
B9139	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
B914	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
B9152	1	0	4	0	0	0	1
B9153	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B9155	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B9156	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
B9157	0	1	0	1	1	0	1
B9165	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
B9170	1	0	1	1	0	0	0
B9171	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
B921	0	0	0	0	3	1	0
B922	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
B927	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
B936	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
B939	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
B940	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
B947	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B959	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
B961	0	1	0	1	0	0	1
B966	0	1	0	1	2	0	0
B974	1	0	1	0	3	2	1
B976	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
B977	1	0	0	2	0	0	1
B978	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
B979	0	1	3	0	0	0	3
B981	1	0	0	0	1	1	0
B985	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
B992	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
B993	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
B994	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
B996	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
B999	1	0	1	2	2	0	0
C Roads	10	7	2	6	5	6	7
Unclassified	54	54	60	40	50	48	46

Question reference: S2W-32530

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 29 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many road deaths occurred where the person who died was not wearing a seatbelt in each police board area in each year since 1999, showing year-on-year percentage changes.

Question reference: S2W-32521

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Des McNulty on 29 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals are currently waiting for surveys as part of the central heating programme in each local authority area and, of these, how many have been waiting for (a) less than three months and (b) three months or more.

I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is as follows:

Information is not held in the formatrequested but by main postcode area. The numbers in the following table are thereforeby main postcode area:

Postcode	Waiting Less than 3 Months	Waiting More than 3 Months	Total
AB	238	216	454
DD	122	33	155
DG	133	78	211
EH	304	46	350
FK	105	18	123
G	587	106	693
HS	68	14	82
IV	85	132	217
KA	243	77	320
KW	55	83	138
KY	124	39	163
ML	238	49	287
PA	210	91	301
PH	78	73	151
TD	57	35	92
ZE	14	33	47
Total	2,661	1,123	3,784

Question reference: S2W-32528

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2007
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 29 March 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many road deaths occurred where excessive speed was a contributing factor in each police board area in each year since 1999, showing year-on-year percentage changes.

Data about injury roadaccidents are collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executiveusing the Stats 19 statistical report form. Statistics about the factors whichmay have contributed to the occurrence of an accident are only available witheffect from the start of 2005, when the Stats 19 specification was expanded toinclude such information. It must be emphasised that the contributory factors shown in the Stats 19 returnsreflect the reporting officer's opinionat the time of making the report, and are not necessarily the result ofextensive investigation: subsequent enquiries could lead to a change in the opinionof the reporting officer. The factors are largely subjective, and depend uponthe skill and experience of the reporting officer in reconstructing the eventswhich led directly to the accident, based upon the information available at thetime of making the report. There may be accidents for which the reportingofficer cannot identify any contributory factors.

he information which isavailable is shown in the following table. There are separate codes for “exceeding speed limit” and “travelling toofast for conditions”, so the table gives the number of people who were killedin road accidents for which one or both of these was believed to be acontributory factor. Figures for 2006 should become available in June.

Road deaths in accidents inwhich “exceeding speed limit” or “travelling too fast for conditions” (or both)was believed to be a contributory factor

Police Force	2005
Northern	8
Grampian	16
Tayside	8
Fife	2
Lothian borders	9
Central	8
Strathclyde	16
Dumfries and Galloway	4