- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what licensing arrangements it has in place in respect of the storage of naturally occurring radioactive materials waste in Scottish oil establishments.
Answer
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has responsibility for licensing the disposal and storage of radioactive waste from the Scottish oil industry under the terms of the Radioactive Substances Act 1993.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many contamination incidents involving radium 226 and 228 have occurred at oil installations in the last 15 years, broken down by site.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has responsibility for licensing the disposal and storage of radioactive waste from the Scottish oil industry under the terms of the Radioactive Substances Act 1993. Failure to comply with the terms of the authorisation would result in enforcement action from the agency.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many shipping movements involving naturally occurring radioactive materials waste from Scottish oil establishments have taken place in each year since 1999.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has responsibility for licensing the disposal and storage of radioactive waste from the Scottish oil industry under the terms of the Radioactive Substances Act 1993.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much naturally occurring radioactive materials waste, in kilograms, has been generated by the oil industry and stored at sites in Scotland in each year since 1999.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has responsibility for licensing the disposal and storage of radioactive waste from the Scottish oil industry under the terms of the Radioactive Substances Act 1993.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of contamination of naturally occurring radioactive materials waste there have been at Scottish oil installations in each year since 1995.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has responsibility for licensing the disposal and storage of radioactive waste from the Scottish oil industry under the terms of the Radioactive Substances Act 1993. Failure to comply with the terms of the authorisation would result in enforcement action from the agency.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 23 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in light of the findings of Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion in Scotland 2005 by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, it has any concerns in respect of wage levels in Scotland.
Answer
The Executive monitors earningsin Scotland through the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings producedby the Office for National Statistics. The latest publication showed that medianearnings in Scotland had increased at the second highest rate out of the 12standard UK regions between 2004 and 2005. Also the gender pay gaphad reduced from 13.9% in 2004 to 11.9% in 2005 compared to a gender pay gap of17.1% in the UK.
Our Framework for EconomicDevelopment in Scotland is clear that economic growth a pre-requisite for allin society to enjoy enhanced economic opportunities and it sets the right prioritiesfor achieving such progress.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 23 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in light of the findings of Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion in Scotland 2005 by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, it has measured the total financial shortfall to the Scottish economy from not creating the right social, economic and employment environment to enable 200,000 people of working age to enter the job market.
Answer
The Executive has not measureddirectly any financial shortfall. The labour market has been improving since around1997 and we now have one of the highest employment rates in the EU and the OECD.Our
Framework for Economic Development in Scotland is clear that economicgrowth is a pre-requisite for all in society to enjoy enhanced economic opportunitiesand it sets the right priorities for achieving such progress.
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-21496 on 21 December 2005 which provides further details of howwe aim to reduce economic inactivity further.
All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 23 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many disabled people over 40 have never worked, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The data requested is given intable 1. These figures are estimated from Labour Force Survey (LFS) data. The LFS,which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics, is the official sourceof employment and unemployment estimates.
The LFS has been boosted in Scotland to enablekey statistics to be provided at detailed geographical levels for the first time. However, even with this boost to the sample the figuresfor disabled people over 40 who have neverworked, broken down by local authority area are still unreliable for most areas.
Table 1: Number of PeopleAged Over 40 with a Disability1 who have Never Worked by LocalAuthority Area, Scotland, 2004
| Area | Level |
| Scotland | 19,000 |
| Aberdeen City | * |
| Aberdeenshire | * |
| Angus | * |
| Argyll and Bute | * |
| The Scottish Borders | * |
| Clackmannanshire | * |
| West Dunbartonshire | * |
| Dumfries and Galloway | * |
| Dundee City | * |
| East Ayrshire | 1,000 |
| East Dunbartonshire | * |
| East Lothian | * |
| East Renfrewshire | * |
| City of Edinburgh | * |
| Falkirk | * |
| Fife | * |
| Glasgow City | 6,000 |
| Highland | * |
| Inverclyde | * |
| Midlothian | * |
| Moray | * |
| North Ayrshire | 1,000 |
| North Lanarkshire | * |
| Orkney Islands | * |
| Perth and Kinross | * |
| Renfrewshire | * |
| Shetland Islands | * |
| South Ayrshire | * |
| South Lanarkshire | * |
| Stirling | * |
| West Lothian | * |
| Eilean Siar | * |
Source: Annual Population Survey(January to December 2004).
Notes:
1. The LFS questions on health and disability reflect theprovisions of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995. The LFS broadly classifiesdisabled into three categories records: DDA disabled (current disabled) only - whohave a current disability which includes people who have a long-term disabilitywhich substantially limits their day-to-day activities; work-limiting disabled -people who have a long-term disability which affects the kind of work or amountof work they might do, and a third category where respondents have both.
2. *Estimate is unreliable ornot available.
3. Levels are rounded to thenearest thousand.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 23 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-20684 by Mr Tom McCabe on 1 December 2005, which referred to the answer to question S2W-19841 which was not, at that point, available on the Parliament’s website, whether in future in these circumstances it will provide the member with a copy of the answer being referred to.
Answer
Parliamentary questions whichrefer to another question asked and, which is not yet on the Parliament’s websiteshould be sought from the Parliament’s Chamber Desk.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in light of the move by the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester to launch a formal investigation into the use of rendition flights, it will recommend that Scottish chief constables hold similar inquiries in their own force areas as a matter of urgency.
Answer
This is an operational matter for the chief constables. I understand Scottish Police Forces are liaising with Association of Chief Police Officers, in the examination and analysis of the available information. I am confident that they will act upon any specific and credible information that justifies further investigation.
