- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 3 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money was spent on the provision and development of children’s play space in each local authority area in the last year.
Answer
This is a matter for each localauthority. The information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 3 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what physical area is designated as children’s play space in each local authority area.
Answer
Each local authority decideson its own spatial standards for children’s play space in public areas, andeach local authority will also make different requirements of developers. TheNational Playing Fields Association has produced the six acre standard forguidance on space standards.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 20 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what cycle projects have been submitted for funding under the Integrated Transport Fund.
Answer
The Executive is not currently considering any cycle projects for funding under the Integrated Transport Fund.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 20 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what cycle projects have been approved under the Integrated Transport Fund.
Answer
Awards have been given under the Integrated Transport Fund (ITF) to Cycling Scotland for its running costs, to the Bike Week Steering Group for its national programme, Sustrans for its research programme on cycling and safer routes, and the Strategic Rail Authority for fitting of cycle racks on new and existing rolling stock. Details of ITF awards are contained in the annual
Report by Scottish Ministers to Parliament - Grants Paid Under Section 70 of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001. Those relating to financial years 2002-03 and 2003-04 are available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. numbers 28193 and 33166). A similar report in respect of financial year 2004-05 is due to be published shortly.
The reports also contain details of those cycle projects awarded under the Public Transport Fund, resources for which are now contained in the Integrated Transport Fund.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 17 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what targets are in place at a national level for cycling (a) to work and (b) in respect of all journeys and what progress has been made in achieving these.
Answer
The National Cycling Strategy set a target to quadruple the amount of cycling trips on 1996 figures by 2012. No target was set for cycling to work. Progress is measured using figures set out in Table 12.1 of Scottish Transport Statistics No 23, a copy of which is available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 33706).
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 16 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in increasing cycle use in Scotland in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not collect statistics of cycle use in each year for each local authorityarea.
Some statistics about cycle useby local authority area are available from the Scottish Household Survey (SHS).This is designed to provide estimates for most local authority areas for two-yearperiods, including (a) the percentage of households with one or more bicycles whichcan be used by adults; (b) the percentage of adults who made a trip of more thana quarter of a mile by bicycle for certain purposes on one or more of the previousseven days; (c) the percentage who usually cycle to work; (d) the percentage whousually cycle to school, and (e) the percentage of journeys reported by adults whichwere made by bicycle.
Such statistics for each localauthority area appear in the Scottish Executive's Transport Statistics bulletins of SHS results, whichare available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre, such as: Transportacross Scotland in 2001 and 2002: some SHS results for parts of Scotland (Bib.number 30990) and SHS Travel Diary results for 2002 (Bib. number 32737).
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 16 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in the provision of new cycling facilities by each local authority.
Answer
Cycling Scotland, whichis core funded by the Executive, published in March 2005 a national assessment oflocal authorities’ performance on cycling provision, which included summaries of the facilities provided by each authority. I have arranged for copies of the reportto be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre(Bib. number 36748).
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 16 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 31 May 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is concerned about the increase in many childhood cancers, as recorded in Childhood Cancer in Scotland 1975-1999, published by the Information and Statistics Division of NHS Scotland.
Answer
Concerns about the increased incidence of cancer and the needs of those who suffer from it make cancer one of the top priorities for the Scottish Executive and for NHSScotland.
Cancer in Scotland, the Scottish cancer strategy, was put in place to tackle the issues raised across a broad front, through primary prevention, earlier detection and more rapid diagnosis and treatment.
There are some 120 children diagnosed with cancer each year which accounts for less than 1% of all cancers in Scotland. This figure remained fairly constant from 1975–99.
Deaths from cancers in children have decreased such that between 1975 and 1999 five year survival increased from 50% to 76%.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 16 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 31 May 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what research it funds into possible environmental causes of childhood cancer.
Answer
The Childhood Cancer Research Group is funded by the Scottish Executive and the Department of Health and carries out epidemiological research in this area.
The Scottish Executive also funds the Scottish Cancer Registry which carries out work on trends in childhood cancer and has contributed data to various international epidemiological studies.
Research will also be carried out at the new leukaemia research laboratory to be built at Gartnavel Hospital which is jointly funded by NHS Greater Glasgow, the University of Glasgow and the Leukaemia Research Fund.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 16 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 31 May 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what research is ongoing into childhood cancer incidence in Scotland.
Answer
Full information on current research into childhood cancer incidence in Scotland is not held centrally.
Information on some current and recently completed research projects can be found on the National Research Register (NRR) at http://www.nrr.nhs.uk/ The International Cancer Research Portfolio (ICRP) database of international cancer research can be accessed at:
http://www.ncri.org.uk/includes/icrp.htm.
