- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the incidence of home ownership has been in each year since 1979, expressed as a percentage of all occupied housing, and by how much it estimates home ownership will increase in each of the next 10 years.
Answer
The following table providesinformation on the percentage of the total Scottish housing stock which was owneroccupied at 31 December each year up to December 2004 the latest date for whichan estimate is available. Annual estimates on the tenure of the housing stock areavailable only for the whole stock including unoccupied stock.
Future trends in home ownershipwill be influenced by a range of factors including general economic trends, thelevels of new building for ownership and social renting, numbers of sales to sittingtenants and demolitions.
Estimated Percentage of the HousingStock which was Owner Occupied
| Year | Percentage Owner Occupied at 31 December |
| 1979 | 35 |
| 1980 | 36 |
| 1981 | 36 |
| 1982 | 38 |
| 1983 | 39 |
| 1984 | 40 |
| 1985 | 42 |
| 1986 | 43 |
| 1987 | 45 |
| 1988 | 47 |
| 1989 | 49 |
| 1990 | 51 |
| 1991 | 52 |
| 1992 | 54 |
| 1993 | 55 |
| 1994 | 57 |
| 1995 | 58 |
| 1996 | 59 |
| 1997 | 60 |
| 1998 | 61 |
| 1999 | 62 |
| 2000 | 63 |
| 2001 | 63 |
| 2002 | 64 |
| 2003 | 65 |
| 2004 | 66 |
Note:1. Estimates from 2001 revisedfollowing 2001 Census.
- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 3 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the biographical details, qualifications and registered interests of conveners and members of Additional Support Needs Tribunals and, if so, by what date the information will be published.
Answer
The names of all the conveners and members of the Additional Support Needs Tribunals can be found on the Additional Support Needs Tribunals website at
www.asntscotland.gov.uk. The Scottish Executive does not intend to publish their biographical details, qualifications and registered interests.
A Scottish Executive news release dated 21 October 2005, provided the biographical and other details of the President of the Additional Support Needs Tribunals.
- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 3 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans to amend regulations in respect of Additional Support Needs Tribunals.
Answer
The Additional Support Needs Tribunals for Scotland (Practice and Procedure) Rules 2006 were laid in Parliament on 1 March 2006 (Scottish Statutory Instrument 2006-88. These rules re-enact the previous rules (Scottish Statutory Instrument 2005-05-14) with minor amendments and points of clarification as requested by the Subordinate Legislation Committee, Education Committee and Scottish Committee of the Council on Tribunals.
Any further amendments to the regulations will be considered as and when necessary.
- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 3 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether each and all conveners and members of Additional Support Needs Tribunals have been subject to a disclosure check by the Scottish Criminal Record Office and have received clearance.
Answer
All conveners and members of the Additional Support Needs Tribunals have been subject to a disclosure check by the Scottish Criminal Record Office and have received clearance.
- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 3 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether conveners and members of Additional Support Needs Tribunals are required to provide their biographical details prior to appointment.
Answer
All conveners and members of the Additional Support Needs Tribunals are required to provide their biographical details prior to appointment and all have met this requirement.
- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 3 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the members of the Additional Support Needs Tribunals have been or are currently employed by a local education authority, or have been contracted to a local authority in some capacity.
Answer
Seventy-three percent (11 out of 15) of the members of the Additional Support Needs Tribunals have been or are currently employed by a local authority, or have been contracted to a local authority in some capacity. Only three are currently employed by local authorities.
- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by George Lyon on 28 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive by how much the average life expectancy for (a) men and (b) women has increased in each year since 1979, and by how much it estimates it will increase in each of the next 10 years.
Answer
Actual life expectancy at birth (LE) for males and females in Scotland for 1979 to 2004 and projected for 2005 to 2014 is shown in the following table:
| Year | Males | Females | Year | Male | Female |
| LE | Change | LE | Change | LE | Change | LE | Change |
| 1979 | 68.4 | - | 74.5 | - | 1997 | 72.6 | 0.6 | 78.1 | 0.3 |
| 1980 | 69.0 | 0.6 | 75.2 | 0.7 | 1998 | 72.6 | 0.0 | 78.2 | 0.1 |
| 1981 | 69.1 | 0.1 | 75.4 | 0.2 | 1999 | 72.7 | 0.1 | 78.2 | 0.0 |
| 1982 | 69.3 | 0.2 | 75.3 | -0.1 | 2000 | 73.2 | 0.5 | 78.6 | 0.4 |
| 1983 | 69.7 | 0.4 | 75.7 | 0.4 | 2001 | 73.4 | 0.2 | 78.8 | 0.2 |
| 1984 | 69.9 | 0.2 | 75.9 | 0.2 | 2002 | 73.4 | 0.0 | 78.9 | 0.1 |
| 1985 | 70.1 | 0.2 | 75.8 | -0.1 | 2003 | 73.8 | 0.4 | 78.9 | 0.0 |
| 1986 | 70.1 | 0.0 | 76.3 | 0.5 | 2004 | 74.3 | 0.5 | 79.4 | 0.5 |
| 1987 | 70.5 | 0.4 | 76.5 | 0.2 | 2005 | 74.5 | 0.2 | 79.5 | 0.1 |
| 1988 | 70.5 | 0.0 | 76.7 | 0.2 | 2006 | 74.8 | 0.3 | 79.7 | 0.2 |
| 1989 | 70.7 | 0.2 | 76.2 | -0.5 | 2007 | 75.1 | 0.3 | 79.9 | 0.2 |
| 1990 | 71.1 | 0.4 | 76.9 | 0.7 | 2008 | 75.4 | 0.3 | 80.1 | 0.2 |
| 1991 | 71.4 | 0.3 | 77.1 | 0.2 | 2009 | 75.7 | 0.3 | 80.3 | 0.2 |
| 1992 | 71.6 | 0.2 | 77.3 | 0.2 | 2010 | 75.9 | 0.2 | 80.6 | 0.3 |
| 1993 | 71.4 | -0.2 | 77.0 | -0.3 | 2011 | 76.1 | 0.2 | 80.7 | 0.1 |
| 1994 | 72.1 | 0.7 | 77.7 | 0.7 | 2012 | 76.4 | 0.3 | 80.9 | 0.2 |
| 1995 | 72.1 | 0.0 | 77.7 | 0.0 | 2013 | 76.6 | 0.2 | 81.1 | 0.2 |
| 1996 | 72.0 | -0.1 | 77.8 | 0.1 | 2014 | 76.8 | 0.2 | 81.3 | 0.2 |
Source: Government Actuary’s Department (GAD). The figures given in this table have been calculated using historic mortality rates for years up to 2004 and projected rates from the 2004-based national population projections for years 2005 onwards.
- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 21 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-15019 by Peter Peacock on 18 March 2005 and to information provided in Exclusions from Schools 2004-05, how many appeals against (a) temporary exclusions and (b) removals from the register were (i) successful and (ii) unsuccessful in each year since 1997.
Answer
The following table shows appeals against exclusion in 2004-05 by exclusion type and the outcome of the appeal.
Appeals Against Exclusion from School, 2004-05
| | Temporary Exclusion | Removal from Register | Total |
| Unsuccessful appeals | 21 | 5 | 26 |
| Appeal decision pending | 3 | - | 3 |
| Successful appeals | split not available | 18 |
Information on successful appeals cannot be broken down by type of exclusion as once an appeal has succeeded the data relating to the exclusion is removed from the school record.
This detail was not available prior to 2004-05.
- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 10 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the comments by the Minister for Transport and Telecommunications on 26 January 2006 (Official Report c. 22751) in respect of the safeguarding of the route for a second Forth road crossing, whether land is currently set aside for the construction of a second bridge; if so, by whom the land is owned and when it was purchased and whether ownership of the land, or part of it, by the Executive amounts in practice to the safeguarding of the route for the possible purpose of building a second bridge.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-22499 on 7 February 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliamentary website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.Scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the up-to-date position is in respect of devolved school management.
Answer
I refer the member to my answer to question S2O-9003 on 9 February 2005, we have issued revised guidance to local authorities on devolved school management. Everything that can reasonably be devolved to head teachers should be, and certainly up to 90% of relevant budgets, in line with our Partnership Agreement Commitment.
