- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 28 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the budgets were of each local authority in each year since 1998-99 for criminal justice issues; what contribution it made in each year to these budgets, and what the annual percentage change in budgets was, also expressed as a percentage of the overall budget for that year.
Answer
The Executive does not hold this information. Local authorities incur expenditure on criminal justice services under a number of budget headings including district courts, offender services and police. They have no identifiable criminal justice budget and it is not possible to identify total expenditure from the information available.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many advertisements for posts within its departments have been placed in publications outwith Scotland in each of the past three years and in the current year; what the cost was in each year, and in what publications the advertisements were placed.
Answer
The information requested is given in tables 1-4 of Recruitment Advertising Costs April 1998 - December 2001, a copy of which has been placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 18618).
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many advertisements for posts within its departments have been placed in each national and regional newspaper in each of the past three years and in the current year, detailing the newspapers concerned and the number of posts advertised in each newspaper.
Answer
The information requested is given in tables 1-4 of Recruitment Advertising Costs April 1998 - December 2001, a copy of which has been placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 18618).
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 28 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail any special arrangements which are in place to encourage applications for posts within its departments from students at universities and colleges.
Answer
There is currently no on-going programme of graduate recruitment for general entrance to the Scottish Executive, although a one off campaign targeted specifically at graduates was held in December 2000 and resulted in the employment of 41 Graduate Administrators. Some recruitment of specialists, such as statisticians and economists, is targeted at graduates on a civil service-wide basis. The Scottish Executive co-ordinates the recruitment of graduates as legal trainees on behalf of the Government Legal Service for Scotland.The Scottish Executive also participates in the Civil Service Fast Stream Development Programme, run by the Cabinet Office, which seeks to recruit both generalist and specialist graduates. In 2001 the Scottish Executive recruited 13 Fast Streamers, 11 are anticipated for 2002.In addition to these arrangements, the Scottish Executive also offers student sandwich placement opportunities. In 2001 the Executive provided 66 such placements for students.As part of the Scottish Executive's commitment to equality of opportunity, a diversity outreach project worker is employed to raise the Scottish Executive's profile amongst black and ethnic minority communities and thereby encourage applications for employment. The outreach worker has established contacts with higher education institutions and has been actively involved in promoting the Scottish Executive as an employer of black and ethnic minority graduates. In connection with this project 15 undergraduates and recent graduates from black and ethnic minorities are to be offered six week placements in the Scottish Executive in summer 2002. A review of recruitment is currently under-way in the Scottish Executive and the recruitment of graduates is being considered as part of this review.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 24 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many advertisements for posts within the Parliament have been placed in each national and regional newspaper in each of the past three years and in the current year, detailing the newspapers concerned and the number of posts advertised in each newspaper.
Answer
The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) became an employer in its own right on 1 April 2000 and began carrying out its own recruitment from January 2000. Prior to that date, recruitment was conducted on behalf of the SPCB by the Scottish Office/Scottish Executive. Our records only go back to January 2000.Details of advertisements placed within Scottish national and regional newspapers from January 2000 are set out in the table below. All posts advertised in the press are also published on the Parliament's website. Adverts in the
Herald,
Scotsman or
Daily Record also appear in the
Sunday Herald,
Scotland on Sunday and
Sunday Mail respectively and are also posted on the papers' websites. The majority of posts advertised in the
Edinburgh Evening News were also placed in Job Centres.
Publication | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | Total to Date |
Adv. | Posts | Adv. | Posts | Adv. | Posts | Adv. | Posts |
Edinburgh Evening News | 8 | 35 | 4 | 16 | - | - | 12 | 51 |
The Scotsman | 17 | 62 | 23 | 52 | 1 | 1 | 41 | 115 |
The Herald | 13 | 58 | 17 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 31 | 103 |
Daily Record | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 |
West Highland Free Press | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Stornoway Gazette | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
An Gaidheal Ur | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Note: An individual post may be advertised in more than one publication.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 24 January 2002
To ask the Presiding Officer how many advertisements for posts within the Parliament have been placed in publications outwith Scotland in each of the past three years and in the current year; what the cost was in each year, and in what publications the advertisements were placed.
Answer
The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) became an employer in its own right on 1 April 2000 and began carrying out its own recruitment from January 2000. Prior to that date recruitment was conducted on behalf of the SPCB by the Scottish Office/Scottish Executive. Our records only go back to January 2000.Details of advertisements placed in publications outwith Scotland from January 2000 are set out in the table below.
Publication | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | Total to Date |
Adv. | Cost (£) | Adv. | Cost (£) | Adv. | Cost (£) | Adv. | Cost (£) |
Guardian | 4 | 18,781.88 | 3 | 9,700.25 | | | 7 | 28,482.13 |
Computer Weekly | 2 | 14,599.65 | 2 | 12,432.00 | | | 4 | 27,031.65 |
Library Association Record | 3 | 2,551.50 | 2 | 1,649.70 | 1 | 980.00 | 6 | 5,181.20 |
Supply Management | - | - | 2 | 5,096.75 | | | 2 | 5,096.75 |
Prospects Today | 1 | 1,248.75 | - | - | | | 1 | 1,248.75 |
Managing Information | 1 | 666.00 | - | - | | | 1 | 666.00 |
Soc. of Archivists Newsletter | 1 | 277.50 | - | - | | | 1 | 277.50 |
Building | - | - | 1 | 1,568.80 | | | 1 | 1,568.80 |
The Nation | - | - | 1 | 290.00 | | | 1 | 290.00 |
Health & Safety Practitioner | - | - | 1 | 911.13 | | | 1 | 911.13 |
| Total | 12 | 38,125.28 | 12 | 31,648.63 | 1 | 980.00 | 25 | 70,753.91 |
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 24 January 2002
To ask the Presiding Officer whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body will detail any special arrangements which are in place to encourage applications for posts within the Parliament from students at universities and colleges.
Answer
The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) currently has no special arrangements in place to encourage applications for posts from students at universities and colleges.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 23 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what assistance is being made available to the crews of fishing vessels who lose their livelihoods due to the fishing vessel decommissioning scheme and what preparations are being made to ensure that such assistance is in place when necessary.
Answer
It remains to be seen what the effects of decommissioning will be on individual fishermen and their employment status. If assistance is required, then the local enterprise companies and their employment partners have mechanisms in place to provide training and re-employment support.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 23 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has held with the enterprise network and other appropriate agencies over assistance to crews whose berths will be disposed of under the fishing vessels decommissioning scheme.
Answer
The enterprise networks have been made aware, in discussions in the management groups overseeing the European structural funds programmes that partially fund the fishing vessel decommissioning scheme, of decommissioning plans. The actual impact of decommissioning on individual fishermen, and their ability to find alternative berths or employment if necessary, remains to be seen. The department and the enterprise networks will remain in contact over these issues.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many consultants there are in (a) restorative dentistry, (b) oral and maxillofacial surgery and (c) orthodontics in each health board area in the current financial year, and were in each of the last three years, expressed in (i) numerical terms and (ii) as a ratio of consultants to head of population in the health board area.
Answer
Provisional Information on staff numbers at 30 September 2001 is not yet available. The information requested for the years 1998 to 2000, apart from maxillofacial surgeons who are not separately identified, is shown in Tables 1 and 2. Maxillofacial surgeons will be identified separately in data collected from September 2001 onwards. The tables should be read in conjunction with the following notes.Consultants in these dental specialties can and do offer services to patients from health board areas other than the one at which they are based. It should therefore be noted that the ratio of consultants to head of population does not necessarily reflect the level of consultant service available in any area. Treatments provided by consultants in a particular board may be provided by other grades of staff in other boards, which further distorts comparisons between boards based on these statistics.
Table 1 - Consultants in Selected Dental Specialties by Health BoardHeadcount at 30 September | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
| Restorative Dentistry | Oral Surgery | Orthodontics | Restorative Dentistry | Oral Surgery | Orthodontics | Restorative Dentistry | Oral Surgery | Orthodontics |
Scotland | 21 | 25 | 24 | 22 | 27 | 27 | 21 | 25 | 26 |
Argyll & Clyde | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 |
Ayrshire & Arran | - | 2 | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | - | 2 | 2 |
Borders | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Dumfries & Galloway | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Fife | - | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 |
Forth Valley | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 3 | - | 1 | 3 |
Grampian | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Greater Glasgow | 12 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 5 |
Highland | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 |
Lanarkshire | - | 1 | 3 | - | 1 | 3 | - | 2 | 3 |
Lothian | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
Orkney | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Shetland | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Tayside | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
Western Isles | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Table 2 - Consultants in Selected Dental SpecialtiesHeadcount per 1 000 000 population by Health Board | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
| Restorative Dentistry | Oral Surgery | Orthodontics | Restorative Dentistry | Oral Surgery | Orthodontics | Restorative Dentistry | Oral Surgery | Orthodontics |
Scotland | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
Argyll & Clyde | - | - | 5 | - | - | 5 | - | - | 5 |
Ayrshire & Arran | - | 5 | 5 | - | 5 | 5 | - | 5 | 5 |
Borders | - | - | 9 | - | - | 9 | - | - | 9 |
Dumfries & Galloway | - | 7 | 7 | - | 7 | 7 | - | - | 7 |
Fife | - | 6 | 3 | - | 6 | 3 | - | 6 | 3 |
Forth Valley | - | 4 | 7 | - | 4 | 11 | - | 4 | 11 |
Grampian | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
Greater Glasgow | 13 | 9 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 6 |
Highland | - | 5 | 10 | - | 5 | 10 | - | 5 | 10 |
Lanarkshire | - | 2 | 5 | - | 2 | 5 | - | 4 | 5 |
Lothian | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
Orkney | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Shetland | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Tayside | 15 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 8 |
Western Isles | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Note for Tables 1 and 2:
- Data for 30 September 2000 are provisional.
- Figures include honorary appointments.
- Rates per head of population are based on population estimates as at mid-June.
- Consultants in these specialties can and do offer services to patients in health board areas other than that in which they are based.
Maxillofacial surgery is not separately classified in central data up to 2000. These surgeons will be classified either as oral surgeons or plastic surgeons.
