- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 19 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of non-Scottish students graduating from dental degree courses in Scotland in each of the last three years remained in Scotland after graduation to undertake dental vocational training.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-17961.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 18 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many deaths of persons travelling on powered two-wheelers have occurred in each police force area in each of the last three years and to date in 2001.
Answer
Data about injury road accidents are collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executive using the STATS 19 statistical report form. The following table gives the numbers of users of motorcycles (including motor scooters and motor cycle combinations) and mopeds who were reported by police forces as being fatally injured in accidents which occurred in each year. It is not possible to provide meaningful figures for 2001 to date, because the returns which the Executive has received so far relate to different numbers of months for different police forces.
| Riders and passengers of motorcycles and mopeds who were fatally injured in road accidents |
| Police force | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
| Northern | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| Grampian | 7 | 6 | 6 |
| Tayside | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Fife | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Lothian & Borders | 5 | 4 | 6 |
| Central | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| Strathclyde | 6 | 12 | 10 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Scotland | 33 | 30 | 40 |
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 18 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the students accepted on to dental degree courses at Glasgow and Dundee universities in each of the last three years were residing in Scotland when accepted for the course.
Answer
The information requested is shown in the following table, which should be read in conjunction with the notes below.
Percentage of Scottish Domiciled Entrants to Pre-Clinical Dentistry Courses
| | 1999-2000 | 1998-99 | 1997-98 |
| Dundee University | 53.33% | 68.00% | 83.02% |
| Glasgow University | 63.89% | 63.77% | 67.14% |
Notes:1. Source: Further and Higher Education Statistics, ELLD.2. Percentages have been rounded to two decimal places and show Scottish Domiciled entrants as a percentage of the total number of entrants to the individual university.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to recruit dentists from either outwith Scotland or outwith the rest of the UK or Ireland to fill vacant general dental practitioner posts.
Answer
We currently have no plans to recruit dentists from overseas. A sub-group of the Scottish Advisory Committee on the Dental Workforce (SACDW) has been established to look at recruitment and retention issues within dentistry in Scotland and will report its findings to the main committee shortly.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the ratio of whole-time equivalent general dental practitioners to population is in (a) each health board area and (b) each local authority area.
Answer
Information on the whole-time equivalent status for general dental practitioners is not collected centrally. The following tables show the ratio of GDP's to population in terms of headcount.Number of GDP's
1 and population per GDP
2 by Health BoardInformation as at 30 June 2001
3Health Board | Number of dentists | Population per GDP |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 130 | 2,872 |
| Borders | 37 | 2,889 |
| Argyll & Clyde | 173 | 2,448 |
| Fife | 131 | 2,675 |
| Greater Glasgow | 403 | 2,244 |
| Highland | 80 | 2,608 |
| Lanarkshire | 195 | 2,882 |
| Grampian | 161 | 3,251 |
| Orkney | 8 | 2,435 |
| Lothian | 352 | 2,226 |
| Tayside | 161 | 2,394 |
| Forth Valley | 95 | 2,926 |
| Western Isles | 11 | 2,471 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 37 | 3,941 |
| Shetland | 8 | 2,805 |
| Scotland | 1,982 | 2,581 |
Notes:1. General Dental Practitioners may work in more than one Primary Care Trust (PCT)/health board. For the purpose of this analysis, General Dental Practitioners who have a contract with more than one PCT/health board are shown in all relevant areas. 2. Population figures at mid-year 2000.3. Excludes Private Dentistry.Number of GDP's1 and population per GDP2 by Local AuthorityInformation as at 30 June 20013Local Authority | Number of dentists | Population per GDP |
| Aberdeen City | 81 | 2,608 |
| Aberdeenshire | 58 | 3,917 |
| Angus | 40 | 2,730 |
| Argyll & Bute | 33 | 2,691 |
| City of Edinburgh | 227 | 1,997 |
| Clackmannanshire | 16 | 3,029 |
| Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 11 | 2,471 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 37 | 3,941 |
| Dundee City | 67 | 2,130 |
| East Ayrshire | 37 | 3,260 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 46 | 2,408 |
| East Lothian | 37 | 2,467 |
| East Renfrewshire | 40 | 2,245 |
| Falkirk | 47 | 3,071 |
| Fife | 131 | 2,675 |
| Glasgow City | 275 | 2,216 |
| Highland | 79 | 2,641 |
| Inverclyde | 31 | 2,729 |
| Midlothian | 21 | 3,914 |
| Moray | 22 | 3,861 |
| North Ayrshire | 45 | 3,086 |
| North Lanarkshire | 112 | 2,925 |
| Orkney Islands | 8 | 2,435 |
| Perth & Kinross | 54 | 2,474 |
| Renfrewshire | 82 | 2,158 |
| Scottish Borders | 37 | 2,889 |
| Shetland Islands | 8 | 2,805 |
| South Ayrshire | 48 | 2,373 |
| South Lanarkshire | 117 | 2,627 |
| Stirling | 32 | 2,663 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 36 | 2,628 |
| West Lothian | 67 | 2,339 |
| Scotland | 1,982 | 2,581 |
Notes:1. General Dental Practitioners may work in more than one Primary Care Trust (PCT)/health board. For the purpose of this analysis General Dental Practitioners who have a contract with more than one PCT/health board are shown in all relevant areas.2. Population figures at mid-year 2000.3. Excludes Private Dentistry.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 18 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications for assistance under the Scottish Land Fund have been received to date, broken down by (a) parliamentary region and (b) local authority area; how many have been successful; whether it will detail any successful applications, and what the total value is of successful bids so far.
Answer
Details of applications to, and awards made, under the New Opportunities Fund's Scottish Land Fund are a reserved matter for the Department of Culture Media and Sport. Can I invite the member to write to Stephen Dunmore, Chief Executive of the New Opportunities Fund.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacancies for general dental practitioners exist in each health board area, expressed both numerically and as a percentage of the total number of whole-time equivalent general dental practitioners in that area.
Answer
The information requested is not collected centrally. I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-17949.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 13 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-11828 by Susan Deacon on 8 January 2001, when it expects it to reach a final conclusion on the recommendations in connection with the closure of emergency control rooms submitted by the Scottish Ambulance Service in December 2000.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has now advised the Scottish Ambulance Service that it should prepare a full business case for the proposed changes to its emergency service control rooms following the recent review. The Executive expects to receive the full business case later this year, and will reach a final decision on the basis of this further information.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 13 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) fixed site and (b) mobile unit speed cameras it currently funds, calibrates and maintains, broken down by police force area; how much it cost to fund, calibrate and maintain such cameras in 2000-01; how much was raised through fines by these cameras in this period and whether this money is retained by it or passed to HM Treasury.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is responsible for the maintenance for 94 Gatso and 45 loop or sub-surface sensor type speed camera sites on the trunk road network in the following police force areas:
| Central | 7 loop sites |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 13 sub-surface sensor sites |
| Grampian | 28 Gatso sites |
| Lothian and Borders | 45 Gatso sites |
| Northern | 10 loop sites |
| Tayside | 21 Gatso sites |
| | 15 loop sites. |
The police have been supplied with cameras for both types of site. The Executive pays only for the maintenance of 21 cameras for Gatso sites held by Tayside, Grampian and Lothian & Borders police. The Executive does not meet the cost of maintaining any cameras for the sub-surface sensor sites.The cost paid by the Executive to maintain these cameras and sites in 2000-01 was £20,040. The cost of operating them is met by the police.In addition to these sites and cameras on the trunk road network, local authorities and police forces have cameras and camera sites on local roads.Figures are not held for fixed penalties and fine income generated by camera locations on the trunk road network alone. However, across Scotland in 1999, an estimated 51,000 police conditional offers were made for speeding offences which had been automatically detected, of which an estimated 83% were paid, (approximating to £1,705,000). Figures for 2000 are not yet available.Local authorities retain a 10% handling charge for fixed penalty notices, the remainder being remitted to the Treasury. In Glasgow, a pilot scheme allows the police and local authority to retain money raised through fixed penalties to fund additional enforcement activity.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 12 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many visitors Historic Scotland properties located in the north east of Scotland parliamentary region have received so far this year and how this figure compares with the equivalent period in each of the last three years.
Answer
I have asked Graeme Munro, Chief Executive of Historic Scotland to answer. His response is as follows.Listed in the table are the visitor numbers for Historic Scotland staffed sites in the north east of Scotland parliamentary region for the period 1 January to 31 August and for the comparable period over the last three years.
| Year | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 |
| Arbroath Abbey | 6,325 | 6,623 | 5,303 | 11,461 |
| Balvenie Castle | 4,679 | 6,077 | 5,384 | 4,615 |
| Claypotts Castle | Closed | 375 | 418 | Closed |
| Corgarff Castle | 4,901 | 5,025 | 4,290 | 3,065 |
| Edzell Castle | 9,228 | 8,093 | 7,462 | 6,343 |
| Huntly Castle | 11,772 | 11,214 | 12,735 | 10,901 |
| Kildrummy Castle | 6,701 | 7,950 | 8,028 | 6,646 |
| Meigle Stones | 4,835 | 4,441 | 3,499 | 3,764 |
| Tolquhon Castle | 4,179 | 3,741 | 3,317 | 2,492 |
| Totals | 52,620 | 53,539 | 50,436 | 49,287 |
