- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 31 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many teachers it expects to be employed in 2014-15.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has a commitment to ensure that there are 53,000 teachers in publicly funded schools by 2007. No decision has been taken on numbers for future years but the Executive is always committed to and bound in law to endeavour to secure improvement in the quality of school education.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 31 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of the number of injuries caused by violence and aggression, as detailed in NHSScotland Workforce Statistics Table A7: Occupational Health and Safety — Number of occupational injuries by type of organisation and staff group, against the staff group, Nursing and Midwifery, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
Information on the number of occupational injuries for nursing and midwifery staff is available by type of organisation and is shown in the following table. Data was not published by health board area as at 31 March 2004 due to issues of completeness and quality. We intend to publish the data by health board area in autumn 2005 for the census period 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005.
NHSScotland Workforce Statistics, Occupational Health and Safety
Number of Occupational Injuries by Type of Organisation for Nursing and Midwifery Staff, at 31 March 2004
Number of Occupational Injuries Per 1,000,000 Available Hours
Type of Organisation | Total Occupational Injuries | Needlesticks/Sharps | Violence and Aggression (inc. verbal abuse) | Musculoskeleta I disorders MSDS – back and lower limbs | Musculoskeleta I disorders MSDS – neck and upper limbs | Slips and trips | Fall from height |
Scotland | 148.97 | 11.73 | 112.02 | 12.75 | 5.35 | 6.83 | 0.29 |
Acute Trusts1 | 85.1 | 13.43 | 55.35 | 5.62 | 3.07 | 7.20 | 0.40 |
Unified Trusts2 | 334.0 | 15.36 | 290.74 | 16.24 | 2.29 | 9.24 | 0.12 |
Primary Care Trusts3 | 156.5 | 7.11 | 111.50 | 22.08 | 10.47 | 5.13 | 0.21 |
Health Boards4 | 37.1 | 27.19 | 0.00 | 9.89 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Source: ISD Scotland.
Notes:
1. Acute Trusts, Islands Boards and Scottish Ambulance Service.
2. Unified Boards prior to 31 march 2004 (NHS Borders, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, NHS Argyll and Clyde and NHS Fife.
3. Primary Trusts, State Hospital and Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service.
4. Health Board Headquarters and Special Health Boards not providing health care.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 31 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the First Minister's staff costs have been in respect of (a) accommodation, (b) travel, (c) transport, (d) stationery and (e) hospitality in each year since 1999.
Answer
It is not possible to separate in the Scottish Executive’s accounting system all of the First Minister’s costs from the First Minister’s staff costs but the First Minister’s Office costs as a whole are detailed in the following table –
| 1999-2000 £ | 2000-01 £ | 2001-02 £ | 2002-03 £ | 2003-04 £ |
Accommodation1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Travel | 36,971 | 45,371 | 36,684 | 45,836 | 44,305 |
Transport2 | 220 | 235 | 0 | 0 | 360 |
Stationery | 13,905 | 11,212 | 6,887 | 9,331 | 9,123 |
Hospitality3 | 2,362 | 614 | 1,203 | 1,444 | 1,132 |
Total | 53,458 | 57,432 | 44,774 | 56,611 | 54,920 |
Notes:
1. Accommodation costs are managed centrally and not allocated against ministers’ offices.
2. Excludes cost of Government Car Service for First Minister as costs are not broken down by individual minister.
3. Includes teas, coffees, working lunches etc but excludes functions hosted by the First Minister.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 27 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of claims was made in cash terms in respect of deficient road maintenance on trunk roads in each year since 1999.
Answer
The level of claims made in cash terms in each year from 1999 is as follows:
Financial Year | Level of Claims (£000) |
1999-2000 | 136 |
2000-01 | 93 |
2001-02 | 763 |
2002-03 | 321 |
2003-04 | 360 |
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) resource budgets, (b) staffing levels and (c) administration costs of each of its departments (i) were in each year since 2000 and (ii) will be in each year to 2007.
Answer
The resource budgets are set out in the
Consolidated Resource Accounts for each of the years 2000-01 to 2003-04 and are available on the Scottish Executive website. The resource budgets for departments in 2004-05 are set out in the
2004-05 Autumn Budget Revision Supporting Document and for 2005-06 in the
Budget Bill Supporting Document for the year ending 31 March 2006. The resource budgets for each Ministerial Portfolio up to 2007-08 are set out in the Draft Budget 2005-06.
For the staffing levels of each department in the years 2000 to 2004 I refer the member to the question S2W-12292 answered on 6 December 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search. The staffing levels for permanent and fixed-term temporary staff at January 2005 are as follows:
| All Staff |
Total | 4,517.7 |
Centrally Managed Staff | 88.1 |
Development Department | 317.9 |
Education Department | 317.5 |
Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning Department | 550.2 |
Environment and Rural Affairs Department | 1,127.5 |
Finance and Central Services Department | 466.1 |
Health Department | 381.2 |
Justice Department | 257.9 |
Legal and Parliamentary Services | 185.9 |
Office of the Permanent Secretary | 825.4 |
Staffing levels for future years up to 2007 have yet to be determined.
The 2000-01 to 2003-04 administration costs of each of the Scottish Executive’s core departments are set out in the table below. Restructuring of departments in the Scottish Executive over the period affects some of the year on year comparisons. The 2004-05 administration budgets for each core department are set out in the 2004-05 Autumn Budget Revision Supporting Document. The 2005-06 and 2006-07 budgets will be considered in the light of departmental commitments and priorities.
Department | 2000-01 (£000) | 2001-02 (£000) | 2002-03 (£000) | 2003-04 (£000) |
Development | 17,051 | 16,513 | 17,068 | 12,326 |
Education1 | 15,897 | 9,670 | 10,755 | 11,604 |
Enterprise and Lifelong Learning | 9,800 | 11,039 | 11,401 | 20,008 |
Environment and Rural Affairs | 28,769 | 31,481 | 33,200 | 34,912 |
Finance and Central Services | 16,356 | 24,195 | 23,069 | 24,495 |
Health | 11,928 | 13,029 | 14,188 | 15,341 |
Justice | 16,294 | 15,372 | 9,083 | 10,450 |
Corporate Services (including OPS and LPS)2 | 47,345 | 51,410 | 61,737 | 58,537 |
| 116,095 | 121,299 | 118,764 | 129,136 |
Notes:
1. 2000-01 outturn includes spend on HM Inspector Schools which became an Agency with effect from 1 April 2001.
2. OPS is Office of the Permanent Secretary; LPS is Legal and Parliamentary Services.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 27 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what definition of "computer system" is used in the drafting of its legislation.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not use a single, specific definition of “computersystem” in the drafting of legislation. Where the term “computer” is used, the definition will normally depend on the context and the circumstances.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 27 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the definition of "computer system" in the European Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA of 22 December 2003 on combating the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography (Official Journal L 013/45) is more restrictive or less restrictive than its own internal definition or effectively identical to it.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not have a single, specific definition of “computer system”. The current legislation which deals with indecent pictures of children is section 52 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982. This covers pictures “produced by computer graphics or otherwise howsoever”. It also covers “data stored on a computer disc or by other electronic means” that is capable of being converted into a picture. The provisions of the 1982 act are wide enough to cover what is included within the definition of “computersystem” in the Framework Decision.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 December 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of refurbishing each ministerial private office was in the last four years.
Answer
No significant refurbishment work has been carried out in any private ministerial offices on the Scottish Executive estate in the last four years.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 26 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many convictions were obtained by speed cameras in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answer
Convictions obtained by speed cameras are not separately identifiable in the statistical information held centrally. Information on the number of police conditional offers for speeding offences which were detected automatically is given in table 17 of statistical bulletin Criminal Proceedings in Scottish Courts 2002 published by the Scottish Executive in February 2004, a copy of which is available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 31304).
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 January 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 26 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil servants it expects to employ in 2014-15.
Answer
The size and make-up of the staffing of the Scottish Executive is mainly determined by the elected party’s programme for government. Development of the programme is usually based on decisions taken by ministers during the normal four year cycle of the Parliament. There are no indications yet of the policies that will be required to benefit the people of Scotland in 2014-15.