- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many women were employed in the science, engineering and technology industries in each of the last 10 years, expressed also as a percentage of all workers in those industries.
Answer
he following table shows thenumber of women employed in science, engineering and technology industries ineach of the last 10 years, expressed also as a percentage of all workers inthose industries.
| | Number of Women Employed | Percentage of All Workers |
| Year | (000) | % |
| 1994 | 52 | 24.8% |
| 1995 | 46 | 23.0% |
| 1996 | 59 | 26.8% |
| 1997 | 60 | 25.0% |
| 1998 | 54 | 23.2% |
| 1999 | 57 | 26.5% |
| 2000 | 60 | 25.9% |
| 2001 | 61 | 25.7% |
| 2002 | 49 | 22.6% |
| 2003 | 49 | 21.9% |
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive on what occasions since 1999 ministers have accompanied Scottish firms on visits overseas to promote export marketing and sales, broken down by minister and country visited.
Answer
I refer the member to theanswers given to questions S1W-29052 on 9 September 2002 and S2W-2904 on 25 September 2003. These answers set out details ofall overseas visits carried out by Scottish Executive ministers from July 1999to March 2003. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available onthe Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.These ministerial visitsencompass a number where ministers have undertaken a range of engagements topromote Scotland including those where ministers would have met andsupported Scottish firms undertaking visits overseas to promote exportmarketing and sales.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of economic inactivity was in (a) Glasgow, (b) Edinburgh and (c) Dundee in each of the last five years.
Answer
The following table showslevel of inactivity in Glasgow City, Edinburgh City and Dundee City in the last four years. Information prior to 1999 isnot available at local authority level.
| | Glasgow | Edinburgh | Dundee |
| Inactive | Inactive | Inactive |
| (000) | (000) | (000) |
| 1999 | 138 | 66 | 21 |
| 2000 | 118 | 57 | 22 |
| 2001 | 125 | 56 | 20 |
| 2002 | 123 | 57 | 22 |
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of employment has been in the construction industry in each quarter since 1997.
Answer
The following table showsthe level of employment in the construction industry, in Scotland,from spring 1997 to summer 2003.
| | No. employed in Construction |
| | (000) |
| Spring 1997 | 169 |
| Summer 1997 | 170 |
| Autumn 1997 | 178 |
| Winter 1997 | 182 |
| Spring 1998 | 177 |
| Summer 1998 | 189 |
| Autumn 1998 | 188 |
| Winter 1998 | 178 |
| Spring 1999 | 182 |
| Summer 1999 | 176 |
| Autumn 1999 | 180 |
| Winter 1999 | 188 |
| Spring 2000 | 187 |
| Summer 2000 | 189 |
| Autumn 2000 | 182 |
| Winter 2000 | 187 |
| Spring 2001 | 185 |
| Summer 2001 | 179 |
| Autumn 2001 | 173 |
| Winter 2001 | 174 |
| Spring 2002 | 167 |
| Summer 2002 | 168 |
| Autumn 2002 | 168 |
| Winter 2002 | 177 |
| Spring 2003 | 180 |
| Summer 2003 | 190 |
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of economic inactivity has been in each quarter since 1997.
Answer
The following table showsthe level of economic inactivity in Scotland, from spring 1997 to summer 2003, which is thelatest quarter for which this information is available.
| | Number of Economically Inactive People (000) |
| Spring 1997 | 715 |
| Summer 1997 | 713 |
| Autumn 1997 | 715 |
| Winter 1997 | 697 |
| Spring 1998 | 701 |
| Summer 1998 | 710 |
| Autumn 1998 | 687 |
| Winter 1998 | 715 |
| Spring 1999 | 718 |
| Summer 1999 | 718 |
| Autumn 1999 | 717 |
| Winter 1999 | 692 |
| Spring 2000 | 676 |
| Summer 2000 | 673 |
| Autumn 2000 | 666 |
| Winter 2000 | 670 |
| Spring 2001 | 674 |
| Summer 2001 | 669 |
| Autumn 2001 | 672 |
| Winter 2001 | 688 |
| Spring 2002 | 664 |
| Summer 2002 | 668 |
| Autumn 2002 | 661 |
| Winter 2002 | 644 |
| Spring 2003 | 653 |
| Summer 2003 | 656 |
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many manufacturing jobs have been lost in (a) Scotland, (b) Aberdeen, (c) Edinburgh, (d) Dundee, (e) Glasgow, (f) Inverness and (g) Stirling in each year since 1996.
Answer
Information on job losses isnot held centrally.
However, statistics on thenumber of people employed in manufacturing are contained in “ParliamentaryConstituency Economic Profiles”, copies of which can be found on:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/about/ELLD/EI/00015648/page1382927761.aspx.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish details of the projections from Communities Scotland in regard to housing referred to at the Communities Committee on 8 October 2003 (Official Report c 138).
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
The information previouslyprovided in the Communities Scotland Research Report No. 21, Local HousingNeed and Affordability Model for Scotland, in July 2003 is being updatedand a further report will be published in spring 2004. The results of the Scottish House Condition Survey 2002 will be published in November 2003. Copiesof both will be placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre in due course.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 31 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made on the devolved aspects of the recommendations of the Report of the Working Group on Extending the Gas Network and which areas of Scotland were identified by the working group as being suitable for extending the gas supply network.
Answer
Although the devolved administrationswere members of the Working Group on Extending the Gas Network, there were nodevolved matters covered among the recommendations of the working group’sreport.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) new entrants and (b) new entrants aged over 50 to the Civil Service in Scotland were employed in each department in each of the last five years.
Answer
The number of new entrantsto each of the Scottish Executive core departments in the last five financial years isprovided in Table A. Table B provides the number of these new entrants thatwere aged 50 or over on the day they were recruited. These figures excludecasual staff. Both tables include employees that have rejoined the Scottish Executive core departments during the specified years.
Table A: Total New Starts
| | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 |
| Centrally Managed Staff | 4 | 12 | 12 | 17 | 10 |
| Corporate Services | 77 | 99 | 63 | 83 | 70 |
| Development Department | 46 | 44 | 40 | 66 | 28 |
| Education Department | 24 | 33 | 29 | 45 | 30 |
| Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning | 44 | 76 | 69 | 60 | 44 |
| Environment and Rural Affairs Department | 129 | 126 | 166 | 123 | 90 |
| Finance and Central Services Department | 40 | 99 | 50 | 103 | 71 |
| Health Department | 36 | 30 | 45 | 43 | 28 |
| Justice Department | 24 | 19 | 27 | 29 | 17 |
| Legal and Parliamentary Services | 3 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 25 |
| All Core Departments | 427 | 548 | 514 | 583 | 413 |
Table B: Number of Staff AgedFifty Years or Over When Recruited
| | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 |
| Centrally Managed Staff | . | . | . | 2 | . |
| Corporate Services | 10 | 17 | 10 | 10 | 17 |
| Development Department | 1 | . | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| Education Department | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | . |
| Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Environment and Rural Affairs Department | 5 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 6 |
| Finance and Central Services Department | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | . |
| Health Department | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 |
| Justice Department | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| Legal and Parliamentary Services | . | 2 | . | 2 | 2 |
| All Core Departments | 32 | 45 | 39 | 48 | 38 |
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 12 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to deal with light pollution.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-1686 on 12 November 2003. 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/search_wa.
