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Question reference: S1W-27669

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of the staff currently employed by the Scottish Prison Service by gender, ethnic origin, disability and grade.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The information requested is contained in the following tables:Gender

Male	3,641
Female	970

Ethnic Origin

Asian and White	2
Black African	1
Chinese	1
Indian	2
Other	2
Pakistani	3
White	4,521
Not submitted	79

Disability

Disabled	112
Disabled not Registered	10
Not Disabled	4,156
Not Submitted	333

Grade

A	54
B	194
C	321
C+	1,079
D	331
D+	1,777
E	117
E+	420
F	102
F+	78
G	82
H	32
I	9
Career Break	3
Senior Civil Servants	6
Scottish Executive	6

Question reference: S1W-27668

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of the staff it currently employs by gender, ethnic origin, disability and grade.

Scottish Executive Core Departments Staffing Information (headcounts) as at 1 July 2002 by gender, ethnic origin, disability, and grade is provided in the table.

Gender	Total	Male	Female
Number of staff	4,361	2,207	2,154

Ethnic Origin	Total	White	Minority Ethnic	Not Known
Number of staff	4,361	3,373	53	935

Disability	Total	No declared disability	Self declared disability
Number of staff	4,361	4,236	125

Grade	Total	SCS	Band C	Band B	Band A	Other
Number of staff	4,361	165	592	2,072	1,517	15

Question reference: S1W-27670

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of staff currently employed by local government by gender, ethnic origin, disability and grade.

The information requested is a matter for local authorities. Information on the total number of staff employed by local government, broken down by ethnic origin and disability, is not held centrally.The most recently published information relating to the number of staff employed by local government, analysed by gender, is given in the Joint Staffing Watch Survey: June 2001, published jointly by the Scottish Executive and COSLA on August 1 2002. Table 1 provides information on the number of full-time and part-time staff by gender. Table 4 also provides information on the number of full-time equivalent staff by salary band, excluding teachers, police and fire service staff, who are not paid on the local government pay scale. Copies are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 22828), and on the Scottish Executive Internet site: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/localgov/jswj-00.asp.Further information on teachers, police and fire service staff is available from other sources.For information on police, I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-27671.Information on teacher numbers is given in the 2001 School Census, published by the Scottish Executive on 20 June 2002. Table 6 provides information on the number of full-time equivalent staff by grade. Copies are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 22064), and on the Scottish Executive internet site: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00168-05.asp.Information on fire service staff is given in Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Fire Services for Scotland Report for 2000-2001, published by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Fire Services. Paragraph 215 shows the number of staff employed by gender and ethnicity, and Appendix 2 shows the number of staff employed by grade. Copies are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 17095), and on the Scottish Executive internet site:http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/justice/hmcif_report_2001.pdf.

Question reference: S1W-27664

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Mary Mulligan on 14 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many nurses were in training in the NHS in Scotland in each of the years from 1997 to 2002 for SRN, SEN, RMN or other qualifications, broken down by gender and year of study.

The available information is set out in the following tables. The information requested is not available by year of study and is not yet published for 2001-02. Nurse education now leads to registration and there are no courses for training to enrolled nurse level.

Pre-registration training
Year (to 31 March)	Male	Female	Total
1996-97	934	5,813	6,747
1997-98	916	6,143	7,059
1998-99	930	6,453	7,383
1999-2000	908	6,692	7,600
2000-01	983	7,045	8,028

Midwifery
Year (to 31 March)	Male	Female	Total
1996-97	1	594	595
1997-98	3	581	584
1998-99	1	599	600
1999-2000	2	607	609
2000-01	2	604	606

Post-registration training
Year (to 31 March)	Male	Female	Total
1996-97	55	571	626
1997-98	69	674	743
1998-99	107	1,301	1,408
1999-2000	137	1,604	1,741
2000-01	167	1,601	1,768

Question reference: S1W-27667

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 14 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of the staff currently employed by the Forestry Commission by gender, ethnic origin, disability and grade.

The breakdown is given in the following table.

Grade	Gender		Ethnic Origin			Disabled
	Male	Female	White	Chinese	Other	Male	Female
Senior Staff Group 3	1	-	1	-	-	-	-
Senior Staff Group 2	2	-	2	-	-	-	-
Senior Staff Group 1a	2	-	2	-	-	-	-
Senior Staff Group 1	10	1	11	-	-	-	-
Payband 1	7	-	7	-	-	-	-
Payband 2	46	6	52	-	-	-	-
Payband 3	48	17	65	-	-	-	-
Payband 3 Operational	25	4	29	-	-	-	-
Payband 4	64	40	104	-	-	1	-
Payband 4 Operational	47	4	51	-	-	1	-
Payband 5	85	80	164	1	-	1	4
Payband 5 Operational	154	11	165	-	-	3	-
Payband 6a	210	9	219	-	-	7	-
Payband 6a Operational	93	9	102	-	-	1	-
Payband 6b	284	216	499	-	1	12	7
Payband 7	41	47	88	-	-	1	-
Apprentice	1	-	1	-	-	-	-
Total		444					11

Note: Figures include permanent, fixed term and casual staff. Part-time staff are counted as one.

Question reference: S1W-27666

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Mary Mulligan on 14 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of the staff currently employed by the NHS in Scotland by gender, ethnic origin, disability and grade.

Information on the breakdown of staff currently employed by the NHS in Scotland by gender, ethnic origin and grade is available on the ISD website:http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/isd/NHSiS_resource/Workforce/workforce_statistics.htmTable A7 shows the breakdown of all staff by staff group and gender.Table G1 shows the breakdown of medical and dental staff by grade and ethnic origin.Table G4 shows the breakdown of non-medical and dental staff by ethnic origin and staff group.Information on staff currently employed by the NHS in Scotland broken down by disability is not available centrally.

Question reference: S1W-27673

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of staff currently employed by the Scottish Qualifications Authority by gender, ethnic origin, disability and grade.

Question reference: S1W-27663

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Mary Mulligan on 14 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many nurses are currently employed by the NHS in Scotland, broken down by gender and SRN, SEN, RMN or other qualification.

Question reference: S1W-27518

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 13 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on advertising by each ministerial department in each year since May 1999 and how it measures the effectiveness of such advertising.

The advertising spend by each ministerial department since May 1999 is listed in the following tables. The methods used to measure the effectiveness of advertising are:

Qualitative research pre-campaign to test the effectiveness of the advertising
Qualitative research post-campaign to test awareness, recall and reaction

Response mechanism e.g. websites, telephone helplines, call centres

Attitudinal tracking through quantitative research
Feedback via third parties
Statistical take-up response

Additionally, to ensure that the advertising reaches the target audiences, the selection of media is influenced by independently audited data.

1999-2000
	Media Spend(£)		Media Spend(£)
Justice Dept		Agriculture, Environment and Fisheries
Domestic Abuse	180,293	Food Safety	109,675
Electoral Registration	25,036	Total	109,675
European Elections	30,217
Children's Hearings	85,609	Education and Industry
Fire Prevention	136,313	Teacher Recruitment	83,763
Total	457,468	Road Safety	663,538
		Child Care	63,844
		Total	811,145

		Overall Total	1,378,288

2000-01
	Media Spend(£)		Media Spend(£)
Health		Environment and Transport
Alcohol Abuse	220,900	Road Safety	1,060,366
Food Safety	25,658	Travel Awareness (Learn to let go)	175,000
Lead in Water	61,752	Safer Scotland	140,119
NHS Fraud	121,942	Total	1,375,485
NHS Helpline	131,578
Drugs	54,114	Education
Flu	580,546	Child Care	119,117
Organ Retention	53,597	Children's Panels	105,408
Total	1,250,087	Total	225,325

Justice
Fire Prevention	144,824
Domestic Abuse	385,830
Fostering	32,443
Total	563,097	Overall Total	3,413,994

2001-02
		Media Spend(£)		Media Spend(£)
Health			Environment and Transport
Alcohol Abuse	229,145		Road Safety	1,340,164
NHS Fraud	29,920		Travel Awareness	317,010
NHS Helpline	110,495		Environment (climate change/waste management)	1,148,023
Drugs	1,175,509		Litter	118,934
Flu	566,093		Total	2,924,131
Suicide among Young Men	23,500
Children's Panel	201,581		Education
Total	2,336,243		Teacher Recruitment	310,965
			Total	310,965
Justice
Fire Prevention	297,465
Domestic Abuse	548,943
Child Protection on the Internet	186,303
Total	1,032,711		Overall Total	6,604,050

2002-03 (to date)
		Media Spend(£)			Media Spend(£)
Health			Environment and Transport
Alcohol Abuse	696,993		Road Safety	565,213
NHS Helpline	56,576		Travel Aware	243,843
Drugs	490,122		Total	809,056
Suicide among Young Men	45,481
Free Personal Care	243,941		Education
Organ Retention	80,671		Funding for Learners	100,213
Total	1,613,784		National Debate	228,718
			Total	328,931
Justice
Crime Brakers	20,273		Enterprise and Lifelong Learning
Domestic Abuse	8,913		Digital Access	37,560
Total	29,186		Total	37,560

			Overall Total	2,809,517

Question reference: S1W-27571

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 12 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 9 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Minister for Environment and Rural Development will next meet representatives of the Scottish White Fish Producers' Association.