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Question reference: S2W-23314

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 20 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 23 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how much foreign direct investment there has been in each of the last 10 years, broken down by sector, and what information it has on what percentage such investment was of the total foreign direct investment into the (a) United Kingdom and (b) European Union.

1.The sector by sector figuresfor inward investment projects into Scotland supported by Scottish Development International and itspredecessors are provided in the following tables. These should be set in the contextof a very steep decline in global flows of foreign direct investment since 2000and a shift in Scotland’s strategic focus from 2001 onwards to concentrate on attractinghigh-quality investment rather than volume alone.

1995-96	Planned Projects	Planned Jobs	Planned Investment (£ Million)
Electronics	26	7,083	719.30
Services	7	1,266	13.40
Miscellaneous Manufacturing	14	1,344	63.70
Textiles	7	589	19.10
Food and Drink	6	280	16.20
Chemicals/Plastics/Rubber	14	1,274	127.20
Forest Products/Paper	4	154	9.40
Other Activities	6	570	12.70
Totals	84	12,560	981.00

1996-97	Planned Projects	Planned Jobs	Planned Investment (£ Million)
Electronics	17	5,448	2,582.00
Services	23	2,654	41.10
Miscellaneous Manufacturing	22	3,142	113.10
Textiles	2	380	12.10
Food and Drink	3	86	0.70
Chemicals/Plastics/Rubber	12	1,682	260.00
Forest Products/Paper	2	126	50.90
Other Activities	5	777	61.60
Totals	86	14,295	3,121.50

1997-98	Planned Projects	Planned Jobs	Planned Investment (£ Million)
Electronics	17	2,609	267.70
Services	23	10,732	392.90
Miscellaneous Manufacturing	13	910	44.10
Textiles	7	932	19.10
Food and Drink	3	72	4.30
Chemicals/Plastics/Rubber	14	2,179	217.00
Forest Products/Paper	2	123	48.30
Other Activities	8	390	18.20
Totals	87	17,947	1,011.60

1998-99	Planned Projects	Planned Jobs	Planned Investment (£ Million)
Electronics	16	3,665	216.10
Services	29	4,641	73.10
Miscellaneous Manufacturing	11	1,186	32.50
Textiles	6	632	17.10
Food and Drink	1	31	1.60
Chemicals/Plastics/Rubber	1,300	653	417.40
Forest Products/Paper	0	0	0.00
Other Activities	2	59	3.40
Totals	78	10,867	761.20

1999-2000	Planned Projects	Planned Jobs	Planned Investment (£ Million)
Electronics	13	3,568	158.59
Services	25	6,163	88.89
Miscellaneous Manufacturing	19	1,055	49.40
Textiles	2	73	0.35
Food and Drink	4	69	2.50
Chemicals/Plastics/Rubber	12	783	69.04
Forest Products/Paper	0	0	0.00
Other Activities	16	2,171	115.21
Totals	91	13,882	483.98

2000-01	Planned Projects	Planned Jobs	Planned Investment (£ Million)
Electronics	25	5,587	1,496.86
Services	35	5,240	119.38
Miscellaneous Manufacturing	18	1,023	29.70
Textiles	0	0	0.00
Food and Drink	4	447	7.90
Chemicals/Plastics/Rubber	11	1,322	74.10
Forest Products/Paper	4	661	33.60
Other Activities	5	66	1.84
Totals	102	14,346	1,763.38

2001-02	Planned Projects	Planned Jobs	Planned Investment (£ Million)
Electronics	11	1,182	42.95
Services	26	3,518	140.02
Miscellaneous Manufacturing	6	474	21.28
Textiles	1	40	0.65
Food and Drink	1	109	10.00
Chemicals/Plastics/Rubber	5	590	37.97
Forest Products/Paper	2	95	2.17
Other Activities	7	378	16.25
Totals	59	6,386	271.28

2002-03	Planned Projects	Planned Jobs	Planned Investment (£ Million)
Electronics	7	811	22.95
Services	26	1,202	27.73
Miscellaneous Manufacturing	17	3,189	111.54
Textiles	0	0	0.00
Food and Drink	2	82	26.53
Chemicals/Plastics/Rubber	3	447	0.60
Forest Products/Paper	0	0	0.00
Other Activities	2	1,419	16.04
Totals	57	7,150	205.39

2003-04	Planned Projects	Planned Jobs	Planned Investment (£ Million)
Electronics	15	1,985	122.33
Services	8	983	18.33
Miscellaneous Manufacturing	16	1,870	57.83
Textiles	1	8	0.08
Food and Drink	2	78	4.16
Chemicals/Plastics/Rubber	5	203	25.22
Forest Products/Paper	1	50	1.60
Other Activities	17	298	1.96
Totals	65	5,475	231.50

2004-05	Planned Projects	Planned Jobs	Planned Investment (£ Million)
Electronics	8	470	22.95
Services	9	1,270	6.22
Miscellaneous Manufacturing	3	219	4.14
Textiles	0	0	0.00
Food and Drink	1	64	1.03
Chemicals/Plastics/Rubber	4	437	8.17
Forest Products/Paper	0	0	0.00
Other Activities	21	2,608	98.30
Totals	46	5,068	140.80

2. The figures showing inwardinvestment projects in Scotland as a proportion of inward investment projects in theUKare given in the table:

Year	Projects (%)	Jobs (%)
1995-96	14	11
1996-97	15	12
1997-98	12	9
1998-99	8	6
1999-2000	9	10
2000-01	8	11
2001-02	7	13
2002-03	7	10
2003-04	9	7
2004-05	6	8

Note: These figures are reportedto UK Trade and Investment using different criteria to those applied when collatingScotland’s own figures for inward investment projects receiving public sector support.

3. Figures which compare inwardinvestment attracted to the EU with inward investment attracted to Scotland arenot available on a comparable basis.

Question reference: S2W-25749

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 08 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what alternatives to methadone are used by the NHS.

Question reference: S2W-25641

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 18 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been awarded to (a) each police force, (b) each fire service and (c) the ambulance service in each year since 1999, expressed as an amount per head of population.

The funding allocated from the Scottish Executive (grant aided expenditure and capital) in respect of the police,fire and ambulance service is set out as follows.

The figures for the ambulanceservice are only available on a national basis.

For the fire service, grant aidedexpenditure allocations are included as part of a larger distribution process coveringother local authority services and it is for each local authorities to determinethe actual level of funding that is allocated.

Fire Service

	Central Scotland	Dumfries and Galloway	Fife	Grampian	Highland and Islands	Lothian and Borders	Strathclyde	Tayside
1999-2000	35.85	38.52	40.71	31.29	39.49	32.33	36.59	43.43
2000-01	37.62	41.14	43.82	34.51	44.07	34.79	40.13	47.45
2001-02	41.95	43.01	47.89	37.51	48.76	38.63	43.97	51.10
2002-03	46.01	46.59	49.97	37.75	51.12	41.18	47.77	54.67
2003-04	47.38	51.04	57.96	44.86	54.16	42.45	52.16	58.63
2004-05	50.37	56.60	64.25	47.97	57.13	44.13	53.97	63.79
2005-06	55.97	60.03	67.32	46.35	58.07	47.28	57.34	66.89
2006-07	57.41	66.29	63.66	53.48	78.78	51.34	59.90	69.61

Police Forces

	Central	Dumfries and Galloway	Fife	Grampian	Northern	Lothian and Borders	Strathclyde	Tayside
1999-2000	118.56	141.77	111.56	116.29	133.54	146.33	149.55	141.68
2000-01	120.39	146.21	118.87	120.24	140.49	150.20	155.61	149.41
2001-02	127.21	153.27	125.83	130.21	153.86	159.00	167.86	158.06
2002-03	131.86	157.45	126.52	138.37	157.97	168.19	176.54	163.84
2003-04	143.96	167.54	140.53	149.94	168.88	179.87	191.08	176.75
2004-05	150.15	177.08	149.28	160.91	175.39	188.17	201.32	183.92
2005-06	161.51	188.52	163.15	169.91	178.98	198.19	216.02	196.01
2006-07	169.24	196.37	167.44	178.11	190.26	205.46	225.04	203.24

Ambulance Service

1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
17.72	18.87	20.25	22.18	23.91	28.25	30.47	32.09

Question reference: S2W-25748

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 08 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 18 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) full-time and (b) retained firefighters have (i) been employed and (ii) taken early retirement in each year since 1997, broken down by fire brigade area.

Question reference: S2W-25640

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of crime has been drug-related in each year since 1999, broken down by police force area.

The percentage of crimes recordedby the police which are specifically drug crimes (possession, supply, manufactureor trafficking) are given in the table below.

Number of Drug Crimes EachYear as a Percentage of Crimes Recorded, by Police Force Area, 1999-2000 to 2004-05

Force	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Central	8.5	6.5	9.0	10.8	11.0	10.6	9.8
Dumfries and Galloway	10.3	7.4	6.5	7.2	7.6	9.6	8.8
Fife	9.0	4.4	5.1	6.1	6.6	5.9	5.8
Grampian	6.3	4.8	4.8	6.4	8.2	7.2	7.4
Lothian and Borders	5.5	5.8	6.7	7.1	8.1	7.2	7.0
Northern	10.1	11.3	8.8	11.9	11.7	13.5	11.0
Strathclyde	8.2	8.3	9.2	9.9	11.4	12.6	11.4
Tayside	6.5	5.4	5.9	7.2	8.3	10.2	10.8
Scotland	7.6	7.0	7.7	8.6	9.8	10.2	9.5

Question reference: S2W-25812

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 17 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Minister for Justice will reply to my letter of 5 April 2006 regarding the Protection of Children (Scotland) Act 2003.

Question reference: S2W-25755

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 17 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Minister for Environment and Rural Development will reply to my letter dated 5 April 2006 regarding the Local Capital Grants Scheme.

Question reference: S2W-25223

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dogs worked in the prison estate in each year since 1999, broken down by the specific duties that they undertook, and at what cost.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:

The SPS only employs dogs fordrug detection and prevention. In the financial years specified, the breakdown forpublic sector prisons is as follows:

Financial Year	No. of Dogs	Total Budget (inc Staff)
1999-2000	2	£48,919
2000-01	8	£142,794
2001-02	12	£286,840
2002-03	12	£288,799
2003-04	12	£264,603
2004-05	10	£209,910
2005-06	8	£180,245

Any reporting on costs is a matterfor HM Prison Kilmarnock. In addition, HM Prison Kilmarnock reportthe following:

Financial Year	No. of Dogs
1999-2000	1
2000-01	2
2001-02	2
2002-03	2
2003-04	2
2004-05	2
2005-06	1

Question reference: S2W-25527

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide a substantive answer to parliamentary question S2W-24617 which received a holding reply on 24 April 2006.

Question reference: S2W-25563

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 12 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the overall budget for schools was spent on (a) departmental administration, including contractors and consultants, and (b) local authority administration in each year since 1999.

The Scottish Executive doesnot set an overall budget for spend on school education, but funds localauthorities who set their own budgets for different services includingdepartmental administration. Due to accounting changes in the way localauthority expenditure on education is reported, there is no informationavailable on administration expenditure for 2002-03 onwards. Details ofadministration expenditure by local authorities prior to 2002-03 can be found onthe Scottish Executive website http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00303-00.asp.

Expenditure by the ScottishExecutive Education Department, schools group on departmental administration(including contractors and consultants) was less than one per cent of totalspend on schools for each year since 1999.