- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) police officers and (b) firefighters are due to retire in each of the next three years.
Answer
The estimated numbers of officers expected by the eight Scottish police forces to retire over the next three years (excluding any retirements on the grounds of ill-health) are as follows:
2006-07: 489
2007-08: 451
2008-09: 637.
Information on the number of firefighters due to retire in the next three years is not held centrally and is a matter for individual Fire and Rescue Services.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 2 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average percentage employment rates of the working age population were in each parliamentary constituency in the (a) 12 months to June 1997, or closest equivalent period, and (b) last 12-month period for which figures are available.
Answer
The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is the official source of employment rates. Data from the LFS are not available for the 12 months to June 1997. However, employment rates are available for the periods March 1996 to February 1997 and March 1997 to February 1998. The latest annual data available are for January 2004 to December 2004. All these employment rates are given in table 1.
Table 1: Employment Rates1 by Constituency, Scotland
Parliamentary Constituency | March 1996 to February 1997 | March 1997 to February 1998 | January 2004 to December 2004 |
Aberdeen Central | 74.3 | 74.0 | 71.8 |
Aberdeen North | 82.0 | 81.7 | 78.3 |
Aberdeen South | 77.7 | 81.0 | 78.4 |
Airdrie and Shotts | 65.5 | 65.8 | 72.1 |
Angus | 81.8 | 78.7 | 75.9 |
Argyll and Bute | 76.1 | 70.6 | 79.8 |
Ayr | 71.8 | 77.0 | 72.5 |
Banff and Buchan | 69.3 | 72.6 | 76.1 |
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | 68.5 | 66.2 | 83.7 |
Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley | 64.1 | 64.7 | 73.4 |
Central Fife | 64.3 | 66.6 | 74.8 |
Clydebank and Milngavie | 63.9 | 67.8 | 76.0 |
Clydesdale | 72.0 | 70.3 | 74.6 |
Coatbridge and Chryston | 64.7 | 62.1 | 67.3 |
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth | 69.5 | 70.2 | 76.8 |
Cunninghame North | 63.1 | 66.3 | 69.1 |
Cunninghame South | 70.1 | 64.2 | 66.4 |
Dumbarton | 63.8 | 73.1 | 72.0 |
Dumfries | 73.1 | 71.4 | 80.3 |
Dundee East | 67.7 | 70.3 | 69.1 |
Dundee West | 62.0 | 64.6 | 67.2 |
Dunfermline East | 70.5 | 71.6 | 72.3 |
Dunfermline West | 73.5 | 78.6 | 79.8 |
East Kilbride | 77.5 | 75.0 | 78.1 |
East Lothian | 74.5 | 73.7 | 76.2 |
Eastwood | 77.6 | 81.5 | 79.3 |
Edinburgh Central | 62.4 | 64.7 | 72.2 |
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh | 72.5 | 76.8 | 76.9 |
Edinburgh North and Leith | 70.7 | 72.2 | 78.3 |
Edinburgh Pentlands | 73.5 | 77.3 | 74.9 |
Edinburgh South | 63.0 | 66.5 | 68.7 |
Edinburgh West | 75.7 | 76.5 | 83.1 |
Falkirk East | 75.0 | 73.1 | 77.2 |
Falkirk West | 69.7 | 74.2 | 76.6 |
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale | 74.3 | 68.2 | 77.1 |
Glasgow Anniesland | 57.8 | 60.2 | 68.1 |
Glasgow Baillieston | 51.3 | 55.4 | 56.8 |
Glasgow Cathcart | 55.5 | 64.4 | 77.0 |
Glasgow Govan | 63.7 | 68.7 | 72.1 |
Glasgow Kelvin | 63.8 | 66.4 | 68.3 |
Glasgow Maryhill | 45.4 | 49.0 | 55.0 |
Glasgow Pollok | 61.4 | 57.6 | 62.5 |
Glasgow Rutherglen | 64.1 | 63.8 | 69.9 |
Glasgow Shettleston | 44.7 | 48.3 | 52.7 |
Glasgow Springburn | 50.0 | 49.7 | 63.9 |
Gordon | 84.0 | 85.4 | 81.0 |
Greenock and Inverclyde | 72.1 | 73.0 | 68.9 |
Hamilton North and Bellshill | 68.4 | 65.6 | 70.5 |
Hamilton South | 67.0 | 60.6 | 73.7 |
Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber | 76.4 | 77.0 | 82.0 |
Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 66.8 | 63.9 | 72.5 |
Kirkcaldy | 69.4 | 73.1 | 79.0 |
Linlithgow | 78.1 | 79.3 | 76.2 |
Livingston | 76.2 | 81.0 | 81.3 |
Midlothian | 79.1 | 78.2 | 80.1 |
Moray | 80.7 | 71.5 | 78.2 |
Motherwell and Wishaw | 62.8 | 64.5 | 72.3 |
North East Fife | 76.5 | 70.8 | 82.8 |
North Tayside | 80.6 | 77.4 | 77.5 |
Ochil | 63.3 | 65.1 | 73.8 |
Orkney and Shetland | 82.4 | 81.1 | 85.5 |
Paisley North | 60.9 | 63.2 | 71.1 |
Paisley South | 68.3 | 71.4 | 74.5 |
Perth | 81.7 | 78.2 | 78.8 |
Ross, Skye and Inverness West | 72.4 | 77.0 | 83.1 |
Roxburgh and Berwickshire | 73.7 | 75.8 | 78.0 |
Stirling | 74.3 | 72.5 | 76.3 |
Strathkelvin and Bearsden | 75.4 | 76.5 | 79.4 |
Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale | 80.8 | 79.4 | 81.3 |
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | 78.0 | 75.9 | 79.8 |
West Renfrewshire | 78.4 | 75.8 | 75.4 |
Western Isles | 71.9 | 78.7 | 79.2 |
Source: Local Area Labour Force Survey, Annual Population Survey.
Notes:
1. Employment rates are for those of working age - age 16 to 59 for women and age 16 to 64 for men.
2. As survey results, these are subject to a degree of error and implied differences may not be significant and instead be within a given error range.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 2 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the net change in the number of employee jobs in each Glasgow parliamentary constituency has been in each year since 1999.
Answer
The following table shows the net change in the number of employee jobs in each Glasgow parliamentary constituency from 1999 to the latest year for which data is available (2004). Changes between 2002 and 2003 are not included as there is a discontinuity between the data for 2002 and 2003 as a result of a change in the way in which data for Parliamentary constituencies is constructed.
Annual Change in the Level of Employee Jobs in Glasgow Parliamentary Constituencies, 1999-2003
Parliamentary Constituency | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2003-04 |
Glasgow Anniesland | 300 | 3,100 | -200 | -400 |
Glasgow Baillieston | 100 | 2,100 | -600 | -300 |
Glasgow Cathcart | 100 | -1800 | -1,200 | -1,000 |
Glasgow Govan | 2,000 | 5,700 | 700 | 2,400 |
Glasgow Kelvin | 5,700 | 8,300 | 1,500 | 5,700 |
Glasgow Maryhill | -800 | 2,900 | -2,800 | -700 |
Glasgow Pollok | 2,500 | 300 | 100 | 1,200 |
Glasgow Rutherglen | 2,800 | -2,100 | -1,000 | 700 |
Glasgow Shettleston | -1,300 | 1,400 | 900 | 600 |
Glasgow Springburn | 1,100 | 1,800 | -200 | 600 |
Total | 12,500 | 21,500 | -3,000 | 8,700 |
Source: Annual Business Inquiry (ABI).
Notes:
1. These figures are aggregates from which agriculture class 0100 (1992 SIC) have been excluded.
2. The data are rounded to the nearest hundred.
3. Totals may not equal the sum of the constituent parts due to rounding.
4. Data for 1999-2000, 2000-01 and 2001-02 based on 1991 census wards. Data for 2003-04 are based on 2003 CAS wards.
5. ABI data are workplace based.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 31 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what correlation it considers that there is between early tooth loss caused by dental decay and (a) failure to thrive, (b) impaired speech development, (c) absence from school, (d) inability to concentrate in school, (e) reduced self-esteem and (f) mental ill-health.
Answer
The childhood problems listed in the question may all have a number of different causes. Early tooth loss due to dental decay may impact on these problems, but the Scottish Executive Health Department is not aware of evidence linking these problems directly to poor dental health.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 31 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what research into the effects of early tooth loss it uses to inform the development, application and subsequent resourcing of (a) education policy, (b) dental health policy, (c) other health policy and (d) any other policy.
Answer
There are a wide range of structured groups that impact on policy in Scotland as well as a range of professionals able to advise the Scottish Executive Health Department directly or through the Chief Dental Officer.
These structured advisory groups inform and shape dental policy, educational policy and related policies. The Chief Dental Officer also takes advice from academics and dental professionals throughout the UK and Europe as required.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 30 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) police officers and (b) firefighters have worked extra hours in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
The operational requirement for overtime is a matter in the first instance for the Chief Constable or the Chief Fire Officer
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 30 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many extra hours have been worked by (a) police officers and (b) firefighters in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
The operational requirement for overtime is a matter in the first instance for the Chief Constable or the Chief Fire Officer.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 27 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many licensed money lenders there are.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has no functions in relation to licensing of money lenders. Licensing of money lending is a reserved matter dealt with by the Office of Fair Trading.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 27 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many childcare places have closed in each year since 1999.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not collect information on the number of childcare places that have closed each year.
Statistics are collected each year on pre-school education and childcare, which are available on the Scottish Executive website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/statistics/children.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive which private finance initiative schemes (a) have reached financial close and are completed and operational, (b) have reached financial close and work has started on site, (c) are in negotiation but have not yet reached financial close and (d) have not yet placed advertisements in the Official Journal of the European Union, broken down by (i) capital value and (ii) completion or anticipated completion date.
Answer
The information requested is already within the public domain and can be accessed from the Scottish Executive’s website. PPP projects in Scotland that are either operational or signed can be found on
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/Finance/18232/donedeals.
PPP projects in Scotland that are in procurement or have yet to be advertised in the Official Journal of the European Union can be found on:
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/Finance/18232/futuredeals.