- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 19 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been employed in the private sector in each of the last five years
Answer
Public and Private sector employmentin Scotland is officially published through the
Scottish QuarterlyPublic Sector Employment (
SQPSE) series. Estimates of private sectoremployment published in this series are calculated as total employment minus publicsector employment. Public sector employment is calculated using administrative andsurvey data direct from public sector organisations. Public sector employment isdefined using the National Accounts definition. The following table contains estimatesof private sector employment in the last five years taken from the
SQPSEseries.
Private sector employment inScotland, 2001–05
| | Private Sector Employment1 |
| Q4 2001 | 1,801,400 |
| Q4 2002 | 1,846,300 |
| Q4 2003 | 1,843,800 |
| Q4 2004 | 1,876,900 |
| Q4 2005 | 1,880,700 |
Source: Quarterly Public SectorEmployment in Scotland Q4 2005.
Note: 1. Figures are roundedto the nearest hundred.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 24 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any ongoing teacher training programmes to enable teachers to recognise the symptoms of Tourette Syndrome or associated disorders in children.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 23 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what information is available for teachers and parents to help them to better understand Tourette Syndrome.
Answer
Enquire, the national adviceservice for additional support for learning, is funded by the Scottish Executiveto provide information and advice to parents, young people and practitioners ona range of matters relating to additional support needs, including those involvingTourette’s Syndrome.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The information requested isnot collected centrally.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by John Scott on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what the annual budget of the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman has been in each year since the office was established.
Answer
The annual budgets of the ScottishPublic Services Ombudsman since the office was established on 23 October 2002 areas follows:
| Year | Budget |
| 2002-03 | £1,731,000¹ |
| 2003-04 | £2,568,000 |
| 2004-05 | £2,836,000 |
| 2005-06 | £2,727,168 |
Note: 1. Includes £0.5 millionfor start-up costs.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by John Scott on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many staff members the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman has had in each year since the office was established.
Answer
The Scottish Public ServicesOmbudsman’s staffing compliment since the office was established on 23 October 2002 is asfollows:
| Year | Average Number of Whole-Time Equivalents |
| 2002-03 | 23 |
| 2003-04 | 29 |
| 2004-05 | 31.9 |
| 2005-06 | 36 |
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by John Scott on 20 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether it considers that the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman has sufficient resources to cope with her workload.
Answer
We do consider that the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman has sufficient resources to undertake herstatutory functions. As part of the budgetary process, the SPCB invites theOmbudsman on an annual basis to prepare a budget submission which isscrutinised by the SPCB and which may include discussions between the SPCB andthe Ombudsman prior to the bid being reported to the Finance Committee as partof the SPCB’s overall budget submission.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18439 by Peter Peacock on 13 September 2005, whether it will list all the schools that have been closed since August 2005, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
I refer the member to answerto question S2W-18439 on 13 September 2005 was derived from information collectedannually by the Scottish Executive Education Department on the opening and closingof schools. The information collection takes place during the summer of each yearand, therefore, information on schools that have been closed since August 2005 willnot be available until later this year.All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 2 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is satisfied with the provision of NHS dentistry services in rural Scotland.
Answer
We do not believe current provisionof NHS dentistry is adequate throughout rural Scotland. That is why we have substantiallyincreased the rewards for those dentists who continue to treat all categories ofpatients on the NHS, and we have supported health boards in providing NHS servicesdirectly through the appointment of salaried dentists.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 23 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to promote winter sports, following the Winter Olympics in Turin.
Answer
Individual governing bodies of sport are responsible for promoting their sport. I wish to take the opportunity to congratulate our Winter Olympians and in particular Sinead and John Kerr on their 10th place and our men’s curling team on reaching the final stages of the competition.
