Chamber and committees

The responsibility for winter maintenance rests with individual roads authorities, in the case of trunk roads the Scottish Ministers, and on local roads the relevant local authority. The Scottish Salt Group chaired by Transport Scotland and including representatives from Society of Chief Officers of Transportation in Scotland, Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and COSLA have been collaborating on the resilience of Scotland and have jointly published a report which is available at:

http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/strategy-and-research/publications-and-consultations/j13001-00.htm.

As recommended in the report, monitoring of restocking has shown that Scottish roads authorities are on target to have sufficient salt before the worst weather starts. The report also recommended the development of a strategic salt stock of around 30,000 tonnes. Transport Scotland has started the process of procuring this.

Responsibility for winter maintenance on local roads is a matter for individual local authorities and the Scottish Government does not hold this information centrally.

I can give an absolute assurance to local staff and patients that there are no plans to close the Vale of Leven Hospital. Indeed, it was this Government that put an end to a decade of damaging uncertainty by delivering a viable future for the hospital through the agreement of the Vision for the Vale of Leven Hospital.

No decisions have been made about the future of local inpatient mental health services.  NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and the Vale Monitoring Group are to consider demand for the inpatient service, as well as the provision of enhanced community services, over the next eight to 10 months, and will then submit a report to ministers.

The information requested is presented in the following table, as provided by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Financial Year	Number of Anaesthetists
1999-2000	10
2000-01	10
2001-02	7
2002-03	10
2003-04	9*
2004-05	11
2005-06	9
2006-07	10
2007-08	11
2008-09	10*
2009-10	10
2010-11	9#

Notes:

The table details the number of anesthetists across all grades.  Registrars, although appointed to Vale posts, have had minimal input since locum consultants were appointed in 2005.

* the total includes an in-year retirement.

# reflects the position as at end of September 2010.

Source: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will consider all the options, including representations from the Vale of Leven Monitoring Group, at their board meeting on 26 October 2010.

The Vision for the Vale of Leven Hospital, approved by the NHS board and I during 2009, set the site for the new health and care Centre within the grounds of the Vale of Leven Hospital and adjacent to the main entrance to the hospital site.

The outline business case for the new centre included a site options appraisal which considered all other sites in the locality, including the site at Mitchell Way, around which a possible expansion to the land available has most recently been considered. At the time of the site options appraisal it was not just the size of the site that resulted in it scoring lower than the preferred option at the hospital.

In taking the project forward, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has now selected Laing O''Rourke as the principal supply chain partner, who will work with the board, under the Framework Scotland procurement process, to develop the design for the new centre, establish the target price for the new centre and contribute to the preparation of the full business case (FBC). The FBC will be the process that establishes the timelines for the construction, and subsequent occupation, of the new centre.

Planning Authority	2006-07		2009-10
	Number of Applications	Percent Under Two Months	Number of Applications (exc. major)	Percent Under Two Months (exc. Major)
Aberdeen City	2,304	65.8	1,683	69.2
Aberdeenshire	3,938	51.6	2,713	56.0
Angus	1,495	69.4	1,127	75.5
Argyll and Bute	1,752	62.9	1,208	62.7
Cairngorms NP	43	0.0	44	11.4
Clackmannanshire	381	85.3	269	95.5
Dumfries and Galloway	2,422	60.8	1,774	60.4
Dundee City	947	58.9	613	61.3
East Ayrshire	1,050	55.2	743	52.6
East Dunbartonshire	1,151	60.0	846	72.5
East Lothian	1,169	68.9	910	75.1
East Renfrewshire	947	71.8	684	83.2
City of Edinburgh	4,418	63.9	3,153	72.9
Eilean Siar	478	60.7	511	64.2
Falkirk	1,103	63.6	707	61.1
Fife	3,678	49.4	2,418	59.9
Glasgow City	3,449	68.0	2,540	66.9
Highland	4,605	56.0	3,533	63.3
Inverclyde	538	78.1	466	76.2
Loch Lomond and The Trossachs NP	431	47.8	322	41.0
Midlothian	791	60.6	492	57.3
Moray	1,470	46.7	1,147	37.1
North Ayrshire	1,118	75.5	782	84.1
North Lanarkshire	2,003	76.1	1,153	71.8
Orkney Islands	559	45.6	523	68.8
Perth and Kinross	2,215	48.4	1,878	54.7
Renfrewshire	1,146	61.4	766	66.1
Scottish Borders	2,169	45.2	1,463	61.2
Shetland Islands	172	22.1	320	42.5
South Ayrshire	1,587	56.3	1,168	54.4
South Lanarkshire	2,692	77.1	1,723	63.4
Stirling	946	67.7	727	79.5
West Dunbartonshire	188	85.1	294	71.8
West Lothian	1,242	77.9	836	74.6
Scotland	54,597	61.0	39,536	64.4

Notes:

1. As part of modernising planning the main legislative changes to development management, including planning application procedures, enforcement, planning appeal procedures and new local review procedures took effect from 3 August 2009. The planning authority performance data returns were revised to align these returns with the new planning system. The return has a greater emphasis on the hierarchy of developments, and thresholds to distinguish between major and local developments have been revised. As such, performance data prior to 3 August 2009 is not comparable with that after 3 August 2009, except at an aggregate level.

Revisions have been made to the following categories:

(a) Minerals “ previously all mineral developments were included together. This has been separated into major developments, where site area is or exceeds two hectares, local developments, where site area is less than two hectares, and local developments subject an environmental impact assessment (EIA).

(b) Housing (previously Dwellings) “ the threshold for major developments has been revised. Major developments are now defined as 50 or more dwellings or a site area that is or exceeds two hectares (previously defined as 10 or more dwellings or a site area that is or exceeds of 0.5 hectares). Local developments are now defined less than 50 dwellings or a site area of less than two hectares (previously defined as less than 10 dwellings or a site area less than 0.5 hectares). Local developments subject to an EIA are now recorded separately.

(c) Business and Industry - the threshold for major developments has been revised. Major developments are now defined as a gross floor space that is or exceeds 10,000 square metres or a site area that is or exceeds two hectares (previously defined as 1,000 square metres or a site area that is or exceeds of one hectare). Local developments are now defined as a gross floor space less than 10,000 square metres or a site area of less than two hectares (previously defined as less than 1,000 square metres or a site area less than one hectare). Local developments subject to an EIA are now recorded separately.

(d) Other developments - the threshold for major developments has been revised. Major developments are now defined as a gross floor space that is or exceeds 5,000 square metres or a site area that is or exceeds two hectares (previously defined as 1,000 square metres or a site area that is or exceeds of one hectare). Local developments are now defined as a gross floor space less than 5,000 square metres or a site area of less than two hectares (previously defined as less than 1,000 square metres or a site area less than one hectare). Local developments subject to an EIA are now recorded separately.

The 2009-10 figures have been aggregated from two separate sets of data pertaining to the two different planning systems, and therefore contain planning applications measured on different bases “ care should be taken with these figures.

2. In 2006-07, all applications were reported against a two-month target - this is not the case in 2009-10 due to definitional changes as described in note 1.

3. Due to the aforementioned definitional changes, a further 959 applications (classed as major) have not been included in the 2009-10 figures, as they were only measured against a four-month target.

4. The Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) do not receive planning applications directly but are notified of applications which have been made to those planning authorities within the park boundaries. The CNPA may then decide to call applications in for their determination. Planning applications may therefore have already been in the system for a number of weeks before being transferred to the CNPA. The percentage of Cairngorms applications processed in under two months are lower than those of the other planning authorities due to the reasons stated above. The CPNA do not have delegation powers.

Table 1 shows the number of speed cameras and road accidents in each year since 1997.

Table 1: Total Number of Speed Cameras and Road Accidents Since 1997

Year	Number of Cameras	Year	Number of Accidents
1997-98	0	1997	16,646
1998-99	0	1998	16,519
1999-2000	0	1999	15,415
2000-01	29	2000	15,131
2001-02	29	2001	14,723
2002-03	206	2002	14,343
2003-04	403	2003	13,918
2004-05	483	2004	13,919
2005-06	499	2005	13,438
2006-07	509	2006	13,110
2007-08	507	2007	12,506
2008-09	492	2008	12,158
2009-10	460	2009	11,547

Notes:

1. The Scottish Safety Camera Programme started as a pilot in Strathclyde (Glasgow City area) in 2000. There are no records held centrally of the numbers of cameras in use on the road network  before that year.

2. The number of cameras include those located on the trunk road network.

3. Camera numbers are recorded per financial year and road accidents are recorded per calendar year.

Table 2 shows the number of sites where speed cameras are deployed under the Safety Camera Programme

Table 2: Number of Cameras Operating under the Safety Camera Programme in Each Local Authority Area Since 2000 “ Trunk Road Network Listed at End of Table

Local Authority	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Aberdeen City	-	-	23	26	26	30	19	17	17	16
Aberdeenshire	-	-	24	24	24	23	23	21	21	21
Angus	-	-	-	14	14	14	14	14	14	10
Argyll and Bute	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	1	1
Borders	-	-	-	49	57	57	57	60	55	55
Clackmannanshire	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	3	3	3
Dumfries and Galloway	-	-	-	10	10	10	10	7	7	6
Dundee City	-	-	-	7	7	7	7	7	7	6
East Ayrshire	-	-	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
East Dunbartonshire	-	-	-	2	5	5	6	6	6	6
East Renfrewshire	-	-	-	10	10	13	13	13	10	9
Edinburgh City	-	-	-	39	45	45	44	44	29	29
Falkirk	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	6	6	6
Fife Council	-	-	33	33	39	40	42	42	42	25
Glasgow	23	28	35	36	34	34	35	35	34	31
Highland	-	-	-	-	4	4	4	4	4	3
Inverclyde	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	1	1	1
Moray Council	-	-	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9
North Ayrshire	-	-	-	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
North Lanarkshire	-	-	5	6	9	10	9	9	9	8
Perth and Kinross	-	-	-	14	14	14	14	14	14	12
Renfrewshire	-	-	-	2	5	5	6	6	6	6
South Ayrshire	-	-	3	3	4	4	4	4	2	2
South Lanarkshire	-	-	-	4	8	10	10	11	11	11
Stirling	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	3	3	3
West Dunbartonshire	-	-	-	1	3	3	3	3	3	3
West Lothian	-	-	-	-	7	7	10	10	11	11
Trunk Road Network	35	40	71	108	142	147	151	151	161	162
Total	23	28	135	295	341	352	359	356	331	298

Note: 1. All mainland local authorities and Transport Scotland are members of the Safety Camera Programme. There are no speed cameras currently operating in Eilean Siar, Orkney Island or Shetlands Island Council areas.

Table 3 shows the number of reported injury road accidents from 1997 onwards by local authority area.

Table 3: Reported Road Injury Accidents on Scottish Roads by Year and Local Authority, 1997 to 2009

Local Authority	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Aberdeen City	594	546	479	466	408	398	366
Aberdeenshire	693	673	598	558	559	585	556
Angus	376	368	338	329	321	363	271
Argyll and Bute	363	341	360	299	296	290	316
Clackmannanshire	122	108	97	93	82	97	106
Dumfries and Galloway	424	458	388	421	436	425	447
Dundee City	401	369	387	367	396	359	316
East Ayrshire	330	334	334	293	322	313	272
East Dunbartonshire	255	251	244	247	230	222	184
East Lothian	236	230	237	258	239	224	204
East Renfrewshire	206	201	197	182	163	132	171
Edinburgh, City of	1,991	2,061	1,829	1,891	1,772	1,656	1,465
Eilean Siar	54	71	62	57	55	48	59
Falkirk	396	363	338	317	298	344	350
Fife	806	733	712	785	734	740	719
Glasgow City	2,432	2,451	2,236	2,175	2,127	2,137	2,080
Highland	746	780	760	686	694	628	678
Inverclyde	322	304	254	255	233	198	224
Midlothian	285	258	244	274	237	230	243
Moray	237	190	163	206	177	172	178
North Ayrshire	385	361	360	329	322	330	319
North Lanarkshire	965	994	921	987	948	804	796
Orkney Islands	37	41	43	24	33	40	32
Perth and  Kinross	505	521	532	478	516	446	460
Renfrewshire	567	529	536	479	467	478	528
Scottish Borders	396	451	431	422	413	450	442
Shetland Islands	54	56	44	35	32	28	31
South Ayrshire	332	309	337	336	326	300	300
South Lanarkshire	949	979	931	901	845	867	796
Stirling	354	327	300	261	256	305	304
West Dunbartonshire	278	309	233	260	247	243	229
West Lothian	555	552	490	460	539	491	476
Scotland	16,646	16,519	15,415	15,131	14,723	14,343	13,918

 

Local Authority	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009*
Aberdeen City	369	431	393	407	513	445
Aberdeenshire	558	606	552	632	692	687
Angus	315	306	280	284	286	232
Argyll and Bute	299	323	310	268	288	280
Clackmannanshire	86	83	102	88	85	77
Dumfries and Galloway	440	497	443	475	419	388
Dundee City	326	270	332	253	270	281
East Ayrshire	308	261	257	240	230	213
East Dunbartonshire	192	190	186	149	141	147
East Lothian	215	206	217	210	192	174
East Renfrewshire	152	127	138	119	109	105
Edinburgh, City of	1,548	1,405	1,445	1,330	1,286	1,192
Eilean Siar	49	41	41	44	60	39
Falkirk	308	310	285	297	310	304
Fife	754	701	677	606	576	588
Glasgow City	2,086	1,954	1,873	1,785	1,648	1,509
Highland	680	657	621	626	586	616
Inverclyde	196	172	199	205	194	146
Midlothian	231	233	236	210	221	207
Moray	177	166	163	175	194	197
North Ayrshire	353	308	280	264	248	225
North Lanarkshire	776	790	749	753	642	663
Orkney Islands	34	40	40	27	36	27
Perth and  Kinross	431	401	409	390	375	396
Renfrewshire	485	468	455	426	372	310
Scottish Borders	456	448	371	336	383	363
Shetland Islands	36	46	45	41	20	42
South Ayrshire	273	284	270	262	220	266
South Lanarkshire	785	740	722	689	669	598
Stirling	289	264	314	290	285	247
West Dunbartonshire	246	227	225	201	148	175
West Lothian	466	483	480	424	460	408
Scotland	13,919	13,438	13,110	12,506	12,158	11,547

Note:

1. Figures include for accidents occurring on the trunk road network.

* 2009 figures are provisional.