Current status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 6 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vacant staff posts at Fisheries Research Services’ (a) Marine Laboratory Aberdeen and (b) Freshwater Laboratory Faskally have had to be re-advertised in each year since 2000.
Details of vacant posts,applications and re-advertisements at Fisheries Research Services are asfollows:
| Dates | FRS Location | Number of Vacancies | Number of Applications | Number of Re-Advertisements |
| 1 April 2004 – 31 March 2005 | Marine Laboratory | 11 | 195 | 1 |
| 1 April 2004 – 31 March 2005 | Freshwater Laboratory | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1 April 2005 – 31 March 2006 | Marine Laboratory | 7 | 57 | 1 |
| 1 April 2005 – 31 March 2006 | Freshwater Laboratory | 7 | 100 | 0 |
| 1 April 2006 – present | Marine Laboratory | 13 | 166 | 3 |
| 1 April 2006 - present | Freshwater Laboratory | 2 | 27 | 1 |
Figures for the years 1 April 2000 – 31 March 2004 arenot held centrally.