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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
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Question reference: S2W-25036

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 3 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been allocated to the firefighters’ pension scheme in each year since 1997.

The information is shown inthe following table.

Year	£000
1997-98	16,635
1998-99	20,167
1999-2000	21,100
2000-01	24,465
2001-02	25,000
2002-03	26,325
2003-04	36,469
2004-05	42,469
2005-06	46,969

Question reference: S2W-25037

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 3 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many firefighters have been retired before their retirement age as a result of ill health or injury in each of the last five financial years.

Question reference: S2W-25040

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 3 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many calls were made to each fire and rescue service in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.

The number of calls made to thefire and rescue services are shown in the following table.

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Central Scotland	6,093	4,977	4,949	4,962	5,107	5,444	10,678	10,244	12,559	9,206
Dumfries and Galloway	3,165	2,719	7,039	8,576	2,656	3,110	3,397	3,063	3,369	3,018
Fife	14,657	17,572	13,125	12,632	14,515	14,033	14,420	15,782	16,132	14029
Grampian	13,637	12,168	12,422	10,788	11,984	14,157	15,099	16,250	18,257	14,050
Highlands and Islands	8,481	8,700	7,545	7,784	8,002	7,201	7,052	7,729	7,568	6,581
Lothian and Borders	31,267	28,659	27,815	26,193	30,800	33,816	36,632	33,134	36,732	34,564
Strathclyde	77,002	65,942	61,507	60,338	62,735	64,584	101,896	97,660	105,590	903,26
Tayside	19,846	14,691	13,440	12,559	14,206	14,145	15,292	13,854	15,245	12,817

Source: HM Chief Inspector ofFire Services for Scotland.

Question reference: S2W-25025

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 3 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate has been made of the costs associated with the loss of buildings used for educational purposes which have been subjected to wilful fire-raising in each year since 1996.

Question reference: S2W-24991

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 3 May 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what funding was provided centrally for community fire safety budgets in each of the last five years.

The centrally providedcommunity fire safety budget for the last five years is shown in the following table.

Year	Budget
2005-06	£759,840
2004-05	£945,313
2003-04	£791,526
2002-03	£800,000
2001-02	£800,500

Question reference: S2W-25032

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 28 April 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what impact a reduction in the number of emergency fire service control rooms will have on the number of fire and rescue authorities.

Question reference: S2W-24987

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 28 April 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many times Audit Scotland has undertaken a review of the fire and rescue authorities in the last three years and what the results were of such reviews.

Question reference: S2W-25028

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 28 April 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive many hoax calls were made to the emergency and fire and rescue services in each of the last three years, broken down by service area.

The number of malicious hoaxcalls made to the fire and rescue services for the last three years is shown inthe following table.

Fire Service	2002	2003	2004
Central Scotland	435	383	321
Dumfries and Galloway	83	54	44
Fife	443	430	361
Grampian	354	280	247
Highlands and Islands	339	279	218
Lothian and Borders	1,209	1,264	1,136
Strathclyde	4,435	3,861	3,690
Tayside	485	399	333
Scotland Total	7,783	6,950	6,350

Data Source: ScottishExecutive: Criminal Justice Series: Fire Statistics Scotland.

Question reference: S2W-25024

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 28 April 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the recommended crew level and the minimum (a) response time and (b) weight of response are in respect of a dwelling fire in each fire and rescue service area.

Question reference: S2W-25034

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 April 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 28 April 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the projected cost is of the Firelink radio programme.