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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.

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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-24983

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 people were rescued by the fire and rescue services in the last five years, broken down by service area.

The number of people rescuedby the fire and rescue services in the last five years is shown in the followingtable.

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Central Scotland	181	45	46	34	58
Dumfries and Galloway	18	19	15	11	5
Fife	34	70	61	48	32
Grampian	81	49	70	87	114
Highland and Islands	9	21	13	25	28
Lothian and Borders	221	161	258	202	172
Strathclyde	392	364	416	339	406
Tayside	76	106	64	85	48
Scotland Total	1,013	835	943	831	863

Question reference: S2W-24984

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 uniformed female personnel are employed by each fire and rescue service and what percentage of uniformed personnel are female.

The actual strength of theof fire and rescue services as at 31 March 2005is shown in the following table.

	Number of Females	% of Total Uniformed Staff
Central Scotland	14	3.4
Dumfries and Galloway	9	2.7
Fife	22	4.4
Grampian	30	4.0
Highlands and Islands	75	5.2
Lothian and Borders	53	5.1
Strathclyde	89	3.0
Tayside	29	4.3

Source: HM Chief Inspectorof Fire Services for Scotland.

Question reference: S2W-24982

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 deaths from accidental dwelling fires there were in each fire and rescue service area in each year since 1997.

The number of accidental dwellingfire deaths is shown in the following table.

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Central Scotland	4	2	3	-	2	2	1	4
Dumfries and Galloway	3	2	2	-	3	-	-	3
Fife	2	4	10	3	4	5	4	5
Grampian	6	4	4	5	8	5	6	4
Highlands and Islands	5	4	1	3	6	2	4	9
Lothian and Borders	8	2	14	11	7	3	11	8
Strathclyde	40	44	37	33	35	36	31	35
Tayside	2	5	5	4	9	2	2	4
Scotland Total	70	67	76	59	74	55	59	72

Data Source: Fire Statistics, United Kingdom:Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Question reference: S2W-24980

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 deaths there were in dwelling fires in each fire and rescue service area in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.

The number of dwelling fire deathsis shown in the following table.

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Central Scotland	6	6	4	2	3	-	5	2	1	4
Dumfries and Galloway	5	-	3	-	3	-	3	-	-	3
Fife	6	8	1	4	9	3	4	11	4	5
Grampian	4	9	7	5	4	5	10	5	6	4
Highland and Islands	3	7	9	8	1	3	6	3	4	9
Lothian and Borders	6	6	7	2	13	12	11	3	11	9
Strathclyde	39	56	41	50	43	39	40	37	32	38
Tayside	7	4	3	4	4	5	9	2	3	4
Scotland Total	76	96	75	75	80	67	88	63	61	76

Data Source: Fire Statistics, United Kingdom:Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Question reference: S2W-24986

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 under whose authority the latest comprehensive performance assessment is being undertaken by each fire and rescue authority.

Question reference: S2O-09087

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by George Lyon on 23 February 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to monitor the implementation of the Home Computer Initiative, including gathering feedback on customer satisfaction, the type and extent of any problems experienced by employees and compensation awarded in light of these problems, and whether this feedback will be taken into account in future when awarding preferred supplier status.

The member has raised a number of issues in her question and I will provide a written response to address these in full, which I will also place in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.

Meantime, however, I can advise that the Scottish Executive is actively monitoring the implementation of the Home Computer Initiative Framework through meetings with each of the three suppliers and through feedback from participating public authorities.

Question reference: S2O-08962

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 9 February 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a progress report on the new bridge crossing the Forth at Kincardine and, in particular, when work on the bridge will commence.

Question reference: S2O-07961

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 October 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 3 November 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being considered to improve transport facilities in the Falkirk area.

Question reference: S2W-19353

Asked by: Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 September 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 3 October 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) NHS and (b) private sector operations to reverse female sterilisation have been carried out in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board area.

The number of reversal of female sterilisation procedures performed by NHS Board of Residence in Scotland is presented in the table. The Scottish Executive does not hold details of operations performed in private hospitals.

Number of female sterilisation reversals in Scotland for years ending 31 March 2000-04 by NHS board of residence:

NHS Board of Residence	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Scotland	184	183	158	162	127
Ayrshire and Arran	9	13	13	10	6
Borders	-	1	2	1	2
Argyll and Clyde	24	13	23	15	18
Fife	13	20	10	11	7
Glasgow	41	36	34	34	19
Highland	7	8	9	9	9
Lanarkshire	27	27	23	36	34
Grampian	16	20	13	7	10
Orkney	1	-	1	-	-
Lothian	3	7	4	11	11
Tayside	23	15	15	7	-
Forth Valley	18	16	9	13	7
Western Isles	1	2	1	4	1
Dumfries and Galloway	-	5	-	1	3
Shetland	-	-	1	2	-
England	1	-	-	-	-
Unknown	-	-	-	1	-

Source: ISD Scotland (SMR01).

Notes:

1. These statistics are derived from data collected on discharges from non-obstetric and non-psychiatric hospitals (SMR01) in Scotland.

2. The Office of Populations Censuses and Surveys Version 4 (OPCS4) codes Q29 and Q37 have been used to identify reverse female sterilisation procedures.