- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 9 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been on a waiting list to register for a community dentist in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
Information on waiting liststo register with dentists under NHS general dental services is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 9 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what allowances or reimbursement of travelling expenses are available to those who have to travel by necessity outwith their NHS board area for dental treatment.
Answer
No such allowances orreimbursements are automatically available. NHS boards wishing to set up such ascheme can seek guidance from the Executive.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 4 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many apprenticeships there have been in (a) manufacturing and (b) service industries in each year since 1999 in (a) the Scottish Borders and (b) East Lothian.
Answer
The Scottish Executive doesnot hold information on the number of MAs broken down by sector andgeographical area centrally. This detail is an operational matter for ScottishEnterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
Data on the number of peoplestudying MAs in Scotland since 1999 is given in answer to question S2W-17784,answered on 4 August 2005 . All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can befound at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 4 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) total number of jobs and (b) employment growth rates have been in the (i) energy, (ii) water, (iii) manufacturing, (iv) construction, (v) distribution, (vi) hotel, (vii) restaurant, (viii) transport, (ix) communications, (x) banking, (xi) finance, (xii) insurance, (xiii) public administration, (xiv) education and (xv) health sector in each local authority area in each year since 1995.
Answer
The information requested isgiven in the tables of Employee Jobs by Industry and Local Authority Area,1995-2003, a copy of which has been placed in the Parliament’s ReferenceCentre (Bib. number 37140).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 4 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many apprenticeships there have been in (a) manufacturing and (b) service industries in each year since 1999.
Answer
While a breakdown byindustrial sector is not held centrally by the Executive we do hold totalnumbers of modern apprenticeships (MAs) for Scotland for each year since1999. The figures relate to the first quarter in each year and are given in thetable below.
| Year | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
| Number of MAs | 11,568 | 14,002 | 15,767 | 23,399 | 27,768 | 31,392 | 33,683 |
The specific number of MAsbroken down by sector is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise and Highlands andIslands Enterprise.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 4 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many registered and unregistered nurses there have been in the NHS Borders area and what the breakdown has been between the hours attributable to nurses employed directly by NHS Borders and the hours attributable to agency nurses in each year since 1999.
Answer
Information on nursing staffin NHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website underWorkforce Statistics, at:
www.isdscotland.org/workforce.
Section E gives details of nursing andmidwifery staff employed in NHS Scotland. In particular, tables E1 and E2 showthe whole time equivalent (WTE) and headcount number of registered and nonregistered nurses, broken down by NHS board area. Latest available figures areat 31 March 2005.
Table E13 shows the average whole timeequivalent (WTE) and actual hours worked for agency nursing staff, broken downby NHS board area, by financial year from 2000-2001 to 2004-2005. WTE adjustsheadcount staff figures to take account of part-time staff.
At March 2005, the total number of nurses and midwives employed by NHS Borders was at a record level of1,446 headcount.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 4 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many midwives have been employed in the NHS Borders area and what the breakdown has been between hours attributable to midwives employed by NHS Borders and the hours attributable to agency midwives in each year since 1999.
Answer
Information on midwives inNHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website underWorkforce Statistics, at:
www.isdscotland.org/workforce.Section E gives details of nursing andmidwifery staff employed in NHS Scotland. In particular, tables E1 and E2 showthe whole time equivalent (WTE) and headcount number of midwives, broken downby NHS Board area. Latest available figures are at 31 March 2005.
Table E13 shows the average whole timeequivalent (WTE) and actual hours worked for agency midwifery staff, brokendown by NHS Board area, by financial year from 2000-2001 to 2004-2005. WTEadjusts headcount staff figures to take account of part-time staff.
At March 2005, the totalnumber of nurses and midwives employed by NHS Borders was at a record level of1,446 headcount.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 3 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many three and four-year-olds have been in pre-school education in each year since 1995 and, of these, what proportion have been in centres run by (a) local authorities, (b) the voluntary sector and (c) the private sector.
Answer
The broad information requested is available since 1998-9, but only since 2002 by the management categories specified. Prior to 1998 many pre-school education providers were excluded from the school census and therefore data from those years are not comparable to the data presented here.
| Year | 3 year olds | 4 year olds | 3 & 4 years olds | % in LA | % voluntary | % private | % other |
| 2005 | 41,392 | 50,909 | 92,301 | 70 | 10 | 18 | 1 |
| 2004 | 44,459 | 54,355 | 98,841 | 70 | 11 | 18 | 1 |
| 2003 | 45,046 | 55,608 | 100,654 | 71 | 11 | 17 | 1 |
| 2002 | 41,186 | 54,068 | 95,254 | 73 | 11 | 15 | 1 |
| 2001 | 39,107 | 56,541 | 95,648 | 73 | 27 |
| 1999-2000 | 28,406 | 57,326 | 85,732 | 75 | 26 |
| 1998-99 | 22,220 | 54,240 | 76,460 | 79 | 21 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 3 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average ratio of qualified nursery teachers to children is in pre-school centres run by (a) local authorities and (b) the private sector.
Answer
In January 2005 the ratio ofnursery teachers to children in local authority pre-school education centreswas 1:37. In private pre-school education centres the ratio was 1:69.
These figures are taken fromthe Pre-school and Childcare Census 2005. The definition of nursery teachers usedis “staff delivering pre-school education who are registered with The GeneralTeaching Council for Scotland”.
The ratio represents theratio of teachers to children registered at the centre – it does not representnumbers of teachers working with children at any one time.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 3 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many manufacturing jobs were created through inward investment in (a) Scotland, (b) the Scottish Borders and (c) East Lothian in each of the last eight financial years.
Answer
Scottish Development International does not keep records of how many jobs are created by individual inward investors in a given year. The published figures reflect the number of jobs which a company plans to create or safeguard at the time its decision to invest in Scotland was made. The published figures refer only to projects in which Scottish Development International and its partners can claim to have had a significant involvement in ensuring that the project takes place in Scotland. The following figures relate to projects where a company has made a decision to invest or expand and where the main activity of the project is manufacturing. Not all jobs created by a manufacturing project are necessarily manufacturing jobs.
| Year | Planned New Jobs Associated With Manufacturing Projects |
| | Scotland | Borders | East Lothian |
| 1996-97 | 7,673 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997-98 | 3,749 | 65 | 0 |
| 1998-99 | 4,380 | 35 | 0 |
| 1999-2000 | 5,901 | 90 | 0 |
| 2000-01 | 4,546 | 135 | 0 |
| 2001-02 | 1,235 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002-03 | 1,512 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003-04 | 536 | 16 | 0 |
