Chamber and committees

The appointment of officersin Scottish police forces is the sole responsibility of chief constables or, atthe most senior levels, the police authority. Further advancement is determinedon merit under internal procedures which take account of qualifications andexperience. As an equal opportunities employer, the Scottish Police Service iscommitted to the principles of equality and diversity in relation to employment.Under the Scottish police service people strategy each force will be takingforward the gender equality action plan which is intended to ensure that allpolice employment policies are fairly designed and implemented. Specificmeasures taken by forces include:

adopting part-time working policies and flexibleworking arrangements;

encouraging female officers to pursue specialistposts;

organising leadership developmentprogrammes for women officers at the Scottish Police College; and

establishing networking and monitoring facilities.

A national conference for senior women in policing will beheld in Edinburgh later this year.

The information requested isshown in the following table. All new recruits are appointed to the rank ofpolice constable. The two officers newly seconded to the SDEA were also policeconstables.

Total Number of female officers recruited in 2002-03.

Force	Total Number of Female Recruits
Central	14
Dumfries and Galloway	3
Fife	20
Grampian	16
Lothian and Borders	33
Northern	12
Strathclyde	147
Tayside	12
SDEA	2
Total	257

Notes:

1. The source for figures for police forces is the annual statistical returns from forces for 2002-03. The figures for the SDEA were provided directly by that organisation.

2. Figures for forces include officers seconded to central service, including for example the Scottish Police College and the SDEA. As a result, officersin the SDEA appear twice in the table but the information provided in the annualstatistical returns does not identify these separately by force.

The information requested isshown in the following table:

Percentage of female officersas at 31 March 2003

	Chief Officer	Superintendent	Inspector	Sergeant	Constable
Central	33%	0	7%	7%	20%
Dumfries and Galloway	0	0	6%	6%	24%
Fife	0	0	7%	4%	22%
Grampian	0	5%	5%	14%	22%
Lothian and Borders	0	3%	6%	9%	21%
Northern	0	0	2%	8%	22%
Strathclyde	12%	6%	7%	10%	22%
Tayside	0	14%	6%	7%	24%
SDEA (see note 2)	0	0	0	10%	14%

Notes:

1. The sourcefor figures for police forces is the annual statistical returns from forces for2002-03. The figures for the SDEA were provided directly by that organisation.

2. Figuresfor forces include officers seconded to central service, including for examplethe Scottish Police College and the SDEA. As a result, officersin the SDEA appear twice in the table but the information provided in the annualstatistical returns does not identify these separately by force.

3. Chiefofficer includes chief constable, deputy chief constable and assistant chiefconstable; superintendent includes chief superintendent; and inspector includeschief inspector.

The regulation of international trade is a reserved matter. The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with DTI and other government departments on a range of trade issues, including discussions of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).

The Scottish Executive is continuing to monitor the progress of the GATS negotiations, andmaintains an ongoing assessment of any potential impact of GATS on itsresponsibilities. This will continue to inform discussions with DTI on (GATS) inorder to ensure that Scottish interests are fully considered.

The following table showsthe value of each percentile of the waiting times distributions.

Only values up to the 99^th percentile are given. The one percent of values that are longer than the 99^th percentile cannot individually be relied upon as these will include a mixture of actual times and times that are a result of recording errors. Of those patients who have actually waited longer for inpatient or day case treatment than the value of the 99^th percentile there will be some whose waiting times is affected by a period of unavailability by the patient for medical or social reasons.

For in-patients and daycase, the data reported on includes all patients who are routinely admitted from the waiting list from home and therefore includes the total wait experienced by patients who are excepted from the national maximum waiting times guarantees because for example they have been unavailable for treatment for medical or social reasons.

	Waiting Time (days)
Percentile	First Out-patient Appointments	In-patients/Day Cases
1st	0	1
2nd	0	1
3rd	0	1
4th	0	1
5th	1	2
6th	3	2
7th	4	3
8th	6	3
9th	7	4
10th	7	4
11th	8	5
12th	9	5
13th	10	6
14th	12	6
15th	13	7
16th	13	7
17th	14	7
18th	15	8
19th	16	8
20th	17	9
21st	18	10
22nd	20	11
23rd	20	12
24th	21	13
25th	22	14
26th	23	14
27th	25	15
28th	26	16
29th	27	17
30th	28	18
31st	29	19
32nd	30	20
33rd	32	21
34th	33	21
35th	34	22
36th	35	24
37th	36	25
38th	38	26
39th	39	27
40th	41	28
41st	42	29
42nd	43	30
43rd	44	31
44th	46	33
45th	47	34
46th	49	35
47th	50	36
48th	51	38
49th	53	40
50th	54	41
51st	56	42
52nd	57	44
53rd	59	46
54th	61	48
55th	63	49
56th	64	51
57th	66	53
58th	68	55
59th	70	57
60th	72	59
61st	74	62
62nd	76	64
63rd	78	67
64th	81	69
65th	83	72
66th	85	75
67th	88	78
68th	90	81
69th	92	84
70th	95	88
71st	98	91
72nd	100	96
73rd	104	99
74th	107	104
75th	111	108
76th	114	113
77th	118	118
78th	122	124
79th	126	130
80th	131	136
81st	135	143
82nd	140	150
83rd	145	157
84th	151	165
85th	157	172
86th	164	179
87th	173	187
88th	181	196
89th	190	206
90th	201	217
91st	214	227
92nd	230	238
93rd	247	248
94th	271	260
95th	295	272
96th	323	284
97th	362	307
98th	405	343
99th	489	446

Notes

1. The 1^stand 99^th percentile values have changed from those give in PQS2W-4809. The SMR00 and SMR01 files are dynamic files with records continuallybeing added. Information relates to the quarter ending 30 September 2003and should be considered provisional

2. Inpatient /Day casedata is sourced from the SMR01 dataset. Outpatient data is sourced from theSMR00 dataset, and covers referrals from a GMP/GDP to a consultant ledoutpatient clinic.

All answers to writtenquestions are available on the Parliament’s website the search facility forwhich can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.

The results of the surveyare expected to be published during January 2005.

The following table showsfor each NHS board the equivalent figures given in answer to S2W-4805. ISDScotland have no plans to publish arithmetic mean values for each board for thereason given earlier in the answer to S2W-4812.

All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.For in-patients and daycase, the data reported on includes all patients who are routinely admitted from the waiting list from home and therefore includes the total wait experienced by patients who are excepted from the national maximum waiting times guarantees because for example they have been unavailable for treatment for medical or social reasons.

	First Outpatient Appointments			Inpatients/Day Cases
	Median Wait (days)	Mean Wait (days)	Difference	Median Wait (days)	Mean Wait (days)	Difference
NHSScotland	54	86.9	-32.9	41	80.4	-39.4
Argyll and Clyde	52	79.4	-27.4	32	70.9	-38.9
Ayrshire and Arran	50	76.3	-26.3	48	82.9	-34.9
Borders	47	74.5	-27.5	35	70.1	-35.1
Dumfries and Galloway	54	74.3	-20.3	49	85.4	-36.4
Fife	66	89.3	-23.3	45	91.7	-46.7
Forth Valley	64	110.5	-46.5	49	90.8	-41.8
Grampian	55	86.6	-31.6	35	68.5	-33.5
Greater Glasgow	55	90.5	-35.5	34	74.9	-40.9
Highland	43	75.2	-32.2	40	75.5	-35.5
Lanarkshire	62	99.8	-37.8	50	86.6	-36.6
Lothian	49	82.9	-33.9	42	87.6	-45.6
Orkney Islands	23	37.5	-14.5	21	44.5	-23.5
Shetland Islands	46	58.3	-12.3	36	59.2	-23.2
Tayside	52	82.7	-30.7	43	83.2	-40.2
Western Isles	36	47.8	-11.8	45	72.9	-27.9

Notes:

1. Information relates to the quarter ending 30 September 2002 and should be considered provisional

2. In-patient /Day case data is sourced from the SMR01 dataset. Outpatient data is sourced from the SMR00 dataset, and covers referrals from a GMP/GDP to a consultant led outpatient clinic.

The following table showsfor each NHS board the equivalent information to that given in the answer toS2W-4809.

All answers to written questions are available on the Parliament’s website thesearch facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.

For in-patients and daycase, the data reported on includes all patients who areroutinely admitted from the waiting list from home and therefore includes thetotal wait experienced by patients who are excepted from the national maximumwaiting times guarantees because for example they have been unavailable fortreatment for medical or social reasons.

	First Outpatient Appointments		Inpatients/Day Cases
	Minimum Value (days)	99th Percentile Value (days)	Minimum Value (days)	99th Percentile Value (days)
NHSScotland	0	489	0	446
Argyll and Clyde	0	469	0	432
Ayrshire and Arran	0	407	0	456
Borders	0	504	0	542
Dumfries and Galloway	0	418	0	447
Fife	0	451	0	523
Forth Valley	0	619	0	490
Grampian	0	413	0	375
Greater Glasgow	0	529	0	445
Highland	0	406	0	392
Lanarkshire	0	500	0	409
Lothian	0	469	0	506
Orkney Islands	0	208	1	316
Shetland Islands	0	315	0	280
Tayside	0	427	0	422
Western Isles	0	269	0	340

Notes:

1. The Scottish 99^thpercentile values have changed from those given in PQ S2W-4809, The SMR00 andSMR01 files are dynamic files with records continually being added. Informationrelates to the quarter ending 30 September 2003 and should be consideredprovisional.

2. In-patient /Day case datais sourced from the SMR01 dataset. Out-patient data is sourced from the SMR00dataset, and covers referrals from a GMP/GDP to a consultant led outpatientclinic.

The number of Senior CivilServants recruited through open competition to the Scottish Executive from 1 April 2002 – 31 March 2003 was 8.

Between January 2002 andJune 2003, 25 senior civil servants were required to cover supply and demandarising from retirals, leavers, promotions and the creation of new senior civilservice posts.