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The average annual cost of training either a primary or secondary school teacher is £8,949.

Therefore the average cost associated with a student in either sector undertaking a one year Professional Graduate Diploma in Education is £8,949 and a four year Bachelor of Education or Concurrent degree is £35,796.

Detailed information on pay for employees of each local authority is not held centrally. The Scottish Government published reports in July 2010 giving an overview of progress made across public authorities on tackling the Gender Equality Duty Ministerial Priorities - one of which is occupational segregation, a major contributor to the gender pay gap. Local authority data were included in the overview  sample.

The Scottish Government regularly monitors its progress on pay equality in the Scottish Government Main bargaining unit (which comprises staff below Senior Civil Service level in the Core Directorates and Agencies of the Scottish Government). In 2007, the largest difference in average pay between men and women for doing work of equal value was 3.5% (which was within the Equal Opportunities Commission threshold of 5% at that time). In three of the 10 pay ranges (in 2007), the difference was above 2.0%. Subsequent action to reduce pay gaps has led to the most recent position (October 2010) when the largest difference in average pay between men and women for doing work of equal value had been reduced to 1.4%. In six of the nine pay ranges (in 2010), the difference is now below 1.0%.

The most recent data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings shows that the difference between median hourly earnings for men and women working full-time in the private sector was 20.8% for both 2007 and 2010. For part-time workers the gap has changed from no difference in 2007 to -1.5% in 2010, meaning that the median part-time wage for women is higher than for males.

The available information is given in the following table.

Persons proceeded against and convicted for rape¹ in Tayside, 2000-01 to 2009-10

	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
Proceeded against	5	7	4	12	7	8	2	2	5	5
Convicted	3	3	2	6	3	3	1	0	2	2

Note: 1. Where main offence.

The average cost of training a nurse is £40,729, over the course of the 3 year pre-registration programme.

This figure comprises the unit cost of teaching provided to Higher Education Institutions and the cost of the Nursing and Midwifery Student Bursary.

Year	Initial Allocation £ Million	Resource Allocation Formula Target Share	Target Allocation £ Million
2008-09	566.4	7.83%*	555.6
2009-10	578.6	7.84%	568.2
2010-11	592.9	7.84%	583.1

Note: * 2008-09 was a shadow year in which the new formula was tested but not implemented.

For 2011-12, the initial baseline allocation is £596.4 million. The formula target share will be published on 29 March 2011.

In terms of NHS boards moving towards NRAC funding parity, we are not reducing any individual board''s funding.

 

The General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) publishes statistics of the average ages of mothers, for Scotland as a whole, in Vital Events Reference Tables 3.6 and 3.15, which are available from the GROS website:

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/theme/vital-events/general/ref-tables/index.html.

The equivalent figures for 2010 will be published in August 2011. The following table gives information which was produced using the same methodology as the published statistics.

Live Births: Average Ages of Mothers (Years)

Year of Registration of Birth	Angus	Dundee
2008	29.4	27.6
2009	29.1	27.8

 

The number of undergraduate dental students in each year of study at Dundee Dental School in the last academic year for which information is available is shown in the following table:

Current Bachelor of Dental Surgery students at University of Dundee Dental School

Year	Total
1	68
2	83
3	59
4	64
5	68

 

Each year, General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) publishes on its web site information about the numbers of births, the female population and the fertility rates for each local authority area. The General Fertility Rate (all live births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44) for each local authority area is given in Vital Events Reference Table 3.8, the most recent version of which is available via:

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/theme/vital-events/general/ref-tables/2009/births.html.

A local authority''s fertility rates for individual age-groups can be calculated from its numbers of live births by the mothers'' age-groups, registered in the calendar year, as published in GROS''s Births by mother''s age, year and Council Area time-series table:

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/theme/vital-events/births/time-series.html.

The estimated female population by age-group, in that year, as published annually in GROS''s Mid-Year Population Estimates Table 3:

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/theme/population/estimates/mid-year/index.html.

The fertility rates given in the table below were calculated from the figures in those tables.

Fertility rates: live births per 1,000 female population, by age-group of mother

Local Authority	Calendar Year	Age-Group of Mother
		up to 19 *	20 to 24	25 to 29	30 to 34	35 to 39	40+**
Dundee	2008	41.9	66.8	91.8	101.4	43.6	7.8
	2009	34.1	63.6	96.6	90.2	44.7	10.0
Angus	2008	27.9	79.9	140.1	120.3	50.7	7.5
	2009	27.0	85.6	140.5	113.8	46.7	9.5

Notes:

*The denominator is the female population aged 15 to 19, inclusive.

**The denominator is the female population aged 40 to 44, inclusive.

The latest year for which these figures are available at present is 2009. GROS will publish the mid-year population estimates for 2010 in April 2011, and the numbers of births by mother''s age for 2010 in August 2011.

The last tranche of Primary and Community Care Premises Modernisation Programme (PCCPMP) funding for health boards has run over two years 2009-11. NHS Tayside had four projects approved which included Kingspark School (£1.8 million), Decontamination Units (£0.9 million), community pharmacy (£0.1 million) and a £1.5 million contribution towards the cost of a new dental facility in a priority area. In the case of the latter, NHS Tayside have advised that after extensive consultation with the local dental practice concerned in Kirriemuir, NHS funding has been declined. In the light of this decision, the board are looking at alternative options.

Direct funding of projects under PCCPMP ceased in 2010-11. New schemes for primary care and dental facilities will be eligible for inclusion through the hub initiative. NHS Tayside is continuing to identify opportunities for improving the primary care infrastructure in Tayside.

The Scottish Government is in regular contact with the UK Government on a wide range of issues around equality in science, including their withdrawal of funding to the UKRC and the impact this will have on the Scottish Resource Centre (SRC).

We have also highlighted the work the SRC do, most recently in our contribution to the UK participation at the 55 meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.