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Question reference: S3W-37660

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 November 2010
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 25 November 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many private sector jobs have been created in Dundee and how many of these were full-time in each of the last three years for which information is available.

This information is not held centrally.

Using the Annual Population Survey, the change in the level of private sector jobs can be estimated. This shows that within Dundee City:

between 2007 and 2008, there was a net reduction in private sector jobs of 200, of which all were full-time;

between 2008 and 2009, there was a net reduction in private sector jobs of 1,100, of which 800 were full-time;

between 2009 and 2010, there was a net reduction in private sector jobs of 300, of which 100 were full-time.

Source: Annual Population Survey, April “ March datasets, ONS.

Notes:

1. Data rounded to nearest hundred.

2. As data is based on sample survey, the changes may not be statistically significant.

Question reference: S3W-37581

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 25 November 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many prescriptions have been issued for cancer-related treatment in (a) Scotland and (b) NHS Tayside in each year since 2007-08, and what the gross cost was of dispensing these.

Information is not held centrally on the number of prescriptions issued, only on prescription items dispensed in the community by community pharmacists and dispensing doctors. These data exclude the direct supply of medicines to patients from hospitals and hospital-based clinics.

The information in the table shows drugs in sections 8.1, 8.2.3, 8.3.1, 8.3.2 and 8.3.4 of the British National Formulary which lists products indicated for use in the treatment of cancer. Some of the products listed can be used in the treatment of other conditions and it is not possible to identify from the prescription form why a particular drug was prescribed. In addition, there will be other drugs used in the treatment of cancer, for example, analgesics for pain, steroids as adjunct therapy and some prescribing of these drugs will be for reasons other than cancer.

NHS Tayside

Financial Year	Number of Dispensed Items	Gross Ingredient Cost (£)*
2007-08	14,784	1,530,848
2008-09	15,206	1,576,926
2009-10	15,440	1,522,317

Scotland

Financial Year	Number of Dispensed Items	Gross Ingredient Cost (£)*
2007-08	209,453	22,780,691
2008-09	214,560	24,013,151
2009-10	220,793	22,140,699

Note: *Gross ingredient cost is the cost of an item before any discounts are applied. It excludes adjustments and any dispensing or broken bulk fees.

The information in the table has been provided by NHS National Services Scotland. Further information on prescribing can be found at www.isdscotland.org/prescribing.

Question reference: S3W-37580

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 25 November 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many prescriptions were issued by (a) Dundee and (b) Angus Community Health Partnership in each year since 2006-07 and what percentage was free.

Information is not held centrally on the number of prescriptions issued, only on prescription items dispensed in the community by community pharmacists and dispensing doctors. These data exclude the direct supply of medicines to patients from hospitals and hospital-based clinics.

The table below shows the number of items dispensed and the percentage of items dispensed free of charge in the Dundee and Angus Community Health Partnerships in each year since 2006-2007.

Dundee Community Health Partnership

Financial Year	Number of Dispensed Items	Percentage Free-of-Charge
2006-07	2,338,661	89.2%
2007-08	2,393,230	89.1%
2008-09	2,487,850	89.3%
2009-10	2,556,693	89.4%

Angus Community Health Partnership

Financial Year	Number of Dispensed Items	Percentage Free-of-Charge
2006-07	1,688,760	87.5%
2007-08	1,702,734	87.5%
2008-09	1,770,971	88.0%
2009-10	1,850,842	88.4%

Notes:

Data on the percentage of prescribed items dispensed free of charge is derived using the patient exemption check boxes on the back of the prescription form. These data exclude items written on Minor Ailment Service or Stock Order forms.

The information in the table has been provided by NHS National Services Scotland. Further information on prescribing can be found at www.isdscotland.org/prescribing

Question reference: S3W-37579

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 25 November 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many women are employed by each local authority, expressed as a percentage of employees.

The information requested is set out in the table below. Part (a) shows what percentage of each local authority''s headcount are women.

Table 1: Headcount of Women Employees as a Percentage of All Employees by Local Authority, Q2 2010

Local Authority	Percentage of All Employees
Aberdeen	70.2%
Aberdeenshire	76.2%
Angus	73.6%
Argyll and Bute	70.8%
Clackmannanshire	71.3%
Dumfries and Galloway	72.5%
Dundee City	64.7%
East Ayrshire	70.8%
East Dunbartonshire	71.9%
East Lothian	70.3%
East Renfrewshire	72.8%
Edinburgh City of	66.1%
Eilean Siar	74.6%
Falkirk	70.9%
Fife	70.3%
Glasgow City	66.6%
Highland	72.6%
Inverclyde	73.5%
Midlothian	69.7%
Moray	72.5%
North Ayrshire	72.5%
North Lanarkshire	74.3%
Orkney Islands	69.0%
Perth and Kinross	71.3%
Renfrewshire	71.6%
Scottish Borders	70.4%
Shetland Islands	73.7%
South Ayrshire	70.2%
South Lanarkshire	69.0%
Stirling	70.8%
West Dunbartonshire	69.7%
West Lothian	69.9%

Note: Figures based on total headcount (includes both full-time and part-time employees).

Source: Joint Staffing Watch Survey (Q2 2010), not seasonally adjusted.

Question reference: S3W-37574

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 22 November 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what total number of patients is recorded in Quality and Outcomes Framework dementia registers in NHS Tayside GP practices.

This information is published annually by ISD Scotland. The most recent information relates to the 2009-10 financial year and can be viewed at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/files/QOF_Scot_200910_HEAT_dem_prevalence.xls.

The published figures include data from nursing homes etc from NHS Lothian and Greater Glasgow and Clyde which do not participate in the Quality and Outcomes Framework but are part of the current Dementia HEAT targets. This does not affect the figures from NHS Tayside as they do not have these extra components.

Question reference: S3W-36905

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 4 November 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions have taken place since May 2007 between officials, police and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service on giving communities the right to be told when an individual with regular unsupervised access to children has convictions for child sex offences and is considered a risk.

Since May 2007, there has been regular discussion and communication between the Scottish Government, the police and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service on the provision of information to communities to keep children safe from individuals who have convictions for child sex offences.

Specifically, the Scottish Government has announced the roll out of the Community Disclosure Scheme across Scotland following a successful pilot in Tayside. A multi-agency Project Board chaired by the Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland, will oversee the roll-out of the scheme, which will enable parents, carers and guardians to formally register their concerns about a named individual who has contact with their children, and be informed whether that individual has a conviction for sex offences against children.

Question reference: S3W-36904

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 4 November 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what conclusions it has drawn from the community sex offender disclosure pilot, Keeping Children Safe, in the Tayside Police force area.

The Tayside Community Disclosure Pilot has been a real success. An independent evaluation report of the pilot, which can be accessed on the Scottish Government website at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/10/25093915/0, was very positive, finding that the pilot enhanced existing child protection arrangements, with feedback showing parents to be very positive about the initiative.

The scheme expanded to include Fife and Central Scotland Police on 27 October and all Scottish Forces will be running the scheme by March 2011.

Question reference: S3W-36408

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospital admissions there have been of people aged 65 and over in Dundee as a result of falls in each of the last three years for which information is available, broken down by intermediate geographical zone, also expressed as a rate per 1,000 of population.

The information requested is shown in the following table:

Table 1. Number of Hospital Admissions for Patients Aged 65 and Over in Dundee as a Result of a Falls¹ for Financial Years 2007-08 to 2009-10

Intermediate Geographical Zone	2007-08		2008-09		2009-10^P
Intermediate Geographical Zone	Episodes	Rate per 1,000 Population	Episodes	Rate per 1,000 Population	Episodes	Rate per 1,000 Population
Ardler and St Marys	20	20.0	14	14.2	24	23.9
Balgay	10	10.4	17	17.7	11	11.6
Barnhill	26	20.5	23	18.0	31	23.6
Baxter Park	7	12.6	7	12.7	4	7.0
Broughty Ferry East	17	18.8	11	11.7	13	13.8
Broughty Ferry West	30	22.1	25	18.0	28	20.0
Caird Park	3	6.4	7	14.8	8	16.8
Charleston	9	12.2	15	21.1	7	10.2
City Centre	17	33.3	8	16.0	4	7.9
Craigie and Craigiebank	30	22.0	32	24.0	39	30.4
Docks and Wellgate	19	30.6	13	21.2	14	23.8
Douglas East	12	17.9	14	21.8	10	15.7
Douglas West	12	16.3	13	17.7	11	15.2
Downfield	17	17.3	10	10.0	9	9.0
Fairmuir	15	13.6	25	23.2	18	16.5
Fintry	13	16.3	19	23.1	18	21.4
Hilltown	28	25.9	21	19.5	15	13.8
Kirkton	9	19.0	9	18.1	8	15.5
Law	26	22.0	29	25.3	26	23.6
Linlathen and Midcraigie	22	32.2	22	30.8	12	16.6
Lochee	33	27.2	22	18.3	26	22.2
Logie and Blackness	26	29.1	22	25.6	9	11.0
Menzieshill	18	20.4	22	25.4	17	20.4
Perth Road	6	15.3	8	20.2	12	31.4
Stobswell	6	12.3	15	30.5	11	22.5
The Glens	28	26.5	15	14.8	23	23.0
West Ferry	20	20.8	12	12.1	18	18.0
West Pitkerro	3	8.4	6	15.4	4	9.7
Westend	18	18.5	15	15.6	11	11.5
Western Edge	10	27.2	7	18.3	13	30.8
Whitfield	8	12.2	10	15.3	12	17.8

^P2009-10 Data is provisional.

Source: Information Services Division Scotland, Scottish Morbidity Record Scheme 01 (SMR01), General Register Office for Scotland population estimates.

Note: 1. A fall is defined as International Classification Disease 10 (ICD-10) codes W00 “ W19 in any diagnosis position.

Question reference: S3W-36409

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospital admissions there have been of people aged 65 and over in Angus as a result of falls in each of the last three years for which information is available, broken down by intermediate geographical zone, also expressed as a rate per 1,000 of population.

The information requested is shown in the following table:

Table 1. Number of Hospital Admissions for Patients Aged 65 and over in Angus as a Result of a Falls¹ for Financial Years 2007-08 to 2009-10.

Intermediate Geographical Zone	2007-08		2008-09		2009-10^P
Intermediate Geographical Zone	Episodes	Rate per 1,000 population	Episodes	Rate per 1,000 population	Episodes	Rate per 1,000 population
Monifieth West	11	17.4	8	12.3	8	12.2
Monifieth East	28	23.1	28	22.6	24	19.0
Carnoustie West	13	16.9	8	10.2	7	8.6
Carnoustie East	26	22.9	19	16.5	23	19.4
Monikie	5	8.9	6	9.7	*	*
South Angus	8	8.0	7	6.9	14	13.3
Arbroath Keptie	18	19.9	10	10.9	11	12.0
Arbroath Harbour	21	22.3	34	35.3	30	31.7
Arbroath Kirkton	22	23.7	14	14.9	18	18.2
Arbroath Cliffburn	15	18.6	14	17.5	10	12.1
Arbroath Warddykes	10	15.3	13	18.9	4	5.7
Letham and Glamis	7	7.3	14	13.9	8	7.6
Kirriemuir Landward	11	20.3	9	15.9	12	21.4
Forfar West	21	21.7	18	18.6	11	11.1
Forfar Central	17	18.0	14	14.8	15	15.7
Forfar East	23	25.9	20	22.9	13	14.6
Lunan	8	16.9	5	10.6	7	14.4
Friockheim	19	17.8	14	12.6	9	7.9
Kirriemuir	14	11.6	25	20.0	14	11.0
Montrose South	34	31.5	19	17.5	29	27.1
Montrose North	17	19.1	17	19.2	15	16.8
Brechin East	10	18.0	11	19.1	12	21.2
Brechin West	18	22.2	16	19.3	12	13.8
Hillside	6	12.2	3	5.8	3	5.5
Angus Glens	11	16.9	10	14.8	18	26.7

^P2009-10 Data is provisional.

Source: Information Services Division Scotland, Scottish Morbidity Record Scheme 01 (SMR01), General Register Office for Scotland population estimates.

Notes:

1. A fall is defined as International Classification Disease 10 (ICD-10) codes W00 “ W19 in any diagnosis position.

* Indicates values that have been suppressed due to the potential risk of disclosure.

Question reference: S3W-36167

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2010
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 21 September 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) temporary and (b) permanent jobs have been created in Dundee as a result of Homecoming Scotland 2009 events.

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