- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 15 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in Scotland since 2007 under each of the articles of the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-40271 on 15 March 2011. Scottish Government''s progress, under each of the articles of the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women, will be included in the UK progress report due to be submitted to the UN in May 2011.
All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 15 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of people who have lost their jobs in the last 18 months is (a) male, (b) female, (c) under 25, (d) disabled and (e) from black and minority ethnic communities.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
Using the Annual Population Survey (APS), the change in the number of people employed within each of the groups can be estimated. The most recent APS dataset relates to the period July 2009 to June 2010. To determine the change over an 18 month period, estimates from this dataset have been compared to those from the Jan to Dec 2008 dataset. The results are shown in the following table.
Table 1: Proportionate Change in Number of Level of People Employed Over 18 Month Period from January to December 2008 to July 2009 to June 2010, Scotland.
| | Proportionate Change in Level |
| Males | -4.3 |
| Females | -0.9 |
| Under 25s | -8.5 |
| Disabled | 10.2 |
| Ethnic Minorities | 17.0 |
Source: Annual Population Survey, Office for National Statistics.
Notes:
1. Estimates based on population aged 16 and over.
2. Data is not seasonally adjusted. As the data being compared do not cover the same calendar periods, it is possible that some change may be due to seasonal changes in employment patterns.
3. Proportionate change in levels are with reference to the estimates from the Jan-Dec 2008 dataset.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 15 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was offered to firms in Dundee in Regional Selective Assistance in 2009-10.
Answer
Regional Selective Assistance amounting to £1,076,000 was offered to seven businesses in Dundee during 2009-10.
Information on accepted offers can be found within the report section of the Scottish Business Grants website at:
http://www.scottishbusinessgrant.gov.uk/rsa/178.html.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 14 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many VAT-registered businesses were set up in Dundee in the last year for which information is available.
Answer
Business start-ups are officially measured using VAT/PAYE registrations, which are released annually by the Office for National Statistics.
The most recent data shows that there were 325 VAT/PAYE registrations in Dundee in 2009. This is equivalent to 27 registrations per 10,000 resident adults (16+).
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 14 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-38846 by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2011, how many acute occupied bed days in NHS Tayside were attributed to patients with an alcohol-related diagnosis in the last year for which information is available.
Answer
Information on acute occupied bed days is recorded on the SMR01 dataset. SMR01 has space for up to six diagnosis codes to be recorded, a main diagnosis and up to five secondary diagnoses.
The table shows the total number of bed days of patients treated in acute hospitals in NHS Tayside for alcohol related conditions, recorded in any diagnosis position in 2009-10; the most recent year for which information is available.
Total Number of Bed Days Associated with Alcohol Misuse - from General Acute Hospitals in NHS Tayside: 2009-10P
| | 2009-10P |
| NHS Tayside | 13,547 |
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Source: ISD Scotland (SMR01).
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 14 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) pre-registration nurse and (b) midwifery intake training places there have been at the University of Dundee in each of the last three years.
Answer
Of those students enrolled on pre-registration courses at the University of Dundee that led to eligibility to practice with a health or social care or veterinary regulatory body, 1,215 were enrolled in nursing courses in 2007-08, 1,075 in 2008-09 and 1,310 in 2009-10. In addition, there were 65, 70 and 75 enrolments on pre-registration midwifery courses in 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 respectively. For data protection purposes the figures above have been rounded to the nearest five.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 14 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross weekly pay is for third sector employees, also broken down by gender.
Answer
This is a matter for third sector organisations. The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the expenditure on hospital drugs in NHS Tayside (a) was in 2009-10 and (b) is anticipated to be in (i) 2010-11 and (ii) 2011-12.
Answer
In 2009-10, NHS Tayside''s expenditure on hospital drugs was £27.9 million. There is no information yet available for anticipated expenditure in 2010-11 and 2011-12.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 14 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the police grant-aided expenditure in Tayside has been in each of the last three years, also expressed in real terms.
Answer
The police grant-aided expenditure (GAE) figures for Tayside Police Board in cash and real terms are set out in the following table. GAE figures are used as part of the local government finance distribution formula and do not actual represent actual funding allocations.
| £ million | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 |
| Tayside Police Board (cash) | 86.324 | 85.647 | 89.922 |
| Tayside Police Board (real terms at 2010-11 prices) | 90.478 | 88.302 | 89.922 |
Notes:
1. The cash term figures are as published in the Green Book for Grant Aided Expenditure 2008-11 in March 2008 and do not take account of subsequent transfers of responsibility for Police ICT and pensions costs.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/18209/200811Settlement/GreenBook2008-11.
2. The real terms figures were calculated using the HM Treasury''s latest GDP Deflators dated 22 December 2010.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 14 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-time university students domiciled in the (a) Dundee City and (b) Angus council areas have received bursaries in each of the last three years for which information is available.
Answer
Non-repayable award support is available from Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS). Data collection for 2010-11 is not yet complete. The following table therefore shows the numbers of full-time students studying at higher education institutions, who received non-repayable awards by SAAS in academic sessions 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10.
Number of full-time students at higher education institutions, domiciled in the Dundee City and Angus council areas who have received non-repayable awards from SAAS, 2007-08 to 2009-10:
| | Dundee City | Angus Council |
| 2007-08 | 1,360 | 1,020 |
| 2008-09 | 1,375 | 895 |
| 2009-10 | 1,420 | 900 |
Source: SAAS management information.
Notes:
1. Student numbers in this table have been rounded up or down to the nearest 5 (e.g. 1, 2 round to 0; 3, 4 round to 5).
2. Students with postcodes which are missing or which do not match with those of the local authority breakdown show are not included in the figures above.
