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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S3W-23009

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 April 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executivewhat estimates are available of healthy life expectancy for the NHS Tayside area since 2004.

Life expectancy (LE) and Healthy life expectancy (HLE) estimates for NHS board, including those in Tayside, are based on deaths and populations aggregated over a five-year period for statistical robustness. HLE also requires measurements of a third essential component, self-assessed health (SAH).

For NHS board areas within Scotland SAH can only be obtained from the Census, which was last carried out in 2001. Therefore, HLE has been estimated for the period 1999-2003, using SAH data from the 2001 Census. The NHS board data in tables 1 and 2 have been published on the Healthy Life Expectancy pages of the Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) website:

http://www.scotpho.org.uk/home/Populationdynamics/hle/hle_data/hle_nhsboards.asp.

Estimates of LE and HLE for males and females in NHS Tayside are shown in the following tables:

Table 1. Male LE and HLE at birth, NHS Tayside 1999-2003.

Males	1999-2003		2001-05
Area	LE	HLE	LE	HLE
Scotland	73.3	66.3	73.9	n/a
NHS Tayside	74.1	68.1	74.7	n/a

Source Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland.

Table 2. Female LE and HLE at birth, NHS Tayside 1999-2003.

Females	1999-2003		2001-05
Area	LE	HLE	LE	HLE
Scotland	78.7	70.2	79.1	n/a
NHS Tayside	79.2	71.8	79.4	n/a

Source Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland.

Question reference: S3W-23033

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 April 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to announce its decision on the evaluation of the community health nurse pilot scheme.

Question reference: S3W-23034

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 April 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how much the evaluation of the community health nurse pilot scheme is estimated to cost and to which organisation the contract has been awarded.

Question reference: S3W-23035

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 April 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how much additional money was given to each participating NHS board to develop the community health nurse pilot scheme in 2008-09.

The total additional funding provided in 2008-09 to each NHS health board participating in the community health nurse pilot is as follows.

NHS Board	£
NHS Borders	122,000
NHS Highland	222,000
NHS Lothian	282,000
NHS Tayside	282,000

Question reference: S3W-23210

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 April 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many employees of NHS Tayside receive pay point 1 or pay point 2 and what percentage of the workforce they comprise.

Under the terms of the UK-wide Agenda for Change agreement, current numbers of employees within NHS Tayside who receive either pay point 1 or pay point 2 are as follows:

Total Number of Employees at 30.09.08 (excluding GPs and GDPs)	Number of Employees currently on pay points 1 and 2 of Agenda for Change	Numbers of Employees on pay points 1 and 2 expressed as a percentage of total number of employees
13,607	834	6%

Pay point 1 is currently £6.76 per hour and pay point 2 is £6.94 per hour. Both are significantly above the national minimum wage.

Question reference: S3W-23011

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 April 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 1 May 2009

To ask the Scottish Executivewhat the figures for life expectancy have been for (a) Scotland and (b) the NHS Tayside area since 2004.

The information is as follows:

	2003-05		2004-06		2005-07
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Scotland	74.2	79.2	74.6	79.6	74.8	79.7
NHS Tayside	75.0	79.5	75.4	80.1	75.6	80.4

Life expectancy for administrative areas within Scotland is calculated and published annually by the General Register Office for Scotland:

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/life-expectancy/index.html.

Question reference: S3W-22334

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 24 April 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the number of additional primary teachers required in Dundee to reduce the maximum class size to 18 in primaries one to three by 2011 and what it estimates the cost will be.

Question reference: S3W-22335

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 24 April 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the number of additional primary teachers required in Angus to reduce the maximum class size to 18 in primaries one to three by 2011 and what it estimates the cost will be.

Question reference: S3O-06303

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive, in the light of the findings of the Scottish Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours Survey 2008 that the main barriers to green behaviour are cost, convenience, a lack of alternative options and practical considerations, how it plans to tackle these barriers.

Question reference: S3W-20891

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 6 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost has been of its consultation on local income tax.