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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-40148

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of measles have been confirmed in the NHS Tayside area in each of the last three years for which information is available.

The number of laboratory confirmed measles cases in the NHS Tayside area in each of the last three years is as follows:

Laboratory Confirmed Measles Cases

	Tayside	All of Scotland^
2008	1	53*
2009	2	17
2010	0	11

Notes:

*A further 18 probable and possible cases were identified as part of this outbreak in 2008 (no further cases in Tayside).

^ NHS Tayside cases have been included in the all Scotland figure.

Question reference: S3W-40257

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by Adam Ingram on 14 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many childcare places have been available in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Information on the number of available childcare places is not collected centrally.

Information on the number of registrations in childcare centres is available from the Scottish Government''s Pre-School and Childcare Census 2010.

Table 9 shows the number of registrations, by age, in all childcare centres for the years January 2008, 2009 and 2010, and is available at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/09/28130623/13.

Question reference: S3W-40256

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by Adam Ingram on 14 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in increasing childcare provision.

Question reference: S3W-39609

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 14 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of children was exclusively breastfed at six to eight weeks in each community health partnership (CHP) area in the last year for which information is available and what the 2010-11 HEAT target is for such percentage for the NHS board in which the CHP is located.

Exclusive breastfeeding rates at the six to eight week review by CHP area are published on the ISD Scotland website at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/1914.html.

The latest available statistics are for children born in financial year 2009-10. Data is not available for NHS Grampian and NHS Orkney and the constituent CHP areas as these Boards had not implemented the Child Health Pre-School system, from which these statistics are derived, for the time period reported.

The individual NHS board HEAT targets for the percentage of children exclusively breastfed at six to eight weeks are published on the Scotland Performs website at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/scotPerforms/partnerstories/NHSScotlandperformance/breastfeeding.

Question reference: S3W-40078

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 14 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of female employees in the public sector is in a managerial position.

The latest estimates of employment by gender, occupation and public/private sector classification are available from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) carried out by the Office for National Statistics.

The latest LFS (October to December 2010) uses Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 2000. There are nine major occupational groups in the top tier of the classification. Major group 1 contains Managers and Senior Officials.

The following table shows the percentage of females in SOC 2000 major occupational group 1 (Managers and Senior Officials) by public/private sector classification in Scotland.

Percentage of female employees in SOC 2000 major occupational group 1 (Managers and Senior Officials) by public/private sector classification, Scotland October to December 2010

Major Occupational Group (SOC 2000)	Public Sector	Private Sector
1 Managers and Senior Officials	5.9%	14.8%

Source: Labour Force Survey October to December 2010, Office for National Statistics

Notes:

1. Percentages given in the table reflect number of female employees in major occupational group 1 in the public/private sector expressed as percentage of the total number of female employees in the public/private sector as estimated by the Labour Force Survey.

2. Public/private sector classification is self-reported by survey respondents.

Question reference: S3W-40075

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 14 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people work in the third sector and what percentage is (a) male and (b) female.

Question reference: S3W-40071

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what resources it makes available in the (a) Dundee Community Health Partnership and (b) Angus Community Health Partnership area to develop networks for supporting mothers who breastfeed.

Funding was allocated to all health boards from 2008-11 as part of CEL 36 (2008) which aimed to improve the nutrition of women of childbearing age, pregnant women and children under five in disadvantaged areas, including increasing exclusive breastfeeding rates. It was for individual NHS boards to decide how this funding should be used throughout their area to support this work.

Total funding of £1,297,723 was allocated to NHS Tayside as part of CEL36 (2008). A proportion of this funding has been used to develop trained breastfeeding support workers to work in the most deprived areas of each Community Health Partnership, to establish a breastfeeding clinic to support women with complex breastfeeding challenges and to establish a breastfeeding caf©.

Question reference: S3W-40079

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 14 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of female employees in the private sector is in a managerial position.

Question reference: S3W-40072

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on promoting breastfeeding in each of the last three years.

Details are as follows:

2009-10	2010-11
£177,743.42	£152,878.93

Details of funding in 2008-09 is currently being collated and I will write to the member as soon as the information is available and a copy will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 52547).

This funding has been used to develop the national Breastfeeding Social Marketing Campaigns in 2009 and 2011 and assist NHS boards in promoting breastfeeding at events during National Breastfeeding Awareness Week.

Additional funding was also made available to NHS boards through CEL36 (2008) which was used to support the delivery of the HEAT target on breastfeeding. This may have included local social marketing activity.

Question reference: S3W-40077

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2011
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 14 March 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of female employees in the third sector is in a managerial position.