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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-09084

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 19 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what the projected number of secondary school pupils is in school session 2010-11 in the (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire local authority areas and in total.

Question reference: S3W-09007

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 19 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many attendances there were at the accident and emergency department of Dundee Dental Hospital in the last year for which figures are available.

The information requested has been provided by NHS Tayside and is shown in the following table. The information relates to walk in patients, the majority of whom are not registered with a general dental practitioner.

Accident and Emergency Attendances at Dundee Dental Hospital: January to December 2007

January	887
February	729
March	838
April	819
May	907
June	784
July	791
August	846
September	685
October	750
November	723
December	636
Total	9395

Source: Medical Records at Dundee Dental Hospital.

Question reference: S3W-09085

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 19 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what the projected number of primary school pupils is in school session 2008-09 in the (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire local authority areas and in total.

Question reference: S3W-09008

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 19 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the number of attendances at the accident and emergency department of Dundee Dental Hospital since April 2007.

Question reference: S3W-09081

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 12 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many whole-time equivalent qualified school nurses there are in the (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire local authority areas and in total.

The staff in post table in thenursing and midwifery section of the Workforce Statistics website at www.isdscotland.org/workforce givesthe whole-time equivalent (WTE) and head count of school nurses employed in NHSScotland by NHS board and region and by agenda for change band. Information is notavailable at local authority area level. WTE adjusts headcount to take account ofpart time working. Latest available data is at 30 September 2007.

(Our intention is that those school aged children and youngpeople in areas of greatest need will in the future have improved access to a widerrange of nursing and other health care support. A health care model targeted atdeprived and other areas with high numbers of disadvantaged children will be developedin 2008.)

Question reference: S3W-08977

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 25 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 31 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are employed at the (a) Scottish Social Services Council, (b) Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care and (c) NHS Education Scotland offices in Dundee.

Human resources, includingthe level and structure of staffing, is an operational matter for the organisationsconcerned. Contact details for the organisations are:

Ms Jacquie Roberts

Chief Executive

Scottish Commissionfor the Regulation of Care

Compass House

11 Riverside Drive

DUNDEE

DD1 4NY

Phone 01382 207102

Fax 01382 207289

email [email protected].

Carole Wilkinson

Chief Executive

Scottish Social Services Council

Compass House

11 Riverside Drive

DUNDEE

DD1 4NY

email [email protected].

Malcolm Wright

Chief Executive

NHS Education for Scotland

Thistle House

91 Haymarket Terrace

Edinburgh

EH12 5HE

Phone 0131 313 8030

Fax 0131 313 8001

email [email protected].

Question reference: S3W-08662

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 18 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 30 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental practices have begun offering NHS general dental services in NHS Tayside since April 2007.

Question reference: S3W-08660

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 18 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 30 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental practices began offering NHS general dental services in NHS Tayside from April 2006 to March 2007.

Question reference: S3W-08665

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 18 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 30 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were waiting for first outpatient appointments following referral at Dundee Dental Hospital in each of the last four quarters for which figures are available, broken down by department.

The information requestedis not held centrally. Information held relates only to the number of patients waitingfor a first out-patient appointment with a consultant in all facilities providingdental specialties in Tayside, including Dundee Dental Hospital, Perth Royal Infirmary and Stracathro Hospital. The following table shows this information for the quarterend dates between 31 December 2006 and 30 September 2007.

Quarter Ending	Specialty	Number of patients waiting
December 2006	Oral Medicine	105
	Oral Surgery	225
	Orthodontics	30
	Paediatric Dentistry	76
	Restorative Dentistry	487
March 2007	Oral Medicine	151
	Oral Surgery	258
	Orthodontics	74
	Paediatric Dentistry	50
	Restorative Dentistry	478
June 2007	Oral Medicine	224
	Oral Surgery	328
	Orthodontics	88
	Paediatric Dentistry	33
	Restorative Dentistry	442
September 2007	Oral Medicine	238
	Oral Surgery	311
	Orthodontics	114
	Paediatric Dentistry	60
	Restorative Dentistry	465

Source:Outpatient Waiting List (OPWL), ISD Scotland.

Question reference: S3W-08661

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 18 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 30 January 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental practices stopped offering NHS general dental services in NHS Tayside from April 2006 to March 2007.