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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-05631

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 31 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the remit is of the Advisory Group on Occupational Segregation.

The cross-directorategroup was set up in 2006 as the main vehicle for taking forward our work to tacklegender stereotyping and occupational segregation – and to implement the recommendationsof the UK Women and Work Commission’s report of February 2006 to close the genderpay and opportunity gap within a generation.

Recognising that currentlyemployment is a reserved matter, the group is considering what effective policyinterventions might be made to tackle occupational segregation and are looking atthe possibilities in the early years and throughout the various stages of formaleducation, in vocational training and in employment, i.e. throughout a person’slife-course, with a view to reporting to ministers early in 2008.

Question reference: S3W-05467

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the resource use figures were in respect of alcohol misuse, broken down into the number of (a) GP consultations, (b) laboratory tests, (c) hospitalisation tests, (d) outpatient visits, (e) day hospital attendances and (f) ambulance responses in the most recent year for which figures are available.

The information requestedis given in the following table, which provides an estimate of health service resourceuse and costs associated with alcohol misuse in 2002-03, the year for which latestdata is available The estimates come from Cost to Society of Alcohol Misuse inScotland: An Update to “Alcohol Misuse in Scotland Trends and Costs” (ScottishExecutive, 2005). The full methodology on which these figures are based is providedin Alcohol Misuse in Scotland Trends and Costs (Scottish Executive,2001).

Resource Use and Costsof Alcohol Misuse: 2002-03

	Resource Use	Cost (£ million)
GP consultations	246,694	4.4
Laboratory tests	171,744	2.2
Hospitalisation days	284,469	57.9
Outpatient visits	97,341	8.7
Day hospital attendances	59,974	3.3
Ambulance responses	64,044	10.1

Question reference: S3W-05468

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what its estimate is of the total cost to society of alcohol misuse in the most recent year for which figures are available, also broken down into the cost to (a) NHS Scotland, (b) social work services and (c) criminal justice and emergency services, (d) wider economic costs and (e) human costs.

The informationrequested is given in the following table. The estimated cost of alcohol misusefor 2002-03, the year for which latest data is available, comes from Cost toSociety of Alcohol Misuse in Scotland: An Update to “Alcohol Misuse in ScotlandTrends and Costs” (Scottish Executive, 2005). The full methodology on whichthese costs are based is provided in Alcohol Misuse in Scotland Trends and Costs (Scottish Executive, 2001).

Annual Costs ofAlcohol Misuse: 2002-03

Resource Groupings	£ Million
NHS Scotland	110.5
Social Work Services	96.7
Criminal Justice and Emergency Services	276.7
Wider Economic Costs	417.8
Human Costs	223.8
Estimated Cost to Society	1,125.5

Question reference: S3W-05465

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have used combined drug and alcohol services in Tayside in each of the last three years for which information is available.

The Scottish Governmentdoes not hold complete information in the format requested. Some information onthe number of people in Tayside in each of the last three years who have used combineddrug and alcohol services is contained within the Corporate Action Plans (CAPs)of the three Alcohol and Drug Action Teams (ADATs) within the Tayside area.The relevant ADATsare Angus, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross and the CAPs can be obtained fromthe following website - http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/dat/cap/dat.htm.

Question reference: S3W-05464

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have used dedicated alcohol services in Tayside in each of the last three years for which information is available.

The Scottish Governmentdoes not hold complete information in the format requested. Some information onthe number of people in Tayside in each of the last three years who have used dedicatedalcohol services is contained within the Corporate Action Plans (CAPs) of the threeAlcohol and Drug Action Teams (ADATs) within the Tayside area.The relevant ADATsare Angus, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross and the CAPs can be obtained fromthe following website http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/dat/cap/dat.htm.

Question reference: S3W-05463

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have used dedicated alcohol services in Dundee in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Question reference: S3W-05466

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have used combined drug and alcohol services in Dundee in each of the last three years for which information is available.

The Scottish Governmentdoes not hold complete information in the format requested. Some information onthe number of people who have used combined drug and alcohol services in Dundee in the last three years is contained within Dundee City’s Alcohol and Drug Action Team’s (ADATs) annualCorporate Action Plans.

This can be obtainedfrom the following website:

http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/dat/cap/dat.htm.

Question reference: S3W-05629

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 29 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) men and (b) women are in modern apprenticeships, also broken down into (i) age and (ii) occupation.

The number of modernapprentices (MA) broken down by gender, age and occupational area is an operationalmatter for Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and IslandsEnterprise. This information is not held centrally.

However, ScottishEnterprise have published MA figures for males and females in the top 12 frameworkssince 1998-99, as well as the gender split for each framework by age groups 16to 24 and over 25s for the year ending 31 March 2005.

These tables are availableon the Scottish Enterprise website:

www.scottish-enterprise.com/sedotcom_home/training-providers-top/training-providers/performance-and-reports.htm?siblingtoggle=1.

Question reference: S3W-05006

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS sight tests and eye examinations were carried out in the NHS Tayside area in 2006.

Question reference: S3W-05630

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2007
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 29 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what actual amount of money the Scottish Government has provided to each modern apprenticeship framework, broken down by age, in each year for which information is available.