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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: S2W-31182

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 31 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire councils received under the Sure Start Scotland programme in the last year for which the information is available.

Question reference: S2W-31177

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 31 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated number of face-to-face contacts with patients by GPs was in NHS Grampian in the last year for which the information is available.

Question reference: S2W-31180

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 31 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many parents and children were supported by Sure Start Scotland through group or intensive provision in the (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire local authority areas in the last year for which the information is available.

Question reference: S2W-31176

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 31 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated number of face-to-face contacts with patients by GPs was in NHS Tayside in the last year for which the information is available.

Question reference: S2W-30482

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 11 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the number and locations of wi-fi hotspots in Scotland.

Question reference: S2W-30570

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 17 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive which local child protection committees have developed specific protocols related to the 2003 guidelines on vulnerable children and young people.

Question reference: S2W-30440

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Elish Angiolini on 21 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases involving driving without insurance proceeded in the (a) Arbroath, (b) Dundee and (c) Stonehaven procurator fiscal office in each of the last two years.

The numbers of charges for drivingwithout insurance contrary to Section 143 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 reportedto the procurators fiscal at Arbroath, Dundee and Stonehaven in the last two financialyears and which resulted in criminal proceedings being instructed are shown in thefollowing table.

Procurator Fiscal’s Office	2004-05	2005-06	Total
Arbroath	297	337	634
Dundee	1,172	1,115	2,287
Stonehaven	131	148	279

Notes:

1. The information in this tablehas been extracted from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s case managementdatabase. The database is a live, operational database used to manage the processingof reports submitted to procurators fiscal by the police and other reporting agencies.If a Procurator Fiscal amends a charge submitted by a reporting agency, the databasewill record details only of the amended charge.

2. The database is charge based.The figures quoted therefore relate to the number of charges rather than the numberof individuals charged or the number of incidents that gave rise to such charges.

Question reference: S2W-30445

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 21 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many local bus passenger journeys there have been in each of the last five years in (a) Dundee, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire.

Question reference: S2W-30441

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by Elish Angiolini on 21 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions have been brought under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005 in (a) Tayside and (b) Grampian.

At 11 December 2006, thenumber of charges prosecuted under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act2005 in Tayside was 25 and the number prosecuted in Grampian was 24.

Notes:

1. This information has beenextracted from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s case managementdatabase. The database is a live, operational database used to manage the processingof reports submitted to procurators fiscal by the police and other reporting agencies.If a Procurator Fiscal amends a charge submitted by a reporting agency, the databasewill record details only of the amended charge.

2. The database is charge-based.The figures quoted therefore relate to the number of charges rather than the numberof individuals charged or the number of incidents that gave rise to such charges.

Question reference: S2W-30444

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
Current Status: Answered by George Lyon on 20 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many stroke-related deaths there were in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus in each of the last 10 years, expressed also as a standardised rate for those under 75 per 100,000 population.

The information requested isgiven in the following table.

Deaths fromCerebrovascular Diseases (Stroke)¹,Selected Council Areas,1996-2005

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
(a) Dundee City
All ages: number	180	173	183	184	191	154	182	158	185	163
Under 75: number	54	43	57	53	55	48	48	39	36	42
Under 75: rate²	29.9	25.8	32.0	31.5	29.7	29.5	27.0	23.7	21.5	26.2
(b) Angus
All ages: number	172	165	159	170	176	161	178	173	172	146
Under 75: number	32	34	36	40	31	31	32	35	32	19
Under 75: rate²	25.8	26.4	27.4	29.6	25.1	22.9	24.8	24.4	23.1	13.2

Notes:

1. 1996-1999 ICD9 codes 430-438;2000-2005 ICD10 codes I60-I69.

2. Standardised death rate per100,000 population (under 75).

Dundee City	£1.77 million
Angus	£1.13 million
Aberdeenshire	£2.32 million