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Question reference: S2W-29468

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 16 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many awards of Education Maintenance Allowance have been made in (a) Angus and (b) Aberdeenshire in 2005-06 and what total amounts were paid in each area.

The following table shows thenumber of school students supported in the (a) Angus and (b) Aberdeenshire localauthority areas in 2005-06 and the total amounts paid out in each area in academicyear 2005-06:

	(a) Angus local authority area	(b) Aberdeenshire local authority area
2005-06	460	433,250	725	730,420

(a) Angus local authority area

(b) Aberdeenshire local authority area

Number of School Students Receiving EMA

Total Amounts Paid Out* (£)

Number of School Students Receiving EMA

Total Amounts Paid Out* (£)

2005-06

460

433,250

725

730,420

Source: Scottish Executive.

Notes:

All student numbers in this tableare rounded up or down to the nearest five.

*The totals included here includeall weekly payments, bonus 1 payments and bonus 2 payments.

The Education Maintenance Allowanceprogramme was introduced across Scotland from August 2004. Currently 16 and 17 year old studentsare eligible across Scotland.

Question reference: S2W-29171

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 19 October 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 16 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual percentage of (a) singleton births and (b) births following gestation of less than 37 weeks has been of all births since 2001, also broken down by NHS board.

The following tablesattached contains the information requested.

Table 1(a) Percentage of SingletonBirths against all Births by NHS Board of Residence.

Year Ending 31 March

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Scotland	97.1	96.9	97.0	96.9	97.1
Argyll and Clyde	96.9	97.0	97.0	97.7	97.3
Ayrshire and Arran	97.1	95.9	96.7	97.0	96.6
Borders	96.2	98.2	96.7	98.0	95.2
Dumfries and Galloway	98.7	97.8	96.4	97.4	97.4
Fife	97.2	96.8	97.2	97.1	96.8
Forth Valley	97.4	97.1	97.7	97.5	97.3
Grampian	96.7	97.2	96.5	96.8	97.7
Greater Glasgow	97.4	96.6	96.9	96.2	97.0
Highland	95.7	96.7	97.6	96.3	97.7
Lanarkshire	96.7	97.5	97.2	97.1	96.8
Lothian	97.2	97.2	97.0	96.8	96.9
Orkney	94.6	96.0	97.6	93.7	97.8
Shetland	97.2	99.1	99.1	96.5	96.6
Tayside	97.4	96.5	96.8	96.7	97.3
Western Isles	97.4	99.1	98.3	97.5	95.5

Table 1(b) Percentage of Birthswith a Gestation of less than 37 Weeks against all Births by NHS Board of Residence.

Year Ending 31 March

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Scotland	7.7	7.6	7.8	8.2	7.9
Argyll and Clyde	9.2	8.0	8.0	8.9	8.4
Ayrshire and Arran	8.2	8.6	9.4	8.7	9.2
Borders	8.4	5.5	6.6	7.5	5.9
Dumfries and Galloway	7.2	8.7	8.1	7.2	7.5
Fife	7.1	7.3	7.7	7.5	6.3
Forth Valley	7.5	8.5	8.1	8.1	6.9
Grampian	8.1	7.6	9.1	8.4	8.2
Greater Glasgow	7.8	8.2	8.0	8.9	8.5
Highland	8.7	6.4	6.7	7.2	7.5
Lanarkshire	7.0	6.6	6.3	7.8	7.4
Lothian	7.1	6.9	7.3	8.1	8.0
Orkney	8.8	6.0	3.0	14.5	8.8
Shetland	6.5	7.4	3.6	6.1	7.3
Tayside	7.2	8.0	7.6	8.0	7.5
Western Isles	7.0	5.2	4.1	4.1	8.6

Question reference: S2W-29172

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 19 October 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 16 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual percentage of (a) singleton births and (b) low birth weight babies has been of all births, broken down by age range of mother, in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

The following tables containthe information requested.

Table 1(a) Percentage of SingletonBirths against all Births

Age of Mother	Year Ending 31 March
Age of Mother	2003	2004	2005
All ages	97.0	96.9	97.1
Under 20	98.8	98.8	99.3
20 – 24	98.0	98.5	98.2
25 – 29	97.3	96.7	97.5
30 – 34	96.3	96.2	96.4
35 – 39	95.4	95.7	95.5
40 +	96.9	96.5	95.5

Table 1(b) Percentage of LowBirth Weight Babies against all Births

Age of Mother	Year Ending 31 March
Age of Mother	2003	2004	2005
All ages	7.7	8.0	7.4
Under 20	8.6	9.3	9.4
20 - 24	8.5	8.5	7.8
25 - 29	7.0	8.2	6.9
30 - 34	7.1	7.2	7.1
35 - 39	8.1	8.1	7.2
40 +	9.7	8.7	8.8

Question reference: S2W-29474

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of obese adults have been diagnosed as having diabetes, broken down (a) by gender and (b) into age range (i) 16 to 24, (ii) 25 to 34, (iii) 35 to 44, (iv) 45 to 54, (v) 55 to 64, (vi) 65 to 74 and (vii) 75 and over.

Question reference: S2W-29456

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 15 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many disabled adults there are in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus, also expressed as a percentage of the local adult population they comprise.

Question reference: S2W-29470

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 15 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many providers of unpaid care there are estimated to be in (a) Angus and (b) Aberdeenshire.

I refer the member to the answer to questions S2W-11759 on 9 November 2004 and S2W-4826 on 8 January 2004 whichset out the numbers of unpaid carers for each individual local authority, as identifiedin the 2001 Census. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at:http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

Question reference: S2W-29459

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 15 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people over the age of 75 it estimates are visually impaired.

The latest information on visuallyimpaired people was published by the Executive on 31 October 2006, in the statisticsrelease Registered blind and partially sighted persons, Scotland 2006. In2006, the number of people aged 75 and over registered as blind or partially sightedwas estimated to be 24,047. Research studies suggest that between a quarter anda third of visually impaired people are in fact registered.

Question reference: S2W-29466

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the childhood immunisation rates for Aberdeenshire Community Health Partnership have been in the last quarter for which the information is available.

Question reference: S2W-29465

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the childhood immunisation rates for Angus Community Health Partnership have been in the last quarter for which the information is available.

Question reference: S2W-29457

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 15 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many disabled adults there are in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus, broken down by age-range and also expressed as a percentage of the local adult population.