- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 November 2006
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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 gender.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-29456 on 15 November 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 November 2006
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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 deaf or hard of hearing.
Answer
The latest report on hearingimpairment in adults, produced by the Public Health Institute for Scotland in January2003, estimates 160 thousand people aged 81 and above have some degree of hearingimpairment: that is, 91% of the population aged 81 and above at that time.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the childhood immunisation rates for Dundee Community Health Partnership have been in the last quarter for which the information is available.
Answer
The information requested ispublished on the Information Services Division of the NHS in Scotland (ISD) websiteat:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=2486&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it is spending on the Measure Up awareness campaign on the possible link between waist measurement and a risk of diabetes.
Answer
Measure Up is a Diabetes UK campaign,supported by an educational grant from sanofi-aventis. The Scottish Executive hasnot made a financial contribution to the campaign. However, the Executive supportsthe objectives of the campaign and the Minister for Health and Community Care helpedto launch the campaign in Scotland on 12 September 2006.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 15 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage of singleton low birth weight babies has been of all births in each three-year period since 1996-98, also broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Please find the informationrequested in the following table:
Percentage of Singleton Low BirthWeight Babies Year Ending 31 March
| | 1997-99 | 2000-02 | 2003-05 | |
| Scotland | 5.7 | 5.9 | 6.0 | |
| Argyll and Clyde | 5.9 | 6.5 | 6.7 | |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 5.4 | 6.1 | 6.1 | |
| Borders | 5.1 | 4.8 | 5.0 | |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 5.0 | 5.6 | 5.0 | |
| Fife | 5.5 | 5.3 | 6.0 | |
| Forth Valley | 5.5 | 5.8 | 6.0 | |
| Grampian | 5.1 | 5.3 | 5.5 | |
| Greater Glasgow | 7.0 | 6.8 | 7.0 | |
| Highland | 4.6 | 5.3 | 5.6 | |
| Lanarkshire | 5.9 | 5.7 | 5.4 | |
| Lothian | 5.4 | 5.7 | 6.0 | |
| Orkney | 2.1 | 3.6 | 4.1 | |
| Shetland | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.2 | |
| Tayside | 5.4 | 5.4 | 5.6 | |
| Western Isles | 2.6 | 5.0 | 4.8 | |
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 15 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the latest available information is on the average drive time to (a) post offices, (b) supermarkets, (c) primary schools and (d) GPs for residents of (i) Dundee, (ii) Angus and (iii) Aberdeenshire.
Answer
Information on average drivetimes to post offices, primary schools and GPs is not available at local authoritylevel. Due to the size of local authorities and the variation within them, asingle drive time per local authority would not be meaningful.
However, information onaverage drive times to post offices, primary schools and GPs can be found inthe background data for the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2006at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/SIMD/Background-Data-2006.Average drive times tosupermarkets can be found in the background data for the Scottish Index of MultipleDeprivation (SIMD) 2004 at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2004/06/19421/38085.For SIMD 2006 drive times to supermarkets were replaced with drive times toshopping facilities.The drive times in the SIMDare provided at the data zone level. Data zones are small areas with an averagepopulation of around 750 people. The data zone level drive times are populationweighted average drive times taken to reach a key service and cannot then beaveraged to local authority level.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 15 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of mothers have smoked during pregnancy in each of the last three years, also broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Percentage of Mothers Smokingat Booking.
| | Year ending 31 March |
| 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
| Scotland | 25.3 | 23.9 | 22.7 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 24.1 | 21.3 | 23.0 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 29.9 | 28.5 | 29.6 |
| Borders | 25.8 | 24.8 | 27.6 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 28.0 | 21.9 | 25.3 |
| Fife | 29.3 | 27.7 | 28.0 |
| Forth Valley | 27.0 | 25.3 | 23.1 |
| Grampian | 24.2 | 23.9 | 21.3 |
| Greater Glasgow | 26.4 | 24.8 | 23.8 |
| Highland | 26.8 | 26.4 | 23.1 |
| Lanarkshire | 27.5 | 24.5 | 25.3 |
| Lothian | 17.9 | 17.6 | 12.6 |
| Orkney | 18.3 | 12.3 | 15.6 |
| Shetland | 14.2 | 10.7 | 12.3 |
| Tayside | 28.6 | 28.3 | 26.8 |
| Western Isles | 20.8 | 14.1 | 17.1 |
Source: ISD Scotland, SMR02.
Notes:
1. There are data quality issuesaround the “smoking at booking” data item and a revision was made to the previouslypublished information on the ISD Scotland website. Please refer to
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4416.htmlfor comprehensive background notes. Figures above reflect the revised information.2. Excludes home births andbirths at non-NHS hospitals.
3. Where four or more babiesare involved in a pregnancy, birth details are recorded only for the firstthree babies delivered.
4. Data for Scotlandincludes births where NHS board of residence is unknown or outside Scotland.
5. Data for Tayside NHSBoard for 2005 are incomplete.
6. It is not possible toidentify mothers who give up smoking after initial booking.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 14 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils had specific learning difficulties in each of the last two years.
Answer
The requested figures on how many pupils had specific learning difficulties are published annually in
Pupils in Scotland, whichis available on the Executive website:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/02/28083932/9http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/04/11114958/50073.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 14 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the uptake of concessionary travel cards under the national concessionary travel scheme has been in (a) Dundee, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire.
Answer
The number of National EntitlementCards, which give an entitlement to the Scotland-Wide Free Bus Travel for Olderand Disabled People, within the requested areas are as follows:
(a) Dundee
| Category of Eligibility | Number of Cardholders |
| 60+ | 27,294 |
| Disabled | 2,219 |
| Disabled plus companion | 484 |
| Visually impaired | 569 |
| Visually impaired plus companion | 71 |
| Total | 30,637 |
(b) Angus
| Category of Eligibility | Number of Cardholders |
| 60+ | 19,984 |
| Disabled | 738 |
| Disabled plus companion | 192 |
| Visually impaired | 253 |
| Visually impaired plus companion | 77 |
| Total | 21,244 |
(c) Aberdeenshire
| Category of Eligibility | Number of Cardholders |
| 60+ | 33,587 |
| Disabled | 1,723 |
| Disabled plus companion | 1,096 |
| Visually impaired | 81 |
| Visually impaired plus companion | 388 |
| Total | 36,875 |
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 August 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 6 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the gross value added has been in the manufacturing sector in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus in each of the last three years, expressed also on a per employee basis.
Answer
Data on Gross Value Added (GVA)in the manufacturing sector for Dundee City and Angus are shown in the following table.
Gross ValueAdded (GVA) at current basic prices (£ millions) in the manufacturing sector, 2002-04
| Local Authority Area | Year | GVA (Basic prices, £ Million) | GVA per employee (£) |
| Dundee City | 2002 | 303 | 31,657 |
| 2003 | 372 | 37,810 |
| 2004 | 377 | 36,995 |
| Angus | 2002 | 147 | 28,683 |
| 2003 | 270 | 44,715 |
| 2004 | 245 | 39,666 |
Source: Office for National Statistics,Annual Business Inquiry (Compiled by Scottish Executive).
It is important to note thatthe annual changes in the GVA figures presented above should not be interpretedas an indicator of economic growth in the area as they have not been adjusted forinflation.
