- 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 George Lyon on 11 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the number of people who commute to Dundee to work and what percentage of the Dundee working population this represents.
Answer
This information isavailable from the 2001 Census. There were 66,663 people living in Scotland whoworked in the Dundee City council area (excluding working students), 19,306 (29%) of whom lived outside Dundee City.
- 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 George Lyon on 11 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage composition of the population in Dundee was in the last year for which information is available, broken down by (a) social group and (b) postcode.
Answer
The total population for eachpostcode is available from the 2001 Census but no breakdown of these totals canbe provided because it might allow the identification of an individual, breachingthe promise of confidentiality given on the Census form. The lowest level at which2001 Census figures can be broken down is Census output area. A breakdown of peopleaged 16 to 74 by National Statistics Socio-economic Classification at Census outputarea level is available on the Scotland’s Census Results On-Line website (
www.scrol.gov.uk – table UV31).
- 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 George Lyon on 11 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the latest available annual information is on the average age of (a) the population of Dundee and (b) those who have migrated to the city.
Answer
At 30 June 2005 the average age of the population of Dundee City Council area was 40 years.
In the year to 30 June 2005, the averageage of those migrating to Dundee City was 28 years. That figure does not include internationalmigrants who do not meet the UN definition of someone who changes country of residencefor 12 months or more.
- 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 George Lyon on 11 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the number of people who commute from Dundee to work and what percentage of the resident working population this represents.
Answer
This information is availablefrom the 2001 Census. There were 53,681 working people (excluding working students)who lived in the Dundee City council area, 6,324 (12 per cent) of whom worked outsideDundee City.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 7 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dental patients have been newly registered in NHS Tayside in the last year, broken down by month.
Answer
The information requested isprovided in the following table.
Number of New NHS Patient Registrations.in NHS Tayside; April 2005 to March 2006
Month | No. of Patients |
April 2005 | 2,295 |
May 2005 | 2,262 |
June 2005 | 2,281 |
July 2005 | 1,743 |
August 2005 | 2,589 |
September 2005 | 2,833 |
October 2005 | 2,172 |
November 2005 | 2,395 |
December 2005 | 1,802 |
January 2006 | 2,253 |
February 2006 | 2,092 |
March 2006 | 2,283 |
Total | 27,000 |
Source:MIDAS (Management and Dental Accounting System).
Dataextracted 2 September 2006.
Note: A newpatient registration is a patient who was not registered with a dentist under NHSarrangements in NHS Tayside in the 12 months preceding each of months April 2005 to March 2006.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 4 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students currently attend Dundee Dental School in each undergraduate year.
Answer
The number of undergraduatestudents studying pre-clinical or clinical medicine at the University of Dundee during the academic year 2004-05 (the latest year for which figures areavailable) are shown in the following table.
Number of Undergraduate DentistryStudents at Dundee University 2004-05
Year of Study Programme | Predental Year | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Total |
Number of Students | 25 | 75 | 65 | 55 | 60 | 50 | 330 |
Source: Higher EducationStatistics Agency; all numbers have been rounded to the nearest five.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 31 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of 11-year-olds within the NHS Tayside area showed no signs of dental disease in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer
The information requested iscontained in table 5, page 11 of the 2005
National Dental Inspection Programme report at
http://www.scottishdental.org/docs/ndip_scotland2005.pdf.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 31 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of adults between the ages of 55 and 74 in the NHS Tayside area had some natural teeth in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 31 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of adults in the NHS Tayside area had some natural teeth in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer
This information is not availablecentrally.
- Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 31 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of five-year-olds within the NHS Tayside area showed no signs of dental disease in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer
The information requested iscontained in figure 1, page 6 and table 4, page 10 of the 2004
National DentalInspection Programme report at:
http://www.scottishdental.org/docs/ndip_scotland2004.pdf.