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The capacity of theseservices to meet forecast demand;

The capability of theservices to provide fast links between major business centres both within Scotland andbetween Scotland and England;

The specific needs ofcommunities served by these train services.

Transport Scotland hasthe operational responsibility for this area, and can be contacted for moreinformation if required.

Eight employees transferredto SSSC from the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work. Thetotal establishment, at that time, was 32 Full Time equivalent (FTE) staff. Thecurrent establishment is 68.75 FTE and there are 71 employees.

419 employees transferredfrom local authorities and NHS boards to the Care Commission. The totalestablishment, at that time, was 507 FTE. The current establishment is 589 FTE,including 20 FTE temporary posts. There are 565 employees. The Care Commissionstaff are employed across the Care Commission’s headquarters and regional and localoffices.

NHS Education for Scotland(NES) was established in April 2002 as a Special Health Board withresponsibility for supporting education for staff in the NHS in Scotland inorder to improve the quality of patient care. It is located in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen andInverness.

There are 60 staff in Dundee (44.21WTE)of which 13 are new posts resulting from the implementation of the DentalAction Plan. No new posts resulted from relocation.

Her response is as follows:

The information held by EagaPartnership for the number of heating installations carried out under the centralheating programme in the private sector is only available at main postcodelevel. The number of properties which have benefited from the central heating programmesince 2001 to March 2006 is shown in Table 1:

Table 1

The number of heatinginstallations carried out by Local Authorities and Registered Social Landlordsunder the Central Heating Programme is shown in table 2:

Table 2

The programme in thesesectors was completed in 2004-05.

The latest Audit Scotland CorporateManagement Performance Indicator for 2004-05 compares the percentage of days lostthrough sickness absence by teachers with other local government employees. Thisshows that teachers, at 3.7%, had a lower percentage of days lost than Administrative,Professional, Technical and Clerical staff (5.5%) and Craft and Manual Workers (5.9%).

Teenage¹Conceptions² as a Proportion of All Conceptions, Dundee City andAngus Council Areas by Postcode District: Year Ending December 2003³

Source: ISD, Scotland,SMR01 and SMR02.

Notes:

1. Based on age 13 to 19 attime of conception.

2. Includes deliveries,spontaneous miscarriages and therapeutic abortions.

3. NHS Tayside have recentlybeen experiencing difficulties in submitting SMR02 (maternity hospital records)to ISD, and the most recent data available for all pregnancies is calendar year2003.