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Question reference: S3W-39092

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 4 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross weekly pay has been of full-time, female, private sector employees in each city in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Question reference: S3W-39090

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 4 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross weekly pay has been of full-time, female, public sector employees in each city in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Question reference: S3W-39086

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 4 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross weekly pay has been of full-time employees in each city in each of the last three years for which information is available.

The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics.

ASHE estimates are not available by city. Therefore, estimates for the corresponding Local authorities are provided for the six cities in Scotland (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, and Stirling). Note that local authorities will not be ideal proxies for cities in all cases, for example the Highland local authority and the city of Inverness.

When the ASHE sample is split by both gender and public/private sector classification the resulting earnings estimates are not reliable at local authority level. Estimates by gender and public/private sector classification are provided in separate tables.

Table 1 shows the median gross weekly pay for full-time employee jobs by gender in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Table 2 shows the median gross weekly pay for full-time employee jobs by public/private sector classification in 2007, 2008 and 2009. The median is the recommended measure of average earnings as opposed to the mean.

Table 1: Median Gross Weekly Pay (£) for Full-Time Employee Jobs by Gender

Local Authority	Male			Female			All
Local Authority	2008	2009	2010	2008	2009	2010	2008	2009	2010
Aberdeen City	599.65	585.06	640.40	452.21	471.17	480.74	532.13	538.41	576.93
Dundee City	502.70	498.73	507.35	391.41	417.15	418.76	465.36	465.41	482.85
Edinburgh, City of	523.84	535.02	545.15	459.12	483.91	500.75	497.75	513.67	527.74
Glasgow City	495.00	524.17	516.92	411.73	428.45	439.54	459.81	475.97	477.48
Highland	463.52	472.97	508.58	387.11	396.62	381.95	416.10	450.84	457.19
Stirling	452.80	494.38	599.41	458.17	433.24	426.08	454.07	460.25	499.15
Scotland	504.87	509.90	521.54	401.13	420.29	431.21	462.60	472.78	488.17

Table 2: Median Gross Weekly Pay (£) for Full-Time Employee Jobs by Public/Private Sector Classification

Local Authority	Public			Private			All
Local Authority	2008	2009	2010	2008	2009	2010	2008	2009	2010
Aberdeen City	547.19	543.61	587.02	534.00	539.54	583.46	532.13	538.41	576.93
Dundee City	506.86	495.01	539.68	378.04	399.27	420.12	465.36	465.41	482.85
Edinburgh, City of	530.90	567.93	592.36	463.07	448.84	452.10	497.75	513.67	527.74
Glasgow City	509.06	532.82	546.43	426.76	442.63	440.79	459.81	475.97	477.48
Highland	508.54	523.56	526.35	398.32	399.38	399.44	416.10	450.84	457.19
Stirling	421.21	591.16	549.58	412.65	421.48	458.71	454.07	460.25	499.15
Scotland	511.65	538.90	557.52	431.41	431.21	445.20	462.60	472.78	488.17

Source: ASHE.

Notes:

1. The estimates are based on the pay of full-time employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay period was not affected by absence.

2. The estimates are based on a sample survey, and as such, are subject to sampling error. Care must be taken when interpreting changes over time and differences across categories, especially in Stirling and Highland local authorities.

Question reference: S3W-39011

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 3 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the uptake for breast screening has been in (a) NHS Tayside and (b) the Dundee Community Health Partnership area, broken down by three year rolling period since 2006 and expressed as a percentage of those eligible.

Question reference: S3W-39010

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what efficiency savings NHS Tayside has forecast it will have to make in 2010-11, expressed as a percentage.

Question reference: S3W-38878

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 January 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of babies has been exclusively breastfed at six to eight weeks in NHS Tayside in each quarter since June 2007 and what the corresponding figures are for each of its community health partnership areas.

Details are as follows:

NHS Tayside: Exclusive Breastfeeding at the Six to Eight Week Review¹by Community Health Partnership

	NHS Tayside		Angus CHP		Dundee CHP		Perth and Kinross CHP
Birth Quarter Ending	Number of Reviews	% Exclusively Breastfed	Number of Reviews	% Exclusively Breastfed	Number of Reviews	% Exclusively Breastfed	Number of Reviews	% Exclusively Breastfed
June 2007	997	29.4	315	27.6	361	21.3	322	40.1
September 2007	1,071	27.4	285	25.3	411	22.1	375	34.7
December 2007	1,041	25.5	304	23.7	401	18.7	336	35.1
March 2008	1,054	25.5	291	28.5	396	15.7	367	33.8
June 2008	1,033	27.6	315	27	406	21.2	312	36.5
September 2008	1,111	26.9	298	25.8	450	23.1	364	32.7
December 2008	1,045	24.3	286	23.8	398	20.6	361	28.8
March 2009	994	26.9	279	26.5	398	22.6	317	32.5
June 2009	1,041	27.8	276	25.7	411	22.6	354	35.3
September 2009	1,127	27	329	27.4	444	25.7	354	28.2
December 2009	1,003	25.7	278	22.3	398	22.6	327	32.4
March 2010	1,009	26.4	261	26.1	409	22.5	339	31.3

Source: ISD Scotland, CHSP-PS Nov 2010, Ref: IR2011-00160.

Note: 1. Number of six to eight weeks reviews with valid feeding data. Although the majority of these reviews are carried out between six and eight weeks, the maximum age limit for this review is 12 weeks.

Question reference: S3W-38836

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 28 January 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on Education Maintenance Allowance in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus in each year since 2007-08.

Question reference: S3W-38838

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many attendances there have been at nurse-led clinics for acute specialities in NHS Tayside, broken down by (a) new and (b) total attendances in each year since 2007-08.

Information on the number of attendances at nurse-led clinics for acute specialities in NHS Tayside, broken down by (a) new and (b) total attendances for financial years ending 31 March 2007 to 2010 is published on the Information Services Division (ISD) website at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4453.html.

Please note that this data is developmental and should be treated with caution.

The number of attendances at nurse-led clinics for NHS Tayside for acute specialties is provided in the following table.

Number of attendances at nurse-led clinics for NHS Tayside for acute specialties for financial years 2007-08 to 2009-10

Indicator	Financial Year
Indicator	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
New Attendances	11,574	13,260	14,927
Total Attendances	58,608	71,365	105,363

Question reference: S3W-38839

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many procedures have been performed in acute specialities in NHS Tayside broken down by (a) inpatients and (b) day cases, in each year since 2007-08.

The following table shows the total number of inpatient and day case procedures performed in NHS Tayside for the financial years ending 31 March 2008 to 2010.

Number of Inpatient and Day Case Procedures Performed in NHS Tayside, Financial Years 2007-08 to 2009-10

	Financial Year
NHS Tayside	2007-08	2008-09¹	2009-10¹
Inpatients	67,811	35,253	34,250
Day Cases	23,034	23,688	21,071
Total	90,845	58,941	55,321

Source: ISD Scotland (SMR01).

Note: 1. It should be noted that from the 1 April 2008, it was no longer mandatory to record interventions/procedures (such as imaging, injections, infusions, x-rays etc) unless the patient is specifically admitted for this purpose.

Question reference: S3W-38845

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 26 January 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost was of a consultant outpatient attendance in 2009-10.

	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
Dundee	£624,710	£632,315	£697,430
Angus	£446,645	£456,680	£449,625