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Question reference: S2W-29487

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) driver deaths, (b) pedestrian deaths, (c) motorcyclist deaths, (d) cyclist deaths, (e) driver injuries, (f) pedestrian injuries, (g) motorcyclist injuries, (h) cyclist injuries and (i) non-fatal or injurious road accidents there have been in each police board area since 1999.

The following tables give theinformation that was requested for (a) to (g). The figures were produced from datasupplied by police forces in their Stats 19 injury road accident statisticsreturns, so will not include injuries in accidents which were not reported by thepublic to the police. In these statistics, “killed” includes death within 30 daysas a result of injuries sustained in the accident. The figures for “drivers” coverall drivers and riders apart from the riders of motorcycles and pedal cycles, somay include a small number of riders of other types of vehicle or transport. Thepolice forces are listed in the order in which they appear in Road AccidentsScotland, which provides further information about the statistics.

Information on (i) is not available:there are no national statistics on non-injury accidents.

(a) Drivers Killed in RoadAccidents

Police Force Area	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Northern	18	18	15	13	11	17	14
Grampian	16	25	16	19	25	25	29
Tayside	21	14	22	15	19	14	13
Fife	8	3	10	7	6	7	7
Lothian and Borders	21	25	17	13	18	14	16
Central	4	10	9	6	8	7	7
Strathclyde	35	37	48	35	34	37	25
Dumfries and Galloway	5	10	5	10	6	6	9

(b) Pedestrians Killed inRoad Accidents

Police Force Area	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Northern	7	5	3	4	3	2	2
Grampian	9	6	10	6	2	8	7
Tayside	7	4	9	5	1	3	5
Fife	3	3	5	6	6	12	2
Lothian and Borders	18	11	11	13	11	8	9
Central	3	4	5	6	4	4	5
Strathclyde	40	38	31	30	36	37	35
Dumfries and Galloway	2	1	2	3	0	1	1

(c) Motorcycle Riders Killedin Road Accidents

Police Force Area	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Northern	1	11	6	2	9	6	4
Grampian	6	6	13	11	6	5	7
Tayside	2	2	3	4	3	3	7
Fife	1	2	3	5	5	3	1
Lothian and Borders	4	5	4	6	8	6	4
Central	2	2	1	6	3	2	2
Strathclyde	12	10	15	10	12	14	8
Dumfries and Galloway	1	0	3	2	2	0	0

(d) Pedal Cycle RidersKilled in Road Accidents

Police Force Area	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Northern	2	3	0	2	2	1	2
Grampian	1	2	2	1	4	0	3
Tayside	2	0	3	0	2	1	2
Fife	0	1	0	2	1	1	0
Lothian and Borders	1	2	2	0	2	3	0
Central	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Strathclyde	2	3	2	2	3	0	8
Dumfries and Galloway	0	1	1	1	0	0	1

(e) Drivers Injured(Non-Fatally) in Road Accidents

Police Force Area	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Northern	604	525	565	482	567	564	557
Grampian	671	735	677	685	696	680	725
Tayside	732	653	728	740	662	665	585
Fife	400	484	432	471	464	467	427
Lothian and Borders	1,591	1,649	1,606	1,515	1,476	1,491	1,497
Central	415	404	375	470	510	419	407
Strathclyde	3,924	3,784	3,689	3,614	3,585	3,562	3,255
Dumfries and Galloway	276	304	275	272	317	315	355

(f) Pedestrians Injured (Non-Fatally)in Road Accidents

Police Force Area	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Northern	116	89	95	83	92	94	100
Grampian	264	234	229	197	176	204	231
Tayside	270	249	252	224	176	218	179
Fife	169	178	169	142	133	143	139
Lothian and Borders	761	810	736	751	617	641	623
Central	157	118	108	133	116	106	123
Strathclyde	1,881	1,806	1,674	1,629	1,558	1,517	1,510
Dumfries and Galloway	56	46	67	83	58	73	63

(g) Motorcycle RidersInjured (Non-Fatally) in Road Accidents

Police Force Area	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Northern	93	89	90	107	96	88	112
Grampian	130	143	107	126	103	106	123
Tayside	103	90	98	91	83	61	85
Fife	50	74	53	74	64	57	56
Lothian and Borders	190	236	257	216	235	232	204
Central	56	63	58	66	60	60	48
Strathclyde	256	287	336	322	303	254	306
Dumfries and Galloway	25	37	39	30	38	30	35

(g) Pedal Cycle RidersInjured (Non-Fatally) In Road Accidents

Police Force area	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Northern	56	44	50	48	35	41	35
Grampian	88	76	74	75	67	55	73
Tayside	85	62	69	62	54	63	56
Fife	57	44	49	26	45	35	31
Lothian and Borders	296	265	265	264	212	215	221
Central	49	43	50	34	48	39	38
Strathclyde	351	308	316	279	284	298	282
Dumfries and Galloway	17	21	26	21	31	12	21

Question reference: S2W-29485

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many hit-and-run incidents have been recorded in each police board area in each year since 1999.

Comprehensive statistics of hit-and-runincidents are not held centrally. However, some information is available from datasupplied by police forces in their Stats 19 injury road accident statisticsreturns. These cover only accidents involving personal injury which become knownto the police, and so do not include (i) accidents which were not reported by thepublic to the police or (ii) accidents which do not involve personal injury. Thefollowing tables provide this information. Table (a) provides the numbers of reported accidents for which the only vehicleinvolved was a “hit and run” one; Table (b) provides the total numbers of reportedaccidents which involved “hit and run” vehicles, including all the accidents whichare counted in Table (a). The policeforces are listed in the order in which they appear in Road Accidents Scotland,which provides further information about the statistics.

Reported injury accidents whichinvolved at least one vehicle for which the Stats 19 code for “hit and run”was used

(a) Those Which InvolvedOnly One Vehicle

Police Force	Year
Police Force	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Northern	11	8	16	12	11	8	8
Grampian	39	38	35	29	32	35	26
Tayside	21	23	23	26	11	18	18
Fife	17	8	25	19	23	29	22
Lothian and Borders	90	84	91	86	96	101	86
Central	13	10	11	10	12	9	15
Strathclyde	220	234	228	242	215	211	193
Dumfries and Galloway	10	8	15	10	7	12	10

(b) All Such Accidents

Police Force	Year
Police Force	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Northern	25	18	33	22	22	16	19
Grampian	71	82	77	60	61	75	67
Tayside	67	46	63	55	29	39	48
Fife	26	20	43	34	45	45	34
Lothian and Borders	206	215	232	239	245	220	216
Central	27	22	30	27	29	22	30
Strathclyde	516	559	525	570	522	504	421
Dumfries and Galloway	17	21	31	22	22	22	25

Question reference: S2W-29666

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the main offences were for which cyclists have been found guilty in each year since 1999.

The available information isgiven in the following table.

Persons witha Charge Proved for Cycling Offences¹ in Scottish Courts, 1999-2000 to2004-05

Offence	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Dangerously riding a bicycle or tricycle	4	3	5	3	4	-
Carelessly or inconsiderately riding a bicycle or tricycle	-	-	2	5	4	5
Drunk when riding a bicycle	10	1	4	11	8	3
Bicycles, other offences	6	3	22	47	19	9
Total	20	7	33	66	35	17

Note: 1. Where main offence.

Question reference: S2W-29430

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 15 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will give a commitment not to reduce places for physiotherapy students in response to unemployment levels among physiotherapy graduates.

Question reference: S2W-29433

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that there are gaps within the NHS physiotherapy workforce and, if so, how it intends to address such gaps.

Question reference: S2W-29667

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many motoring offences since 1999 have resulted in the fine paid being invested in road safety.

Only the income from the fixedpenalties paid by drivers who have been detected speeding under the Safety CameraProgramme are invested directly back into road safety. The Safety Camera Programmewas first piloted in 2000 and from then, up until March 2006 which is the last datefor which figures are available, a total of £22,476,000 from fixed penalty fineincome was invested in road safety through the programme. This equates to just under375,000 standard £60 fixed penalty fines.

Question reference: S2W-29432

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that there are age and experience imbalances within NHS physiotherapy services and, if so, how it intends to address such imbalances.

Question reference: S2W-29429

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to alleviate unemployment among physiotherapy graduates.

Over the past 10 years the numbers of physiotherapistsworking in NHS Scotland have increased by almost 38%. Locally, it is for NHS boardsto plan the number and skill mix of staff needed to deliver services in their areaincluding the recruitment of newly qualified staff. We have asked NHS boards tolook at their vacancies and consider whether there are opportunities for newly qualifiedphysiotherapists through reviewing the skill mix of existing services with a viewto enriching this to accommodate newly qualified practitioners.

Nationally, we have recruitmentand retention initiatives in place, and are provided funding for educational solutionsfor allied health professional employment. NHS Education for Scotland is gatheringevidence about current physiotherapy opportunities across Scotland, consideringoptions for ensuring that physiotherapists remain work ready and establishing anational NHS Scotland Solutions Group involving key stakeholders, including theProfessional Body.

Question reference: S2W-29431

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many physiotherapists working in the NHS are aged (a) 21 to 30, (b) 31 to 40, (c) 41 to 50, (d) 51 to 60 and (e) over 60, also broken down by NHS board and expressed as a percentage of all NHS physiotherapists.

The following tableshows the headcount number and percentages of qualified physiotherapists by NHSboard and selected age groups. The latest available data is at 30 September 2005.

Table1, NHS Scotland Workforce Statistics, Qualified Physiotherapists by NHS Board, Headcountat 30 September 2005

	Total	20-24		25-29		30-34		35-39		40-44
	Total	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Scotland	2,571	244	9.5	500	19.4	376	14.6	381	14.8	424	16.5
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	202	20	9.9	39	19.3	24	11.9	37	18.3	33	16.3
NHS Borders	58	2	3.4	9	15.5	6	10.3	6	10.3	10	17.2
NHS Argyll and Clyde	194	18	9.3	34	17.5	27	13.9	26	13.4	31	16.0
NHS Fife	174	10	5.7	27	15.5	26	14.9	20	11.5	31	17.8
NHS Greater Glasgow	519	59	11.4	118	22.7	80	15.4	83	16.0	69	13.3
NHS Highland	109	13	11.9	12	11.0	11	10.1	19	17.4	15	13.8
Golden Jubilee	10	-	0.0	4	40.0	1	10.0	2	20.0	3	30.0
NHS Lanarkshire	195	27	13.8	33	16.9	23	11.8	31	15.9	42	21.5
NHS Grampian	264	30	11.4	48	18.2	39	14.8	40	15.2	38	14.4
NHS Orkney	14	-	0.0	1	7.1	-	0.0	7	50.0	1	7.1
NHS Lothian	430	26	6.0	100	23.3	79	18.4	57	13.3	74	17.2
NHS Tayside	191	20	10.5	36	18.8	28	14.7	25	13.1	34	17.8
NHS Forth Valley	125	13	10.4	27	21.6	19	15.2	16	12.8	23	18.4
NHS Western Isles	11	-	0.0	-	0.0	3	27.3	3	27.3	3	27.3
NHS National Services Scotland	1	-	0.0	-	0.0	-	0.0	-	0.0	-	0.0
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	62	6	9.7	10	16.1	7	11.3	6	9.7	14	22.6
NHS Shetland	12	-	0.0	2	16.7	3	25.0	3	25.0	3	25.0

Table 1, NHSScotland Workforce Statistics, Qualified Physiotherapists by NHS Board, Headcountat 30 September 2005

	45-49		50-54		55-59		60+
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Scotland	251	9.8	184	7.2	147	5.7	64	2.5
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	20	9.9	13	6.4	12	5.9	4	2.0
NHS Borders	12	20.7	4	6.9	6	10.3	3	5.2
NHS Argyll and Clyde	19	9.8	11	5.7	20	10.3	8	4.1
NHS Fife	22	12.6	19	10.9	12	6.9	7	4.0
NHS Greater Glasgow	46	8.9	25	4.8	27	5.2	12	2.3
NHS Highland	14	12.8	12	11.0	8	7.3	5	4.6
Golden Jubilee	-	0.0	-	0.0	-	0.0	-	0.0
NHS Lanarkshire	15	7.7	16	8.2	6	3.1	2	1.0
NHS Grampian	22	8.3	25	9.5	17	6.4	5	1.9
NHS Orkney	1	7.1	4	28.6	-	0.0	-	0.0
NHS Lothian	39	9.1	28	6.5	22	5.1	5	1.2
NHS Tayside	20	10.5	15	7.9	8	4.2	5	2.6
NHS Forth Valley	9	7.2	7	5.6	7	5.6	4	3.2
NHS Western Isles	-	0.0	-	0.0	1	9.1	1	9.1
NHS National Services Scotland	-	0.0	1	100.0	-	0.0	-	0.0
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	11	17.7	4	6.5	1	1.6	3	4.8
NHS Shetland	1	8.3	-	0.0	-	0.0	-	0.0

Question reference: S2W-29428

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to create additional junior posts for physiotherapists in the NHS.

Decisions about the numbers andskill mix of staff are for NHS boards to make, according to the healthcare needsof their populations. Over the last 10 years, the numbers of physiotherapists workingin NHS Scotland has increased by almost 38%.

The Scottish Executive has supportedNHS boards in developing an appropriate and flexible skill mix, creating more opportunitiesfor junior staff by providing funding for Allied Health Professional Consultant and specialist practitionerposts, funding for Continuous Professional Development and funding for successionplanning through the provision of an AHP Leadership programme.

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