Questions and answers

Question reference: S4W-17627

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 29 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has ensured that the new live attenuated influenza vaccine is evaluated.

Question reference: S4W-17655

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 29 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many and what percentage of the population was of working age in each local authority area in the last year for which information is available, and what the projected figures are for 2033.

The estimated number and percentage of working age population in each local authority for 2012 and the latest available projected figures for 2033 are shown in the following table.

Number and percentage of working age population for 2012 and 2033

Local Authority

2012 estimates

2033 projections¹

All ages

Working age²

Percentage

All ages

Working age³

Percentage

Aberdeen City	224,970	154,363	69	268,012	177,493	66
Aberdeenshire	255,540	158,482	62	295,965	170,956	58
Angus	116,210	68,746	59	115,302	62,265	54
Argyll and Bute	86,900	49,955	57	83,613	44,631	53
Clackmannanshire	51,280	31,997	62	57,257	33,374	58
Dumfries and Galloway	150,830	87,562	58	142,694	73,908	52
Dundee City	147,800	95,674	65	153,247	95,838	63
East Ayrshire	122,720	75,788	62	121,467	69,904	58
East Dunbartonshire	105,880	63,116	60	95,661	51,735	54
East Lothian	100,850	60,985	60	127,056	72,866	57
East Renfrewshire	91,030	54,013	59	89,530	49,093	55
Edinburgh, City of	482,640	328,739	68	603,145	414,939	69
Eilean Siar	27,560	16,025	58	23,623	12,420	53
Falkirk	156,800	98,037	63	167,849	100,088	60
Fife	366,220	225,168	61	398,363	232,176	58
Glasgow City	595,080	405,113	68	656,095	447,958	68
Highland	232,910	140,557	60	253,382	142,446	56
Inverclyde	80,680	49,976	62	67,895	38,000	56
Midlothian	84,240	51,389	61	90,449	52,319	58
Moray	92,910	55,850	60	95,942	53,931	56
North Ayrshire	137,560	82,514	60	129,762	71,753	55
North Lanarkshire	337,870	213,339	63	332,449	199,074	60
Orkney Islands	21,530	12,912	60	21,500	11,811	55
Perth and Kinross	147,740	87,811	59	191,622	114,351	60
Renfrewshire	174,310	109,087	63	169,437	100,537	59
Scottish Borders	113,710	66,302	58	124,306	66,851	54
Shetland Islands	23,210	14,268	61	22,687	12,485	55
South Ayrshire	112,910	66,189	59	108,793	59,694	55
South Lanarkshire	314,360	196,215	62	330,638	193,799	59
Stirling	91,020	56,683	62	103,410	61,895	60
West Dunbartonshire	90,340	56,898	63	85,207	49,940	59
West Lothian	175,990	111,593	63	203,107	121,019	60
Scotland	5,313,600	3,345,346	63	5,729,465	3,459,549	60

Notes:

1. 2010-based projections published in 2011, based on the 2001 Census and do not take account of the 2011 Census results.

2. Working age at 30 June 2012 is defined as men aged 16 to 64 and women aged 16 to approximately 60 years and 240 days as per the 2011 Pensions Act.

3. Includes the change in women’s state pension age from 60 to 65 between 2010 and 2018 and the subsequent changes of both male and female state pension age to 66 by 2033.

Question reference: S4W-17637

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 28 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what transport companies run services on routes that are (a) eligible for and (b) exempt from inclusion in the national concessionary travel scheme.

(a) A list of the 258 bus operators who operate services within the Scotland-Wide Free Bus Travel for Older and Disabled People scheme is provided in the following table.

(b) The Scottish Government do not hold information on those operators that are not eligible to access the Scotland-Wide Free Bus Travel for Older and Disabled People scheme.

24/7 Cars	A & C Coaches Ltd	A & F Irvine & Sons	A & J Ballantyne
A Trip In Time	A1 Minibus and Coach Services	ABC Travel	Aberdeenshire CB
Airbles Bus & Coach Services Ltd	Aitken Island Travel	Alasdair MacDonald	Alexander Wait & Son
Allan & Black Coaches	Allan's Group	Anderson's of Langholm	Andrew's
Arthur Coaches	Avondale Coaches Ltd	Awe Service Station	Bab's DAB
Bains Coaches	BARC Coach Hire	Bay Travel	Ben Mundell Ltd
Billy Davies Coaches	Blue Bus Ltd	Bremner's of Aviemore	Broons Buses & Taxis
Bryan's Coaches Ltd	Buchanan Bros	Buchanan Cabs Ltd	Burnbrae Garage
Buskers Ltd	C & R Coaches Limited	Caber Coaches	Central Taxis (Aberdeen)
Clan Travel	Classy Taxis Ltd	Coakley Bus Company	Colchri Ltd
Crescent Cabs	Cumberland Motor Services Ltd	Cumbrae Coaches	D & E Coaches Ltd
DA Coaches Ltd	Deveron Coaches Ltd	DMK Motors	Donald J MacKay
Douglas L Jack	Dumfries and Galloway Council Buses	Dunns Coaches (C+M Coaches)	Dunn's Coaches Ltd
Earnside Coaches	Easter Ross Coach Co	Edinburgh City Private Hire	Edinburgh Coach Lines
Elizabeth Yule	Eve Car and Coaches	Ferguson's Mini Bus Hire	First Aberdeen
First Glasgow	First Scotland East	First Scotland East Ltd	Fisher Tours
Freddies Taxis	Galson Motors Ltd	Garelochhead Minibuses & Coaches Ltd	Gibson Direct Ltd
Glen Valley Tours Limited	Glenedin Coaches	Glenesk Travel Company Ltd	Glenn's Private Hire
Grenitote Travel Ltd	Hamilton Coaches	Harry-O-Transport	Hebridean Coaches
Hebridean Transport	Hector MacNeil	Henderson Travel	Highland Glen Travel
Houston's Mini Coaches	Hugh Sinclair & Co	Hunter's Executive Coaches	Hunter's Executive Coaches Limited
I P MacKay	Island of Hoy Development Trust	J & D S Halcrow	J D Coaches
J McCulloch & Son	J Morgan Taxis	JA & GD Nicolson	James Accessible Solution
James Robertson	Jamies Transport Services	JJ Travel Ltd	JMB Travel Ltd
John Kennedy	John Leask & Son	John O'Groats - The Orkney Bus	Johnson Transport
Jura Bus Service (Charles Maclean)	Kenneth MacLennan	Key Coaches	Kineil Coaches Ltd
Liddell's Coaches	Lindsay Coaches	Loch Lomond Bus Service Ltd	Lochaber Action on Disability
Lochryan Commercials	Lochs Motor Transport Ltd	Lothian Buses plc	M & J Harcus
MacEwan's Coach Services	MacKenzies Bus & Coach Services Ltd	Mackie's Coaches of Alloa.	MacLean Coaches Limited
Macleod's Coaches	Macrae Kintail	Margaret S Morrison	Maynes Coaches
McCreadie Coaches	McGills Bus Service Ltd	McLeans Taxis & Coach Hire	McNairns Coaches
Miller's Coaches Scotland Ltd	Millport Motors Ltd	Mitchell's Coaches	M-Line International Coaches
Moray Council Community Bus	Muirs Coaches Ltd.	Mundole Taxis	Munro's of Jedburgh Limited
Nairn Community Transport	National Express	National Express Dundee	Nicholas Hird
Oban & District Buses Ltd	Oban Minibus Services	Oor Coaches	Orkney Coaches Ltd.
P & T Coaches	P Canavan & Co	Parks of Hamilton (Coach Hirers) Ltd.	Perryman's Buses Ltd
Peter MacLennan	Philips Coaches (Alford) Ltd	Post Bus	Prentice Coaches Ltd
Quarrybank Garage	R B Coaches Ltd.	R G Jamieson & Sons	R MacMillan Motors
Raft Services	Rennies of Dunfermline Ltd	Riverside Transport	Robert Stables
Ross's Minibuses	Rowan Travel	Sanday Dial-a-Ride	Sanday Enterprises CIC
Scotbus Ltd	Scottish Borders Council	Scottish Citylink Coaches Ltd	Shetland Islands Council
Shuttle Buses Ltd	Silverdale Coaches	Skyeways	Skyline Coaches Ltd
Smith & Sons Coaches	Smiths Coaches	SPA Coaches	Stagecoach (Scotland) Ltd
Stagecoach Fife	Stagecoach Glasgow	Stagecoach in the Highlands	Stagecoach Strathtay
Staran CIC	Staran CIC	Starline Travel	Stonehouse Coaches Ltd
Stuart's of Carluke	Sweeney's Garage	Teejay Travel Ltd	Telford's Coaches Ltd
The Bridge	The Durness Bus Ltd	The Rural Development Trust	Thomas Cole
Town and Country Taxis	Transport for Tongue	Travelsure	Trossachs Cab Company
Voluntary Action Training	W D MacKay	Wastbus Ltd	Watermill Coaches Ltd
Waverley Travel	West Coast Motor Services Co	Westerbus	Where 2 today
Whites Coaches	Wigtownshire Community Transport	William Morrison	William Samuel Millar
WJC Buses	WMV Motor Hirer	Yule's Buses
24/7 Cars	A & C Coaches Ltd	A & F Irvine & Sons	A & J Ballantyne
A Trip In Time	A1 Minibus and Coach Services	ABC Travel	Aberdeenshire CB
Airbles Bus & Coach Services Ltd	Aitken Island Travel	Alasdair MacDonald	Alexander Wait & Son
Allan & Black Coaches	Allan's Group	Anderson's of Langholm	Andrew's
Arthur Coaches	Avondale Coaches Ltd	Awe Service Station	Bab's DAB
Bains Coaches	BARC Coach Hire	Bay Travel	Ben Mundell Ltd
Billy Davies Coaches	Blue Bus Ltd	Bremner's of Aviemore	Broons Buses & Taxis
Bryan's Coaches Ltd	Buchanan Bros	Buchanan Cabs Ltd	Burnbrae Garage
Buskers Ltd	C & R Coaches Limited	Caber Coaches	Central Taxis (Aberdeen)
Clan Travel	Classy Taxis Ltd	Coakley Bus Company	Colchri Ltd
Crescent Cabs	Cumberland Motor Services Ltd	Cumbrae Coaches	D & E Coaches Ltd
DA Coaches Ltd	Deveron Coaches Ltd	DMK Motors	Donald J MacKay
Douglas L Jack	Dumfries and Galloway Council Buses	Dunns Coaches (C+M Coaches)	Dunn's Coaches Ltd
Earnside Coaches	Easter Ross Coach Co	Edinburgh City Private Hire	Edinburgh Coach Lines
Elizabeth Yule	Eve Car and Coaches	Ferguson's Mini Bus Hire	First Aberdeen
First Glasgow	First Scotland East	First Scotland East Ltd	Fisher Tours
Freddies Taxis	Galson Motors Ltd	Garelochhead Minibuses & Coaches Ltd	Gibson Direct Ltd
Glen Valley Tours Limited	Glenedin Coaches	Glenesk Travel Company Ltd	Glenn's Private Hire

Question reference: S4W-17633

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 28 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what types of transport are (a) eligible for and (b) exempt from inclusion in the national concessionary travel scheme.

Question reference: S4W-17635

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 28 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what routes are (a) eligible for and (b) exempt from inclusion in the national concessionary travel scheme.

Question reference: S4W-17631

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 28 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what the eligibility criteria are for travellers to use the national concessionary travel scheme.

The Scotland-Wide Free Bus Travel for Older and Disabled People scheme is available to anyone who is a resident of Scotland and is aged 60 or over and/or meets the eligibility criteria as follows:

They receive Disability Living Allowance under the higher rate of mobility or higher/middle rate of care.

They receive a Personal Independence Payment.

They receive Attendance Allowance.

They live in a care/residential home or hospital and are eligible for the higher or middle rate of the care component of Disability Living Allowance, or a Personal Independence Payment or Attendance Allowance.

They are a Blue Badge holder.

They are profoundly or severely deaf (bilateral hearing loss greater than or equal to 70dBHLs averaged over 1, 2 and 4KHz).

They are registered blind or partially sighted.

They are not able to drive because they have been refused a driving licence on medical grounds or have surrendered their licence or had it cancelled due to medical grounds.

They have a mental illness, learning difficulty or personality disorder that is recognised under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 and need to travel to keep appointments which are part of their treatment, care or rehabilitation.

They have a terminal illness.

They have a progressive degenerative condition that severely impedes their mobility and effects their day to day activities

They have lost one or both legs, both arms or an arm and a leg.

They are an injured HM Forces veteran with mobility problems. They will qualify if they have received a lump sum benefit under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) within tariff levels 1 - 8 (inclusive) and the Secretary of State certifies that they have a permanent and substantial disability which causes inability to walk or very considerable difficulty in walking. Or, if their injuries do not hinder their mobility but the injury can be cross referenced to the descriptors within the AFCS Injuries Table as supplied by the AFCS. If they receive a War Pensioner Mobility Supplement they are also eligible.

Question reference: S4W-17632

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 October 2013
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 28 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government on what grounds travellers can be excluded from using the national concessionary travel scheme.

Question reference: S4W-17483

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 27 September 2013
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 10 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what account the Scottish Ministers must take of the public interest when considering the approval of compulsory purchase orders and what other criteria they must meet.

In deciding whether or not to confirm a compulsory purchase order, the Scottish Ministers will consider each case on its merits considering whether the acquisition of the property by compulsory means is proportionate and in the public interest weighing the balance of the public interest against the private rights of the owner and those affected.

In doing so the Scottish Ministers take into account all relevant factors, including the purposes for which the land is being acquired, the criteria in the legislation enabling the compulsory acquisition and any objections to the order.

Question reference: S4W-17481

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 27 September 2013
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 10 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many compulsory purchase orders for land were requested by each (a) local authority and (b) Scottish Government agency in (i) 2009, (ii) 2010, (iii) 2011 and (iv) 2012 and how many were approved by the Scottish Ministers.

The following table shows all compulsory purchase orders received and which have been confirmed, or are in the process of being confirmed, by the Scottish Ministers from 2009 to 2012 where the local authority was the acquiring authority.

The Scottish Government holds information on those compulsory purchase orders submitted to Scottish Ministers as the confirming authority. We do not hold information on those orders instigated by a local authority but not submitted for confirmation or on the outcome of the order following confirmation by ministers.

Local authority

2009

2010

2011

2012

	Requested	Confirmed	Requested	Confirmed	Requested	Confirmed	Requested	Confirmed
Aberdeen					1
Aberdeenshire
Angus
Argyll and Bute				1
Clackmannanshire
Dumfries and Galloway
Dundee	1					1
East Ayrshire
East Dunbartonshire
East Lothian	1	1
East Renfrewshire
Edinburgh			2	2			1	1
Eilean Siar
Falkirk	2	1		1	1			1
Fife					1			1
Glasgow	2	1		2		1
Highland	1							1
Inverclyde
Midlothian
Moray							1
North Ayrshire	1			1
North Lanarkshire		1
Orkney
Perth and Kinross							1
Renfrewshire
Scottish Borders		1		1	4	1		2
Shetland	1		1	1				1
South Ayrshire
South Lanarkshire		1
Stirling	1					1
West Dunbartonshire
West Lothian			1			1

The Scottish Ministers have the power to promote compulsory purchase orders (CPO) using the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984. The CPO process is set out in legislation and requires them to publish the CPO in draft, consider any objections (and if appropriate hold a public local inquiry) and decide whether to proceed. If they decide to proceed, they will publish the made CPO.

Question reference: S4W-17485

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 27 September 2013
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 10 October 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether the Scottish Ministers can delegate final decisions on approving compulsory purchase orders and, if so, to whom.

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