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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S1W-28208

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 August 2002
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 2 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how much in subsidies each local authority has made to bus operators in each of the last three years.

The information is contained in the table.Bus Transport Subsidies

	Provisional Outturn 1999-2000(£000)	Provisional Outturn2000-01 (£000)	Provisional Outturn 2001-02 (£000)
Aberdeen, City	468	71	38
Aberdeenshire	1,215	1,219	1,310
Angus	608	552	556
Argyll and Bute	1,291	1,849	1,696
Clackmannanshire	284	411	435
Dumfries and Galloway	1,486	1,781	1,811
Dundee	780	597	590
East Ayrshire	566	545	915
East Dunbartonshire	525	486	669
East Lothian	584	602	552
East Renfrewshire	397	427	574
Edinburgh, City	1,132	-983	-744
Eilean Siar	1,048	1,088	1,132
Falkirk	1,443	1,486	1,564
Fife	1,055	1,176	1,346
Glasgow	3,851	3,594	4,238
Highland	1,075	1,064	1,155
Inverclyde	359	595	615
Midlothian	415	555	632
Moray	329	321	359
North Ayrshire	708	608	598
North Lanarkshire	896	2,061	2,219
Orkney	161	194	199
Perth and Kinross	946	989	1,049
Renfrewshire	781	979	1,665
Scottish Borders	735	898	937
Shetland	609	626	653
South Ayrshire	641	703	802
South Lanarkshire	1,039	959	1,188
Stirling	816	954	993
West Dunbartonshire	291	268	904
West Lothian	749	959	1,332
Scotland	27,283	27,634	31,982

Notes:1. Figures are taken from local authorities' Provisional Outturn and Budget Estimate returns to the Scottish Executive.2. All figures are net current expenditure and are also net of loan and leasing charges.

Question reference: S1W-28211

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 August 2002
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 2 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority has spent on repairing vandalised school buildings in each of the last three years.

Question reference: S1W-28209

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 August 2002
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 2 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority has spent on telephone calls in each of the last three years.

Question reference: S1W-28207

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 August 2002
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 2 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many electoral wards in each local authority area are not represented by a community council.

Question reference: S1W-28216

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 August 2002
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 2 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of students have qualified for maintenance grants since such grants were reintroduced.

Bursaries were introduced in academic year 2001-02 for both young and mature students entering higher education for the first time or returning to higher education after a gap of a year or more. Thirty-nine thousand, eight hundred and nine students applied to the Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) for maintenance support in 2001-02. Of these, 33.6% (13,385) received a Young Students' Bursary. Many of the remainder would have been eligible to apply for the Mature Students' Bursary Fund (MSBF), which is administered by individual colleges and universities. It is not possible to say how many students may have received payments from MSBF since figures on uptake are not yet available.In addition, 974 (2.4%) students received funding under separate arrangements for courses that attract a Scottish Executive Health Department bursary.

Question reference: S1W-28214

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 August 2002
Current Status: Answered by Mary Mulligan on 2 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what average gross fee income of full-time equivalent salaried general dental practitioners has been recorded by the Dental Practice Division of the Common Services Agency from its dental list information in each of the last three years.

This information is not available because of the way information on salaried dentists is supplied to the Common Services Agency. We are working with the agency to improve the accuracy of the data received on salaried dentists but the agency will continue to be unable to provide information relating to whole-time equivalent salaried dentists since none of the information received allows them to determine whole-time equivalents. This is because a number of salaried dentist posts are not filled by a single dentist but are shared by a number of dentists.

Question reference: S1W-28215

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 August 2002
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 2 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities currently have policies in place to promote the use of fair trade products.

Question reference: S1W-28212

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 August 2002
Current Status: Answered by Mary Mulligan on 2 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-time equivalent salaried general dental practitioners there are in each NHS board area.

The number of full-time equivalent salaried general dental practitioners currently in post in each NHS board area is not held centrally. This information can be obtained from the relevant Island NHS boards and Primary Care NHS Trusts. The number of salaried dentist posts in each NHS Board area which have current approval from the Executive is contained in the following table:

NHS Board	Number of Salaried Dentist Posts^1,2,3(Whole-time Equivalent)
Argyll and Clyde	7.15
Ayrshire and Arran	5
Borders	1.4
Dumfries and Galloway	4
Fife	Nil
Forth Valley	1
Grampian	8.5
Greater Glasgow	Nil
Highland	15.8
Lanarkshire	1
Lothian	11.92
Orkney	2.5
Shetland	3.6
Tayside	Nil
Western Isles	Nil

Notes:1. A number of posts are part time.2. A number of posts are currently vacant.3. Other salaried dentist posts have been approved in the past but are no longer required by the board and so are not counted.

Question reference: S1W-28210

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 August 2002
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 2 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority has spent on maintaining bus shelters in each of the last three years.

Question reference: S1W-28206

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 August 2002
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 2 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many community councils there are in each local authority area.