- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many grams of fat are recommended to be eaten by the average adult daily.
Answer
The Dietary Reference Value (DRV) for total dietary fat intake is expressed as a percentage of dietary energy and not directly as grams, and is set at 35% of food energy.
Using estimated average energy requirements of 10.6MJ/day for a 74kg man (aged 19 to 50) and 8.1 MJ/day for a 60kg woman (aged 19 to 50), this equates to 95g and 73g total fat per day respectively.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many times each minister has travelled overseas on official duties since being appointed, detailing the destination and date of each visit.
Answer
For the period 1 July 1999 to 31 March 2004, I refer the member to the answers given to S1W-29052, S2W-2904 and S2W-9345 answered on 9 September 2002, 25 September 2003 and 25 June 2004 respectively. Information for the current financial year will be published before the summer recess in 2005.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dentists were employed in (a) each NHS board area and (b) total in each of the last five years.
Answer
Information on NHS staff employed by each NHS organisation is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics, at
www.isdscotland.org/workforce.Section A provides information on NHS hospital and community dentists and GeneralDental Service (GDS) broken down by NHS board. Table A1 provides information onall staff by Whole-Time Equivalent and Table A2 by Headcount.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to promote debating in schools as both a curricular and extra-curricular activity.
Answer
The National Guidelines on English Language 5-14 recommend that schools should provide structured and stimulating opportunities to use language with increasing precision in contexts appropriate to the needs of individuals and the world in which they live.
In the later stages of secondary education, arrangements documents for National Qualifications courses in English emphasise the need to develop oral communication skills through, for example, presenting information and opinions and discussion of issues and texts.
Debating is one of a number of ways of providing such opportunities. Ultimately, it is for local authorities and schools to decide on how to best meet the needs of their pupils.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many direct air links are available from Scotland to the EU accession states and how many new links to these states are being discussed or developed.
Answer
Scotland has an established direct air link between Edinburgh and Prague, with a further service to the Czech capital commencing in the autumn from Glasgow. The Executive, through the Route Development Fund, will consider any approach by an airline to commence services to the EU accession states. The detail of anydiscussions including possible destinations is, however, commercially confidential.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS nurses were employed in (a) each NHS board area and (b) total in each of the last five years.
Answer
Information on NHS staff employed by each NHS organisation is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics, at
www.isdscotland.org/workforce.Section A provides information on NHS nursing and midwifery staff broken down byNHS board. Table A1 provides information on all staff by Whole-Time Equivalent andTable A2 by Headcount.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the increase in business research and development expenditure and overall level of research and development expenditure referred to in its report, Business Enterprise Research and Development in Scotland 2002, related to (a) environment technologies and (b) general energy research.
Answer
Research and Development statistics for environmental technologies and general energy research for Scotland are not available from this survey. Table 2 of the report
Business Enterprise Research and Development in Scotland 2002 contains the most detailed breakdown of expenditure available. The data can be accessed on the Scottish Executive website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/enterprise/berd02-14.asp.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many teachers were employed in each local authority area in each of the last five years, giving the percentage change on a year-on-year basis.
Answer
Information on how many teachers were employed in each local authority area in each of the last five years can be obtained from the Teacher Census Results 2003 and can be accessed using the following hyperlink:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00352-00.asp.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS doctors were employed in (a) each NHS board area and (b) total in each of the last five years.
Answer
Information on NHS staff employed by each NHS organisation is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics, at
www.isdscotland.org/workforce.Section A provides information on NHS hospital and community doctors broken downby NHS board. Table A1 provides information on all staff by Whole-Time Equivalentand Table A2 by Headcount.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average student debt in Scotland has been in each of the last five years.
Answer
I refer the member to the answers given to S2W-8222 answered on 9 June 2004.All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
