- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 18 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many operations were cancelled within (a) seven days and (b) 24 hours of the appointment time in each year since 1999.
Answer
The information requested is not available from central statistical returns.
However, the available information on the numbers of cancellations to planned admission for in-patient/day case care or cancellation of planned operations following in-patient/day case admission was provided in response to questions S2W-16549, S2W-16664 and S2W-17976 answered on 31 May 2005, 01 June 2005 and 16 August 2005 respectively. 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/wa.search.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many bus drivers were charged with (a) drink driving, (b) speeding and (c) operating a mobile phone while driving in each of the last five years, broken down by police force area.
Answer
The information requested is not available. The statistics available centrally on motoring crimes recorded by the police do not distinguish the occupation of the offender.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 17 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-33267 by Mr Andy Kerr on 23 January 2003 and in light of the review by the Financial Reporting Advisory Board referred to therein, whether it now agrees with Kilmarnock Prison Services Ltd (KPSL) that the prison was sold to the public sector and, if it does agree, on which public department’s or agency’s books the asset is held; if it disagrees, what steps it has taken, or intends to take, with relevant bodies to correct the statement made by KPSL, and, if it is unable to either agree or disagree at this time, what steps it plans to take to clarify on which balance sheet the asset, and its concommitant liabilities, should properly be held.
Answer
The Scottish Executive’s view of the accounting treatment has not changed and is reported in the Scottish Prison Service’s (SPS) annual accounts for 2004-05 published in July (laid in the Scottish Parliament (SE/2005/137) and available at
www.sps.gov.uk ). The prison property itself does not appear on the SPS Balance Sheet, but the SPS does account for its commitments under the contract and for its reversionary interest in the asset.
The Executive supported the review by the Financial Reporting Advisory Board (FRAB). Information on this review can be found at www.frab.gov.uk. It was not, however, the FRAB’s role to consider the detail of individual cases with a view to revising the accounting treatment adopted: it is for each party to conduct their own assessment, according to relevant accounting standards and guidance. In the present case, the SPS and the private sector contractor have both applied the relevant guidance and in both cases the respective auditors have accepted the conclusion reached.
The Executive is committed to proper accounting practice and to achieving a satisfactory resolution to the apparent problem of anomalous treatment. The Executive will therefore comply with, and promote compliance with, applicable guidance in this area, including therefore any revised guidance issued in due course.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 17 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many letters to it remain unanswered after more than a month, broken down into those which are (a) one month, (b) two months, (c) three months, (d) four months and (e) over six months old.
Answer
The information requested will not be available until 31 August due to the need for collation of the relevant statistics. I will write to the member with the information after that date.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 17 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time was between the referral of a child to an educational psychologist and the child’s appointment in (a) each local education authority area and (b) Scotland in each of the last five years.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 17 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many established full-time equivalent educational psychologist posts there are in (a) each local education authority and (b) Scotland and how many such posts are vacant.
Answer
The information requested is provided in the following table. The permanent column covers permanent established posts for the complement of the Psychology Service. The project-based column covers non-permanent posts funded from temporary funding streams.
Educational Psychologist Vacancies as at 18 February 2005
| Education Authority | Complement | Advertised Vacancies | Of these, Vacant for More Than 3 Months |
| | Permanent | Project-Based | Permanent | Project-Based | Permanent | Project-Based |
| Aberdeen City | 13.5 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 1.0 | - | - |
| Aberdeenshire | 19.6 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Angus | 8.0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Argyll and Bute | 6.0 | 2.8 | - | - | - | - |
| Clackmannanshire | 6.0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 11.0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dundee City | 11.4 | 2.4 | 1.0 | - | 1.0 | - |
| East Ayrshire | 9.0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| East Dunbartonshire | 4.6 | - | - | - | - | - |
| East Lothian | 7.5 | - | 1.0 | - | 1.0 | - |
| East Renfrewshire | 19.4 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Edinburgh, City of | 32.2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Eilean Siar | 2.5 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Falkirk | 11.4 | - | 0.8 | - | - | - |
| Fife | 23.9 | - | | - | - | - |
| Glasgow City | 52.5 | - | 2.0 | - | 2.0 | - |
| Highland | 13.8 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Inverclyde | 7.3 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midlothian | 8.3 | 0.2 | - | - | - | - |
| Moray | 8.3 | - | 2.0 | - | - | - |
| North Ayrshire | 11.0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Lanarkshire | 28.1 | - | 2.6 | - | 2.6 | - |
| Orkney Islands | 2.0 | - | 1.0 | - | 1.0 | - |
| Perth and Kinross | 9.2 | 0.5 | - | - | - | - |
| Renfrewshire | 14.0 | 44.3 | - | - | - | - |
| Scottish Borders | 6.7 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.4 |
| Shetland Islands | 1.0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| South Ayrshire | 8.0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| South Lanarkshire | 21.0 | 1.0 | - | - | - | - |
| Stirling | 6.5 | - | - | - | - | - |
| West Dunbartonshire | 9.5 | 1.5 | - | - | - | - |
| West Lothian | 13.1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scotland | 406.3 | 57.6 | 12.9 | 1.4 | 8.6 | 0.4 |
Source: Teacher and Educational Psychologist Vacancies Survey.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 16 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many company directors were found guilty of approving accounts which did not comply with the Companies Act 1985 in each year since 1987.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-17966 on 16 August 2005. 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/wa.search.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 16 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many primary school-aged children it is estimated that there will be in each of the next five academic years.
Answer
The information requested is set out in the following table.
| Year | Projected Number of 4 to 11-Year-Old Children* |
| 2005-06 | 454,100 |
| 2006-07 | 444,300 |
| 2007-08 | 437,000 |
| 2008-09 | 429,800 |
| 2009-10 | 421,000 |
Note: *Ages at June of each year.
The figures above are taken from the General Registers of Scotland population projections. Not every four-year-old or 11-year-old will be in primary school and not every child will be in public sector schools.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 16 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many companies were (a) found guilty and (b) fined for not disclosing to the public that a director has (i) resigned and (ii) been appointed within two weeks of that resignation under section 288 of the Companies Act 1985 in each year since 1987.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-17966 on 16 August 2005. 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/wa.search.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 16 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) men and (b) women became teachers in the maintained school sector in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in each year since 1970.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
