- 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 whether it will list fire stations have (a) opened and (b) closed in each year since 1997.
Answer
The information requested is set out in the following table:
| Year | Closed | Opened |
| 1997 | 1 – Central Scotland (Lochearnhead - Volunteer) | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 – Lothian and Borders (Lauder - Retained) |
| 2002 | 1 – Dumfries and Galloway (Drumore – Volunteer) | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 – Dumfries and Galloway (Drumore -Volunteer) |
| 2005 (to date) | 1 – Tayside (Airlie – Volunteer) | 0 |
Some fire and rescue services have altered fire station premises or relocated stations within the same local area. Those changes have not reduced the level of fire cover provided and are therefore not included in the above table. A significant number of those changes have involved the enhancement of existing premises and consequent improvements in fire cover.
- 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 have been found guilty of failing to keep adequate accounting records in each year since 1987 and what penalties were imposed.
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 Hugh Henry on 16 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many company directors have been (a) imprisoned and (b) fined over the last 10 years for approving accounts which do not comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 1985 and what the maximum (i) prison sentence and (ii) fine is which may be imposed for this offence.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has no function in relation to this area of company law, which is reserved to the UK government.
- 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: Wednesday, 27 July 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 16 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils have been found to be in possession of (a) a weapon or (b) drugs on school premises in each of the last five years.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. The Scottish Executive has encouraged local authorities to ensue that they monitor data on incidents in schools in order to meet their responsibilities towards the safety and well-being of staff and pupils.
- 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: Monday, 01 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-3336 by Malcolm Chisholm on 5 November 2003, how many unfilled vacancies existed in the NHS for consultant psychiatrists in all disciplines in (a) 2003 and (b) 2004 and how many such vacancies currently exist.
Answer
Information on psychiatric consultant vacancies in NHS Scotlandis published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics,at
www.isdscotland.org/workforce.
Section B gives details of allmedical and dental staff employed in NHS Scotland. In particular, tables B11 andB12 show the whole-time equivalent (WTE) and headcount number of psychiatric consultantvacancies for years 2003 and 2004, broken down by NHS board area. Latest availablefigures are at 30 September 2004.
- 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 Andy Kerr on 15 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are in place to ensure that women aged 50 to 70 do not lose their place in the three-year cycle of NHS breast screening when changing GP.
Answer
Six to eight weeks before breastscreening appointments are due to commence for women from a given GP practice, aPrior Notification List (PNL) is issued to the practice by the breast screeningcentre. The PNL contains the details of every woman at that practice who is eligiblefor screening. GPs are requested to add women from their practice in the eligibleage range who are not on the PNL, for example those who have recently joined thepractice.
GPs can also refer any womenover 50 for breast screening if her screening appointment is due when she joinsthe practice, even if women from her new practice are not scheduled to be screenedat that time.
- 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 Andy Kerr on 15 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS boards purchase fair trade products.
Answer
Information on how many NHSboards purchase fair trade products is not held centrally.
- 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 Andy Kerr on 15 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many admissions there were to hospitals due to incidents at the seaside in each year since 1997.
Answer
The information requested is not available from central statisticalreturns.
Injuriesand their causes are recorded on hospital discharge data using the World HealthOrganization’s International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD10).
ICD10can identify “place of occurrence” for incidents resulting in injury but the categorythat includes “seaside” (e.g. beach, sea, seashore) also applies to a range of otherlocations, 27 in total. Examples of other locations captured by the same ICD10 codeinclude: canal, caravan site, hill, mountain and railway line.
Central statistical returns cannotexplicitly identify “seaside” from the 27 locations.
