Chamber and committees

Table 1 contains data on the level of manufacturing employment in Scotland, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Dundee, Glasgow, and Stirling in each quarter since January 2001.

Data contained within the table are estimates from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics. The LFS measures all those in employment including employees, family workers and self employed people. The LFS is a household survey, so the estimates reflect where people live rather than where they work.

Table 1: Level of Manufacturing Employment, by Specified Local Authority, for each Quarter since January 2001.

		Scotland	Aberdeen	Dundee	Edinburgh	Glasgow	Stirling
2001	Spring	338,000	10,000	10,000	21,000	23,000	5,000
	Summer	336,000	12,000	13,000	23,000	25,000	5,000
	Autumn	330,000	13,000	12,000	21,000	27,000	7,000
	Winter	327,000	10,000	11,000	21,000	26,000	5,000
2002	Spring	310,000	11,000	11,000	17,000	26,000	3,000
	Summer	322,000	11,000	12,000	19,000	28,000	6,000
	Autumn	329,000	9,000	11,000	17,000	26,000	7,000
	Winter	306,000	9,000	11,000	16,000	22,000	4,000
2003	Spring	295,000	6,000	11,000	15,000	18,000	4,000
	Summer	295,000	7,000	10,000	15,000	17,000	3,000
	Autumn	307,000	6,000	11,000	17,000	22,000	4,000
	Winter	286,000	7,000	10,000	17,000	18,000	4,000
2004	Spring	282,000	10,000	9,000	17,000	16,000	3,000
	Summer	284,000	11,000	10,000	17,000	16,000	3,000

Source: Labour Force Survey (LFS), not seasonally adjusted.

Estimates below 10,000 (marked in italics) are considered statistically unreliable due to small sample sizes.

Table 1 reports the number of employees in the manufacturing industry in the areas requested each year since 1999.

Table 2 reports the percentage of the workforce employed in the manufacturing industry in the areas requested each year since 1999.

The estimates in both tables are from the Annual Business Inquiry employee analysis (1999-2003).

Table 1: Number of People Employed in the Manufacturing Industry, 1999-2003

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Scotland	315,000	302,000	285,000	263,400	243,500
Aberdeen	15,400	14,800	15,200	14,500	11,600
Dundee	11,300	11,100	11,100	9,200	9,900
Edinburgh	22,700	20,500	17,900	17,000	14,700
Glasgow	31,100	30,000	30,300	27,600	25,700
Stirling	3,500	3,000	2,900	2,300	2,100

Source: Annual Business Inquiry (ABI).

Table 2: % of Workforce Employed in the Manufacturing Industry, 1999-2003

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Scotland	15%	14%	12%	12%	11%
Aberdeen	9%	9%	9%	9%	7%
Dundee	18%	16%	15%	13%	13%
Edinburgh	8%	7%	6%	6%	5%
Glasgow	9%	8%	8%	7%	7%
Stirling	9%	7%	7%	6%	6%

Source: Annual Business Inquiry (ABI).

The Scottish Executive does not provide forecasts of the number of businesses expected to register as companies in the future. These figures will depend on the future development of a wide range of economic and legislative factors, in Scotland and elsewhere, which cannot be foreseen.

NHS board-employed status, as opposed to independent contractor status, became a mainstream contractual option for general medical practitioners through the new General Medical Services Contract, implemented from April 2004.

The future number of general medical practitioners who may be employed by NHS boards is dependent upon the commissioning arrangements which NHS boards put in place for their primary medical services. However, it is anticipated that employed status might develop particularly in rural and remote areas and for Out-of-Hours services.

The number of general medical practitioners who provide NHS services in 2014-15 will also be affected by changes in the way that primary medical services are delivered over the next ten years, which in turn will be affected by changes in the demand placed on the NHS, by the changing balance between primary and secondary care, by changes in skill mix in the workforce, and by developments in medical practice. This makes it impracticable to project a precise number ten years ahead.

However, work is underway to make longer term projections for general medical practitioners as part of the national workforce planning process and preparation for the next National Workforce Plan, which is expected to be published in spring 2005.

The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) has reported that 9,500 donors have been deferred since the introduction of the deferral policy announced on 17 March 2004. However, following the implementation by SNBTS of an effective marketing and publicity strategy the number of active donors has increased by over 2% from 194,250 to 199,003.

I would take this opportunity to remind everyone that it is important not to lose sight of the key role that blood donations play in providing essential treatment and saving lives.  It is essential that people to come forward and regularly donate blood.

The primary aim of the Safety Camera Programme is to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on Scotland’s roads. No detailed assessment has been made of the impact of speed cameras on emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. 

Information is available for speed camera sites that have joined the Safety Camera Programme since it was first piloted from 2000-02. The increase in camera sites over this period therefore are a combination of new sites established by safety camera partnerships and sites that were operated by the police prior to the programme but accepted into the scheme.

Number of New and Existing Cameras Accepted into the Programme Year on Year*

Year	Programme Expansion	Trunk Roads		Non-trunk Roads
		Fixed Sites	Mobile Sites	Fixed Sites	Mobile Sites
2000-02	Pilot project involving Strathclyde – area covered by Glasgow City Council only	0	0	39	0
2002-03	Strathclyde expands to cover 4 local authorities Fife joins Programme April 2002 North East Partnership joins October 2002	22	23	20	74
2003-04	Strathclyde Partnership expands to cover 12 local authorities Dumfries & Galloway joins July 2003 Lothian & Borders joins July 2003 Tayside joins July 2003	44	59	50	95
2004-05	Northern Partnership joins July 2004 Lothian & Borders expands to include West Lothian Council area July 2004	2	50	4	53

Note: *As partnerships and the programme expands additional geographic areas will be included where camera sites were already operated by the police in conjunction with the roads authorities. In addition new sites will be established at sites where new casualty problems are emerging. Figures given are for all cameras sites accepted into the programme – new and pre-existing. These figures are based on information supplied by safety camera partnerships. Central Scotland is not currently part of the programme and therefore no figures are included for this area.

Information on the number of occupational injuries for nursing and midwifery staff is available by type of organisation and is shown in the following table. Data was not published by health board area as at 31 March 2004 due to issues of completeness and quality. We intend to publish the data by health board area in autumn 2005 for the census period 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005.

NHSScotland Workforce Statistics, Occupational Health and Safety

Number of Occupational Injuries by Type of Organisation for Nursing and Midwifery Staff, at 31 March 2004

Number of Occupational Injuries Per 1,000,000 Available Hours

Type of Organisation	Total Occupational Injuries	Needlesticks/Sharps	Violence and Aggression (inc. verbal abuse)	Musculoskeleta I disorders MSDS – back and lower limbs	Musculoskeleta I disorders MSDS – neck and upper limbs	Slips and trips	Fall from height
Scotland	148.97	11.73	112.02	12.75	5.35	6.83	0.29
Acute Trusts1	85.1	13.43	55.35	5.62	3.07	7.20	0.40
Unified Trusts2	334.0	15.36	290.74	16.24	2.29	9.24	0.12
Primary Care Trusts3	156.5	7.11	111.50	22.08	10.47	5.13	0.21
Health Boards4	37.1	27.19	0.00	9.89	0.00	0.00	0.00

Source: ISD Scotland.

Notes:

1. Acute Trusts, Islands Boards and Scottish Ambulance Service.

2. Unified Boards prior to 31 march 2004 (NHS Borders, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, NHS Argyll and Clyde and NHS Fife.

3. Primary Trusts, State Hospital and Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service.

4. Health Board Headquarters and Special Health Boards not providing health care.

The Scottish Executive has a commitment to ensure that there are 53,000 teachers in publicly funded schools by 2007. No decision has been taken on numbers for future years but the Executive is always committed to and bound in law to endeavour to secure improvement in the quality of school education.

The role of the Executive is to ensure that courts have access to a sufficient range of appropriately resourced sentencing options. Sentencing decisions are for the courts. There is a continuing increase in the use by courts of community based penalties, including Community Service Orders, which provide for reparation to be made to communities through a specified period of unpaid work. The 1% increase in the number of Community Service Orders in 2003-04 followed a 13% increase the previous year. Similarly there was a 10% increase in 2003-04 in the number of Supervised Attendance Orders, which contain an element of community reparation, imposed by courts in dealing with fine defaulters.

A new development for 2005-06 is commencement of two year Executive funded pilots of Community Reparation Orders to deal with anti-social behaviour. Both District and Sheriff Courts within the pilot areas of Dundee, Inverness and Greenock will have access to this new sentence. As a statutory duty local authorities require to carry out consultation of appropriate groups within their areas on the nature of placements to be carried out by those subject to a Community Reparation Order.