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Question reference: S1W-27730

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its and its agencies' canteens, restaurants or similar facilities can provide Halal, Kosher, vegetarian, vegan or other special diet meals when given notice of any such requirement.

Question reference: S1W-27727

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 15 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners were held in all prisons, broken down by religious affiliation, on the most recent date since 1 April 2001 for which figures are available.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The following are the figures as at 22 July 2002.Baptist 2Buddhist 4Christian 90Church of England 66Church of Scotland 2,831Episcopalian 5Hindu 4Jehovah Witness 7Muslim 44None 1,464Other 57Roman Catholic 1,797Sikh 2Null 93Total 6,466

Question reference: S1W-27673

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of staff currently employed by the Scottish Qualifications Authority by gender, ethnic origin, disability and grade.

Question reference: S1W-27676

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff it recruited in each year from 1997 to 2002, broken down by gender, ethnic origin and disability.

The Scottish Executive aims to recruit staff from a diverse background and experience, and successful applicants are selected on the basis of the ability to do the job. Whilst information on the ethnic background and disability of all applicants is collected for monitoring purposes, applicants are under no obligation to provide such information.Recruitment is undertaken to fill vacancies arising within Scottish Executive core departments, as well as some agencies and other associated departments. The figures provided in the table include all recruitment activity undertaken by the Scottish Executive.Recruitment by the Scottish Executive: 1999 to 2002

Year	Total	Male	Female	Ethnic Minority	Persons with a Disability
1999	851	440	411	6	19
2000	761	395	366	12	29
2001	627	295	332	24	36
2002¹	155	68	87	3	5

Notes:1. Information up to 25 May 2002.

Question reference: S1W-27667

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 14 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of the staff currently employed by the Forestry Commission by gender, ethnic origin, disability and grade.

The breakdown is given in the following table.

Grade	Gender		Ethnic Origin			Disabled
	Male	Female	White	Chinese	Other	Male	Female
Senior Staff Group 3	1	-	1	-	-	-	-
Senior Staff Group 2	2	-	2	-	-	-	-
Senior Staff Group 1a	2	-	2	-	-	-	-
Senior Staff Group 1	10	1	11	-	-	-	-
Payband 1	7	-	7	-	-	-	-
Payband 2	46	6	52	-	-	-	-
Payband 3	48	17	65	-	-	-	-
Payband 3 Operational	25	4	29	-	-	-	-
Payband 4	64	40	104	-	-	1	-
Payband 4 Operational	47	4	51	-	-	1	-
Payband 5	85	80	164	1	-	1	4
Payband 5 Operational	154	11	165	-	-	3	-
Payband 6a	210	9	219	-	-	7	-
Payband 6a Operational	93	9	102	-	-	1	-
Payband 6b	284	216	499	-	1	12	7
Payband 7	41	47	88	-	-	1	-
Apprentice	1	-	1	-	-	-	-
Total		444					11

Note: Figures include permanent, fixed term and casual staff. Part-time staff are counted as one.

Question reference: S1W-27675

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 14 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff were recruited by the Forestry Commission in each year from 1997 to 2002, broken down by gender, ethnic origin and disability.

Question reference: S1W-27671

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of staff currently employed by police forces by gender, ethnic origin, disability and grade.

A breakdown of police officers and of staff currently employed by police forces, by gender, ethnic minority and grade is shown in the following tables. Information on ethnic origin and disability is not held centrally.Police Officers

	CC		ACC		Supt		Chief Inspector				Inspector
Force	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	EM	EF	M	F	EM	EF
Central	1	0	1	0	9	0	14	1	0	0	40	2	0	0
D&G	1	0	1	0	7	0	7	0	0	0	21	2	0	0
Fife	1	0	4	0	14	0	13	1	0	0	36	1	0	0
Grampian	1	0	2	0	17	1	20	0	0	0	84	3	0	0
L&B	1	0	3	0	29	3	40	3	1	0	132	9	1	0
Northern	1	0	1	0	8	0	13	0	0	0	32	1	0	0
Strathclyde	1	0	5	1	98	5	86	8	0	0	365	22	0	0
Tayside	1	0	2	0	11	1	15	2	0	0	52	2	0	0
Total	8	0	19	1	193	10	208	15	1	0	762	42	1	0

	Sergeant				Constable
Force	M	F	EM	EF	M	F	EM	EF
Central	106	9	1	0	439	95	1	0
D&G	68	5	0	0	283	86	0	1
Fife	119	4	0	0	564	152	2	1
Grampian	180	22	0	0	696	227	4	1
L&B	337	31	1	0	1,671	420	14	4
Northern	114	8	0	0	400	103	1	1
Strathclyde	894	79	1	1	4,534	1,173	41	13
Tayside	145	12	0	0	701	222	4	0
Total	1,963	170	3	1	9,287	2,479	67	21

Support Staff

	Traffic Wardens				Other Support Staff
Force	M	F	EM	EF	M	F	EM	EF
Central	18	2	0	0	124	161	0	0
D&G	6	2	0	0	90	151	0	0
Fife	23	5	0	1	118	194	0	3
Grampian	30	14	0	0	195	394	0	0
L&B	67	33	0	0	446	625	2	2
Northern	26	4	0	0	119	238	0	1
Strathclyde	44	24	0	0	788	1,335	7	12
Tayside	12	3	0	0	198	330	0	2
Total	226	87	0	1	2,078	3,428	9	20

Notes:1. E and F refer to males and females who are not from ethnic minorities.2. there are no ethnic minority staff employed in the ranks of Chief Constable, Assistant Chief Constable and Superintendent.3. Source: Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary Annual Statistical Returns from forces for 2001-02

Question reference: S1W-27679

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff were recruited by police forces in each year from 1997 to 2002, broken down by gender, ethnic origin and disability.

The numbers of staff recruited by police forces in each year from 1997 to 2002, broken down by gender and ethnic minority are shown in the following tables. Figures on ethnic origin and disability are not held centrally. No recruitment information is held for support staff for 1997-98 and 1998-99, and there is no breakdown available for ethnic minority support staff for 1999-2000.1997-98Police Officers

Force	White		Ethnic Minority		Overall
Force	Male	Female	Male	Female	Total
Central	36	12	1	0	49
Dumfries and Galloway	27	12	0	0	39
Fife	43	22	0	0	65
Grampian	64	21	0	0	85
Lothian and Borders	52	26	2	0	80
Northern	26	8	1	0	35
Strathclyde	200	139	3	1	343
Tayside	52	22	1	0	75
Total	500	262	8	1	771

1998-99Police Officers

Force	White		Ethnic Minority		Overall
Force	Male	Female	Male	Female	Total
Central	30	5	0	0	35
Dumfries and Galloway	14	6	0	0	20
Fife	19	8	0	0	27
Grampian	77	22	1	0	100
Lothian and Borders	22	10	0	0	32
Northern	12	9	0	0	21
Strathclyde	60	29	2	0	91
Tayside	27	15	0	0	42
Total	261	104	3	0	368

1999-2000Police Officers

Force	White		Ethnic Minority		Overall
Force	Male	Female	Male	Female	Total
Central	22	4	0	0	26
Dumfries and Galloway	13	8	0	1	22
Fife	30	10	0	1	41
Grampian	16	8	1	0	25
Lothian and Borders	46	16	1	1	64
Northern	15	8	0	0	23
Strathclyde	181	69	5	2	257
Tayside	21	17	0	0	38
Total	344	140	7	5	496

Support Staff

Force	Male	Female	Total
Central	8	13	21
Dumfries and Galloway	10	23	33
Fife	9	29	38
Grampian	10	29	39
Lothian and Borders	35	64	99
Northern	11	46	57
Strathclyde	55	99	154
Tayside	25	49	74
Total	163	352	515

2000-01Police Officers

Force	White		Ethnic Minority		Overall
Force	Male	Female	Male	Female	Total
Central	29	10	0	0	39
Dumfries and Galloway	31	15	0	0	46
Fife	37	13	0	0	50
Grampian	81	34	0	0	115
Lothian and Borders	125	56	6	2	189
Northern	24	19	1	1	45
Strathclyde	334	159	6	4	503
Tayside	39	26	1	0	66
Total	700	332	14	7	1,053

Support Staff

Force	White		Ethnic Minority		Overall
Force	Male	Female	Male	Female	Total
Central	19	19	0	0	38
Dumfries and Galloway	20	25	0	0	45
Fife	19	24	0	0	43
Grampian	23	54	0	0	77
Lothian and Borders	47	107	0	0	154
Northern	12	28	0	0	40
Strathclyde	46	79	0	0	125
Tayside	24	45	0	1	70
Total	210	381	0	1	592

2001-02Police Officers

Force	White		Ethnic Minority		Overall
Force	Male	Female	Male	Female	Total
Central	13	3	0	0	16
Dumfries and Galloway	20	3	0	0	23
Fife	70	24	0	0	94
Grampian	44	12	0	0	56
Lothian and Borders	112	42	3	0	157
Northern	37	8	0	0	45
Strathclyde	211	95	6	0	312
Tayside	42	25	0	0	67
Total	549	212	9	0	770

Support Staff

Force	White		Ethnic Minority		Overall
Force	Male	Female	Male	Female	Total
Central	16	20	1	1	38
Dumfries and Galloway	7	10	0	0	17
Fife	13	36	0	2	51
Grampian	21	46	0	0	67
Lothian and Borders	68	93	0	0	161
Northern	17	36	0	0	53
Strathclyde	56	104	0	2	162
Tayside	41	72	0	0	113
Total	239	417	1	0	662

Source: Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary's Annual Statistical Returns from forces.

Question reference: S1W-27664

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Mary Mulligan on 14 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many nurses were in training in the NHS in Scotland in each of the years from 1997 to 2002 for SRN, SEN, RMN or other qualifications, broken down by gender and year of study.

The available information is set out in the following tables. The information requested is not available by year of study and is not yet published for 2001-02. Nurse education now leads to registration and there are no courses for training to enrolled nurse level.

Pre-registration training
Year (to 31 March)	Male	Female	Total
1996-97	934	5,813	6,747
1997-98	916	6,143	7,059
1998-99	930	6,453	7,383
1999-2000	908	6,692	7,600
2000-01	983	7,045	8,028

Midwifery
Year (to 31 March)	Male	Female	Total
1996-97	1	594	595
1997-98	3	581	584
1998-99	1	599	600
1999-2000	2	607	609
2000-01	2	604	606

Post-registration training
Year (to 31 March)	Male	Female	Total
1996-97	55	571	626
1997-98	69	674	743
1998-99	107	1,301	1,408
1999-2000	137	1,604	1,741
2000-01	167	1,601	1,768

Question reference: S1W-27663

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Mary Mulligan on 14 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many nurses are currently employed by the NHS in Scotland, broken down by gender and SRN, SEN, RMN or other qualification.