- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the residence-based claimant count unemployment rate was for each council ward in East Lothian in each year since 1999.
Answer
I have placed tables showingthe residence based claimant count unemployment rates by council ward in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number41454).
For information, data onclaimant count unemployment by ward is available free of charge at the NationalOnline Manpower Information Website which can be accessed at:
www.nomisweb.co.uk.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the residence-based claimant count unemployment rate was for each council ward in East Renfrewshire in each year since 1999.
Answer
I have placed tables showingthe residence based claimant count unemployment rates by council ward in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 41454).
For information, data onclaimant count unemployment by ward is available free of charge at the NationalOnline Manpower Information Website which can be accessed at:
www.nomisweb.co.uk.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the residence-based claimant count unemployment rate was for each council ward in Fife in each year since 1999.
Answer
I have placed tables showingthe residence based claimant count unemployment rates by council ward in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 41454).
For information, data onclaimant count unemployment by ward is available free of charge at the NationalOnline Manpower Information Website which can be accessed at:
www.nomisweb.co.uk.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the residence-based claimant count unemployment rate was for each council ward in Dumfries and Galloway in each year since 1999.
Answer
I have placed tables showingthe residence based claimant count unemployment rates by council ward in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 41454).
For information, data onclaimant count unemployment by ward is available free of charge at the NationalOnline Manpower Information Website which can be accessed at:
www.nomisweb.co.uk.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the residence-based claimant count unemployment rate was for each council ward in Orkney in each year since 1999.
Answer
I have placed tables showingthe residence based claimant count unemployment rates by council ward in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 41454).For information, data onclaimant count unemployment by ward is available free of charge at the NationalOnline Manpower Information Website (NOMIS) which can be accessed at
www.nomisweb.co.uk.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the residence-based claimant count unemployment rate was for each council ward in Dundee in each year since 1999.
Answer
I have placed tables showingthe residence based claimant count unemployment rates by council ward in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 41454).
For information, data onclaimant count unemployment by ward is available free of charge at the NationalOnline Manpower Information Website which can be accessed at:
www.nomisweb.co.uk.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the number of newly qualified (a) secondary and (b) primary school teachers who had not taken up full-time teaching posts one year after qualification in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority.
Answer
Comprehensive data relatingto this question is not held centrally.
The most recent and comprehensiveindication of employment status following induction stems from research in 2005by the General Teaching Council for Scotland among those who completed theirinduction year in 2005, which found that almost 95% of respondents were nowteaching in Scotland, of which 70% were in full-time permanent posts.
Data held by the ScottishExecutive allows comparison of the lists of the GTCS registration numbers ofprobationers on the 2003-04 and 2004-05 induction schemes with the registrationnumbers of teachers recorded in the September 2004 and 2005 teacher censuses. Thisshows the following:
| Induction scheme year (sector) | Number of probationers on induction scheme | Number of probationers from induction scheme not recorded in the September teacher census following end of induction as being in a full-time teaching post in a local authority school |
| 2003-04 (secondary) | 929 | 359 |
| 2003-04 (primary) | 916 | 392 |
| 2004-05 (secondary) | 1,009 | 287 |
| 2004-05 (primary) | 1,084 | 381 |
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of offences against the person have been linked to (a) alcohol abuse and (b) use of illegal drugs in each year since 1997.
Answer
Other than statistics on homicide,information on whether or not particular crimes against the person are “alcohol-related”or linked to the use of illegal drugs is not held centrally. The latest availableinformation on the drink/drug status reported for accused persons in homicide casesis included in Table 7 of the Statistics Release
Homicide in Scotland, 2005-06 published by the ScottishExecutive in November 2006, which can be found on the Scottish Executive’s websiteat:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/11/17112458/0.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what (a) public private partnerships and (b) private finance initiative contracts have been entered into by the Executive; what assets were transferred to the private sector as part of each deal and what the value of these assets was; what the total cost is of each contract, and what estimate was made of what the cost would have been to the Executive of traditional procurement over the life of each contract.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has enteredinto five PFI/PPP contracts: Skye Bridge, M6 DBFO, HM Prison Kilmarnock, M77, and HM Prison Addiewell.Information on Skye Bridge has not been included in this answer as it is no longera PPP contract. No assets have been transferred to the private sector as part ofeach contract.
The total unitary charges of the M6 DBFO and the M77 contracts are £758.7 million and £521.2 million respectively.The total cost for HM Prison Kilmarnock can be found in the answer to question S1W-24355 on 10 April 2002 and information on the cost for HM Prison Kilmarnock isavailable in the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) Annual Reports which can be foundat:
http://www.sps.gov.uk/Default.asp?menuid=230.The total cost for HM PrisonAddiewell can be found in the answer to question S2W-30009 on 5 December 2006 anddetails of the cost will be published in the SPS Annual Report and Accounts oncethe prison opens.
All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website the search facilityfor which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.The unitary charge is the amountpaid by the public sector procuring body to the private sector consortium for theservices it provides over the length of the contract. The services include capitalconstruction, lifecycle maintenance and facilities management and, in the case of the prisons, includes operational services.
The PPP procurement route requiresthat each project must show value for money against a conventional procurement routebefore being selected, taking all relevant costs and benefits into account.
In relation to the M6, a NationalAudit Office report was published in April 1999 The PFI Contract to Completeand Operate A74(M)/M74 Motorway in Scotland which provides information on therelevant comparisons. This publication is available in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 21222). In relation to the estimated cost of traditionalprocurement for the M77, the NPV of the risk adjusted public sector comparator figurewas £139.914 million.
In relation to the estimatedcost of traditional procurement for HM Prison Kilmarnock and HM Prison Addiewell,the relevant comparisons are published in the Financial Review of Scottish PrisonService Estate Review which can be found at www.sps.gov.uk/Library/Keydocs/Miscellaneous.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on advertising the risks associated with alcohol addiction in each year since 1997.
Answer
I refer the member to the questionS1W-26485 answered on 3 July 2002 providing information on advertising spend bythe Scottish Office/Scottish Executive relating to our alcohol advertising campaignfrom 1991-92 to 2001-02.
For information for 2002-03 bydepartment and campaign please see the answers to questions S2W-1857 and S2W-2481on 5 September 2003 and 22 September 2003 respectively.
For information for 2003-04 bydepartment and campaign please see the answer to question S2W-15204 on 12 April 2005.
Advertising spend for 2004-05and 2005-06 is published on the Marketing Units website which can be found at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/Departments/FCSD/17963/10918All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website the search facilityfor which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
