Chamber and committees

The Scottish HealthSurvey 2003 gives the prevalence of obesity in those aged 16 and over by local NHSboard areas. Details can be found at:

Seat Belt Offences with a ChargeProved in Scottish Courts Resulting in a Fine (Main Penalty), 1995-96 to 2004-05

Table 1 and table 2 show thenumber of individuals going into jobs and the proportion which were not sustainedfor 13 weeks for the New Deal for Young People and New Deal 25+ respectively inScotland for each year since 1998.

Table 1 Number of individualsentering jobs when leaving New Deal for Young People and proportion not sustained,Scotland

Source: Department for Work andPensions, Tabulation tool.

Notes:

1. A sustained job is a job fromwhich a participant does not return to Jobseekers Allowance within 13 weeks.

2. The year used is the yearthe job was gained.

Table 2 Number of individualsentering jobs when leaving New Deal 25+ and proportion not sustained, Scotland

Source: Department for Work andPensions, Tabulation tool.

Notes:

1. A sustained job is a job fromwhich a participant does not return to Jobseekers Allowance within 13 weeks.

2. The year used is the yearthe job was gained.

Persons with a Charge Provedfor Offences which by Definition Involve a Child Victim¹, 1999-2000 to2004-05

Note: 1. Where main offence includescruelty to and unnatural treatment, of children, child stealing (plagium), exposingchild under seven to risk of burning, lewd and libidinous practices, defilementof girl under 13, defilement of girl under 16, person with custody etc of girl orother causing her seduction, grooming of children for purposes of sexual offences,procuration of sexual offences for children under 18, procuration of child under18 for pornography, drunk in charge of a child and handling obscene publications(offences under sections 52 and 52A of the Civic Government(Scotland) Act 1982).

Table 1 Registered and EnrolledNurses and Midwives Reaching the Age of 60¹

Source: ISD Scotland.

Note: 1. Includes nurses andmidwives aged 45 to 59, inclusive, as at 30 September. 2005.

Table 2 Registered and EnrolledNurses and Midwives Reaching the Age of 60 by NHS Board¹

Source: ISD Scotland.

Note: 1. Includes nurses andmidwives aged 45 to 59, inclusive, as at 30 September 2005.

We remain on track to achieveand surpass the 2002 Partnership Agreement target of attracting 12,000 nurses andmidwives into NHSScotland by 2007. Between September 2002 and September 2005 werecruited 11,504 nurse and midwives. In total, there are over 65,000 (head count)nursing and midwifery staff numbers in the NHS in Scotland.

Community Sex Offender Programmes.

The data on numbers on communityprogrammes is at present held at an individual local authority rather than nationallevel. The Executive has developed an accredited Community Sex Offender GroupworkProgramme (CSOGP) which is being delivered in five schemes covering 10 local authorityareas with work underway to extend coverage to a further three schemes covering12 local authority areas.

Ring-fenced funding to localauthorities for delivery of sex offender programmes in the community is providedunder Section 27 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968. Funding allocations for the financial years1999-2000 to date are as follows:

Scottish Prison Service Programmes.

Over the period 2000 to 2006,a total of 283 STOP programmes were completed. In addition, prison based socialworkers provide focused individual intervention work with certain prisoners, includingthose who refuse to attend STOP programmes.

Information on the costs of programmedelivery specifically for sex offenders held in custody is not available. However,general information contained in the Audit Scotland report Scottish Prison Service:Correctional Opportunities for Prisoners published in January 2005 indicatesthe estimated levels of expenditure by SPS on correctional opportunities in SPSestablishments.

Data on the number of sex offendersattending community programmes, either as part of a community sentence or followingdischarge from custody, is at present held at an individual local authority ratherthan national level. However, the Executive will publish data on the number of probationorders with attendance on a sex offender programme as an additional condition, infuture editions of the Statistical Bulletin Series on Criminal Justice Social Work.