- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of skin cancer there have been in each parliamentary constituency in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) age and (b) gender.
Answer
The information requested isgiven in tables entitled – Number of registrations of skin cancer byScottish Parliamentary Constituency (1999 – 2003) by age, gender andtype copies of which have been placed in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 40138).
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 8 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each local education authority have outdoor toilets that are still in use.
Answer
The information requested isnot collected centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 8 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) permanent and (b) fixed period exclusions were imposed for bullying in each local education authority in each of the last 10 years.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.However, statistical informationon exclusions where the reason for the exclusion is bullying is held for the periodof 2003-04. This is contained within table 14 of the publication
Exclusions fromSchools, 2003/04 which is available from
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/02/20735/53114.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 8 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the required ratio is of toilets to (a) male and (b) female pupils in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools.
Answer
The School Premises (GeneralRequirements and Standards) (Scotland) Regulations 1967 specify the minimum requirements fortoilet provision in both primary and secondary schools, as follows:
| Number of Pupils | Number of Toilets |
| Every 15 pupils up to a total of 60 | 2 |
| Every additional 30 pupils up to a total of 300 | 2 |
| Every additional 60 pupils over 300 pupils | 2 |
In mixed schools half the facilitiesmust be for boys (with not more than one third of their toilets being water closetsand the remainder, urinals).
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 8 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of cases of each category of crime, as reported to the police or other authority, resulted in a (a) conviction in Scottish court, (b) reference to a children’s panel and (c) conviction in a jurisdiction outwith Scotland, in each year since 1999.
Answer
This information is notcentrally available. Figures for the numbers of crimes recorded by the policeare published annually in the statistical bulletin Recorded Crime in Scotland. Figuresfor the numbers of convictions in Scottish Courts are published annually in thestatistical bulletin Criminal Proceedings in Scottish Courts. Figures onchildren referred on care and protectionand/or offence grounds are collated and published in the Scottish Children’sReporter Administration Annual Reports and Youth Justice reports. Copies of the most recent editions are all availablein the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. numbers 37835, 39481, 37974,and 40065 respectively).
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 8 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on repairing toilets in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in the last 12 months.
Answer
The information requested isnot collected centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 8 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the required ratio is of toilets to (a) male and (b) female staff in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools.
Answer
In relation to staff toilets,the School Premises (General Requirements and Standards) (Scotland) Regulations1967 specify only that such facilities be provided in every school.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 8 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many educational premises have been declared unfit for use since 1997.
Answer
The management of educationalpremises falls to those responsible for them, for example, local authorities inthe case of local authority schools. Detailed information of the kind requestedis not held centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 8 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many foreign teachers, excluding language assistants, are working in maintained (a) primary and (b) secondary schools, broken down by (i) nationality and (ii) local authority area.
Answer
The Teacher census collects informationon national identity in the following categories, Scottish, British English, NorthernIrish, Welsh, Irish and Other. The following table shows the number of teachersidentifying themselves as non-UK nationals.
Number of Teachers(Headcount) with Non-UK National Identity by Local Authority, 2005
| Local Authority | Total | Primary | Secondary | Special |
| Aberdeen City | 55 | 23 | 29 | 3 |
| Aberdeenshire | 52 | 16 | 36 | - |
| Angus | 39 | 24 | 15 | - |
| Argyll & Bute | 17 | * | 11 | * |
| Clackmannanshire | 15 | * | 10 | * |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 44 | * | 38 | * |
| Dundee City | 28 | 13 | 15 | - |
| East Ayrshire | 19 | * | 13 | * |
| East Dunbartonshire | 17 | * | 11 | * |
| East Lothian | 17 | 5 | 12 | - |
| East Renfrewshire | 13 | 5 | 8 | - |
| Edinburgh, City of | 140 | 59 | 71 | 10 |
| Eilean Siar | 19 | 12 | 7 | - |
| Falkirk | 14 | * | 8 | * |
| Fife | 58 | 21 | 37 | - |
| Glasgow City | 131 | 49 | 67 | 15 |
| Highland | 99 | * | 56 | * |
| Inverclyde | 10 | * | * | - |
| Midlothian | 19 | 10 | 9 | - |
| Moray | 20 | 2 | 18 | - |
| North Ayrshire | 18 | * | 15 | * |
| North Lanarkshire | 50 | * | 30 | * |
| Orkney Islands | 9 | * | * | - |
| Perth & Kinross | 19 | 8 | 11 | - |
| Renfrewshire | 25 | 9 | 16 | - |
| Scottish Borders | 31 | 11 | 20 | - |
| Shetland Islands | 19 | 11 | 8 | - |
| South Ayrshire | 31 | * | 17 | * |
| South Lanarkshire | 21 | * | 12 | * |
| Stirling | 12 | 5 | 7 | - |
| West Dunbartonshire | 17 | * | 9 | * |
| West Lothian | 37 | * | 24 | * |
| Scotland | 1,115 | 407 | 653 | 55 |
Note: *Indicates a value underfive or where a number less than five could be calculated. Some values less thanfive can be shown, due to the number of teachers with national identity not known.
There were 926 teachers (headcount)in the 2004-05 census that gave a non-UK nationality. This might be a slight underestimateas the number of teachers who did not disclose their national identity fell from3,479 in 2004 to 2,055 in 2005.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what form any advice provided for sheriffs in relation to alternatives to custody for women takes and whether it includes information regarding availability of alternatives in the area local to particular sheriff courts.
Answer
The Executive established theSentencing Information for Scotland website in 2005 to provide all courts in Scotland withon-line information on the range of statutory based community disposals and localoffender programmes available, including those specifically geared to the needsof women offenders. The site provides this information in relation to what is availableto a particular sheriff court or district court jurisdiction or alternativelyby individual local authority area.
