Chamber and committees

Detailed information on arm’slength bodies classified as non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) is containedon the public bodies and appointments pages of the Scottish Executive website athttp://www.scotland.gov.uk/government/publicbodies/.Prior to the website’s establishment,detailed information on public bodies was published in the annual Cabinet Officedocument Public Bodies. Copies of this document are available from http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/agencies-publicbodies/.

The following table shows thenumber of public bodies from 1999 to 2005 and records the changes which have takenplace during this period.

Public Bodies: Number	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Executive	38	38	38	39	34	33	34
Advisory	56	53	51	48	47	45	46
Tribunals	36	35	36	35	35	35	35
Health Service	50	52	52	26	25	24	24
Nationalised Industries	3	3	3	2	2	2	2
Public Corporations	3	3	3	1	1	1	1
Total	186	184	183	151	144	140	142

 

The number of public bodies inScotland currently stands at 140.

Specific information on the totalcosts associated with the creation or dissolution of NDPBs is not held centrally.

Centrally held informationon nurses in post does not explicitly identify those on a permanent or temporarycontract.

Information on nurses in NHSScotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under WorkforceStatistics, at www.isdscotland.org/workforce.

Details of the number oflibraries in each local authority area are not held centrally by the ScottishExecutive. Information on library provision across Scotland maybe obtained from the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) at BuildingC, Brandon Gate, Leechlee Road, Hamilton, ML3 6AU. Telephone 01698 458 888.

Manufacturing productivity ismeasured by calculating the output generated per worker in the industry. The rate of growth of manufacturing productivity is givenin the following table. This is derived from data from the Office for National Statistics(ONS) Annual Business Inquiry. The latest figures are for 2003.

Productivity growth in real terms(2002 prices)

	1999*	2000	2001	2002	2003
Productivity growth	-8.5%	2.2%	1.0%	8.2%	2.6%

Source: ONS Annual Business Inquiry

Note: *This figure should beviewed with caution as it is based on data collected in the first year of the AnnualBusiness Inquiry. This data appears less reliable than that reported in subsequentyears of the survey.

There is no record of aletter from Alex Salmond dated 2 February 2006 regarding Macduff Harbour butmy reply to a letter of that date from the member on this subject was sent on 20 March 2006.

In presenting statistics on suicidesit is conventional to combine deaths classified as intentional self-harm (suicides)with those classified as events of undetermined intent. This is because the majorityof the latter are likely to have been suicides. However, this assumption is knownto be less valid for children, particularly those aged under 10. For this reasonthe following table shows the two categories separately and restricts the informationon events of undetermined intent to deaths aged 10 to 17.

Deaths fromIntentional Self-Harm and Events of Undetermined Intent, Scotland

1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Intentional Self-Harm (Aged Under 18)
4	10	12	16	12	19	11	7	19	13	22	16	16	16	15
Undetermined Intent (Aged 10 - 17)
4	1	4	7	4	3	3	12	9	9	12	2	8	4	6

 

At 1 February 2006, 3,068 registeredsex offenders were recorded by the Scottish Criminal Record Office as beingadministered by Scottish Police Forces. This information is now available onthe Scottish Criminal Record Office’s Publication Scheme found at:http://www.scro.police.uk/foi/?id=28.

The period of time anindividual is subject to the registration requirements is held on ViSOR (ViolentOffender and Sex Offender Register), the IT database which enables the policeto share information and intelligence on registered and unregistered sex offenders,violent offenders, dangerous offenders and potentially dangerous persons. Thepublication or release of information held on ViSOR is a matter for policeforces individually and collectively to consider.

Our records do not allow us todistinguish representations about sentencing for  drug-related offences from otheroffences without examining each item of correspondence individually. An examinationof correspondence from 2005 identified only one such representation.

Information on numbersof ASBOs granted in each local authority area in the period 1 December 1999 to 31 March 2005 is provided in the followingtables. Figures are presented in separate tables as the reporting period was changedfrom annual to financial year reporting in 2003.

Table A: ASBOs Granted in Scotland 1 December 1999 to 30 November 2002 byLocal Authority Area

Local Authority	Number of ASBOs Granted
	01/12/1999 to 30/11/2000	01/12/2000 to 30/11/2001	01/12/2001 to 30/11/2002
Aberdeen City	9	9	6
Aberdeenshire	0	1	1
Angus	0	0	0
Argyll and Bute	0	0	0
City of Edinburgh	11	9	1
Clackmannanshire	0	0	0
Eilean Siar	0	0	0
Dumfries and Galloway	0	0	1
Dundee City	7	8	3
East Ayrshire	0	0	0
East Dunbartonshire	0	0	0
East Lothian	0	0	0
East Renfrewshire	0	0	0
Falkirk	0	0	0
Fife	7	14	20
Glasgow	3	5	3
Highland	1	0	4
Inverclyde	0	0	0
Midlothian	0	0	1
Moray	1	2	2
North Ayrshire	0	0	0
North Lanarkshire	1	5	15
Orkney Islands	0	0	1
Perth and Kinross	3	1	0
Renfrewshire	0	2	2
Scottish Borders	2	3	4
Shetland Islands	0	0	0
South Ayrshire	0	0	0
South Lanarkshire	3	2	5
Stirling	0	0	1
West Dunbartonshire	4	5	2
West Lothian	1	0	0
Total	53	66	72

Data Source: The Chartered Institute of Housingin Scotland. Targeting Anti-social Behaviour. The use of Anti-social Behaviour Ordersin Scotland. October 2003.

Table B: ASBOs Granted in Scotland in FinancialYears 2002-04 by Local Authority Area

Local Authority	No ASBOs granted
	1-04-2002 to 31-03-2003	1-04-2003 to 31-03-2004**	1-04-2004 to 31-03-2005
Aberdeen City	7	13	14
Aberdeenshire	1	0	0
Angus	0	1	5
Argyll and Bute	0	0	0
Clackmannanshire	0	0	2
Dumfries and Galloway	1	7	13
Dundee City	5	13	11
East Ayrshire	2	4	5
East Dunbartonshire	0	0	0
East Lothian	0	2	1
East Renfrewshire	0	1	3
Edinburgh, City of	1	3	11
Eilean Siar	0	0	1
Falkirk	0	1	2
Fife	15	11	17
Glasgow	2	2	13
Highland	3	3	12
Inverclyde	0	0	6
Midlothian	1	3	5
Moray	2	3	1
North Ayrshire	0	1	4
North Lanarkshire	22	31	23
Orkney Islands	1	2	1
Perth and Kinross	0	0	5
Renfrewshire	1	5	14
Scottish Borders	4	5	10
Shetland Islands	0	0	1
South Ayrshire	0	0	2
South Lanarkshire	3	7	7
Stirling	2	6	5
West Dunbartonshire	3	3	4
West Lothian	0	1	7
Total	75*	128	205

Data Source for Financial Year2002-03: The Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland. Targeting Anti-social Behaviour. The use of Anti-socialBehaviour Orders in Scotland. October 2003.

Data Source for Financial Years2003-04 and 2004/05: DTZ Pieda and Heriot Watt University. Use of Antisocial Behaviour Orders in Scotland: Reportof the 2004/05 Survey. Scottish Executive. Publication pending.

Data presented in this tableis currently being quality assured by local authorities.

Notes:

*Figures for 2002-03 are derivedfrom data collated as part of an earlier survey conducted by the Chartered Instituteof Housing in Scotland (CIHS). This survey collected data across calendar years,whereas later surveys have related to financial years. In order to construct a historicalseries, the CIHS data for 2002-03 was reallocated into the financial years on theassumption that ASBO activity was constant within the calendar years concerned.Due to rounding, the data for individual local authorities does not sum to the totalshown for the year.

**The power to apply for ASBOswas extended to Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) on 27 June 2003, so data for 2003-04is the first set to include RSL returns. ASBOs granted at the request of RSLs havebeen included within the figures for the most relevant local authority area.

There is no crime of “kidnapping”in Scotland. The availableinformation is given in the following table.

Number of Crimes ofAbduction and Plagium* Recorded by Police Force Area,  1999-2000 to 2004-05

Police Force Area	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Central	22	24	30	15	26	40
Dumfries and Galloway	2	1	3	1	2	2
Fife	26	21	29	30	31	38
Grampian	30	26	38	22	25	29
Lothian and Borders	59	68	66	59	51	53
Northern	1	4	14	8	14	9
Strathclyde	185	143	155	167	156	188
Tayside	33	31	33	31	36	33
All Scotland	358	318	368	333	341	392

 

Plagium, or child stealing, isan aggravated form of theft under Scots common law.