- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, how many of the 3,742 overseas nurses recruited to work in Britain from the banned list of countries in 2002-03 were recruited to work in Scotland.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally, but figures issued by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) inJanuary 2004 for 2002-03 state that less than 2% of Scotland’snursing workforce is from countries outside the EU – around 970 nurses. Most ofthese nurses work in the independent sector in elderly care homes.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 February 2004
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Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is in respect of the Nursing and Midwifery Council statistics that the number of United Kingdom nurses leaving to work overseas rose last year by one third to 8,000 and how many of the 8,000 nurses were from Scotland.
Answer
This information is notavailable from The Nursing and Midwifery Council.
The Executive is committedto building the capacity of the nursing and midwifery workforce and toestablishing NHSScotland as an employer of choice. However, we must alsorespect the freedom that individuals have in choosing to apply their knowledgeand skills outwith the United Kingdom.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 January 2004
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Answered by Tavish Scott on 13 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many households contain two adults with combined earnings between #43,000 and #45,000.
Answer
No reliable estimate of thenumber of two adult households with combined earnings between £43,000 and£45,000 is available.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 January 2004
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Answered by Tavish Scott on 13 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many households with two adults with combined earnings of between #43,000 and #45,000 live in council tax band (a) A, (b) B, (c) C, (d) D, (e) E, (f) F and (g) G and H homes, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of such households.
Answer
No reliable estimate of thenumber of two-adult households with combined earnings between £43,000 and£45,000 is available.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 November 2003
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Answered by Nicol Stephen on 10 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to the Scottish rail passenger franchise, what information it has on recording methods used by Scotrail in relation to the safety criteria contained in the Railways (Safety Case) Regulations 1994.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-4198 on 10 February 2004. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 November 2003
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Answered by Nicol Stephen on 10 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to the Scottish rail passenger franchise, what information it has on the methods of staff training used by Scotrail in respect of the safety criteria contained in the Railways (Safety Case) Regulations 1994.
Answer
I refer to my answer to S2W-4198on 10 February 2004. All answersto written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website,the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 10 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to the Scottish rail passenger franchise, what information it has on the methods of staff re-training following accidents used by Scotrail in respect of the safety criteria contained in the Railways (Safety Case) Regulations 1994.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-4198 on 10 February 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 10 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on any failure of Scotrail under the current rail passenger franchise to comply with safety criteria contained in the Railways (Safety Case) Regulations 1994, broken down by (a) geographical area, (b) length of service of staff member(s) involved, and (c) level of seniority of staff member(s) involved.
Answer
Railways (Safety Case)Regulations 1994 have since been superseded by the Railways (Safety Case)Regulations 2000.
The Scottish Executive meets the rail industry including ScotRail on a regular basis todiscuss a wide range of issues, including rail safety. However, informationconcerning ScotRail and safety criteria contained in the Railways (Safety Case)Regulations 2000, is not held centrally.
Primary responsibility forsafety issues on the Great Britain rail network rests with the Health and SafetyExecutive, although clearly the Executive would take appropriate action inrelation to any safety issues made known to it.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 December 2003
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the current annual average wage and how many people earn (a) less than that average wage, (b) from #50,000 to #100,000, (c) from #100,001 to #200,000 and (d) over #200,000, expressed also as a percentage of the total working population.
Answer
Information on the number ofpeople whose annual average earnings fall within the earnings categoriesrequested is not held centrally.
However, estimates of theproportion of full-time employees in Scotland whose annual average earnings fall within thecategories requested are shown as follows:
(a) 62% of full-timeemployees in Scotland earned less than the annual Scottish average of£22,660 at April 2003.
(b) 3% of full-timeemployees had annual average earnings between £50,000 and £100,000 at April2003.
It is not possible toprovide estimates for earnings category (c) from £100,001 to £200,000 or (d)over £200,000 as, owing to the small sample size, no reliable figures are available.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 January 2004
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Answered by Euan Robson on 29 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-4782 by Euan Robson on 13 January 2004, whether the income threshold for qualification for free school meals of #13,230 is a combined parental income threshold and therefore a household income limit.
Answer
My answer to questionS2W-4782 details the income threshold of £13,230 as representing the currentincome threshold for child tax credit (CTC), as prescribed by the Tax CreditsAct 2002. This threshold relates to income assessed for the purpose of awardingtax credits. This is family income - so for two parent families the incomethreshold is a combined parental income threshold and therefore a householdincome limit.
All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
