- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Solidarity Group
-
Date lodged: Monday, 12 February 2007
-
Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents involving airguns were recorded from 1999 to 2006 in each police force area.
Answer
The number of incidents involvingairguns, where a crime or offence was recorded, from 1999 to 2006 are shown in thefollowing table:
Number of Incidents Recordedby the Police in which an Air Weapon was Alleged to have Been Used, 1999-2000 to2005-06
| Police Force Area | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-061 |
| Central | 28 | 29 | 17 | 6 | 11 | 24 | 20 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 3 | 10 | 24 | 15 | 14 | 21 | 8 |
| Fife | 16 | 12 | 19 | 20 | 14 | 6 | 6 |
| Grampian | 45 | 43 | 52 | 44 | 12 | 12 | 9 |
| Lothian and Borders | 167 | 214 | 104 | 121 | 263 | 309 | 244 |
| Northern | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Strathclyde | 256 | 236 | 80 | 54 | 62 | 63 | 271 |
| Tayside | 40 | 29 | 66 | 36 | 51 | 36 | 35 |
| All | 555 | 573 | 364 | 296 | 427 | 471 | 594 |
Note: 1. For 2005-06 returns,all police forces agreed to identify weapons where possible, based on evidence suchas type of damage caused, even if the weapons were not recovered. This has resultedin a considerable increase in the alleged use of identified weapons, particularlyair weapons, and a decrease in the alleged use of unidentified firearms.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Solidarity Group
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 November 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 16 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals are considered to be low paid, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Low pay can be defined in variousways. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) definesthe low pay group as those who work more than 15 hours per week and receive an hourlywage less than two-thirds the median wage in their country of residence. For thedata in the following table low pay is defined as earning less than two thirds of the median hourly earnings.
Table 1 Estimate of Number ofEmployees who are Low Paid by Local Authority Area, 2006
| | Level |
| Aberdeen City | 25,000 |
| Aberdeenshire | 27,000 |
| Angus | 10,000 |
| Argyll and Bute | 7,000 |
| Scottish Borders | 13,000 |
| Clackmannanshire | 7,000 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 15,000 |
| Dundee City | 16,000 |
| East Ayrshire | 11,000 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 8,000 |
| East Lothian | 8,000 |
| East Renfrewshire | 6,000 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 39,000 |
| Falkirk | 14,000 |
| Fife | 34,000 |
| Glasgow City | 54,000 |
| Highland | 25,000 |
| Inverclyde | 8,000 |
| Midlothian | 7,000 |
| Moray | 9,000 |
| North Ayrshire | 11,000 |
| North Lanarkshire | 30,000 |
| Orkney Islands | 2,000 |
| Perth and Kinross | 13,000 |
| Renfrewshire | 16,000 |
| Shetland Islands | 2,000 |
| South Ayrshire | 11,000 |
| South Lanarkshire | 24,000 |
| Stirling | 8,000 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 10,000 |
| West Lothian | 15,000 |
| Western Isles | 2,000 |
Source: Annual Survey of Hoursand Earnings, Office for National Statistics.
Notes:
1. The estimates are based onthe hourly pay excluding overtime and shift premium payments.
2. The estimates are based on a samplesurvey, and as such, are subject to sampling error.
3. Estimates are rounded to thenearest thousand.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Solidarity Group
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2007
-
Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 15 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all transport projects which have been undertaken since 1999 or are currently planned, broken down by parliamentary constituency.
Answer
Over 1,000 transportprojects have been announced by the Scottish Executive since 1999 – these rangegreatly in scale and many impact across a number of constituency areas. Projectsare generally announced either through the a Scottish Executive or TransportScotland news release, available from
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/or http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/,as a ministerial announcement or through the annual reports to Parliament ofgrants paid under section 70 of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 (copies of the report areavailable in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. numbers 22114, 28193, 33166, 36946 and 39974).
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Solidarity Group
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2007
-
Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 30 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many ambulance staff have reported incidents of assault while carrying out their duties in single-staffed ambulances or rapid response units in each year since 1999.
Answer
This information is not available.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Solidarity Group
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2007
-
Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 30 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Ambulance Service’s target of reaching 75% of Category A calls within eight minutes is being met.
Answer
The target is to respond to 75%of Category A calls within eight minutes by the last quarter of 2007-08. Againstthe background of an increase of over 11% in the number of emergency calls sincelast year, the ambulance service currently responds to patient in an average of8.4 minutes.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Solidarity Group
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2007
-
Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 30 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many back-up ambulances have been called to assist rapid response units attending Category B calls in each of the last five years.
Answer
This information is not available.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Solidarity Group
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2007
-
Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 30 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is a separate budget for Scottish Ambulance Service rapid response units and, if so, what that budget has been in each year since 2003.
Answer
The ambulance service has receivedconsiderable increases in revenue funding over recent years. Since 2002-03, itsallocation has increased by some 30% and currently stands at £167.8 million. Itis for that organisation to decide how best to invest its funding in the interestsof patient care and value for money.
The ambulance service does nothave a separate budget for rapid response units.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Solidarity Group
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2007
-
Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 30 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many back-up ambulances have been called to assist rapid response units attending Category A calls in each of the last five years.
Answer
This information is not available.
The priority based dispatch systemprovides for the dispatcher in the Emergency Medical Dispatch Centre to deploy arapid response unit to Category A calls and to back that up with the deploymentof an ambulance. It may be that the clinical condition later warrants that the ambulancebe stood down.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Solidarity Group
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2007
-
Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 30 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether a Scottish Ambulance Service rapid response unit would ever be staffed solely by a probationary ambulance technician.
Answer
A rapid response unit shouldnot be staffed solely by a probationary ambulance technician.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Solidarity Group
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2007
-
Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 30 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of all ambulances sent out as a result of Category A calls are staffed by one ambulance technician or paramedic.
Answer
This information is not available.
