- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 21 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has spent on its staff attending external conferences in each of the last seven years, broken down by department.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 6 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much the website www.standinguptoasbawards.com cost to create and how much it costs to maintain.
Answer
The site
www.standinguptoasbawards.com cost £900 to create and maintain in the period November 2004 to January 2006. The awards site is a sub-site of a larger website,
www.antisocialbehaviourscotland.com.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 6 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many copies of the newsletter Standing Up to Antisocial Behaviour: Issue 1a - December 2005 were printed; to what groups they were distributed, and what the cost was of (a) printing and production and (b) distribution.
Answer
Issue 1a of the newsletter
Standing up to Antisocial Behaviour was distributed to named individuals from organisations and groups such as local authorities, the police, the fire service, registered social landlords and education organisations as well as MSPs. All recipients of the newsletter were encouraged to make additional copies of it - or to download a copy from the antisocial behaviour website - and distribute it onward to a wider audience.
One thousand, two hundred copies of the newsletter were printed. Production and distribution costs were £930 and £1,023 respectively.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 6 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many, and what percentage of, dental practices are currently eligible for commitment payments in each NHS board area.
Answer
Commitment payments were introduced in 2000 and are paid to individual general dental practitioners and not to practices. The conditions of entitlement for payment of a commitment payment are set down in Determination IX of the Statement of Dental Remuneration. In 2004-05 a total of 1,300 dentists received such a payment per quarter as follows:
| NHS Board Area | Number of Dentists Receiving Commitment Payments | Number of Principal Dentists1 |
| Argyll and Clyde | 111 | 159 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 107 | 137 |
| Borders | 22 | 28 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 28 | 36 |
| Fife | 93 | 127 |
| Forth Valley | 70 | 100 |
| Grampian | 76 | 161 |
| Greater Glasgow | 295 | 463 |
| Highland | 37 | 65 |
| Lanarkshire | 143 | 211 |
| Lothian | 208 | 344 |
| Orkney | 0 | 1 |
| Shetland | 3 | 2 |
| Tayside | 104 | 164 |
| Western Isles | 3 | 2 |
| Scotland | 1,300 | 1,900 |
Source: Scottish Dental Practice Board Annual Report 2004-05.
Note: 1. Number of principal dentists (excluding salaried principal dentists) at 31 March 2005.
A number of principal dentists are on the lists of more than one NHS board area, which results in double counting, and for this reason it is not possible to provide the percentage of dentists currently eligible for commitment payments.
Commitment payments are different to payments which have been introduced for NHS committed practices. Those dental practices which meet the definition of NHS committed are entitled to certain new payments, eg an additional 6% in respect of the general dental practice allowance. These payments are made to the practice. A total of 566 practices are NHS committed which represents 68% of all practices. This figure excludes specialist practices, such as orthodontic practices, as the criteria for determining the NHS commitment of such practices are currently being developed. The number and percentage of practices regarded as NHS committed in each NHS board area are not yet available. I will write to the member as soon as the information is available and will arrange for a copy of my reply to be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 38797).
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 6 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it has contributed to the Standing Up to Antisocial Behaviour Awards Scheme.
Answer
To date Scottish Executive expenditure on the Standing Up to Antisocial Behaviour Awards Scheme has been £59,099.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 6 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many visitors the website www.standinguptoasbawards.com has had since its creation.
Answer
The site
www.standinguptoasbawards.com has received more than 2,300 visits since being launched in November 2004. This site is a subsection of
www.antisocialbehaviourscotland.com which has received more than 15,500 visitors to date.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 6 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the "regular intervals" referred to in the newsletter Standing Up to Antisocial Behaviour: Issue 1a - December 2005, at which the newsletter is to be published, will be.
Answer
We intend to produce the newsletter at least quarterly. The newsletter forms one element of our awareness raising campaign about the positive action being taken to tackle antisocial behaviour.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 3 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding the Co-operative Group contributed to the Standing Up to Antisocial Behaviour Awards Scheme.
Answer
The Co-operative Group did not contribute financially to the Standing Up to Antisocial Behaviour Awards Scheme. The group contributed by promoting the awards through advertisements in their local stores, supplying material and information through their business and community networks, and distributing application forms.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 3 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what forecasts it has made of the number of people employed in the textile sector in each year from 2006 to 2010.
Answer
The Executive has not made any forecasts of employment within the textile sector.
- Asked by: Derek Brownlee, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in delivering efficiency savings in the police, broken down by constabulary.
Answer
A breakdown of efficiency savings, by constabulary, is not held centrally. However, the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland’s Best Value report for 2004-05 shows that efficiency savings from all the Scottish Police forces have risen from £7 million in 2003-04 to £15 million in 2004-05, a rise of 120%.
