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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S3W-21367

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) male and (b) female mortality rate was where alcohol was a contributory factor in each of the last five years, broken down by community health partnership area, and when it expects new statistics to be available.

Question reference: S3W-21339

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many publicly funded schools offered (a) higher and (b) advanced higher courses in each of the last four years, broken down by local authority.

The available information is given in the following table.

	Schools Presenting at Higher				Schools Presenting at Advanced Higher
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2005	2006	2007	2008
Aberdeen City	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11
Aberdeenshire	16	17	17	17	16	16	17	17
Angus	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Argyll and Bute	10	10	10	10	9	9	10	10
Clackmannanshire	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Dumfries and Galloway	15	15	15	15	14	14	15	15
Dundee City	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
East Ayrshire	9	9	9	9	9	8	9	8
East Dunbartonshire	9	9	8	8	9	9	8	8
East Lothian	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
East Renfrewshire	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Edinburgh City of	23	23	23	23	23	22	21	22
Eilean Siar	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4
Falkirk	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Fife	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19
Glasgow City	29	29	29	29	28	25	28	27
Highland	29	29	29	29	27	28	27	26
Inverclyde	8	8	8	7	8	8	8	7
Midlothian	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Moray	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
North Ayrshire	10	10	10	9	10	10	10	9
North Lanarkshire	26	26	25	25	25	25	24	25
Orkney Islands	4	2	3	2	2	2	2	2
Perth and Kinross	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Renfrewshire	12	12	11	11	12	12	11	11
Scottish Borders	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Shetland Islands	3	5	4	4	2	2	2	2
South Ayrshire	9	9	8	8	8	9	8	8
South Lanarkshire	21	19	19	17	21	19	19	17
Stirling	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
West Dunbartonshire	7	7	6	6	6	7	6	6
West Lothian	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11

Question reference: S3W-21366

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) male and (b) female mortality rate was where alcohol was the underlying cause in each of the last five years, broken down by community health partnership area, and when it expects new statistics to be available.

Question reference: S3W-21513

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many freight movements have taken place on the Leven to Thornton railway line in each of the last 15 years, broken down by (a) company, (b) type of freight, (c) date and (d) time.

Question reference: S3W-21514

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what it would cost to enable freight to be transported on the Leven to Thornton railway line.

Question reference: S3W-21539

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-14475 by Fiona Hyslop on 26 June 2008, how many staff were employed in (a) colleges and (b) universities in 2007-08, broken down into academic and non-academic staff, and when new statistics will be available.

The number of staff at Scottish higher education institutions and colleges during the past four academic years broken down by employment function is shown in the following table.

Number of Staff at Scottish Institutions

Academic Year	HEIs		Colleges
Academic Year	Academic Staff	Non Academic Staff	Teaching Staff	Non Teaching Staff
2007-08	16,570	22,410	12,710	8,680
2006-07	16,360	21,935	12,695	8,890
2005-06	16,020	21,845	12,780	8,725
2004-05	15,310	21,690	13,170	8,445

Sources: HESA “ excluding atypical staff; Scottish Funding Council.

Notes:

Figures in this table have been rounded to the nearest five.

Zero, one and two have been rounded to zero.

Data for 2008-09 will become available in January 2010.

Question reference: S3W-21537

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses were built in Fife by registered social landlords or Fife Council in each of the last five years and how many are expected to be built in each of the next five years.

Question reference: S3W-21538

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses were built by registered social landlords or local authorities in each of the last five years and how many are expected to be built in each of the next five years, broken down by local authority area.

The number of houses completed by registered social landlords (RSLs) or local authorities in the last five years is shown in the following table. These exclude conversions of existing buildings and Off the Shelf purchases by RSLs.

There is no centrally held source of information on projections of new registered social landlord or local authority housing.

Table 1: Social sector New Build Housing Completions, 2003-04 to 2007-08

	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Scotland	3,368	4,024	4,698	3,237	4,125
Aberdeen City	35	47	128	11	100
Aberdeenshire	125	238	207	77	86
Angus	80	95	43	55	112
Argyll and Bute	81	47	85	69	127
Clackmannanshire	58	20	27	42	0
Dumfries and Galloway	128	81	141	63	276
Dundee City	145	328	340	0	116
East Ayrshire	0	6	10	30	80
East Dunbartonshire	4	7	142	0	26
East Lothian	30	145	35	51	80
East Renfrewshire	0	19	46	37	0
Edinburgh, City of	183	389	398	439	484
Eilean Siar	0	19	53	21	41
Falkirk	16	4	0	69	0
Fife	120	107	236	317	228
Glasgow City	1,239	802	951	821	773
Highland	139	131	145	265	375
Inverclyde	101	103	117	8	58
Midlothian	26	0	9	16	40
Moray	2	55	158	34	100
North Ayrshire	71	71	79	64	139
North Lanarkshire	144	123	442	82	65
Orkney	0	59	13	50	37
Perth and Kinross	153	150	112	68	124
Renfrewshire	78	165	278	98	115
Scottish Borders, The	41	79	50	46	69
Shetland	0	4	0	47	12
South Ayrshire	42	92	19	68	62
South Lanarkshire	111	285	136	154	134
Stirling	61	67	47	0	133
West Dunbartonshire	110	121	241	71	48
West Lothian	45	165	10	64	85

Sources:

Notes:

NB1 returns by local authorities to the Scottish Government, Communities Analytical Services (Housing Statistics).

Scottish Government Affordable Housing Investment Programme database.

Question reference: S3W-21585

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what it estimates the value of intra-UK exports from Scotland to be, broken down by local authority area.

This information is not available in the format requested.

Estimates of the value of intra-UK exports from Scotland are calculated from data collected via the Global Connections Survey. This survey does not collect data relating to the local authority area of the source of exports.

The most recent published statistics relating to intra-UK exports are taken from the Global Connections Survey for the year 2005. The value of intra-UK exports from Scotland in the year 2005 was estimated to be £41,515 million.

Question reference: S3W-21584

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 11 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what it estimates the value of international exports from Scotland to be, broken down by local authority area.

This information is not available in the format requested.

Estimates of the value of international exports from Scotland are calculated from data collected via the Global Connections Survey. This survey does not collect data relating to the local authority area of the source of exports.

The most recent published statistics relating to international exports are taken from the Global Connections Survey for the year 2007. The value of international exports from Scotland in the year 2007 was estimated to be £20,630 million.