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Question reference: S3W-04663

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of childhood obesity has been in each year since 1987, broken down by local authority area.

The specific informationrequested is not centrally available.

However, estimatesof childhood obesity derived from a sample of children aged two to 15 years, areavailable at Scotland level for the years 1998 and 2003 from the Scottish Health Survey 2003 (See Table 5.7 on page 125).

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/25145024/50271.In addition, statisticson obesity in children are available from the Child Health Surveillance Programme.Data from those boards that record findings using the electronic child health systems,CHSP-Pre School and CHSP-School, are available at the following link http://www.isdscotland.org/child_obesity(Click on “obesity statistics” to access a list of available tables and charts).

Question reference: S3W-04658

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many abortions have been carried out in each year since 1967, broken down by local authority area.

The specific datarequested is not available from 1967 at local authority level as there is insufficientpostcode detail recorded in the earlier years. However, abortion data is availablefrom 1983 by local council area. This information is available in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. numbers 43832 and 43833).Totals for Scotland from 1967 are available at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/1918.html.

Question reference: S3W-04660

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of sexually transmitted infections there have been in each year since 1967, broken down by local authority area.

The specific datarequested is not available at local authority level as there is insufficient postcodedetail recorded. However, diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) fromScottish Genito-Urinary Medicine (GUM) clinics are available at Scotland level and are presented in the following table. It shouldbe noted that STIs are increasingly diagnosed in settings other than GUM, e.g.general practice and family planning clinics, and that details of these dataare not collected centrally.

SexuallyTransmitted Infections Diagnosed in Scottish GUM Clinics, 1967-2006

Year	Acute STIs									Other STIs
Year	Syph	Gon	Chlam	Herp	Wart	NSGI	Tric	HIV	Oth Ac	Acq syph	herp 2	wart 2	Oth STI
1967	140	3,036	n/a	n/a	n/a	2,098	1,369	n/a	3,147	128	n/a	n/a	n/a
1968	174	3,228	n/a	n/a	n/a	2,148	1,369	n/a	3,652	132	n/a	n/a	n/a
1969	109	3,533	n/a	n/a	n/a	2,487	1,541	n/a	4,194	116	n/a	n/a	n/a
1970	103	3,879	n/a	n/a	n/a	2,730	1,427	n/a	4,828	106	n/a	n/a	n/a
1971	99	4,768	n/a	n/a	n/a	3,682	1,602	n/a	5,609	98	n/a	n/a	n/a
1972¹	80	4,817	n/a	320	1,515	4,302	1,646	n/a	637	93	n/a	n/a	n/a
1973	89	5 250	n/a	312	1,713	4,874	1,998	n/a	720	76	n/a	n/a	n/a
1974	71	5,110	n/a	341	1,962	5,074	1,665	n/a	678	73	n/a	n/a	n/a
1975	96	4,841	n/a	412	2,051	5,068	1,455	n/a	713	68	n/a	n/a	n/a
1976	147	4,864	n/a	411	2,160	5,281	1,396	n/a	708	65	n/a	n/a	n/a
1977	159	5,528	n/a	493	2,342	6,094	1,599	n/a	811	68	n/a	n/a	n/a
1978	187	5,135	n/a	435	2,207	6,068	1,477	n/a	838	61	n/a	n/a	n/a
1979	149	4,937	n/a	510	2,122	6,640	1,199	n/a	804	58	n/a	n/a	n/a
1980	139	4,856	n/a	482	2,385	6,626	1,119	n/a	916	65	n/a	n/a	n/a
1981	131	4,592	n/a	507	2,534	7,376	931	n/a	940	84	n/a	n/a	n/a
1982	93	5,096	n/a	622	2,681	8,151	942	n/a	1,026	103	n/a	n/a	n/a
1983	98	4,916	n/a	849	3,122	8,452	880	n/a	991	77	n/a	n/a	n/a
1984	89	4,507	n/a	852	3,582	9,298	788	n/a	1,037	88	n/a	n/a	n/a
1985	66	4,691	n/a	949	4,351	8,702	847	n/a	993	48	n/a	n/a	n/a
1986	37	3,921	n/a	1,005	5,733	9,238	704	n/a	940	73	n/a	n/a	n/a
1987	33	2,536	n/a	841	6,314	7,493	578	n/a	764	59	n/a	n/a	n/a
1988	24	1,572	n/a	798	6,257	5,835	500	n/a	765	44	n/a	n/a	n/a
1989	17	983	n/a	778	5,976	5,635	309	26	691	44	n/a	n/a	n/a
1990²	24	848	1 729	840	6,137	3,398	221	83	817	38	n/a	n/a	n/a
1991³	10	856	1 940	576	4,590	3,427	223	60	745	23	195	1,769	n/a
1992	12	604	1 745	602	4,667	3,019	156	58	616	29	202	1,698	n/a
1993	7	442	1 736	592	4,531	2,731	144	71	603	17	212	1,782	n/a
1994	6	272	1 732	677	4,700	2,869	102	83	580	15	205	1,781	n/a
1995⁴	5	394	1 551	829	4,633	2,340	106	63	580	20	322	2,571	9
1996	21	448	1 770	896	4,962	2,006	102	46	668	12	472	2,840	14
1997	15	409	2 138	849	5,329	2,142	104	40	664	22	479	2,992	18
1998	8	389	2 662	827	5,366	1,933	107	54	731	20	568	3,649	20
1999	12	511	3 365	939	5,382	2,116	91	64	759	18	585	3,516	19
2000	22	697	3 728	898	5,290	1,912	72	36	764	15	630	3,383	12
2001	24	740	4 849	1,090	5,567	2,090	121	47	734	24	724	3,275	22
2002	51	690	5 640	1,053	5,602	2,265	116	50	699	37	774	2,991	14
2003	75	743	6 450	1,243	5,794	2,033	124	48	851	33	762	3,042	20
2004	189	760	7 090	1,283	6,269	2,103	127	110	856	32	860	3,259	27
2005	188	834	8 095	1,332	6,451	2,013	127	111	987	47	836	3,403	12
2006	246	896	8 832	1,390	6,891	1,909	163	88	1,046	40	852	3,904	18

Source: VR1, ISD(D)5& STISS.

Key:

Syph Infectious syphilis

Gon Gonorrhoea

Chlam Chlamydia

Herp Genital herpes,1st episode

Wart Genital warts,1st episode

NSGI Non specificgenital infection (non-chlamydial after 1989)

Tric Trichomoniasis

HIV HIV infection,newly diagnosed

Oth Ac Other acuteSTI

Acq syph Other acquired/congenitalsyphilis

Herp 2 Genital herpes,recurrence

Wart 2 Genital warts,recurrence

Oth STI Other STI

Notes:

1. Genital warts andgenital herpes identified separately. Previously part of “Other acute STI”.

2. Chlamydia identifiedseparately. Previously part of “NSGI”.

3. Recurrent genitalherpes and genital warts identified separately. Prior to this, numbers recordedprobably included both new and recurrent infections.

4. Revised codingfrom 01.04.1995. Comparisons with previous years should be made with caution.

Question reference: S3W-04662

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 23 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many births were recorded in each year since 1987, broken down by maternity unit.

Question reference: S3W-04659

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many teenage pregnancies there have been in each year since 1967, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S3W-04722

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 22 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive when people whose jobs or community services rely on the Community Regeneration Fund will be advised about its future.

Question reference: S3W-04721

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 22 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide an assurance that the Community Regeneration Fund will not be cancelled or have its budget cut.

Question reference: S3W-05445

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 19 October 2007
Current Status: Awaiting answer

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-4664 by Kenny MacAskill on 17 October 2007, how many police officers there have been in each division of Strathclyde Police in each year since 1979, shown on a (a) head count and (b) whole-time equivalent basis over the entire period.

Question reference: S3W-04664

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 17 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers there have been in each year since 1979, broken down by local authority area.

The available informationis given in the following table. The figures show the number of police officerswithin each police force on a headcount basis from 1979 to 1999, and on a wholetime equivalent basis from 2000 onwards.

Number of PoliceOfficers by Force, (Head Count), as at 31 December 1979 to 1999.

Force	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986
Central	509	512	516	529	538	542	550	549
Dumfries and Galloway	311	308	307	310	313	310	330	338
Fife	671	655	645	650	647	654	670	725
Grampian	932	928	941	937	948	962	970	995
Lothian and Borders	2,342	2,398	2,388	2,393	2,396	2,387	2,394	2,442
Northern	603	608	599	596	589	611	606	610
Strathclyde	6,905	6,882	6,845	6,833	6,816	6,792	6,816	6,769
Tayside	941	970	953	964	961	967	968	1,000
Scotland	13,214	13,261	13,194	13,212	13,208	13,225	13,304	13,428

Force	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994
Central	571	599	619	641	636	649	657	654
Dumfries and Galloway	348	347	348	357	370	387	386	390
Fife	741	751	754	753	775	786	786	789
Grampian	1,017	1,028	1,084	1,138	1,150	1,194	1,193	1,191
Lothian and Borders	2,414	2,397	2,486	2,463	2,522	2,561	2,558	2,556
Northern	607	615	625	632	633	636	658	643
Strathclyde	6,773	6,768	6,887	6,804	6,790	6,797	6,823	7,003
Tayside	1,005	1,013	1,011	1,053	1,047	1,084	1,078	1,087
Scotland	13,476	13,518	13,814	13,841	13,923	14,094	14,139	14,313

Force	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Central	659	666	693	719	710
Dumfries and Galloway	392	402	441	446	453
Fife	791	825	852	841	825
Grampian	1,181	1,155	1,195	1,226	1,230
Lothian and Borders	2,536	2,661	2,699	2,621	2,581
Northern	648	636	645	667	658
Strathclyde	7,156	7,207	7,377	7,186	7,090
Tayside	1,116	1,120	1,148	1,148	1,137
Scotland	14,479	14,672	15,050	14,854	14,684

Number of PoliceOfficers by Force, (Whole-Time Equivalent), as at 31 December 2000 to 2006.

Force	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Central	717	710	728	756	795	827	865
Dumfries and Galloway	463	473	469	486	478	496	496
Fife	845	886	914	956	987	1,022	1,035
Grampian	1,237	1,256	1,248	1,311	1,373	1,368	1,400
Lothian and Borders	2,640	2,618	2,667	2,717	2,785	2,823	2,783
Northern	647	672	691	676	705	704	697
Strathclyde	7,168	7,226	7,294	7,431	7,615	7,769	7,782
Tayside	1,147	1,154	1,161	1,150	1,169	1,155	1,173
Scotland	14,863	14,995	15,170	15,483	15,908	16,164	16,230

Source: QuarterlyStrength Return from Forces.

Question reference: S3W-04661

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 15 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children have been adopted at birth in each year since 1987, expressed also as a percentage of total births for each year.

Adoption “at birth”is impossible, because an adoption order can only be granted by a court after acomplex assessment process, and the mother’s agreement to offer a child for adoptionis not valid if given less than six weeks after the child’s birth. It is rare nowadaysfor an infant to be offered for adoption shortly after birth. The following tableshows, for each year since 1987, the number of children aged under six months registeredfor adoption. The table also gives the total number of births registered each year.Because of the small numbers of adoptions involved, percentages have not been presented.

Adoptions ofChildren Aged Under Six Months, 1987-2006

Year of Adoption	Number	Total Number of Births
1987	33	66,241
1988	35	66,212
1989	16	63,480
1990	21	65,973
1991	9	67,024
1992	4	65,789
1993	10	63,337
1994	3	61,656
1995	1	60,051
1996	2	59,296
1997	0	59,440
1998	1	57,319
1999	4	55,147
2000	1	53,076
2001	1	52,527
2002	1	51,270
2003	3	52,432
2004	4	53,957
2005	1	54,386
2006	3	55,690