Chamber and committees

This information is not held centrally.

However it is estimated from the latest Annual Population Survey (April 2014 to March 2015) that 116,000 people are employed in the public sector in Glasgow City local authority area. 27,000 are part-time and 7,000 are employed in temporary positions.

The above estimates are for the number of people in employment whose work place is located in Glasgow City local authority area. Estimates are based on the survey respondents self-reporting of working in the public sector. It is not possible to provide estimates of full-time equivalent employment from this source.

This information is not held centrally.

However it is estimated from the latest Annual Population Survey (April 2014 to March 2015) that 116,000 (27%) of the 427,000 people employed in Glasgow City local authority area are employed in the public sector.

Public sector employment in Glasgow City area can be broken down as follows:

Public sector employment in Glasgow City area

	Number (thousands)	%
Total	116,000	100
Local government or council1	48	41
Health Authority or NHS trust	37	32
Central Government, Civil Service (including central government agencies)2	14	12
Other3	17	15

Note:

1. Includes police, fire services and local authority controlled schools or colleges

2. It is not possible to provide an estimate for central government agencies separately

3. This category includes: ‘Nationalised industry or state corporation’, ‘University or other grant funded educational establishment’, ‘Charity, voluntary organisation or trust’, ‘armed forces’ and ‘Other kind of organisation’.

 

The above estimates are for number of people in employment whose work place is located in Glasgow City local authority area. Estimates are based on the survey respondents self-reporting of working in the public sector.

The Scottish Government does not routinely collect information on the number of Gypsy/Traveller sites and pitches in Scotland. In 2014 we collected data on the number of sites, and total number of pitches, for each local authority area to support the work of the Gypsy/Traveller Site Working Group. This information is set out in the following table:

Local Authority	Number of Local Authority / Registered Social Landlord Sites	Number of known private sites	Total number of pitches
Aberdeen	1	1	29
Aberdeenshire	1	0	20
Angus	1	0	18
Argyll and Bute	3	0	31
Clackmannanshire	1	0	17
Dumfries and Galloway	2	0	Not known
Dundee	1	0	20
East Ayrshire	0	0	0
East Dunbartonshire	0	0	0
East /Mid Lothian	1	0	16
East Renfrewshire	0	0	0
Edinburgh	1	0	20
Eilean Siar	0	0	0
Falkirk	1	5	39
Fife	3	11	195
Glasgow	0	0	0
Highland	4	0	47
Inverclyde	0	0	0
Moray	0	0	0
North Ayrshire	1	0	16
North Lanarkshire	0	0	0
Orkney	0	0	0
Perth and Kinross	2	3	23
Renfrewshire	0	0	0
Scottish Borders	0	1	10
Shetland	0	0	0
South Ayrshire	1	0	8
South Lanarkshire	2	Not known	216
Stirling	1	0	18
West Dunbartonshire	1	0	20
West Lothian	0	0	0
Total	28	21	763

Notes:

(i) This data is based on returns from local authorities, and has not been assured to the same standard and quality as official statistics.

(ii) East and Midlothian Councils jointly operate a site.

(iii) Scottish Borders Council does not manage a site itself, but has an arrangement with a private site owner to provide pitches for Gypsy/Travellers in the council area.

(iv) We do not know the number of private Gypsy/Traveller sites in South Lanarkshire, but are aware there are several sites.

(v) The table above reflects the number of private Gypsy/Traveller sites that local authorities are aware of in their area. The data collected only provides a total number of pitches, and does not allow us to identify the number of pitches which were on private sites and the number on local authority / registered social landlord sites.

The Scottish Government takes female genital mutilation (FGM) very seriously it is an unacceptable and illegal practice, a form of child abuse and violence against women, and a violation of the human rights of women and girls. The Scottish Government is firmly committed to working together with its partners across public and third sectors to do everything possible to effectively tackle and eventually eradicate it.

In deciding whether or not to introduce new legislative measures, the Scottish Government wants to ensure that:

Any measures will meet the needs of potentially affected communities protection is as robust as it can be there is no duplication with existing legislation that can already be used to protect those at risk and there are no unintended consequences

Therefore, to ensure that any new legislative proposals are right for Scotland, the Scottish Government is funding community based information gathering with a cross-section of potentially affected communities to ascertain their views on these provisions.

This work will produce a final research summary report by the end of this year and Scottish Ministers will take a decision on any prospective provisions based on its findings.

This information is not held centrally but may be collected by local education authorities.

The information requested is provided in the following table, which includes the three character codes for the relevant categories of the World Health Organization’s International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (10^th Revision), known as ICD-10. The table includes all the ICD-10 'drowning and submersion' categories which were the underlying causes of deaths registered in Scotland in the specified years.

Deaths, registered in Scotland, for which the underlying cause was drowning or submersion: 2007 to 2013

Registration Year

Underlying cause of death	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Accidents

	W65 Drowning and submersion while in bath-tub	1	2	4	5	2	4	3
	W66 Drowning and submersion following fall into bath-tub	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
	W67 Drowning and submersion while in swimming-pool	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
	W68 Drowning and submersion following fall into swimming-pool	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	W69 Drowning and submersion while in natural water	5	2	14	23	10	12	7
	W70 Drowning and submersion following fall into natural water	4	0	5	1	6	3	4
	W73 Other specified drowning and submersion	0	0	0	2	0	0	1
	W74 Unspecified drowning and submersion	6	3	17	2	7	14	19

Intentional self-harm

X71 Intentional self-harm by drowning and submersion

25

16

26

29

20

39

33

Assault

X92 Assault by drowning and submersion

0

2

0

1

1

0

0

Undetermined intent

	Y21 Drowning and submersion, undetermined intent	61	37	19	22	35	20	15
All		103	62	85	86	82	93	82

Source: National Records of Scotland

The sportscotland investment to Scottish Swimming supports the range of activity needed to both develop performance sport and support participation in swimming. This investment is broken down as follows:

Performance - £573,500

Development - £427,000

Effective Organisation - £200,000

The investment into swimming includes an allocation that is designed to support the development of training material and qualifications for swimming teachers and coaches as well as encouraging clubs, community programmes and schools undertake swimming training.

Local authorities have a duty under the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 to make such arrangements as they consider necessary for the transport between home and school of pupils residing and attending schools in their area. In considering these arrangements, authorities are required to have regard to the safety of the pupil.

In practice, although the statutory provision relating to school transport does not prescribe a distance beyond which a local authority should provide school transport, all authorities currently provide free transport for pupils living more than the statutory walking distance from the school the authority has identified as the nearest suitable school. The statutory walking distance is defined as two miles for children aged under eight and three miles for those aged eight and older.

There are no plans to change the current arrangements.

The Swimming Top Up programme was a time limited fund to enhance the work done by Scottish Swimming and local authorities to provide swimming lessons for primary school children across Scotland. Over the four years since the programme began in 2011, the Scottish Government has invested a total of £1.72 million. The final annual payment of £200,000 covered the period to June 2015.

Although the top up funding has ended, the latest funding round from sportscotland has allocated to Scottish Swimming over £5 million for the four years 2015-19. This is the largest funding settlement of all the Commonwealth Games sports and will support grassroots swimming.

The Scottish Government, the Police and the Crown Office do not currently hold Proceeds of Crime data at the level of detail requested.

Organised crime knows no boundaries. Our priority is disrupting and dismantling criminal enterprises, and I welcome the excellent work undertaken by the police and prosecutors to recover the ill-gotten gains from organised criminals across Scotland. Around £90 million has been recovered through the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 since 2003.