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Questions and Answers Date answered: 20 June 2005

S2W-17222

The claimant count unemployment numbers and rates for each ward in Glasgow City Council and Aberdeenshire Council are provided in the following four tables. Claimant count figures are available on a monthly basis; May 2005 is the latest data available.

Official Report Meeting date: 4 September 2003

Plenary, 04 Sep 2003

When the needs of a person—patient, pupil, ex-offender or homeless person—are addressed as the driving priority, the service should follow. One lasting memory of my time as a member of the Parliament's Health and Community Care Committee in the previous parliamentary session is of how fiefdoms, bureaucracies, jobs and budgets were protected and prioritised,...

Questions and Answers Date answered: 10 November 2006

S2W-28970

To ask the Scottish Executive what the mortality rate amongst (a) men and (b) women has been in each year since 1980, broken down by (i) socio-economic group and (ii) local area. The following tables give mortalityrates by local authority since 1981 (comparable information is not available for1980).

Questions and Answers Date answered: 1 December 2005

S2W-20797

A table covering the period requested is shown as follows. However, caution should be exercised when using the figures to express percentages because a negative net cost is reported in some years (for example, where a council has received cumulative income from surcharges that have been recovered from previous years).

Questions and Answers Date answered: 22 March 2005

S2W-15157

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the number of (a) shops, (b) banks, (c) post offices and (d) other facilities there have been in rural communities in each local authority area in each of the last five years. The following table shows the number of shops, banks, post offices and other businesses in rural areas in Scotland, and the e...

Official Report Meeting date: 14 March 2007

Plenary, 14 Mar 2007

My amendments seek to extend eligibility to children whose families are on low incomes and receive the following benefits: the working tax credit, because the parents are getting back into the jobs market; the lone parents benefit run-on; council tax benefit; housing benefit; and local housing allowance, which I understand applies instead of housing benefit...

Questions and Answers Date answered: 14 November 2005

S2W-20219

The available information is given in the following tables. The court proceedings statistics for 2004-05 are scheduled for publication in March 2006.

Questions and Answers Date answered: 26 January 2005

S2W-13481

To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications have been (a) received and (b) approved for regional selective assistance (RSA) in each Scottish parliamentary constituency; what the value was of the total investment in each constituency; what total amount of funding was (a) applied for and (b) approved in each constituency; what the estimate was of the number of jobs to be (a) created and (b) safeguarded as a result of the assistance in each constituency, and how many jobs have actually been (a) created or (b) safeguarded in each constituency, in each of the last five years. The following...

Questions and Answers Date answered: 6 October 2006

S2W-28424

Details of inward investmentprojects assisted by Scottish Development International and its predecessors aresupplied in the following table. The Scottish Executive does not keep a record ofinward investment on a per capita basis.January 1996 to March 1996 Council Number of Projects Investment (£ Million) New Jobs Sa...