Parliamentary questions
Marlyn Glen
917 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
4 Dec 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of pupils travelled to school in Dundee (a) by car, (b) by bus, (c) on foot and (d) by bicycle in each of the last three years.
Answer · Hugh Henry: The information requested isnot available on an annual basis. <i>The Scottish Household Survey</i> providesfigures on a two year basis. Information for the two year period 2003-04 - the mostrecent available - is given in table 22 of <i>Transport Across </i><i…
4 Dec 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of employed people in Aberdeenshire travelled to work (a) by car, (b) on foot and (c) by bus in each of the last three years.
Answer · Tavish Scott: I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-30325 on 15 December 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/…
4 Dec 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of employed people in Angus travelled to work (a) by car, (b) on foot and (c) by bus in each of the last three years.
Answer · Tavish Scott: I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-30325 on 15 December 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/…
4 Dec 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of employed people in Dundee travelled to work (a) by car, (b) on foot and (c) by bus in each of the last three years.
Answer · Tavish Scott: Information about the percentageof adults in each local authority area who travel to work (a) by car, (b) on footand (c) by bus is not available for single years, because the Scottish HouseholdSurvey is not designed to provide figures on this basis. The lates…
4 Dec 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on what percentage of adults in (a) Dundee, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire have had a full driving licence in each of the last three years.
Answer · Tavish Scott: Information about the percentageof adults in each local authority area who have a full driving licence is not availablefor single years, because the Scottish Household Survey is not designed to providefigures on this basis. The latest available information is…
4 Dec 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much expenditure has been allocated to the (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire council to develop and promote the planning system through online access.
Answer · Des McNulty: The E-Planning Efficient GovernmentProgramme is a key component of planning reform. The programme involves 40 partners.Work is on-going on estimating the cost of the proposed e-planning systems for eachpartner, but based on work to date the estimates are:</p>…
4 Dec 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many passenger rail journeys have been made on the (a) Dundee to Aberdeen, (b) Dundee to Arbroath and (c) Dundee to Montrose routes in each of the last three years for which data are available.
Answer · Tavish Scott: The Scottish Executive does nothold the information requested.</p>
4 Dec 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-time university students in the (a) Dundee City, (b) Angus and (c) Aberdeenshire local authority area have been in receipt of bursaries in each of the last three years.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: The following table highlightsthe number of bursaries awarded by the Student Awards Agency for Scotland to full-timeuniversity students who were domiciled in the (a) Dundee City, (b) Angusand (c) Aberdeenshire local authority areas in each of the last three a…
4 Dec 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the claimant count number and claimant count unemployment rate have been in each ward of Aberdeenshire Council in the most recent month for which figures are available.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: The Claimant Count gives thenumber of people claiming unemployment related benefits and is produced by the Officeof National Statistics.</p><p>Table1 shows the claimant count number and the claimant count rate for each ward in Aberdeenshiremonth of October 20…
4 Dec 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the claimant count number and claimant count unemployment rate have been in each ward of Angus Council in the most recent month for which figures are available.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: The Claimant Count gives thenumber of people claiming unemployment related benefits and is produced by the Officeof National Statistics.</p><p>Table1 shows the claimant count number and the claimant count rate for each ward in Angusmonth of October 2006.</p><…
4 Dec 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the latest estimate is of the number of people who commute one kilometre or less to work by car or van.
Answer · Tavish Scott: Information about the percentageof employed adults, who do not work at or from home, who live less than one kilometrefrom their place of work and whose usual method of travel to work is car or vanis given in table 22 of <i>Household Transport in 2005: some Sc…
8 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the minimum recommended level of calcium intake is per day and what percentage of teenage girls achieve this level.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The Food Standards Agency Scotlandhas informed me that the Reference Nutrient Intake (RNI) for calcium is 800 microgramsper day for girls aged 11 to 18 years of age (Department of Health 1991). This isthe amount of calcium which is sufficientfor almost all ad…
8 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what association it considers there is between poor diet in young girls and the prospect of developing osteoporosis in later life.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: There is evidence to suggestthat improving the diet of adolescent girls by increasing calcium, vitamin D, fruit,vegetable and protein intake and decreasing carbonated soft drinks consumption maybe an effective bone health strategy. Skeletal development and op…
8 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils had specific learning difficulties in each of the last two years.
Answer · Robert Brown: The requested figures on how many pupils had specific learning difficulties are published annually in <i>Pupils in Scotland</i>, whichis available on the Executive website:</p><p><ahref="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/02/28083932/9">http://www.s…
8 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much, and what percentage of, its advertising budget has been spent in each of the latest three years on (a) online, (b) television and radio and (c) newspaper advertising.
Answer · Tom McCabe: The following table details howmuch and what percentage of the Scottish Executive Marketing Unit advertising budgethas been spent on Online, Television and Radio and Newspapers in the latest threeyears.</p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3> <thead>…
8 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of children travelled to school by private car in (a) 2001, (b) 1991, (c) 1981 and (d) 1971.
Answer · Robert Brown: Although information is not availablefor 1971 and 1981, data on how school children normally travelled to school foreach year from 1999 to 2005 is set out in Table 5.33 of <i>Scotland’s People: resultsfrom the 2005 Scottish Household Survey</i>, published by …
2 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of obese adults have been diagnosed as having diabetes, broken down (a) by gender and (b) into age range (i) 16 to 24, (ii) 25 to 34, (iii) 35 to 44, (iv) 45 to 54, (v) 55 to 64, (vi) 65 to 74 and (vii) 75 and over.
Answer · Andy Kerr: This information is not heldcentrally.</p>
2 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it is spending on the Measure Up awareness campaign on the possible link between waist measurement and a risk of diabetes.
Answer · Andy Kerr: Measure Up is a Diabetes UK campaign,supported by an educational grant from sanofi-aventis. The Scottish Executive hasnot made a financial contribution to the campaign. However, the Executive supportsthe objectives of the campaign and the Minister for Health …
2 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many economically inactive people there are in (a) Angus and (b) Aberdeenshire and what proportion of the 15 to 65-year-old population of each area they represent.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: The following table showsthe estimate of the number of economically inactive people aged 16 to 65 andthe proportion of 16 to 65-year-olds who are economically inactive in Angus andAberdeenshire. The estimates are based on a sample survey, and as such, aresubj…
2 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many providers of unpaid care there are estimated to be in (a) Angus and (b) Aberdeenshire.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: I refer the member to the answer to questions S2W-11759 on 9 November 2004 and S2W-4826 on 8 January 2004 whichset out the numbers of unpaid carers for each individual local authority, as identifiedin the 2001 Census. All answers to writtenparliamentary quest…
2 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been in employment in (a) Angus and (b) Aberdeenshire in each year since 1999.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: Estimates of employment aretaken from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Table 1 shows estimates of the levelof employment of people ages 16 and over in Angus and Aberdeenshire.</p><p>The estimates are based on asample survey, and as such, are subject to some sam…
2 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many awards of Education Maintenance Allowance have been made in (a) Angus and (b) Aberdeenshire in 2005-06 and what total amounts were paid in each area.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: The following table shows thenumber of school students supported in the (a) Angus and (b) Aberdeenshire localauthority areas in 2005-06 and the total amounts paid out in each area in academicyear 2005-06:</p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3> <thead…
2 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the childhood immunisation rates for Dundee Community Health Partnership have been in the last quarter for which the information is available.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The information requested ispublished on the Information Services Division of the NHS in Scotland (ISD) websiteat: </p><p>‎<ahref="http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=2486&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&">http://www.isds…
2 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the childhood immunisation rates for Aberdeenshire Community Health Partnership have been in the last quarter for which the information is available.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The information requested ispublished on the Information Services Division of the NHS in Scotland (ISD) websiteat: </p><p><ahref="http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=2486&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&">http://www.isdscotland…
2 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the childhood immunisation rates for Angus Community Health Partnership have been in the last quarter for which the information is available.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The information requested ispublished on the Information Services Division of the NHS in Scotland (ISD) websiteat: </p><p><ahref="http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/info3.jsp?pContentID=2486&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&">http://www.isdscotland…
2 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people over the age of 75 it estimates are deaf or hard of hearing.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The latest report on hearingimpairment in adults, produced by the Public Health Institute for Scotland in January2003, estimates 160 thousand people aged 81 and above have some degree of hearingimpairment: that is, 91% of the population aged 81 and above at t…
2 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people over the age of 75 it estimates are visually impaired.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The latest information on visuallyimpaired people was published by the Executive on 31 October 2006, in the statisticsrelease <i>Registered blind and partially sighted persons, Scotland 2006</i>. In2006, the number of people aged 75 and over registered as bli…
2 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many disabled adults there are in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus, broken down by gender.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-29456 on 15 November 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp…
2 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many disabled adults there are in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus, broken down by age-range and also expressed as a percentage of the local adult population.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-29456 on 15 November 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp…
2 Nov 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many disabled adults there are in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus, also expressed as a percentage of the local adult population they comprise.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The Scottish HouseholdSurvey for 2003-05 shows that 11% of adults in Dundee and 11% of adults in Angusconsider themselves to be disabled. This implies that around 9,500 adults inAngus and 12,500 adults in Dundee are disabled. The sample size for the survey do…