Parliamentary questions
Marlyn Glen
917 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
29 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the hospital admission rates for diabetes have been in Dundee in each of the last three years for which information is available, broken down by postcode area.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The number of hospital admissionsfor which diabetes was recorded as the principle diagnosis is shown in table 1.Table 2 includes all hospital admissions for which diabetes was recorded as eithera principle or a secondary diagnosis.</p><p>Due to confidentialit…
29 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage composition of the population in Dundee was in the last year for which information is available, broken down by (a) social group and (b) postcode.
Answer · George Lyon: The total population for eachpostcode is available from the 2001 Census but no breakdown of these totals canbe provided because it might allow the identification of an individual, breachingthe promise of confidentiality given on the Census form. The lowest le…
29 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals have been self-employed in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus in each of the last three years, expressed also as a percentage of the total numbers in employment.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: Table 1 shows the levels andproportions of self-employed people in Angus and Dundee in 2003, 2004 and 2005.</p><p>Table 1 – Levels andProportions of Self-Employment in Angus and Dundee, 2003-2005</p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3> <thead> <tr> …
28 Aug 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the numbers and overall percentages in employment are in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus in (i) construction, (ii) manufacturing, (iii) retail and catering, (iv) distribution, hotel and restaurant , (v) business and financial services, (vi) transport and communications, (vii) finance, IT an…
Answer · Nicol Stephen: The following tables 1 and 2 show the number of employee jobs in Angus and Dundee City by standard industry sector.</p><p>Table 1: Employee Jobs by Industry Sector – Angus</p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 width=607> <thead> <tr> <td width=223…
6 Jul 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of adults between the ages of 55 and 74 in the NHS Tayside area had some natural teeth in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: This information is not heldcentrally.</p>
6 Jul 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of adults in the NHS Tayside area had some natural teeth in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: This information is not availablecentrally.</p>
6 Jul 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of 11-year-olds within the NHS Tayside area showed no signs of dental disease in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The information requested iscontained in table 5, page 11 of the 2005<i>National Dental Inspection Programme report </i>at <ahref="http://www.scottishdental.org/docs/ndip_scotland2005.pdf">http://www.scottishdental.org/docs/ndip_scotland2005.pdf</a>.</p>
6 Jul 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of five-year-olds within the NHS Tayside area showed no signs of dental disease in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The information requested iscontained in figure 1, page 6 and table 4, page 10 of the 2004 <i>National DentalInspection Programme report</i> at:</p><p><ahref="http://www.scottishdental.org/docs/ndip_scotland2004.pdf">http://www.scottishdental.org/docs/ndip_sc…
5 Jul 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dental patients have been newly registered in NHS Tayside in the last year, broken down by month.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The information requested isprovided in the following table.</p><p>Number of New NHS Patient Registrations<sup>.</sup>in NHS Tayside; April 2005 to March 2006</p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 width=230> <thead> <tr> <td width=120 valign=botto…
5 Jul 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dental patients have been de-registered in NHS Tayside in the last year, broken down by month.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The information provided inthe table below shows NHS general dental service patients in NHS Tayside whoseregistration status indicates withdrawn. This records only one instance of massde-registration in Tayside in 2005-06.</p><p class=MsoHeader>Number ofgener…
5 Jul 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental students currently attend Dundee Dental School in each undergraduate year.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: The number of undergraduatestudents studying pre-clinical or clinical medicine at the University of Dundee during the academic year 2004-05 (the latest year for which figures areavailable) are shown in the following table.</p><p>Number of Undergraduate Dentis…
5 Jul 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dentists in NHS Tayside have left the NHS in each of the last three years, broken down by age group.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The number of dentists wholeft NHS Tayside<sup>1,2,3</sup> in each of the last three years, broken downby age group, is as follows:</p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3> <thead> <tr> <td width=147 rowspan=2 valign=top> <p>Age Group</p> </td>…
5 Jul 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many general dental practitioners in NHS Tayside have (a) left and (b) joined the NHS in each of the last three years.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The information is providedin the following tables:</p><p>Number ofgeneral dental practitioners who left NHS Tayside<sup>1,2</sup>; 2003 to 2005</p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3> <thead> <tr> <td width=95 valign=top> <p>Year</p> </td> <…
5 Jul 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many general dental practitioners in NHS Tayside were registered to provide treatment in each of the last three years.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The information requestedcan be found on the Scottish Health Statistics website via this link: <ahref="http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/files/D1_by_NHS_board_sep05.xls">http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/files/D1_by_NHS_board_sep05.xls</a>.</p>
5 Jul 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dentists in NHS Tayside have (a) left and (b) joined the NHS in each of the last three years.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The number of dentists wholeft NHS Tayside<sup>1,2,3 </sup>in each of the last three years is as follows:</p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3> <thead> <tr> <td width=161 valign=top> <p>Year</p> </td> <td width=66 valign=top> <p align=ce…
5 Jul 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dentists in NHS Tayside have been categorised as working in (a) general dental services, (b) hospital services, (c) community services and (d) more than one sector in each of the last three years.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The number of NHS dentistsin NHS Tayside, categorised as working in general dental services, hospitaldental services, community dental services and more than one sector, for eachof the last three years is as follows:</p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadd…
3 Jul 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive when its cross-departmental working group on occupational segregation is due to report its findings and recommendations.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: The cross-departmental workinggroup on occupational segregation is due to hold its first meeting towards the endof August. The life span of the working group will be no more than 18 months. Itis envisaged that any final outputs from the deliberations of the g…
3 Jul 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether its cross-departmental working group on occupational segregation has met and agreed a plan of work.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: The first meeting of the cross-departmentalworking group on occupational segregation was scheduled for May 2006 but has beenre-scheduled to August 2006 to enable the fullest attendance from senior officials.Terms of reference have been drafted but these have …
28 Jun 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many teachers have retired on grounds of stress-related illness in each of the last three years.
Answer · George Lyon: Ill-health retirement has beenapproved for teachers who are members of the Scottish Teachers Superannuation Schemein the last three years as detailed in the following table:</p><table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3> <tr> <td width=74 valign=top> <p a…
28 Jun 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of sickness pay to teachers was in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer · Robert Brown: This information is not heldcentrally.</p>
28 Jun 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the total number of working days lost by teachers was as a result of stress-related conditions in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer · Robert Brown: This information is not heldcentrally. The management of teacher absence and the causes of absence are mattersfor individual local authorities as employers. However, Scottish local authoritiesare required by law to provide Audit Scotland with sickness absence…
28 Jun 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many working days were missed by teachers because of stress-related conditions in the most recent year for which figures are available, also broken down by local authority area.
Answer · Robert Brown: This information is not heldcentrally.</p>
28 Jun 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of two-year old children in the NHS Tayside area have received the MMR vaccine in each of the last four years for which figures are available.
Answer · Andy Kerr: The information requested ispublished on the Scottish Health Statistics website at:</p><p><ahref="http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/files/child_imms_Tqtr106.xls">http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/files/child_imms_Tqtr106.xls</a>.</p>
28 Jun 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many confirmed cases of measles there have been in the NHS Tayside area in each of the last four years for which figures are available.
Answer · Andy Kerr: In the last four years(2005, 2004, 2003, 2002) there have been two confirmed cases of measles inTayside. These were both in 2003 and comprised a family cluster of two adults. Theinitial case was imported from abroad and infection spread to one furtherfamily m…
27 Jun 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive in what way Transport Scotland will contribute to the specifications for future cross-border passenger rail service franchises.
Answer · Tavish Scott: The Scottish Executive willconsider the proposed specifications for cross border franchised services inrelation to Scotland’s strategic requirements, and provide advice to theDepartment for Transport. In doing so we will consider:</p><p>The capacity of theses…
23 Jun 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are employed at the (a) Scottish Social Services Council, (b) Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care and (c) NHS Education Scotland offices in Dundee; how many of these jobs result directly from relocation, and how many are newly-created posts.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: The Scottish Social ServicesCouncil (SSSC) and the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care (the CareCommission) were new bodies established on 1 October 2001and 1 April 2002 respectively under the <i>Regulation of Care (</i><i>Scotland</i><i>) Act 2001…
22 Jun 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many homes in (a) Angus and (b) Aberdeenshire have benefited from the free central heating programme since 2001, broken down by housing sector.
Answer · Johann Lamont: I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond.</p><p>Her response is as follows:</p><p>The information held by EagaPartnership for the number of heating installations carried out under the centralheating programme in the pr…
22 Jun 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the latest available figures on life expectancy are in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus, broken down by postcode sector.
Answer · George Lyon: The most recent figures bypostcode sector for Dundee and Angus, based on the 2001 Census, are availablein the NHS Health Scotland’s Community Profiles, through the following link:</p><p><ahref="http://www.scotpho.org.uk/web/site/home/Comparativehealth/Profile…
22 Jun 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the latest available figures on life expectancy are in (a) Dundee, (b) Angus and (c) across Scotland.
Answer · George Lyon: The latest available figureson life expectancy are available on the General Register Office for Scotland’swebsite through the following link: <ahref="http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/library/life-expectancy/le2002-04.html">http://www.gro-scotland.gov…
22 Jun 2006 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of pregnancies were teenage pregnancies in (a) Dundee and (b) Angus in the most recent year for which figures are available, also broken down by postcode sector.
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: Due to the small numbers involvedat postcode sector level, with the associated risk of disclosure, the followinginformation is presented at postcode district level.</p><p><a name="RANGE!A1:F31">Teenage<sup>1</sup>Conceptions<sup>2</sup> as a Proportion of All…