Lesley Brennan

10 Mar 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4O-05529 by Shona Robison on 4 February 2016 (Official Report, c. 6), when it will announce whether (a) Ninewells Hospital and (b) Aberdeen Royal Infirmary will be included in any specialist network.

Answer · Shona Robison: The National Planning Forum’s Major Trauma Oversight Group has been tasked with looking at ways to enhance major trauma services in Scotland. Its work to establish the most appropriate model of major trauma care for Scotland is ongoing, with involvement from…

10 Mar 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what the full-time equivalent employment figures have been in manufacturing in (a) Aberdeen, (b) Aberdeenshire, (c) Angus and (d) Dundee in each of the last five years, also expressed as a percentage of all employees in each area.

Answer · Fergus Ewing: The Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES) is the preferred source of employment estimates by detailed geographical area and industry sector. BRES estimates are not available on a full-time equivalent basis, however estimates for full-time and part-ti…

10 Mar 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government how many public health funerals each local authority has carried out, and at what cost, in each of the last 10 years.

Answer · Alex Neil: The information requested is not centrally held. It is the responsibility of each local authority to carry out public health funerals within their boundaries.

10 Mar 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what the average cost of a basic funeral has been and how that compared with the average weekly wage in each of the last 10 years.

Answer · Alex Neil: The information requested on the average cost of a basic funeral is not held centrally. The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, which is produced by the Office for National Statistics. The following table sh…

10 Mar 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what its most recent estimate is of the annual (a) impact on the economy and (b) direct cost to the NHS of obesity and overweight and related morbidity.

Answer · Maureen Watt: The most recent estimates of the cost of obesity were produced to support the obesity route map. a) These included an estimate of 2.6 million days of work lost annually, valued at £175 million, and 4,480 years of working lives lost, valued at £87 million. (2…

2 Mar 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the 10 occupations with the (a) greatest and (b) smallest percentage of women who work part time and their average hourly rates of pay.

Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: Information on occupation by gender for part-time employees is available through the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. This information can be found on the Office for National Statistics website: http://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor…

2 Mar 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the percentage of women in the workforce who work part-time and whether it has such information for EU member states, also broken down by age group.

Answer · Annabelle Ewing: The percentage of women in the workforce who work part-time in Scotland broken down by age group is shown below. Data for EU member states is available from Eurostat at the link below: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database?node_code=lfsa_eppga. Data f…

2 Mar 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has made an estimate of the value of unpaid overtime worked the latest year for which information is available.

Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: The information requested is not held centrally.

29 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the average number of hours of overtime worked per week in (a) Dundee, (b) Aberdeen, (c) Angus and (d) Aberdeenshire in each of the last five years for which information is available.

Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: The average number of hours of overtime worked per week in Dundee, Aberdeen, Angus and Aberdeenshire over the last five years for which data is available is shown in the following table. Average number of hours of overtime worked by local authority, 2011 to …

29 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the number of (a) full-time and (b) part-time jobs in (i) Dundee, (ii) Aberdeen, (iii) Angus and (iv) Aberdeenshire in each of the last five years for which information is available.

Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: Information on the number of full and part time employee jobs is available from the Business Register Employment Survey (BRES), published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The most recent data relates to 2014. The information is shown in the follow…

29 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the average number of hours per week full-time employees in (a) Dundee, (b) Aberdeen, (c) Angus and (d) Aberdeenshire have worked in each of the last five years for which information is available.

Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: Estimates of the average number of paid hours worked for full-time employees at a local authority level in Scotland are published by the Office for National Statistics: http://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/data…

29 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the median gross weekly earnings of full-time employees in (a) Dundee, (b) Aberdeen, (c) Angus and (d) Aberdeenshire in each of the last five years for which information is available, broken down by age group.

Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: The requested information is presented in the following tables: Median gross weekly earnings (£), full-time employees, 2015 16-24 25-34 35-49 50-64 65+ Aberdeen City 448.80 579.41 703.63 666.08 639.38 Aberdeenshire 333.90 576.47 549.66 553.…

26 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what the annual economic impact would be of (a) increasing the number of women in employment and (b) tackling gender segregation.

Answer · Annabelle Ewing: Scotland reached record levels of female employment in 2015 and the female employment rate currently stands at 71.8 per cent compared to 69.1 per cent in the UK as a whole. Boosting female participation further could increase the productive capacity of the ec…

26 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what the annual economic impact is of violence against women.

Answer · Alex Neil: We do not have a definitive figure on the annual economic impact of violence against women. There is some limited research into the economic impact of particular forms of gender based violence: the Scottish Government previously published a study of the econo…

23 Feb 2016 · Portfolio Question

To ask the Scottish Government when ministers last met representatives of the Dundee Integration Joint Board.

10 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the number of people employed in (a) Dundee, (b) Aberdeen, (c) Aberdeenshire and (d) Angus in each of the last five years, broken down by (i) gender and (ii) sector.

Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: Information on the number of people employed by local authority, gender and sector is published on the Scottish Government website: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Labour-Market/Local-Authority-Tables The information can be found in: Table 1.2…

9 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of what the impact on (a) staff levels, (b) council services and (c) the area's economy would be of a 3.5% reduction in the 2016-17 local government grant settlement for (i) Angus and (ii) Dundee City Council.

Answer · John Swinney: The package of funding the Scottish Government is providing for the financial year 2016-17 to local government will enable councils to increase the pace of reform and improve public services to communities across the country. Taking into account the addition …

9 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on life expectancy in each intermediate zone.

Answer · Jamie Hepburn: Male and female life expectancy estimates are published at intermediate zone level by the Scottish Public Health Observatory in the ‘Health and Wellbeing Profiles’ available at the following web address: http://www.scotpho.org.uk/comparative-health/profiles/…

3 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how the gross weekly pay of people in Scotland employed on zero hours contracts compares with those employed on other types of contract.

Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: This information is not held centrally by the Scottish Government.

3 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the median gross household income at intermediate zone level for (a) Dundee, (b) Aberdeen, (c) Aberdeenshire and (d) Angus.

Answer · Margaret Burgess: The Scottish Government does not hold data on household income below national level. Estimates of median gross household income at intermediate zone level have been produced by Heriot Watt University and are published on the Improvement Service website: http:…

3 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the (a) number and (b) percentage of people in Scotland employed on zero hours contracts, broken down by (i) gender and (ii) age group.

Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: Data released by Office for National Statistics (ONS) on 2 September 2015, using self-reported information from the Labour Force Survey, estimated that the number of people who were employed on zero hours contracts in Scotland in April to June 2015 was 51,000…

2 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to publish the latest data on exports.

Answer · Fergus Ewing: The Scottish Government publishes three regular national statistics releases containing information on exports. Exports Statistics Scotland reports the latest estimates of the nominal value and destinations of international and rest of UK exports of goods an…

2 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the median pension wealth in Scotland, broken down by decile of households.

Answer · Margaret Burgess: The Scottish Government has published analysis of the distribution of wealth in Scotland, which includes analysis of pension wealth. This can be found on the Scottish Government website: http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0047/00473432.pdf.

2 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the Gini coefficient for (a) pension wealth and (b) financial wealth in Scotland.

Answer · Margaret Burgess: The Scottish Government has published analysis of the distribution of wealth in Scotland, which includes analysis of pension and financial wealth inequality. This can be found on the Scottish Government website: http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0047/00473432.pdf.…

2 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the distribution of (a) pension wealth and (b) financial wealth in Scotland, broken down by decile of households.

Answer · Margaret Burgess: The Scottish Government has published analysis of the distribution of wealth in Scotland, including pension and financial wealth. This can be found on the Scottish Government website: http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0047/00473432.pdf. The table that follows sho…

2 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the median income of people describing themselves as “self-employed” in each of the last five years.

Answer · Margaret Burgess: The table that follows contains the median weekly household income for households containing a self-employed adult. Table 1: Median weekly household income for households containing one or more self-employed adults (£) 2009-10 474 2010-11 449 2011-12 4…

2 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what the estimated (a) number and (b) percentage of the workforce describing themselves as “self-employed” has been in each of the last five years.

Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: The information requested is published on the Scottish Government website: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Labour-Market/Local-Authority-Tables The information can be found in Table 1.14- Number of people (16+) in employment by employment typ…

2 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the average hourly wage of (a) men and (b) women in Scotland in each of the last five years, broken down by age and also expressed in real terms.

Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: The following table provides the median full-time hourly earnings for men and women in Scotland for 2011 to 2015 by age group. Median Full-Time Hourly Earnings by Gender and Age Group, Scotland, 2011-2015, £’s Male Female Year 16 to 24 25 to 34 35 t…

2 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the gender pay gap in Scotland in each of the last five years, broken down by age group.

Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: Information on the gender pay gap in Scotland for 2014-15 by age group is published on the Scottish Government website: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Labour-Market/AnalyticalPapers/ASHESGAnalysis Please see Table 5: Gender Pay Gap - Median Hou…

2 Feb 2016 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Government what the cost of (a) pre-school, (b) primary school and (b) secondary school education per pupil in each local authority area in North East Scotland has been in each year since 2010-11, also expressed in real terms.

Answer · Angela Constance: The following table provides information on average gross revenue expenditure per pupil or registration: Aberdeen City Aberdeenshire Angus Dundee City Moray Pre-school 2010-11 £2,184 £2,635 £2,339 £3,006 £2,303 2011-12 £2,290 £2,533 £2…