- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 December 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 3 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the value of the paper manufacturing industry was to (a) the Scottish economy and (b) the rural economy, in terms of employment and GDP, in each of the last five years.
Answer
Latest available information on employment in the paper industry is for 1998 from the Annual Employment Survey. This survey has collected information of employment since 1995. The table shows the total number of employee jobs, and the proportion of all jobs accounted for by the paper industry. It gives these estimates for Scotland, and separately for rural Scotland.Employee jobs in pulp, paper and paper product industries
| | Scotland | rural Scotland |
| | Employee jobs | % of all jobs | Employee jobs | % of all jobs |
1995 | 10,000 | 0.5% | 2,000 | 0.4% |
1996 | 10,800 | 0.5% | 1,500 | 0.3% |
1997 | 11,900 | 0.6% | 2,000 | 0.4% |
1998 | 11,200 | 0.6% | 1,600 | 0.3% |
Source: Annual Employment Survey, Office for National Statistics
Latest figures on GDP are from the 1996 input-output tables for Scotland. These show that in 1996, the paper industry contributed £451 million to the Scottish economy. This represents 0.8% of total GDP. Figures for rural Scotland are not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 December 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 3 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken in response to receivers having been called in at Donside Paper Company in Aberdeen.
Answer
The Executive is aware of the receivers having been called in and is monitoring the situation. Scottish Executive and Scottish Enterprise officials will continue to work closely with the company.
The Executive's main concern is to ensure that everything possible is done to assist those members of the workforce affected should there be any job losses at the Donside facility.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 December 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 3 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many meetings it has had with Her Majesty's Government to discuss those policies that impact on the paper manufacturing industry.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the United Kingdom Government on a wide range of issues including those that impact on the paper manufacturing industry.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 October 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 20 December 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-9352 by Mr Jim Wallace on 12 September 2000, whether it will provide information on the number of persons with a charge proved in sheriff and district courts and the number of these where the main offence involved was aggravated by having been committed while the offender was on bail for (a) Tayside and (b) the whole of Scotland in (i) 1997 and (ii) 1998 and when the 1999 figures will be made available.
Answer
The information requested is given in the following table. Summary data for 1999 on criminal proceedings in Scottish courts are expected to be published by the end of this year.
Number of persons with a charge proved in sheriff and district1 courts, 1997 and 1998
SEJD Crime | All persons with a charge proved | Persons with a bail aggravation4 |
Category2 | 1997 | 1998 | 1997 | 1998 |
Scotland | | | | |
| Total | 149,387 | 138,833 | 9,891 | 9,848 |
| Housebreaking | 3,267 | 2,959 | 597 | 574 |
| Robbery | 491 | 446 | 112 | 97 |
| Drug offences | 6,700 | 6,656 | 356 | 434 |
| Other offences | 138,929 | 128,772 | 8,826 | 8,743 |
| Tayside3 | | | | |
| Total | 12,861 | 12,762 | 857 | 892 |
| Housebreaking | 272 | 222 | 48 | 43 |
| Robbery | 29 | 31 | 10 | 4 |
| Drug offences | 432 | 432 | 17 | 20 |
| Other offences | 12,128 | 12,077 | 782 | 825 |
Notes:
1. Includes stipendiary magistrates court.
2. Main offence.
3. Includes Arbroath, Dundee, Forfar and Perth Sheriff Courts; Angus, Dundee City and Perth & Kinross District Courts.
4. The offence was aggravated by having been committed while the offender was on bail.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 December 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 December 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients diagnosed with mild to moderate Al'heimer's disease are currently on waiting lists to receive Aricept, Rivastigmine or Galantamine, broken down by health board area.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 December 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 December 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Al'heimer's patients are currently receiving treatment with Aricept, Rivastigmine or Galantamine, broken down by health board area, and what percentage of patients diagnosed with mild to moderate Al'heimer's disease this represents in each health board area.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 December 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 18 December 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any member of the Dental Action Plan Support Group is based in Aberdeen or elsewhere in the North East Scotland parliamentary region.
Answer
Two of the members of Implementation Support Group to take forward the Action Plan for Dental Services in Scotland are based in the North East Scotland parliamentary region.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 14 December 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average response times for emergency fire services have been in each brigade area covering rural communities in each of the last three years.
Answer
Average response times in remote rural areas, where provided by fire brigades, are given in Table 1b of Comparing the Response of Scottish Councils: Police and Fire, published by the Accounts Commission for Scotland in January 2000, a copy of which is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. no. 7717). The table covers 1998-99, 1997-98 and 1996-97. Figures for 1999-2000 are expected to be published in mid-January 2001.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 14 December 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to make available funding to make rural fire stations suitable for the employment of women as retained fire fighters.
Answer
Capital allocations for the fire service are to increase by £19 million over the next three years, representing in the third year a 51% increase over the present level. This will assist fire authorities to provide suitable facilities for women firefighters where that has not already been done.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 14 December 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how the current level of vacancies for retained fire fighters compares with each of the last three years, broken down by brigade.
Answer
The latest information available is the number of vacancies on 31 March 2000. Figures for that year and the preceding three years are as follows:Retained personnel (all ranks) of Scottish fire brigades:Shortfall between established posts and staff in post on 31 March
Brigade | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
Central Scotland | 16 | 17 | 6 | 0 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Fife | 16 | 17 | 10 | 8 |
Grampian | 47 | 39 | 54 | 46 |
Highland and Islands | 283* | 52 | 49 | 47 |
Lothian and Borders | 6 | 2 | 23 | 23 |
Strathclyde | 59 | 23 | 56 | 49 |
Tayside | 18 | 26 | 17 | 21 |
Source: statistical returns to HM Inspectorate of Fire Services.*
Reflects increase in establishment by 274 posts over figure for previous year, consequent upon re-grading of volunteer posts.
