- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 31 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it monitors the cost of the concessionary travel scheme for pensioners and disabled people going across the Scottish border and, if so, what the cost of such travel has been in each year since the introduction of the scheme.
Answer
Cross-border travel (i.e. journeys made to and from Carlisle and to and from Berwick-upon-Tweed) is not monitored as the information cannot be identified from the reimbursement claims submitted by bus operators. Operator claims are generally at service number level, not individual passenger flow level.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 31 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive in how many instances nuclear waste has been transported by (a) road, (b) rail, (c) air and (d) sea through or across Scotland in each year since 1999.
Answer
The transportation of nuclear waste through or across Scotland is reserved to the UK Government.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18457 by Lewis Macdonald on 30 August 2005, whether it monitors cross-border flows in respect of the uptake of free personal care.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not monitor cross-border flows in respect of the uptake of free personal care.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 23 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many official royal engagements and events there have been in Scotland requiring a dedicated police presence, not including that provided by the Royal Protection Unit, in each year since 1999.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-15037 on 22 July 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 23 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what auditing mechanisms are in place to oversee financial accountability of policing operations related to royal visits and engagements in Scotland to ensure that police forces maintain best value principles.
Answer
I refer the member to the question S3W-15037 on 22 July 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 23 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many UK ministers have carried out official visits to Scotland requiring police attendance and support in each year since 1997.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-15037 on 22 July 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 23 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has calculated the cost to local businesses and individuals of any disruption caused by royal visits and events, and the cost of associated security arrangements, in each year since 1999.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-15037 on 22 July 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 22 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many visits to Scotland by the Prime Minister requiring police attendance and resources there have there been in each year since 1997.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 17 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the impact of the rising cost of fertiliser on the farming industry and food production.
Answer
The Scottish Agricultural College has recently produced a report for the Scottish Government assessing the impact of rising input costs (including fertiliser costs) on the farming industry. It found that although the rise in fertiliser prices has increased the cost of production, the impact of increasing costs has been largely offset by rising market prices.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 16 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-244 by Hugh Henry on 4 June 2003, how many (a) births, (b) births outside marriage, (c) births to teenagers, (d) marriages, (e) civil marriages, (f) divorces and (g) deaths broken down by gender there were in each year since 2000 and what the average (i) age at first marriage and (ii) length of marriage at divorce was in each year.
Answer
Almost all the information requested can be found on the website of the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS). The numbers of (a) births, (b) births outside marriage, (d) marriages, (f) divorces and (g) deaths broken down by gender, for each year from 2000 to 2007 (provisional figures), are available from Table P1 of the Registrar General’s “2007 Preliminary Return”, which was published on 13 March 2008, and can be found at:
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/preliminary-return/2007-preliminary-return.html .
The other numbers which were requested are available, for 2006 and earlier years, from the Vital Events Reference Tables, which can be found via:
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/vital-events/index.html.
The following table provides the relevant table numbers and the provisional figures for 2007.
| | 2006 and Earlier Years - Relevant Vital Events Reference Table | 2007 Provisional Figures |
| (c) Births to Teenagers | Table 3.1 | 4,304 |
| (e) Civil Marriages | Table 7.6 | 15,480 |
| (i) Average Age at First Marriage | Table 7.3 | Men - 32.2 years Women - 30.3 Years |
| (ii) Length of Marriage at Divorce | Table 8.2 | Median - 15 Years |
The final figures for 2007 will be published on the GROS website in August. As is conventional with such data, the average age at first marriage is given separately for men and for women, and the median is used as an overall summary measure of the “average” length of marriage at divorce.
