- 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 proportion of the finished paper products exported from Scotland in each of the last three years was exported to (a) the rest of the UK, (b) Europe and (c) the rest of the world, expressed in each case as a percentage of total exports in (i) tonnage and (ii) value terms.
Answer
Latest available figures on the export of paper products are from the 1996 Scottish Input-Output Tables. Scotland exported £1,118 million of paper products in 1996 - 49% to the rest of the UK and 51% to the rest of the world.
Data are not held centrally on the quantity of exports in tonnes or on exports to Europe.
- 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 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: 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: 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.
- 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 assist fire brigades to recruit retained fire fighters or to improve rural fire services generally.
Answer
We recognise the importance of ensuring that retained units are kept up to strength. The Scottish Central Fire Brigades Advisory Council (SCFBAC) will shortly be considering the plans of HM Inspectorate of Fire Services to carry out a thematic review to assist in the development of strategies to improve the recruitment and retention of retained, auxiliary and volunteer firefighters. The improvement of fire services in rural areas is an ongoing process which will be greatly assisted by the increased provision for the fire service announced in the recent financial statement.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 December 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of (a) white fish and (b) pelagic fish processed in Scotland is imported.
Answer
Data on landings made in Scotland by non-UK vessels is published annually in Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics (
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00022-00.asp). Other import data is collected at UK level and information is not available separately for Scotland.
