- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to promote debating in schools as both a curricular and extra-curricular activity.
Answer
The National Guidelines on English Language 5-14 recommend that schools should provide structured and stimulating opportunities to use language with increasing precision in contexts appropriate to the needs of individuals and the world in which they live.
In the later stages of secondary education, arrangements documents for National Qualifications courses in English emphasise the need to develop oral communication skills through, for example, presenting information and opinions and discussion of issues and texts.
Debating is one of a number of ways of providing such opportunities. Ultimately, it is for local authorities and schools to decide on how to best meet the needs of their pupils.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average student debt in Scotland has been in each of the last five years.
Answer
I refer the member to the answers given to S2W-8222 answered on 9 June 2004.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/search_wa.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many grams of fat are eaten by the average child daily.
Answer
Data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey of Children and Young People Aged four to 18 years in Great Britain (Gregory et al, 2000), showed that the reported mean daily intake of total fat was 74.1grams for boys and 63.1grams for girls. Boys derived a mean of 35.4% of their food energy from fat and girls 35.9%. Although the sampling frame for this survey included participants from Scotland to ensure that data was representative of Great Britain, the numbers are too small for the survey to be truly representative of children and young people in Scotland.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS dentists were employed in (a) each NHS board area and (b) total in each of the last five years.
Answer
Information on NHS staff employed by each NHS organisation is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics, at
www.isdscotland.org/workforce.Section A provides information on NHS hospital and community dentists and GeneralDental Service (GDS) broken down by NHS board. Table A1 provides information onall staff by Whole-Time Equivalent and Table A2 by Headcount.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many grams of fat are eaten by the average adult daily.
Answer
Data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey of Adults aged 19 to 65 years in Great Britain (Henderson et al, 2003), showed that the reported mean daily intake of total fat was 86.5 grams for men and 61.4 grams for women. Men derived a mean of 35.8% of their food energy from fat and women 34.9%. Although the sampling frame for this survey included participants from Scotland to ensure that data was representative of Great Britain, the numbers are too small for the survey to be truly representative of the Scottish adult population.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS nurses were employed in (a) each NHS board area and (b) total in each of the last five years.
Answer
Information on NHS staff employed by each NHS organisation is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics, at
www.isdscotland.org/workforce.Section A provides information on NHS nursing and midwifery staff broken down byNHS board. Table A1 provides information on all staff by Whole-Time Equivalent andTable A2 by Headcount.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many direct air links are available from Scotland to the EU accession states and how many new links to these states are being discussed or developed.
Answer
Scotland has an established direct air link between Edinburgh and Prague, with a further service to the Czech capital commencing in the autumn from Glasgow. The Executive, through the Route Development Fund, will consider any approach by an airline to commence services to the EU accession states. The detail of anydiscussions including possible destinations is, however, commercially confidential.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many NHS doctors were employed in (a) each NHS board area and (b) total in each of the last five years.
Answer
Information on NHS staff employed by each NHS organisation is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics, at
www.isdscotland.org/workforce.Section A provides information on NHS hospital and community doctors broken downby NHS board. Table A1 provides information on all staff by Whole-Time Equivalentand Table A2 by Headcount.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many teachers were employed in each local authority area in each of the last five years, giving the percentage change on a year-on-year basis.
Answer
Information on how many teachers were employed in each local authority area in each of the last five years can be obtained from the Teacher Census Results 2003 and can be accessed using the following hyperlink:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00352-00.asp.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 4 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many grams of fat are recommended to be eaten by the average adult daily.
Answer
The Dietary Reference Value (DRV) for total dietary fat intake is expressed as a percentage of dietary energy and not directly as grams, and is set at 35% of food energy.
Using estimated average energy requirements of 10.6MJ/day for a 74kg man (aged 19 to 50) and 8.1 MJ/day for a 60kg woman (aged 19 to 50), this equates to 95g and 73g total fat per day respectively.
