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The number of police stations closed as a percentage of the number of stations closed plus the current number of stations, for each police force area, is shown in the following table.

Force	Percentage
Central Scotland Police	0
Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary	5
Fife Police	5
Grampian Police	20
Lothian and Borders Police	0
Northern Constabulary	10
Strathclyde Police	25
Tayside Police	15

Note: Percentages take no account of the size of stations closed. A significant number were single officer stations which were seldom used by the public.

Levels of carbon dioxide emissions in Scotland by source are reported in the publication Greenhouse Gas Inventories for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland: 1999-2001 a copy of which has been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 32027) and is also available on the Executive’s climate change website at www.scotland.gov.uk/climatechange.

In 2003, the number of visitors who came to Scotland from the Republic of Ireland totalled 48,000. These visitors represented 3.1% of the total number of tourists who visited Scotland last year from overseas.

According to data collected by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, 13 Scottish higher education institutions ran single and/or joint degree programmes in chemistry in each year between 1998-99 and 2002-03.

These institutions were University of Abertay Dundee, The Robert Gordon University, The University of Paisley, Glasgow Caledonian University, Napier University, The University of Edinburgh, The University of Glasgow, The University of Strathclyde, The University of Aberdeen, Heriot-Watt University, TheUniversity of Dundee, The University of St Andrews and The University of Stirling.In 2002-03 Bell College also ran a degree programme in chemistry.

For the session 2004-05, information from the UCAS and institutional websites indicates that chemistry is no longer offered as a single subject and/or part of a degree programme at the University of Stirling and Napier University.

I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:

The following table gives details of the average total build cost of homes approved for construction through registered social landlords and other bodies by Communities Scotland, and its predecessor organisation, in each of the last 10 years.

Average Total Build Cost Of Houses Approved For Funding 1994-95 to 2003/04 (£ million)
1994-95	0.051
1995-96	0.054
1996-97	0.056
1997-98	0.056
1998-99	0.059
1999-2000	0.061
2000-01	0.066
2001-02	0.071
2002-03	0.074
2003-04	0.079

Note: these figures relate to the average total build cost and not the average grant provided.

The world’s first commercial wave energy project - in Islay - received support under the Scottish Renewables Obligation. More recently, the Executive has contributed over £2 million towards the establishment of the wave test facility at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney. Discussions with our funding partners to extend the Centre to accommodate tidal projects are at an advanced stage.

The Forum for Renewable Energy Development in Scotland (FREDS), which I chair, recently published a report identifying the way ahead for marine energy in Scotland. Three members of the sub-group which produced this report have since been among the partners which have formed the consortium based UK Centre for Marine Renewable Energy, which will drive forward some of the key tasks identifiedby the report.

Following the FREDS marine energy report, the DTI announced a £50 million UK fund for marine renewables. We will work closely with DTI colleagues on the details of this scheme. We will also consider how best the Executive can support marine developments from within our own renewables programme budget.

There are no plans to acquire these statues. Phase 1 of the Parliament’s Art Strategy is now complete and decisions on the nature of phase 2 will be considered by the SPCB next year.

New scientific information generated by the Fisheries Research Service in partnership with the Scottish fishing industry has been made available to the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). The ICES Advisory Committee on Fishery Management is scheduled to publish advice on monkfish for fisheries managers on 22 October. By way of immediate action, we have secured around 705 tonnes of monkfish quota in international swaps with other member states during the course of this year and we will continue to pursue this avenue in the coming weeks.

The numbers of applicant households on waiting lists for each local authority are published on an annual basis for 2000-01 onwards in the quarterly Scottish Executive Statistical Bulletin (Housing Series) Housing Trends in Scotland. Table 16 in the latest bulletin HSG/2004/4 published August 2004 shows the snapshot position as at 31 March 2004 as well as changes to the lists during 2003-04. This publication can be accessed on-line through publications section of the Scottish Executive housing statistics branch website (www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/housing/hsbref). The published figures for 2000-01, 2001-02 and 2002-03 can also be found on the housing statistics website in the housing trends bulletins HSG/2001/6, HSG/2002/3 and HSG/2003/4 respectively.

This data collection began in 2001 and data are not centrally available prior to that date. The numbers reported to the Scottish Executive are for applicant households and do not specify the number of people within each household.

The projections of the numbers of households by local authority area for the relevant years are available in the data library section of the Scottish Executive housing statistics branch website:

(http://www.scotland.gov.uk/about/DD/EAS/00014844/DataLibrary.aspx).

I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive, Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:

The information requested is not held centrally.

The information requested may be available from the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman.