Questions and answers

Question reference: S3W-03791

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 12 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many areas have been classified as pressurised housing areas in each year since 2002, broken down by local authority area.

There were no applicationsfor pressured area designations between 2002 and 2004. The following areas and neighbourhoodshave been designated as Right to Buy pressured areas by Scottish ministers:

Year	Council	Pressured Areas*
2005	East Renfrewshire	14 Ward Areas
2005	Highland	9 Areas
2006	South Ayrshire	29 Lettings Areas
2006	Moray	2 Settlements 1 Housing Management Area
2006	Fife	24 Lettings Areas
2006	Dumfries and Galloway	69 Villages
2007	Perth and Kinross	21 Lettings Areas
2007	Fife	13 Lettings Areas
2007	Aberdeen City	35 Lettings Areas

Note: *The 2001act allows local authorities to propose the designation of any part of theirarea in which the specified criteria are met. In practice, local authorities havetaken a number of different approaches to reflect the circumstances in their areas.However, their proposals should aim to identify recognised localities or neighbourhoods,for example a housing letting area, that would be familiar to both the tenant andthe landlord.

Question reference: S3W-03715

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 11 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-2233 by John Swinney on 2 August 2007, what the total cost to the taxpayer will be of all existing PFI/PPP projects over the course of their contractual life, broken down by (a) local authority area, (b) NHS board and (c) individual project.

The information requestedis provided in the following table.

Since S3W-2233 wasanswered on 2 August 2007, two more PPP projects have reached financialclose: East Dunbartonshire schools and West Lothian schools. They have been included in the table. The tablecovers the years 1999-2000 to 2040-41, a period of 42 years and includes estimatesfor the unitary charges in future years.

The unitary chargeis the amount paid by the public sector procuring body to the private sector consortiumfor the services it provides over the length of the contract. The services includecapital construction, lifecycle maintenance and facilities management, and not justthe upfront construction cost of the asset.

Estimated AccumulatedUnitary Charges of Individual PPP Projects Over the Life of the Contract

PPP Project	Total Estimated Unitary Charge Over Life of Contract (£ Million)
Aberdeenshire schools PPP1	98.7
Aberdeenshire schools PPP2	200.3
Angus A92	226.0
Angus schools	192.7
Argyll and Bute waste management	130.8
Argyll and Bute schools	207.3
City of Dundee waste to energy	100.4
City of Dundee schools	393.9
City of Edinburgh schools PPP1	502.1
City of Edinburgh schools PPP2	718.2
City of Glasgow schools	1,394.4
Clackmannanshire	264.1
Dumfries and Galloway waste management	236.0
East Ayrshire schools	334.2
East Dunbartonshire schools	501.0
East Lothian schools	221.1
East Renfrewshire schools PPP1	79.6
East Renfrewshire schools PPP2	225.6
Falkirk schools PPP1	349.8
Falkirk schools PPP2	459.0
Fife schools PPP1	181.2
Fife schools PPP2	215.8
Highland IT	40.0
Highland schools PPP1	86.9
Highland schools PPP2	620.3
Midlothian schools PPP1	154.1
Midlothian schools PPP2	171.3
Moray IT	14.1
North Ayrshire schools	383.6
North Ayrshire college	36.9
North Lanarkshire schools	678.8
Perth and Kinross office accommodation	83.2
Renfrewshire schools	501.9
Scottish Borders	302.1
South Ayrshire schools	348.4
South Lanarkshire schools	1,184.7
Stirling - Balfron	83.1
Stirling schools PPP2	424.5
Stirling college	15.7
West Lothian schools PPP1	180.8
West Lothian schools PPP2	252.9
Sub-total for local authorities	12,795.5
Health
NHS Ayshire and Arran Crosshouse	76.0
NHS Ayrshire and Arran East Ayrshire Community Hospital	37.7
NHS Dumfries and Galloway Maternity Unit	66.9
NHS Grampian Kincardine Community Hospital	11.8
NHS Highland Easter Ross	36.2
NHS Highland New Craigs	106.0
NHS Lanarkshire Bupa Homes	7.6
NHS Lanarkshire Stonehouse	19.7
NHS Lanarkshire Hairmyres	599.5
NHS Lanarkshire Wishaw	762.5
NHS Lothian Ferryfield House	28.2
NHS Lothian Ellen’s Glen House	32.2
NHS Lothian Findlay House	24.9
NHS Lothian Royal Infirmary Edinburgh	1,490.9
NHS Lothian HIS	27.6
NHS Lothian PACS	14.1
NHS Lothian Tippethill	28.6
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde 210 DME Unit	76.8
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde South Glasgow University Hospitals HIS	4.0
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Yorkhill HIS	3.6
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Gartnavel Royal Hospital	75.8
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Stobhill and Victoria ACADs	480.0
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Mid Argyll Community Hospital	66.3
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Stobhill Forensic Unit	64.2
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Larkfield	47.0
NHS Tayside 16 small projects	8.7
NHS Tayside Carseview	58.5
NHS Tayside Forfar	44.3
Sub-total for health	4,299.6
Water and Sewerage
Inverness Main Drainage/Fort William Sewage Treatment	195.0
Tay Waste Water Project	617.0
Aberdeen sewage and sludge treatment	515.0
Moray Coast Waste Water Project	359.7
Almond Valley, Esk Valley and Seafield Sewage Scheme	687.0
Levenmouth Purification Scheme	741.6
Dalmuir Sewage Treatment	168.5
Daldowie/Shieldhall Sludge Treatment Centres	451.7
Meadowhead Sewage Treatment	403.4
Sub-total for water and sewerage	4,138.9
Justice¹
National Roads and Transport
M6 DBFO	754.5
M77/Glasgow Southern Orbital Road (SE/East Renfrewshire)²	521.2
Sub-total for national roads and transport	1,275.7
Social Work
SCRA - Integrated Information System	22.8
Other
Police Force Training Centre, East Kilbride	100.4
Scotland total	22,632.9

Notes:

1. Information on the unitary chargefor Kilmarnock Prison is available in the Scottish Prison Service Annual Reportswhich can be found at http://www.sps.gov.uk/Default.asp?menuid=230.

2. The M77/GSO isa joint project between the Executive, East Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire Councils.

3. The table doesnot include figures for Skye Bridge, Inverness Airport and West Lothian College as these are no longer existing PPP projects.

Question reference: S3W-03792

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 11 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many homes sold by local authorities under right to buy legislation have been bought back by the local authority in each year since 1990, broken down by local authority.

Question reference: S3W-03650

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 24 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what studies into the causes of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have been undertaken.

Question reference: S3W-03648

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 24 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have been diagnosed in each year since 1990, broken down by (a) NHS board and (b) local authority area.

The information requestedis not available centrally.

National estimatescan be given, based on the number of patients seen in general practices participatingin Practice Team Information, for the proportion of the population who consult eachyear and the number of patients seen at least once during a given year for ADHD(including attention deficit disorder):

Year	Number of People Consulting Per 100,000 Population Per Year	Estimated Number of Patients who Consulted at Least Once
2003-04	26.1	1,400
2004-05	29.6	1,600
2005-06	25.2	1,350

Notes: Estimated numbersof patients are rounded to the nearest 50.

Question reference: S3W-03649

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 24 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the incidence is of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, broken down by socio-economic group.

The information requestedis not available centrally.

National estimatescan be given, based on the number of patients seen in general practices participatingin Practice Team Information, for the proportion of the population who consult andthe number of patients seen at least once during a given year for ADHD (includingattention deficit disorder), in the year ending 31 March 2006:

Deprivation Category (SIMD)	Number of People Consulting Per 100,000 Population Per Year	Estimated Number of Patients who Consulted at Least Once
1 (least deprived)	13.1	150
2	17.3	200
3	32.2	350
4	26.2	300
5 (most deprived)	36.9	400
Scotland	25.2	1,350

Note: Estimated numbersof patients are rounded to the nearest 50. Total figures may not add up to the sumof the parts due to rounding.

ADHD, and also ADD,is relatively rare and therefore not many patients are recorded within PTI withthese conditions and further subdivision of a relatively rare condition into evensmaller numbers and the resulting estimates must be treated as approximate.

The Scottish Indexof Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) is used here as a proxy for socio-economic group.

Question reference: S3W-03452

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 17 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 10 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of people aged 16 to 19 and not in education, employment or training by socio-economic group in each year since 1999.

The official sourcesfor estimates of the number of people aged 16 to 19 not in employment, educationor training are the Labour Force Survey and the Annual Population Survey. Table1 shows the estimates of the number of people aged 16 to 19 and not in employment,education or training by National Statistics Socio-economic Status (NS-SEC).

As NS-SEC is primarilybased on occupation the NS-SEC for people aged 16 to 19 and not in employment, educationand training is based on their last main job.

As these estimatesare taken from sample surveys they are subject to a degree of error.

Table 1 Number ofPeople Aged 16 to 19 Not in Employment, Education or Training by NS-SEC category

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Higher managerial and professional	**	**	**	**	**	**
Lower managerial and professional	**	**	**	**	**	**
Intermediate occupations	**	**	**	**	**	**
Small employers and own account workers	**	**	**	**	**	**
Lower supervisory and technical	**	**	**	**	**	**
Semi-routine occupations	9,000	**	6,000	4,200	5,200	5,800
Routine occupations	**	**	6,000	4,900	5,100	3,600
Never worked, unemployed, and nec.	21,000	22,000	20,000	23,600	23,200	20,300
All	38,000	35,000	35,000	34,600	36,400	31,800

Source: Labour Force Survey (LFS),Quarters combined for 1998-2002. Annual Scottish LFS (ASLFS) for 2003. Annual PopulationSurvey 2004 onwards

Notes:

1. Data for 1999-2003 are based on a seasonal year (March to February) whereasdata for 2004 onwards are based on a calendar year (January to December).

** Data are unreliable.

Question reference: S3W-03514

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 7 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many assaults on police officers and police force support staff were reported in each year since 1990, broken down by police force area.

The available informationis shown in the following table.

Assaults onPolice Officers and Staff, 1994 and 1995-96 to 2006-07

	Central	Dumfries and Galloway	Fife	Grampian¹	Lothian and Borders	Northern²	Strathclyde	Tayside	All Scotland
1994³	210	149	200	427	328	216	7,736	496	9,762
1995-96³	262	174	233	485	373	188	8,025	322	10,062
1996-97³	204	112	233	unknown	191	190	8,892	330	-
1997-98	241	86	257	259	182	202	8,619	330	10,176
1998-99	234	47	55	172	276	194	8,970	18	9,966
1999-2000	267	14	165	68	315	215	8,713	286	10,043
2000-01	262	11	222	279	320	223	6,670	272	8,259
2001-01	404	111	57	76	331	236	7,045	14	8,274
200203	410	178	381	241	291	249	7,506	117	9,373
2003-04	873	448	58	317	42	52	unknown	165	-
2004-05	934	398	357	unknown	217	284	unknown	185	-
2005-06	935	430	35	unknown	251	222	10,029	17	-
2006-07⁴	941	557	42	69	246	195	10,841	118	13,009

Source: HerMajesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary’s Annual Statistical Returns from policeforces.

Notes:

1. Grampian data onassaults on police staff is incomplete.

2. No data on assaultson police staff included in Northern data.

3. For these years,figures for all forces are for assaults on police officers only.

4. 2006-07 data isprovisional.

Question reference: S3W-03459

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 17 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by Adam Ingram on 6 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that there are specific additional difficulties in meeting the needs of children and young people with dyslexia in relation to continuing professional development.

Through the nationalcontinuing professional development framework, the Scottish Executive expects allteachers to be able to recognise and know how to support pupils with additionalsupport needs, including dyslexia.

In support of this,following recent talks with the Executive, the General Teaching Council for Scotland have now added five new areas to their professional recognitionframework, one of which is dyslexia. This will provide a clear pathway which teacherscan use to gain recognition for their expertise in teaching children with dyslexia.

In addition, the Executiveprovides education authorities with £7.2 million over 2007-08 specifically for thetraining and development of staff working with pupils with additional support needs,including dyslexia. The priority is to tailor educational provision to meet theneeds of the individual pupil. A further £13.5 million is being issued over 2007-08to allow local authorities to co-ordinate and provide continuing professional developmentfor teachers.

Question reference: S3W-03457

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 17 August 2007
Current Status: Answered by Adam Ingram on 6 September 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are taken to ensure that children with dyslexia are properly identified.

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