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Information on graduate destinations by location is only available from the Higher Education Statistics Agency''s (HESA) Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education Survey (DLHE) for those who find employment.

Of those graduates from Scottish universities (including Scottish domiciles at Open University), who graduated in the academic year 2006-07 and who were employed six months after graduating 4,325 (18%) reported in the survey that they were employed outside Scotland. The corresponding figures for those graduating in academic years 2005-06 and 2004-05 are 4,210 and 4,250 respectively. This includes students from outside Scotland who came to Scotland to study.

HESA reports overall response rates for the surveys of; 76%, 75% and 75% for 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07 respectively.

The above figure has been rounded to the nearest five for data protection purposes. Percentage figures are calculated from unrounded data and rounded to the nearest whole percent.

Forestry Commission Scotland will continue to encourage the engagement of communities in forestry. The commission achieves this through its partnerships with local groups on the national forest estate, by providing specific SRDP funding to help private owners and community groups to get involved in the management and enjoyment of woods, and through the funding of the Community Woodland Association.

Scottish Enterprise (SE) has an important role in working collaboratively with industry and the rest of the public sector to help address the challenges facing Scotland''s businesses, particularly in helping them cope with the rapidly changing economic environment.

Although SE has no specific statutory role in ensuring the occupancy of commercial property,it does assist companies in identifying appropriate properties to meet their requirements. Any enquiries from businesses looking for property that are received via Business Gateway and Scottish Development International are provided with a comprehensive list of available property that meets their criteria. This is not restricted to property that is owned by SE, but includes all available property regardless of ownership.

Additionally, SE provides support to the urban regeneration companies in Scotland, many of which have plans for the acquisition and redevelopment of obsolete property, and ensures that our own property projects do not compete with private sector development activity.

Information on the number of employee jobs by industry is collected each year from the Annual Business Inquiry (ABI), which is the official source of employee jobs data. The most recent year for which data is available is 2006. The ABI does not include self-employed jobs.

(a) Table 1 shows the number of employee jobs in the software industry by parliamentary constituency.

Table 1: Employee Jobs in the Software Industry by Scottish Parliamentary Constituency, 2006

Constituency	Number	Constituency	Number
Aberdeen Central	400	Glasgow Baillieston	*
Aberdeen North	400	Glasgow Cathcart	*
Aberdeen South	100	Glasgow Govan	300
Airdrie and Shotts		Glasgow Kelvin	2,500
Angus		Glasgow Maryhill	200
Argyll and Bute	100	Glasgow Pollok	100
Ayr	100	Glasgow Rutherglen
Banff and Buchan	100	Glasgow Shettleston	*
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross		Glasgow Springburn	100
Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley		Gordon	200
Central Fife	100	Greenock and Inverclyde	100
Clydebank and Milngavie	100	Hamilton North and Bellshill	300
Clydesdale	100	Hamilton South	100
Coatbridge and Chryston		Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber	600
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth	400	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Cunninghame North	100	Kirkcaldy
Cunninghame South	100	Linlithgow	800
Dumbarton		Livingston	500
Dumfries		Midlothian	100
Dundee East	200	Moray
Dundee West	200	Motherwell and Wishaw
Dunfermline East	300	North East Fife	100
Dunfermline West	300	North Tayside
East Kilbride	200	Ochil	200
East Lothian	100	Orkney and Shetland**	*
Eastwood	100	Paisley North	200
Edinburgh Central	800	Paisley South	100
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh	100	Perth	100
Edinburgh North and Leith	1,600	Ross, Skye and Inverness West	100
Edinburgh Pentlands	700	Roxburgh and Berwickshire	100
Edinburgh South	200	Stirling	200
Edinburgh West	400	Strathkelvin and Bearsden	100
Falkirk East	100	Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale	200
Falkirk West	100	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	300
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale	100	West Renfrewshire	400
Glasgow Anniesland	100	Western Isles	*
		Total	16,300

Source: Annual Business Inquiry.

Notes:

1. The data are for SIC (1992) codes 72.20 and 22.33.

2. The reference date for the ABI in 2006 was changed from December to September.

3. These data are based on employee jobs rather than people in employment i.e. one person may have more than one job. They do not include self employed jobs.

4. Data are rounded to the nearest 100.

5. ABI data are workplace based.

*Data suppressed as potentially disclosive. Data are suppressed under the Statistics of Trade Act 1947 where the identity of an enterprise who made a statistical return could be deduced.

**It has not been possible to analyse Orkney and Shetland separately. The data has been obtained from the Nomis website, as the microdata are not held centrally.

  Represents figures of less than 50.

(b) Table 2 shows the number of employee jobs in the software industry by local authority area.

Table 2: Employee Jobs in the Software Industry by Local Authority Area, 2006

Local Authority	Number
Aberdeen City	1,000
Aberdeenshire	600
Angus
Argyll and Bute	100
Clackmannanshire	100
Eilean Siar	*
Dumfries and Galloway	100
Dundee City	400
East Ayrshire	100
East Dunbartonshire	200
East Lothian	100
East Renfrewshire	100
Edinburgh, City of	3,900
Falkirk	200
Fife	800
Glasgow City	3,400
Highland	700
Inverclyde	100
Midlothian	100
Moray
North Ayrshire	200
North Lanarkshire	800
Orkney Islands	*
Perthshire and Kinross	100
Renfrewshire	600
Scottish Borders	200
Shetland Islands	*
South Ayrshire	100
South Lanarkshire	400
Stirling	300
West Dunbartonshire	100
West Lothian	1,300
Total	16,300

Source: Annual Business Inquiry.

Notes:

1. The data are for SIC (1992) codes 72.20 and 22.33.

2. The reference date for the ABI in 2006 was changed from December to September.

3. These data are based on employee jobs rather than people in employment i.e. one person may have more than one job. They do not include self employed jobs.

4. Data are rounded to the nearest 100.

5. ABI data are workplace based.

* Data suppressed as potentially disclosive. Data are suppressed under the Statistics of Trade Act 1947 where the identity of an enterprise who made a statistical return could be deduced.

  Represents figures of less than 50.

As at end-November 2008, the VisitScotland.com website (www.visitscotland.com) lists 7,190 quality assured accommodation providers. Approximately 1,000 of these have chosen to have an online booking facility through the VisitScoland.com''s booking engine and more than 600 are small businesses that have purchased the Web-In-A-Box tool.

Data on the number of hotels and guest houses listed on VisitScotland.com who have chosen to offer an online booking facility through the VisitScotland.com''s booking engine are listed at table 1 and 2. Table 3 provides a breakdown of all types of accommodation providers.

The total number of tourist beds available through these online booking facilities can vary depending on the season and how many beds individual providers offer via this particular booking method.

Information is not available broken down by local authority area, but is shown by each of the marketing regions used by the website.

VisitScotland.com re-launched the website in April 2008, providing direct access for consumers to the individual accommodation providers on the Visitors Guide and opening new booking enquiries channels through the Travel Shop. Substantial growth has been achieved on the overall number of e-mail enquiries and also direct enquiries to accommodation providers.

Table 1: Hotels

Marketing Region	Listed on VisitScotland.com	Online Booking Facility
Aberdeen	94	23
Angus and Dundee	30	11
Argyll and Stirlingshire	100	47
Edinburgh and Lothians	115	75
Fife	40	16
Greater Glasgow and Lanark	90	49
Highlands and Skye	166	77
Orkney	15	0
Perthshire	67	34
Shetland	8	7
South of Scotland	119	46
Western Isles	15	8
Total	859	393

 

Table 2: Guest Houses

Marketing Region	Listed on VisitScotland.com	Online Booking Facility
Aberdeen	59	11
Angus and Dundee	14	4
Argyll and Stirlingshire	117	29
Edinburgh and Lothians	156	81
Fife	32	3
Greater Glasgow and Lanark	31	8
Highlands and Skye	150	65
Orkney	15	1
Perthshire	60	16
Shetland	10	1
South of Scotland	93	30
Western Isles	20	3
Total	757	252

 

Table 3: By Type of Accommodation

Category	Listed on VisitScotland.com	Online Booking Facility
Hotel	859	393
Guest Houses	757	252
B&B''s	1,409	181
Self catering	3,298	101
Others	867	102
Total	7,190	1,029

 

The number of people charged with fraud in each of the last five years is given in the following table:

Persons Proceeded Against in Scottish Courts for Fraud¹, 2002-03 to 2006-07

	Proceeded Against	Charge Proved
2002-03	1,604	1,459
2003-04	1,589	1,444
2004-05	1,516	1,355
2005-06	1,376	1,245
2006-07	1,379	1,178

Note: 1. Where fraud is the main offence.

It should be noted that identity theft offences are included within fraud offences and are not recorded separately.

Details on the progress of the Scottish Governments Simplification Programme can be found at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/Simplification-Tracker.

Accountable Officers are designated by the Permanent Secretary of the Scottish Government in his role as the Principal Accountable Officer for the Scottish Administration. As a general rule Accountable Officers are designated - either on a statutory or non-statutory basis - where the accounts of the public bodies concerned are laid before the Parliament for consideration. Accountable Officers are not designated for those public bodies that do not prepare accounts e.g. nearly all tribunal or advisory non-departmental public bodies.

A report on serious fraud was published on 13 May 2008 by Her Majesty''s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMICS). The report made a number of recommendations aimed at improving how the police work with their partners to tackle serious fraud, which can include cases of identity theft.

One of the report''s recommendations was that the Scottish Government consult with stakeholders, including the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service and the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (ACPOS), to make certain that legislation, process and interventions relating to fraud in Scotland are no less comprehensive or robust than they are elsewhere in the UK.

An ACPOS-led Working Group, which will include representatives of the Scottish Government, is being established to take forward all of the report''s recommendations.

It is an operational matter for the police and Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service to determine the priority they attach to investigating and prosecuting fraud, which includes identity theft.