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Question reference: S4W-13048

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many manufacturing jobs have been (a) lost and (b) created in (i) Ayrshire, (ii) Renfrewshire, (iii) Dunbartonshire, (iv) Lanarkshire and (v) Inverclyde in each year since 1997.

The information requested is not available.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-13053 on 13 March 2013, which provides estimates of manufacturing employee jobs by local authority area. 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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx

Question reference: S4W-13053

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what the level of employment in manufacturing has been in the (a) Renfrewshire, (b) Inverclyde, (c) North Ayrshire, (d) East Dunbartonshire and (e) West Dunbartonshire local authority area in each year since 1997.

Table 1 shows the level of manufacturing employee jobs in the requested local authority areas, and those areas referred to in the answer to question S4W-13048 on 13 March 2012. The data are sourced from the Annual Business Inquiry (ABI) and the Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES). The ABI commenced in 1998 and BRES commenced in 2009. The manufacturing sector is defined using Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes.

The data provided are not entirely consistent over time. There are two main breaks in the data. The first main break occurs between 2002 and 2003 on account of the change from SIC 1992 codes to SIC 2003 codes. The second main break occurs between 2008 and 2009 on account of the change from SIC 2003 codes to SIC 2007 codes and the change in source from ABI to BRES. These changes may give rise to discontinuities, and as such the data is not strictly comparable across the series breaks.

Table 1: Employee Jobs, Manufacturing Sector, by Local Authority Area

Year	East Ayr- shire	East Dunbar-tonshire	East Renfrew-shire	Inver-clyde	North Ayr-shire	North Lanark-shire	Renfrew-shire	South Ayr-shire	South Lanark-shire	West Dunbar-tonshire
1998	7,400	2,900	1,800	6,100	10,900	19,600	16,900	9,000	24,800	5,600
1999	7,200	3,300	1,400	8,700	10,300	20,500	15,700	8,500	23,300	5,400
2000	6,300	2,800	1,400	7,700	9,300	18,700	14,900	7,000	24,400	4,000
2001	6,200	2,900	1,800	6,900	9,700	17,500	12,700	6,100	20,400	4,100
2002	5,900	2,400	1,400	5,400	8,000	16,000	12,600	6,100	19,100	3,800
2003	5,600	2,600	1,300	3,600	7,400	15,600	11,100	5,200	18,000	3,400
2004	4,600	2,500	1,300	2,500	6,700	14,500	10,400	5,900	17,400	3,200
2005	4,300	2,700	1,000	2,100	6,400	14,300	10,600	5,900	17,800	3,100
2006	4,600	2,600	1,000	2,200	5,800	15,000	9,800	5,300	16,800	3,100
2007	5,000	2,700	900	2,000	5,600	14,800	9,800	5,600	16,800	2,700
2008	3,800	2,700	800	2,800	5,500	14,700	8,600	5,300	15,500	2,400
2009	3,200	1,800	900	2,800	4,200	12,200	8,100	4,900	13,600	2,500
2010	3,100	1,400	800	1,900	3,900	10,200	7,500	4,500	11,600	2,300
2011	3,100	1,400	1,000	1,700	4,100	11,300	7,800	4,600	12,300	2,300

Sources:

1998 to 2002 – Annual Business Inquiry, Office for National Statistics – Manufacturing defined on a SIC 1992 basis.

2003 to 2008 - Annual Business Inquiry, Office for National Statistics – Manufacturing defined on a SIC 2003 basis.

2009 to 2011 – Business Register and Employment Survey, Office for National Statistics – Manufacturing defined on a SIC 2007 basis.

Notes:

1. Data are rounded to the nearest 100.

2. Data are not consistent over time due to the change in SIC codes and the underlying source.

3. For 1998 to 2005 the data are as at December each year. For 2006 onwards the data are as at September each year.

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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

Question reference: S4W-13051

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether productivity in the manufacturing sector has increased or decreased in each year since 1997.

Table 1 shows Gross Value Added (GVA) per employee for the manufacturing sector in Scotland. The data are sourced from the Annual Business Survey (ABS), which provides estimates from 1998 to 2010.

The manufacturing sector is defined using Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes.

The data are not entirely consistent over time, mainly on account of a change in the SIC codes between 2008 and 2009. Data for manufacturing on a SIC 2003 basis are provided from 1998 to 2008, and data for manufacturing on a SIC 2007 basis are provided from 2008 to 2010.

Table 1: GVA per employee, Manufacturing Sector, Scotland

In current prices: not adjusted for inflation

Year	GVA per employee (SIC 2003 based)¹	GVA per employee (SIC 2007 based)²
1998	38,969
1999	36,494
2000	37,816
2001	39,036
2002	43,593
2003	46,694
2004	52,046
2005	54,144
2006	61,402
2007	60,774
2008	64,584	65,919
2009		66,848
2010		71,033

Source: Annual Business Survey, Office for National Statistics. Compiled by the Scottish Government

Notes:

1. Manufacturing sector defined in terms of Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) 2003 as Divisions 15-37.

2. Manufacturing sector defined in terms of Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) 2007 as Divisions 10-33.

3. Figures for 2008 on both a SIC 2003 and SIC 2007 basis have been provided for comparison.

The size of the manufacturing sector has reduced under SIC 2007 compared to SIC 2003. At the Scotland level, manufacturing employee data reduced by around 6% and manufacturing Gross Value Added by around 4% in 2008.

5. Gross Value Added (GVA) per Employee is calculated by dividing GVA (at Basic Prices) by Total Employees. The GVA data used to calculate the figures in table is in current prices i.e. it has not been adjusted for inflation.

Question reference: S4W-13055

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how much investment from outside of Scotland there has been and how many jobs have been created in the (a) retail, (b) energy, (c) commercial property, (d) construction, (e) environmental waste management and (f) hotel, leisure and recreation sector in each year since 2007.

The information requested is not available.

However, the Scottish Government’s Businesses in Scotland publication does include an estimate of the number of enterprises operating in Scotland that are foreign owned and rest of the UK owned, alongside estimates of Scottish employment and Scottish turnover for these enterprises.

These estimates broken down by industrial sector are available from Table 3 of the Businesses in Scotland publication, available at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Business/Corporate/table3sic07

Question reference: S4O-01908

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 March 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the recent announcement of a school meals sourcing summit, when the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment will meet local authorities to discuss the sourcing and standard of food in schools.

Question reference: S4W-13050

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 5 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether industrial production in the manufacturing sector has increased or decreased in each year since 1997.

This information can be derived from the latest (2012 Quarter 3) Scottish Quarterly Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Publication, which was released on 1February 2013 and can be found on the Scottish Government website at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Economy/GDP2012Q3.

Scottish GDP (output measure) is now published on the basis of the 2007 Standard Industrial Classification and 2009 Input-Output Gross Value Added weights.

With regards to annual data, a consistent time series for manufacturing production (in real terms) is available for the period 1998-2011. The published index of manufacturing production for Scotland is reported in Table 1.

Table 1. Index of Manufacturing Production, 1998-2011

(seasonally adjusted, chained volume measure of Gross Value Added at basic prices)

1998	108.5
1999	105.3
2000	101.2
2001	100.9
2002	97.3
2003	93.9
2004	97.6
2005	100.2
2006	105.6
2007	107.2
2008	108.8
2009	100.0
2010	103.8
2011	105.2

Using the index in Table 1, annual growth rates of output from the manufacturing sector have been calculated and reproduced in Table 2 for each year since 1999.

Table 2. Year-on-Year Change in Manufacturing Production, 1999-2011

1999	-2.9%
2000	-3.9%
2001	-0.2%
2002	-3.6%
2003	-3.5%
2004	4.0%
2005	2.6%
2006	5.4%

2007	1.5%
2008	1.5%
2009	-8.1%
2010	3.8%
2011	1.3%

Question reference: S4W-13054

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 5 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many planning appeals in the (a) energy, (b) retail, (c) commercial property, (d) housing, (e) environmental waste management and (f) hotel, leisure and recreation sector ministers have considered since May 2011 and with what outcome.

Question reference: S4W-11205

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 28 February 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the report on BBC Newsnight Scotland on 13 November 2012, whether it has sought legal advice in relation to the former chair of Stow College.

Question reference: S4W-12827

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 27 February 2013

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason residents associations are not allowed to represent their estates as a whole at homeowner housing panels.

Residents association bodies cannot represent their estates as a whole because section 17 of the Property Factors (Scotland) Act 2011 (the Act) provides that it is homeowners themselves who have the right to make an application to the Homeowner Housing Panel (HoHP).

However, regulation 7(1) of the Homeowner Housing Panel (Applications and Decisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (SSI 2012/180) provides that homeowners may act in person or be represented by any person. This means that if the homeowner so wished, he or she could choose to be represented by someone from a residents association.

Further, regulation 9(2) provides that when two or more applications by different homeowners relating to the same property factor are pending at the same time, the homeowner housing committee may direct them to be heard together. Therefore, if multiple homeowners from the same estate wished to apply at the same time regarding the same matter, there is nothing to prevent a residents association providing support and co-ordination to this group of applicant homeowners.

Question reference: S4O-01758

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Current Status: Answered by Frank Mulholland on 30 January 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the Lord Advocate has had with the Advocate General concerning the agreement between the UK and Scottish governments on an independence referendum.

	Number of appeal decisions	Number of appeals allowed
Energy	92	27
Retail	19	11
Commercial property	17	12
Housing	148	53
Environmental waste management	5	3
Hotel, leisure and recreation	13	6