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Information for all NHS boards in Scotland is not currently available. For those NHS areas where data is available, the following tables show the levels of obesity amongst pre-school children (aged 3 to 3.5 years) and school children (at primary 1, primary 7 and secondary 3).

High BMI Distribution (>=95th Centile) In Pre-School Children: Those Born In 2000 Who Have Received a 39-42 Month Review¹

NHS Board	Year of Birth = 2000
No. Examined	Obese (>=95th centile)
Number	%
Total	32,314	2,663	8.2
Argyll and Clyde	2,937	261	8.9
Ayrshire and Arran	2,373	204	8.6
Borders	784	63	8.0
Dumfries and Galloway	1,120	87	7.8
Fife	2,668	217	8.1
Forth Valley	2,296	220	9.6
Greater Glasgow	6,389	517	8.1
Lanarkshire	4,199	357	8.5
Lothian	6,400	514	8.0
Tayside	3,148	223	7.1

Source: CHSP-Pre School ISD Scotland February 2005.

Note: 1. A routine review of child's development usually carried out by Health Visitor/GP at around 39 to 42 months.

High BMI Distribution (>=95th Centile) In School Children: Those who Have Received a Review² At P1(4 to 5yrs), P7(11 to 12yrs) And S3 (14 to 15yrs) During School Year 2003-04

NHS Board	Class Year	School Year = 2003/04
No. Examined	Obese (>=95th centile)
Number	%
Total	P1	15,046	1,380	9.2
	P7	12,176	2,238	18.4
	S34	8,334	1,427	17.1
Argyll and Clyde	P1	402	43	10.7
	P7	384	70	18.2
	S33	N/A	N/A	N/A
Borders	P1	1,024	79	7.7
	P7	1,289	224	17.4
	S3	1,088	203	18.7
Fife	P1	3,394	315	9.3
	P7	3,725	681	18.3
	S3	2,825	477	16.9
Lanarkshire	P1	6,270	579	9.2
	P7	6,612	1,208	18.3
	S3	4,421	747	16.9
Tayside	P1	3,956	364	9.2
	P7	166	55	33.1
	S33	N/A	N/A	N/A

Source: CHSP-School ISD Scotland February 2005.

Notes:

2. A routine review of child's development usually carried out by School Nurse/Doctor.

3. S3 information for Argyll and Clyde and Tayside NHS Boards is not available.

4. Excludes Argyll and Clyde and Tayside NHS Boards.

The Executive is making revenue funding of £112,000 available to each of the four regional neurology centres in Scotland. Following bidding we are currently finalising details with the centres for the distribution of capital funding of £2.5 million.

Drawing on the successful “Action-On” methodology used in England and Wales, this revenue funding will support clinical leads and project managers to redesign  outpatient services and introduce new ways of working. Capital funding will enable the centres to refurbish premises and purchase additional equipment to support the redesigned services. We are making the funding available on the understanding that it will deliver clear benefits for patients, particularly in terms of reduced waiting times.

Figures are given in the Annual Reports published by Family Mediation Scotland (FMS). In general, these relate to the number of people who contact local services for information or advice of any kind, not of the final numbers who proceed to mediation (though the report for 2001 does distinguish these, as noted below). Not all the figures have been collated in the same way since 1999.

	2000	2001*	2002	2003
Family Mediation Borders	158	308	297	638
FM Central	325	500	680	587
FM Dumfries and Galloway	169	221	261	127
FM Fife	392	321	70	523
FM Grampian	352	X(1)	X(1)	X(1)
FM Highland	588	768	637	460
FM Lothian	2,377	1,330	1,367	2,000
FM Orkney	107	19	97	113
FM Shetland	48	50	X(2)	X(2)
FM South Lanarkshire (from 2002)	X(3)	X(3)	109	240
FM Tayside	534	553	543	650
FM West	1,151	1,034	1,337	1,063
Counselling and Mediation Western Isles	97	29	76	145

Notes:

*In the report for 2001, the total number of all new contacts was given as 5,133, of which 628 mediation cases were started:

X(1): Figures not provided to FMS.

X(2): Service not operational.

X(3): Service not operational until 2002.

The FMS report for 2004 provides a chart showing the distribution of cases across services but does not give figures of either initial contact or mediation cases.

We have outlined various non-legislative proposals to complement the Family Law Bill, including a possible telephone helpline or information service on family relationship issues. Before allocating any funding for a helpline project we will discuss key questions with stakeholders, including the added value of a helpline on family relationships, the links with existing helplines for parents, step-parents and children, and impact on service provision at local level. We will also take account of the current scoping study of telephone helpline services by Parenting across Scotland. We are also currently looking at options for providing web-based information to improve the availability of information about family law and support services in Scotland.

This Information is not held centrally.

This information is not heldcentrally.

The Scottish Further EducationFunding Council recently approved the business case made by Borders College to re-locateon a shared campus with Heriot-Watt. The business case contained alternative optionsfor the college should the co-location proposal not take place.

Ministers and the fundingcouncil continue to fully support the development of such collaborative ventures.

Every request for informationwhich the Scottish Executive receives is handled in accordance with the Freedomof Information (Scotland) Act 2002. Most requests for information are handledroutinely and are not recorded or counted centrally. However, in line with centrallyproduced guidance, some requests for information are recorded centrally. Up to 18February approximately 600 such requests have been recorded by the bodies coveredby Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 1 to the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act2002 (excluding the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Parliamentary CorporateBody).

The Scottish Executive and eachpublic authority within its responsibility must handle all requests for informationin line with the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and respond to them within 20 days. Requestsfor information are not all centrally monitored so figures for the average timetaken to respond cannot be provided.

Every request for informationwhich the Scottish Executive receives is handled in line with the Freedom of Information(Scotland) Act 2002. As all requests are handled in the same way regardless of thesource of the request we do not generally record aggregated data on the sourcesof requests for information. However, of the approximately 600 requests recordedcentrally, as set out in the answer to question S2W-14682 on 9 March 2005, approximatelytwo-thirds originated from the media.

All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for whichcan be found at http://www.scottish.parliament/webapp/wa.search.