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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S2W-26725

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 09 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 21 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what additional funding was provided to (a) NHS Greater Glasgow and (b) NHS Highland for national initiatives outwith its annual budget allocation in each year from 1999-2000 to 2005-06.

Question reference: S2W-26724

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 09 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 21 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual allocation of resources was to (a) NHS Greater Glasgow and (b) NHS Highland from 1999-2000 to 2005-06.

Details are as follows:

	NHS Greater Glasgow (£ Million)	NHS Highland (£ Million)
1999-2000	800.079	171.762
2000-01	864.156	184.198
2001-02	951.162	204.907
2002-03	1,034.677	222.063
2003-04	1,101.880	244.851
2004-05	1,280.160	302.818
2005-06	1,370.302	330.287

Question reference: S2W-26726

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 09 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 21 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the allocation of resources was to (a) NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and (b) NHS Highland for 2006-07.

Question reference: S2W-26793

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Colin Boyd on 20 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Victim Information and Advice (VIA) service routinely provides support for families of victims involved in fatal accident inquiries and, if so, how the service is publicised.

Victim Information andAdvice (VIA) can provide a service to families of victims involved in FatalAccident Inquiries. The specific availability of this service is referred to incorrespondence advising families of initial enquiries into the death by the ProcuratorFiscal and more generally publicised on the Crown Office and Procurator FiscalService (COPFS) website at www.copfs.gov.ukand in COPFS leaflets providing general information about VIA.

Question reference: S2W-26791

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what additional funding has been allocated for modern apprenticeships in (a) West Dunbartonshire and (b) Argyll and Bute in each year since 2003.

The amount of fundingallocated for modern apprentices (MA) in a particular local authority area,parliamentary constituency or by year is an operational matter for ScottishEnterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. This information is not heldcentrally.

At the 2002 spending review,the Executive allocated an additional £25 million pounds to the enterprisenetworks for the period 2003 to 2006 to increase the number of modernapprentices in training.

The enterprise networks publishtheir annual reports and accounts which contain the total expenditure on learningand skills, of which the MA programme is a part. These can be found at:

http://www.scottish-enterprise.com/sedotcom_home/about_se/research-and-publications.htm#annual_report_and_accountsand http://www.hie.co.uk/corporate-publications.htm.

Question reference: S2W-26789

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have benefited from the New Deal in each year since 1999 in (a) West Dunbartonshire, (b) Argyll and Bute and (c) the Dumbarton parliamentary constituency.

Table 1 provides informationon the number of individuals who started a New Deal programme broken down by typeof programme for West Dunbartonshire in each year since 1999. Tables 2 and 3 provide the sameinformation for Argyll and Bute and Dumbarton Scottish Parliamentary Constituency.

Data on New Deal for DisabledPeople are not available by detailed geography so data on this programme are notincluded in the tables.

Table 1 Number ofIndividuals Starting New Deal programmes by Type of Programme, West Dunbartonshire, 1999-2005

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
New Deal for Young People (NDYP)	330	360	350	380	350	490	490
New Deal 25plus (ND25+)	190	220	400	400	370	390	340
New Deal for Lone Parents (NDLP)	130	130	120	240	310	370	500
New Deal 50plus (ND50+)	N/A	N/Av	N/Av	N/Av	N/Av	130	40
New Deal for Partners (NDP)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	-	-

Source: Department for Work andPensions, Information Directorate

Notes:

1. Figures are rounded to thenearest 10.

2. Individuals are placed inthe year in which they first started the programme.

“N/A” Not Applicable, “N/Av”Not Available, “-” nil or negligible.

Table 2 Number of IndividualsStarting New Deal Programmes by Type of Programme, Argyll and Bute, 1999-2005

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
New Deal for Young People (NDYP)	210	230	250	210	230	250	260
New Deal 25plus (ND25+)	160	150	230	230	230	240	300
New Deal for Lone Parents (NDLP)	70	50	80	160	140	160	280
New Deal 50plus (ND50+)	N/A	N/Av	N/Av	N/Av	N/Av	60	90
New Deal for Partners (NDP)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	20	20

Source: Department for Work andPensions, Information Directorate

Notes:

1. Figures are rounded to thenearest 10.

2. Individuals are placed inthe year in which they first started the programme.

“N/A” Not Applicable, “N/Av”Not Available

Table 3 Number of individualsstarting New Deal programmes by type of programme, Dumbarton, 1999-2005

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
New Deal for Young People (NDYP)	240	280	250	260	220	300	330
New Deal 25plus (ND25+)	130	150	260	240	220	230	260
New Deal for Lone Parents (NDLP)	100	80	70	160	190	200	310
New Deal 50plus (ND50+)	N/A	N/Av	N/Av	N/Av	N/Av	60	40
New Deal for Partners (NDP)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	-	-

Source: Department for Work andPensions, Information Directorate.

Notes:

1. Figures are rounded to thenearest 10.

2. Individuals are placed inthe year in which they first started the programme.

“N/A” Not Applicable, “N/Av”Not Available, “-” nil or negligible.

Question reference: S2W-26621

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 20 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the annual (a) regeneration and (b) social inclusion partnership (SIP) budget was allocated to SIPs in the (i) West Dunbartonshire and (ii) Argyll and Bute local authority area in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-26707

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 09 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people in the Dumbarton parliamentary constituency have gone into jobs from the New Deal.

The following table sets outthe number of people who have moved into jobs in Dumbarton through the various NewDeal programmes since their introduction.

Programme	Individuals into Jobs in Dumbarton
New Deal for Young People (NDYP)	1,580
New Deal 25 plus (ND25+)	600
New Deal for Lone Parents (NDLP)	820
New Deal 50 plus (ND50+)	120
New Deal for Partners (NDP)	10

Source: Department for Work andPensions, Information Directorate.

Notes:

1. Figures are rounded to thenearest ten.

2. Figures for NDYP ND25+ andNDLP are the cumulative totals to November 2005.

3. Figure for ND50+ is the cumulativetotal from April 2003 to February 2006.

4. The NDP figure is the cumulativetotal from April 2004 to February 2006.

5. Data are not available atconstituency level for New Deal for the Disabled.

Question reference: S2W-26719

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 09 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many modern apprenticeships have been taken up by residents of the (a) West Dunbartonshire and (b) Argyll and Bute local authority area in each year since 1999.

The number of modern apprentices(MAs) broken down by local authority area and by year is an operational matter forScottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. This information is not heldcentrally.

However, Scottish Enterprisehave published MA figures which include the parliamentary constituency of Dumbartonas well as Dunbartonshire local enterprise company area. These are now in the publicdomain and can be found on their website:

www.scottish-enterprise.com/sedotcom_home/training-providers-top/training-providers/performance-and-reports.htm?siblingtoggle=1.

Question reference: S2W-26711

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 09 June 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on (a) police forces, (b) fire brigades and (c) the prison service in the (i) Argyll and Bute and (ii) West Dunbartonshire local authority area in each year since 1999.

The available information isshown in the following tables. There are no prison establishments in either of theselocal authority areas.

Net revenue expenditure on policeforces and fire brigades in the Argyll andBute and West Dunbartonshire local authority areas from 1999-2000

Police Forces

1999-2000

(£ Million)

2000-01

(£ Million)

2001-02

(£ Million)

2002-03

(£ Million)

2003-04

(£ Million)

2004-05

(£ Million)

Argyll and Bute

8.302

8.172

8.501

8.304

9.830

9.678

West Dunbartonshire ¹

11.935

12.033

12.547

24.775

27.648

27.490

Source: Local Financial Returns.

Note: 1. Large increase from2002-03 due to change in accounting practice.

Fire Brigades

1999-2000

(£ Million)

2000-01

(£ Million)

2001-02

(£ Million)

2002-03

(£ Million)

2003-04

(£ Million)

2004-05

(£ Million)

Argyll and Bute

3.027

3.117

3.364

3.550

3.866

4.052

West Dunbartonshire

5.482

5.642

6.092

6.428

6.989

7.339

Source: Local Financial Returns.