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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-06742

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 18 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many students are studying for a degree in social work, broken down by local authority area.

In 2001-02 there were 2,820 students studying Social Work at degree level or above, within Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Scotland. Of this total 1,533 were postgraduate students and 1,287 were first degree level students. The distribution by local authority of these students is given in Table 1:

Table 1: Social Work* Students studying at postgraduate and First Degree level within HEIs in Scotland by Local Authority of HEI, 2001-02

Local Authority Area	Total
Total	2,820
City of Edinburgh	226
City of Aberdeen	458
Renfrewshire	466
City of Glasgow	738
City of Dundee	737
City of Stirling	195

Source : Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

Note: *Social Work is taken from the Social Studies subject grouping. This includes Social Work as a single, joint or combined subject within the social studies group of subjects.

Question reference: S2W-06741

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Euan Robson on 18 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to raise awareness of the fast track scheme for social work students, as announced on 12 February 2004.

Advertisements for theGraduate Fast Track Scheme appeared in the recruitment pages of:

The Herald, The Scotsman, the Press & Journaland the Dundee Courieron 13 February;

the Sunday Herald, Scotland on Sunday and the SundayTimes on 15 February;

Metro on 17, 19 and 24 February;

Works for Me, The Orcadian, Highland News Group and Johno’ Groats Journal on 19 February;

The Northern Times, West Highland Free Press, Shetland Times and Orkney Today on 20February;

The Southern Reporter on 4 March; and

The Dumfries &Galloway Standard on 5 March.

Four hundred postersadvertising the scheme were distributed to contact names and organisationsprovided by the Council for Racial Equality and to delegates who had attendedthe 10 February Glasgow conference on Informed Choices: Positive Opportunities.

The scheme is alsoadvertised on the website of the Scottish Institute for Excellence in SocialWork Education, www.sieswe.org, the webpagesof the National Workforce Group for social work & social care staff in Scotland:

www.scotland.gov.uk/acaringworkforceand on www.careinscotland.co.uk,the website of the Care in Scotland campaign.

Question reference: S2W-06195

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 19 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what it estimates the average annual cost is of policing potentially sectarian events such as marches and football matches.

Question reference: S2W-06193

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 15 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans to roll out the joint campus schools initiative across Scotland.

Question reference: S2W-06194

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 10 March 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to encourage action to address the issue of women being paid, on average, 16% less than men.

The gender paygap for full-time hourly earnings in Scotland was16% in 2003, down from 19% in 2002.

The Executive continues tobe committed to working with the Equal Opportunities Commission, the ScottishTrade Union Congress and other partners in the Close the Gap campaign to raiseawareness about the pay gap between women and men in Scotland andencourage activity to reduce it. This includes encouraging employers to carryout equal pay audits or reviews.

As an employer, the Scottish Executive is leading by example. It completed a gender equal pay review in April2003 and will have an ongoing programme of monitoring and evaluating theExecutive’s pay and reward system to ensure that it is free from any form of discrimination.

Question reference: S2W-06098

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 27 February 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the #175 million regeneration fund for local authorities that make a commitment to housing stock transfer will be made available to Glasgow Housing Association Ltd.

Question reference: S2O-01333

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Frank McAveety on 26 February 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on sectarianism in sport in Scotland and its implications for tourism and inward investment.

The Scottish Executive willencourage and, where it can, assist any measures likely to make an effectivecontribution to combating sectarianism within sport and elsewhere.

Sportingevents do play a part in the promotion of Scotland as a tourist destination but there is nothing to suggest that sectarianismin sport has any impact on this. Similarly, we are not aware that it has had aneffect on any inward investment projects.

Question reference: S2W-06097

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 February 2004
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 26 February 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to review the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and, if so, whether such a review will consider whether additional bodies such as registered social landlords should be brought under the remit of the act.

Question reference: S2W-03887

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 November 2003
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 25 February 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual income of the Golden Jubilee Hospital is from “marginal hotel” charges made to NHS trusts that send patients to the hospital for cardiac surgery.

The Golden Jubilee NationalHospital has charged all relevant NHS boards for activity it has performedsince 1 July 2003. The plan for the current financial year shows ananticipated income of approximately £464,000, based on an average cost of £3,000per cardiac procedure, for the nine months from 1 July 2003 to 31 March 2004. Thisassumes 156 procedures are performed for NHSScotland in that period.

Question reference: S2W-05853

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 January 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 10 February 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients were diagnosed as having an eating disorder in each NHS board area in each of the last four years.