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Over the last five yearsfrom 2001-2002 until 2005-2006, the number of rail passenger journeys startingand finishing at Stirling station from all stations within Scotlandare:

	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Journeys to Stirling station	597,636	579,401	607,417	671,849	757,464
Journeys from Stirling station	747,601	726,717	795,811	901,320	998,081

 

Based on work to date, we estimate Stirling Council will receive£91,000 worth of e-planning systems from the E-Planning Efficient Government Programme.

Information on the location andnumber of staff employed in the headquarters of non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs),is contained on the Public Bodies and Appointments website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/introduction

There are no Executiveagencies with headquarters based in Stirling. However, some of the Executive’s 17 agencies have regionalor area offices, e.g. Historic Scotland. Details of staff employed in regional orarea offices of Executive agencies are not held centrally. Information is availabledirectly from individual organisations with links to agency websites and contactdetails provided on the public bodies website.

I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-32484 on 28 March 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliamentswebsite, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

Estimated levels of carbon dioxideemissions for 2004 at local authority and regional level are available in a reportentitled Local and Regional CO₂ Emissions Estimates for 2004 for theUK produced for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).These experimental statistics present estimated emissions in a number of differentways, including by area and per capita.

A copy of the report is availableon the Defra website at:

www.defra.gov.uk/environment/statistics/globatmos/.

Changing Our Ways: Scotland’sClimate Change Programme, published by the Scottish Executive in March 2006,details the Executives strategic approach to tackling climate change. A copyis available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 39288).

The first annual report, Scotland’s Climate Change Programme:Annual Report 2007, was laid before the Scottish Parliament on 8 March.A copy is available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 42132).

The following table contains the informationrequested.

Teenage Pregnancies¹in NHS Forth Valley in 2005 by Postcode Sector

NHS Board/Postcode Sector	Percentage2,3	95% Confidence Interval4
		Lower	Upper
Forth Valley NHS Board	11.1	10.1	12.4
EH49 6	6.3	0.0	18.1
EH49 7	-	-	-
EH51 0	15.6	7.5	23.7
EH51 9	11.5	5.4	17.7
FK1 1	2.6	0.0	7.7
FK1 2	17.5	10.6	24.5
FK1 3	31.8	12.4	51.3
FK1 4	19.6	11.5	27.7
FK1 5	5.1	0.7	9.4
FK10 1	21.4	11.8	31.0
FK10 2	11.7	7.2	16.2
FK10 3	14.4	7.4	21.4
FK10 4	28.6	13.6	43.5
FK11 7	8.3	0.0	19.4
FK12 5	14.5	5.2	23.9
FK13 6	15.7	7.2	24.2
FK14 7	8.7	0.0	20.2
FK15 0	-	-	-
FK15 9	7.1	0.4	13.9
FK16 6	-	-	-
FK17 8	-	-	-
FK18 8	-	-	-
FK19 8	20.0	0.0	55.1
FK2 0	6.3	2.7	9.9
FK2 7	8.1	3.3	12.9
FK2 8	5.9	1.7	10.2
FK2 9	17.6	10.9	24.3
FK20 8	16.7	0.0	46.5
FK21 8	40.0	0.0	82.9
FK3 0	21.3	12.1	30.6
FK3 8	7.7	1.8	13.6
FK3 9	15.0	6.0	24.0
FK4 1	11.4	5.3	17.5
FK4 2	7.3	0.4	14.1
FK5 3	12.3	4.3	20.3
FK5 4	5.0	1.6	8.4
FK6 5	10.8	4.2	17.5
FK6 6	10.5	2.6	18.5
FK7 0	15.9	7.3	24.6
FK7 7	14.4	8.7	20.1
FK7 8	21.3	11.0	31.6
FK7 9	10.6	4.4	16.9
FK8 1	9.1	3.4	14.8
FK8 2	-	-	-
FK8 3	8.1	1.3	14.8
FK9 4	5.2	0.0	10.9
FK9 5	6.5	0.3	12.6
G63 0	-	-	-
G63 9	2.6	0.0	7.5
KY13 0	-	-	-

ISD Scotland Data Source: SMR01 & SMR02 ref:IR2007-00695/S2W-32475.

Notes:

1. Females aged under 20.

2. Percentage of all pregnancies in each postcode sector.

3. Where the number of teenage pregnancies were between oneand four the data have been barnardised. This involves some of the non-zero cellsbeing randomly modified by the addition or subtraction of one.

4. Due to the wide variationof size of postcode sectors and the number of pregnancies within each area confidenceintervals have been given. This is to reflect the high degree of chance variationdue to small numbers. The 95% confidence interval suggests that there is a 95% probabilitythat the true underlying rate lies somewhere between the upper and lower confidenceinterval.

It should be noted that the successfulimplementation of Delivering for Health (launched in October 2005) is already bringingabout a fundamental shift in the balance of care. This, quite appropriately, placesa greater emphasis on anticipatory care so that those at risk of ill health receivethe services they need. In effect, the NHS in Scotland is no longer waiting forpeople to become ill, then sending them to hospital for urgent treatment. Instead,the Executive and NHS is doing more than ever before to encourage people to leadhealthy lives, and spotting and dealing with poor health before it can develop intosomething more serious. When people do need treatment, the Executive and NHS arecommitted to delivering more of it closer to home in local communities.

Operations are carried out withinNHSScotland in a wide range of settings dependent on a number of factors includingthe complexity of the operation and the clinical and personal needs of the patient.

Thenumber of operations and procedures undertaken as in-patients or day cases is publishedon the ISD Scotland website at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/files/Annual_trends_in_surgical_procedures_hbt_February2007.xls.

All procedures undertaken in NHS Forth Valley can be selected using the procedure and NHS board of treatment menus withinthe file. From April 2003, NHS Forth Valley reclassified some minor procedures andendoscopies previously coded as day case procedures to out-patient procedures.

Operations can also be performed inan out-patient setting. From April 2003, the national reporting of surgical activityin out-patients has been required and ISD Scotland has been working with NHS boardsto develop full compliance nationally. At this stage only a proportion of boardshave achieved extensive coverage and further work will be necessary before a completeaccount of all out-patient surgical activity can be made. Emerging findings fromthe data collection for out-patient procedures are published in the data developmentsection of the ISD Scotland website at:

http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4454.html.

The requested information is not available.

Information onthe number of attendances at each accident and emergency centre in NHS Forth Valleyis shown in the following table.

Table 1: Accident and Emergency Attendancesin NHS Forth Valley by Hospital; Years Ended 31 March 2000 to 2006

Hospital/Location	Year Ending 31 March:
	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006P
Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary	40,662	40,959	41,626	39,623	38,386	39,136	30,121
Stirling Royal Infirmary	35,909	35,583	35,602	35,596	36,644	38,172	43,149
Total	76,571	76,542	77,228	75,219	75,030	77,308	73,270

^PProvisional.