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The recent teacher recruitment advertising campaign had the twin objectives of improving the perception of teaching as a worthwhile and rewarding career and increasing the numbers of talented people entering the teaching profession.All of the Scottish Executive's teacher recruitment activity is designed to appeal to the widest possible range of potential teachers including mature new entrants. It should be noted that 70% of callers responding to the most recent campaign in October this year were in the 25 to 44 age group.The success of the campaign in meeting its objectives will be judged, firstly by monitoring the numbers of applicants for the 2002-03 academic session and secondly by monitoring changes in public perception, through a System 3 survey completed in November 2001 and currently under analysis.

The information requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Executive. The following information has been supplied by the British Transport Police in respect of crimes and offences occurring on or near railway lines.Crimes and Offences occurring on or near railway lines reported and recorded by the British Transport Police

Crime/Offence	1997-98		1998-99		1999-2000		2000-01
	Reported	Detected	Reported	Detected	Reported	Detected	Reported	Detected
Endangering Safety	21	14	21	12	28	10	42	8
Obstruction	84	10	82	4	67	3	63	4
Throwing Missile	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Vandalism1	797	48	736	56	316	32	278	39
Trespass	2,165	657	1,796	505	1,769	333	1,927	368
Stone throwing 2	591	30	516	25	556	22	650	28

Source: British Transport Police.Notes:1. Vandalism covers a wide range of offences and includes all forms of damage to trains. The decreases which are evidenced have been caused by changes in recording practice adopted by the British Transport Police.2. Stone throwing is a generic term and relates to any minor item thrown at rolling stock and the railway infrastructure which does not cause any damage.

The Scottish Executive employs:(a) 74 persons (0.5% of staff) with a self-declared hearing disability,(b) 90 persons (0.6% of staff) with a self-declared visual disability and(c) No figures are available on the number of deafblind staff employed.

The latest figures (August to October 2001) show the employment level for all people over 16 in Scotland to be 2,382,000. The equivalent figure in 1997 was 2,317,000. This is an increase of 65,000.

The Scottish Executive is currently involved in the development and implementation of improved ethnicity monitoring of staff. A comprehensive survey of ethnicity information for all staff has recently been undertaken, and information from that will be available within the next few months.

This year the Scottish Executive mounted the first ever major national teacher recruitment advertising campaign, with the twin objectives of improving the public perception of teaching as a worthwhile and rewarding career and increasing the number of talented people entering the profession.The success of the campaign in meeting its objectives will be judged firstly by monitoring the numbers of applicants for the 2002-03 academic session and secondly by monitoring changes in public perception, through a System 3 survey completed in November 2001 and currently under analysis.

The Scottish Executive core departments employ 2,187 women, which represents 50% of the core workforce.The Scottish Executive as a whole, including agencies and associated departments, employs 6,168 women. This represents 41% of the total workforce.

The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the UK Government on a wide range of issues, including European Union proposals.

The Scottish Executive provides funding to the Scottish Road Safety Campaign for the production of key road safety education materials and publicity campaigns. In the current financial year the campaign expects to spend about £200,000 on drink drive publicity and research into attitudes to drinking and driving.

The performance targets targets set for planning authorities are detailed in National Planning Policy Guideline No1: The Planning System. They include the target of determining 80% of major applications within four months.