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Public health risks associatedwith the transport and handling of Defence Nuclear Materials are addressed by provisionscurrently in place.

TheMOD maintains contingency plans to deal with accidents and conducts regular nuclearaccident response exercises designed to test these plans.

The Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information)Regulations 2001 sets down the requirements and responsibilities of operators, carriersand local authorities in responding to a reasonably foreseeable radiation emergency.

The Scottish Government is opposedto a replacement system for trident.

The numbers of applicant householdsassessed as homeless under the homelessness legislation by local authorities areshown in the following table.

Number of ApplicationsAssessed as Homeless by Local Authority: 1996-97 to 2005-06

	1996-97	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Scotland	24,700	27,000	29,000	29,900	29,500	32,800	35,067	36,711	34,866	36,625
Aberdeen City	830	920	1,030	1,160	1,080	990	844	806	659	1,099
Aberdeenshire	740	700	690	750	650	660	667	629	731	754
Angus	340	330	450	380	280	320	446	538	531	550
Argyll and Bute	320	260	250	250	230	370	515	561	561	658
Clackmannanshire	150	150	280	320	350	410	376	408	512	600
Dumfries and Galloway	420	450	390	590	530	650	780	801	860	842
Dundee City	630	630	550	510	530	520	415	366	378	342
East Ayrshire	330	400	420	370	400	460	671	692	808	734
East Dunbartonshire	290	260	250	250	250	250	258	321	258	364
East Lothian	390	390	380	390	340	340	435	436	462	561
East Renfrewshire	60	100	100	180	130	150	122	195	246	261
Edinburgh, City of	2,640	2,840	3,150	3,560	3,680	3,700	3,816	4,283	4,192	4,291
Eilean Siar	100	130	70	100	60	70	124	130	173	155
Falkirk	470	570	720	890	940	950	1,021	992	809	1,000
Fife	1,170	1,540	1,940	1,840	1,640	2,020	2,326	2,827	2,626	2,732
Glasgow City	9,320	10,260	10,570	10,250	10,150	12,030	11,038	10,624	8,439	8,634
Highland	370	390	370	380	530	550	791	1,220	1,293	1,352
Inverclyde	250	320	280	200	210	240	364	550	430	510
Midlothian	370	340	390	310	280	330	405	427	494	485
Moray	90	190	110	180	210	270	546	384	412	347
North Ayrshire	420	530	580	700	680	860	1,382	1,296	1,112	1,082
North Lanarkshire	1,030	1,000	1,360	1,080	1,030	1,170	1,649	1,972	2,763	2,881
Orkney	60	70	70	80	60	80	50	65	88	87
Perth and Kinross	130	120	120	230	430	440	654	362	307	391
Renfrewshire	310	270	180	440	630	470	565	652	689	633
Scottish Borders,The	480	390	410	410	420	440	388	598	470	530
Shetland	140	120	100	80	110	120	109	107	76	76
South Ayrshire	640	580	600	640	590	620	551	554	552	546
South Lanarkshire	860	1,070	1,090	1,020	990	1,030	1,335	1,402	1,267	1,402
Stirling	570	660	690	630	510	500	505	455	535	520
West Dunbartonshire	220	290	370	550	590	700	835	860	1,133	1,230
West Lothian	570	710	1,050	1,260	1,040	1,070	1,084	1,198	1,000	976

Source: HL1 returns by localauthorities to the Scottish Executive Communities Analytical Services Directorate.

Notes:

1. All applications within periodassessed as homeless (excluding potentially homeless).

2. Some households may have appliedseveral times during the period, and will be counted more than once.

3. Data prior to 2002 are estimateddue to missing returns (rounded to the nearest 100 for Scotland leveland the nearest 10 for local authority level).

4. Due to the live nature of the data collection system, figures are updated on a continuous basis and the informationpublished here may differ from that published previously.

In presenting statistics onsuicides it is conventional to combine deaths classified as intentionalself-harm (suicides) with those classified as events of undetermined intent.This is because the majority of the latter are likely to have been suicides.The following table provides information on this basis.

Deaths Caused by IntentionalSelf-Harm and Events of Undetermined Intent¹ Scotland,2001-05

Age and Gender	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Persons	887	899	794	835	763
(a) by gender
Males	646	676	578	609	549
Females	241	223	216	226	214
(b) by age group
Under 25	129	132	104	101	107
25 - 34	177	208	159	136	142
35 - 44	228	204	194	240	192
45 - 54	149	137	143	163	131
55 - 64	101	110	92	95	96
65 and over	103	108	102	100	95

Note:1.ICD10 codes X60-X84, Y10-Y34, Y87.0, Y87.2.

The Scottish Executive willlook at what steps are required to give greater responsibilities to communitycouncils.

With regard to any statutorydevolution of budgets and decision-making powers to community councils, the Executive intends to seek the views of Parliament and relevant stakeholders inorder to identify any consensus for going forward.

We are committed to workingwith education professionals to help every child, in every school, achievetheir full potential.

Affordable housing is broadlydefined in Scottish Planning Policy 3: Planning for Housing as follows“Housing of reasonable quality that is affordable to people on modest incomes. Insome places the market can provide some or all of the affordable housing that isneeded, but in other places it is necessary to make housing available at a costbelow market value, to meet an identified need.”

The main categories of affordablehousing are set out in Planning Advice Note 74, available on the Executive’swebsite at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/03/20796/54073.

Affordability, in terms of therents and prices paid by tenants and purchasers, varies from one location to anotherso should be determined in a way which takes account of incomes at the local level.

The police budget for2007-08 is over £1 billion. Chief constablesare responsible for planning the use of the resources available to them to deliver the full range of policingactivities including dealing with the detection and deterrence of migrantcriminals from other member states.

Progression on the six-pointChartered Teacher salary scale typically involves one-off costs of around £1,200in return for an automatic increase of between £774 and £1,436 per annum inpensionable salary - overall £7,161 above the top of the unprompted teachers’scale. While no comprehensive survey has been conducted into the relativeimpact of cost or other factors in relation to uptake, Audit Scotland(2006) found that 74% of recently qualified teachers said they were likely toparticipate in the scheme.

Cost issues will beconsidered as part of the current review of the Chartered Teacher project.

The recruitment of head teachers is a matter for local authorities asemployers, however the changing demographics of the teaching profession and thesocietal expectations of public sector leaders will both have been contributoryfactors in changing levels of applications for head teacher posts.

All head teachers andprospective head teachers need to demonstrate they are performing in line withthe standard for headship (SfH).). The most common means of demonstratingperformance in line with the SfH is via the Scottish Qualification for Headship(SQH). The 2006 teacher census shows that there were 310 non head teachers whohad gained the SQH compared with 248 in 2005. There were also another 390 onthe programme.

The Scottish Executiveprovides local authorities with £4 million a year to help teachers achieve theSfH and also funds more general leadership programmes and activities tosupplement funding which local authorities target to this area.

Information on the use of specificdrugs in individual patients or patient groups is not held centrally.