- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 25 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what average (a) annual earnings and (b) house prices have been in each year since 1979.
Answer
Table 1 provides median annual earnings and average house price from 1979-2006 which is the most recent whole year that data is available for. 2007 data is due to be available in April.
The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics. ASHE was developed to replace the New Earnings Survey (NES) from 2004, which included improvements to the coverage of employees. NES data for 2003 back to 1998 has been reworked using the ASHE methodology in order to provide a consistent time series from 1998 onwards. However, the data does not take account of the improved coverage. Data prior to 1998 is from NES and is not directly comparable with ASHE data. Data relates to full-time employees only.
Average dwelling price has been drawn from the Regulated Mortgage Survey. Data up to and including 1992 was based on returns from building societies only. Data from 1993 onwards are based on returns from all mortgage lenders. From September 2005, data are collected via the Regulated Mortgage Survey (RMS) of the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML)/BankSearch.
Table 1
| Year | Median Annual Earnings | Average House Price |
| 1979 | £4,550 | £19,371 |
| 1980 | £5,585 | £21,754 |
| 1981 | £6,344 | £23,014 |
| 1982 | £6,942 | £22,522 |
| 1983 | £7,504 | £23,818 |
| 1984 | £8,096 | £25,865 |
| 1985 | £8,622 | £26,941 |
| 1986 | £9,183 | £28,242 |
| 1987 | £9,771 | £29,591 |
| 1988 | £10,634 | £31,479 |
| 1989 | £11,513 | £35,394 |
| 1990 | £12,688 | £41,744 |
| 1991 | £13,796 | £48,772 |
| 1992 | £14,908 | £50,010 |
| 1993 | £15,434 | £49,568 |
| 1994 | £15,642 | £50,651 |
| 1995 | £16,297 | £53,143 |
| 1996 | £16,895 | £56,674 |
| 1997 | £17,514 | £57,883 |
| 1998 | £16,318 | £63,585 |
| 1999 | £17,108 | £69,312 |
| 2000 | £17,597 | £69,961 |
| 2001 | £18,465 | £73,570 |
| 2002 | £19,328 | £77,655 |
| 2003 | £19,828 | £103,641 |
| 2004 | £20,301 | £118,932 |
| 2005 | £21,247 | £129,631 |
| 2006 | £22,261 | £137,192 |
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 19 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are circumstances under which Scottish ministers can act as bail guarantor for Scottish citizens under criminal charge in foreign jurisdictions and, if so, what they are.
Answer
No, there are no such circumstances.
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 19 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many overseas visits each official in the Financial Partnerships Unit, or predecessor equivalent, has undertaken since 1999, broken down by (a) purpose and (b) cost of each visit.
Answer
This information was the subject of a Freedom of Information request in November 2007 and is still current. The response provided can be accessed on the Scottish Government Financial Partnership Unit''s website under the sub-heading PPP miscellaneous.
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/Finance/18232/FOI.
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 19 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-7640, S3W-7639 and S3W-7637 by John Swinney on 13 December 2007, what categories of information about PFI/PPP contracts entered into by (a) the Scottish Government, (b) local authorities and (c) NHS boards are held centrally.
Answer
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 25 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how the additional funding for wheelchair services allocated in each year of the spending review will be distributed, broken down by (a) NHS board, (b) parliamentary constituency and (c) local authority within Central Scotland region and what the funding levels would be without the additional allocation.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-8593 on 25 January 2008. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Fire Brigades Union on pension entitlement for its members.
Answer
My officials and I have had anumber of meetings with the Fire Brigades Union to discuss a range of subjects.These discussions have included pensions issues.
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 24 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans exist to educate children on how to use the internet safely.
Answer
The Scottish Government wantschildren and young people to make full use of the internet and is committed to ensuringthat they are able to do so in a safe and responsible manner.
Wecontinue to work with a number of agencies to raise children and young people’sawareness about how to “surf safely”. Learning and Teaching Scotland provides adviceon school policies for internet use and access and links to a number of websitesthat provide advice on internet safety. Respectme the national bullying servicerecently published advice on the use of the internet to prevent cyber bullying.Chatsafer, a Scottish Government information website, is a parental guide to saferchatting on the web. “Safe and Well” guidance, whichissued to schools in 2005, includes good practice guidance on computer safety.
As part of our on-going commitmentto protect children, the draft outcomes and experiences for technology, which willbe published later this year as part of the work on the curriculum review, are likelyto include opportunities for teachers to develop young people’s knowledge of safeand responsible use of the internet.
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 18 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the criteria will be for a person to be eligible for receipt of the kinship care allowance.
Answer
A kinship carer of a looked afterchild and approved by the local authority will be eligible for receipt of an allowanceequivalent to the rate paid by the local authority to its foster carers.
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 14 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals or households are still liable for community charge arrears, showing the total amount of such arrears, broken down by (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority area in the Central Scotland parliamentary region.
Answer
Information relating to the numberof individuals or households still liable for community charge is not held centrally.Information relating to the total amount of community charge outstanding for eachlocal authority area partly or wholly in the Central Scotland parliamentary regionis given below. (Such data are not held centrally for parliamentary constituencies).
Community Charge AmountsOutstanding
| Council Area | Amount Outstanding (£000) |
| East Ayrshire | 7,668 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 4,268 |
| Falkirk | 5,105 |
| North Lanarkshire | 25,314 |
| South Lanarkshire | 31,272 |
Notes:
Includes water charges.
Amount outstanding at September2007.
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 December 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 9 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what alternatives are available to local authorities, NHS boards and government agencies that do not wish to use PFI/PPP contracts for infrastructure development.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3O-1086 on 1 November 2008. All answers to oral parliamentaryquestions issued as written answers are available on the Parliament’s website, thesearch facility for which can be found at. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
