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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: S3W-07030

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 11 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on what the population has been in each European (EU-15) member state in (a) 1950, (b) 1960, (c) 1970, (d) 1980, (e) 1990, (f) 2000 and (g) 2007 and what the Scottish population was in the same periods.

The populations ofeach of the EU-15 member states and of Scotland are provided in the table below. Figures for EU member states are from theEurostat website (http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/)and are as at 1 January. Figures for Scotland are from theGeneral Register Office for Scotland (www.gro-scotland.gov.uk)and are as at 30 June.

Populations ofEU-15 Countries and Scotland (000)

Country	a	b	c	d	e	f	g
Country	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	2000	2007
EU-15	N/A	314,862	339,975	354,568	363,493	375,550	389,952
Austria	6,926	7,030	7,455	7,546	7,645	8,002	8,299
Belgium	8,639	9,129	9,660	9,855	9,948	10,239	10,585
Denmark	4,251	4,565	4,907	5,122	5,135	5,330	5,447
Finland	3,988	4,413	4,614	4,771	4,974	5,171	5,277
France	41,647	45,465	50,528	53,731	56,577	58,850	61,538
Germany	68,376	72,543	78,269	78,180	79,113	82,163	82,315
Greece	7,566	8,300	8,781	9,584	10,121	10,904	11,172
Ireland	2,969	2,836	2,943	3,393	3,507	3,778	4,315
Italy	N/A	50,026	53,685	56,388	56,694	56,924	59,131
Luxembourg	295	313	339	363	379	434	476
Netherlands	10,027	11,417	12,958	14,091	14,893	15,864	16,358
Portugal	8,437	8,826	8,698	9,714	9,996	10,195	10,599
Spain	28,009	30,327	33,588	37,242	38,826	40,050	44,475
Sweden	6,986	7,471	8,004	8,303	8,527	8,861	9,113
UK	50,616	52,200	55,546	56,285	57,157	58,785	60,853
Scotland	5,115	5,178	5,214	5,194	5,081	5,063	5,138

Note: The 2007 figurefor Scotland is taken from the 2006-based national populationprojections. The mid-year population estimate for 2007 will be published in April2008.

Question reference: S3W-07028

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 11 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on what the average European (EU-15) population growth is forecast to be from 2007 to 2017.

Question reference: S3W-07129

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 11 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-5931 by Stewart Stevenson on 12 November 2007, what the projected traffic growth is for the two stretches of road from 2004 to 2014.

Question reference: S3W-07127

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 11 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-5931 by Stewart Stevenson on 12 November 2007, whether it is satisfied that the surrounding road network has sufficient capacity to cope with traffic diverted from the upgraded A80/M80 route.

Question reference: S3W-07128

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 11 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-5931 by Stewart Stevenson on 12 November 2007, whether the answer indicates that there is no specific designated alternative route for the upgraded A80/M80 route in the event of emergency or closure.

Question reference: S3W-07027

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 6 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what initiatives it has planned that are designed to counter the finding on page 14 of The Government Economic Strategy that “despite rising skill levels over the past twenty years, there has not been an accompanying rise in the level of influence which employees report they can exercise over their jobs”.

Question reference: S3W-07026

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 6 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what median gross weekly earnings have been in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

The preferredsource for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings(ASHE), which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics. The latestearnings available are April 2007.

I have placedtables from ASHE containing the median gross weekly full-time earnings by localauthority area for 1999-2007 in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib.number 44176).

The data arebased on place of work as place of residence statistics are not available priorto 2002.

Question reference: S3W-06995

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 5 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to encourage the widest possible geographic spread of training bases for participating teams at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

The Scottish Governmentis committed to ensuring that benefits from the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Gamesare felt across Scotland, and will work with the Games Organising Companyand local authorities to enable this.

A Commonwealth GamesAssociation (CGA) Services team will be set up within the OrganisingCompany to look after the needs of the visiting CGAs. This will include advisingthem of which Scottish facilities would best suit their athletes training needs.

Question reference: S3W-07025

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 5 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of income was held by those in the three (a) lowest and (b) highest income deciles identified in The Government Economic Strategy in (i) 1950, (ii) 1960, (iii) 1970 and (iv) each year since 1980.

Question reference: S3W-07024

Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 5 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average life expectancy is for (a) males and (b) females in the three (i) lowest and (ii) highest income deciles identified in The Government Economic Strategy.