- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2007
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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.
Answer
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.
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2007
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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.
Answer
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.
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2007
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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.
Answer
Information for eachyear since 1994-95 is published on the Scottish Government Income and Poverty website:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Social-Welfare/IncomePoverty/CoreAnalysis.Information for previousyears in not held centrally.
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2007
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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.
Answer
We do not currentlyhold data for average life expectancy for male and females in Scotland broken down by income decile.
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 5 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) individuals, (b) families and (c) children it estimates are in the three lowest income deciles identified in The Government Economic Strategy.
Answer
It is estimated thatthere are (a) 1,500,000 individuals, (b) 860,000 families and (c) 350,000 children in the three lowest income deciles.
These estimates werecalculated using the Department for Work and Pensions’ 2005-06 Family ResourcesSurvey.
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 3 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average journey times will be between Croy and Edinburgh Waverley in the event of the Glasgow to Edinburgh main line being electrified and what the comparable average journey times are at present.
Answer
The improvementsproposed for the main Edinburgh to Glasgow line are part of a managed programme of change, providing a moreefficient and greener rail network in Central Scotland,delivering faster journey times, increased capacity and more services. It istoo early in the design of the scheme to produce a detailed timetable. However,the target for Edinburgh to Glasgow journey times is a reduction from around 50 minutes to around 35minutes.
At present theaverage journey time between Croy and Edinburgh Waverley is 38.5 minutes.
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 3 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual passenger numbers were at (a) Croy, (b) Cumbernauld, (c) Greenfaulds, (d) Falkirk High and (e) Polmont railway stations in each of the last 25 years.
Answer
The ScottishExecutive do not hold the information requested.
ScottishMinisters became responsible for the ScotRail Franchise in November 2005. Passengercounts are carried out as part of the First ScotRail Franchise for trainplanning purposes. The passenger counts carried out in 2006 returned thefollowing figures for average usage of the stations.
| Station | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Croy | 3,585 | 3,031 | 990 |
| Cumbernauld | 873 | 797 | 135 |
| Greenfaulds | 357 | 352 | 77 |
| Polmont | 1,985 | 1,855 | 821 |
| Falkirk High | 2,728 | 3,065 | 1,394 |
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 3 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average journey times will be between Falkirk High and (a) Glasgow Queen Street and (b) Edinburgh Waverley in the event of the Glasgow to Edinburgh main line being electrified and what the comparable average journey times are at present.
Answer
The improvementsproposed for the main Edinburgh to Glasgow line are part of a managed programme of change, providing a moreefficient and greener rail network in Central Scotland,delivering faster journey times, increased capacity and more services. It istoo early in the design of the scheme to produce a detailed timetable. However,the target for Edinburgh to Glasgow journey times is a reduction from around 50 minutes to around 35minutes.
The averagejourney time between Falkirk High and Glasgow Queen Streetat present is 23.5 minutes.
The averagejourney time between Falkirk High and Edinburgh Waverley at present is 32.5minutes.
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 3 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average journey times will be between Polmont and (a) Glasgow Queen Street and (b) Edinburgh Waverley in the event of the Glasgow to Edinburgh main line being electrified and what the comparable average journey times are at present.
Answer
The improvementsproposed for the main Edinburgh to Glasgow line are part of a managed programme of change, providing a moreefficient and greener rail network in Central Scotland,delivering faster journey times, increased capacity and more services. It istoo early in the design of the scheme to produce a detailed timetable. However,the target for Edinburgh to Glasgow journey times is a reduction from around 50 minutes to around 35minutes.
The averagejourney time between Polmont and Glasgow Queen Streetat present is 28 minutes.
The averagejourney time between Polmont and Edinburgh Waverley at present is 30.5 minutes.
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 3 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what gross domestic product per capita was in (a) 1950, (b) 1960, (c) 1970, (d) 1980, (e) 1990, (f) 2000 and (g) the most recent year for which figures are available and what comparative information it has for (i) each EU member state and (ii) each OECD nation.
Answer
Gross Domestic Product(GDP) per capita data are available for Scotland from 1989 onwards. Table 1 presents Scottish GDP per capita data for1990, 2000, and 2005, which is the most recent year. Table 2 presentscomparative information for the EU member states for 2005. Information onearlier years is available from the Eurostat web site at the following link:
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page?_pageid=1090,30070682,1090_33076576&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTALData on the OECDcountries are available from the OECD web site:
http://stats.oecd.org/wbos/default.aspx?datasetcode=SNA_TABLE1Table 1: GVA perhead, Scotland and UK,£, current prices
| Scotland | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 |
| £8,507 | £13,256 | £16,944 |
Source:ONS.
Notes:GVA is equalto GDP at basic prices.
Table 2: GDP percapita, measured in Purchasing Power Standards (PPS), 2005
| Ranking | Economy | PPS |
| 1 | Luxembourg | 58,800 |
| 2 | Ireland | 32,200 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 29,500 |
| 4 | Austria | 28,700 |
| 5 | Denmark | 28,200 |
| 6 | Belgium | 27,500 |
| 7 | United Kingdom | 26,700 |
| 8 | Sweden | 26,600 |
| 9 | Germany | 25,600 |
| 10 | Finland | 25,600 |
| 11 | France | 25,500 |
| 12 | Italy | 23,600 |
| 13 | Spain | 22,900 |
| 14 | Cyprus | 20,900 |
| 15 | Greece | 19,400 |
| 16 | Slovenia | 19,400 |
| 17 | Czech Republic | 17,200 |
| 18 | Malta | 17,000 |
| 19 | Portugal | 16,900 |
| 20 | Hungary | 14,500 |
| 21 | Estonia | 14,000 |
| 22 | Slovakia | 13,400 |
| 23 | Lithuania | 12,000 |
| 24 | Poland | 11,400 |
| 25 | Latvia | 11,200 |
| 26 | Bulgaria | 7,900 |
| 27 | Romania | 7,700 |
Source:Eurostat.
Notes:These estimates for GDP per capita are measured in Purchasing Power Standards(PPS). PPS is a statistical currency unit produced by Eurostat which takesaccount of the different cost of living between countries and adjusts GDP percapita accordingly.
