- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the contributions to the economy of communities outwith the major cities.
Answer
The Scottish Executive regularly considers the contribution to the economy of different communities in a number of ways using available statistics. One approach is to look at Gross Value Added (GVA). The Office of National Statistics (ONS) estimates of GVA are published by local area, and are shown in the table below for 2001. From this it can be seen that 30% of total Scottish GVA was created in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The estimates are calculated on a workplace basis, i.e. income is allocated to an area based on where people work rather than where they live. Therefore areas with high levels of inward commuting will have higher values and so these figures do not fully explain the contributions to the economy from local areas.
GVA by NUTS3 Area, Scotland 2001 (£ million)
| Area | Total GVA | Percentage of Scottish total |
| Scotland | 69,179 | 100% |
| Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and North East Moray | 9,711 | 14.0% |
| Angus and Dundee City | 3,119 | 4.5% |
| Clackmannanshire and Fife | 4,003 | 5.8% |
| East Lothian and Midlothian | 1,528 | 2.2% |
| Scottish Borders | 994 | 1.4% |
| Edinburgh, City of | 9,954 | 14.4% |
| Falkirk | 1,760 | 2.5% |
| Perth and Kinross and Stirling | 2,673 | 3.9% |
| West Lothian | 2,410 | 3.5% |
| East and West Dunbartonshire and Helensburgh and Lomond | 1,948 | 2.8% |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1,521 | 2.2% |
| East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire Mainland | 2,480 | 3.6% |
| Glasgow City | 11,059 | 16.0% |
| Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire | 4,148 | 6.0% |
| North Lanarkshire | 3,215 | 4.6% |
| South Ayrshire | 1,434 | 2.1% |
| South Lanarkshire | 3,546 | 5.1% |
| Caithness and Sutherland and Ross and Cromarty | 806 | 1.2% |
| Inverness and Nairn and Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey | 1,170 | 1.7% |
| Lochaber, Skye and Lochalsh and Argyll and the Islands | 952 | 1.4% |
| Eilean Siar (Western Isles) | 264 | 0.4% |
| Orkney Islands | 198 | 0.3% |
| Shetland Islands | 286 | 0.4% |
Source: ONS
Figures are shown in 2001 basic prices and are on a workplace basis.
Last year, Scottish Executive statisticians produced the publication Social Focus on Urban Rural Scotland, which analysed many aspects of life in Scotlandcomparing cities, urban and rural areas. This can be found on the Scottish Executive website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00257-00.asp.In particular, the labour market chapter compares economic activity rates. Forexample, in 2002, 64% of economically active people lived outside the four maincities (compared with 63% of the working age population).
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to vary the amount payable under its graduate endowment scheme.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-5756 on 9 February 2004.All answers to written parliamentary questionss are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications for adoption of children have been granted in each year since 1999 and what the average age of child adopted was in each year.
Answer
The figures requested werepublished by the Scottish Executive on 18 March 2003 see
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00243-00.asp)
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on West Lothian Council's support for a full community and health care partnership building on the success of its integrated trust model, the joint future arrangements for community services expanded to include appropriate services for children, the health improvement agenda and the West Lothian Community Planning Partnership and whether the Scottish Executive will issue guidance to ensure that West Lothian Council representation on such a community and health care partnership's management committee includes trade union representatives and a politically-balanced representation of elected members.
Answer
The establishment of communityhealth partnerships is dependent on the passage of the NHS (Reform) ScotlandBill. The views of a wide range of stakeholders have been taken into account inpreparing the draft legislation and the guidance which will describe thegovernance arrangements for community health partnerships. When the legislationis in place NHS boards will be required to submit to Ministers proposals forthe establishment of community health partnerships in the NHS board’s area. Itwould not be appropriate to comment on a particular model for a community healthpartnership until the legislation is in place and the proposals from NHS boardshave received full consideration.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) psychologists and (b) people offering psychiatric assistance, provided mental health services for looked after children in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many looked after children did not have a social worker in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. However, in his third annual report
Progress with Complexity,published in January this year, the Chief Social Work Inspector found that of atotal of around 11,400 looked after children and young people in Scotland, severalhundred have no social worker (see
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/social/prco.pdf).Audit Scotland also published information on children onsupervision requirements without an allocated social worker in their follow upreport on dealing with youth offending published in November 2003 seehttp://www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/publications/pdf/2003/03pf11ag.pdf.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the specialist burns unit and associated plastic surgery facility at St John's Hospital will be retained at no less than their current operational scope and si'e.
Answer
Decisions about the scaleand configuration of healthcare services are matters for NHS boards, withinnational priorities and guidelines. In planning services, boards are obliged totake account of the assessed current and future needs of patients, and the existingand planned pattern of service provision regionally, and, where appropriate,nationally.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, under the review of burns treatment facilities by the Deputy Chief Medical Officer following a similar review in England, it will ensure that St John's Hospital will be designated as a burns unit and that there will not be a negative impact on St John's Hospital as a result of any redesignation of burns services.
Answer
Any decisions about thefuture configuration of the burns service at St John’s are primarily for NHSLothian, in consultation with relevant clinicians.
The clinically-led review ofburns treatment facilities is looking at current Scottish burns capacity, withparticular reference to severity and length of stay, and in the light of theintroduction of managed clinical networks in a range of clinical services in Scotland.The aim of the review, which is expected to reach conclusions soon, is tomaximise the effectiveness of burns services across Scotland.Any proposal to alter significantly the existing pattern of burns serviceswould be the subject of public consultation. It would not be appropriate for meto comment further at this stage.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will meet West Lothian and North Lanarkshire councils to discuss the case for a balanced city region approach and address any problems and issues that face the substantial urban economies of the central belt.
Answer
Officials from the Enterprise,Transport and Lifelong Learning Department of the Scottish Executive met recently with representatives from North Lanarkshire and West Lothian councilsto discuss economic development and collaboration in their areas and arewilling to engage further as appropriate.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children have been in foster care placements in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The table below shows the number of looked after children in foster care on 31 March, in each year between 1999 and 2003.
| Local Authority Area | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |
| Aberdeen City | 210 | 155 | 120 | 130 | 95 |
| Aberdeenshire | 90 | 115 | 110 | 115 | 115 |
| Angus | 75 | 75 | 65 | 85 | 95 |
| Argyll and Bute | 35 | 30 | 25 | 30 | 40 |
| Clackmannanshire | 35 | 30 | 35 | 35 | 35 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 120 | 105 | 125 | 125 | 145 |
| Dundee City | 125 | 150 | 120 | 120 | 125 |
| East Ayrshire | 30 | 55 | 70 | 65 | 85 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 5 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 10 |
| East Lothian | 55 | 65 | 80 | 75 | 80 |
| East Renfrewshire | 10 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 10 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 305 | 330 | 325 | 320 | 340 |
| Eilean Siar | 10 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 15 |
| Falkirk | 90 | 85 | 100 | 85 | 105 |
| Fife | 180 | 160 | 190 | 185 | 200 |
| Glasgow City | 655 | 685 | 640 | 715 | 705 |
| Highland | 180 | 115 | 110 | 105 | 95 |
| Inverclyde | 30 | 30 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
| Midlothian | 50 | 55 | 40 | 45 | 50 |
| Moray | 95 | 55 | 60 | 55 | 60 |
| North Ayrshire | 60 | 45 | 75 | 55 | 60 |
| North Lanarkshire | 120 | 135 | 145 | 140 | 135 |
| Orkney Islands | 5 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 5 |
| Perth and Kinross | 65 | 50 | 55 | 65 | 65 |
| Renfrewshire | 80 | 70 | 80 | 85 | 105 |
| Scottish Borders | 75 | 65 | 70 | 80 | 80 |
| Shetland Islands | 10 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| South Ayrshire | 20 | 30 | 35 | 50 | 55 |
| South Lanarkshire | 80 | 80 | 70 | 75 | 80 |
| Stirling | 60 | 60 | 60 | 55 | 55 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 70 | 70 | 60 | 70 | 70 |
| West Lothian | 120 | 105 | 145 | 120 | 135 |
| Scotland | 3,155 | 3,058 | 3,084 | 3,170 | 3,288 |
Notes:
1. Figures are rounded to the nearest five, to preserve confidentiality.
2. Table excludes children on a planned series of short term placements.
3. Table includes rounded estimates for local authorities not able to provide information.
