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The Action Plan for improvingoral health and modernising NHS DentalServices in Scotland was published in March 2005. This document outlined themain preventive actions towards improving oral health of children in Scotland, includingdiet, oral care and toothbrushing with a fluoride toothpaste.

A range of preventive programmesare in place to address tooth decay among primary school children in Glasgow, includingtooth brushing in nursery and primary schools and the distribution of preventivepacks to children on starting school.

Dental programmes are linkedto health promoting programmes such as Hungry for Success, Health Promoting Schools and pre-schoolpromotion of healthy foods and drinks.

The Executive has put in placea range of measures to address tooth decay in young children through An ActionPlan for improving oral health and modernising NHS Dental Services in Scotlandlaunched in March 2005.

Initiatives include: the distributionof preventive dental packs to every child under 12 months, to infants aged oneto three years in areas of deprivation and to every child starting nursery and primaryschool, and a programme of daily toothbrushing with a fluoride toothpaste in nurseriesand targeted primary schools.

We also support a range of healthyeating and healthy drinks initiatives targeted at children and parents.

These measures are further complementedby two national demonstration programmes in the East and West of Scotland, whichprovide more intensive support for children at highest risk of dental decay.

Towards Better Oral Healthin Children, a consultation publishedby the Scottish Executive in September 2002, set out the main determinants of oralhealth of children in Scotland. The consultation identified the main cause of dentaldecay as the high sugar diet consumed by Scottish children. It also sought viewson how to enhance preventive treatments, the promotion and practice of healthy eatingand ways of using fluoride.

The creation of a new streetprostitution related offence is only one aspect of the Executive’s policy onstreet prostitution.

The new offence will focuson the nuisance or offence caused by street prostitution related activity,whether caused by the purchaser or the seller.

In addition, we havecommitted to produce guidance for local authorities and their communityplanning partners on how they should address street prostitution within thecontext of an overarching approach to tackling violence against women and ofbuilding safer stronger communities. The guidance will outline how they shouldtackle the demand for prostitution, prevent vulnerable individuals frombecoming involved in prostitution, reduce the harm to those who are involved,assist those ready to leave prostitution to do so, and ensure the safety oflocal communities.

I refer the member to thequestion S2W-23947, answered on 21 March 2006. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa/search.

I refer the member to thequestion S2W-23947, answered on 21 March 2006. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

I refer the member to thequestion S2W-23947, answered on 21 March 2006. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

The principal measure of economicgrowth is the Gross Value Added (Gross Domestic Product at basic prices) seriesfor Scotland published on a quarterly basis by the Scottish Executive.This publication provides measures of activity in real terms for the Scottish economyas a whole, presented as indices, in addition to a more detailed breakdown of theeconomic performance of industrial sectors within the Scottish economy. Economicgrowth is determined by calculating the rates of change of the activity indices.

The data sources used in thecompilation of the GDP series are varied. In the majority of cases, data collectedby the Office for National Statistics relating to the activities of a sample ofbusinesses located in Scotland are used. These data provide up to date measures of turnoverwhich are deflated (to remove the effect of price changes) and, in some cases, seasonallyadjusted to yield the true underlying growth rates.

For some industrial sectors,notably agriculture, electricity generation, banking and public administration,the estimates are based on information received directly from companies, industrybodies or other Government Departments.

Further information on the compilationof the quarterly GDP statistics is available on the Scottish Executive website http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/18879/GDPCalc.

The music industry has no officialdefinition, but we take it to mean any activity which encourages involvement inmusic making across all age groups and music styles, and recognises and celebratesthe social, personal and economic value of music and music making.