- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 11 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many men died from prostate cancer in the years 1996-97, 1997-98 and 1998-99.
Answer
The number of deaths in Scotland due to prostate cancer is set out below for the three most recent years for which information is available.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 11 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it will provide to assist Glasgow City Council with the refurbishment of Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery.
Answer
We have no plans to contribute funds towards the refurbishment of Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery. Local authorities have a statutory duty to ensure that there is adequate provision of facilities for recreational, sporting, cultural and social activities for their residents, and are therefore responsible for the costs of operating and maintaining the museums and galleries which they own. Local authority museums and galleries are supported through the general revenue support grant allocations made by the Scottish Executive.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 11 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of men suffering from prostate cancer in 1991-92, 1992-93 and 1993-94 were still alive five years later.
Answer
The most recent data relate to men diagnosed between 1991 and 1993. The figures for survival from prostate cancer are as follows:
| Year of Diagnosis | % Survival at 5 Years |
| 1991 | 34.7 |
| 1992 | 33.2 |
| 1993 | 36.6 |
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 11 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many men were diagnosed as suffering from prostate cancer in the years 1996-97, 1997-98 and 1998-99.
Answer
The most recent year for which complete registration data for prostate cancer is available is 1996, during which 2,027 men were diagnosed as suffering from prostate cancer.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Henry McLeish on 11 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the percentage and number of students dropping out of each of Scotland's universities and further education colleges in the years 1996-97, 1997-98 and 1998-99 broken down by institution.
Answer
Information is not collected on "drop-out" rates for universities but non-completion rates have been complied and were published on 3
rd December 1999 for 1996-97 as part of a package of Performance Indicators. The figures below show the number of starters at each institution in 1996-97, those that are expected not to obtain a qualification and not to transfer to another HE institution, together with the related non-completion rate. A full copy of
the Performance Indicators in Higher Education 1996-97, 1997-98 report is available through the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Comparable information about the further education sector is not available.
Full-time students starting first degree courses 1996-97 - Numbers projected not to obtain an award or to transfer to another higher education institution in the UK
| Higher Education Institution | Number of starters | Neither obtain an award nor transfer |
| | Number | Per cent |
| Scotland | | | |
| All Scottish Institutions | 28,926 | 4,995 | 17 |
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| University of Aberdeen | 1,991 | 389 | 20 |
| University of Abertay Dundee | 1,373 | 157 | 11 |
| University of Dundee | 1,401 | 191 | 14 |
| | 218 | 6 |
| Edinburgh College of Art | 349 | 32 | 9 |
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| University of Glasgow | 3,286 | 428 | 13 |
| Glasgow Caledonian University | 4,035 | 1,214 | 30 |
| Glasgow School of Art | 351 | 35 | 10 |
| Heriot-Watt University | 1,076 | 179 | 17 |
| Moray House Institute of Education (1) | 372 | 47 | 13 |
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| Napier University | 1,524 | 509 | 33 |
| Northern College of Education | 232 | 48 | 21 |
| University of Paisley | 1,539 | 456 | 30 |
| Queen Margaret University College | 839 | 128 | 15 |
| The Robert Gordon University | 1,358 | 249 | 18 |
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| Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama | 109 | 12 | 11 |
| Scottish College of Textiles | 171 | 22 | 13 |
| University of St Andrews | 958 | 46 | 5 |
| St Andrew's College of Education (1) | 181 | 46 | 25 |
| University of Stirling | 1,190 | 149 | 13 |
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| University of Strathclyde | 3,062 | 439 | 14 |
Source: Performance Indicators in higher education 1996-97, 1997-98
Notes:1. These institutions have subsequently merged with universities
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 11 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive which secondary schools in Glasgow scheduled for refurbishment with funding from Public Private Partnerships will lose either their gymnasium, swimming pool or games hall following refurbishment.
Answer
The details of the Public private partnership contract are matters for Glasgow City Council. The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 22 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to ensure that no one dies of cold-related deaths in Scotland this winter.
Answer
I refer Mr Gibson to the answer to his question numbered S1W-3003.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 December 1999
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Answered by Wendy Alexander on 21 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to produce centrally statistical data as currently gathered by local authorities, to monitor the take-up rate of pensioners claiming council tax and housing benefits for the purposes of assessing poverty levels.
Answer
Statistics on the take-up of income-related benefits are published annually by the Department for Social Security. The recently published report Social Justice...a Scotland where everyone matters set out our five key milestones for elderly people, including one relating to income poverty. Take-up rates of benefits depend on many factors, and are not necessarily a good guide to poverty.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 21 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make representations to Her Majesty's Government through the Inter-Departmental Group on Older People to change the law to reduce the housing benefit taper which requires pensioners to pay 65p in every pound earned from their occupation or private pension over the income support level towards their rent and what assessment it has made or plans to make of the effect on poverty levels such a change may have.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with United Kingdom Government Ministers and Departments on a wide range of issues, including housing benefit.
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 December 1999
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Answered by Wendy Alexander on 21 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #12 million allocated to the New Warm Deal this year comes from: (a) money transferred from the home energy efficiency scheme; (b) New Deal and (c) capital receipts to local authorities.
Answer
The budget for improving home energy efficiency for low-income households in Scotland is 拢12 million for 1999-2000. 拢1.475 million of the total came from the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) to meet the cost of the Home Energy Efficiency Scheme (HEES) in Scotland between 1 April and 30m June. The rest is for the Warm Deal which was introduced on 1 July. It includes 拢4.525 million received from DETR as Scotland's share of the HEES budget for GB for the period from 1 July to 31 March 2000. None of the resources for the Warm Deal come from the budget for the New Deal or from capital receipts by local authorities.
