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Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 28 April 1994] : The total number of reported racial incidents for each police force area in Scotland from 1988 to 1993 is as follows :
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Police force |1988 |1989 |1990 |1991 |1992 |1993 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Central |9 |18 |45 |69 |51 |52 Dumfries and Galloway |- |- |- |- |- |4 Fife |- |- |3 |35 |30 |20 Grampian |4 |4 |9 |4 |20 |28 Lothian and Borders |89 |91 |178 |213 |184 |223 Northern |- |- |- |- |- |1 Strathclyde |197 |236 |300 |254 |250 |205 Tayside |- |27 |101 |103 |128 |193 Scotland |299 |376 |636 |678 |663 |726
Speech Therapists
Mr. Watson : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many (a) male and (b) female speech and language therapists are currently employed in the national health service in Scotland in each health board area.
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Mr. Stewart [holding answer 28 April 1994] : The latest information available is shown in the table.
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NHS Speech Therapists in post at 30 September 1993 (whole time equivalent)
Qualified Unqualified
Health board |Male |Female |Male |Female
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Argyll and Clyde |- |42.1 |- |1.2
Ayrshire and Arran |- |29.7 |- |-
Borders |- |13.4 |- |0.5
Dumfries and Galloway |- |18.3 |- |0.5
Fife |0.5 |46.6 |- |3.0
Forth Valley |- |21.2 |- |-
Grampian |- |55.1 |- |1.7
Greater Glasgow |1.0 |91.8 |- |13.5
Highland |- |25.3 |- |-
Lanarkshire |- |53.0 |- |-
Lothian |1.0 |69.1 |- |-
Orkney |- |2.5 |- |-
Shetland |- |2.0 |- |-
Tayside |- |40.4 |- |-
Western Isles |- |5.7 |- |0.5
|------- |------- |------- |-------
Scotland |2.5 |516.2 |- |20.9
Fraud
Mr. Wallace : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many complaints of alleged fraud have been made to the serious fraud unit of the Crown Office in each year since 1986 ; and how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions have followed thereon.
Mr. Lang : The Crown Office fraud and specialist service unit is an integral part of the Crown Office and deals with all inquiries relating to fraud and related offences. A number of the more serious of these inquiries are investigated by the staff of the unit and others are referred to the procurator fiscal for attention, often with advice and assistance from the staff of the unit. Precise figures are not available to show how many complaints of fraud have been received in each year since 1986, although well in excess of 100 reports are considered annually. Of
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the cases considered by the staff of the unit, 56 cases have been prosecuted involving 94 persons resulting in 70 persons being convicted. An annual breakdown is provided as follows :
|Number of|Number of|Number of
|cases |persons |persons
|accused |convicted
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1986 |6 |14 |12
1987 |10 |20 |18
1988 |7 |10 |6
1989 |7 |7 |6
1990 |6 |11 |5
1991 |9 |16 |15
1992 |3 |6 |3
1993 |5 |6 |2
1994 |3 |4 |3
|--- |--- |---
Total |56 |94 |70
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Civil Servants (Business Appointments)
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many civil servants in his Department applied in each year since 1986 through the business appointments system to take up an outside appointment (a)
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as an independent consultant, (b) in a firm of consultants and (c) in other employment ; how many were referred to the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments ; and how many were granted.Mr. Lang : The information is set out in the table :
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|As an independent |In a firm of |Other employment |Number referred to|Number approved
|consultant |consultants |advisory committee
|on business
|appointments
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1986 |1 |- |5 |- |6
1987 |- |1 |5 |- |6
1988 |- |1 |4 |- |5
1989 |- |2 |3 |- |5
1990 |- |2 |7 |- |9
1991 |- |2 |4 |- |6
1992 |- |1 |4 |1 |5
1993 |- |1 |3 |- |4
1994 |- |1 |2 |- |3
Junior Doctors
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many cases there have been in the past year of junior doctors not having at least (a) four hours rest within a duty period of 16 hours and (b) eight hours rest within a duty period of 32 hours.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 28 April 1994] : This information is not held centrally.
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he expects to meet the target of no contracts of more than 72 hours a week for junior hospital doctors by 31 December.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 28 April 1994] : The Government remain committed to this objective for junior doctors in hard-pressed posts.
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many junior doctors are contracted for more than 72 hours per week ; and how many have regularly worked more than 72 hours per week in the past year.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 28 April 1994] : At 30 September 1993, the number of junior doctors contracted for more than 72 hours duty per week was 1,630. Information on the hours actually worked by junior doctors is not held centrally.
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many junior doctors are contracted for more than 83 hours per week ; and how many have regularly worked more than 83 hours per week in the past year.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 28 April 1994] : At 30 September 1993, the number of junior doctors in
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Scotland contracted for more than 83 hours duty per week was 30. Information on the hours actually worked by junior doctors is not held centrally.Cremations
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the latest available annual figure for the number of people cremated.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 28 April 1994] : Data maintained by the Federation of British Cremation Authorities indicate that there were 35,558 cremations in Scotland in 1993.
European Social Fund
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland to what extent he has any responsibility for the operation of the European social fund in Scotland.
Mr. Stewart : My right hon. Friend is responsible for the European social fund in areas in Scotland designatd as objective 1, 2 or 5b under the appropriate regulations. Responsibility in Great Britain for national schemes under objective 3 rests with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment.
Free School Meals
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many children currently receive free school meals ; and what percentage that forms of the total number of schoolchildren.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I refer the hon. Member to my reply of 24 November 1993, Official Report , columns 73-74 , to my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, South (Mr. Robertson).
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