- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 March 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by George Reid on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many snagging issues are still outstanding, broken down by priority criteria.
Answer
The Defects Liability Periodended on 17
February 2006. This was preceded by a series of final defectsinspections. Prior to this, there were 73 outstanding snagging items from theoriginal list, the majority of which relate to mechanical and electricalservices. One hundred and twelve snagging items have been completed over recentmonths and are awaiting sign off by the Design Team.
As a result of the finalinspections, around 890 items (including defects and outstanding snags)have been issued to Trade Contractors for rectification. This increase indefect numbers is normal in construction projects at the end of DefectsLiability Period. We are working with Trade Package Contractors to agree thefinal programme for completion.
Where appropriate, snags areprioritised but they are categorised by Trade Package Contractor not bypriority criteria.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners categorised as predatory paedophiles and given a determinant sentence were released in each year since 1999.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
“Predatory paedophiles” is nota term used to disguise either Schedule 1 offenders or sex offenders and thereforenot identified by the Scottish Prison Service as a separate category of offender.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many child sex offenders currently held in prison have been assessed as being at medium risk of repeat offending upon release.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-23113 on 15 March 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many sex offenders currently serving a determinant sentence have been assessed as being at (a) high risk and (b) medium risk of (i) reoffending and (ii) repeat offending upon release.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
A Sex Offender Audit took a snapshotof prisoners in custody on 18 May 2005. It indicated that there were 402 determinate sentenceprisoners identified as sex offenders. The audit made no assessment of the levelsof risk these individuals might represent upon release.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many child sex offenders currently held in prison have been assessed as being at high risk of repeat offending upon release.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
A Sex Offender Audit took a snapshotof prisoners in custody on 18 May 2005. It indicated that of 321 prisoners identified as Schedule1 sex offenders 280 had been assessed for the risk posed to children and 41 werestill to be assessed at that date. The audit made no assessment of the levels ofrisk these individual might represent upon release.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Friday, 10 March 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by George Lyon on 15 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive in how many cases malnutrition was described on the death certificate as a cause of death in each year since 1999, broken down by age group.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-19956 on 17 November 2005. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 14 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children with learning difficulties were excluded from school in each year since 1999, broken down by (a) local authority, (b) primary school and (c) secondary school.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not hold this information from 1999. This breakdown of information has only been collated from 2004.
Please see the following table:
Number1 Exclusions Amongst Pupils with a Learning Difficulty2, 2003-04.
| | Primary | Secondary |
| 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 |
| Aberdeen City | 9 | 18 | 18 | 27 |
| Aberdeenshire | 21 | 9 | 69 | 78 |
| Angus | - | 6 | 18 | 18 |
| Argyll and Bute | 6 | - | 36 | 42 |
| Clackmannanshire | 3 | 3 | 15 | 24 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 3 | 3 | 42 | 51 |
| Dundee City | 12 | 12 | 78 | 81 |
| East Ayrshire | 18 | 9 | 54 | 39 |
| East Dunbartonshire | - | - | 3 | - |
| East Lothian | - | 3 | 36 | 12 |
| East Renfrewshire | - | - | 9 | 3 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 18 | 21 | 54 | 84 |
| Eilean Siar | - | - | - | 3 |
| Falkirk | 9 | 9 | 90 | 123 |
| Fife | 27 | 27 | 102 | 78 |
| Glasgow City | 15 | 18 | 21 | 78 |
| Highland | 3 | 3 | 12 | 18 |
| Inverclyde | 6 | - | 54 | 72 |
| Midlothian | 6 | - | 15 | 18 |
| Moray | 6 | 6 | 12 | 18 |
| North Ayrshire | 3 | 9 | 12 | 6 |
| North Lanarkshire | 12 | 12 | 69 | 105 |
| Orkney Islands | - | - | 9 | - |
| Perth and Kinross | 27 | 39 | - | 12 |
| Renfrewshire | 6 | 6 | 81 | 51 |
| Scottish Borders | - | 6 | 27 | 27 |
| Shetland Islands | 3 | 3 | 3 | - |
| South Ayrshire | 12 | - | 66 | 54 |
| South Lanarkshire | 15 | 12 | 84 | 108 |
| Stirling | - | - | 3 | - |
| West Dunbartonshire | 3 | - | 36 | 18 |
| West Lothian | 30 | 12 | 51 | 54 |
Notes:
1. Data has been rounded to the nearest three to avoid data disclosure.
2. Data includes pupils with RoN/IEP for the following categories: moderate, severe, profound or specific learning difficulties or complex or multiple impairments involving learning difficulties. In 2003-04, main difficulty of learning data was not available for 1,819 pupils and in 2004-05 it was not available for 1,760 pupils.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 February 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 14 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made since the Minister for Environment and Rural Development’s letter to me of 2 June 2005 regarding the employment of immigrant workers at Monaghan Middlebrook Mushrooms at Drem in East Lothian and its enquiries regarding compliance with agricultural wages legislation.
Answer
Analysis of the information gathered during the inspection of pay records for May 2005 at Monaghan Middlebrook Mushrooms, Drem, East Lothian, on 6 June 2005 showed that some workers were being underpaid.
As a result, the employing agencies supplying staff for this site were asked to produce full records dating back to February 2005. Satisfactory information was not received until 14 February 2006. The analysis of this payroll information, for 180 workers, is nearly complete. We expect to inform the employment agencies of the outcome of our investigations by 31 March 2006.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged 16 to 18 were living independently having left foster care in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The search consultantsOdgers are acting on behalf of the Scottish Executive to identify potentialcandidates for appointment as interim Chair of Scottish Water.
The Executive first madecontact with Odgers in respect of this matter on 2 February 2006 as aprecautionary measure when it had become clear to the Executive that there wereproblems with Scottish Water’s delivery plan that might lead to the departureof Professor Alan Alexander as Chair of Scottish Water. On the same date itapproached the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotlandabout the possibility of an interim chair being appointed in line with herguidance on public appointments, but without the appointment being subject toan open competition.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
-
Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what supported accommodation is currently available for 16 to 18 year olds who are not entitled to jobseekers allowance but who are living independently, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Professor Alan Alexanderresigned as Chair of Scottish Water because he disagreed with the view of the Scottish Executive that Scottish Water’s 2006-10 delivery plan did not providea clear and convincing basis upon which Scottish Water would, as a minimum,achieve in full the Executive’s objectives for Scottish Water in the period,including those in relation to development constraints, within the limits setby the Water Industry Commission for Scotland’s determination of charges for2006-10.
