- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged 16 to 18 remained with foster carers in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The position in respect of the
ex-gratia payment made to Professor Alexander was set out in theExecutive’s answer to question S2W-23460 on 8 March 2006.All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for 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
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what weekly payment is made to 16 to18 year olds who are living independently, are not in full time education and not entitled to job-seekers allowance, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The Executive considered ingeneral that Scottish Water’s delivery plan for 2006-10 was too provisional innature and identified potential obstacles to Scottish Water being able toachieve the Executive’s objectives for it without identifying how suchobstacles might be overcome. It considered in particular that the planenvisaged a significant delay in taking forward a number of important strategicissues, including the alleviation of development constraints, that it did notprovide for Scottish Water to out-perform the Water Industry Commission’sdetermination of water charges, and that it lacked a clear means by which the Executive could measure Scottish Water’s progress towards achievement of theobjectives.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
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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
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
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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.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding was allocated to social work departments to provide allowances for 16 to 18 year olds in each year since 1999 and broken down by local authority.
Answer
Professor Alan Alexanderresigned as Chair of Scottish Water because he did not agree with the ScottishExecutive, the Drinking Water Quality Regulator for Scotland and the otherregulators that Scottish Water’s 2006-10 delivery plan fell short of theirrequirements for it in a number of material respects.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions there have been in each year since 1999 in which the alleged victim was an adult with learning difficulties, broken down by sheriff court district.
Answer
The statistics available on prosecutionsdo not include information on victim characteristics.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many successful prosecutions there have been in each year since 1999 in which the alleged victim was an adult with learning difficulties, broken down by sheriff court district.
Answer
The statistics available on convictionsdo not include information on victim characteristics.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many reports were made to the police in each year since 1999 in which the alleged victim was an adult with learning difficulties, broken down by sheriff court district.
Answer
The recorded crime statisticscollected centrally do not include information on victim characteristics.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions have taken place in each year since 1999 in which the alleged victim was an adult with learning difficulties, broken down by category of offence.
Answer
The statistics available on prosecutionsdo not include information on victim characteristics.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what supported accommodation facilities have been provided for adults with learning difficulties in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. Since 2003-04 statistics have been collected on the number ofclients with learning disabilities receiving housing support under theSupporting People programme, but no records are kept on the number of separatesupported accommodation facilities for adults with learning disabilities ineach local authority area.
