- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 10 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many offences in each year since 1999 have been committed by juveniles under (a) eight and (b) 12 in each police force area, broken down by category of offence.
Answer
The information requested is not available centrally. I have asked Alan Miller, Principal Reporter of the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration, to respond. His observations are as follows:
As the age of criminal responsibility in Scotland is eight years, it is not possible for a child under eight years to be referred to the Reporter on offence grounds.
The information is not available in the format requested by the member. Information on children referred to the Children’s Reporter on offence grounds is collated and published by the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) in its Annual Reports (copies of which have been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre with the following Bib. numbers:).
1997-98 – 18997
1998-99 – 6161
1999-2000 – 18780
2000-01 – 20128
2001-02 – 26838
2002-03 – 30751.
Data for 2003-04 will be available later this year. The SCRA is presently enhancing its management information systems and future statistical reports will have the option of being broken down by local authority area.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 10 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been arrested for the contravention of local bylaws prohibiting the consumption of alcohol in public places in each police force area in each year since 1999 and, of these, how many have been convicted.
Answer
The available information is shown in the tables. Statistics dealing with recorded crime and court proceedings are not directly comparable as a person may be proceeded against for more than one crime involving more than one victim, while a crime may be recorded in one year and proceedings taken in a subsequent year. Charges recorded by the police may also be altered as a result of the judicial process.
Number of Offences Recorded of Consumption of Alcohol in Designated Places, 1999-2003
Police Force Area | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |
Central | 180 | 371 | 576 | 366 | 318 |
Dumfries and Galloway | - | 3 | 9 | 12 | 24 |
Fife1 | 134 | 253 | 411 | 406 | 305 |
Grampian | 16 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 149 |
Lothian and Borders | 54 | 55 | 197 | 100 | 111 |
Northern | 42 | 27 | 154 | 259 | 118 |
Strathclyde | 7,534 | 9,748 | 13,158 | 15,913 | 19,592 |
Tayside | 101 | 133 | 151 | 144 | 290 |
Scotland | 8,061 | 10,590 | 14,656 | 17,247 | 20,907 |
Note:
1. Byelaws restricting the consumption of alcohol in designated places were first introduced to parts of Fife in November 1997. Coverage was extended in November 1999 and again in July 2004.
Persons with a Charge Proved in Scottish Courts for Contravention of Local Byelaws on Consumption of Alcohol in Public Places1, 1999-2002
Police Force Area | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
Central | 7 | 22 | 36 | 64 |
Dumfries and Galloway | - | - | - | 5 |
Fife | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
Grampian | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Lothian and Borders | 10 | 11 | 9 | 9 |
Northern | 2 | 1 | 44 | 75 |
Strathclyde | 1,242 | 872 | 1,219 | 1,089 |
Tayside | 27 | 48 | 38 | 33 |
Scotland | 1,308 | 963 | 1,354 | 1,283 |
Note:
1. Where main offence.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 10 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of schoolchildren has attained a standard grade in a foreign language in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
I have placed a table with the information requested in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 33284).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 10 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many towns with populations over 1,000 in each local authority area have prohibited further housing development due to insufficient sewerage capacity.
Answer
This information is not held in the format requested.
However, as part of the work on Scottish Water’s investment programme to 2014, all local authorities were asked to predict future development requirements for their areas during that time. This identified a total of about 8,600 development sites, with the capacity to accommodate 230,000 houses, and a further 14,000 hectares for non-residential development across Scotland. Data indicates that approximately half of the sites so identified are currently affected by water or drainage constraints. This matter is addressed in the consultation paper Investing in Water Services 2006-2014 (Bib. number 33325), which wasreleased on 20 July.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 10 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many police hours, on average, are spent on court duty each week and what percentage of total police hours these figures represent, broken down by force area in each year since 1999.
Answer
This information is not held centrally and is a matter for each police force. However, once the contract for prisoner escorting and court custody is fully rolled out, this will enable up to 300 police officers, who would previously have spent time in court, to be released for deployment to other operational duties.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many projects that have applied for European funding have seen their application fall due to a lack of match funding from the Executive, broken down by area for each year since 1999.
Answer
A commitment for match funding for Structural Funds has to be in place from a project before any application is submitted and then subsequently approved.
In addition, payments of Structural Funds are not made to projects in advance, but in arrears. Once a project has made a claim of eligible costs, the amount claimed against Structural Funds is provided back to the project as a re-imbursement.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 2 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made, or plans to make, to Her Majesty's Government in support of legislative measures to prohibit the adaptation of exhausts of vehicles that are to be used on public highways.
Answer
We are in regular contact with the UK Government on a wide range of transport-related issues.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 28 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug-related deaths there were in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board area, expressed also per 100,000 head of population.
Answer
The information requested is set out in the following table. The figures for 2003 will be available at the end of August 2004.
Health Board Area | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
| No | Rate per 100,000 pop | No | Rate per 100,000 pop | No | Rate per 100,000 pop | No | Rate per 100,000 pop | No | Rate per 100,000 pop |
Scotland | 249 | 4.9 | 291 | 5.7 | 292 | 5.8 | 332 | 6.6 | 382 | 7.6 |
Argyll & Clyde | 23 | 5.4 | 30 | 7.1 | 31 | 7.4 | 22 | 5.2 | 31 | 7.4 |
Ayrshire & Arran | 4 | 1.1 | 15 | 4.0 | 20 | 5.4 | 35 | 9.5 | 33 | 9.0 |
Borders | 1 | 0.9 | | | 1 | 0.9 | 1 | 0.9 | | |
Dumfries & Galloway | 4 | 2.7 | 7 | 4.7 | 7 | 4.7 | 8 | 5.4 | 9 | 6.1 |
Fife | 13 | 3.8 | 9 | 2.6 | 12 | 3.4 | 11 | 3.1 | 12 | 3.4 |
Forth Valley | 2 | 0.7 | 8 | 2.9 | 4 | 1.4 | 9 | 3.2 | 24 | 8.6 |
Grampian | 26 | 4.9 | 38 | 7.2 | 31 | 5.9 | 46 | 8.7 | 47 | 9.0 |
Greater Glasgow | 93 | 10.6 | 100 | 11.5 | 104 | 12.0 | 96 | 11.1 | 126 | 14.5 |
Highland | 1 | 0.5 | 7 | 3.3 | 1 | 0.5 | 5 | 2.4 | 8 | 3.8 |
Lanarkshire | 21 | 3.8 | 23 | 4.1 | 29 | 5.2 | 24 | 4.3 | 37 | 6.7 |
Lothian | 37 | 4.8 | 39 | 5.1 | 37 | 4.8 | 54 | 6.9 | 39 | 5.0 |
Orkney | | | | | | | | | | |
Shetland | 1 | 4.4 | | | 1 | 4.5 | 1 | 4.6 | 1 | 4.6 |
Tayside | 23 | 5.8 | 14 | 3.6 | 14 | 3.6 | 19 | 4.9 | 14 | 3.6 |
Western Isles | | | 1 | 3.7 | | | 1 | 3.8 | 1 | 3.8 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 28 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug-dependent babies were born in each of the last five years.
Answer
The following table showsthe available information on babies discharged from Neonatal Units with adiagnosis involving drug misuse.
Neonatal discharges (1,2)recording drug misuse (3)
Financial Year | Number of Discharges |
1997-98 | 217 |
1998-99 | 245 |
1999-2000 | 325 |
2000-01 | 329 |
2001-02* | 258 |
2002-03* | 276 |
Source : ISD ScotlandNeonatal Discharge Summary (SMR11) and Scottish Birth Record (SMR11).
Notes:
1 A baby may be admitted toand discharged from neonatal care more than once. These figures relate to thetotal number discharges, not to the number of individual babies.
2 Includes births where NHS boardof residence is unknown or outside Scotland.
3 Drug misuse is definedusing the following International Classification of Disease (10th Rev.) codes:
·P04.4- Foetus and newborn affected by maternal use ofdrugs of addiction.
·P96.1- Neonatal withdrawal symptoms from maternal useof drugs of addiction.
4.* - Incomplete data.
Data for 01/02and 02/03 are considered incomplete. This is due partly to the introduction of the Scottish Birth Record (SBR) which replaces the SMR11 (sick babies only). TheSBR is currently being incrementally implemented across Scotland with a view to recording information on all birthsby Spring/Summer 2005.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 27 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-15118 by Susan Deacon on 8 May 2001, what the average per capita level of funding was for each NHS board in each of the last three years.
Answer
Details are as follows:
Health Board | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
| Per Capita | Per Capita | Per Capita |
| £ | £ | £ |
Argyll and Clyde | 1,080 | 1,139 | 1,222 |
Ayrshire and Arran | 1,050 | 1,125 | 1,215 |
Borders | 1,042 | 1,096 | 1,174 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 1,100 | 1,176 | 1,258 |
Fife | 956 | 1,009 | 1,088 |
Forth Valley | 990 | 1,055 | 1,118 |
Grampian | 956 | 1,030 | 1,102 |
Greater Glasgow | 1,192 | 1,291 | 1,358 |
Highland | 1,106 | 1,186 | 1,276 |
Lanarkshire | 1,002 | 1,038 | 1,128 |
Lothian | 991 | 995 | 1,136 |
Orkney | 1,275 | 1,338 | 1,400 |
Shetland | 1,286 | 1,412 | 1,523 |
Tayside | 1,181 | 1,223 | 1,283 |
Western Isles | | | |
Notes:
1. The levels of per capitafunding for 2001-02 and 2002-03 have been calculated using the final cashlimited/unified budgets, the actual expenditure for demand led Family Health Servicesfor those years and the mid year estimates of population at 30 June 2001 and2002 respectively.
2. The levels of per capitafunding for 2003-04 have been calculated using the final cash limited/unifiedbudgets, the indicative allocations for demand led family health services andthe mid year estimates of population at 30 June 2003.