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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S3W-04536

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 24 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 12 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many serving police officers have been convicted of criminal offences in each year since 1999, broken down by force.

Question reference: S3W-04535

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 24 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 12 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers have been (a) served with a notification of intended prosecution and (b) admonished in each year since 2003, broken down by force.

Question reference: S3W-04579

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 12 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the annual police budget is assigned to payments for information from informants and other sources.

Question reference: S3W-04574

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 12 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how many complaints have been received by trading standards offices in each year since 1999, expressed also as a per capita figure and broken down by local authority.

Question reference: S3W-04545

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 24 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 9 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what additional resources have been allocated to police forces to tackle internet fraud in each year since 1999, broken down by force, and what information it has on the additional resources similarly allocated to trading standards offices, broken down by local authority.

It is for chief constablesto decide how to allocate resources to meet policing priorities in their forceareas, including tackling internet fraud. Police forces are funded by acombination of police grant from the Scottish Government and from localauthorities. As a result it is not possible to identify the overall police resourcesallocated to tackling internet fraud.

However, the Scottish Crimeand Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA) has an E-crime unit, which providesspecialist support to the Scottish police service for those areas of seriousorganised criminality involving or facilitated by computer or informationtechnology. The costs of this are included within the budget of the SCDEA,although the costs of tackling internet fraud are not separately identifiablein the agency’s budget.

the Scottish Government provides general financial support for Scotland’slocal authorities’ net revenue expenditure on core services, including tradingstandards. This funding is, in the main, provided by means of a block grant andit is not possible to identify the level of funding for individual services. Itis the responsibility of each individual local authority to allocate its totalresources, including the locally collected council tax, on the basis of localneeds and priorities.

In 2007-08 the core localgovernment funding provided by the Scottish Government will amount to over £8.7billion.

Question reference: S3W-04540

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 24 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 8 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many emergency ambulance staff have been injured at work (a) accidentally or (b) as a result of assault in each year since 1999, broken down by Scottish Ambulance Service division.

Information onthe number of emergency ambulance staff who have been injured at workaccidentally or as a result of assault is not collected in the formatrequested. The Scottish Ambulance Service began capturing information on thenumbers of incidents of violence and aggression towards staff in August 2004when it issued guidance to staff about the need to report such incidents. Therewere 265 incidents reported in 2005 and 299 in 2006. In 2007 to 31 July, therewere 117 incidents reported.

Question reference: S3W-04537

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 24 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 5 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many road traffic accidents have involved police pursuits in each year since 1999, broken down by force area.

The number ofroad traffic accidents that have involved police pursuits from 1999 until 2007

Year¹	Police Force								Total
Year¹	Central	Dumfries and Galloway	Fife	Grampian	Lothian and Borders	Northern	Strathclyde	Tayside	Total
1999-2000	3	7	7	13	47	1	102	23	203
2000-01	4	3	21	14	58	2	104	18	224
2001-02	3	4	13	3	41	7	133	0	204
2002-03	1	8	17	29	63	9	74	21	222
2003-04	7	11	10	19	38	10	152	4	251
2004-05	12	18	13	9	31	8	156	19	266
2005-06	23	12	17	11	53	1	44	25	186
2006-07	11	9	9	13	15	9	40	13	119

Note: 1. Thefigures given relate to accidents occurring in the financial year.

Question reference: S3W-04509

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by Linda Fabiani on 2 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to encourage the Crown Office to follow the Scottish Government’s guidance on flag flying and to fly the Saltire above court buildings.

Question reference: S3W-04596

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 2 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers have received riot training in each year since 1999, also broken down by force.

Question reference: S3W-04577

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 1 October 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many known attempts to hack into the IT systems of non-departmental public bodies there have been in each year since 1999.