- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 22 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the number of children referred to the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration in the last six months on offence grounds has increased compared with the corresponding six months of 2005.
Answer
This information is not yet available.
We expect the SCRA to publishthe second quarterly performance monitoring report in respect of 2006-07 early inDecember, thereafter it will be laid in the Scottish Parliament InformationCentre in the normal way.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 22 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional financial resources it plans to allocate to the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration in each of the next three years to address the rising number of referrals on both offence and non-offence grounds.
Answer
The SCRA’s overall annual grant-in-aid has increased by over£10 million since 2001 to over £24 million in 2006-07 and 2007-08. It is not possibleto provide details of grant-in-aid funding beyond 2007-08 until the outcomes of the next Spending Review are known.
Consideration is currently beinggiven to three proposals for additional funding and the SCRA will be informed of the outcome in due course. We monitor resourcing requirements, in close liaisonwith the SCRA management, in order to optimise the administration’s effectiveness.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 22 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when it estimates that the number of referrals to the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration on non-offence grounds will peak.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-29846 on 22 November 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
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 22 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has received from the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland in respect of a request from the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration for £20 million of additional funding to support front-line services.
Answer
The Executive has not receivedany representations from the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland in respectof additional funding for the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 22 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how regularly it monitors the number of referrals to the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration on (a) care and protection and non-offence grounds and (b) offence grounds and how many referrals there were in each category in the last six months, also showing how these figures compare with the corresponding six months in 2005.
Answer
The SCRA publish data quarterlyas well as an annual report which are analysed by the Scottish Executive to informaction.
The information requested onthe number of referrals for the six months in 2005 can be found in the ScottishChildren’s Reporter Administration Annual Report for 2005-06 which was publishedon 16 November. A copy is available in the Scottish Parliament InformationCentre (Bib. number 40988).
As regards data for the lastsix months, this information is not yet available. We expect the SCRA to publishthe second quarterly performance monitoring report in respect of 2006-07 early inDecember, thereafter it will be laid in Scottish Parliament Information Centre in the normalway.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has spent on recognising war veterans in each year since 1999.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-27577 on 21 August 2006, which gives details of the fundingprovided by the Executive since 1999 to recognize and commemorate war veterans.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
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to the Ministry of Defence in respect of a medal for Arctic convoy survivors and whether it considers that the Artic Convoy Badge is an appropriate recognition of the bravery of the men and women on those convoys.
Answer
Matters concerning the commissioningof medals for military service are reserved, initially, to the Ministry of Defence,and Scottish ministers have no locus to intervene in these decisions. The Executivehas not made any representations to the Ministry of Defence with respect to an ArcticConvoy Medal.
The Arctic Emblem representstangible recognition in the form of something that can be worn as a unique, recognizedaddition to medals by those men who served in the Arctic regions and who were oftensubjected to especially dangerous circumstances including extreme weather conditionsand determined resistance from German forces.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it can commission any medal in respect of the Scottish Arctic convoys and, if so, whether it will consider commissioning such a medal.
Answer
Matters concerning the commissioningof medals for military service are reserved, initially, to the Ministry of Defence,and Scottish ministers have no locus to intervene in the these decisions.
In recognition of service inthe Arctic during the Second World War, the UK Government has specially commissionedthe Arctic Emblem to commemorate the service of Merchant Seamen and members of theArmed Forces in the Arctic Region between 3 September 1939 and 8 May 1945.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has a budget allocation for commemorating Scotland’s war veterans and, if so, what this has been in each year since 1999.
Answer
The Executive does not have adedicated budget allocation for veterans commemorations. However, we are happy toconsider requests for financial support for veterans commemorations on a case-by-casebasis. My answer to question S2W-27577 on 21 August 2006,provides details of the funding allocated to such commemorations in each year since1999.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
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 17 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-27954 by Mr Tom McCabe on 18 October 2006, whether the answer indicates that it has recorded no dates for ministerial visits to the Scottish Borders since 1999 by (a) Robert Brown MSP, (b) Ross Finnie MSP, (c) George Lyon MSP, (d) Euan Robson MSP, (e) Tavish Scott MSP, (f) Iain Smith MSP, (g) Nicol Stephen MSP and (h) Jim Wallace MSP.
Answer
The dates recorded are shownin the table below in chronological order. The information has been gathered fromthe various Ministerial Private Offices and is as complete as our records allow.Different Private Offices record and retain information in different ways whichis perfectly acceptable for our business purposes, but does not allow us to easilyextract the information requested.
Name of Minister | Title | Date |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 08/10/1999 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 12/10/1999 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 21/10/1999 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 03/04/2000 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 12/07/2000 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 13/07/2000 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | Unspecified date March/April 2001 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 18/05/2001 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 21/06/2001 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 25/07/2001 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 26/07/2001 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 02/08/2001 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 16/08/2001 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 20/08/2001 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 05/03/2002 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 29/05/2002 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 27/08/2002 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 28/08/2002 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 03/02/2003 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 04/02/2003 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 21/02/2003 |
Tavish Scott | Deputy Minister Finance Public Service Reform | 11/08/2003 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 31/10/2003 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 03/02/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 09/02/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 12/02/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 15/04/2004 |
Tavish Scott | Deputy Minister Finance Public Service Reform | 15/04/2004 |
Nicol Stephen | Minister for Transport | 20/04/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 07/05/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 14/05/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 07/06/2004 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 11/06/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 14/06/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 15/06/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 12/11/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 15/11/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 06/12/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 10/12/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 13/12/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 05/03/2005 |
Robert Brown | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 05/03/2005 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 11/03/2005 |
Nicol Stephen | Minister for Transport | 14/03/2005 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 23/05/2005 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 10/06/2005 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 27/06/2005 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 28/07/2005 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 29/07/2005 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 16/09/2005 |
Tavish Scott | Minister for Transport | 12/12/2005 |
Nicol Stephen | Deputy First Minister | 27/03/2006 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 22/08/2006 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 23/08/2006 |
Robert Brown | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 23/08/2006 |
George Lyon | Deputy Minister Finance Public Service Reform and Parly Business | 24/08/2006 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 13/09/2006 |
Tavish Scott | Minister for Transport | 13/09/2006 |
The Executive have supplied the following corrected answer:
Tom McCabe: The dates recorded are shown in the following tablein chronological order. The information has been gathered from the variousMinisterial Private Offices and is as complete as our records allow. DifferentPrivate Offices record and retain information in different ways which isperfectly acceptable for our business purposes, but does not allow us to easilyextract the information requested.
Name of Minister | Title | Date |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 08/10/1999 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 12/10/1999 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 21/10/1999 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 03/04/2000 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 12/07/2000 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 13/07/2000 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | Unspecified date March/April 2001 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 18/05/2001 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 21/06/2001 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 25/07/2001 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 26/07/2001 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 02/08/2001 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 16/08/2001 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 20/08/2001 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 05/03/2002 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 29/05/2002 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 27/08/2002 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 28/08/2002 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 03/02/2003 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 04/02/2003 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 21/02/2003 |
Tavish Scott | Deputy Minister Finance Public Service Reform | 11/08/2003 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 31/10/2003 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 03/02/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 09/02/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 12/02/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 15/04/2004 |
Tavish Scott | Deputy Minister Finance Public Service Reform | 15/04/2004 |
Nicol Stephen | Minister for Transport | 20/04/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 07/05/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 14/05/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 07/06/2004 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 11/06/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 14/06/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 15/06/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 12/11/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 15/11/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 06/12/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 10/12/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 13/12/2004 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 05/03/2005 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 11/03/2005 |
Nicol Stephen | Minister for Transport | 14/03/2005 |
Euan Robson | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 23/05/2005 |
Jim Wallace | Deputy First Minister | 10/06/2005 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 27/06/2005 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 28/07/2005 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 29/07/2005 |
Robert Brown | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 16/09/2005 |
Tavish Scott | Minister for Transport | 12/12/2005 |
Nicol Stephen | Deputy First Minister | 27/03/2006 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 22/08/2006 |
Robert Brown | Deputy Minister for Education and Young People | 23/08/2006 |
George Lyon | Deputy Minister Finance Public Service Reform and Parliamentary Business | 24/08/2006 |
Ross Finnie | Minister for Environment and Rural Development | 13/09/2006 |
Tavish Scott | Minister for Transport | 13/09/2006 |