- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Mike Pringle on 14 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many hits there were on Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commissioner’s website in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07.
Answer
The number of hits on the Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commissioner's website was 23,267 in 2005, 20,339 in 2006 and 23,463 in 2007.
The number of visitors to the Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commissioner's website was 1,575 in 2005, 1,580 in 2006 and 1,579 in 2007.
Definitions:
Hit - A request for any file (page, image, etc).
Visitor - The number of visitors is determined by the IP addresses. If a request from an IP address came after some time (timeout) since the last request from this IP, it is considered to belong to a different visitor. The timeout is set to 1,440 minutes. Visitors from large organisations may share the same IP address so actual visitors may be higher than the statistics reflect.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Elish Angiolini on 13 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Lord Advocate will reply to my letters of 6 December 2007 and subsequent reminder in respect of the issues arising from a trip to Paris organised by Greenfaulds High School in October 2006.
Answer
The letter was answered on 12 March 2008.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 13 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated level of student debt in Scotland was in (a) 1997, (b) 1999 and (c) 2007.
Answer
The average debt owed to the Student Loans Company by Scottish borrowers entering repayment in 1999 was £2,863. The corresponding figure for 2007 was £5,808. These data were supplied by the Student Loans Company. Corresponding data for 1997 are not available.
The averages include students who did not graduate and the 2007 figure also includes loans taken out to pay the Scottish Graduate Endowment.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Johnstone on 6 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what the total cost has been of (a) window cleaning, (b) gardening and landscape maintenance and (c) interior and exterior cleaning of the Holyrood building in each year from 2004-05 to 2007-08.
Answer
The costs are shown in the following table. The costs of window cleaning include the costs of cleaning window surrounds, such as louvers, and removal of pigeon waste.
| | Window and Vertical Cleaning | Gardening and Landscape Maintenance | Interior and Exterior Cleaning |
| 2004-05 | Nil | Nil | £338,213.88 |
| 2005-06 | £ 598.00 | Nil | £471,731.91 |
| 2006-07 | £108,671.83 | £39,059.25 | £492,244.57 |
| 2007-08 to date | £ 87,279.06 | £43,784.13 | £460,137.90 |
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 6 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of Scotland’s commitment to the European Child Safety Action Plan project, what proportion of all rugby related injuries since 2000 resulted in (a) quadriplegia, (b) concussion, (c) ligament damage and (d) bone fractures, among males aged (i) 12 to 15 inclusive and (ii) 16 and over, all broken down by (A) rugby club, (B) area of residence and (C) local authority.
Answer
The data requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 6 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of Scotland’s commitment to the European Child Safety Action Plan project, what plans there are to develop a child injury surveillance system.
Answer
There are no plans currently to develop a national child injury surveillance system. However, the lessons learned in the course of a pilot project in Lanarkshire endorsed by both the Scottish Governments Justice and Health Directorates working collaboratively, will be potentially applicable to all categories of injury, including those affecting children.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 6 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of Scotland’s commitment to the European Child Safety Action Plan project, what plans there are to develop an inter-agency collaboration to enable the creation and implementation of a common dataset for injury data collection in children.
Answer
An interagency collaboration was formed to develop a common dataset for injury including injury to children in 2004. As a result of this collaboration a common dataset was agreed following detailed discussion. This is available for implementation.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 6 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of Scotland’s commitment to the European Child Safety Action Plan project, how many childhood accidental (a) fatal and (b) non-fatal injuries there have been in each year since 2000, broken down by (i) cause of injury, (ii) category of injury and (iii) NHS board.
Answer
This information has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Table 1 (Bib. number 45008) shows number of emergency hospital admissions due to unintentional injury, by cause of injury, category of injury and NHS board of residence, for under 15-year-olds, for 2000-01 to 2006-07. Table 2 (Bib. number 45009) shows the number of deaths recorded due to unintentional injury by cause of injury, category of injury and NHS board of residence, for under 15 year olds, for calendar years 2000 to 2006.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 6 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of Scotland’s commitment to the European Child Safety Action Plan project, what the annual frequency was, by (a) type and (b) cause, of unintentional sporting injuries among children since 2000; how many such injuries resulted in hospital admission, and what the main causes were of those that resulted in admission.
Answer
The information requested has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 45010).
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 29 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases have been referred to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission in each year since its inception; of these how many (a) have been the subject of a full-scale review, (b) have resulted in referrals back to the courts, (c) have been dismissed, (d) have taken over (i) 6, (ii) 12, (iii) 24 and (iv) 36 months to reach a decision and (e) are currently under consideration by the commission.
Answer
The information requested is provided in the attached table.
| | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
| Cases Received | 130 | 89 | 88 | 95 | 98 |
| (a): Concluded after full review | 16 | 48 | 80 | 91 | 111 |
| (b): Referrals | 2 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 5 |
| (c): Dismissed* | 0 | 20 | 12 | 13 | 29 |
| (d): decision within 6 months** | - | - | - | - | - |
| (d): decision over 6 months | - | - | - | - | - |
| (d): decision over 12 months | - | - | - | - | - |
| (d): decision over 24 months | - | - | - | - | - |
| (d): decision over 36 months | - | - | - | - | - |
| (e): Under Review | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
| Cases Received | 118 | 165 | 104 | 83 |
| (a): Concluded after full review | 105 | 101 | 104 | 63 |
| (b): Referrals | 13 | 10 | 10 | 8 |
| (c): Dismissed* | 25 | 45 | 41 | 23 |
| (d): decision within 6 months** | 48 | 58 | 33 | 48 |
| (d): decision over 6 months | 48 | 36 | 62 | 26 |
| (d): decision over 12 months | 7 | 7 | 6 | 9 |
| (d): decision over 24 months | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| (d): decision over 36 months | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| (e): Under Review | - | - | - | 55 |
Note: *Dismissed cases are those rejected at the outset and not subject to full review.
Information on the time taken to reach a decision on a case is can be extracted from the case management system operated by the SCCRC only from 2004-05 onwards.
