- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 11 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the revenue income projections are for the (a) Erskine and (b) Skye Bridge in each of the next three years.
Answer
Projections of the revenueincome from the Erskine Bridge are £5.2 million this year and in the following twoyears to 2005-06.
For the Skye Bridge, incomeis dependent on traffic levels at the bridge. We do not make projections orestimates of future traffic levels on the Skye Bridge.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 December 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 11 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much legal aid expenditure was used in each of the last three years in order to provide independent assessment of fingerprinting evidence and what the estimate is for such expenditure in each of the next three years.
Answer
The Scottish Legal Aid Boarddoes not collect this information and therefore it is not possible to providefigures for the last three years.
As the cost of individualcases will depend entirely on the needs of each case, it is not possible toestimate such expenditure in future years.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what its latest estimate is of the cost of the Holyrood Inquiry led by Lord Fraser of Carmyllie.
Answer
The Scottish Executive expectsLord Fraser to contain expenditure on the investigation into the costs of theHolyrood building project within the agreed budget of £1.2 million.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 10 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-3413 by Cathy Jamieson on 12 November 2003, whether it will now consider recording this information on the submission of fingerprint evidence and collecting it centrally and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Answer
We do not at present haveany plans to collect centrally information on the number of cases where the Scottish Criminal Record Office (SCRO) has submitted fingerprint evidence and theaccused has been found guilty.
It is for the Crown todecide what evidence is led in criminal cases. There will not, therefore, necessarilybe a direct link between the submission of fingerprint evidence by SCRO and theoutcome of a particular case.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 10 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what posts were held by staff from the Scottish Criminal Record Office who signed off final reports in respect of each of its last 100 cases.
Answer
The posts held by the stafffrom the Scottish Criminal Record Office who signed off the last 100 JointReports were Principal Fingerprint Officers, Senior Fingerprint Officers and FingerprintOfficers.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 10 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish Criminal Record Office is funded.
Answer
The Scottish Criminal RecordOffice (SCRO) is a common police service established through section 36 of thePolice (Scotland) Act 1967 under which the facilities and servicessupplied by the organisation are provided and maintained by the Scottish ministersfor promoting the efficiency or effectiveness of thepolice in Scotland. Police authorities and joint police boards currentlywill meet 50% of SCRO’s expenditure in accordance with the Common PoliceService (Scotland) Determination 2003 which came into force on 1 April 2003. the Scottish ministers also contribute 50%.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 10 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the training requirements are for Scottish Criminal Record Office staff in respect of non-numeric fingerprinting evidence; what performance targets have been set for the quality of such evidence, and what performance targets have been achieved to date.
Answer
A non-numeric standard forfingerprint identification has not yet been adopted in Scotland.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2003
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-2833 by Mr Jim Wallace on 6 October 2003, whether any of the 57 projects in 2002-03 did not begin; how many of the 7,159 jobs are still in situ, and whether any of the #205.2 million investment was withdrawn.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
When the figures for plannedinward investment projects are released it is made clear that they are basedupon information available at the time the inward investment decision is madeand that some projects may not proceed while others may be reduced in scale asa result of the economic environment. Equally, however, some projects may leadto more investment and more jobs than originally anticipated.
A detailed analysis carriedout covering the period 1991 until 1999 showed that around 73% of all announcedinvestment came to fruition.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive ; further to the answer to question S2W-2833 by Mr Jim Wallace on 6 October 2003; whether any of the 59 projects in 2001-02 did not begin; how many of the 6,386 jobs are still in situ, and whether any of the #272.2 million investment was withdrawn.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-4499 on 10 December 2003. 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/search_wa.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-2833 by Mr Jim Wallace on 6 October 2003, whether any of the 102 projects in 2000-01 did not begin; how many of the 14,346 jobs are still in situ, and whether any of the #1,763.3 million investment was withdrawn.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-4499 on 10 December 2003. 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/search_wa.
