- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 9 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what evaluation of proposals it carries out before making decisions to award funding to voluntary organisations.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-25381.
- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 9 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria it follows in deciding whether and where funding should be awarded when it receives a recommendation that action should be taken in a certain area and whether it is its practice that, when funding is made available, the funding opportunity is advertised so that relevant voluntary organisations can submit bids.
Answer
The Scottish Executive provides a range of funding to the voluntary sector. Funding opportunities are advertised in the leaflet
A Guide for the Voluntary Sector to Scottish Executive Grants. This guide is updated annually, is distributed widely throughout the voluntary sector, and is on our website. Our policies on funding the voluntary sector are set out in the Scottish Compact Good Practice Guide to Funding. Scottish Executive funding is available:
- for activities that promote Scottish Executive objectives;
- to support capacity building within organisations on the basis of agreed outputs;
- to fund core management, administrative and relevant training costs where an organisation has a continuing role in the delivery of particular policy objectives;
- for national generic infrastructure organisations and associated local networks to promote the growth and effectiveness of voluntary and community organisations, and
- on a time-limited basis, for innovative projects where the Scottish Executive has a particular interest in taking forward an experimental approach.
Applications for funding from voluntary organisations are assessed against Scottish Executive priorities and against each individual grant scheme's criteria, which are set by the Scottish Executive division responsible for each scheme. Final decisions on funding are made by ministers.
- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many rapes were reported in 2000-01 and how many convictions were obtained in each police force area.
Answer
The available information on crimes of rape which were recorded by the police, and on persons with a charge proved in court, where the main offence was rape, is given in the following table:Crimes of Rape Recorded by the Police and Persons with Charge Proved in Court
1, 2000
Police Force Area | Number of Offences Recorded by the Police | Number of Persons with a Charge Proved2 |
Scotland | 562 | 27 |
Central | 14 | 1 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 19 | 2 |
Fife | 54 | 0 |
Grampian | 60 | 1 |
Lothian and Borders | 119 | 10 |
Northern | 15 | 2 |
Strathclyde | 219 | 10 |
Tayside | 62 | 1 |
Notes:1. The 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, or 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.2. Where rape was the main offence.
- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 9 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what process it follows when considering funding bids and awarding funding to voluntary organisations and who is directly involved in making decisions regarding funding awards.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-25381.
- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 9 May 2002
To ask the First Minister what action the Scottish Executive is taking to provide guidance and information to prevent drug rape.
Answer
Information and guidance on how to reduce the risk of drug assisted sexual assault is available through the Know The Score website and information line.We will take into account the Scottish Drugs Enforcement Agency's Strategic Assessments on the drug GHB and on Drug Assisted Sexual Assault in Scotland before guidance on these issues is published later this year.
- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when the NHS's guidance on domestic abuse will be published.
Answer
A Short Life Working Group has prepared draft guidance for health care workers on responding to domestic abuse. This guidance will be published for wide consultation in June 2002 after submission to the National Group to Address Domestic Abuse in Scotland at their next meeting on 14 May.
- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects the implementation group on the report of the Lord Advocate's Working Group on Child Witness Support to publish its findings.
Answer
The group was set up to implement the recommendations in the Lord Advocate's working group's report. It has set up three sub-groups examining, respectively, support for child witnesses through the investigative and criminal justice processes, the pre-trial gathering of evidence from child witnesses, and the development of guidance on the questioning of child witnesses in court. Our recently published consultation paper on vulnerable witnesses will be very relevant to the work of the last of these sub-groups. Each sub-group is working to a particular timetable and will consult as required on its developing conclusions.Overall, the work of the implementation group should be completed early in 2003 and we will provide a further report to the Parliament at that stage.
- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 7 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what evaluation will be made of how money from the Changing Children's Services Fund is allocated for 2002-03.
Answer
Indicative allocations for each local authority area were announced on 30 October 2001, based on a distribution formula weighted for relative population of children and young people, deprivation factors and rurality. An assessment panel will consider whether proposals adequately meet the criteria for the Changing Children's Services Fund before funding is released.
- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 7 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Changing Children's Services Fund will be allocated for 2002-03.
Answer
Indicative allocations for each local authority area were included in the guidance issued by the Scottish Executive Education Department on 30 October 2001. As indicated in that guidance, it is intended that feedback on proposals will be given in May/June 2002.
- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 7 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking in order to ensure that proposals for funding from the Changing Children's Services Fund (a) add value to existing services and (b) do not duplicate or substitute work already being carried out.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-25302 today, setting out arrangements for considering proposals against the criteria for the Changing Children's Services Fund, which include those referred to in the question.