Chamber and committees

The following table shows the number of football banning orders (FBOs) granted in Scotland since September 2006 when the legislation came into force. A breakdown of the figures by sheriffdom is not held centrally.

At 13 May 2011, a total of 128 FBOs on conviction have been issued with 13 having been granted on civil Summary Application bringing the total of FBOs issued in Scotland to 141.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-40275 on 17 March 2011. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

More up-to-date figures may be held by the football banning order authority which is housed within Strathclyde Police.

In any case where it appears to the court that an offence is motivated (wholly or partly) by a football match, this can lead to a football banning order. This would, of course, be a matter for the courts depending on the circumstances of individual cases.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-151 on 31 May 2011. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

All options are being considered with regard to tackling sectarianism connected to football, including the potential for changes to the provisions of the Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006 in relation to football banning orders.

This will be considered further through the work of the joint action group.

A total of 219 responses were received in response to the consultation on the future of policing in Scotland. These are currently being analysed and will be published before the summer recess.

Scotland's Budget Documents 2011-12: Budget (Scotland) Bill Supporting Document, sets-out the allocations of funding made to community justice services. In 2011-12 £111 million has been allocated to that purpose in total. The breakdown is available in schedule 3.1 of the justice chapter of the document and that information is available on the Scottish Government website at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/01/18110201/7.

The £111 million figure is made up of the £23.8 million allocation for offender service contained within the justice chapter of the document and the £86.5 million for criminal justice social work contained within the local government chapter of the document, plus a miscellaneous line of £0.9 million. In addition to those sums, I announced in February 2011 a further £4 million to support the unpaid work element of the community payback order.

These sums help support the wide range of activities that local authorities and community justice authorities undertake as part of their duties in administering community payback orders.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-382 on 8 June 2011. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

Regional consultation events were held across Scotland, bringing together police and local partners in health, local government, criminal justice and the voluntary sector. The number of people attending these events was as follows:

(a) Glasgow 49;

(b) Edinburgh 34;

(c) Ayr 46;

(d) Inverness 13;

(e) Aberdeen 22, and

(f) Perth 34.

Presentations on the consultation were made to all eight police boards and a further 38 meetings to discuss the consultation were held with police, local government and other partners during the consultation period.

A team of policing professionals is working under the auspices of the sustainable policing project to examine the evidence for reform. Building on this work, we are developing an outline business case setting out potential costs and savings of each option.