- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether an assessment has been carried out on the effect of reducing the size of Strathclyde Police’s road policing unit.
Answer
Road policing in Strathclyde is an operational matter for Strathclyde Police so this information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the 2009 Scottish Police Services Authority (SPSA) staff survey has been published, and if not, when it expects it will be.
Answer
The Scottish Police Services Authority did not carry out a staff survey in 2009.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many officers are employed in Strathclyde Police’s road policing unit.
Answer
Road policing in Strathclyde is an operational matter for Strathclyde Police so this information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 August 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many inspections of sunbed salons have taken place since the implementation of the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 (Sunbed) Regulations 2009.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. Inspection of sunbed premises are undertaken by local authority enforcement officers. However, it is intended to survey local authorities on their enforcement of the regulations once these have been in force for a year.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 26 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is monitoring the implementation of the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 (Sunbed) Regulations 2009.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-35144 on 26 July 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 26 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many fines have been issued against sunbed salons since the implementation of the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 (Sunbed) Regulations 2009.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. Fixed penalty notices to sunbed premises are issued by local authority enforcement officers.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 26 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it collects on the implementation of the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 (Sunbed) Regulations 2009.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. The Scottish Government does not routinely collect data on the Sunbed Regulations 2009. However, it is intended to survey local authorities on their enforcement of the regulations once these have been in force for a year.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 26 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any sunbed salons have closed as a result of the implementation of the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 (Sunbed) Regulations 2009.
Answer
There is anecdotal evidence of a small number of unsupervised premises closing as a result of the new regulations, and of a number of health clubs no longer offering sunbed facilities to their members.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 21 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what information is collected on the incidence of anti-Semitism in Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish Government publishes annual statistics on racist incidents recorded and cleared up by Scottish police forces: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/PubRacistIncidents.
The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service also publishes statistics for crimes of racial and religious prejudice in Scotland which have been reported to them:
http://www.copfs.gov.uk/About/Departmental-Overview/diversity/racist-crime/Statistics0506
http://www.copfs.gov.uk/About/Departmental-Overview/diversity/racist-crime/Analysus.
Information on incidents related specifically to anti-Semitism is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 21 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is evidence to suggest that recent anti-Semitic graffiti at Glenduffhill cemetery can be considered an isolated incident.
Answer
The Scottish Government has no information to suggest that the incident was anything other than an isolated incident of anti-Semitic graffiti at this cemetery.
