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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S4W-07694

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 June 2012
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 18 June 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how monitors will be recruited for the proposed prison monitoring service.

Question reference: S4W-07699

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 June 2012
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 18 June 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether monitors in the proposed prison monitoring service will be able to deal with prisoner complaints.

Question reference: S4W-07531

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 May 2012
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 8 June 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the use of multi-agency partnerships for the prevention of violence against women in the decision making process for the Violence Against Women Funding Stream has been agreed with COSLA.

Question reference: S4W-07529

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 May 2012
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 8 June 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been available to the Violence Against Women Funding Stream in each of the last three years and how much will be available in each of the next three years.

Question reference: S4W-07530

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 May 2012
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 8 June 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive which organisations are members of the multi-agency partnership for the prevention of violence against women in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.

The following organisations are members of the Multi Agency Partnership (MAP) for the prevention of violence against women in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire:

Aberdeen City Council MAP representatives - Grampian Police (Domestic Violence Unit, Local Authority Liaison Officer and Sexual Abuse/Prostitution Unit); Local Authority Education Services; NHS Grampian; Public Health co-ordinator; Grampian Women's Aid; The Cyrenians, Aberdeen; Social Work Services (Domestic Abuse Teams); Drugs Action; RASANE - Rape and Sexual Abuse Network; Choices; Aberdeen Forum; Procurator Fiscal Services, Grampian; Scottish Business in Community; Aberdeenshire Council

Aberdeenshire MAP representatives - Alcohol Support; Aberdeenshire Council - Housing and Social Work Service; Aberdeenshire Council - Education, Learning and Leisure Service; NHS Grampian; Grampian Police; Grampian Women’s Aid; Drugs Action; Children 1st; Victim Support; Rape & Abuse Support.

Question reference: S4W-07528

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 May 2012
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 8 June 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive which applicants to the Violence Against Women Funding Stream have been successful in each of the last three years and how much each received .

<>Violence Against Women (VAW) funding information for the last three years has been placed in the public domain on the Scottish Government’s Violence Against Women Web Pages. Information, including who has been successful, the local authority area in which they are based and how much they have received can be accessed at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/People/Equality/violence-women. Data published covers the period 2008-09 to 2009-10 to 2010-11 and 2011-12.

Question reference: S4F-00740

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 May 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 June 2012

To ask the First Minister whether members of the existing prison visiting committees will have a role in the statutory monitoring service proposed by the Scottish Government.

Question reference: S4W-07309

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 May 2012
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 31 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether police forces that fail to meet the 14-day period required by the service level agreement to process Disclosure Scotland applications can be penalised and, if so, whether these penalties have ever been applied.

The service level agreements that Disclosure Scotland have in place with Scottish relevant police forces do provide for penalties to be applied if targets are not met for a period of two consecutive months. There are different levels of penalties dependent upon the level of poor performance. Since the revised service level agreements came into force on 28 February 2011, no penalties have been imposed for poor performance.

Question reference: S4W-07310

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 May 2012
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 30 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance has been given to police forces regarding meeting the 14-day period required by the service level agreement to process Disclosure Scotland applications.

Question reference: S4W-07308

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 May 2012
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 28 May 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) civilian staff and (b) police officers have been employed by each police force to carry out checks on Disclosure Scotland applications in each year since 2007.

Disclosure Scotland does not hold information about the number of civilian staff and constables employed by relevant police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. For relevant police forces in Scotland, we have figures at February 2011 which are set out in the following table.

Relevant Police Force	Civilians	Constables	Combined FTE
Central Scotland Police	2	1	1.8
Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary	3	2	2.8
Fife Constabulary	4	3	4.3
Grampian Police	6	0	5.3
Lothian and Borders Police	5	1	3.8
Northern Constabulary	5	1	3.7
Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency	1	0	0.1
Strathclyde Police	16	4	19.6
Tayside Police	6	1	3.9