- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Serious Organised Crime Taskforce will report its findings.
Answer
The Serious Organised Crime Taskforce aims to identify priorities for tackling serious organised crime in Scotland by making recommendations to Scottish ministers; sharing best practice; improving co-ordination between the law enforcement agencies, and making proposals for legislation and other measures to tackle serious organised crime.
There have been a number of announcements of recommendations and priorities following taskforce discussions. For example, we have already announced our intention to bring forward proposals for offences of directing or being involved in organised crime; that we are reinvesting a proportion of proceeds of crime back into asset recovery work; that I have written to the Home Secretary with suggestions for strengthening the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and we have drawn attention to some recent successes by the agencies involved in tackling organised crime. Copies of the news releases are available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases.
We will publish our proposals for legislative change when it is appropriate to do so.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 23 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is a limit to the number of community service orders that can be given to an individual before a prison sentence is imposed.
Answer
There is no such limit. Courts have regard to the specific circumstances of the offence and the individual offender, before deciding on a sentence.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13585 by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008, what criteria were cited for the Inverclyde commission area forwarding to HM Treasury in 2006-07 more monies than were collected.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14070 on 19 June 2008. 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.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13585 by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008, what criteria were cited for Moray commission area forwarding to HM Treasury in 2006-07 more monies than were collected.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14070 on 19 June 2008. 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.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13585 by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008, what criteria were cited for Aberdeenshire commission area forwarding less than one third of the monies collected to HM Treasury in 2006-07.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14070 on 19 June 2008. 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.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13585 by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008, what criteria were cited for Dundee City commission area forwarding less than half of the monies collected to HM Treasury in 2005-06.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14070 on 19 June 2008. 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.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 19 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13585 by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008, what criteria are used to calculate the amount of money collected from each commission area district court that is forwarded to HM Treasury.
Answer
Information on the amount of money collected by each commission area district court and forwarded to HM Treasury is provided to the Scottish Government by the individual local authorities in each commission area. They do not detail the specific criteria they have used in making these returns, however the basis on which money could be retained or forwarded in 2006-07 and previous years was as follows:
Local authorities were allowed to retain all income from fiscal fines and from fines imposed upon conviction for common law offences. They also retained a set proportion of income received for fixed penalty notices for certain road traffic offences. This proportion was set at 10%, but increased to 33% in the case of penalties for stationary vehicles where the fine became registered. Money received from fines imposed upon conviction for statutory offences was forwarded to HM Treasury, as was the balance of fixed penalty notice payments for road traffic offences.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 19 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13585 by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008, what percentage of money forwarded to HM Treasury from Scottish commission areas is used in Scotland.
Answer
This is a matter for HM Treasury. The information requested is not held by the Scottish Government.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 19 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13585 by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008, how much was collected from each commission area, broken down by type of crime.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 19 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of vandalism has been over the last five years, also broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
