- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 31 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 28 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many exemptions it has applied under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 to requests for information in each month since January 2005.
Answer
Information on the use of exemptions by the Scottish Executive during 2005 is available in a report on informationrequest handling in the Scottish Executive. This report is available in the Scottish Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 39491) and on the Freedom of Information pages of the Scottish Executive website:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/04/monitor2.The Executive will bepublishing the report for requests received during the first six months of 2006once the figures for this period have been analysed.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 31 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 28 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many internal review requests it has received following the application by officials of exemptions under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 in each month since January 2005.
Answer
An applicant may request aninternal review if dissatisfied with the way in which a Scottish publicauthority has dealt with a request for information, including the applicationof exemptions. Information on numbers ofinternal reviews requested of the Scottish Executive during 2005 is available in a report on information requesthandling in the Scottish Executive. This report is available in the Scottish Parliament’sReference Centre (Bib. number 39491) and on the Freedom of Information pages of the Scottish Executive website:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/04/monitor2.The Executive will bepublishing the report for requests received during the first six months of 2006once the figures for this period have been analysed.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 31 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 28 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the top five most commonly used exemptions it has applied under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 are to requests for information in each month since January 2005.
Answer
Information on the level of use of each exemption by the Scottish Executive during 2005 is availablein a report on information request handling in the Scottish Executive. Thisreport is available in the Scottish Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number39491) and on the Freedom of Information pages of the Scottish Executive website:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/04/monitor2.The Executive will bepublishing the report for requests received during the first six months of 2006once the figures for this period have been analysed.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 28 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 24 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-10945 by Cathy Jamieson on 20 October 2004, what progress has been made towards recognising the bravery and historic importance of the Scottish women of the suffrage movement.
Answer
After considering the options,ministers decided to commission a sculpture which would mark not only the contributionof Scottish women of suffrage but of all Scottish women - past, present and future- in getting the vote for women and advancing democracy.
I announced the name of the successfulartist on 8 March 2006 at an evening event in the Scottish Parliament, whichtook place against the backdrop of a small Executive-funded exhibition that includedsuffragette memorabilia and a large reproduction of a suffragette banner.
Further details aboutthe sculpture, including developing plans for the unveiling in December 2006, canbe found on the following Executive website page.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/People/Equality/18500/comsculp.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 24 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-26585 by Cathy Jamieson, what the total cost was of employing PA Consulting from April 2004 and May 2006.
Answer
The total cost to the ScottishExecutive of employing PA Consulting Group between April 2004 and May 2006 to providesupport and advice to local and national partners on youth justice issues was £1,744,256.31.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 23 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will outline the extent of its own investigations into allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency or its proxies were involved in the transportation of individuals via airports in Scotland to destinations where it is alleged that they were subsequently tortured.
Answer
It is not for the Scottish Executiveto investigate these allegations. The initiation of a criminal investigation isa matter for the police. So far, the police have taken the view that there is insufficientcredible and reliable information to support such an investigation.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 23 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether PA Consulting Group was involved in the generation of figures on persistent young offenders included in the data published by the Executive and the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration on 11 July 2006.
Answer
No. The Scottish Children’s ReporterAdministration collated the data.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 23 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive why different agencies involved in tackling youth crime are still using different methods to define who is and is not a persistent young offender and when this situation will be ended.
Answer
The national definition of persistentyoung offender was set out in the national standards for Scotland’s youthjustice services and confirmed in the Scottish Youth Justice Performance Baseline2003-04 announced on 4 November 2004. This definition was accepted and publicly endorsed bykey agencies at that time.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 23 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drivers were involved in road traffic accidents in each year since 1999, broken down by age group
Answer
Information on the number ofcar drivers involved in road traffic accidents resulting in an injury which werereported to the police from 1994 to 2004, broken down by age group, is given intable 18 of Road Accidents Scotland, 2004, publishedby the Scottish Executive in 2006. A copy is available in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 38777).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 23 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what new targets it has set for reducing the numbers of persistent young offenders, in light of a 10% reduction by March 2006 not being achieved.
Answer
No new targets have yet beenset with regard to persistent young offenders – we have made it clear we expectall agencies to work to meet the target set for the end of March 2008.
