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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.

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Question reference: S2W-27307

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 10 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 2 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children referred to the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration on grounds of “lack of parental care” in each year since 2001 came from the top 20 most deprived communities, as defined by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation, expressed (a) in real terms and (b) as a percentage of the total number of referrals for “lack of parental care”.

The Scottish Children’sReporter Administration (SCRA) does not hold information on children referredas defined by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation.

Information provided by SCRAis for children referred to the Children’s Reporter under section 52(2)(c) of the Children’s (Scotland) Act 1995 on the basis that they were likely(i) to suffer unnecessarily; or (ii) to be impaired seriously in his health ordevelopment, due to lack of parental care. This information is provided foreach local authority area for 2003-04 and 2004-05.

This breakdown is notavailable for preceding years which pre-date the Scottish Children’s ReporterAdministration Referral Administration Database (RAD).

Local Authority	2003-2004	2004-2005
Aberdeenshire	330	452
Angus	132	121
Argyll and Bute	252	345
City of Aberdeen	646	1005
Clackmannan	314	510
Dumfries and Galloway	783	830
Dundee	618	383
East Ayrshire	158	199
East Dunbartonshire	67	114
East Lothian	371	325
East Renfrewshire	154	74
Edinburgh	2376	2507
Falkirk	661	718
Fife	615	765
Glasgow	2047	1629
Highland	854	947
Inverclyde	442	531
Midlothian	534	501
Moray	288	280
North Ayrshire	503	328
North Lanarkshire	551	440
Orkney	40	28
Perth and Kinross	213	210
Renfrewshire	644	493
Shetland	48	57
South Ayrshire	58	98
South Lanarkshire	279	334
Stirling	514	520
The Scottish Borders	418	469
West Dunbartonshire	561	567
Western Isles	93	115
West Lothian	704	923
Total*	16,266	16,781

Source: SCRA ReferralsAdministration Database (RAD).

Note: *A child may be referred in more than one localauthority in the year. The total number of children referred for Scotland isa count of each child once, and does not therefore reflect the sum of the localauthorities.

Question reference: S2W-27305

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 10 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 2 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how it defines a “good parent”.

Question reference: S2W-27343

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what confidence it has in the data analysis and publication of figures by the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA), in light of the press release by Moray Council of 11 July 2006 which said that its most prolific, persistent offenders were not included in SCRA’s baseline data of persistent young offenders.

Question reference: S2W-27270

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, following the meeting scheduled with Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) officials on 16 May 2006, what new measures the SCRA is required to report on to ministers regarding youth justice reporting.

Question reference: S2W-27269

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it agreed with and supported the Scottish Children's Reporter Administration (SCRA) view that it should not issue the Q4 Youth Justice Report prepared by SCRA in April 2006.

Question reference: S2W-27241

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive on what dates in this year did the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration provide ministers or their officials with provisional statistics showing national and local authority data on youth justice, including figures on persistent young offenders.

Question reference: S2W-27240

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 2 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has provided to the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration since March 2005 in relation to the provision of information under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

The Scottish Executive has notprovided any specific guidance to the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration(SCRA) since March 2005 in relation to the provision of information under the Freedomof Information (Scotland) Act 2002.Internal guidance produced forScottish Executive staff in relation to Freedom of Information request handlingis available via the Scottish Executive’s publication scheme on the website, andis therefore also available to Scottish Public Bodies and other agencies outwiththe Scottish Executive. The guidance is available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/FOI.

Question reference: S2W-27458

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 2 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff left its employment in each year since 1999, broken down into staff who (a) resigned, (b) were made redundant and (c) were dismissed as a result of disciplinary action.

The following table shows thenumber of staff in Scottish Executive core departments that resigned, were maderedundant, or were dismissed as a result of disciplinary action in each year since1999.

Reason for Leaving

Year	Resigned	Redundant	Dismissed
1999	189	4	7
2000	187	6	5
2001	200	29	5
2002	175	0	3
2003	134	0	2
2004	99	5	4
2005	113	0	4
2006 (up to end June)	54	0	0

The table does not include anumber of other ways staff leave the Scottish Executive, such as transferring toanother government department and leaving at normal retirement age.

Question reference: S2W-27457

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 2 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the five most common subjects of complaints to local authorities were in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-27468

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 August 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to Northern Constabulary to release all the relevant papers which it holds surrounding the death of Mr Willie Macrae in April 1985.