- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many successful prosecutions there have been in each year since 1999 in which the alleged victim was an adult with learning difficulties, broken down by sheriff court district.
Answer
The statistics available on convictionsdo not include information on victim characteristics.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many reports were made to the police in each year since 1999 in which the alleged victim was an adult with learning difficulties, broken down by sheriff court district.
Answer
The recorded crime statisticscollected centrally do not include information on victim characteristics.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions have taken place in each year since 1999 in which the alleged victim was an adult with learning difficulties, broken down by category of offence.
Answer
The statistics available on prosecutionsdo not include information on victim characteristics.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what supported accommodation facilities have been provided for adults with learning difficulties in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. Since 2003-04 statistics have been collected on the number ofclients with learning disabilities receiving housing support under theSupporting People programme, but no records are kept on the number of separatesupported accommodation facilities for adults with learning disabilities ineach local authority area.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pregnancies there were amongst (a) 12, (b) 13, (c) 14, (d) 15 and (c) 16 year olds in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
Copies of ProfessorAlexander’s letters of appointment as Chair of Scottish Water can be viewed onthe Scottish Executive website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Environment/Water/17583/resignation.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-23721 by Lewis Macdonald on 18 March 2002, which local authorities have concessionary travel schemes for (a) children aged under 16, (b) 16 to 18 year olds in full time education courses and (c) 16 to 18 year olds who are not on full time education courses and who are not in receipt of jobseekers allowance, who are living independently and receive living allowance from social work, broken down by (i) year and (ii) local authority.
Answer
Professor Alan Alexanderresigned as Chair of Scottish Water because he did not agree with the ScottishExecutive, the Water Industry Commission for Scotland and the other regulators thatScottish Water‘s 2006-10 delivery plan fell short of their requirements for itin a number of material respects.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged 16 to 18 remained with foster carers in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The position in respect of the
ex-gratia payment made to Professor Alexander was set out in theExecutive’s answer to question S2W-23460 on 8 March 2006.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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what weekly payment is made to 16 to18 year olds who are living independently, are not in full time education and not entitled to job-seekers allowance, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The Executive considered ingeneral that Scottish Water’s delivery plan for 2006-10 was too provisional innature and identified potential obstacles to Scottish Water being able toachieve the Executive’s objectives for it without identifying how suchobstacles might be overcome. It considered in particular that the planenvisaged a significant delay in taking forward a number of important strategicissues, including the alleviation of development constraints, that it did notprovide for Scottish Water to out-perform the Water Industry Commission’sdetermination of water charges, and that it lacked a clear means by which the Executive could measure Scottish Water’s progress towards achievement of theobjectives.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what legal basis there is for any Executive involvement in whether prisoners were transported via Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd operated airports to a third country.
Answer
Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd (HIAL), as the licensedoperator of its 10 airports, is responsible for meeting UK Civil AviationAuthority and Department for Transport regulatory, and all statutory,requirements relating to its duties as the licensee of these airports. HIAL isalso accountable via its Board of Directors to the Scottish ministers for theoperation and management of its business.The Scottish Executiverequested information from HIAL regarding any flights operated on behalf of theUS Government and its agencies. As S2W-22577 answered on 10 February 2006makes clear, HIAL has no information that such flights have operated to or fromits airports. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available onthe Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what information must be provided in support of requests for flights by aircraft chartered by the CIA, or by agencies to whom the CIA has outsourced services, to land at airports operated by Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd and, specifically, whether a list of passenger names is required.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer question S2W-21090 on 20 December 2005. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.In addition to theinformation contained in S2W-21090, an aircraft operator using any airportoperated by Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd (HIAL) must also obtain orprovide: prior permission to land, and a flight plan.
There is no requirement toprovide HIAL with a list of passengers’ names.