- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many sex offenders currently serving a determinant sentence have been assessed as being at (a) high risk and (b) medium risk of (i) reoffending and (ii) repeat offending upon release.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
A Sex Offender Audit took a snapshotof prisoners in custody on 18 May 2005. It indicated that there were 402 determinate sentenceprisoners identified as sex offenders. The audit made no assessment of the levelsof risk these individuals might represent upon release.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many child sex offenders currently held in prison have been assessed as being at medium risk of repeat offending upon release.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-23113 on 15 March 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor 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: Friday, 10 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by George Lyon on 15 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive in how many cases malnutrition was described on the death certificate as a cause of death in each year since 1999, broken down by age group.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-19956 on 17 November 2005. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor 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, 14 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 14 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children with learning difficulties were excluded from school in each year since 1999, broken down by (a) local authority, (b) primary school and (c) secondary school.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not hold this information from 1999. This breakdown of information has only been collated from 2004.
Please see the following table:
Number1 Exclusions Amongst Pupils with a Learning Difficulty2, 2003-04.
| | Primary | Secondary |
| 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 |
| Aberdeen City | 9 | 18 | 18 | 27 |
| Aberdeenshire | 21 | 9 | 69 | 78 |
| Angus | - | 6 | 18 | 18 |
| Argyll and Bute | 6 | - | 36 | 42 |
| Clackmannanshire | 3 | 3 | 15 | 24 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 3 | 3 | 42 | 51 |
| Dundee City | 12 | 12 | 78 | 81 |
| East Ayrshire | 18 | 9 | 54 | 39 |
| East Dunbartonshire | - | - | 3 | - |
| East Lothian | - | 3 | 36 | 12 |
| East Renfrewshire | - | - | 9 | 3 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 18 | 21 | 54 | 84 |
| Eilean Siar | - | - | - | 3 |
| Falkirk | 9 | 9 | 90 | 123 |
| Fife | 27 | 27 | 102 | 78 |
| Glasgow City | 15 | 18 | 21 | 78 |
| Highland | 3 | 3 | 12 | 18 |
| Inverclyde | 6 | - | 54 | 72 |
| Midlothian | 6 | - | 15 | 18 |
| Moray | 6 | 6 | 12 | 18 |
| North Ayrshire | 3 | 9 | 12 | 6 |
| North Lanarkshire | 12 | 12 | 69 | 105 |
| Orkney Islands | - | - | 9 | - |
| Perth and Kinross | 27 | 39 | - | 12 |
| Renfrewshire | 6 | 6 | 81 | 51 |
| Scottish Borders | - | 6 | 27 | 27 |
| Shetland Islands | 3 | 3 | 3 | - |
| South Ayrshire | 12 | - | 66 | 54 |
| South Lanarkshire | 15 | 12 | 84 | 108 |
| Stirling | - | - | 3 | - |
| West Dunbartonshire | 3 | - | 36 | 18 |
| West Lothian | 30 | 12 | 51 | 54 |
Notes:
1. Data has been rounded to the nearest three to avoid data disclosure.
2. Data includes pupils with RoN/IEP for the following categories: moderate, severe, profound or specific learning difficulties or complex or multiple impairments involving learning difficulties. In 2003-04, main difficulty of learning data was not available for 1,819 pupils and in 2004-05 it was not available for 1,760 pupils.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 14 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made since the Minister for Environment and Rural Development’s letter to me of 2 June 2005 regarding the employment of immigrant workers at Monaghan Middlebrook Mushrooms at Drem in East Lothian and its enquiries regarding compliance with agricultural wages legislation.
Answer
Analysis of the information gathered during the inspection of pay records for May 2005 at Monaghan Middlebrook Mushrooms, Drem, East Lothian, on 6 June 2005 showed that some workers were being underpaid.
As a result, the employing agencies supplying staff for this site were asked to produce full records dating back to February 2005. Satisfactory information was not received until 14 February 2006. The analysis of this payroll information, for 180 workers, is nearly complete. We expect to inform the employment agencies of the outcome of our investigations by 31 March 2006.
- 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 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, 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 Cathy Jamieson on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many 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 prosecutionsdo not include information on victim characteristics.
