- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what research or data is available to assess the incidence of autistic spectrum disorder among those sleeping rough.
Answer
No data is collected at a national level relating to the incidence of autism spectrum disorder among people sleeping rough.
The Scottish Executive funds Glasgow Homelessness Network to collect data from organisations providing services to rough sleepers across Scotland. Whilst this provides information about the physical and mental health of rough sleepers, and whether they are registered disabled, it does not include specific information on autism spectrum disorder.
Regarding the collection of data on the incidence of autism spectrum disorder more generally, I refer to Lewis Macdonald’s response to the answer to question S2W-19055 on 20 September 2005. 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: Monday, 05 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 19 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive which treatment centres have provided sleep services to patients outwith their own NHS board area in each year since 1999 and how many such patients each centre has treated.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andrew Welsh on 15 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether Braille guides to the Parliament building are available and, if so, how these are publicised both externally and in the public foyer.
Answer
A range of leaflets explaining Parliament and its role are available in Braille. These are available from the Visitor Information Desk in the Main Hall and can be ordered from our website or from Public Information.
In addition the text relating to the exhibition in the Main Hall, which offers further information on Parliament, is also available in Braille.
The Braille leaflets are publicised on the sign rack and on our website. In addition, Visitor Service Officers can make available leaflets and exhibition text on request.
Our leaflet welcoming people to the Scottish Parliament, states that Guide Dogs are welcome and encourages visitors to contact us in advance with any additional requirements.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andrew Welsh on 15 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether audio handsets are available for visually-impaired people touring the Parliament and, if so, how these are publicised both externally and in the public foyer.
Answer
Visitors to the Scottish Parliament can tour the Main Hall area which comprises our exhibition, shop and café on their own. The exhibition and a wide range of leaflets are available for visitors explaining Parliament and its role. Audio tapes and CDs are available for all our main leaflets and the exhibition text. Leaflets themselves carry wording to explain that they are available in audio tape and CD and Visitor Service Officers in the Main Hall can respond to requests. This is also publicised on the website. Visitor services staff will make all reasonable adjustments in advance for visitors with a disability who indicate a specific requirement for their visit.
On non-business days visitors can also take a paid for guided tour which includes the garden lobby, chamber, committee rooms and Queensberry House foyer. Tour guides are trained to meet the various additional requirements that may be required by a disabled person to allow them to fully participate in the tour. Further disability equality training for the guides is planned in the coming year.
Visitor services will be reviewing the Guided Tour Programme as part of a wider review of Visitor Services planned for autumn 2005 and this will include considering the range and types of tours on offer.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been sent outwith their own NHS board area for sleep services in each year since 1999, broken down by board area.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive which NHS boards have provided sleep services in each year since 1999 and what type of service each board has provided.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 15 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients have been on waiting lists for sleep services in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18057 by Cathy Jamieson on 18 August 2005, whether the criteria for police issuing written warnings to children is standard across police forces and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Answer
Matters of operational procedure are for Chief Constables to decide rather than the Scottish Executive. The range of disposals can include a warning from a senior police officer, a police restorative warning, referral to the Children’s Panel, or in serious cases, a report to the Procurator Fiscal. The reporter to the Children’s Panel is normally consulted in all cases.
It is important when dealing with children to consider each case on its merits so that an appropriate response can be made. Applying a set of fixed criteria for written warnings would run contrary to this.
The Executive produced guidelines in June 2004 on the use of Police Restorative Warnings by the Police, supported by £500,000 over two years to fund implementation. Chief Officers are committed to replacing the senior police officer warning across Scotland with restorative warnings by April 2006.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 5 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Visit Scotland regarding commemorating the 700th anniversary of the execution of Sir William Wallace.
Answer
Tourism officials had early discussions with VisitScotland about promoting the 700th anniversary of the death of William Wallace. This has resulted in VisitScotland promoting Wallace-related events through UK and international promotional material and on the ancestralscotland.com and visitscotland.com websites.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Elish Angiolini on 5 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-17815 by Elish Angiolini QC on 9 August 2005, how many children accused of a statutory racial offence and separately racial aggravation were referred to the Reporter to the Children's Panel in each year since 2002-03 to date, broken down by police force area.
Answer
The information requested is set out in the following table:
Number of Children referred to Children’s Reporter by Procurators Fiscal
| | Police Force Area | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | Grand Total |
| Racial Charge | Central | 12 | 13 | 44 | 69 |
| Fife | 5 | 10 | 5 | 20 |
| Grampian | 4 | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| Northern | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Strathclyde | 55 | 99 | 97 | 251 |
| Tayside | 0 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Lothian and Borders | 14 | 9 | 15 | 38 |
| Racial Charge Total | 91 | 136 | 172 | 399 |
| Racial Aggravation | Fife | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Northern | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Strathclyde | 11 | 25 | 17 | 53 |
| Tayside | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Lothian and Borders | 9 | 8 | 6 | 23 |
| Racial Aggravation Total | 22 | 37 | 25 | 84 |
Notes :
1. The information in this table has been extracted from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s Case Management Database. The database is a live, operational database used to manage the processing of reports submitted to procurators fiscal by the police and other reporting agencies.
2. The information in the table is based on the first charge recorded for each accused person. Some accused persons who appear in this table under the “Racial Charge” heading may also have been subject to other charges in the same case involving a “Racial Aggravation”, and vice versa. An accused person will appear in the table more than once if they were the subject of two or more police reports relating to separate incidents.
