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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-07499

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 April 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 10 May 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug-assisted sexual assaults took place in each regional police area in the last year.

Question reference: S2W-07500

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 April 2004
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 10 May 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to reduce the availability of gamma hydroxybutyrate to the general public.

Question reference: S2W-07498

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 April 2004
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 10 May 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to reduce the number of drug-assisted sexual assaults.

We are running an awarenesscampaign “Who’s Keeping an Eye on Your Drink?” on drug assisted sexual assaultthrough our Know the Score drugs communications strategy, in liaison with theAssociation of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (ACPOS).

The first phase of thiscampaign took place over Christmas and New Year, and involved posters in licensedpremises in Scotland, and leafleting of town and city centre clubs andpubs. Additional information materials, including a DVD, video and a drinkcover, will be available shortly. Drug-assisted sexual assault is also coveredin new advice for parents about drugs.

ACPOS has already issuedguidance to investigators on drug assisted sexual assault, and preparatory workis under way to develop new guidance for police forces on handling sexualassault cases, including drug assisted sexual assault.

Question reference: S2W-07401

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2004
Current Status: Answered by Colin Boyd on 4 May 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7083 by Colin Boyd QC on 31 March 2004, how many legal staff have been employed in the Crown Office in each year since 1999 and how many such staff have been employed in the (a) Criminal Confiscation Unit and (b) Civil Recovery Unit since their inception.

The information requested isprovided in the table below:

Crown Office Legal Staff (Including Trainees)	1/4/1999	1/4/2000	1/4/2001	1/4/2002	1/4/2003	1/3/2004
Cumulative Crown Office Total (inc High Ct Lawnmarket and Glasgow) *	35.6	45.6	55.6	61.5	69.3	71.5
The Following are Recorded Within the Above Total
Criminal Confiscation Unit	-	-	-	-	4	5
Civil Recovery Unit	-	-	-	-	2	3
Lockerbie Team	-	4	4	3	-	-
Total Crown Office Based Trainee Solicitors	5	8	10	14	16	12

Note:

*Staff at the High Court, Lawnmarket,Edinburgh were not included in Crown Office figures until March 2004. Glasgow HighCourt staff were not included in Crown Office figures until April 2003.

The number of trainee solicitors has increasedfrom 10 in April 1999 to 37 in August 2002. Currently, we have 16 1st year traineesolicitors and 21 2nd year trainee solicitors.

The majority of 1st year traineesolicitors are Crown Office based with the remainder based in designated ProcuratorFiscal Offices. The second year of the traineeship is spent within a designatedProcurator Fiscal’s Office.

Question reference: S2W-07367

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Mary Mulligan on 30 April 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to expand the free central heating programme to include people over 80 who have partial or inefficient central heating already installed in their homes.

Question reference: S2W-07370

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Mary Mulligan on 28 April 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many council properties in (a) West Dunbartonshire and (b) Argyll and Bute have no central heating or only partial central heating systems.

I have asked Angiolina Foster,the Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:

All local authorities in Scotland haveindicated that, where the tenant wanted the measure, all their properties now havea central heating system.

The Scottish House ConditionSurvey 2002 estimates that approximately 4,000 council properties in West Dunbartonshire and approximately 5,000 council properties in Argyll and Bute had partialcentral heating systems.

Question reference: S2W-07368

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Mary Mulligan on 28 April 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what mechanisms it has in place to ensure that pensioners, whose homes are damaged by central heating installation engineers contracted by Eaga Partnership Ltd under the free central heating programme, receive compensation for that damage.

Question reference: S2W-07369

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Mary Mulligan on 28 April 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been allocated to (a) West Dunbartonshire Council and (b) Argyll and Bute Council to install central heating systems in council-owned houses for each year since the start of its central heating installation programme.

I have asked Angiolina Foster, the Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:

The amounts received by West Dunbartonshire Council and Argyll and Bute Council for the installation of central heating systems in council property are shown in the table.

	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04
West Dunbartonshire	£180,000	£190,000	£120,841
Argyll and Bute	£70,000	£90,000	£17,500

Question reference: S2W-07346

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 27 April 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are serving a prison sentence for sexual offences.

Question reference: S2W-07348

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 March 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 26 April 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how it is addressing the issue of sex offenders in the consultation on reducing reoffending in Scotland.

Reduce, Rehabilitate, Reform, the Scottish Executive’s consultation on reducing reoffending,is inviting views on how we can improve the management of all categories of offenders– including sex offenders – in order to reduce their reoffending.

The Scottish Executive is fully committed to reducing reoffending by sex offenders and is currentlytaking forward a number of initiatives:

Delivery of sex offender treatmentprogrammes in prison.

Implementation of the 73 wide-rangingrecommendations contained in the Report by the Expert Panel on Sex Offending, chairedby Lady Cosgrove.

Strengthening of the throughcareservice available to prisoners on release from prison back into the community. Throughcareprovision for high risk and sex offenders will be considered as a priority.

Improvements to the sex offendersregister made by the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which comes into force on 1 May 2004.

Any proposals in relation tosex offenders submitted in response to the reducing reoffending consultation willtherefore be considered in the context of these on-going initiatives.