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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: S1W-33986

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 24 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24446 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 16 April 2002, what percentage of microcredit loans for start-up businesses go to women.

Question reference: S1W-33984

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Iain Gray on 24 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had any input into the Department of Trade and Industry's Women's Enterprise Strategic Framework due to be published shortly and how it intends to respond to the recommendations in this report.

Question reference: S1W-33848

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the courts are applying drink-driving rehabilitation programmes as part of sentencing procedure and whether it is monitoring uptake of such programmes.

In 2001, Scottish courts referred 562 offenders to the Drink Driving Rehabilitation Scheme as part of the sentencing procedure. In 2002, this number had increased to 1,487. The scheme itself is reserved under section 34A of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988, and it is the Department for Transport which monitors the provision of courses nationally, including the amount of referrals by courts in England, Scotland and Wales, the number of courses run and the total number of offenders completing a course.

Question reference: S1W-33989

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 21 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether police forces are receiving any specialised diversity and hate crime related training.

The Scottish Police College has developed a National Equal Opportunities Training Strategy (NEOTS) which covers all aspects of equal opportunities. NEOTS training has been incorporated into the new Probationer Training Programme. In addition to this centrally delivered training, all police forces in Scotland are now running NEOTS courses. The college also delivers a two-day Diversity Awareness course.The Scottish Police College has recently appointed a Diversity Co-ordinator and is in the process of setting up a diversity panel, made up of officers from all police forces, whose remit will be to advise the college on diversity issues.

Question reference: S1W-33988

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 21 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is measuring the level and type of hate crime against people with learning disabilities and whether it has any performance targets in this area.

Question reference: S1W-33987

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 21 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to tackle hate crime against people with learning disabilities.

The Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (ACPOS) has established a newly constituted Race and Community Relations Standing Committee to reflect the importance ACPOS gives to diversity issues. The new committee has several portfolios, one of which is disability/mental health. ACPOS is currently consulting with major stakeholders to ascertain which issues on disability/mental health the committee should consider addressing.

Question reference: S1W-34038

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 21 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #0/15/15 million to be invested in tackling anti-social behaviour through neighbourhood wardens, support schemes and other local initiatives, as referred to in Building a Better Scotland: Spending Proposals 2003-2006: What the money buys, will be allocated to the (a) Dumbarton parliamentary constituency, (b) Argyll and Bute Council and (c) West Dunbartonshire Council in each year and to what projects.

Question reference: S1W-34033

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 21 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether there have been any new road safety projects in the (a) West Dunbartonshire local authority, (b) Argyll and Bute local authority and (c) Dumbarton parliamentary constituency area in each of the last four years.

Yes. The information is not available in the format requested, however the following road safety schemes have been implemented on trunk roads in these areas in the last four years.

Year	Route	Location	Description of Measures
1999-2000	A82	Garshake Road Junction	Right turn facility
2000-01	A82	Crosslet	Anti-skid treatment
2000-01	A82	Dumbuck Quarry	New signs, anti-skid treatment
2000-01	A82	Milton and Dumbuck	New signs, anti-skid treatment
2000-01	A82	Balloch to Tarbet Route Accident Reduction Plan	Signing, lining, anti-skid treatment, safety fence, chevrons and bollards
2000-01	A82	Stoneymollan Roundabout	Anti-skid treatment, signing, chevrons, transverse yellow bar markings and carriageway markings.
2000-01	A828	Connel to Ballachulish Route Accident Reduction Plan	Signing, lining, anti-skid treatment, chevrons and bollards
2002-03	A82	Barloan Roundabout	Anti-skid treatment, signing, chevrons, refurbishment of yellow bar markings and carriageway markings.

Information about projects undertaken by local authorities on the local road network in their areas is not held centrally.

Question reference: S1W-33877

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it is making in the Dumbarton parliamentary constituency on the implementation of the 10-point action plan arising from Scotland's Action Programme to Reduce Youth Crime 2002.

Argyll and Bute and West Dunbartonshire Councils received around £175,000 and £422,000 respectively for investment in youth justice this year. Of this, £111,092 for Argyll and Bute and £236,444 for West Dunbartonshire is new money made available by the Executive following the publication of the action plan. The Executive published a report in September 2002 of a local authority youth justice mapping exercise which contains information about initiatives in Argyll and Bute and West Dunbartonshire using these funds. The report is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 24541).West Dunbartonshire will also benefit between now and 2005 from two projects to be run by Includem, funded by the Youth Crime Prevention Fund: £165,400 to the West Home Team to provide advice and support to parents and families of those at risk of offending; and £139,700 for the Relapse Project which offers support and supervision to persistent young offenders to ease their transition back into the community. These projects and the national initiatives we are taking forward under the action plan will support local implementation.

Question reference: S1W-33878

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what policies it has implemented in the Dumbarton parliamentary constituency to tackle youth crime and what funding it has allocated for such policies.