- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 October 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Andrew Welsh on 10 November 2003
To ask the Presiding Officer who is responsible for directing work carried out by the Parliament's staff in Scotland House.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to S2W-3575 on 11 November 2003
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 30 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the name and location is of each registered (a) residential and (b) day-care drug rehabilitation centre; how many people have been referred to each centre, and by whom each centre has been funded, in each of the last five years.
Answer
Information about individualresidential and non-residential drug services, including numbers of clients, isavailable in the corporate action plans submitted by drug action teams. Theseare available at
www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org.
This source does notdistinguish between registered and unregistered services, nor does it hold informationabout the funding of each service.
Registration of care homesfor residential drug rehabilitation purposes and support services (day-care) isa matter for the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care.
Information on statutory,and voluntary sector operated, drugs services is also held by the ScottishDrugs Forum and can be accessed via their website
www.sdf.org.uk. The Know the Score(KTS) Directory of Drug Services is currently being updated, andwill be available in hard copy and on the KTS website (www.knowthescore.info) shortly.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 28 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding drug action teams (DATs) will be awarded in (a) 2003-04 and (b) future financial years for which figures are available.
Answer
The operation of drug actionteams (DATs) is supported by £1.5 million of funding in this financial year,allocated via NHS boards. Resources for future years have not yet beenconfirmed.
Resources to tackle drugmisuse are allocated through a number of different funding streams, much ofwhich cannot be separately identified as it is spent through genericexpenditure programmes e.g. social work services; enforcement and criminaljustice activities, including prisons; prevention and education programmes;employability initiatives and funding to support communities.
However, the following tableshows the main drug-specific allocations to NHS boards and local authorities in2003-04. Decisions on funding for 2004-05 have not yet been finalised.
| 2003-04 Funding | Drug Misuse Treatment | Rehabilitation | Changing Children’s Services Fund |
| Total (£ million) | 16.952* | 6.8 | 8.0 |
Note:
*Funding does not includeadditional resources of £500,000 allocated to Greater Glasgow NHS Board to meetthe treatment costs of the Glasgow Drug Court pilot.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 September 2003
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Answered by Colin Boyd on 15 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-1509 and S2W-1510 by Colin Boyd QC on 12 August 2003, how much it would cost to answer these questions.
Answer
An exact figure cannot be provided.Procurators fiscal receive in the region of 300,000 reports annually from the policeand over fifty specialist reporting agencies. Around 35,000 of those are from specialistreporting agencies, the majority of whom do not yet report cases electronically.To obtain this data would require, in addition to writing a programme to interrogatethe system, a significant amount of manual checking and interpretation of data.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Elish Angiolini on 15 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many reports procurators fiscal received from each non-police reporting agency in 2002-03 and, of these, how many (a) were marked “no proceedings” on account of delay on the part of the reporting agency, (b) proceeded to trial, (c) resulted in a conviction and (d) are currently pending.
Answer
Procurators fiscal receive inthe region of 300,000 reports annually from the police and over fifty specialistreporting agencies. Around 35,000 of those are from specialist reporting agencies,the majority of whom do not yet report cases electronically. To obtain this datawould require, in addition to writing a programme to interrogate the system, a significantamount of manual checking and interpretation of data. Consequently, it would onlybe possible to provide the information requested at disproportionate cost.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Elish Angiolini on 15 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-115 by Mrs Elish Angiolini on 19 June 2003, how much it cost to answer that question.
Answer
The information requested relatedto only one reporting agency and involved 22 reports. An exact figure cannot beprovided, but it is estimated that the staff costs to Crown Office and ProcuratorFiscal Service of searching for, retrieving, checking and presenting the data requestedwas in the region of £400. The data was also checked by HM Customs and Excise Staffagainst their records.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 7 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will be required to take in order to comply with those aspects of the Council of the European Union Directive 2003/9/EC which relate to devolved matters.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is considering what steps it may be required to take to comply with anyaspects of the Council of the European Union Directive 2003/9/EC which relate todevolved matters.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 July 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Elish Angiolini on 23 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many, and what proportion of, drink-driving cases reported to procurators fiscal have been prosecuted.
Answer
I refer the member to the answergiven to question S1W-34889 on 31 March 2003. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
This answer provided figuresfor cases of drink-driving for the year April 2001 to March 2002, but it did notinclude figures relating to the Glasgow area due to upgrading work to the computersystem within the Glasgow office. Updated figures have now been obtained, whichinclude data from Glasgow. In the year April 2001 to March 2002, a total of 10,796charges were reported to the procurator fiscal in Glasgow and 97.4% were prosecuted.A decision not to prosecute was taken in only 1.7% of cases.
The balance of 0.9% is accountedfor by cases which were transferred to another court jurisdiction or where theprocurator fiscal was able to include the charge along with another case againstthe same accused person.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 September 2003
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Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many careless driving offences have involved a fatality since statistics on careless driving were disaggregated to allow this information to be gathered.
Answer
A separate charge code foroffences of careless driving involving a road accident fatality was introducedin March 2002. This additional information should enable such cases to beseparately identified in the available statistics on careless driving offenceswhich are proceeded against for 2002 onwards. Final data on court proceedingsconcluded in 2002 are expected to be available by December.
- Asked by: Nicola Sturgeon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether HM Prison Kilmarnock offers good value for money based on its performance.
Answer
Yes, it offers excellentvalue for money.
