- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 23 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many accused persons released on bail have been charged with further offences in each year since 2000.
Answer
This information is notavailable centrally.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many accused persons released on bail have been convicted in each year since 2000.
Answer
The available information iscontained in the research report Offending on bail: an analysis of the useand the impact of aggravated sentences for bail offenders which waspublished on 17 March 2004.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many accused persons released on bail, following appeal in the High Court, have been convicted in each year since 2000.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many appeals, lodged by the defence in the High Court, have been upheld in each year since 2000.
Answer
The available information is given in the following table:
Successful(1) Appeals by Accused Persons Against Conviction or Sentence,
2000-2002
Year | Conviction quashed | Sentence reduced | Total(1) |
2000 | 52 | 343 | 399 |
2001 | 62 | 395 | 460 |
2002 | 70 | 372 | 443 |
Note: 1. Includes appeals where the conviction was quashed and a retrial ordered, or where the original sentence was increased.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many accused persons released on bail, following appeal in the High Court, have been charged with further offences in each year since 2000.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Crown appeals on bail have been upheld by the High Court in each year since 2000.
Answer
The available information is given in the following table:
Crown Appeals on Bail
Period | Crown appeal petition | Crown appeal summary |
Number granted | % of total applications | Number granted | % of total applications |
July to December 2002 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 21 |
January to December 2003 | 53 | 19 | 42 | 30 |
January to 10 March 2004 | 15 | 23 | 2 | 7 |
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 17 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will begin consulting on proposals for the introduction of a national off-peak bus scheme as part of its commitment to concessionary travel.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S20-1188 on 29 January 2004which is available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/sch/search.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when the report of the Summary Justice Review Committee will be published.
Answer
I am pleased to announcethat the report of the Summary Justice Review Committee will be publishedtoday.
I am most grateful to thechair and members of the Summary Justice Review Committee for their thoroughand detailed report. Before the Executive decides what action to take on the committee’srecommendations we will hold a period of open consultation - to obtain theviews of those organisations and individuals with an involvement or interest inthe criminal justice system. Views from members of the public will also bewelcomed.
We are today writing to allthe key stakeholders (including the justice committees) with copies of thereport, inviting their comments. I am also inviting comments from all thoseindividuals and groups who responded to the committee’s earlier requests forviews. The report will be available electronically on the Scottish Executive’s consultation website, and we are lodging copies in the Parliament’s referencecentre. Responses can be submitted by e-mail or post.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 11 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any concerns about the quality of training for surgeons as a result of the European Working Time Directive.
Answer
The UK policy of Modernising Medical Careers was agreed inFebruary 2003. It will create more effective training pathways, responsive tothe needs of the service, with standards of training independently guaranteed.It will enable better managed training programmes operating within the reducedworking hours now available for doctors.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when the National Services Division will respond to the review of maternity services by NHS Greater Glasgow.
Answer
I understand NationalServices Division has responded to the consultation proposals set out in TheFuture of Maternity Services in Glasgow.