- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 January 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37923 by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 November 2010, whether the Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation has agreed a timetable for implementation of the recommendations in its recently published report on the impact of the NHSScotland Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) formula on remote and rural areas.
Answer
The key recommendation of the report, relating to GP out-of-hours, has been included on the Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation''s work plan for 2011-12.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many sentences of (a) up to six months and (b) six months or over were issued in relation to the 18,828 incidents of domestic abuse recorded in 2008-09 referred to the procurators fiscal.
Answer
The information requested is given in the following table.
Persons Convicted for an Offence with a Domestic Aggravator Recorded1, Receiving a Custodial Sentence in 2008-09
| Sentence | 2008-09 |
| 6 months or less | 668 |
| Over 6 months | 121 |
| All | 789 |
Note: 1. Where main offence.
It should be noted that statistics dealing with court proceedings and recorded crime are not directly comparable as a person may be proceeded against for more than one crime involving more than one victim and there is the possibility that the crime recorded by the police may be altered in the course of judicial proceedings. Also a crime may be recorded by the police in one year and court proceedings concluded in a subsequent year.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the 21,660 incidents of domestic abuse recorded in 2009-10 referred to the procurators fiscal resulted in a prosecution.
Answer
Criminal proceedings data for 2009-10, covering the period April 2009 to March 2010, is planned for release on 25 January 2011.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many sentences of (a) up to six months and (b) six months or over were issued in relation to the 21,660 incidents of domestic abuse recorded in 2009-10 referred to the procurators fiscal.
Answer
Criminal proceedings data for 2009-10, covering the period April 2009 to March 2010, is planned for release on 25 January 2011.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many non-harassment orders were granted as part of the disposal in relation to the 21,660 incidents of domestic abuse recorded in 2009-10 referred to the procurators fiscal.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the 18,828 incidents of domestic abuse recorded in 2008-09 referred to the procurators fiscal resulted in a prosecution.
Answer
There were 7,976 prosecutions with a domestic aggravator recorded in 2008-09.
It should be noted that statistics dealing with court proceedings and recorded crime are not directly comparable as a person may be proceeded against for more than one crime involving more than one victim and there is the possibility that the crime recorded by the police may be altered in the course of judicial proceedings. Also a crime may be recorded by the police in one year and court proceedings concluded in a subsequent year.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many non-harassment orders were granted as part of the disposal in relation to the 18,828 incidents of domestic abuse recorded in 2008-09 referred to the procurators fiscal.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 26 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the incidence of domestic abuse where the action taken by the police was referral to the procurators fiscal increasing from 35% of cases in 2008-9 to 42% in 2009-10.
Answer
It is encouraging that there has been an increase in the percentage of cases referred by the police to procurators fiscal. It is important that domestic abuse perpetrators receive strong messages about the unacceptability of their actions, and that any criminal offences are dealt with as such. Police forces across Scotland have been working to improve the quality of the police response and in particular their understanding of the issues and their investigative techniques. They have much improved their information and partnership working, which has been focussed towards identifying repeat and serial offenders and the profile of these investigations has been raised substantially across the Scottish Police Service. In particular, better use of special bail conditions and much more stringent enforcement is likely to have led to increased reports to procurators fiscal.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 17 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation’s priorities are for work in 2011-12.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-37293 on 15 November 2010. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the publication of the Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation’s report on the impact of the NHSScotland Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) formula on remote and rural areas of Scotland, when it expects the recommendations contained in the report to be implemented.
Answer
The Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation (TAGRA) will consider its work plan for 2011-12 at its next meeting on 30 November 2010, and this will include the recommendations of the report. It would be wrong to prejudge the outcome of this decision. However, I have asked TAGRA to prioritise the recommendation relating to GP out-of-hours services, to begin early in the coming financial year.
