- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of prison inmates have been sentenced for drug-related offences in each of the last four years.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The available information is:Percentage of Sentenced Prisoners in Custody on 30 June in Each of the Last Four Years Where the Main Crime/Offence Related to Possession and Supply of Drugs.
| Year | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 |
| Percentage | 15 | 15 | 15 | 14 |
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 9 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been allocated to tackling drug misuse for each of the last four years, broken down into (a) enforcement and (b) treatment.
Answer
Expenditure on tackling drug misuse comes from a wide range of specific and mainstream programmes, which are administered at national and local levels. It is, therefore, extremely difficult to provide comprehensive and robust aggregate figures. In addition, definitions can vary of activities that could be included under the broad headings of enforcement and treatment.However, a study undertaken by the Executive's Policy Unit at the end of 1999 estimated that annual expenditure on activities linked to enforcement amounted to £65 million. The estimate for activities linked to treatment was £54 million per annum. These sums are based on expenditure from specific and mainstream programmes supported by, for example, police forces, NHS boards, local authorities and prison services. Subsequent to the Policy Unit Study, the Executive allocated an additional £128 million over three years to support delivery of Scotland's drugs strategy. The following table sets out the elements of this funding which are broadly comparable to the categories included in the Policy Unit Study:
| Area of Spend | 2001-02(£ million) | 2002-03(£ million) | 2003-04(£ million) |
| Treatment (via NHS Boards) | 2.9 | 5.3 | 5.1 |
| Rehabilitation (via Local Authorities) | 6.8 | 6.8 | 6.8 |
| Prisons | 2.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| Community Disposals (Including Drug Courts etc) | 2.2 | 4.5 | 5.0 |
| Enforcement (SDEA, Police etc) | 1.9 | 4.2 | 6.7 |
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 6 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any dentists are not accepting children as new NHS patients and, if so, what information it has on the matter, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 6 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans to extend the length of period for which aid will be made available to the fishing industry.
Answer
Our current priority is to ensure EC State Aid approval to, and implementation of, the existing scheme proposals.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 4 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps have been taken, or remain to be taken, as a result of the most recent activity analysis undertaken by the police service.
Answer
The most recent activity analysis undertaken by the police service was in February 2003 in connection with assessment work around the tenders for a prisoner escort and court custody project. That project is still under consideration. The last general activity analysis covering all police activity was conducted in February 2001. Aggregated data from this exercise were provided by police forces to inform the review of distribution of police Grant Aided Expenditure (GAE). On the basis of this and other data, the Review Working Group made some provisional recommendations in September 2002, which informed police GAE allocations for 2003-04 to 2005-06. The group is expected to make final recommendations by March 2004.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 3 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has received about any bonuses being paid to local authority chief executives who acted as returning officers in the local authority and Scottish Parliament elections on 1 May 2003.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-67 today. 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/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 3 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with local authorities about any payment of bonuses to local authority chief executives who acted as returning officers in the local authority and Scottish Parliament elections on 1 May 2003.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has not had any discussions with local authorities or received any information about payments of bonuses to returning officers at the local government elections on 1 May 2003. The conduct and funding of parliamentary elections is reserved to the UK Government.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 3 June 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications there have been for the fisheries rates relief package.
Answer
Applications for rates relief are made to local authorities. The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 May 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 May 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will accept, or propose amendments to, the latest European Commission cod recovery plan.
Answer
We are considering the proposals, which are likely to be subject to substantive discussion and negotiation - and possible amendment - before any decisions are taken in Council.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 March 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 31 March 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Council of Ministers meetings its ministers have attended since May 1999, expressed as a percentage of the total number of council meetings.
Answer
The following table gives the percentage of formal Council of Ministers meetings attended by Scottish Executive ministers since 1 July 1999.
| Period | Percentage of Councils Attended |
| July - December 1999 | 11.9% |
| 2000 | 9.5% |
| 2001 | 14.1% |
| 2002 | 14.9% |
| January - February 2003 | 25.0% |
The overall percentage of formal Council of Ministers meetings attended by Scottish Executive ministers since 1 July 1999 is 12.9%.
