- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 April 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 10 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to tackle deliberate fire raising.
Answer
As part of the Scottish Government’s wider agenda on anti-social behaviour, we support the excellent work being delivered by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) and other partners to develop programmes to target those groups with the potential to become involved in wilful fire-raising. SFRS delivers a range of schemes aimed at educating and supporting young people, who are responsible for a high percentage of deliberate fires, to reduce and prevent the instances of deliberate fire setting and fire related anti-social behaviour.
This includes education and diversion work to improve citizenship, reduce offending by children and young people and education on the dangers and social impact of fire setting through the delivery of interventions such as the ‘Fire setter Intervention and Re-Education Scheme’ (FIReS), ‘FireSkills’ and ‘Adverse Childhood Experience Awareness Programme’.
Recorded Crime in Scotland 2016-17 statistics show that fire-raising has decreased by 40% over the ten year period from 2007-08 to 2016-17. But we must not be complacent, deliberate fire setting and fire related anti-social behaviour continues to be a serious concern in many communities and local authority areas as well as placing a very significant operational demand on the SFRS. That is why prevention will continue to be a central objective being pursued by the SFRS.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 April 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 10 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many instances of deliberate fire raising have been recorded in each parliamentary constituency in the Mid Scotland and Fife region in each of the last five years.
Answer
This information is not held centrally by the Scottish Government. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) publish annual incident statistics on deliberate primary and secondary fires (Tables 12-13b refer) on its website - http://www.firescotland.gov.uk/about-us/fire-and-rescue-statistics.aspx .
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 May 2018
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 16 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government on what date the first payments of the carers allowance supplement will be made.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 16 May 2018
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 May 2018
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 8 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with DF Barnes since the announcement of redundancies at BiFab on 4 May.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 8 May 2018
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 April 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 4 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many applications to introduce the sexual history or sexual character evidence of a victim in a sexual offence or rape trial have been (a) requested, (b) unopposed, (c) granted in full, (d) granted in part and (e) rejected, in each year since 2002.
Answer
Data on the use of sections 274 and 275 Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 are not routinely collected by the Scottish Government.
I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-16093 on 1 May 2018. 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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx .
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 May 2018
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 9 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Fife Health and Social Care Partnership since its decision to suspend overnight out-of-hours services in Dunfermline, St Andrews and Glenrothes.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 9 May 2018
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 April 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 1 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its report, Impact of Aspects of the Law of Evidence in Sexual Offence Trials, published in September 2007, what plans it has to conduct a further evaluation, including on the issue of sexual history or character evidence.
Answer
As the question notes, the operation of the law in the area of the use of character evidence and sexual history evidence was subject to a full and independent evaluation in 2007. The law in this area has not changed substantively since the 2007 evaluation.
However, in December 2015 a commitment was provided to parliament to undertake a small high level data collection project to review the usage of section 274/275. This exercise concluded in June 2016 and the results can be found here: http://www.parliament.scot/General%20Documents/20160624CSfJtoConvenerILR.pdf . The Scottish Government is working with Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service to interrogate this data further. This exercise will inform any future consideration of the operation of the law in this area.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 March 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Angela Constance on 18 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government when the Aspiring Communities Fund will open for applicants at stage 2; how many applications it expects; how much funding will be made available for this, also broken down by how much will be ring-fenced for applicants that have completed the stage 1 process, and whether any funding will be made available to stage 1 applicants that are not successful at stage 2.
Answer
The date for Aspiring Communities Fund applications for existing Stage 1 projects to progress to Stage 2 is still under consideration. The fund currently supports 60 Stage 1 projects and it is expected that the majority of these projects will apply for Stage 2 funding. The level of funding available is still to be determined. Those projects that are unsuccessful in acquiring Stage 2 funding will be signposted to alternative funding sources.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 March 2018
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Current Status:
Answered by Angela Constance on 18 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government when the Aspiring Communities Fund opened for applicants at stage 1; how many applications were (a) received and (b) granted, broken down by (i) name of organisation and (ii) amount granted, and what criteria were used to determine whether to approve a grant.
Answer
The Aspiring Communities Fund opened for Stage 1 applicants in February 2017.
a) the total number of Stage 1 applications received was 108.
b) The total number of Stage 1 projects approved was 60.
Eligibility of organisations was determined through their completion of a pre-eligibility checklist. All eligible proposals were then carefully checked and scored against the Fund’s criteria and scoring framework. All eligible applications were then considered by an independent panel.
Name of successful organisation and amount granted is listed in the following table:-
LEAD ORGANISATION NAME | TOTAL GRANT APPROVED |
Aberlour Childcare Trust | £23,622 |
Active Communities | £21,493 |
AddAction | £47,335 |
Aspire2Access | £19,286 |
Bethany Christian Trust | £43,947 |
Brag Enterprises Ltd | £34,201 |
Broadford and Strath Community Company Ltd | £32,500 |
Calman Trust | £23,265 |
Cernach Housing Association | £23,380 |
Childcare in the Community | £48,739 |
Churches Action for the Homeless (CATH) | £39,021 |
Citizens Advice Edinburgh | £23,254 |
Cloch Housing Association | £35,845 |
Coalfields Regeneration Trust | £38,064 |
Community InfoSource | £38,191 |
CVS Inverclyde | £30,682 |
Cyrenians | £13,609 |
Darvel Community Trust | £33,354 |
Deaf Connections | £49,874 |
Deveron Projects | £44,081 |
Dundee and Angus ADHD Support Group | £42,000 |
Dundee International Women's Centre | £49,101 |
Edinburgh Food Project | £8,667 |
Elderpark Housing Association | £22,335 |
FEAT Trading CIC | £9,343 |
Forward Coupar Angus | £20,585 |
Furniture Plus Ltd | £15,400 |
Galgael Trust | £14,325 |
Glasgow Homelessness Network | £17,878 |
Glen Housing Association | £13,585 |
Healthy n Happy CDT | £43,179 |
Inch Park Community Sports Club | £19,448 |
Irvine Community Sports Club | £12,000 |
Kirkcaldy YMCA | £49,182 |
Letham Community Sports Club | £28,865 |
Midlothian Voluntary Action | £20,266 |
Money Matters Money Advice Centre | £47,783 |
Nari Kallyan Shangho (NKS) | £30,081 |
North Lands Creative Glass | £17,508 |
Ore Valley Housing Association | £13,175 |
PAS (Planning Aid for Scotland) | £31,791 |
RAMH | £20,492 |
Regenfx Youth Trust | £28,694 |
RockSolid Dundee | £15,204 |
Sacro | £47,768 |
Simon Community Scotland | £8,698 |
Studio Pop CIC | £48,875 |
Support in Mind Scotland | £31,183 |
SURF | £39,304 |
The Ayrshire Community Trust | £36,644 |
The New Tannahill Centre | £50,000 |
The Pollokshields Trust | £46,788 |
The Village Storytelling Centre | £33,621 |
The Yard Adventure Centre | £40,445 |
Third Sector Dumfries & Galloway | £25,415 |
Tollcross Housing Association | £49,000 |
Toonspeak Young People's Theatre | £23,073 |
Visibility | £12,126 |
Voluntary Action Orkney | £26,390 |
With Kids | £47,945 |
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 March 2018
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 28 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to support the Fife economy.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 28 March 2018
