- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 21 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what top six subjects were raised by individual members of the public with the Minister and Deputy Minister for Communities, as measured by volume of written correspondence, in the last 12 months.
Answer
The top six subjects between15 November 2005 and 14 November 2006 were:
1.Land use planning - casework (448)
2.Central Heating Programme and Warm Deal (284)
3.Ahmed Family campaign (241)
4.Housing Association Activities (129)
5.Planning Bill (107)
6. Asylum Seekers and refugees(84).
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many times it has had meetings with Taser International in the last five years, showing the dates and venues of such meetings.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has heldno meetings with Taser International in the last five years.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on purchasing Taser guns or other electroshock weapons and on training police officers for their use, broken down by police force.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. Chief Constables are responsible for making decisions on the best useof the resources available to them.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Taser guns or other electro-shock weapons have been bought by police forces in Scotland, broken down by police force.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. The purchase of police equipment, including firearms is a matter forthe relevant Chief Constable.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers have been armed with Taser guns or other electroshock weapons in the last (a) year and (b) month and on how many occasions, broken down by police force.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. Decisions to deploy armed police officers are an operational matter forChief Constables.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 5 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has received through Barnett consequentials following the recent announcement by the UK Government Cabinet Office of £1.1 million funding to promote volunteering among hard-to-reach groups.
Answer
The funding to promote volunteeringrecently announcement by the UK Government Cabinet Office was allocated from existingresources and does not therefore result in any consequentials for Scotland.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what work it is currently supporting to promote volunteering among hard-to-reach groups.
Answer
We work with partners, includingVolunteer Development Scotland (VDS) to implement our volunteering strategy andattract people from socially diverse backgrounds to volunteering. VDS, togetherwith a number of volunteer centres, takes forward a range of training and providestargeted resources to promote best practice across volunteer engaging agencies,including the promotion of volunteering opportunities to harder to reach groups.In addition, the Scottish Executive funds MV Awards (previously Millennium VolunteerAwards) which, through a national network of youth development workers located inlocal volunteer centres, aims to promote volunteering to all young people whileprioritising harder to reach groups.
Project Scotland, whichalso receives Scottish Executive funding, offers full time volunteering placementsto young people aged between16 to 25. Project Scotland’s range of support, whichincludes a subsistence allowance, allows many young people, who would perhaps nototherwise be able to do so, to take advantage of these opportunities.
The Executive’s advertising campaignfor volunteering specifically targeted harder to reach groups.
Executive Departments also supporta number of voluntary community projects for hard to reach groups in pursuit oftheir policy objectives, many of which may include a volunteering element.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 26 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that parental consent should be required before schools take the fingerprints of pupils.
Answer
The Executive believes that parenta lconsent is an essential pre‑requisite.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 26 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it provides funding for the installation of fingerprint systems in schools and, if so, how much has been spent on this in the last three financial years.
Answer
The Executive does not providefunding specifically for the installation of such systems.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 26 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has a policy of supporting the installation of fingerprint systems in schools and, if so, what the objective is of this policy.
Answer
Such decisions are matters forindividual education authorities and schools.
