- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dispersal orders have been enforced since October 2004, broken down by local authority area and giving details of each order.
Answer
The information requested,covering the period from October 2004 to end-March 2007 (the latest period forwhich data is held centrally), is provided in the following table. Please notethat dispersal orders are a police power rather than a local authority one.
| | Dispersal Order Location | Reason | Local Authority Area | Police Force Area | Dates |
| 1. | Beach Boulevard, Aberdeen (stretch of road on beach front – residential) | ‘Boy Racers’ | Aberdeen City | Grampian | 01.03.05 – 30.05.05 |
| 2 | Beach Boulevard, Aberdeen (As above) | ‘Boy Racers’ | Aberdeen City | Grampian | 31.05.05 – 28.08.05 |
| 3 | Hunter Sq, Edinburgh (Square in city centre – residential & business) | Street drinking and aggressive begging | City of Edinburgh | Lothian and Borders | 01.08.05 – 31.10.05 |
| 4 | Millbank/Chestnut Rd, Dingwall (2 streets in residential area) | Large groups of young people (around 20) engaged in underage drinking, vandalism and illegal use of ‘mini-motos’ | Highland | Northern | 30.09.05 – 29.12.05 |
| 5 | Hunter Sq, Edinburgh (As number 3) | Street drinking and aggressive begging | City of Edinburgh | Lothian and Borders | 01.11.05 – 31.01.06 |
| 6 | Mid Calder (Village – residential) | Large groups of young people (up to 60) engaged in underage drinking, shouting, littering. Plus violent incident. | West Lothian | Lothian and Borders | 01.12.05 – 28.02.06 |
| 7 | St Andrew’s Church, Dumfries (Church graveyard and Burns’ Mausoleum) | Groups of young people engaged in vandalism, graffiti, littering, underage drinking and drug taking. | Dumfries and Galloway | Dumfries and Galloway | 30.04.06 – 29.07.06 |
| 8 | St Michael’s Church, Dumfries (Church graveyard) | Groups of young people engaged in vandalism, graffiti, littering, underage drinking and drug taking. | Dumfries and Galloway | Dumfries and Galloway | 30.04.06 – 29.07.06 |
| 9 | Hunter Sq, Edinburgh (As number 3) | Street drinking and aggressive begging. | City of Edinburgh | Lothian and Borders | 05.06.06 – 31.08.06 |
| 10 | Moffat (Car park) | Groups of young people engaged in intimidation, noise nuisance, littering, public sexual activity and vandalism. | Dumfries and Galloway | Dumfries and Galloway | 26.08.06 – 25.11.06 |
| 11 | Lockerbie (Car park) | Groups of young people engaged in intimidation, noise nuisance, littering, public sexual activity and vandalism. | Dumfries and Galloway | Dumfries and Galloway | 26.08.06 – 25.11.06 |
| 12 | Knightswood, Glasgow (Residential area) | Groups of young people engaged in intimidation, noise nuisance, littering, public sexual activity and vandalism. | Glasgow City | Strathclyde | 01.09.06 – 30.11.06 |
| 13 | Sauchie (Village – residential) | Since beginning of 2006 and order coming into force more than 800 complaints and 430 crimes were recorded. Generally young people engaged in vandalism, fighting, drinking and acting in an unacceptable manner. | Clackmannanshire | Central | 18.09.06 – 17.12.06 |
| 14 | Dennistoun, Glasgow (Residential area) | Increase in the number of incidents involving large groups of youths gang fighting, carrying knives, vandalising property, drinking and causing disorder. | Glasgow City | Strathclyde | 13.10.06 – 11.01.07 |
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been given to Glasgow City Council to tackle antisocial behaviour in each year since 2004, broken down by project.
Answer
The funding given to GlasgowCity Council since 2004 to tackle antisocial behaviour, which is notring-fenced for specific projects, is as follows:
2004-05- £ 2,487,000
2005-06- £ 2,760,950
2006-07- £ 3,238,000
2007-08- £ 3,401,000
Total –£11,869,950
In addition, separate moniesprovided to Glasgow City Council for community safety, youth justice, noisenuisance and violence reduction can all be used to tackle aspects of antisocialbehaviour.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many breaches of antisocial behaviour orders have resulted in a criminal conviction.
Answer
The information requested isprovided in the following table.
Individual offences ofbreach of ASBOs with a charge proved in Scottish Courts, 1999-00 to 2005-06
| Financial year | Proven breach charges |
| 1999-2000 | 5 |
| 2000-01 | 24 |
| 2001-02 | 43 |
| 2002-03 | 51 |
| 2003-04 | 43 |
| 2004-05 | 158 |
| 2005-06 | 237 |
Source: Scottish Executive Court Proceedings Database
The data provided does notinclude cases in which the breach is treated as an aggravating factor in aconviction for another offence.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many 12 to 15-year-olds have been issued with antisocial behaviour orders since October 2004.
Answer
The most recent data held centrally indicates that nine 12 to 15-year-olds have been issued withAntisocial Behaviour Orders since October 2004 (up to end-March 2007).
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to publish its report on the implementation of civil antisocial behaviour orders.
Answer
We expect to publish thisreport in due course. Annual surveys of antisocial behaviour order usage, for2003-04, 2004-05, and 2005-06, which will contribute to the forthcoming report,are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib numbers 43140,43141 and 43142 respectively).
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many breaches of antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs) have been recorded since 2002, also expressed as a percentage of the total number of ASBOs issued during that period.
Answer
Reliable data for breach ofantisocial behaviour orders is only held centrally for 2004-05 and 2005-06. Thisreveals that 140 and 153 orders were breached in these years, respectively. Theindependent research which provides us with this data expresses the number oforders breached each year as a proportion of the number of orders in force atthe end of each year rather than the number issued each year. This is a moreaccurate reflection the true breach rate because a high proportion of ASBOs arein force for more than one year. On thisbasis, the research estimated the ASBO breach rate at 26% in 2004-05 and 31% in2005-06.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many antisocial behaviour orders have been issued in the Glasgow City Council area since March 2006.
Answer
The information requested isnot yet held centrally. We expect the figures for 2006-07 to be available bythe end of this year.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to publish the evaluation of the implementation and impact of community warden schemes.
Answer
The evaluation of the impactand implementation of community wardens was published on the Scottish Executivewebsite on 23 March 2007 and can be accessed at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/22104147/0.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how it monitors the success of each dispersal order.
Answer
The Scottish Executive doesnot monitor the success of each individual dispersal order; that is theresponsibility of the police force and partner agencies concerned. We are,however, conducting a study – as required under the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland)Act 2004 – of the operational effectiveness and impact of dispersal powers, asevidenced by the first 14 dispersal orders to be enforced. This study will bepresented to Parliament by 29 October 2007.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many shared campus arrangements between denominational and non-denominational schools have been implemented in each local authority area.
Answer
The Executive doesnot collect systematic information on the incidence of shared campus arrangementsbetween denominational and non-denominational schools. However, we understand thatthe number of such campuses may be as set out in the following table, although thiscannot be taken as necessarily representing a complete list.
Known Number ofDenominational/Non-Denominational Shared Campuses
| Local Authority | |
| Edinburgh City | 3 |
| Fife | 1 |
| Glasgow | 1 |
| Midlothian | 3 |
| North Lanarkshire | 8 |
| Renfrewshire | 1 |
| South Ayrshire | 1 |
| West Lothian | 2 |
