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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S3W-01592

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 June 2007
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.

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.

Question reference: S3W-01595

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 June 2007
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.

Question reference: S3W-01596

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 June 2007
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.

Question reference: S3W-01591

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 June 2007
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.

Question reference: S3W-01594

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 June 2007
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.

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.

Question reference: S3W-01593

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 June 2007
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.

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.

Question reference: S3W-01837

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 02 July 2007
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 17 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many restriction of liberty orders have been issued since April 2005, broken down by local authority area.

A total of 1,999 restrictionof liberty orders have been imposed between 1 April 2005 and31 March 2007. The information is not collected by local authorityarea but the following table provides details by court sheriffdom.

Sheriffdom	1 April to 31 December 2005	1 January to 31 December 2006	1 January to 31 March 2007
Glasgow and Strathkelvin	83	73	21
Grampian, Highlands and Islands	80	90	30
Lothian and Borders	83	76	28
North Strathclyde	53	70	25
South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway	156	308	59
Tayside, Central and Fife	272	402	83
High Court	4	2	1
Stipendiary Magistrates	0	0	0
Total	731	1021	247

Question reference: S3W-01349

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
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.

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

Question reference: S3W-01351

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 17 July 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many twinning arrangements between denominational and non-denominational schools have been implemented in each local authority area.

A March 2007 survey ofdenominational schools (which achieved a response rate of 69%) produced theinformation set out in the following table. Of the 271 denominational schoolsresponding to the survey, 74% were involved in twinning arrangements.

Number of Schools (bothDenominational and Non-Denominational) known to be Involved in TwinningArrangements during the 2006-07 School Year

Local Authority
Aberdeen	7
Angus	1
Argyll and Bute	23
Clackmannanshire	1
Dumfries and Galloway	35
Dundee City	13
East Ayrshire	9
East Dunbartonshire	20
East Lothian	8
East Renfrewshire	3
Edinburgh City	20
Falkirk	8
Fife	24
Glasgow	74
Highland	13
Inverclyde	11
Midlothian	10
Moray	11
North Ayrshire	11
North Lanarkshire	56
Perth and Kinross	10
Renfrewshire	18
Scottish Borders	6
South Ayrshire	23
South Lanarkshire	49
Stirling	2
West Dunbartonshire	12
West Lothian	24
Total	502

Question reference: S3W-01352

Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
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 also involve twinning arrangements in each local authority area.