- 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.
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
-
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.
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
-
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.
Answer
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 |
- 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 what support is given to denominational and non-denominational schools considering twinning arrangements.
Answer
In May 2006 the Executive,the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and the Scottish Catholic EducationService ran a national seminar to promote twinning. This was followed in Decemberby publication of Building Friendships and Strengthening Communities: a guideto twinning between denominational and non-denominational schools, a copy ofwhich was sent to every school in Scotland. It is availablein the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 41267). A £100,000 fund was made available in 2006-07 to supportinnovative anti-sectarianprojects in schools, includingestablishing new twinning arrangements.
- 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 what action it intends to take to encourage both shared campus and twinning initiatives between denominational and non-denominational schools.
Answer
The Centrefor Education forRacial Equality in Scotland has been commissioned to updateand augment the Executive’s anti-sectarianism education resource
Don’t Give It,Don’t Take It. As part of that work a new section on twinning between denominationaland non-denominational schools is being added. It is also our intention to run fora second year a £100,000 fund to support anti-sectarian projects in schools, includingtwinning initiatives.
On sharedcampuses, it is entirely a matter for local authorities to decide the configurationof their school estate.
- 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.
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 |
- 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.
Answer
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 |
- 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.
Answer
Such information aswe have on schools involved in twinning does not identify whether the schools inquestion form part of a shared campus.
- 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 are being considered in each local authority area.
Answer
The Executive doesnot collect systematic information on numbers of shared campuses which may be underlocal authority consideration.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
-
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 June 2007
-
Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 26 June 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current value is of the Scottish Consolidation Fund.
Answer
The balance on theaccount at June 1 is £79,003,833.14.
