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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S5W-16873

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 May 2018
Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 7 June 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been found guilty of offences under the Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act 2010 in each year where no injury to a person has taken place.

Question reference: S5W-16875

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 May 2018
Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 7 June 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been (a) charged and (b) convicted under section 5(1) of the Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act 2010 in each year.

Information on the number of people charged is not held centrally. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service have provided the following table.

People reported to COPFS with at least one charge under Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act 2010 S5(1), 2010-11 to 2016-17

		Financial Year Reported
2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17
0	12	16	20	31	23	35

Source: Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service

Information on people convicted in Scottish courts is provided in the following table.

People convicted of offences under the Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act 2010 S5(1), where main charge, 2010-11 to 2016-17

Financial Year	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17
Total convictions	-	-	4	4	9	6	9

Source: Scottish Government Criminal Proceedings database

Please note these two data sources are not directly comparable. As Criminal Proceedings statistics only measure the main charge in a case it would be expected that the COPFS figures would be higher. There will also be timing differences since the COPFS figures are based on the year of the report to COPFS, while the Criminal Proceedings figures are based on year of disposal.

Question reference: S5W-16878

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 May 2018
Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 7 June 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many people have been found guilty of an offence under Section 3 of the Control of Dogs Order 1992 in each year since it came into force.

Question reference: S5W-16876

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 May 2018
Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 7 June 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been disqualified from owning or keeping a dog under section (a) 5 and (b) 9 of the Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act 2010 in each year.

The available information on the number of people disqualified from owning or keeping dogs under the Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act s5(1) and s9 is provided in the following table.

Number of people disqualified from owning or keeping a dog under Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act 2010 s5/s9¹, 2010-11 to 2016-17.

		2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17
Offences involving dangerous dogs	Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act 2010 Section 5	-	-	1	-	-	1	-
Offences involving dangerous dogs	Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act 2010 Section 9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

1 - where main crime

Source: Scottish Government Criminal Proceedings Database.

Question reference: S5O-02215

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 June 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 June 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making in delivering the expansion of early learning and childcare.

Question reference: S5W-16826

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 21 May 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 6 June 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the third supplementary to question S5O-02087 by Jeane Freeman on 16 May 2018 (Official Report, c. 1), when it asked the experience panels to consider (a) merging all forms of adult disability benefits into a disability assistance allowance and (b) offering a choice of a mobility component within attendance allowance, and what progress is being made with this.

Work with Experience Panel members with lived experience of disability benefits began in June 2017 with an Experience-Panel wide research programme. Following this a disability benefit specific session started in November 2017 and is ongoing. This involves a combination of surveys, individual meetings and group sessions on a wide range of issues affecting disability benefits.

Over the next six months, we will be asking Experience Panel members more explicitly for their views on Attendance Allowance and on a mobility component for disability benefits, to inform our approach in Scotland in the future.

Question reference: S5W-16712

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 24 May 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports that the total number of police officers is falling, whether it is taking action to ensure that the number of frontline officers is protected.

Question reference: S5W-16713

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 24 May 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how it defines "frontline police officer", and what changes there have been to this definition since January 2007.

Question reference: S5W-16714

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 24 May 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) frontline and (b) non-frontline police officers there have been in each quarter since January 2007.

This information is not held centrally.

Police Scotland publish sub-national police officer numbers on a quarterly basis in parallel with the Scottish Government’s Police Officer Quarterly Strength Statistics. A link to Police Scotland’s latest sub-national officer numbers publication, for the fourth quarter of 2017-18, is as follows alongside a link to the latest Police Officer Quarterly Strength Statistics:

http://www.scotland.police.uk/assets/pdf/138327/212520/police-scotland-officer-numbers-q42018?view=Standard

http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/PublicationPoliceStrength/POQS2018Q1

Question reference: S5W-16424

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 May 2018
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 17 May 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the recommendation in the Interim Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales that "any police officer (or staff equivalent) who wants to progress to the Chief Officer cadre must first be required to have operational policing experience in preventing and responding to child sexual abuse, and achieve accreditation in the role of the police service in preventing and responding to child sexual abuse", whether it will implement such a policy for the position of the Chief Constable of Police Scotland.