- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 2 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff left its employment in each year since 1999, broken down into staff who (a) resigned, (b) were made redundant and (c) were dismissed as a result of disciplinary action.
Answer
The following table shows thenumber of staff in Scottish Executive core departments that resigned, were maderedundant, or were dismissed as a result of disciplinary action in each year since1999.
Reason for Leaving
| Year | Resigned | Redundant | Dismissed |
| 1999 | 189 | 4 | 7 |
| 2000 | 187 | 6 | 5 |
| 2001 | 200 | 29 | 5 |
| 2002 | 175 | 0 | 3 |
| 2003 | 134 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 99 | 5 | 4 |
| 2005 | 113 | 0 | 4 |
| 2006 (up to end June) | 54 | 0 | 0 |
The table does not include anumber of other ways staff leave the Scottish Executive, such as transferring toanother government department and leaving at normal retirement age.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 2 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the five most common subjects of complaints to local authorities were in each year since 1999.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to Northern Constabulary to release all the relevant papers which it holds surrounding the death of Mr Willie Macrae in April 1985.
Answer
None. The release of materialby Northern Constabulary is a matter for the Chief Constable of that police force.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive on what dates in this year did the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration provide ministers or their officials with provisional statistics showing national and local authority data on youth justice, including figures on persistent young offenders.
Answer
The Scottish Children’s ReporterAdministration (SCRA) does not provide “provisional statistics” to the ScottishExecutive on youth justice. Officials and partners in other agencies regularly receivedata pre-publication. Quarterly and annual youth justice data are published on theSCRA website and laid in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, following the meeting scheduled with Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) officials on 16 May 2006, what new measures the SCRA is required to report on to ministers regarding youth justice reporting.
Answer
No meeting took placebetween Scottish Executive officials and Scottish Children’s ReporterAdministration (SCRA) staff on 16 May 2006.
With regard to youth justicereporting, no further requirements have been placed on SCRA in respect of newmeasures on which to report, and no directions have been made in respect of the presentation or analysis of data.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 2 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has provided to the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration since March 2005 in relation to the provision of information under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has notprovided any specific guidance to the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration(SCRA) since March 2005 in relation to the provision of information under the Freedomof Information (Scotland) Act 2002.Internal guidance produced forScottish Executive staff in relation to Freedom of Information request handlingis available via the Scottish Executive’s publication scheme on the website, andis therefore also available to Scottish Public Bodies and other agencies outwiththe Scottish Executive. The guidance is available at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/FOI.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what confidence it has in the data analysis and publication of figures by the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA), in light of the press release by Moray Council of 11 July 2006 which said that its most prolific, persistent offenders were not included in SCRA’s baseline data of persistent young offenders.
Answer
We are satisfied that the quarterlyand annual data published by the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA)is robust.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 2 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it agreed with and supported the Scottish Children's Reporter Administration (SCRA) view that it should not issue the Q4 Youth Justice Report prepared by SCRA in April 2006.
Answer
The first run of the 2005-06data (including data on the final quarter of 2005-06) was undertaken by the ScottishChildren’s Reporter Administration on 1 and 2 June 2006in accordance with agreed reporting timelines.
This reflects the processadopted in respect of 2004-05 data, where priority was given to providing thefull set of data rather than one quarter only.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 2 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how it defines a “good parent”.
Answer
The Scottish Executive’s visionis that children and young people should be safe, healthy, nurtured, achieving,included, active and respected and responsible to achieve the best outcomes inlife. The role of parents in achieving these positive outcomes for children isfundamental and the Scottish Executiveaims to support parents in achieving this goal through a range of policies andprogrammes.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 2 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what figures it holds on the number of children who have died as the result of “bad parenting”.
Answer
This information is notcollected or held centrally by the Scottish Executive.
