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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: S2W-31237

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 February 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding per capita each police authority will receive in aggregate external finance in 2007-08.

Subject to the approval of theLocal Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2007 by the Scottish Parliament, the informationrequested for 2007-08 is shown in the following table.

Joint Police Board or Police Authority	Per Capita Funding (£)
Central	182
Dumfries and Galloway	205
Fife	185
Grampian	194
Northern	204
Lothian and Borders	216
Strathclyde	233
Tayside	212
Scotland	216

Question reference: S2W-31239

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 1 February 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many social workers have been attacked by clients in each local authority area in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-31168

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 31 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were registered as home carers in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area and showing year-on-year percentage changes.

Question reference: S2W-30781

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 31 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) men and (b) women have been victims of domestic violence in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

The information requested isset out in the following tables.

Number of Victims ofDomestic Abuse by Gender (where known) and Local Authority, 1999-2000 to 2005-06

Female	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Aberdeen City	2,051	2,154	1,976	2,063	2,013	2,127	1,695
Aberdeenshire	1,179	1,253	1,169	1,174	1,221	1,175	862
Angus	417	940	259	657	796	678	639
Argyll and Bute	426	278	280	441	356	365	383
Clackmannanshire	222	324	377	342	323	359	324
Dumfries and Galloway	653	626	876	802	751	931	1,015
Dundee City	1,430	1,509	1,599	1,577	1,955	1,543	1,778
East Ayrshire	573	679	745	379	281	897	925
East Dunbartonshire	252	336	333	232	362	337	396
East Lothian	464	547	554	613	546	462	576
East Renfrewshire	164	159	177	228	277	289	345
Edinburgh City	4,249	4,334	3,854	3,889	4,169	4,277	4,615
Eileanan Siar	22	72	90	109	74	100	67
Falkirk	789	753	984	758	856	1,052	1,129
Fife	2,569	2,013	1,868	1,851	2,020	2,523	2,980
Glasgow City	5,722	5,805	5,787	5,635	6,389	6,482	7,071
Highland	453	1,445	1,392	1,269	1,317	1,195	1,207
Inverclyde	521	482	408	510	664	654	695
Midlothian	450	576	499	590	535	531	642
Moray	430	445	462	456	522	508	549
North Ayrshire	631	606	704	660	772	970	1,034
North Lanarkshire	1,423	1,255	1,539	1,859	2,141	2,494	2,739
Orkney Islands	7	40	41	21	33	26	52
Perth and Kinross	464	486	682	733	798	828	829
Renfrewshire	848	932	975	1,009	1,372	1,334	1,312
Scottish Borders	501	345	228	308	438	490	584
Shetland Islands	17	31	37	45	29	36	57
South Ayrshire	720	812	803	736	883	895	823
South Lanarkshire	1,183	1,185	1,105	1,128	1,576	1,853	1,867
Stirling	289	330	420	371	472	451	334
West Dunbartonshire	672	699	716	716	1,023	1,072	1,025
West Lothian	726	796	1,061	1,116	1,174	1,214	1,291
Total	30,517	32,247	32,000	32,277	36,138	38,148	39,840

Male	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Aberdeen City	193	194	182	258	269	355	277
Aberdeenshire	104	121	97	117	188	167	108
Angus	25	136	37	116	129	108	90
Argyll and Bute	41	36	55	77	65	64	76
Clackmannanshire	16	20	29	30	24	42	27
Dumfries and Galloway	47	72	113	98	108	124	176
Dundee City	113	192	209	168	46	236	300
East Ayrshire	61	69	107	46	30	135	132
East Dunbartonshire	30	51	38	19	39	39	67
East Lothian	43	21	59	70	55	93	105
East Renfrewshire	12	12	19	25	29	35	47
Edinburgh City	228	222	279	408	443	543	558
Eileanan Siar	1	9	9	10	8	4	20
Falkirk	74	77	83	86	90	108	113
Fife	180	87	60	69	100	205	259
Glasgow City	539	491	614	684	827	925	1,089
Highland	52	221	182	121	151	156	143
Inverclyde	44	48	49	47	71	84	106
Midlothian	40	30	40	37	53	53	71
Moray	46	48	48	60	56	41	69
North Ayrshire	49	60	59	69	87	130	136
North Lanarkshire	131	120	155	228	258	323	394
Orkney Islands	0	3	4	2	0	4	5
Perth and Kinross	14	48	70	101	106	122	144
Renfrewshire	67	79	133	103	167	160	158
Scottish Borders	33	22	22	25	31	43	29
Shetland Islands	1	4	2	3	3	3	3
South Ayrshire	86	108	136	107	118	116	134
South Lanarkshire	106	100	120	125	178	230	287
Stirling	31	32	37	33	48	31	37
West Dunbartonshire	78	94	79	100	131	149	134
West Lothian	40	46	84	108	132	129	153
Total	2,525	2,873	3,210	3,550	4,040	4,957	5,447

Question reference: S2W-31132

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 30 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the total value of public procurement by Scottish public sector organisations was in each of the last five years, also showing year-on-year percentage changes.

Question reference: S2W-30783

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 30 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to improve the provision of services for (a) men and (b) women who are victims of domestic violence.

The Executive is committedto tackling domestic abuse in all its forms and works with the National Groupto Address Violence Against Women in progressing this agenda, includingconsideration of ways in which to encourage and develop improved serviceprovision. While the focus of this work is on women who experience domesticabuse, as outlined in the National Strategy to Address Domestic Abuse inScotland, we are looking into issues around domestic abuse and same sexrelationships and the Scottish Executive has provided funding to LGBT YouthScotland to help equip mainstream organisations provide services to lesbian,gay, bisexual and transgender people experiencing abuse usually from a same sexpartner. In addition, following research carried out in 2002 we wrote toservice providers – local authorities; health boards and others; to ask them toconsider how they can best publicise their services to enable more male victimsof domestic abuse to find the help they need and to encourage them to do so.

Question reference: S2W-30782

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 30 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what services are available for (a) men and (b) women who are victims of domestic violence in each local authority area.

Question reference: S2W-31131

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 30 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how the value of public procurement by Scottish public sector organisations and its impact on the economy is measured.

The McClelland Review of publicprocurement, which reported in March 2006, estimated the value of procurement bydevolved bodies in Scotland as being in the region of £8 billion per annum. The ScottishExecutive does not measure the impact on the economy of contracts awarded by Scottishpublic sector organisations. As part of its response to the McClelland Review, the Executive is considering ways of gathering consistent data from across the widerpublic sector and has established an advisory group, consisting mainly of businessrepresentatives, to advise on the impact on suppliers of the procurement reformagenda.

Question reference: S2W-31134

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 30 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many small and medium-sized enterprises based in Scotland were awarded public sector contracts in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S2W-31133

Asked by: Maureen Watt, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 30 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of public sector contracts were awarded to companies based in Scotland in each of the last five years and what the total value of these contracts was in each year, also showing year-on-year percentage changes.