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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-00088

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 May 2003
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 June 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what the value of fines, forfeitures and fixed penalties sent to HM Treasury was in 2002-03.

Question reference: S2W-00032

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 May 2003
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 3 June 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what duties are implied by the requirement placed on the contractor to comply with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 as referred to in clause 59.7.1 of the Scottish Schools Standard PPP Contract.

Education authorities should comply with the relevant Freedom of Information legislation and best practice on openness, and contractors should be obliged to facilitate that. This is the intention of this clause in the Scottish Schools Standard PPP Contract (SSSC).The references to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Code of Practice on Government Information (1997) in the SSSC will be amended shortly to take account of the Freedom of Information legislation that will apply in Scotland.

Question reference: S2W-00070

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 May 2003
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 3 June 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Schools Standard PPP Contract will be amended to take account of the Public Private Partnerships in Scotland Protocol and Guidance Concerning Employment Issues.

Question reference: S2W-00071

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 May 2003
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 June 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will produce a standard contract for hospital public private partnerships.

Question reference: S2W-00033

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 May 2003
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 3 June 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what obligations education authorities will have under the (a) Code of Practice on Government Information (1997) and (b) Freedom of Information Act 2002 as referred to in clause 59.7.2 of the Scottish Schools Standard PPP Contract.

Question reference: S2W-00036

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 May 2003
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 June 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what response it will make to the European Commission's green paper, Procedural Safeguards for Suspects and Defendants in Criminal Proceedings throughout the European Union.

Question reference: S2W-00038

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 May 2003
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 June 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to ensure that all countries of the European Union recognise an order made in Scotland for sei'ure of the proceeds of crime where there is no preceding criminal conviction.

The civil recovery scheme in the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 provides for the making of orders in Scotland in relation to moveable property outside Scotland. An interim administration order may require a person to whose property the order relates to bring that property to Scotland, or to do anything he or she is reasonably required to do by the interim administrator for the preservation of the property. The requirement may be made in relation to moveable property wherever situated. A person who does not comply may be found in contempt of court and liable to a fine or imprisonment or both.

Question reference: S2W-00034

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 May 2003
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 June 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what minimum procedural safeguards for suspects and defendants in criminal proceedings it considers necessary as part of judicial co-operation in the European Union.

The UK Government, on behalf of the UK as a whole, is considering the extent to which action at EU level on this issue is appropriate. The green paper published by the Commission on minimum procedural standards does not contain firm proposals for action but rather identifies certain basic rights and proposes a number of questions about the setting of standards in these areas. At the invitation of the UK Government, we submitted views to it on the issues raised in the green paper and understand that the Government will be making its response to the Commission shortly. It has undertaken to provide details of its response to the European Scrutiny Committee of both Houses of the Westminster Parliament and I will write to the member when these details are available.

Question reference: S2W-00035

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 May 2003
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 June 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will report on the discussion of minimum procedural safeguards for suspects and defendants in criminal proceedings at the Council of the European Union's informal meeting on justice and home affairs held on 28 and 29 March 2003.

Question reference: S2W-00091

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 May 2003
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 June 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27622 by Mr Jim Wallace on 13 August 2002, how many fines were recovered by civil diligence following the procedure under section 221 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 and what proportion this represents of the total number of all fines imposed in (a) 2002 and (b) 2003, in total and broken down by sheriff court district.

The available information is given in the table. These figures are compiled on the basis of calendar years and, therefore, figures for 2003 are not yet available.Number of Sheriff Court Fines Ordered for Recovery by Civil Diligence and Proportion this Represents of Total Fines Imposed¹, 2002

Sheriff Court	Number of Fines	% of Total Fines Imposed
Aberdeen	0	0
Airdrie	1	0.07
Alloa	0	0
Arbroath	0	0
Ayr	0	0
Banff	0	0
Campbeltown	0	0
Cupar	0	0
Dingwall	0	0
Dornoch	0	0
Dumbarton	0	0
Dumfries	0	0
Dundee	0	0
Dunfermline	1	0.08
Dunoon	0	0
Duns	0	0
Edinburgh	3	0.05
Elgin	0	0
Falkirk	1	0.07
Forfar	0	0
Fort William	0	0
Glasgow	0	0
Greenock	0	0
Haddington	1	0.17
Hamilton	0	0
Inverness	0	0
Jedburgh	0	0
Kilmarnock	1	0.05
Kirkcaldy	1	0.06
Kirkcudbright	0	0
Kirkwall	1	0.54
Lanark	0	0
Lerwick	1	0.42
Linlithgow	1	0.06
Lochmaddy	0	0
Oban	0	0
Paisley	0	0
Peebles	0	0
Perth	0	0
Peterhead	0	0
Portree	0	0
Rothesay	0	0
Selkirk	0	0
Stirling	0	0
Stonehaven	0	0
Stornoway	0	0
Stranraer	1	0.14
Tain	0	0
Wick	0	0
Total	13	0.03

Note:1. Fines marked for recovery by civil diligence in whole or in part. There are no figures available on the actual amounts recovered.