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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-26198

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 8 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged under 16 found in possession of a knife had either a previous conviction or had been cautioned by police for carrying an offensive weapon in each year since 1999, also expressed as a percentage of the number of people under 16 found in possession of a knife.

Question reference: S2W-26213

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 8 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged between 8 and 16 arrested by police officers and subsequently charged with an offence were later convicted in a Scottish court in each year since 1999, broken down by police force.

The available information isgiven in the following table.

Persons Aged8 to 16 with a Charge Proved¹ in Scottish Courts, by Force Area,1999-2000 to 2004-05

Force Area	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Central	76	56	114	123	176	196
Dumfries and Galloway	74	85	70	104	105	115
Fife	203	153	114	134	137	126
Grampian	359	204	252	266	214	197
Lothian and Borders	261	204	328	363	328	345
Northern	114	96	137	121	144	141
Strathclyde	754	544	661	775	715	873
Tayside	257	239	358	304	261	247
Scotland²	2,098	1,581	2,034	2,190	2,082	2,240

Notes:

1. Wheremain offence.

2. Mayinclude a small number of cases where force area is unknown.

Question reference: S2W-26200

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 8 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents at schools involved the use or threatened use of a knife in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S2W-26205

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 8 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people under 16 have had a known alcohol problem, broken down by (a) age range and (b) NHS board area, in each year since 1999.

Information on the number ofpeople up to the age of 16 discharged from general acute Scottish hospitalsfrom 1999-2000 to 2004-05 with alcohol-related conditions, including childrenwith foetal alcohol syndrome, family history of alcohol abuse or who have beenaccidentally poisoned by or exposed to any form of alcohol, is available throughthe Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 39808).

In addition, there were two,three and four children under the age of 16 with alcohol-related diagnoses,discharged from psychiatric hospitals in Scotland in 1999-2000, 2000-01 and2001-02 respectively.

Question reference: S2W-26199

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 8 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions police were called to schools to attend incidents in which violence was a factor in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S2W-26203

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 7 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of child trafficking it was made aware of in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-26204

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 7 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what additional checks Scottish police forces are undertaking to prevent child trafficking through and from Scotland.

Question reference: S2W-26207

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 6 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children referred to the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration on grounds of having committed an offence were under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs at the time of the alleged offence in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-26209

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged between 8 and 16 had (a) DNA and (b) fingerprint samples centrally recorded and stored for non-health related reasons in each year since 1999.

It is not possible toextract this information from either the fingerprint or DNA databases.

The police have powers underthe Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 to take fingerprints and DNA samplesfrom people arrested or detained for a recordable offence, including youngpeople between the ages of eight and 16. For people between these ages samplesare only retained if they are convicted by a court. As the whole record isdeleted it is not possible to indicate how many samples were retained and forhow long.

Question reference: S2W-26201

Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2006
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 5 June 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what programmes highlighting the dangers of carrying knives are ongoing in schools.

The Scottish Executive’spublication Safe & Well, which covers child protection in education,and was sent to all authorities, recommends that schools should consider, aspart of personal safety education, how pupils can be encouraged to develop safeand responsible attitudes to carrying weapons, and to report those carrying weapons.

In addition, as part of theSafer Scotland Anti-Violence Campaign running for a year from 1 April 2006, theViolence Reduction Unit are delivering targeted education on knife crimeprevention.