- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 22 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it or NHS boards have set service targets for salaried dentists.
Answer
Salaried general dental practitionersare employees of NHS boards and it is for boards to set any targets. Work is currentlyunder way with a view to establishing guidelines to boards as to appropriate targets.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 22 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether funding is in place for salaried dentists to be employed by NHS boards beyond 2008.
Answer
Yes, non-capital costs, includingsalaries, will continue to be chargeable to the General Dental Services budget.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 17 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact the introduction of disclosure and enhanced disclosure searches has had on the selection of foster carers.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 17 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications to become foster carers have been made in each year since 1999.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider placing a requirement on the police to give reasons for the retention of information or intelligence which might be disclosed through standard or enhanced disclosure requests.
Answer
The police hold information forthe purposes of preventing or detecting crime. Information that is held by themfor any period of time is subject to regular review and reassessment which can leadto it being removed or retained.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Robert Brown on 17 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications to become foster carers were refused on the basis of standard or enhanced disclosures in each year since 1999.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to standard or enhanced disclosure requests, whether it will consider placing a duty on bodies, to whom information is disclosed, to justify the action they take following receipt of information that does not relate to a conviction.
Answer
Non-conviction information isonly available with the enhanced disclosure for posts such as those involving workwith children or adults at risk, and it is for the employer to decide how informationprovided by Disclosure Scotland is used.
We have issued a Code of Practicewith an accompanying explanatory guide for recipients of the information. Thesepublications remind recipients about the need for fairness when using the informationin their decision-making process and also about how the information should be handled,stored and destroyed. In addition, the Police Act 1997 has a specific offence relatingto the misuse of disclosure information by recipients.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what procedures are in place to ensure that information or intelligence held by the police, which might be disclosed through a standard or enhanced disclosure request, has not been maliciously supplied.
Answer
Only the enhanced disclosurecan include non-conviction information.
The Association of Chief PoliceOfficers in Scotland (ACPOS), in liaison with their counterparts in England and Wales, has publisheda Code of Practice and National Manual for the Recording and Dissemination ofIntelligence Material. This takes account of the provisions in the Data ProtectionAct 1998 which require that personal data should not be kept longer than isnecessary for the purpose for which it was acquired. This Code of Practiceprovides overarching guidelines on creating and retaining intelligence materialwhich formed the basis of the national policy for the creation and weeding of recordson the Scottish Intelligence Database (SID).
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many citizens have information held about them by police that may be made available through disclosure or enhanced disclosure requests.
Answer
On 31 October 2006 the Scottish Criminal Record Office Criminal History System (CHS) included 1,019,600nominal records.
This includes details ofcriminal convictions in Scotland and flags alerting Disclosure Scotland and otherusers to non-conviction information held by the police on other databasesincluding the Scottish Intelligence Database.
Disclosure Scotlandalso checks the Police National Computer which includes details of criminalconvictions across the United Kingdom.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 17 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive on what legal basis Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Perth and Kinross, Glasgow and South Lanarkshire councils collect fines from motorists who breach parking regulations in car parks.
Answer
Aberdeen, Dundee, Perth and Kinross, Glasgow and South Lanarkshire Councils have powers under theRoad Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and the Road Traffic Act 1991, as amended to imposepenalty charge notices on motorists who breach parking regulations in localauthority controlled car parks.
The City of Edinburgh Council does not have any local authority controlled off street car parks.
