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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-24253

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 March 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 27 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average fee per patient is, as recorded by the NHS Dental Practice Board.

Question reference: S2W-24009

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2006
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 20 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to S2W-23326 by Hugh Henry on 3 March 2006, whether it will provide the number of motor vehicle seizures and warnings issued by police under the recent anti-social behaviour legislation, broken down by local authority area.

Seizure of vehicles is apolice power and data is collected by police constabulary area, as presented inthe following table. The data covers the period from commencement of themeasure in March 2005 to October 2005. Statistics on the use of the measures inthe Antisocial Behaviour etc (Scotland) Act 2004 will be collected on a six-monthlybasis.

Force	Seizure of Vehicles Warning Notices	Seizure of Vehicles Vehicles
Central Scotland Police	0	0
Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary	3	0
Fife Constabulary	173	9
Grampian Police	135	8
Lothian and Borders Police	0	0
Northern Constabulary	1	0
Strathclyde Police	0	0
Tayside Police	32	0
Total	344	17

Question reference: S2W-23318

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) retailers and (b) licensees have been prosecuted for selling alcohol to under age customers in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

The available information isgiven in the following table. No breakdown of these figures into prosecutions ofretailers and licensees is available from the data held centrally. The court proceedingsstatistics for 2004-05 are planned for publication in spring 2006.

Persons Proceeded Against forSelling Alcohol to Persons Under 18¹, by Local Authority Area 1999-2003

Local Authority Area	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003²
Aberdeen City	2	3	-	3	4
Aberdeenshire	4	4	1	2	-
Angus	2	-	1	-	2
Argyll and Bute	1	1	-	1	-
Clackmannanshire	-	4	-	-	-
Dumfries and Galloway	3	-	-	-	2
Dundee City	2	2	2	3	1
East Ayrshire	2	3	3	2	9
East Dunbartonshire	-	-	1	-	-
East Lothian	-	1	3	-	-
East Renfrewshire	-	-	1	-	-
Edinburgh, City of	1	2	3	6	4
Falkirk	2	2	3	4	4
Fife	1	8	2	-	5
Glasgow City	3	14	8	4	4
Highland	1	3	2	2	-
Inverclyde	-	-	1	-	-
Midlothian	-	1	1	-	-
Moray	1	-	2	-	1
North Ayrshire	5	-	-	1	3
Orkney Islands	-	-	-	-	1
Perth and Kinross	13	1	-	1	-
Renfrewshire	-	-	2	-	6
Scottish Borders	3	2	3	5	-
Shetland Islands	-	1	-	1	-
South Ayrshire	1	2	5	4	-
South Lanarkshire	8	5	4	4	-
Stirling	1	-	-	1	2
West Dunbartonshire	2	2	-	-	2
West Lothian	-	1	-	-	-
Scotland	58	62	48	44	50

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Includes estimated data.

Question reference: S2W-23319

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) retailers and (b) licensees have been prosecuted for selling tobacco products to under age customers in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

Persons Proceeded Against forSelling Tobacco to Persons Under 16¹, by Local Authority Area 1999-2003

Local Authority Area	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Aberdeenshire	2	-	-	-	1
Edinburgh, City of	1	-	-	-	2
North Lanarkshire	-	-	1	-	-
Renfrewshire	1	-	-	-	-
Scotland	4	-	1	-	3

Note: 1. Where main offence.

Question reference: S2W-24151

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 March 2006
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 17 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will discuss with the UK Government plans for restrictions on the imports of all poultry and poultry products from countries where there have been confirmed cases of avian flu.

Question reference: S2W-23444

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 15 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish a timetable of action in respect of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route, including details of when it anticipates the public inquiry to take place, when the final route will be agreed, when the land required will be acquired, when it anticipates compensation claims will be settled and when the route will be fully operational.

Outline programme informationis available on the Transport Scotland website www.transportscotland.gov.uk.

Following my announcement of the preferred route on 1 December detailed engineering and environmental work isnow underway with the aim of narrowing down the road corridor in April and thenpublishing a draft special road scheme setting out the line proposed for the AberdeenWestern Peripheral Route (AWPR) and link to Stonehaven this is part of the AWPR,and an Environmental Statement at the end of 2006. Other road orders and a CPO willfollow.

I would expect a Public LocalInquiry to be held towards the end of 2007. Following the Reporter’s recommendations,if it is then decided to proceed with the scheme, line orders and compulsory purchaseorders would be expected to be made in 2008. Settlement of compensation claims forland acquired would normally follow the making of these orders.

Subject to the satisfactory completionof these procedures the earliest start for construction is 2009 with the road openingto traffic late 2011.

This is an operational matterfor Transport Scotland who can be contacted for further information if required.

Question reference: S2W-23676

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 March 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 14 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many specialist paediatric dentists are in post, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-23166

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of children were registered with NHS dentists in each of the last three years, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-23167

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been paid by each NHS board to general dental practitioners in the year before they moved to private practice since 1999 and how the boards have reallocated the funds saved by such moves.

Question reference: S2W-23169

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 10 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dental practitioners offered NHS dentistry in 2005, broken down by NHS board.