- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 21 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider a transitional support scheme, similar to that offered following the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, to encourage businesses to join a tourism registration scheme for quality assurance.
Answer
The existing VisitScotland Quality Assurance Scheme currently covers around 80% of Scottish tourism establishments. This scheme is widely regarded as one of the best in the world. VisitScotland actively promotes to those not already involved in the scheme the business benefits associated with membership of it.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Fife Constabulary has incurred costs associated with royal protection duties and, if so, what these costs have been and how they have been met.
Answer
As I recently stated in Parliament, the policy of the UK Government and the Executive is not to comment on, or otherwise disclose details of, protection measures that are in place for royalty and other public figures as to do so could compromise their security and play into the hands of those who might wish to intimidate or cause them harm.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 15 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has conducted, or plans to conduct, a telephone survey of perceptions of crime levels and, if so, to whom it has awarded a contract for such a survey and whether it will publish the results.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is currently running the Scottish Crime and Victimisation Survey (SCVS), which is being carried out by computer assisted telephone interviewing. It was launched in June 2004 and will run continuously until March 2007. The SCVS was developed in response to a fundamental review of the Scottish Crime Survey, which was held every three to four years, to improve the reliability and usefulness of the data obtained. It asks questions about experiences and perceptions of crime to understand the true extent and nature of crime in Scotland. BMRB Social Research were awarded the contract for this work via competitive tender. Results of the survey will be published annually, withfirst results for interviews conducted in 2004-05 available in October 2005.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when the review of police funding will be published and what level of detail will be available to ensure public scrutiny of the data collected.
Answer
I am currently considering the report submitted by the Police Grant Aided Expenditure working group and expect to be in a position to announce the Scottish Executive’s response to this in the near future. The report will be published in full at that time.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when the review of police funding will be completed.
Answer
I am currently considering the report submitted by the Police Grant Aided Expenditure working group and expect to be in a position to announce the Scottish Executive’s response to this in the near future.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to collect data on the cost of national policing activities, such as royal protection duties, policing of the Parliament and offshore policing, centrally.
Answer
Data on local costs will continue to be collected by the forces concerned.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the costs of national policing activities such as royal protection duties and offshore policing were considered as part of the police funding review.
Answer
The Police Grant Aided Expenditure working group took all aspects of policing activity into account in arriving at its recommendations.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Lothian and Borders Constabulary has incurred costs associated with the policing of the Parliament and, if so, what these costs have been and how they have been met.
Answer
Lothian and Borders Police has received additional grant funding from the Scottish Executive over each of the past three years to help meet the additional costs associated with policing in Central Edinburgh, including the area around the Parliament. The Parliament also contributes to these costs. The payments made by the Scottish Executive in each year are shown in the table. A further annual grant of £600,000 is also being provided to the force from this year to meet the wider pressures associated with policing Scotland’s capital city.
Year | Grant Payment |
2001-02 | £117,436 |
2002-03 | £135,000 |
2003-04 | £140,000 |
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it (a) has and (b) can delegate the authority to access ex-directory telephone numbers as part of any telephone survey work that it commissions.
Answer
(a) There is no legal requirement to screen out ex-directory telephone numbers from sample lists used for the purposes of market research. The Scottish Executive may therefore access ex-directory numbers for survey work should it wish to do so.
(b) As stated above there is no legal requirement for screening out ex-directory numbers for the purposes of market research. Contractors can therefore access ex-directory numbers without obtaining a specific authority.
- Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has considered the use of automated dialling systems in any telephone survey contracts that it awards.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has considered the use of automated dialling systems. Subsequently a number of telephone surveys have been commissioned where research contractors have used this approach.