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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-10219

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 September 2004
Current Status: Answered by Frank McAveety on 21 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will support a mandatory registration scheme for quality assurance in the tourism industry.

High quality in every aspect of Scottish tourism is vital - it is important that the expectations of our visitors are fulfilled during their visits to Scotland. The Scottish Executive has given VisitScotland an additional £3 million over two years to work with the tourism and related sectors to widen and enhance the impact of its current voluntary Quality Assurance schemes. Once we have assessed the results, we will consider whether or not a mandatory registration scheme should be pursued.

Question reference: S2W-10026

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
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.

Question reference: S2W-10108

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2004
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.

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.

Question reference: S2W-10024

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
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.

Question reference: S2W-10022

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive when the review of police funding will be completed.

Question reference: S2W-10025

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
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.

Question reference: S2W-10023

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
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.

Question reference: S2W-10027

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2004
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.

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

Question reference: S2W-09652

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2004
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 10 September 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many elderly persons' home care packages were funded in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority, detailing the total cost to each authority.

The information requested on home care for older people is shown in tables 1 and 2. Table 1 shows the number of older people receiving home care by local authority from 1999 to 2003.

Table 2 shows the cost of providing home care for older people by local authority, data for 1998 to 1999 is not available.

Table 1: Older People receiving Home Care by Local Authority (1999-2003)

Local Authority	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Aberdeen City	4,389	3,383	2,587	2,380	2,133
Aberdeenshire	1,635	1,612	1,613	1,438	1,543
Angus	1,629	1,560	1,565	1,502	1,526
Argyll and Bute	812	830	786	827	844
Clackmannanshire	501	497	469	471	527
Dumfries and Galloway	1,545	1,455	1,756	1,404	1,625
Dundee City	2,610	2,586	2,180	1,896	1,671
East Ayrshire	1,286	1,187	1,122	1,134	1,203
East Dunbartonshire	832	839	830	881	903
East Lothian	1,148	1,130	1,033	1,111	1,023
East Renfrewshire	693	715	620	796	779
Edinburgh, City of	5,959	5,237	4,823	4,743	4,904
Eilean Siar	796	735	712	702	676
Falkirk	2,111	1,966	1,976	1,799	1,824
Fife	6,375	5,486	5,266	4,804	5,127
Glasgow City	8,283	8,326	7,653	6,766	7,459
Highland	2,603	2,539	2,334	2,293	2,623
Inverclyde	1,100	1,076	966	1,025	915
Midlothian	1,062	819	1,012	976	923
Moray	963	903	911	888	953
North Ayrshire	1,462	1,383	1,266	1,112	1,266
North Lanarkshire	2,418	2,458	2,235	2,563	3,273
Orkney Islands	382	337	335	388	317
Perth and Kinross	1,293	1,282	1,238	1,302	1,395
Renfrewshire	1,960	1,982	2,044	1,664	1,664
Scottish Borders	1,336	1,313	1,253	1,295	1,391
Shetland Islands	443	567	567	471	465
South Ayrshire	1,011	1,178	976	1,020	1,193
South Lanarkshire	2,355	2,181	2,002	1,897	2,136
Stirling	780	759	711	819	673
West Dunbartonshire	1,388	1,387	1,244	1,300	1,473
West Lothian	1,578	1,509	1,296	1,176	1,319
Scotland	62,739	59,217	55,381	52,843	55,746

Source: SEHD H1 Census.

Table 2: Cost of Home Care provision (000s) for Older People by Local Authority (1999-00 to 2002-03)

Local Authority	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03
Aberdeen City	7,510	6,432	6,701	8,261
Aberdeenshire	2,957	2,878	3,409	5,913
Angus	1,902	-	-	5,761
Argyll and Bute	1,735	1,878	2,038	4,845
Clackmannanshire	220	579	394	1,099
Dumfries and Galloway	5,324	5,347	5,545	7,119
Dundee City	3,775	4,066	4,627	7,300
East Ayrshire	2,376	2,545	2,997	4,171
East Dunbartonshire	1,270	1,645	1,749	8,595
East Lothian	2,511	2,338	2,469	2,612
East Renfrewshire	817	1,198	1,195	381
Edinburgh, City of	8,720	9,111	9,983	14,152
Eilean Siar	1,953	1,621	1,889	2,635
Falkirk	4,763	4,620	5,442	5,487
Fife	9,713	10,621	10,869	16,155
Glasgow City	4,692	14,329	26,073	26,404
Highland	1,672	3,612	3,128	6,201
Inverclyde	2,401	2,496	2,536	2,734
Midlothian	1,561	1,694	2,437	2,157
Moray	2,172	1,922	1,746	2,130
North Ayrshire	2,612	2,683	3,184	4,291
North Lanarkshire	6,219	7,065	10,366	23,163
Orkney Islands	948	941	964	808
Perth and Kinross	1,589	2,884	2,713	4,942
Renfrewshire	5,691	5,405	4,872	4,588
Scottish Borders	2,267	2,560	2,952	6,902
Shetland Islands	885	1,036	1,713	1,797
South Ayrshire	2,360	2,553	3,389	4,301
South Lanarkshire	5,103	5,189	5,790	12,707
Stirling	1,809	2,235	2,362	2,042
West Dunbartonshire	1,955	2,325	1,683	2,062
West Lothian	3,674	4,339	2,552	3,915
Scotland	103,156	118,147	137,767	205,630

Source: FCSD, ASD, SSLG, statistical return LFR03, 1999-2000 to 2002-03.

Question reference: S2W-10109

Asked by: Brian Adam, MSP for Aberdeen North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2004
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.