- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual administrative costs are to police forces of issuing fixed penalty fines, broken down by type of fine and constabulary area.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. This is a matter for chief constables.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-8136 by Cathy Jamieson on 24 May 2004, whether it will provide details of the final costs of the Napier case, broken down into (a) counsel’s fees and court costs, (b) expert witness reports and evidence, (c) the Scottish Ministers’ liability for expenses to the petitioner and (d) other expenses.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows:
The costs in the Napiercase, to date, inclusive of VAT are (a) £486,674 for counsel’s fees and courtcosts, (b) £98,220 for expert witness reports and evidence, (c) £1,014,237 forthe Scottish ministers’ liability for expenses to the petitioner and (d) £51,718 for other expenses.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in relation to petitions for judicial review in respect of “slopping out” other than petitions by Robert Napier and Scott Davidson, it will provide details of the costs incurred to date in the cases broken down into (a) counsel’s fees and court costs, (b) expert witness reports and evidence, (c) the Scottish Ministers’ liability for expenses to the petitioner and (d) other expenses.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows:
SPS does not routinelyrecord detailed expenditure against individual cases, particularly since manyof these cases raise identical issues. Since 1 April 2003SPS has incurred separately identifiable costs (excluding expenditure on Napierand Davidson) of approximately £0.3 million in defending legalchallenges to prison conditions based on the European Convention of HumanRights. Most of these challenges have related to slopping out.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what powers it has over the British Transport Police’s operations in Scotland.
Answer
Scottish ministers have no collectivepower to direct Chief Constables on operational matters. The Lord Advocate has a statutory power to instruct thepolice in Scotland in relation to the investigation and reporting of allegedcriminal activity.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in relation to the action taken by Shirley McKie against the Scottish Ministers and others, it will provide details of the final costs of the case, broken down into (a) counsel’s fees and court costs, (b) expert witness reports and evidence, (c) the Scottish Ministers’ liability for expenses to the pursuer and (d) other expenses.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-25298 on 16 May 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.The Executive has not yet receivedMs McKie’s account of expenses.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 15 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive with whom it liaised between the resignation of Baroness Clark and the appointment of Neil Davidson on matters relating to the functions of the Advocate General.
Answer
The Scottish Executive doesnot have responsibility for the appointment or functions of the AdvocateGeneral. Officials of the Lord Advocate’s office are in regular contact with officials of the Advocate General’s office in relation to matters of mutual concern. Thatpractice continued during the period referred to in the question.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 11 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-19101 by Cathy Jamieson on 15 September 2005, what fuel costs were incurred by the Scottish Prison Service in 2005-06.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows:
The information is asfollows:
| Year | £ million |
| 2005-2006 | 4.585 |
Note: the cost informationabove excludes fuel used in vehicles, which is not measured separately fromother vehicle costs.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 11 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to promote air freight.
Answer
We are currently developing aNational Freight Strategy for Scotland. This strategy will consider how all transport modescan be used most effectively to assist the flow of goods in, out and within Scotlandand so help grow the Scottish economy in a sustainable way, including air freight.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 11 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) rapes and (b) attempted rapes have been reported to police in the city of Edinburgh in each year since 2001 and how many convictions were secured following such reports.
Answer
The available information isshown in the following tables. However, the statistics dealing with recordedcrimes and those dealing with court proceedings are not directly comparable.The former counts the number of crimes and the latter the number of persons,and clearly a person may commit or be proceeded against for more than one crime.There is also the possibility that the crime recorded by the police may bealtered in the course of judicial proceedings. Also a crime may be recorded bythe police in one year and court proceedings concluded in a subsequent year.
Number of Crimes of Rape andAttempted Rape Recorded by the Police in the City of Edinburgh, 2001-02 To2004-05
| | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 |
| Rape | 72 | 97 | 88 | 130 |
| Attempted Rape | 18 | 29 | 16 | 26 |
Number of Persons with aCharge Proved for Rape or Attempted Rape in the Lothian and Borders PoliceForce Area1, 2001-02 To 2004-05
| | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 |
| Rape | 11 | 7 | 8 | 10 |
| Attempted rape | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
Note: 1. In all cases wherethe main offence is rape, prosecutions take place in the High Court, andfigures for the City of Edinburgh cannot be separated from those for the rest of theLothian and Borders area.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 April 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 11 May 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total cost has been to Lothian and Borders Police of policing events involving VIP or Royal visitors, Scottish Executive and Parliament events and UK Government and EU events since 2003.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. It is a matter for the Chief Constable of Lothian and BordersPolice.
