- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 24 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-7558 and S2W-11075 by Cathy Jamieson on 20 May and 19 October 2004, what the actual cash value of the contract with Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the escort of prisoners was estimated to be at the time the answer to S2W-7558 was given (a) excluding and (b) including VAT in prices comparable to those shown in the public sector comparator.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
The financial value over the lifetime of the contract was given in answer to S2W-7558. This value is the estimated cash value based on a seven-year life following completion of the implementation phase, excluding VAT.
The net present value of the public sector comparator was given in response to S2W-11075. This was the net present value, in accordance with Treasury guidance, based on a seven-year life following completion of the implementation phase exclusive of VAT.
The response to S2W-16951, answered on 6 June 2005 correctly confirmed that VAT was not included in the financial value stated in response to S2W-7558. However, both the question and answer mistakenly referred to this value as a net present value rather than an estimated cash value.
VAT is applicable at the standard rate, but is fully recoverable by the SPS.
The SPS has no figure for the actual cash value as it will be determined by a number of variables over the contract period including the volume of activity undertaken by the contractor and price inflation.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 16 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 23 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-15336 by Patricia Ferguson on 15 April 2005, in light of its news release on 30 March 2004 pledging12.2 million of Executive funding for the Action Plan for Youth Football project and further to the answer to question S2W-13631 by Patricia Ferguson on 31 January 2005 indicating that the Executive would provide only1.2 million towards the project with the remaining balance of11 million coming from various lottery sources, whether lottery funding was announced as Executive funding in the news release and, if so, whether it will investigate (a) on how many occasions, (b) when, (c) to what monetary value and (d) for what purpose lottery funding has been announced asScottish Executive orScottish Government funding.
Answer
The Scottish Executive news release of 30 March 2004 announced the launch of the Scottish FootballAssociation’s Action Plan for Youth Football, with support from the Scottish Executive. The news release and my answer to question S2W-13631 on 31 January 2005made it clear that the £12.2 million Action Plan will be funded from £1.2million of Exchequer funding, with the balance of £11 million coming from Lottery Funds, over 10years.
In preparing the reply to questionS2W-15336, my officials canvassed Scottish Executive Departmental Lottery contactswho identified no examples of Lottery funds being announced as Scottish Executiveor Scottish Government funding.
All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-17017 by Cathy Jamieson on 13 June 2005, how many offences involving air guns there were in each of the last four years, broken down into those committed by persons (a) under 16 and (b) 16 and over, in each police force area.
Answer
The number of recorded crimes and offences involving air weapons and unidentified weapons in the last four years, and the age breakdown of the main accused, where known, by police force area, are given in the following tables.
Crimes and Offences Recorded by the Police in which an Air Weapon or Unidentified Weapon was Alleged to have Been Used, by Age of Main Accused and Police Force, Scotland, 2000
| Age of Accused | Under 16 | 16 and Over | No Accused Identified | Total |
| Police Force | Air-Weapon | Un-Identified | Air-Weapon | Un-Identified | Air-Weapon | Un-Identified | Air-Weapon | Un-Identified |
| Central | 15 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 38 | 3 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| Fife | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| Grampian | 10 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 34 | 4 | 60 | 6 |
| Lothian and Borders | 16 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 98 | 48 | 125 | 54 |
| Northern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Strathclyde | 51 | 0 | 82 | 31 | 162 | 41 | 295 | 72 |
| Tayside | 2 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 28 | 7 |
| Total | 101 | 1 | 149 | 43 | 320 | 98 | 570 | 142 |
Crimes and Offences Recorded by the Police in which an Airweapon or Unidentified Weapon was Alleged to have Been Used, by Age of Main Accused and Police Force, Scotland, 2001
| Age of Accused | Under 16 | 16 and over | No accused identified | Total |
| Police Force | Air-Weapon | Un-Identified | Air-Weapon | Un-Identified | Air-Weapon | Un-Identified | Air-Weapon | Un-Identified |
| Central | 3 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 29 | 8 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 15 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 37 | 0 |
| Fife | 4 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 22 | 0 |
| Grampian | 14 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 53 | 0 |
| Lothian and Borders | 11 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 133 | 30 | 156 | 30 |
| Northern | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Strathclyde | 36 | 6 | 51 | 56 | 59 | 227 | 146 | 289 |
| Tayside | 7 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 40 | 4 | 68 | 6 |
| Total | 90 | 6 | 159 | 60 | 267 | 267 | 516 | 333 |
Crimes and Offences Recorded by the Police in which an Airweapon or Unidentified Weapon was Alleged to have Been Used, by Age of Main Accused and Police Force, Scotland, 2002
| Age of Accused | Under 16 | 16 and Over | No Accused Identified | Total |
| Police Force | Air-Weapon | Un-Identified | Air-Weapon | Un-Identified | Air-Weapon | Un-Identified | Air-Weapon | Un-Identified |
| Central | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 19 | 0 |
| Fife | 7 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 31 | 0 |
| Grampian | 17 | 1 | 24 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 53 | 7 |
| Lothian and Borders | 23 | 3 | 27 | 6 | 59 | 149 | 109 | 158 |
| Northern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Strathclyde | 26 | 15 | 35 | 66 | 4 | 274 | 65 | 355 |
| Tayside | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 31 | 3 | 44 | 3 |
| Total | 80 | 19 | 129 | 77 | 122 | 427 | 331 | 523 |
Crimes and Offences Recorded by the Police in which an Airweapon or Unidentified Weapon was Alleged to have Been Used, by Age of Main Accused and Police Force, Scotland, 2003
| Age of Accused | Under 16 | 16 and Over | No Accused Identified | Total |
| Police Force | Air-Weapon | Un-Identified | Air-Weapon | Un-Identified | Air-Weapon | Un-Identified | Air-Weapon | Un-Identified |
| Central | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Fife | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| Grampian | 6 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 22 | 6 |
| Lothian and Borders | 4 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 195 | 67 | 240 | 67 |
| Northern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Strathclyde | 20 | 14 | 44 | 74 | 2 | 194 | 66 | 282 |
| Tayside | 5 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 34 | 6 | 54 | 6 |
| Total | 39 | 14 | 119 | 78 | 257 | 269 | 415 | 361 |
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-16168 by Mr Jim Wallace on 18 June 2001, how many robberies involving (a) firearms and (b) handguns were committed in (a) 2000-01, (b) 2001-02, (c) 2002-03, (d) 2003-04 and (e) 2004-05, broken down by police force area.
Answer
The available information is given in the following table.
Robberies Involving Handguns and All Firearms, by Police Force, by Financial Year
| Police Force | | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04(Provisional) |
| Central | Pistol/Revolver | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All Firearms | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | Pistol/Revolver | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| All Firearms | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Fife | Pistol/Revolver | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All Firearms | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Grampian | Pistol/Revolver | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| All Firearms | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Lothian and Borders | Pistol/Revolver | 9 | 4 | 7 | 4 |
| All Firearms | 18 | 6 | 16 | 18 |
| Northern | Pistol/Revolver | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All Firearms | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Strathclyde | Pistol/Revolver | 59 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| All Firearms | 127 | 96 | 87 | 107 |
| Tayside | Pistol/Revolver | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All Firearms | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Scotland | Pistol/Revolver | 70 | 11 | 13 | 8 |
| All Firearms | 156 | 108 | 117 | 132 |
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-8485, S2W-10935, S2W-16507 and S2W-16955 by Cathy Jamieson on 8 June2004,19 October 2004, 23 May 2005 and 6 June 2005 and given that thecontract with Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the provision of prisoner escort and court custody services is now fully rolled out,how many prison officer hours have now been released from prisoner transport duties as a result of the contract.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows:
For the purposes of clarity,the contract is now fully rolled out and around 200 officers have been madeavailable.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16507 by Cathy Jamieson on 23 May 2005, whether the contract with Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the provision of prisoner escort and court custody services was fully rolled outbythat date and, if so, why no substantive answer was given to that question.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows:
The contract was fullyrolled out on 21 February 2005 and around 200 officers have been made available.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 21 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether football organisations other than the Scottish Football Association are entitled to seek financial assistance from sportscotland and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Answer
Sportscotland only provides development grant aid to the governingbodies of sport and in football’s case this is the SFA.
Sportscotlanddoes not simply grant-aid activity. It makes an investment in a sport having consideredwhether the sport has a clear development plan and the ability to deliver it andhaving considered the extent to which the plan will contribute to delivering Sport21.
Any football organisation orclub meeting the eligibility criteria can apply for funding under the Sportsmatch,Awards for All and Building for Sport programmes administered by sportscotland.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 21 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what funds it has made available in each of the last five years for tackling the issues surrounding (a) drugs and (b) alcohol misuse; what funds it has made available for anti-smoking measures over this period, and which groups have received the funds.
Answer
Expenditure on tackling drugmisuse comes from a wide range of ringfenced and mainstream programmes. Theseare administered at national and local levels and therefore it is extremelydifficult to provide comprehensive and robust aggregate figures on absolutespend. The table shows funding streams for programmes, although it should benoted that definitions can vary of activities which could be included underbroad headings such as enforcement and treatment. Some funding streams addressboth drug and alcohol problems.
| Drug Misuse (£ Million) | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 |
| Treatment (via NHS Boards) | 14.9 | 16.9 | 16.9 | 19.7 | 25.7 |
| Rehabilitation (via authorities) | 6.8 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 6.8 |
| Prisons | 2.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| Criminal Justice (drug courts etc) | 2.7 | 5.6 | 6.4 | 7.8 | 9.9 |
| Community Disposals (SIPs etc) | 5.0 | 8.5 | 11.4 | 12.0* | 12.7* |
| Enforcement (SDEA etc) | 13.7 | 15.7 | 19.9 | 21.2** | 23.4** |
| Communication/support | 2.4 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| Scotland Against Drugs | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Information/Research | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Drug and Alcohol Action Teams and National Support | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
Notes:
*These are estimated figuresdue to mainstreaming of some funding streams.
**Estimated figures refer tothe total SDEA budget.
An announcement ofadditional funding to tackle alcohol misuse for 2005-06 will be made shortly. Thefollowing table shows funding where figures are available.
| Alcohol Misuse (£ Million) | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 |
| Treatment (via NHS Boards) | - | - | - | 3.0 | 5.0 |
| Communications | - | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.9 | tbc |
| Alcohol Focus Scotland | - | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| General | - | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Drug and Alcohol Action Teams and National Support | - | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Funding for anti-smokingmeasures is shown in the table, which includes support for ASH Scotland,Partnership Action on Tobacco Health and NHS Health Scotland.
| Anti Smoking Measures (£ Million) | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 |
| | 4.4 | 4.5 | 5.9 | 6.0 | 11.0 |
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 20 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many automobile accidents reported in the last five years involved (a) drink driving and (b) speeding, broken down by police force area.
Answer
Data about injury road accidents are collected by the Police and reported to the Scottish Executive using the “Stats 19
” statistical report format. These returns do not cover "damage only" accidents.
The only figures on drink driving accidents which are available centrally are the Department for Transport's estimates of the numbers of personal injury accidents which involved motor vehicle drivers or riders with illegal alcohol levels. They are not produced for individual Police Force areas. The latest available estimates for Scotland appear in Table 22 of Road Accidents Scotland 2003, published by the Scottish Executive, copies of which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 34523). Table 19 provides statistics of the numbers of motorists in each police force area who were involved in injury road accidents who failed (or refused) a breath test, but such figures do not cover drink-drivers who were not breath tested.
Figures on accidents involving speeding are not available centrally.
Traditionally, the road accident statistics returns did not record the causes of the accidents. However, the "Stats 19" specification was expanded, at the start of 2005, to include information about the factors which contribute to personal injury road accidents, such as (i) "impaired by alcohol"; (ii) "exceeding speed limit", and (iii) "travelling too fast for the conditions". In due course, therefore, the statistical system will provide information about these contributory factors for personal injury accidents.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16508 by Cathy Jamieson on 26 May 2005, whether it will make available to the Parliament the overview from the Scottish Prison Service of the operation of the first year of the contract with Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for prisoner escort.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
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