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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
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Question reference: S2W-14693

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) suicides and (b) attempted suicides have taken place in each year since 1999, broken down by prison.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:

The available information is

(a)

Establishment	Year
	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04
Aberdeen	1	0	0	2	0
Barlinnie	5	5	4	3	1
Castle Huntly	0	0	0	0	0
Cornton Vale	0	0	2	1	0
Dumfries	1	0	0	0	0
Edinburgh	2	2	1	0	1
Glenochil	1	1	0	0	1
Greenock	2	1	0	0	0
Inverness	0	1	0	0	1
Kilmarnock	1	1	2	2	1
Low Moss	0	0	0	0	0
Noranside	0	0	0	0	0
Perth	1	0	1	0	0
Peterhead	1	0	0	0	0
Polmont	0	0	1	0	0
Shotts	2	0	0	0	0
Total	17	11	11	8	5

(b) Records Have Only Been Kept Since 2002-03

Establishment	Year
	2002-03	2003-04
Aberdeen	3	1
Barlinnie	24	11
Castle Huntly	0	0
Cornton Vale	14	12
Dumfries	1	1
Edinburgh	4	4
Glenochil	3	1
Greenock	10	1
Inverness	2	1
Kilmarnock	0	0
Low Moss	1	0
Noranside	0	0
Perth	10	0
Peterhead	1	0
Polmont	6	5
Shotts	4	1
Total	83	38

Question reference: S2W-14889

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it has taken as a result of the G8's core principles on counter-terrorism.

Question reference: S2W-14850

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what influence or direct input it will have on the European Council's contribution to the G8 summit's discussions on the G8's Counter Terrorism Action Group (CTAG).

Question reference: S2W-14852

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what influence or direct input it will have on the UK Government's contribution to the G8 summit's discussions on the G8's core principles on counter-terrorism.

Question reference: S2W-14893

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had any input into the G8's Secure and Facilitated International Travel Initiative (SAFTI).

Question reference: S2W-14888

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it has taken in respect of section 2(2) of the G8's recommendations on counter-terrorism.

Question reference: S2W-14894

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had any direct input into or influence on the UK Government's contribution to the G8's Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG).

Question reference: S2W-14627

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 8 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on whether the new immigration points system will be weighted in Scotland's favour and how arrangements for the system will work.

Question reference: S2W-14795

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what information is available on hourly rates of pay for (a) professional and (b) non-professional employees.

The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which is carried out by the Office for National Statistics.

ASHE 2004 estimates that the median gross hourly pay for full-time professional employee jobs is £16.10. For all “other occupations” the equivalent estimate is £9. However, “other occupations” includes jobs that are quite different in terms of pay and skill level. Therefore it is useful to look at different occupation groups.

The table gives the median gross hourly pay for full-time employee jobs by major occupation group. The major occupation group is a set of broad categories that bring together occupations which are similar in terms of qualifications, training, skills and experience.

Table 1: Hourly pay - Gross (£) - For Full-Time Employee Jobs¹: Scotland, 2004

Major Occupation Group²	Median³ Hourly Pay
Managers and Senior Officials	£14.69
Professional Occupations	£16.10
Associate Professional and Technical Occupations	£12.32
Administrative and Secretarial Occupations	£8.13
Skilled Trades Occupations	£9.13
Personal Service Occupations	£7.17
Sales and Customer Service Occupations	£6.20
Plant and Machinery Operatives	£7.69
Elementary Occupations	£6.59
All	£9.87

Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

1. Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence.

2. Major Occupation Group as defined by Standard Occupation Classification 2000 (SOC2000).

3. The median is the value below which 50 per cent of employee jobs fall. It is preferred over an arithmetic average for earnings data as it is influenced less by large or extreme values.

Question reference: S2W-14242

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 8 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-13433 by Nicol Stephen on 27 January 2005 in respect of a ferry service from Scotland to Norway, whether a waterborne freight grant would still apply to such a service and what impact the traffic of English road freight north to such a ferry service would have on a possible Freight Facility Grant.

A ferry service between Scotland and Norway will be eligible to apply for a Waterborne Freight Grant (WFG) if it removes lorry journeys from Scotland’s roads. It is not possible to assess the specific impact of road freight traffic from England on any possible award of Freight Facilities Grant (FFG) or WFG in Scotland without having full details of the road routes currently used by this potential traffic.

One of the upper limits on the potential award of FFG or WFG is the environmental benefits which particular projects will generate by transferring freight from our roads. Equally these environmental benefits are reduced by the disbenefits of any additional lorry journeys which FFG and WFG funded projects might generate.

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