- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 13 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to its news release SE5229/2002 of 25 January 2002, how many families currently reside in "inappropriate temporary accommodation".
Answer
Tables 25-27 of the latest Quarterly Housing Trends Bulletin, published on 18 December 2001, presents information on the number of households with children that were living in various types of temporary accommodation, at the end of June 2001. A copy of the bulletin, Housing Trends in Scotland, Quarter Ending 30 June 2001 is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number HSG/2001/6).
- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 8 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the ratio is of men to women currently referred to the Counselling and Support Service for Alcohol and Drugs.
Answer
Sixty-nine per cent of those referred to the Counselling and Support Service for Alcohol and Drugs in Forth Valley in the last 12 months were male and 31% were female.
- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 7 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to its news release SE5229/2002 of 25 January 2002, what plans it has in respect of replacing hostels for homeless people in Glasgow, following the decommissioning of such hostels.
Answer
The report of the Glasgow street homelessness review team recommended that the city's large-scale hostels be closed over time. Glasgow City Council and its partners have established a Planning and Implementation Group to take forward the recommendations of the report in a way which will ensure that appropriate accommodation and services are in place before hostels are closed. The Executive is making £12.5 million available over three years to 2003-04 to assist the de-commissioning process. This will include the provision of a range of alternative accommodation options, depending on the needs of individuals.
- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 7 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken since the publication of the report Supporting Active Communities in Scotland - A Draft Strategy for Volunteering and Community Action in order to assess the approach of journalism and media studies courses to voluntary and community matters.
Answer
A Media Strategy Action Group has been established to develop a strategy for the promotion of the Active Communities Initiative in Scotland. It reports directly to the Scottish Executive. As part of its deliberations, the group plans to engage the Higher Education Funding Council on a review of Journalism and Media Studies courses.
- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 7 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to action points D2 and D3 of the report Supporting Active Communities in Scotland - A Draft Strategy for Volunteering and Community Action, how many public access points that disseminate information about volunteering opportunities are available.
Answer
A network of 37 Volunteer Centres operating from 51 offices in 30 local authority areas are now in place to provide information and advice on volunteering opportunities in Scotland. The aim of the Volunteer Centre network is to make it easier for people to volunteer to improve the quality of life in ways that are appropriate to local volunteering needs and circumstances. It is our aim to extend the network to all 32 local authority areas in Scotland in the coming year, provided match funding for core costs can be found from other agencies.In addition, Volunteer Development Scotland, the main organisation for volunteering in Scotland, is developing a database of volunteering opportunities across Scotland. This will be launched later this year.
- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 6 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people regularly drink above recommended limits.
Answer
In 1998, 33% of men and 15% of women aged 16-64 reported drinking above recommended weekly limits (21 units for men and 14 units for women). Twenty-six per cent of all women and 44% of all men reported drinking more than twice the recommended daily benchmarks on their heaviest drinking day. This information is taken from the 1998 Scottish Health Survey, a copy of which is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 10471).
- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 June 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive on what date the report Prison Admission Health Screening as a Measure of Health Needs, published in the Scottish Executive Health Bulletin on 1 March 2001, was first approved for publication by the Scottish Prison Service.
Answer
The Scottish Prison Service was not asked to approve the publication of this report in the Health Bulletin.
- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 February 2001
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 19 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners were in prisons and young offenders institutions in each year since 1992, broken down by classification of crime; what percentage of these prisoners had previous convictions, broken down by the number of previous convictions; what the average sentence was for each crime, and what average time was actually served, all broken down into (a) women, (b) men, (c) young women and (d) young men.
Answer
Information on prisoners in penal establishments by crime classification is not available for years before 1997.
The available information on prisoners in penal establishments by crime classification is given for 1997 to 1999 in Tables 1-3 "Main crime/offence of remand and sentenced prisoners in custody on 30 June", a copy of which has been placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib numbers 11181, 11182 and 11183 respectively). These tables distinguish adult prisoners from young offenders and are broken down by gender.
Information on previous convictions of prisoners in penal establishments is not held centrally.The available information on average sentence imposed on prisoners received into custody for selected crimes and offences is given in Tables 22 and 26 of the statistical bulletins "Prison Statistics Scotland, 1997", "Prison Statistics Scotland, 1998" and "Prison Statistics Scotland, 1999" published by the Scottish Executive, copies of which are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib numbers 11178, 11179 and 11180 respectively). Equivalent information on the average time served is not available.
- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 November 2000
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Answered by Susan Deacon on 24 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria were used to select the members of the Review Group on the Retention of Organs at Post-Mortem; why each member of the group was chosen and in particular what account was taken of their independence from both government and the medical profession, and whether the group members will act as representatives of the various organisations of which they are members or in an independent, personal capacity.
Answer
The Review Group on the Retention of Organs at Post Mortem which I have set up is chaired by Professor McLean who holds the Chair of Law and Ethics in Medicine at Glasgow and is Director of the Institute of Law and Medicine.
The members have been appointed by Professor McLean with a view to providing the necessary range of expertise in the fields of ethics, law, patients' rights and medicine to allow the review group to discharge the first part of its remit.
All of the group members have been asked to serve in a personal capacity, and the group as a whole is independent of the Scottish Executive and the medical profession.Fuller biographical details of the members of the group are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre and on the group's website at http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/scotorgrev.
- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 June 2000
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Answered by Sarah Boyack on 8 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether case C-359/97, Commission of the European Communities versus the United Kingdom, will affect the construction of the M77 extension due to its implication that shadow tolls should be subject to VAT.
Answer
No. Shadow tolls are already subject to VAT and are not affected by the decision of the European Court of Justice.
