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Question reference: S2W-05670

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 January 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 4 February 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases for shared residency and contact orders have been dealt with by Edinburgh Sheriff Court in the last year.

Question reference: S2W-05671

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 January 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 4 February 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many shared residency and contact orders were granted by Edinburgh Sheriff Court in the last year.

Question reference: S2W-05593

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 19 January 2004
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 2 February 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dwellings there are in each council tax band, broken down by local authority area.

The number of dwellings foreach local authority and council tax band is shown in the table.

Number ofdwellings⁽¹⁾ on the Valuation List on 1 September 2003

	Band A	Band B	Band C	Band D	Band E	Band F	Band G	Band H	Total
Scotland	581,665	582,367	368,453	285,679	287,804	145,657	95,886	10,904	2,358,415
Aberdeen City	21,844	27,887	17,374	11,735	12,771	7,387	6,560	722	106,280
Aberdeenshire	20,825	15,516	13,072	15,176	17,211	10,668	6,761	425	99,654
Angus	15,494	12,220	6,484	7,269	6,201	2,153	1,084	146	51,051
Argyll and Bute	8,127	9,511	9,361	5,508	6,660	3,444	2,296	216	45,123
Clackmannanshire	6,471	7,060	1,744	2,167	2,515	1,077	608	40	21,682
Dumfries and Galloway	11,477	22,504	10,635	8,864	9,079	3,900	1,887	151	68,497
Dundee City	32,622	16,497	7,424	7,640	5,493	1,790	785	46	72,297
East Ayrshire	27,075	9,394	4,136	5,148	5,030	2,225	454	37	53,499
East Dunbartonshire	1,314	3,783	7,956	6,971	10,684	6,245	5,545	470	42,968
East Lothian	1,174	9,200	13,544	4,877	4,989	3,417	2,880	480	40,561
East Renfrewshire	1,375	5,237	3,836	5,941	7,980	5,791	5,627	658	36,445
Edinburgh, City of	24,531	45,417	40,407	32,153	34,151	21,133	18,230	3,217	219,239
Eilean Siar	4,960	3,670	2,653	1,421	765	120	35	6	13,630
Falkirk	22,700	18,730	5,790	7,446	7,180	3,295	1,291	46	66,478
Fife	42,257	47,807	19,625	16,802	19,272	9,291	4,823	391	160,268
Glasgow City	81,692	74,758	61,041	35,611	23,251	8,736	5,008	643	290,740
Highland	20,214	22,626	20,133	15,338	14,742	6,358	2,984	310	102,705
Inverclyde	22,964	4,901	2,765	2,780	3,088	1,600	1,186	169	39,453
Midlothian	1,001	11,783	9,704	3,822	3,900	1,899	1,243	148	33,500
Moray	11,982	9,930	5,721	5,328	4,453	1,406	489	107	39,416
North Ayrshire	21,942	18,253	5,937	5,829	7,694	2,508	989	43	63,195
North Lanarkshire	54,705	36,431	16,592	13,092	12,408	4,544	1,764	70	139,606
Orkney Islands	3,064	2,651	1,861	1,374	842	164	16	2	9,974
Perth and Kinross	9,240	14,562	10,631	8,856	10,270	5,833	4,194	553	64,139
Renfrewshire	15,618	25,790	12,101	9,339	9,450	5,154	2,927	201	80,580
Scottish Borders	16,494	12,535	6,154	5,069	5,323	3,552	2,840	360	52,327
Shetland Islands	3,211	1,781	2,468	1,455	933	166	36	2	10,052
South Ayrshire	7,414	12,455	8,182	7,567	8,906	4,250	2,648	220	51,642
South Lanarkshire	37,611	29,482	22,425	16,628	15,388	7,801	4,181	306	133,822
Stirling	6,579	8,318	3,901	3,812	5,678	4,546	4,175	557	37,566
West Dunbartonshire	8,271	17,657	7,260	4,310	4,342	1,361	463	30	43,694
West Lothian	17,417	24,021	7,536	6,351	7,155	3,843	1,877	132	68,332

Source: As reported by localauthorities on statistical return CTAXBASE (03).

Note: (1) Excludes freestanding lock ups.

Question reference: S2O-00910

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 November 2003
Current Status: Answered by Frank McAveety on 4 December 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive what strategy it has for assisting football clubs that find themselves in financial difficulties.

Question reference: S2W-02048

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 14 August 2003
Current Status: Answered by Jack McConnell on 15 August 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will meet the commitment in A Partnership for a Better Scotland to update and publish the Scottish Ministerial Code and A Guide to Collective Decision Making.

The Scottish Ministerial Code and the Guide to Collective Decision Making have been up-dated and will be published today. The Scottish Ministerial Code, which was last revised in February 2002, provides a code of conduct and guidance on procedures for members of the Scottish Cabinet and Junior Scottish Ministers. It underlines our commitment to working in partnership with the Scottish Parliament and has been revised to reflect the Partnership Agreement and recent changes in procedure and terminology. The Guide to Collective Decision Making sets out the principles of collective decision-making and the principles and procedures to be followed to ensure effective conduct of business. It too has been up-dated to reflect the Partnership Agreement and changes in procedure and terminology since it was last revised in June 2002.

Question reference: S2W-00545

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 30 May 2003
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 2 June 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive when the pilot youth court in Hamilton will commence.

Question reference: S1W-34117

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 February 2003
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 19 February 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish the annual report on its Equality Strategy.

Question reference: S1W-33423

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 24 January 2003
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 27 January 2003

To ask the Scottish Executive when the report of the Youth Court Feasibility Group, announced as part of its ten-point youth crime action plan in June 2002, will be available.

Question reference: S1W-31488

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 November 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish the Annual Report of the Chief Social Work Inspector on services across Scotland.

Question reference: S1W-29839

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 September 2002
Current Status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 24 September 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will fulfil its commitment to conduct an anti-racism campaign.

The Scottish Executive is launching an anti racism campaign today. The campaign, under the theme of "One Scotland. Many Cultures", has been developed in conjunction with the Commission for Racial Equality. The campaign is built on a solid foundation of race equality work and is further supported by an interactive website (www.onescotland.com). I am also placing the campaign details in the Parliament's Reference Centre.