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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.

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Question reference: S1W-31768

Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 9 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many community service order supervisors are currently employed by each local authority.

The Executive does not hold centrally information on numbers of community service order supervisors employed by individual local authorities. However, figures for the numbers of community service staff employed as of October 2001 are given in the following table.

Local Authority	Community Service Staff
Aberdeen	12
Aberdeenshire	9
Angus	4
Argyll and Bute	5
Clackmannanshire	2
Dumfries and Galloway	5
Dundee	6
East Ayrshire	10
East Dunbartonshire	6
East Lothian	1
East Renfrewshire	3
Edinburgh	23
Eileanan Siar	2
Falkirk	7
Fife	3
Glasgow	47
Highland	18
Inverclyde	6
Midlothian	5
Moray	5
North Ayrshire	11
North Lanarkshire	26
Orkney Islands	1
Perth and Kinross	0
Renfrewshire	10
Scottish Borders	0
Shetland Islands	2
South Ayrshire	6
South Lanarkshire	18
Stirling	2
West Dunbartonshire	3
West Lothian	2
Total	260

Question reference: S1W-31603

Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 15 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 9 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will (a) give details of any bi-lateral ministerial meetings scheduled to discuss the forthcoming fishing quotas and (b) list any such meetings that have taken place in the last four weeks.

Question reference: S1W-31616

Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 15 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 6 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what the outcome has been of any discussions that have taken place with the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to current fisheries negotiations in Europe.

Question reference: S1W-31304

Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 6 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what its policy is on publishing information on which of its ministers and the number, grade and department of officials that attend European Union meetings.

The Executive publishes information about ministers' attendance at meetings of the Council of the European Union through post-Council reports submitted to the European Committee. These become part of the Committee papers, which are public documents and are available on the internet at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/official_report/cttee/europe.htm.I refer the member to the answers given to questions S1W-13370 on 5 December 2001 and S1W-31063 on 2 December 2002. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at:http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.

Question reference: S1W-31303

Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 6 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-28026 by Mr Jim Wallace on 4 November 2002, whether it keeps records of which of its ministers and officials have attended European Union meetings and what information it is able to provide on such attendance.

The Executive does keep records of attendance at EU meetings.I refer the member to the answers given to questions S1W-6228 on 9 May 2000, S1W-13367 on 29 March 2002, S1W-20175 on 5 December 2001, S1W-22493 on 25 February 2002 and S1W-31063 on 2 December 2002 regarding ministerial attendance; and to S1W-13370 on 2 May 2001 and S1W-31063 on 2 December 2002, regarding official attendance. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.

Question reference: S1W-31608

Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 15 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 6 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated by-catch of white fish has been by each of the industrial fisheries in Scottish waters or waters fished by Scottish vessels in each of the last 10 years.

ICES estimates of the by-catch of white fish (cod, haddock and whiting) in the combined Danish and Norwegian small-meshed (industrial fisheries) for sandeel and Norway pout in the North Sea as a whole are given in the following table.Estimated By-catch of Cod, Haddock and Whiting in the Danish and Norwegian Small-mesh Industrial Fisheries in the North Sea (Tonnes), 1992-2001

Year	Cod	Haddock	Whiting
1992	1,024	11,000	27,000
1993	1,052	11,000	20,000
1994	876	5,000	10,000
1995	955	8,000	27,000
1996	366	5,000	5,000
1997	1,688	7,000	7,000
1998	1,281	5,000	3,000
1999	532	4,000	5,000
2000	383	8,000	8,000
2001	192	6,000	7,000

Source: ICES. 2002 Report of the Working Group on the Assessment of Demersal Stocks in the North Sea and Skagerrak.

Question reference: S1W-31614

Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 15 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 6 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish registered vessels are engaged in industrial fishery.

The term industrial fishery encompasses a wide range of fisheries destined for purposes other than human consumption. The most important industrial fishery to Scotland is the blue whiting fishery. Thirteen Scottish registered vessels landed significant tonnages of blue whiting into Scotland in 2001. Three Scottish registered vessels landed sandeels into Scotland in 2001. There were no significant landings of Norway pout.

Question reference: S1W-31611

Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 15 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 6 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail each stage of the procedure that would have to be followed if it were to submit a request to Her Majesty's Government that the Executive be officially designated to lead the UK delegation to the EU Fisheries Council

Question reference: S1W-31602

Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 15 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 6 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will give a brief description of any new research relating to the current sea fisheries negotiations that it has requested either from internal or external sources during the last four weeks.

Question reference: S1W-31604

Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 15 November 2002
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 6 December 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made in relation to reducing the level of industrial by-catch of white fish stocks in Scottish waters or areas fished by Scottish vessels.