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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-31769

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 orders were (a) applied for by each local authority, broken down by local court, and (b) issued by each local court in response in 2001-02 and in the most recent period for which figures are available.

Figures are available by individual local authority for the number of social enquiry reports which give community service orders as a preferred option, and the number of community service orders issued. The latest available figures, for 2000-01, are given in the following table. It is not possible to break these figures down by specific courts within individual local authorities.

Local Authority	Preferred Option - CSO	CSOs Issued
Aberdeen City	154	185
Aberdeenshire	70	84
Angus	12	120
Argyll and Bute	60	71
Clackmannanshire	41	66
Dumfries and Galloway	66	115
Dundee City	270	339
East Ayrshire	67	154
East Dunbartonshire	42	45
East Lothian	83	83
East Renfrewshire	26	39
Edinburgh, City of	346	394
Eilean Siar	15	11
Falkirk	51	94
Fife	186	238
Glasgow City	555	811
Highland	124	170
Inverclyde	105	110
Midlothian	82	79
Moray	50	40
North Ayrshire	82	141
North Lanarkshire	218	227
Orkney Islands	6	6
Perth and Kinross	68	80
Renfrewshire	87	152
Scottish Borders	93	67
Shetland Islands	11	9
South Ayrshire	70	92
South Lanarkshire	350	240
Stirling	36	31
West Dunbartonshire	79	88
West Lothian	91	73
Total	3,596	4,454

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-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.

Question reference: S1W-31600

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 information it has received about the extent to which the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea took into account the impact on white fish stocks when making recommendations for next year's industrial fishing total allowable catch limits

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-31613

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 sought any second opinion or external comment on the methodology used by the Fisheries Research Services (FRS) in relation to the most recent contribution by FRS to the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea's advice.

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-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-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-31612

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 source, date and results of any research into the impact of the ban on sandeel fishing off the Wee Bankie on white fish stocks.