- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 6 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of any grants awarded to each police force for the last year in addition to core funding.
Answer
Grants worth over £10 million have been, or will shortly be, made available to forces in the current financial year, to meet special pressures which have arisen during the course of the year. These are in addition to grant aided expenditure. Figures, where a breakdown is available, are given in the table (figures in £000).
Force | Recruitment | DNA Testing |
Central | 369 | 63 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 233 | 40 |
Fife | 435 | 74 |
Grampian | 676 | 116 |
Lothian & Borders | 1,442 | 246 |
Northern | 423 | 72 |
Strathclyde | 3,710 | 634 |
Tayside | 612 | 105 |
Total | 7,900 | 1,350 |
In addition, £117,000 has been allocated to Lothian & Borders Police to support its Parliamentary Policing Unit; and discussions are on-going with forces about the allocation of £1.0 million to support implementation of the National Intelligence Model and £0.1 million for analysis of drug driving samples. Some further sums were allocated across individual forces at various times during the year in connection with expenditure on a range of security measures.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 6 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding (a) was received by each police force in each of the past three years, (b) is projected in each force for each of the next two years expressed per head of population in each police force area and (c) what the average funding was per head of population nationally.
Answer
The information requested is shown in the following table.Police Funding Per Head of Population
| | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 |
Central | £118.56 | £120.39 | £127.91 |
Dumfries & Galloway | £141.77 | £146.21 | £155.35 |
Fife | £111.56 | £118.87 | £125.60 |
Grampian | £116.29 | £120.24 | £130.82 |
Lothian & Borders | £146.33 | £150.20 | £158.22 |
Northern | £133.54 | £140.49 | £153.22 |
Strathclyde | £149.55 | £155.61 | £163.89 |
Tayside | £141.68 | £149.41 | £159.40 |
Scotland | £139.62 | £145.06 | £153.78 |
The figures are based on Grant Aided Expenditure, which is the maximum level of expenditure supported by police grant. In 2002-03 and 2003-04 the average funding per head of population will be £160.74 and £165.17. Decisions have yet to be made on the allocations to individual forces.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 28 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 22 October 2001
To ask the Presiding Officer whether there are any plans to provide an enhanced and accessible out of hours IT support service for MSPs.
Answer
The IT Helpdesk has new extended opening hours for MSPs during sitting days:Tuesdays until 19.30Wednesdays until 21.30Thursdays until 21.30Further information can be found on SPEIR at
http://intranet/speir/Temp/bits.htmThe IT Helpdesk directly resolves most reported problems, such as account lookouts, password problems, email configuration, printer problems, advice on MS Office and Outlook, and remote access guidance.Proposals for further extending cover for members beyond these hours to weekends and during recess, and to include other IT support services, are under active consideration and are being assessed against current budgets.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 18 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many days have been lost through sickness in each local and open prison establishment, broken down by staff category, giving the totals for each prison and the Scottish Prison Service as a whole, in each of the last three years and this year to date.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive, Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows
The information requested is not held in the format sought. The following data is taken from available material.
There are currently (as at 23 September 2001) 141 staff absent; 28 report mental health conditions including stress and six are absent as a result of assault by prisoners.
| Establishment | Average Number of Working Days lost through Illness |
| | Average no. of working days lost through illness 1998-99 | Average no. of working days lost through illness 1999-2000 | Average no. of working days lost though Illness 2000-01 |
| Aberdeen | 8.2 | 7.5 | 10 |
| Barlinnie | 14 | 10.6 | 11 |
| Castle Huntly | 12.6 | 9.1 | 10.2 |
| Cornton Vale | 14.8 | 11.8 | 13 |
| Dungavel | 7.5 | 13.4 | - |
| Dumfries | 11.8 | 13.4 | 20.3 |
| Edinburgh | 9.8 | 10.3 | 11.9 |
| Friarton | 12.1 | 13.6 | - |
| Glenochil | 14.1 | 14.3 | 16 |
| Greenock | 7.5 | 6.4 | 9.3 |
| Inverness | 9.6 | 6.4 | 8.8 |
| Longriggend | 22.9 | 14.8 | - |
| Low Moss | 16 | 18.6 | 11.5 |
| Noranside | 5.6 | 9.4 | 9.7 |
| Penninghame | 11.2 | 6.3 | - |
| Perth | 10.4 | 7.6 | 9 |
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| Establishment | Average Number of Working Days lost through Illness |
| | Average no. of working days lost through illness 1998-99 | Average no. of working days lost through illness 1999-2000 | Average no. of working days lost though Illness 2000-01 |
| Peterhead | 8.1 | 10.6 | 6.6 |
| Polmont | 10.6 | 12.6 | 10.9 |
| Shotts | 10.6 | 10.1 | 9.8 |
| Totals | 11.5 | 10.9 | 11.2 |
| Establishment | Number of members of staff absent as at 23 September 2001 | Number of members of staff absent from work for mental health reasons or staff assault as at 23 September 2001 |
| | Current | Mental Health | Staff Assaults |
| Aberdeen | 13 | 2 | 1 |
| Barlinnie | 14 | - | 0 |
| Castle Huntly | 2 | - | 0 |
| Cornton Vale | 9 | 3 | 2 |
| Dungavel | - | - | - |
| Dumfries | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Edinburgh | 1 | - | 1 |
| Friarton | - | - | - |
| Glenochil | 23 | 9 | 1 |
| Greenock | 1 | - | 0 |
| Inverness | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Longriggend | - | - | - |
| Low Moss | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| Noranside | 2 | - | 0 |
| Penninghame | - | - | - |
| Perth | 19 | 5 | 0 |
| Peterhead | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Polmont | 14 | 2 | 0 |
| Shotts | 16 | 3 | 0 |
| Totals | 141* | 28 | 6 |
* Includes HQ , SPSC and FauldhouseAverage Cost To SPS Caused By Illness
Year | Average cost to the SPS (£ million) |
| 1998-99 | 5.3 |
| 1999-2000 | 5.6 |
| 2000-01 | 5 |
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 18 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff, broken down by staff category, are currently absent through illness in each local and open prison establishment, giving details of stress-related illnesses or prisoner-related injuries, and what the total figures are for the Scottish Prison Service.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive, Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows.
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-17717.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 18 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements are in place to measure the performance of Drug Action Teams.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-17542.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 18 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated cost has been for each local and open prison establishment of the absence of prison officers through sickness in each of the last three years and this year to date.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive, Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-17717.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 18 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive to whom drug action teams are accountable and whether there are any plans to measure their performance.
Answer
Drug Action Teams (DATs) are accountable to the Executive through annual corporate planning arrangements. They are required to report current and planned activity in their area to meet objectives across the four pillars of the drugs strategy and their own local targets, identifying direct spend on drugs issues. Their performance is assessed by the Executive and feedback is given. This year's DAT plans will be published on the Scottish Drug Misuse website:
www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org shortly.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 28 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 12 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the UK's response to the European Commission's Green Paper on the future of the Common Fisheries Policy was co-ordinated by it or by Her Majesty's Government and where the official or officials who wrote the final draft is or are based.
Answer
Parts of the UK response were drafted in London and parts of it were written in Edinburgh. Fisheries Ministers in all of the Fisheries Departments in the UK agreed the final draft, which fully reflects Scottish priorities. It was sent to the Commission in the normal way from the UK Government via the Permanent UK Representation in Brussels.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 11 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact (a) climate change and (b) the lack of available food supply has had on fish stock levels in the North Sea.
Answer
Fish stocks are highly variable and it is not yet possible to make direct or measurable linkages between fish stock abundance and climate change for North Sea stocks. As to food supply, there is no evidence that a lack of food availability has contributed to declining stocks although in localised areas, shortage of food may result in a lower abundance of fish.
