- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 24 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what ministerial visits have been arranged, or are being planned, to (a) Banff and Buchan and (b) north-east Scotland between now and 3 May 2007.
Answer
The information requested isnot held in this format. Ministerial diaries retain a record of engagements carriedout. We cannot provide an accurate picture of forthcoming events, as planned orscheduled ministerial visits are subject to constant change, often at short notice,because of changing parliamentary commitments.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 December 2006
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Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) diagnosis and (b) mortality rate was for (i) chronic lung disease, (ii) coronary heart disease and (iii) cancer in each year since 1999, broken down by parliamentary constituency.
Answer
The information requested isgiven in the tables within diagnosis and mortality rates of coronary heartdisease, chronic lung disease and cancer by parliamentary constituency since1999, a copy of which is available in the Scottish Parliament InformationCentre (Bib. number 41484).
Note that populations byparliamentary constituency are not readily available. However, thesepopulations can be estimated by aggregating populations, which are available bydatazone geography level. There are instances where a datazone is split acrossmore than one parliamentary constituency. In these cases, the datazone population is allocatedto the parliamentary constituency that contains the highest number of postcodeareas that make up the datazone.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 December 2006
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Answered by Elish Angiolini on 22 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions have taken place in Scotland for breaches of the law relating to the aggregates levy.
Answer
The Finance Act 2001 (asamended) creates a number of offences in relation to the aggregates levy. Noreports in respect of such offences have been submitted to procurators fiscal.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 January 2007
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Answered by Andy Kerr on 22 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the mortality rates from coronary heart disease per 100,000 population have been in each parliamentary constituency in each year since 1997.
Answer
The information requested isgiven in the table
Mortality rates of coronary heart disease by parliamentaryconstituency since 1997, a copy of which is available in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 41483).
Note that populations by parliamentaryconstituency are not readily available. However, these populations can be estimatedby aggregating populations, which are available by datazone geography level. Thereare instances where a datazone is split across more than one parliamentary constituency.In these cases, the datazone populationis allocated to the parliamentary constituency that contains the highest numberof postcode areas that make up the datazone.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
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Answered by Nicol Stephen on 22 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the residence-based claimant count unemployment rate was for each council ward in the city of Edinburgh in each year since 1999.
Answer
I have placed tables showingthe residence based claimant count unemployment rates by council ward in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 41454).For information, data onclaimant count unemployment by ward is available free of charge at the NationalOnline Manpower Information Website which can be accessed at
www.nomisweb.co.uk.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 22 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the residence-based claimant count unemployment rate was for each council ward in Falkirk in each year since 1999.
Answer
I have placed tables showingthe residence based claimant count unemployment rates by council ward in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 41454).For information, data onclaimant count unemployment by ward is available free of charge at the NationalOnline Manpower Information Website which can be accessed at
www.nomisweb.co.uk.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 January 2007
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Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 22 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of male prisoners are fathers.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows:
I refer themember to the answer to question S2W-25930 on 23 May 2006. All answers towritten parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, thesearch facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 January 2007
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Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners were prosecuted for offences committed in prison involving (a) violence, (b) drugs and (c) threatening or abusive behaviour and how many offences were committed involving two or more of these categories in each year since 1997-98.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
Prosecution is a matter for theCrown Office Procurator Fiscals Office who do not routinely inform the ScottishPrison Service of such cases.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2006
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Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many offenders are known to have reoffended within (a) 24 hours, (b) 48 hours, (c) one week and (d) one month of release from prison in each year since 1999.
Answer
The information requested isnot available. The most recent availablestatistics relate to reconvictions and are presented in the statistics release
Reconvictionsof offenders discharged from custody or given non-custodial sentences in2002-03, Scotland. This release includes information on the six month,one year and true year reconviction rates of offenders discharged from custody in2002-03 and can be accessed from the Scottish Executive website via the link:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/10/30144610/0.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 December 2006
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Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many long-term jobs were created in each year since 1999, broken down by local enterprise area.
Answer
Information on the number oflong-term jobs created in each year since 1999, broken down by local enterprisearea is not held centrally.
