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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: S2W-30951

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the residence-based claimant count unemployment rate was for each council ward in Fife in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-30948

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the residence-based claimant count unemployment rate was for each council ward in East Renfrewshire in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-30943

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the residence-based claimant count unemployment rate was for each council ward in Dumfries and Galloway in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-30944

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the residence-based claimant count unemployment rate was for each council ward in Dundee in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-30942

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the residence-based claimant count unemployment rate was for each council ward in Comhairle nan Eilean Siar in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-30963

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the residence-based claimant count unemployment rate was for each council ward in South Ayrshire in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-30884

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many recorded convictions there have been for drug trafficking in each of the last five years, broken down by sheriff court.

The available information isgiven in the following table.

Persons with a Charge Provedin Scottish Courts for Drug Trafficking^1,2, by Court, 2000-01- 2004-05

Court	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Sheriff Court
Aberdeen	52	47	68	57	88
Airdrie	23	25	31	25	29
Alloa	9	7	17	28	27
Arbroath	5	9	9	12	18
Ayr	27	24	41	40	28
Banff	1	11	7	9	5
Campbeltown	6	4	2	3	2
Cupar	10	10	8	7	8
Dingwall	7	2	6	6	20
Dornoch	-	-	4	1	1
Dumbarton	24	15	23	26	37
Dumfries	16	17	21	6	21
Dundee	32	17	44	27	40
Dunfermline	15	17	23	20	18
Dunoon	4	2	3	5	5
Duns	-	-	2	4	2
Edinburgh	111	103	87	103	189
Elgin	13	10	6	16	15
Falkirk	28	43	43	41	39
Forfar	16	7	7	7	11
Fort William	8	4	8	5	3
Glasgow	253	249	275	327	332
Greenock	38	24	44	43	35
Haddington	2	5	4	7	17
Hamilton	63	74	60	55	83
Inverness	6	28	14	36	41
Jedburgh	4	9	7	9	17
Kilmarnock	42	59	69	103	77
Kirkcaldy	22	23	33	33	43
Kirkcudbright	1	3	1	6	13
Kirkwall	2	4	3	4	4
Lanark	5	9	4	9	4
Lerwick	2	4	7	1	6
Linlithgow	32	14	27	27	56
Lochmaddy	-	1	-	1	1
Oban	10	7	3	5	6
Paisley	30	23	22	25	25
Peebles	5	2	1	2	5
Perth	41	51	52	47	64
Peterhead	5	11	16	13	12
Portree	-	2	3	1	-
Rothesay	1	-	-	-	-
Selkirk	7	3	8	8	10
Stirling	18	29	21	33	30
Stonehaven	3	2	1	-	-
Stornoway	2	2	5	3	5
Stranraer	9	12	22	18	19
Tain	4	7	4	12	10
Wick	4	6	7	3	2
All Sheriff Courts	1,018	1,037	1,173	1,279	1,523
All Courts³	1,331	1,370	1,524	1,623	1,759

Notes:

1. Where main offence.

2. Includes illegal importation,production and supply of drugs, money laundering and other related offences.

3. Includes High Court convictions.

Question reference: S2W-30954

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the residence-based claimant count unemployment rate was for each council ward in Midlothian in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-30939

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2007
Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 January 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what the residence-based claimant count unemployment rate was for each council ward in Angus in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-31212

Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2007
Current Status: Awaiting answer

To ask the Scottish Executive what it considers to be an appropriate upper limit for Scottish Environment Protection Agency charges to grant permission to convert a 20 metre ditch to an enclosed pipe.