- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-20289 by Fiona Hyslop on 12 February 2009, what programmes are currently running in schools in each local authority area.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-20289 by Fiona Hyslop on 12 February 2009, whether it is aware of any programmes in England that have been particularly successful at reducing offending behaviour and that could be applied in Scotland.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-20952 on 11 March 2009. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of a report in the Evening News on 12 February 2009 that some £2.1 million in Class A drugs were seized in Edinburgh by Lothian and Borders Police between April and December 2009, what the corresponding figure was for other police forces in the same period.
Answer
The information requested is currently being collected and is not yet available centrally. Information on drugs seizures in Scotland will be published in June 2009 in the statistical bulletin Drug Seizures by Scottish Police Forces, 2007-08 and 2008-09.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-20289 by Fiona Hyslop on 12 February 2009, what proportion of (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils has access to programmes aiming to help to reduce the carrying of knives and knife crime among young people.
Answer
All schools can access such materials, for example through the Violence Reduction Unit''s website
www.actiononviolence.com.
It is up to individual schools, youth organisations and local authorities to decide when and which programmes to access on the dangers of illegal knife carrying, as they are best placed to judge the needs of the children and young people in their communities.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-20289 by Fiona Hyslop on 12 February 2009, what the target audience is for the (a) Knife City DVD and (b) It’s Jist for Protection performance by young people
Answer
The target audience for both the
Knife City DVD and the
It''s Jist for Protection performance is young people from the P7 age-group upwards. Further information on these resources can be accessed through the Violence Reduction Unit''s website at
www.actiononviolence.com.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has provided student associations with funding to assist with the dissemination of information to students on drug misuse and, if so, how much, broken down by institution.
Answer
No funding has been provided to student associations to assist with the dissemination of information to students on drug misuse. Information is available to all members of the public, including students, through Know the Score, the national drugs information campaign.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what it estimates to be the proportion of the student population that experiments with cocaine at some point during their time at university.
Answer
We do not hold the necessary data to estimate cocaine abuse in the student population.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-20289 by Fiona Hyslop on 12 February 2009, what discussions it has had with the Home Office with regard to the sharing of good practice on education programmes aimed at helping to reduce the carrying of knives and knife crime among young people.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-20952 on 11 March 2009. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-20289 by Fiona Hyslop on 12 February 2009, what criteria is used to evaluate the effectiveness of programmes such as the (a) Knife City DVD and (b) It’s Jist for Protection performance by young people in reducing offending behaviour.
Answer
The Scottish Government is fully committed to getting knives off our streets and is taking direct action to tackle this issue. On 4 March 2009, we hosted the first national youth conference on violence and knife crime, which brought together over 80 young people from across Scotland and provided them with a platform to discuss what other action could be taken to tackle the problem. On the same day, the Cabinet Secretary for Justice launched
No Knives Better Lives, our new £500,000 youth engagement initiative which will work directly with young people to educate them about the dangers and consequences of carrying a knife.
This work will support other initiatives that we have recently announced, such as Medics Against Violence, which will see senior medics in Glasgow working directly with young people about the dangers of carrying a knife, and the groundbreaking Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) project, in which our £1.6 million investment will support partners'' efforts in tackling gang violence in Glasgow. All of this work has been informed by the good work that is being delivered in Scotland and beyond and we will continue to look for examples of good practice, both in Scotland and those developed by others such as the Home Office, that will have a positive impact.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that university students are more likely to abuse (a) cocaine and (b) other illegal drugs than other groups in society.
Answer
We do not hold the necessary data to compare cocaine or other drug abuse in the student population with that of other groups in society.
