- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding will be provided to deliver alcohol support services in (a) Aberdeen City, (b) Aberdeenshire and (c) Angus during the spending review period.
Answer
In 2008-09, over £26 million will be allocated to NHS boards to tackle alcohol misuse. We will write to NHS boards shortly to set out details of allocations.
Funding for 2009-10 and 2010-11 has not yet been set.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 28 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has for the provision of ice-skating facilities in Aberdeen while the Linx Ice Arena is being refurbished.
Answer
The provision of local services and facilities is the responsibility for Aberdeen City Council to address. Aberdeen City Council is discussing a new grant stream to support displaced clubs. Clubs can bid into this for travel costs to other ice rinks. It is understood that the ice hockey and skating clubs are exploring options to travel together to Dundee.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 28 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many attacks were recorded on (a) firemen, (b) police officers and (c) hospital staff in Grampian in (i) 2003, (ii) 2004, (iii) 2005, (iv) 2006 and (v) 2007.
Answer
The police recorded crime statistics collected centrally are based on an aggregate return, and do not distinguish the circumstances of the crime, such as the occupation of the victim. Following the introduction of the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act in 2005, a new crime code (Minor Assault of an Emergency Worker) was created. However, the figures cannot be broken down by category of worker.
In Grampian, no such offences were recorded in 2005-06, and 18 were recorded in 2006-07.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 28 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in discussions between sportscotland and Aberdeen City Council on the construction of a 50-metre swimming pool in the city.
Answer
Representatives from sportscotland''s Facilities team attended a meeting with Aberdeen City Council on 13 February 2008, which was also attended by key stakeholders. There were a number of actions agreed and further work is to be taken forward.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 28 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to create a mechanism for Grampian that would systematically review drug-related deaths.
Answer
We are taking forward one of the recommendations from the National Forum on Drug-related Deaths which called for a new system to collect and standardise data on drug deaths. Working with Alcohol and Drug Action Teams (ADATs) across Scotland and in collaboration with ISD Scotland, work has began to create a dataset that will systematically record details of the individual circumstances surrounding a drug-related death. The dataset will be piloted in one rural and one urban area prior to being rolled out nationally.
Information collected in the dataset can be cross-matched with the Scottish Drug Misuse Database to give a more complete picture of a person''s treatment pathway prior to death and inform local ADAT areas where there may have been opportunities for intervention. This information can be used to prevent future fatalities.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 28 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of domestic abuse recorded by the police in Grampian from 2001-02 to 2006-07 were drug-related.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 28 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many attacks were recorded on (a) firemen, (b) police officers and (c) hospital staff in Tayside in (i) 2003, (ii) 2004, (iii) 2005, (iv) 2006 and (v) 2007.
Answer
The police recorded crime statistics collected centrally are based on an aggregate return, and do not distinguish the circumstances of the crime, such as the occupation of the victim. Following the introduction of the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act in 2005, a new crime code (Minor Assault of an Emergency Worker) was created. However, the figures cannot be broken down by category of worker.
In Tayside, no such offences were recorded in 2005-06 or in 2006-07.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 28 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to raise awareness of drug support services in the north east of Scotland.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-10004 on 27 February 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 28 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of domestic abuse recorded by the police in Grampian from 2001-02 to 2006-07 were alcohol-related.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding (a) Aberdeen City and (b) Aberdeenshire councils received from the Community Regeneration Fund and other programmes in (i) 2002-03, (ii) 2003-04, (iii) 2004-05, (iv) 2005-06, (v) 2006-07 and (vi) 2007-08.
Answer
I have asked James Hynd, acting Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. His response is as follows:
The table provides details of the original allocations to both local authorities from the Community Regeneration Fund (CRF) between 2005-08. Prior to 2005-06 the CRF was not in operation. Both local authorities will have received awards from a wide range of other funds up to and including the current year. Without identification of these funds individually, it is not possible to attribute levels of award to the local authorities in question.
| Council | 2005-06 (£ Million) | 2006-07 (£ Million) | 2007-08 (£ Million) |
| Aberdeen | 1.218 | 1.226 | 1.282 |
| Aberdeenshire | 0.135 | 0.136 | 0.142 |
