- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many offenders in Grampian are on drug treatment programmes and have been subject to testing orders.
Answer
Data is not held centrallyon the numbers of offenders in the Grampian area currently engaged in treatmentprogrammes. In the period 2003-07, 114 drug treatment and testing orders were imposedby courts situated within the Northern Community Justice Authority (CJA) area, whichcomprises Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Eilean Siar, Highland, Moray, Orkney andShetland Isles local authority areas. Other offenders are engaged in treatment programmesbut are not subject to drug treatment and testing orders.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what its targets are for its extension of the drug treatment and testing order approach.
Answer
The extension of drugtreatment and testing orders to deal with lower tariff offenders will be the subjectof a pilot exercise. Given that decisions on sentencing in individual cases area matter for the courts, it would not be appropriate to set targets for the numberof orders made as part of the pilot.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Grampian will benefit from the pilot of extending the drug treatment and testing order approach to a wider range of offenders.
Answer
Extending use of DrugTreatment and Testing Orders (DTTOs) to lower tariff offenders poses a number ofopportunities and challenges and we will therefore undertake a pilot exercise inthe first instance. An announcement on the location of the pilot will be made shortly.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many offenders in Grampian were on drug treatment programmes and have been subject to testing orders in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05, (c) 2005-06 and (d) 2006-07 and, of these, how many would have fallen under the extension of the drug treatment and testing order approach.
Answer
Data is not held centrallyfor the Grampian area. Information is shown below for the local authorities whichcomprise the Northern Community Justice Authority (CJA) area. These are AberdeenCity, Aberdeenshire, Eilean Siar, Highland, Moray, OrkneyIslands and Shetland Islands.
Drug Treatment andTesting Orders (DTTO): Northern CJA
Number of Orders
2003-04: 20
2004-05: 21
2005-06: 37
2006-07: 36.
Existing guidancefor DTTOs restricts use of DTTOs to high tariff offenders and all of the ordershave been imposed against the framework of the existing guidance.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities will benefit from the pilot of extending the drug treatment and testing order approach to a wider range of offenders.
Answer
I refer to the answer to question S3W-7248 on 13 December 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questionsare available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can befound 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: Thursday, 29 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent in Grampian in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05, (c) 2005-06 and (d) 2006-07 on implementing drug treatment and testing orders.
Answer
The following tableshows the level of criminal justice social work grant allocations issued to therelevant local authorities within the Grampian area for the delivery of drug treatmentand testing orders in financial years 2003-04 to 2006-07 inclusive. Drug treatmentand testing orders were extended to courts in Highland and Moray with effect from6 June 2005 and the grant allocations provided in the 2005-06 financial year reflectboth initial start up and revenue costs.
| Financial year | Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire | Highland/Moray | Grant Allocations |
| 2003-04 | £437,091 | - | £437,091 |
| 2004-05 | £450,204 | - | £450,204 |
| 2005-06 | £461,459 | £245,000 | £706,459 |
| 2006-07 | £461,459 | £215,000 | £676,459 |
| Total | £1,810,213 | £460,000 | £2,270,213 |
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much will be spent on piloting the extension of the drug treatment and testing order approach in Grampian.
Answer
I refer the memberto the answer to question S3W-7252 on 13 December 2007. Allanswers 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, 27 November 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 11 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what dialogue it has had with the board of the Scottish Funding Council following the announcement of the funding settlement for universities in the spending review.
Answer
ScottishGovernment officials from the Lifelong Learning Directorate provided a briefingto the full Council on Friday 23 November 2007.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 December 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 11 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional funding has been requested by Aberdeen City Council for social work services as part of the funding settlement intended to achieve a council tax freeze.
Answer
No request foradditional funding for social work services has been received from AberdeenCity Council.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 December 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 10 December 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional funding has been requested by Aberdeen City Council for education services as part of the funding settlement intended to achieve a council tax freeze.
Answer
No request for additionalfunding for education services has been received from Aberdeen City Council.
It is for local authoritiesto allocate their total available to individual services on the basis of local needsand priorities.
