Chamber and committees

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-301 on 9 June 2011. 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.

The public sector pay policy for 2011-12 includes a pay freeze for all staff earning more than £21,000 and runs until 31 March 2012. An announcement about future pay policy will be made in autumn 2011 as part of the Spending Review 2011. I have already made clear a pay freeze will not last for the duration of this Parliament.

They are initial results of a testing phase and are not fully developed. It is important that users clearly understand the status of these series and apply caution to the results, particularly when comparing results across time or geographically.

We are planning work to increase our understanding of offence aggravations data and to assess and attempt to improve the consistency of recording of the data. It is anticipated that this work will be completed during 2011. An update and full details of any changes will be provided with publication of the 2010-11 Criminal Proceedings Bulletin. More details are available here:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/Datasets/CrimProcDatDev.

The available information is given in the following table.

Persons Convicted of Offences with a Bail Aggravator, by Police Force Area, 2009-10

Note: 1. Contains one offence where police force is unknown.

The dates of all Scottish Government Official and National Statistics publications are pre-announced, and the up to date list of future publications can be found at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Search/Forthcoming.

They are initial results of a testing phase and are not fully developed. It is important that users clearly understand the status of these series and apply caution to the results, particularly when comparing results across time or geographically.

We are planning work to increase our understanding of offence aggravations data and to assess and attempt to improve the consistency of recording of the data. It is anticipated that this work will be completed during 2011. An update and full details of any changes will be provided with publication of the 2010-11 Criminal Proceedings Bulletin. More details are available here:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/Datasets/CrimProcDatDev.

The crime of handling an offensive weapon includes the offences of possession of an offensive weapon; restriction of offensive weapons, and having in a public place an article with a blade or point. An ˜offensive weapon'' means any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to the person, or intended by the person having it with him for such use by him or by some other person, and the statistics therefore include such weapons as knives, pieces of wood, baseball bats, belts and bottles.

The available information is given in the following table.

Persons Convicted of Handling an Offensive Weapon Offences¹ with a Bail Aggravator, by Police Force Area

Note: 1. Where main offence.

They are initial results of a testing phase and are not fully developed. It is important that users clearly understand the status of these data and apply caution to the results, particularly when comparing results across time or geographically.

We are planning work to increase our understanding of offence aggravations data and to assess and attempt to improve the consistency of recording of the data. It is anticipated that this work will be completed during 2011. An update and full details of any changes will be provided with publication of the 2010-11 Criminal Proceedings Bulletin. More details are available here:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/Datasets/CrimProcDatDev

There were 275 persons proceeded against in court in 2009-10 under section 74 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003.

Information for 2010-11 will not be available until publication of the Criminal Proceedings in Scotland, 2010-11 Statistical Bulletin. This is due to be published in December 2011.

The dates of all Scottish Government Official and National Statistics publications are pre-announced, and the up to date list of future publications can be found at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Search/Forthcoming.

Police support staff (FTE) as at 30 June 2007 and 31 December 2010

1. Separate figures for the Scottish Police Services Authority (SPSA) and the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA) are not available prior to as at 30 June 2008.

2. Scotland totals may not equal the sum of the parts due to rounding.

The following is the original answer (published on 22 March 2011); see below.

Information on police support staff is available as a snapshot figure at the end of each quarter. We therefore cannot provide data as at May 2007. Data provided below are as at June 2007 and 31 December each year to 2010.

Police Support Staff (Full-Time Equivalent) as at 30 June 2007 and 31 December 2010

Note: 1. SPSA figure for June 2007 is a headcount of staff who transferred from police forces on 1 April 2007.

Persons Convicted for Rape, Attempted Rape and Indecent Assault, where Main Offence, in 2009-10.

Notes:

1. Contains one person convicted where police force unknown.

2. The crime group Assault with intent to rape includes crimes of attempted rape and crimes of intent to rape.

Information for 2010-11 will not be available until publication of the Criminal Proceedings in Scotland, 2010-11 Statistical Bulletin. This is due to be published in December 2011.

The dates of all Scottish Government Official and National Statistics publications are pre-announced, and the up to date list of future publications can be found at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Search/Forthcoming.

The dates of all Scottish Government Official and National Statistics publications are pre-announced, and the up to date list of future publications can be found at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Search/Forthcoming.

The suite of Sex Offender Treatment Programmes (SOTPs) is delivered in four establishments “ HMP Barlinnie, HMP Edinburgh, HMP Peterhead and HMYOI Polmont.

SOTP is delivered to prisoners based on an assessment of their risk and needs; availability of programme places and a willingness to participate. Not all prisoners will complete a programme over a calendar year and some may drop out. Therefore, it would not be appropriate to express numbers as a proportion of the total prison population as requested. However, the following table shows the number of prisoners starting the programme and the number completing the programme in 2009: