- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 8 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people given a custodial sentence in cases involving domestic abuse received a sentence of three months or less in 2010.
Answer
This information will not be available until publication of the
Criminal Proceedings in Scotland, 2010-11 Statistical Bulletin, which is provisionally scheduled for later in 2011. Once confirmed, the publication date will be added to the information presented via the following web link.
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.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 8 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the 4,783 incidents of domestic abuse recorded by the Violence Reduction Unit in December 2010 were recorded in each (a) police force and (b) local authority area.
Answer
This information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 8 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people given a custodial sentence in cases involving domestic abuse received a sentence of three months or less in 2009.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-38829 on 7 February 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.
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- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 8 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people given a custodial sentence in cases involving domestic abuse received a sentence of three months or less in 2008.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-37570 on 26 November 2010. 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, 28 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 8 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact a reduction in civilian police staff will have on the roles performed by uniformed police officers.
Answer
It is for Chief Constables to ensure the operational effectiveness of their force by making best use of the resources available to them, including identifying opportunities to improve processes, streamline structures and make better use of technology.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 7 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the statement reported in The Sunday Herald on 23 January 2011 that “If you sack police staff you cut frontline policing”.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-39172 on 7 February 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.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 7 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of comments by the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (ACPOS) reported in The Sunday Herald on 23 January 2011 that “significant reductions to police staff numbers alone are seen to upset the efficient balance between police staff and police with the risk that officers would be used to backfill some police staff roles”.
Answer
The Scottish Government''s priority remains frontline policing. Putting 1,000 additional police officers in our communities has helped to reduce crime to a 32 year low. Our draft budget puts in place the resources to maintain police officer numbers in 2011-12. Police civilian staff also play an important role in keeping Scotland''s communities safer. The work that ACPOS have reported to the Scottish Policing Board over the last year has highlighted significant opportunities for greater efficiency and we are looking to Chief Constables to maximise those opportunities so that reductions in police staff numbers are kept to a minimum and do not impact on frontline policing.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 7 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-38036 by Kenny MacAskill on 2 December 2010, how many offenders received a custodial sentence of three months or less in 2009-10, broken down by (a) main offence and (b) police force area.
Answer
The information requested is given in Table 10(a) of the additional datasets to the statistical bulletin Court Proceedings in Scotland 2009-10, which is available at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/Datasets/PFA0910.
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.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 7 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of those convicted for an offence with a domestic aggravator received a custodial sentence of three months or less in 2009-10.
Answer
Of the 8,837 persons with a charge proved for an offence with a domestic aggravator, 457 received a custodial sentence of three months or less in 2009-10 (5%). As the recording of aggravators has improved over time, caution is needed if comparing changes over time.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 January 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 2 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will commence sections 1 to 13 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010.
Answer
Sections 1 to 13 and Schedule 1 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 establish provisions for the Scottish Sentencing Council. In light of the extremely tight financial climate, we are currently examining all the options for the establishment of a Sentencing Council, with a view to reducing the costs associated with the Sentencing Council (as estimated in the Financial Memorandum for the Criminal Justice and Licensing Bill). It is not the intention to commence the provisions prior to May 2011.
