- Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 17 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the budget of Transport Scotland has been in each year since its formation.
Answer
Transport Scotland''s budget since its formation has been as follows:
| 2006-07 | £1.909 billion |
| 2007-08 | £2.046 billion |
| 2008-09 | £2.084 billion |
- Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 10 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken to recover unpaid fiscal fines in each of the last five years, broken down by sheriffdom.
Answer
The Scottish Court Service assumed responsibility for collection and enforcement of fiscal penalties (fines, compensation and a combination of both) as of 10 March 2008. The responsibility for collecting fiscal fines previously lay with the District Courts.
The detailed information requested (from 10 March 2008) is currently being collated. I will write to the member as soon as the information is available and a copy will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib number 47853).
- Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank Mulholland on 3 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many unpaid fixed penalties there have been in each of the last five years, broken down by sheriffdom.
Answer
Conditional offers for fixed penalties in respect of certain road traffic offences are issued by procurators fiscal. In order to accept the offer, an accused must pay the penalty in full within 28 days. If the accused fails to do so, the offer lapses and the Procurator Fiscal then decides what further action to take. There is a presumption in favour of court proceedings in such cases. It is not therefore possible to accept a fixed penalty but then fail to pay it in full - and to that extent (unlike fiscal fines) there are no accepted fixed penalties that remain unpaid.
We do not hold any information relating to fixed penalties issued by police forces but they too must be paid in full.
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- Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank Mulholland on 3 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken to recover unpaid fixed penalties in each of the last five years, broken down by sheriffdom.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-20881 on 3 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: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank Mulholland on 3 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the financial value has been of unpaid fixed penalties in each of the last five years, broken down by sheriffdom.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-20881 on 3 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: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 3 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are plans to reduce the number of prisoners in HMP Kilmarnock.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
HMP Kilmarnock is contracted to provide the SPS with 500 prisoner places and has been over capacity due to record high prisoner numbers. Following the slight drop in prisoner numbers in recent months and the opening of HMP Addiewell the SPS, for operational reasons, have reduced the prisoner numbers held in HMP Kilmarnock and thus lowered the level of overcrowding there.
- Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 3 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many convictions there have been under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005 in each of the last two years, broken down by category of (a) offence and (b) emergency worker.
Answer
The available information is given in the following table. Scottish Government Court Proceedings data does not contain information about the type of emergency worker.
Persons with a Charge Proved in Scottish Courts Under the Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 20051, by Category of Offence, 2005-06 to 2006-07
| Charge | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
| Emergency workers (Scotland) Act 2005 Section 1(1) | 11 | 45 |
| Emergency workers (Scotland) Act 2005 Section 2(1) | 14 | 73 |
| Emergency workers (Scotland) Act 2005 Section 3(1) | 0 | 3 |
| Emergency workers (Scotland) Act 2005 Section 5(1) | 29 | 79 |
| Total | 54 | 200 |
Note: 1. Where main offence.
- Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 3 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost would be of transferring a convicted offender who would otherwise have been remanded in custody or served a sentence at HMP Kilmarnock to another part of the prison estate in an attempt to reduce the population at HMP Kilmarnock.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-19827 on 28 January 2009, which sets out how the costs of prisoner escorts are calculated.
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: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 3 February 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost would be of transferring 100 prisoners from HMP Kilmarnock to other parts of the prison estate.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-19827 on 28 January 2009, which sets out how the costs of prisoner escorts are calculated.
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: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 29 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it spent on private consultants in 2008.
Answer
This question was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0129-01.htm
