- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 19 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13585 by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008, what percentage of money forwarded to HM Treasury from Scottish commission areas is used in Scotland.
Answer
This is a matter for HM Treasury. The information requested is not held by the Scottish Government.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 19 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13585 by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008, how much was collected from each commission area, broken down by type of crime.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 19 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13585 by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008, what criteria are used to calculate the amount of money collected from each commission area district court that is forwarded to HM Treasury.
Answer
Information on the amount of money collected by each commission area district court and forwarded to HM Treasury is provided to the Scottish Government by the individual local authorities in each commission area. They do not detail the specific criteria they have used in making these returns, however the basis on which money could be retained or forwarded in 2006-07 and previous years was as follows:
Local authorities were allowed to retain all income from fiscal fines and from fines imposed upon conviction for common law offences. They also retained a set proportion of income received for fixed penalty notices for certain road traffic offences. This proportion was set at 10%, but increased to 33% in the case of penalties for stationary vehicles where the fine became registered. Money received from fines imposed upon conviction for statutory offences was forwarded to HM Treasury, as was the balance of fixed penalty notice payments for road traffic offences.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drivers in East Dunbartonshire have been charged with driving while under the influence of drink or drugs over the last three years for which figures are available.
Answer
The recorded crime data held centrally has the number of crimes recorded by the police and the number recorded as detected (that is, there is sufficient evidence to justify consideration of criminal proceedings). We cannot provide any information on the number of people involved in crimes, since it is possible that individuals may be responsible for more than one of the crimes recorded. The available information is shown in the following table.
Number of Crimes of Driving a Motor Vehicle While Unfit through Drink or Drugs, or Driving with Blood Alcohol Content Above Limit, Detected by the Police in East Dunbartonshire, 2004-05 to 2006-07
| | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
| Driving motor vehicle while unfit through drink or drugs | 14 | 15 | 12 |
| Driving motor vehicle with blood alcohol content above prescribed limit | 73 | 81 | 99 |
| Total | 87 | 96 | 111 |
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 6 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people in the East Dunbartonshire Council area were arrested in the last three years for contravening local byelaws banning drinking in public places.
Answer
Local authorities have the power to make byelaws to prohibit drinking in designated public places under provisions contained in the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, subject to confirmation by the Scottish ministers. To date, 30 local authorities across Scotland have byelaws in place, covering over 480 towns and villages, and the built up areas of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Information on the number of arrests made by the police is not held centrally, only the number of crimes recorded. The number of breaches of these byelaws recorded within the East Dunbartonshire local authority area are shown in the following table.
Breaches of Byelaws which Prohibit Drinking in Designated Public Places, East Dunbartonshire Local Authority Area, 2004-05 to 2006-07
| 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
| 530 | 513 | 476 |
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 6 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of people were registered with an NHS dentist in the East Dunbartonshire local authority area in each of the last five years, broken down by age group.
Answer
The information requested is only available from March 2007. The table presents information as at March, June, September and December 2007.
Percentage of People Registered with an NHS Dentist; by Age Group in East Dunbartonshire1
| Date | Age Group | Total |
| 0-2 | 3-5 | 6-12 | 13-17 | 18-24 | 25-34 | 35-44 | 45-54 | 55-64 | 65-74 | 75+ |
| March 2007 | 41.9 | 74.6 | 79.2 | 73.6 | 56.5 | 64.0 | 53.5 | 46.7 | 45.5 | 45.5 | 35.1 | 54.4 |
| June 2007 | 42.1 | 74.8 | 79.1 | 74.7 | 57.0 | 63.7 | 53.7 | 47.0 | 45.8 | 45.7 | 36.7 | 54.7 |
| September 2007 | 42.5 | 78.3 | 81.7 | 77.1 | 60.1 | 66.0 | 55.3 | 49.1 | 47.6 | 47.7 | 39.1 | 56.9 |
| December 2007 | 41.4 | 79.9 | 82.1 | 78.3 | 63.9 | 68.7 | 57.0 | 50.9 | 48.8 | 48.5 | 40.9 | 58.5 |
Source: ISD Scotland.
Note: 1. Registrations are based on the postcode of the practice as opposed to the postcode of the patient. The percentage is calculated by dividing the number of registrations by the resident population for the particular area/age group etc. This has led to percentages greater than 100.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 5 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money was collected by each district court in each of the last three years and how much was (a) retained by each local authority and (b) forwarded to HM Treasury.
Answer
The available information is contained in the following table. This data is taken from the annual returns made by Commission Areas to the Scottish Government.
Money Collected1 and Sent Out by District Courts 2004-05 to 2006-07, by Commission Area
| Commission Area | Value of Fines and Fixed Penalties Collected During Year | Value of Fines and Fixed Penalties Sent to the Exchequer During the Year |
| 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
| Aberdeen City | £1,080,678 | £852,047 | £680,400 | £289,360 | £255,186 | £275,941 |
| Aberdeenshire | £440,674 | £560,965 | £994,982 | £310,988 | £343,928 | £310,988 |
| Angus | £488,752 | £518,559 | £395,271 | £323,277 | £356,047 | £323,277 |
| Argyll and Bute | £212,839 | £216,652 | £221,416 | £134,089 | £128,146 | £134,089 |
| Clackmannanshire | £140,064 | £129,213 | £151,780 | £93,135 | £87,934 | £93,135 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | n/a | £377,238 | n/a | n/a | £363,628 | n/a |
| Dundee City | £656,948 | £567,679 | n/a | £261,985 | £242,942 | n/a |
| East Ayrshire | £1,371,905 | £350,553 | £271,683 | £230,560 | £275,828 | £230,560 |
| East Dunbartonshire | £158,934 | £103,905 | £110,016 | £95,621 | £34,630 | £95,621 |
| East Lothian | £125,044 | £140,695 | n/a | £86,984 | £114,053 | n/a |
| East Renfrewshire | £59,580 | £104,908 | £50,717 | £43,232 | £39,672 | £43,232 |
| Edinburgh, City of | £2,885,881 | £2,357,461 | £2,185,353 | £795,448 | £1,264,788 | £795,448 |
| Eilean Siar | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Falkirk | £476,545 | £538,580 | £354,339 | £369,331 | £440,621 | £369,331 |
| Fife | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Glasgow City | £3,359,364 | £3,274,122 | £3,420,280 | £2,475,738 | £1,650,945 | £2,475,738 |
| Highland | £839,748 | £948,809 | £854,598 | £586,691 | £471,138 | £586,691 |
| Inverclyde | £340,472 | £304,680 | £235,938 | £294,719 | £250,605 | £294,719 |
| Midlothian | £108,068 | £149,083 | £119,074 | £65,999 | £108,493 | £65,999 |
| Moray | £133,900 | £148,084 | £71,248 | £84,373 | £93,307 | £84,373 |
| North Ayrshire | £1,018,904 | £240,133 | £280,723 | £143,024 | £194,041 | £143,024 |
| North Lanarkshire | £804,391 | £739,141 | £589,702 | £237,250 | £251,766 | £237,250 |
| Perth and Kinross | £731,398 | £681,201 | £363,013 | £136,721 | £236,814 | £136,721 |
| Renfrewshire | £183,932 | £313,802 | £398,438 | £120,507 | £176,519 | £120,507 |
| Scottish Borders | £315,436 | £376,431 | £346,047 | £254,870 | £289,745 | £254,870 |
| South Ayrshire | £409,938 | n/a | £383,761 | £144,565 | n/a | £144,565 |
| South Lanarkshire | £565,827 | £765,221 | £681,893 | £395,791 | £340,522 | £395,791 |
| Stirling | n/a | £198,117 | £190,437 | n/a | £134,041 | n/a |
| West Dunbartonshire | £201,584 | £218,385 | £220,476 | £99,717 | £116,524 | £99,717 |
| West Lothian | £333,804 | £331,925 | £458,486 | £252,537 | £236,028 | £252,537 |
| Scotland | £17,444,611 | £15,507,589 | £14,030,072 | £8,326,514 | £8,497,890 | £7,964,126 |
Notes:
1. Including fines imposed by the court, registered fines, compensation orders, fines transferred out, fiscal fines and fixed penalty notices.
n/a - information not available from Commission Areas.
In some areas, a proportion of the money collected by district courts is also sent to the Safety Camera Partnership.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 3 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what support is available for people who live in tenement accommodation in connection with people smoking on tenement landings.
Answer
As private residential accommodation, tenement flats and related stairs and closes are exempt from the provisions of the Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005. In these circumstances, any issues which individual occupiers might have in connection with people smoking in communal areas within tenement buildings require to be resolved privately.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 30 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much organisations across Scotland received in lottery funding last year, expressed also on a per capita basis.
Answer
Priorities for distribution of lottery funding in Scotland by the BIG Lottery Fund are set by Scottish ministers in policy directions made with the consent of the Secretary of State. In accordance with these priorities, decisions on distribution of lottery funds are made by the Big Lottery Fund, independently of Scottish Ministers. Information on such decisions is available from the Chief Executive, Big Lottery Fund, 1 Atlantic Quay, 1 Robertson Street, Glasgow G2 8JB, tel: 0141 242 1400.
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 30 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how much organisations in the Strathkelvin and Bearsden parliamentary constituency received in lottery funding last year, expressed also on a per capita basis.
Answer
Priorities for distribution of lottery funding in Scotland by the BIG Lottery Fund are set by Scottish ministers in policy directions made with the consent of the Secretary of State. In accordance with these priorities, decisions on distribution of lottery funds are made by the Big Lottery Fund, independently of Scottish Ministers. Information on such decisions is available from the Chief Executive, Big Lottery Fund, 1 Atlantic Quay, 1 Robertson Street, Glasgow G2 8JB, tel: 0141 242 1400.
