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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S3W-07077

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 11 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate has been made of the average time for Caledonian MacBrayne to source new-build vessels from tender to delivery.

Question reference: S3W-07071

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 11 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether road equivalent tariff will apply to ferry passengers with and without cars and what charging regime will apply.

Question reference: S3W-07033

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to support healthy living centres and what additional funding it will provide for their support when existing lottery funding ends.

Community health initiatives,such as healthy living centres, can play a vital role in complementing public services,through effective approaches to improving people’s health in hard-to-reach communities.The Scottish Government provides funding to health boards and local government tosupport local services. It is then a matter for boards and local authorities todetermine their local priorities.

The Cabinet Secretaryfor Health and Wellbeing wrote to the chairs of the territorial health boards on25 November 2007 asking them to consider the importance ofcommunity health initiatives in their area and what support can be offered to ensurethat valued activities for health improvement in the community are not lost.

The Scottish Governmentis currently implementing the December 2006 recommendations from the Community-ledSupporting and Developing Healthy Communities Task Group. This will deliver a rangeof measures designed to improve access for community-led and voluntary bodies toskills and advice to enable them to improve delivery of services, to demonstrateeffectiveness in improving health and to work better with funders in meeting theneeds of the communities served. Tailored local support will bring funders and serviceproviders together to enable better joint working in the future.

Question reference: S3W-07031

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received any representations about the future of the Janny’s Hoose in Inverness.

Question reference: S3W-07032

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received any representations from the Highland Council about the future of the Janny’s Hoose in Inverness.

Question reference: S3W-07036

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 6 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what effect an upgrade of the A82 would have on the economy of the western highlands and islands.

Question reference: S3W-07035

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 6 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-time equivalent jobs would be provided by upgrading the A82.

Question reference: S3W-07034

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 3 December 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is committed to upgrading the A82 as outlined in the A82 Action Plan.

Question reference: S3W-06378

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 29 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive what legal advice was sought prior to deciding not to consult the public on the Abolition of Bridge Tolls (Scotland) Bill.

The issue of consultationwas considered. However, the Scottish Government considered that the abolition of the bridge tolls was a clear manifesto commitment; had been debated in Parliamenton several occasions; had been discussed widely in previous consultation, and theviews of a wide range of stakeholders had been heard. The Scottish Government concludedthat further consultation would not add materially to the extensive data available.

Question reference: S3W-06383

Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 November 2007
Current Status: Answered by Adam Ingram on 28 November 2007

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children are on the child protection register and how many (a) child protection investigations and (b) public inquiries regarding child protection there have been in each local authority area in each of the last three years.

There were 2,593 childrenrecorded on the child protection register on 31 March 2007. There were 11,960 child protection referrals in thepreceding 12 months and 4,608 of those resulted in a case conference. The localauthority breakdown for each of the last three years is as follows:

Number of Child Protection Referrals and Subject to a Case Conference(2004-05 to 2006-07) andon Protection Registers (as at 31 March 2005-07) by Local Authority

Local Authority	Number of Referrals¹			Number Subject to a Case Conference¹			Number on Child Protection Registers
	Year Ended 31 March			Year Ended 31 March			As at 31 March
	2005	2006	2007	2005	2006	2007	2005	2006	2007
Aberdeen City	929	1,034	1,114	222	246	251	147	159	142
Aberdeenshire	705	859	940	98	121	68	108	105	68
Angus	192	207	304	110	93	150	53	62	88
Argyll and Bute	130	188	166	64	95	97	39	56	34
Clackmannanshire	142	126	131	19	52	37	12	24	23
Dumfries and Galloway	236	231	269	101	85	135	62	48	57
Dundee City	200	161	184	123	118	161	83	93	89
East Ayrshire	229	285	263	116	154	155	41	44	45
East Dunbartonshire	116	90	125	11	36	63	8	9	25
East Lothian	101	212	345	28	68	78	27	44	46
East Renfrewshire	94	137	125	47	52	52	15	20	18
Edinburgh, City of	882	1,078	1,018	211	298	278	234	290	311
Eilean Siar	51	42	97	27	25	24	13	12	15
Falkirk	299	371	486	114	122	134	68	55	81
Fife	363	303	496	178	228	329	118	168	202
Glasgow City	714	1,205	1,373	540	838	1,009	264	308	353
Highland	467	311	329	123	88	81	118	111	125
Inverclyde	102	221	179	43	65	68	34	33	30
Midlothian	194	228	309	50	57	73	71	50	80
Moray	315	418	438	70	64	75	70	56	72
North Ayrshire	210	285	387	85	115	123	27	34	56
North Lanarkshire	382	452	416	198	224	230	92	61	100
Orkney Isles	59	77	152	9	12	39	4	7	20
Perth and Kinross	165	117	135	55	84	67	37	31	47
Renfrewshire	264	300	318	156	205	239	69	79	87
Scottish Borders	241	295	258	68	71	86	37	46	63
Shetland	42	71	74	21	27	13	8	13	10
South Ayrshire	92	85	165	33	25	73	28	17	29
South Lanarkshire	500	452	473	200	162	208	115	99	127
Stirling	138	138	268	30	56	56	29	21	28
West Dunbartonshire	120	131	136	34	44	56	23	28	22
West Lothian	459	457	487	119	102	100	103	105	100
Scotland	9,133	10,567	11,960	3,303	4,032	4,608	2,157	2,288	2,593

Source: AggregateChild Protection Survey, Scottish Government

Data backgroundand contacts:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Children/PubChildProtection

Note: 1. Figures prior to 2005-06 figures may not be directlycomparable due to a definitional change in counting child protection referrals madein 2005-06 (see background notes of 2006-07 publication).

Additional child protection statistics are available throughthe attached link:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Children/PubChildProtection

We do not centrallycollect information on the number of public enquiries regarding child protection.