- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 25 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of fuel theft have been (a) reported and (b) prosecuted in each police board area in each month since May 2007.
Answer
Information on thefts at the level of detail requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 July 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 23 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13036 by Bruce Crawford on 2 June 2008, and regardless of whether any invitations were sought, whether any invitations were received by the First Minister from heads of state to discuss the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and, if so, which ones he has chosen to (a) accept and (b) refuse.
Answer
No invitations have been received from heads of state to discuss the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank Mulholland on 23 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-14083 by Right Hon Elish Angiolini QC, how many charges have been brought under the Terrrorism Act 2000 in Scotland.
Answer
Since April 2002, 342 charges have been reported to procurators fiscal and prosecuted under the Terrorism Act 2000.
Information on charges prosecuted prior to that date is not available as the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service completed an upgrade of its electronic case management system in April 2002 and only case records created after that date contain complete data that is capable of electronic analysis.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank Mulholland on 23 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-14083 by Right Hon Elish Angiolini QC, whether it will detail all cases reported and investigated under the Terrorism Act 2000 in Scotland.
Answer
The details of all cases reported to procurators fiscal, including those investigated and reported in terms of the Terrorism Act 2000, is confidential.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank Mulholland on 23 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-14083 by Right Hon Elish Angiolini QC, how many convictions there have been under the Terrorism Act 2000 in Scotland.
Answer
There were 11, 11, 53 and 17 convictions in Scottish courts in the financial years 2003-04 to 2006-07 respectively for offences under the Terrorism Act 2000, where this was the main offence.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank Mulholland on 23 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-14083 by Right Hon Elish Angiolini QC, on how many occasions the Terrorism Act 2000 has been used to detain people in Scotland.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether wrongfully-convicted persons and their families are entitled to any compensatory payment following release from prison and whether it has plans to review and extend this provision.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-14623 on 16 July 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made any analysis of the effects that miscarriages of justice have on those wrongfully convicted and, if not, whether it plans to in future.
Answer
The Scottish Government has not made any such analysis, and has no plans to do so.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what specialist assistance is available for victims of miscarriages of justice; whether such support extends to relatives of those found to have been wrongly convicted, and whether there are any plans to review the current provisions in the near future.
Answer
We recognise that those who have been a victim of a miscarriage of justice may face particular challenges on their release from custody. That is why the Scottish Government has provided the Miscarriages of Justice (Scotland) Organisation with core funding of more than £245,000 from April 2005 to March 2009 to provide help for victims and their families when it is needed.
- Asked by: George Foulkes, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 June 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 16 July 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that victims of miscarriages of justice should receive an official apology following their release from prison.
Answer
It is of course deeply regrettable when anyone suffers as a result of a miscarriage of justice. This is why the Scottish Government operates schemes to fairly compensate such individuals for the effects of a period of wrongful imprisonment. Neither the acceptance of eligibility for either of these schemes, nor the payment of compensation itself should be regarded as an official apology or admission of legal liability.
The Scottish Ministers make payment out of public funds to victims of miscarriages of justice not because they or their officials are or are treated as wrongdoers, but because such victims are recognised as having suffered what may be a great injury at the hands of the state and it is accepted as just that the state, representing the public at large, should make fair recompense.
