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Question reference: S3W-16265

Asked by: John Lamont, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 12 September 2008
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what extra (a) funding and (b) policing was used in the Stop the Supply off-sales alcohol pilot.

Question reference: S3W-15965

Asked by: John Lamont, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2008
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 18 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many fixed penalty notices for noise nuisance have been issued in each year since their introduction, broken down by local authority area.

Details are as follows:

Participating Local Authority	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Participating Local Authority	FPN	FPN	FPN
Aberdeen	29	43	35
Angus	0	0	0
Argyll and Bute	0	0	0
Clackmannanshire	0	-	-
Clackmannanshire and Stirling (Joint)	-	2	3
Dumfries and Galloway	5	1	0
Dundee	-	27	23
East Ayrshire	9	13	6
East Dunbartonshire	-	6	10
East Lothian	0	2	1
East Renfrewshire	0	0	0
Edinburgh	35	38	49
Falkirk	0	0	3
Fife	-	2	0
Glasgow	24	8	6
Inverclyde	0	2	0
Midlothian	2	1	4
North Ayrshire	4	6	8
North Lanarkshire	0	2	1
Orkney	0	-	-
Perth and Kinross	0	6	6
Renfrewshire	0	1	9
South Ayrshire	0	6	11
South Lanarkshire	9	7	9
West Dunbartonshire	7	12	0
West Lothian	0	2	7

Question reference: S3W-15959

Asked by: John Lamont, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2008
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 17 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many antisocial behaviour orders have been applied for by registered social landlords and subsequently granted in each year since their introduction, broken down by local authority area.

I have asked Karen Watt, Chief Executive of the Scottish Housing Regulator to respond. Her response is as follows:

The following table details the number of antisocial behaviour orders (ASBO) that have been applied for by registered social landlords (RSLs) and subsequently granted in each year since their introduction.

ASBO	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07*	2007-08*
Applied For	33	55	55	69	58
Granted	23	40	40	57	48

Source: Communities Scotland / Scottish Housing Regulator annual performance statistical returns.

Note: *Includes interim ASBOs.

Communities Scotland and subsequently the Scottish Housing Regulator only started to collect information on the number of ASBOs applied and granted by local authority area from 2005-06.

The following table details the number of antisocial behaviour orders that have been applied for by RSLs and subsequently granted in each year from 2005-06 to 2007-08, by local authority area.

Local Authority	2005-06		2006-07*		2007-08*
Local Authority	Applied	Granted	Applied	Granted	Applied	Granted
Aberdeen City	0	1	2	2	1	1
Aberdeenshire	2	1	2	2	0	0
Angus	0	0	2	2	0	2
Argyll and Bute	0	0	2	2	2	0
Clackmannanshire	0	0	2	2	3	3
Dumfries and Galloway	9	7	14	10	13	10
Dundee City	2	2	6	4	1	2
East Ayrshire	1	1	0	0	2	0
East Dunbartonshire	0	0	0	0	0	0
East Lothian	0	0	6	3	0	0
East Renfrewshire	0	0	0	0	0	0
Edinburgh, City of	5	4	6	6	1	1
Eilean Siar	0	0	0	0	0	0
Falkirk	0	0	2	0	1	1
Fife	4	4	7	6	5	2
Glasgow	20	6	15	14	12	11
Highland	1	1	0	0	0	0
Inverclyde	0	0	0	0	0	0
Midlothian	1	1	1	1	0	0
Moray	0	0	0	0	0	0
North Ayrshire	0	0	1	0	0	0
North Lanarkshire	4	4	0	2	0	0
Orkney Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0
Perth and Kinross	2	2	1	1	1	0
Renfrewshire	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scottish Borders	3	3	0	0	13	13
Shetland Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Ayrshire	0	2	0	0	0	0
South Lanarkshire	1	1	0	0	0	0
Stirling	0	0	0	0	0	0
West Dunbartonshire	0	0	0	0	1	0
West Lothian	0	0	0	0	2	2
Total	55	40	69	57	58	48

Source: Communities Scotland / Scottish Housing Regulator annual performance statistical returns.

Note: *Includes interim ASBOs.

Question reference: S3W-15969

Asked by: John Lamont, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2008
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many antisocial behaviour orders for children under 16 have been applied for by local authorities and subsequently granted in each year since their introduction, broken down by local authority area.

Statistics on the number of antisocial behaviour orders for children under-16 granted between 1 October 2004 and 31 March 2008, by local authority area, can be found on our website at:

www.antisocialbehaviourscotland.com.

Information on the number of cases considered between 1 October 2004 and 31 March 2006 can be found in the report Use of Antisocial Behaviour Orders in Scotland, laid before the Parliament on 20 September 2007. Copies are available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 43671).

Information on the number of cases applied for, broken down by local authority area, is not held centrally.

Question reference: S3W-15968

Asked by: John Lamont, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2008
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many antisocial behaviour orders for children under 16 have been applied for by registered social landlords and subsequently granted in each year since their introduction, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S3W-15970

Asked by: John Lamont, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2008
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many interim antisocial behaviour orders have been applied for by registered social landlords and subsequently granted in each year since their introduction, broken down by local authority area.

I have asked Karen Watt, Chief Executive of the Scottish Housing Regulator to respond. Her response is as follows:

The following table details the number of interim antisocial behaviour orders (ASBO) that have been applied for by registered social landlords (RSLs) and subsequently granted in each year by local authority area since 2006-07. Prior to 2006-07 this data was not collected as part of the annual performance statistical return submitted by RSLs to Communities Scotland.

Interim Antisocial Behaviour Orders

Local Authority Area	2006-07		2007-08
Local Authority Area	Applied	Granted	Applied	Granted
Aberdeen City	2	2	1	1
Aberdeenshire	0	0	0	0
Angus	1	1	0	1
Argyll and Bute	1	1	1	0
Clackmannanshire	1	1	0	0
Dumfries and Galloway	9	6	8	5
Dundee City	4	2	0	1
East Ayrshire	0	0	0	0
East Dunbartonshire	0	0	0	0
East Lothian	3	3	0	0
East Renfrewshire	0	0	0	0
Edinburgh, City of	3	3	1	1
Eilean Siar	0	0	0	0
Falkirk	1	0	0	0
Fife	4	3	4	1
Glasgow	9	9	5	5
Highland	0	0	0	0
Inverclyde	0	0	0	0
Midlothian	1	0	0	0
Moray	0	0	0	0
North Ayrshire	0	0	0	0
North Lanarkshire	0	0	0	0
Orkney Islands	0	0	0	0
Perth and Kinross	1	1	1	0
Renfrewshire	0	0	0	0
Scottish Borders	0	0	2	5
Shetland Islands	0	0	0	0
South Ayrshire	0	0	0	0
South Lanarkshire	0	0	0	0
Stirling	0	0	0	0
West Dunbartonshire	0	0	1	0
West Lothian	0	0	0	0
Total	40	32	24	20

Source: Communities Scotland / Scottish Housing Regulator Annual Performance Statistical Returns.

Question reference: S3W-15962

Asked by: John Lamont, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 11 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many restriction of liberty orders for children under 16 have been (a) applied for and (b) granted in each year since their introduction, broken down by local authority area.

A total of six restriction of liberty orders (RLOs) have been made in relation to young people under the age of 16 since provisions extending the use of RLOs in such cases came into force in April 2005. Applications are not made for such orders; they are a sentence imposed by the court.

The information held is broken down by Sheriff Court. We do not have the information broken down in local authority area.

2005:

One RLO imposed by Glasgow Sheriff Court

2006:

One RLO imposed by Dundee Sheriff Court;

One RLO imposed by Glasgow Sheriff Court;

One RLO imposed by Kilmarnock Sheriff Court, and

One RLO imposed by Hamilton Sheriff Court

2007:

One RLO imposed by Dundee Sheriff Court

Question reference: S3W-15963

Asked by: John Lamont, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2008
Current Status: Answered by Adam Ingram on 10 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many parenting orders have been applied for by local authorities and subsequently granted in each year since their introduction, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S3W-15964

Asked by: John Lamont, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2008
Current Status: Answered by Adam Ingram on 10 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many parenting orders have been applied for by the Principal Reporter and subsequently granted in each year since their introduction, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S3W-15967

Asked by: John Lamont, MSP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2008
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 9 September 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many dispersal orders have been (a) applied for and (b) granted in each year since their introduction, broken down by local authority area.