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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
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Question reference: S4W-12374

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 18 January 2013
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 29 January 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether a rural college that merges with a city-based college will remain eligible for the institutional element of rural and remoteness funding.

Question reference: S4W-12206

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 11 January 2013
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 23 January 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that the Police Service of Scotland makes available statistics that allow the impact of the Trunk Roads Patrol Unit and divisional roads policing units to be effectively assessed.

The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 makes clear that it is the responsibility of the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) to hold the Chief Constable to account for the policing of Scotland.

The SPA will therefore be responsible for collecting relevant evidence to enable it to review, in a timely and effective manner, the performance of the Police Service of Scotland against the strategic priorities and other relevant objectives and targets.

Question reference: S4W-12207

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 11 January 2013
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 23 January 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what information it used to formulate the statement in its news release of 4 December 2012, Police numbers up, that “This is in direct contrast to UK Government plans which will see the loss of an estimated 16,000 policing posts in England and Wales”.

Question reference: S4W-12200

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 11 January 2013
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 23 January 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what the key responsibilities of the new divisional roads policing units will be.

Question reference: S4W-12201

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 11 January 2013
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 23 January 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what the total budget will be of the (a) divisional roads policing units and (b) Trunk Roads Patrol Unit.

Question reference: S4W-12202

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 11 January 2013
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 23 January 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what changes there will be to the policing of local roads following the creation of the Trunk Roads Patrol Unit.

Question reference: S4W-12205

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 11 January 2013
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 22 January 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how it will monitor the impact of the new divisional roads policing units on driver behaviour.

The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 makes clear that it is the responsibility of the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) to hold the chief constable to account for the policing of Scotland.

The SPA will therefore be responsible for collecting relevant evidence to enable it to review in a timely and effective manner, the performance of the Police Service of Scotland against the strategic priorities and other relevant objectives and targets.

Scotland’s Road Safety Framework to 2020, published on 15 June 2009, includes distinct and challenging partnership targets for reductions in road casualties in Scotland up to 2020. This is the wider context in which the partners hold each other accountable for our collective efforts in improving road safety.

Question reference: S4W-12203

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 11 January 2013
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 22 January 2013

To ask the Scottish Government who will have responsibility for influencing driver behaviour on the local road network, following the creation of the Trunk Roads Patrol Unit with responsibility for influencing driver behaviour on trunk roads.

The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 makes clear that it is the responsibility of the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) to hold the chief constable to account for the policing of Scotland.

The Police Service of Scotland retains responsibility for policing of local roads, although local authorities also have responsibility for a range of decriminalised sanctions.

As one strand of Scotland’s Road Safety Framework to 2020, Road Safety Scotland is also responsible for a range of initiatives designed to improve driver behaviour on all roads in Scotland, such as its national and social media campaigns. Details of these are available at: http://www.road-safety.org.uk/.

Question reference: S4W-12204

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 11 January 2013
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 22 January 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been killed or seriously injured on the (a) trunk road and (b) local road network in each of the last three years, broken down by type of road user.

The following table provides the statistics requested. It should be noted that the figures do not take account of the higher overall length of the local authority roads or the larger volumes of traffic on trunk roads.

Casualties by severity, road user and type of road, 2009 to 2011 (Extracted from STATS19 database in January 2013)

Killed
	Trunk road		Local authority road
	2009	2010	2011	2009	2010	2011
Pedestrian	11	12	6	36	35	37
Pedal cycle	0	1	0	5	6	7
Motor cycle	11	15	7	32	20	26
Car	44	34	38	72	71	51
Taxi	0	0	0	0	1	1
Minibus	0	1	0	0	0	0
Bus/coach	0	0	0	0	1	1
Light goods vehicle	4	1	2	0	2	4
Heavy goods vehicle	0	3	3	1	2	0
Other	0	0	1	0	3	1
Total	70	67	57	146	141	128

Serious
	Trunk road		Local authority road
	2009	2010	2011	2009	2010	2011
Pedestrian	24	27	29	485	430	485
Pedal cycle	5	4	10	147	134	146
Motor cycle	77	63	65	255	256	228
Car	306	282	194	830	621	562
Taxi	4	2	2	6	8	21
Minibus	4	0	0	11	2	2
Bus/coach	2	5	2	34	47	49
Light goods vehicle	22	18	14	29	21	21
Heavy goods vehicle	11	13	15	11	8	13
Other	6	4	0	19	24	19
Total	461	418	331	1,827	1,551	1,546

Question reference: S4T-00221

Asked by: Alison McInnes, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 21 January 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 January 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the outcome of the Scottish Police Authority meeting on 18 January.