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Question reference: S4W-15592

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 19 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-15227 by Humza Yousaf on 5 June 2013, how much funding each organisation received each year.

The following tables show the funding each organisation has received for each year through the Scottish Government International Development Fund as part of the Malawi Development Programme and also the most recent funding round. This is shown by each funding round since 2005.

Malawi Development Programme (2013-16)
ORGANISATIONS	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16
NHS Lothian	£137,099	£126,265	£136,035
Meningitis Research Foundation	£97,410	£33,990	-
Scotland Malawi Business Group	£105,463	£110,169	£121,105
Just Trading Scotland	£90,905	£150,050	£35,300
The Global Concerns Trust	£35,203	£34,013	£40,522
Scotland-Malawi Mental Health Education Project	£132,550	£124,030	£125,600
University of Strathclyde	£148,227	£124,174	£115,941
MicroLoan Foundation UK	£85,545	£149,517	£142,240
Oxfam Scotland	£158,028	£133,232	£108,740
NHS Lothian	£64,704	£47,462	£46,126
University of Edinburgh	£116,918	£139,510	£139,817
Concern Worldwide	£126,229	£139,006	£134,765
Christian Aid, Scotland Office	£139,624	£124,809	£121,530
Mary's Meals	£120,607	£143,227	£136,011
Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF)	£129,313	£127,593	£121,318

Malawi Development Programme (2012-15)
ORGANISATIONS	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15
The Co-operative College	£128,975	£125,021	£143,791
Christian Blind Mission	£97,838	£115,670	£103,789
Chance for Change	£128,286	£129,736	£127,792
Active Learning Centre	£100,130	£79,325	-
Scotland Malawi Partnership	£68,402	£58,767	£65,304
Imani Development	£142,535	£125,155	£92,193
International Resources and Recycling Institute	£182,702	-	-
Oxfam Scotland	£114,383	£133,034	£134,821
Scotland Malawi Business Group	£22,727	-	-
Challenges Worldwide	£159,640	£161,295	£79,056
Voluntary Service Overseas Scotland	£120,245	£131,617	£147,565
Sue Ryder	£54,940	£90,920	£94,985
University of Edinburgh, Global Health Academy	£111,122	£165,037	£123,288
University of St Andrews	£96,880	£98,340	£64,936
University of Dundee	£136,881	£55,120	£49,680
Impact, University of Aberdeen	£137,813	£126,975	£132,998
Link Community Development Scotland	£156,754	£105,408	£119,364
The Healthy Lifestyle Project (North Lanarkshire Council)	£35,900	£26,700	£26,700
Mary’s Meals	£117,787	£132,067	£150,146

Malawi Development Programme (2010-13)
ORGANISATIONS	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13
The Active Learning Centre	£161,300	£117,608	£120,493
Opportunity International (UK)	£65,982	£161,944	£171,098
Scottish CROP Research Institute	£158,554	£113,729	£69,410
Tearfund Scotland	£135,000	£135,000	£129,000
Church of Scotland	£86,490	£103,300	£98,800
University of Edinburgh	£57,140	£171,430	£171,430
University of Strathclyde	£173,187	£116,382	£109,089
Waverley Care	£106,815	£91,249	£103,005
Scotland-Malawi Mental Health Education Project	£180,000	£120,000	£100,000
Mary's Meals	£128,500	£75,850	£80,850
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute	£108,215	£95,260	£95,260
The Active Learning Centre	£137,204	£110,482	£118,979
Oxfam Scotland	£111,594	£83,135	£87,907
Eurotalk Interactive	£23,875	£23,500	£27,725
Venture Trust Malawi	£149,018	£129,718	£52,700
Scottish Agricultural College	£134,550	£133,327	£132,123
Sense Scotland	£144,928	£123,383	£129,153
Christian Blind Mission	£59,764	£169,500	£170,736
NHS Tayside Emergency Medicine Service	£181,959	£150,211	£43,955
Christian Aid	£210,577	£132,096	£57,255
Concern Worldwide	£161,300	£117,608	£120,493
Concern Worldwide	£65,982	£161,944	£171,098
Challenges Worldwide	£158,554	£113,729	£69,410
The Open University	£135,000	£135,000	£129,000

Malawi Development Programme (2008-09)
ORGANISATIONS	2008-09
Adam Smith College	£130,800
Sense Scotland	£34,937
University of Strathclyde	£63,193
Stirling University	£241,100
Tearfund	£112,801
The Healthy Lifestyle Project	£50,000
The Church of Scotland World Mission	£265,405
Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics Scotland	£110,000
Christian Blind Mission	£75,800

Malawi Development Programme (2008-11)
ORGANISATIONS	2008-09	2009-2010	2010-11
University of St Andrews	£102,000	£82,000	£68,000
Moffat Centre	£73,500	£46,290	-
Stenhouse Primary School, Edinburgh	£63,500	£42,100	£9,400
Scotland Malawi Business Group	£12,835	£84,466	£149,868
Imani Enterprise	£148,000	£137,000	£115,000
The Global Concerns Trust	£13,450	£27,650	£28,400
Equal Exchange	£78,763	£212,586	£106,978
The INSP Foundation	£36,700	£28,300	£28,300
Scottish Agricultural College	£59,534	£119,804	£128,013
Malawi Tomorrow	£40,567	£19,358	-
Inverclyde Council Education Services	£7,000	£14,000	£14,000
University of Edinburgh	£79,320	£187,492	£130,831
Scottish International Relief	£133,330	£133,330	£133,340
Scottish Churches World Exchange	£76,442	£109,766	£115,997
Opportunity International	£250,635	£100,905	-
Tearfund Scotland	£99,050	£142,131	£128,415
Oxfam Scotland	£112,150	£260,682	-
University of Strathclyde	£60,904	£46,331	£30,403
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute	£143,415	£92,858	£102,474
Scottish Police College	£20,427	£56,865	£40,187
Deaf Action	£15,228	£74,545	£33,961
Link Community Development Scotland	£24,654	£207,251	£168,095
Concern Worldwide	£66,140	£200,500	£133,360
The Active Learning Centre	£38,500	£63,669	£63,624
Christian Aid	£102,800	£134,690	£155,760
University of the West of Scotland	£147,000	£57,000	£47,000
Challenges Worldwide	£20,743	-	-
Waverley Care	£114,879	£162,073	£122,643
University of Strathclyde	£121,209	£33,014	£29,036

Malawi Development Programme (2006-09)
ORGANISATIONS	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Bell College, Hamilton	£109,742	£194,506	£33,089
Christian Blind Mission	£30,000	£40,000	-
Commonwealth Local Government Forum	£84,500	£55,000	£69,000
Concern Worldwide	£82,500	£167,500	-
Deaf Action	£30,371	£74,491	-
Dundee University School of Medicine	£10,000	£15,000	£5,000
Edinburgh University Learning Technology Section and NHS Education Scotland	£56,000	£120,000	-
Equalexchange	£195,318	£85,653	£91,647
Glasgow City Council and The Raven Trust	£40,000	£50,000	-
Institute for International Health and Development, Queen Margaret College	£57,000	£57,000	£57,000
Malawi Tomorrow, Perkins Brailler Rehabilitation	£45,039	£35,295	-
Stenhouse Primary School	£15,920	£15,920	-
Tearfund	£61,958	£81,940	£64,102
The Scotland-Malawi Partnership	£65,900	£53,560	£62,295
Westgate Medical Centre, Dundee	£32,000	£31,000	£31,000
Malawi Institute of Tourism, Moffat Centre for Travel and Tourism Business Development	£65,900	£111,200	£72,400
Scottish Crop Research Institute (Neil Fisher)	-	£30,597	-
Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF)	-	£100,000	-
NIDOS	-	£85,000	-
Adam Smith College	-	£60,000	£190,000
Civic Computing	-	£1,500	-
National Library of Scotland	-	£2,000	-
Strathclyde University	-	£5,000	-
Scotland Malawi Business Group	-	£68,070	£91,647

Malawi Development Programme (2005-08)
ORGANISATIONS	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
The Active Learning Centre	£98,000	-	-
Josephine Munthali, Child Support Project – Home-Based Care for People Affected by HIV/AIDS	£77,254	£99,904	£64,284
Christian Aid Scotland	£81,232	£56,330	£62,439
Interact Worldwide	£97,122.50	£110,214.50
Oxfam	£75,000	£75,000	£150,000
Tearfund	£113,591	£84,852	£101,557
Malawi Millennium Project - Making Wonders, Phase Two	£137,000	£25,500	£33,750
Mamie Martin Fund Supporting the Education of Girls in Northern Malawi	£34,424	£60,024	£42,924
Strathclyde University	£51,000	£64,000	£51,000
Scotland Malawi Partnership	£36,000	£67,000	-
Scottish International Relief (Mary’s Meals)	£97,190	£67,760	£75,891
Stirling University	£50,500	£129,500	£85,500
University of Edinburgh	£75,000	£84,000	£88,250
UNICEF	£20,000	-	£18,000
Scottish Churches World Exchange	-	-	£185,000
Imani Enterprises		£146,000.00	£62,000
CONGOMA			£62,775
Malawi at St Magnus	£27,000	-	-
Friends of African Nursing	£20,000	-	-
IDEAS (International Development Education Association of Scotland)	-	-	£35,000
Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics	-	-	£130,000

Question reference: S4W-15590

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 19 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what plans there are to establish a lipid clinic in the NHS Lanarkshire area.

We want people with lipid disorders to get diagnosed and access to treatment as swiftly as possible in order to minimise the risk of complications.

NHS Lanarkshire has reported that lipid disorders such as familial hypercholesterolemia are part of their Coronary Heart Disease Managed Clinical Network’s (MCN) current work plan. The MCN has undertaken a workshop looking to optimise the current patient pathway and is in the process of developing a set of service proposals, one of which is to establish a Lipid clinic within NHS Lanarkshire.

This proposal is expected to be considered by the board later this summer before a decision is made on whether or not to establish a Lipid clinic in NHS Lanarkshire.

Question reference: S4W-14813

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4O-02044 by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 April 2013, whether there is an up-to-date database of religiously aggravated offences.

The information provided in response to S4O-02044 on convictions under the Act was derived from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s live operational case management system, which is specifically designed to receive criminal reports from the police and other specialist reporting agencies and to manage these cases for prosecution purposes. The information held on the system is structured for these operational needs, rather than for statistical reporting or research purposes.

The official source of information on convictions of religiously aggravated offences in Scotland is the Scottish Government Criminal Proceedings database. The information held in this database is published as National Statistics on an annual basis with the next publication currently due to be published in November 2013. The current publication, providing information up to end March 2012, can be found here:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/PubCriminalProceedings.

Question reference: S4W-14811

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4O-02044 by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 April 2013, what percentage of convictions was for (a) religiously aggravated offending and (b) violent crime carried out at football grounds in (i) 2010-11 and (ii) 2011-12.

The information provided in response to S4O-02044 on convictions under the Act was derived from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s (COPFS’s) live operational case management system, which is specifically designed to receive criminal reports from the police and other specialist reporting agencies and to manage these cases for prosecution purposes. The information held on the system is structured for these operational needs, rather than for statistical reporting or research purposes.

For the time period requested in the question, the official source of information on convictions of religiously aggravated offences in Scotland is the Scottish Government Criminal Proceedings database. The information held in this database is published as National Statistics on an annual basis with the next publication currently due to be published in November 2013. The current publication, providing information up to end March 2012, can be found here:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/PubCriminalProceedings.

It should be noted that the Act came into force on 1 March 2012. As such, from the Scottish Government Criminal Proceedings database, there were no convictions under the Act during 2010-11. There were only two convictions during 2011-12, in the one month of the Act coming into force. Neither of the convictions in 2011-12 were religiously aggravated.

In response to part (b) and as noted in the answer to question S4W-14647 on 7 June 2013, it is not possible to break down the number of convictions that included violent crimes carried out at football grounds.

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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

Question reference: S4W-14650

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S40-02044 by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 April 2013, how many of the people convicted could not have been charged under legislation in place prior to the commencement of the Offensive Behaviour and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012.

This information is not, and never has been, held centrally for this or other legislation. Under Scots law, the choice of the appropriate charges to bring forward in each case is a matter for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, in accordance with the Lord Advocate’s guidelines on prosecution.

The guidelines can be found at -

http://www.copfs.gov.uk/images/Documents/Prosecution_Policy_Guidance/Lord_Advocates_Guidelines/Lord%20Advocates%20Guidelines%20-%20The%20Offensive%20Behaviour%20at%20Football%20and%20Threatening%20Communications%20Scotland%20Act%202012.PDF.

Question reference: S4W-14812

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether the activities of the Football Co-ordination Unit Scotland are limited to (a) football stadia or (b) locations in close proximity to football stadia.

The remit of the Football Co-ordination Unit for Scotland is to promote and coordinate a consistent and effective approach to the policing of football across Scotland to tackle football related violence and disorder. Its responsibilities include supporting post match investigations into football related violence and disorder and supporting investigations into football related hate crime, including on the internet. Its activities are not confined to football stadia and nearby locations.

Question reference: S4W-14651

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4O-02044 by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 April 2013, whether the conviction under section 6 was for the use of language deemed (a) sectarian or (b) otherwise offensive.

Question reference: S4W-14648

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4O-02044 by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 April 2013, how many of the convictions were for the use of language deemed (a) sectarian or (b) otherwise offensive.

A conviction for “offensive behaviour at regulated football matches”, under section 1 of the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012, may be for threatening, hateful or other offensive behaviour which may incite public disorder. Hateful behaviour includes expressing hatred of, or stirring up hatred against, individuals or groups of persons based on their actual or presumed religion, nationality and ethnic or national origins.

The information provided in response to S4O-02044 on convictions under the Act is derived from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s live operational case management system, which is specifically designed to receive criminal reports from the police and other specialist reporting agencies and to manage these cases for prosecution purposes. The information held on the system is structured for these operational needs, rather than for statistical reporting or research purposes, and it is not possible from the case management system to provide the information requested as charges are not split up or recorded in such a way.

The Government will publish this month the first annual statistics and analysis of offences committed under the Act from its coming into force until 31 March 2013.

Question reference: S4W-14649

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4O-02044 by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 April 2013, how many of the people charged were subsequently tried and what the conviction rate was.

Question reference: S4W-14646

Asked by: Siobhan McMahon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4O-02044 by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 April 2013, how many of the people convicted plead guilty prior to trial.

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