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I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows: The information sought is not available but the table, based on samples, gives the percentage of prisoners testing positive for drug use on reception into prison, during prison sentence, and those prisoners who have presented with a substance mi...
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Date answered:
19 April 2005
S2W-12919 contained an error in respect of the total for 2002-03 - which is corrected in the following table: Budget 1999-2000 (£000) 2000-01 (£000) 2001-02 (£000) 2002-03 (£000) 2003-04 (£000) Training 393 393 393 643 665 ...
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Date answered:
18 April 2005
In addition therewill be a new set of signals controlling the eastbound off-slip from the M8.The operation of the signalsat the roundabout will be optimised to ensure that the best traffic flowsavailable can be achieved. Following completion of the works, the new trafficsignal system will continue to be monitored in consultation with RenfrewshireCouncil.
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Date answered:
14 April 2005
I am not aware of any case in the last two years (including the current year to date) other than that of Mark Sinclair, which concluded at the High Court in Ayr in October 2003, in which the Crown has decided not to use fingerprint evidence provided by the Scottish Criminal Records Office following a challenge to that evidence by a defence expert.
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Date answered:
12 April 2005
Media types which have been used by the Scottish Executive for the financial years 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 are detailed in the following table. Financial Year Media Type Spend 2002-03 TV £4,459,346 Radio £971,078 Cinema £271,506 Press £2,548,381 ...
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Date answered:
11 April 2005
Links to each of these publications are as follows:2000 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00079.pdf.2001 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00168.pdf.2002 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00272.pdf.2003 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00350.pdf.2004 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00412.
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Date answered:
29 March 2005
We will consider these proposals and other candidate projects in the Strategic Rail Authority’s enhancement programme following the transfer of responsibilities to the Scottish Executive proposed in the Railways Bill, currently before the UK Parliament.
Other authorities interested in this approach, and their professional advisers, have been kept fully appraised of developments during the pilot, and a broader-based exposition of the pilot will be offered to interested public authorities and the market following contract close later this year.
The SPS have produced Return to Custody Research Bulletins basedon a two-year follow up of offenders released from prison in particular years.The reports do not examine establishment of release, but most of the figuresrelating to females given in these reports will be for women released fromCornton Vale.
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Date answered:
9 February 2005
These statistics are a matter for the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).The target intake for undergraduate dentistry in universities in Scotland for 2004-05 is given in the following table, as published by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council at the website address:http://www.shefc.ac.uk/library/06854fc203db2fbd000000fa803fa922/a...