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To ask the Scottish Executive what the incidence of vandalism is per 10,000 people in (a) Scotland, (b) Glasgow, (c) Aberdeen, (d) Edinburgh, (e) the East Renfrewshire Council area and (f) the East Dunbartonshire Council area.
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Date answered:
20 January 2003
Legal advice was obtained as appropriate to ensure that the bill made it clear that, in line with the rest of the United Kingdom, corroboration was not required in Scotland. S1W-32400
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Date answered:
13 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when the report of the task force reviewing the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 will be published. It had originally been envisaged that the independent task group would report to ministers by the end of 2002.
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Date answered:
10 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what acreage of Scotland has been sold off in plots of very small si'e with the aim of securing only novelty ownership; how many such schemes there have been in the last 20 years, and what difficulties any such schemes have caused for (a) owners and (b) any others.
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Date answered:
10 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ensure that any future land legislation includes a prohibition on the sale of very small plots of land within larger land holdings and marketed as novelty gifts or opportunities to own part of Scotland's heritage. I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-32681 today.
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Date answered:
9 January 2003
The functions relating to the appointment and removal of judges and the Scottish Law Officers which are conferred upon the First Minister alone are set out in sections 95 and 48(1) respectively of the Scotland Act 1998. S1W-32490
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Date answered:
6 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the homicide victims shown as being the partner of the main accused in Homicides in Scotland Statistics 2001 were (a) women and (b) men and what the sex of the main accused was in each case.
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Date answered:
17 December 2002
While diamorphine can be administered by medical practitioners for certain conditions, prescription of the drug to treat opiate addiction requires a Home Office licence. Only one practitioner in Scotland currently holds such a licence, and he has indicated that he has not prescribed diamorphine as a treatment for opiate misuse for some time.
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Date answered:
13 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30830 by Ross Finnie on 18 November 2002, whether it will lodge an amendment to the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill that would enable crofting communities to buy salmon fishings on croft land and not those exercisable from croft land and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
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Date answered:
11 December 2002
The World Health Organisation's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), which is used to classify deaths in Scotland, does not have separate categories for "sudden" deaths.