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His response is as follows:Reliable information is readilyavailable only from 2000 and is as follows: Year Prison Officers in Post 2000 3,100 2001 2,880 2002 2,855 2003 2,867 2004 2,770 2005 2,589 S2W-23896
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dairy farmers there were in Kintyre in (a) 2000 and (b) 2005. The following table provides information on the number of dairy holdings, together with the number of occupiers, in Kintyre in 2000 and 2005.
The information requested is given in the following table. Total Fertility Rate, Scotland 1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 1.84 1.68 1.61 1.58 1.51 1.60 S2W-23713
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of any high street banks trading in fish quotas and, if so, which banks are involved. Following previous decommissioningschemes, we are aware that some banks have acquired quota units – in total, representingless than 1% of the fixed quota units available - and are engaged in the so-called“trade” in fish qu...
The number of people who tookup employment under a New Deal programme in a Scottish Executive core departmentin each of the years requested is shown in the following table. Year No. of People 2003 34 2004 30 2005 15 S2W-22958
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 February 2006
I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is as follows: Funding supplied for Care and Repair schemes through the Private Sector Housing Grant Scheme is currently ring fenced.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 February 2006
The Executive advertising spend with The Herald is as follows: Financial Year Spend 2002-03 (1 January to 31 March 2003) £33,300 2003-04 £35,700 2004-05 £66,076 2005-06 (to 31 January 2006) £24,673 Total £159,749 S2W-22911
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 February 2006
It is unacceptable that certain individuals latch on to marches purely as an excuse to indulge in bigoted and abusive behaviour. Following the publication of the Action Plan on Tackling Sectarianism in Scotland we now intend to look at the powers currently available to the police to deal with inappropriate behaviour around marches and parades.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its employees have been dismissed in each year since 1999. The following table provides the number of employees dismissed from Scottish Executive core departments since 1999.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 October 2005
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows: I believe that the monitoring arrangements we have in place for the escorting contract are both robust and effective.