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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.

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Question reference: S2W-16141

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 28 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the comments by the Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care in the debate on dental health services on 21 April 2005 anent "200 extra dentists by 2008, which means 200 more than we already have" (Official Report c. 16274), how many NHS dentists there are currently; how many there will be, counted on the same basis, by 2008, and how many dentists (a) retiring and (b) otherwise removing themselves from NHS provision have been taken into account to support the comments.

Question reference: S2W-15530

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 21 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive which parties, other than local authorities, have applied for antisocial behaviour orders.

Question reference: S2W-15528

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 21 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of antisocial behaviour orders granted to local authorities have been breached in each year since 1999.

Tentative data on breaches of antisocial behaviour orders granted in local authority areas is available for 2003-04. During this period, 213 orders were in force and 144 (67%) were allegedly breached during the year. However, the independent researchers who collated this data for the Scottish Executive have advised that confusion over the term “breach” during the research means that this finding must be treated with extreme caution. The lack of robust data means that it is not possible to provide a reliable breakdown on a local authority basis for 2003-04. A further survey will be undertaken this summer which should clarify the position for 2004-05.

Question reference: S2W-15529

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 21 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of antisocial behaviour orders have been breached in each (a) local authority area and (b) sheriff court district in each year since 1999.

(a) I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-15528 on 21 April 2005. 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/webapp/wa.search.

(b) Information on convictions where the offence involved breach of an antisocial behaviour order is provided by court area in the following table. ¹The figures refer to numbers of cases³.

Breach of Antisocial Behaviour Orders: Charges Proved in Scottish Courts - 1999 to 2003

Sheriff Court	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003²
Aberdeen	-	-	4	18	17
Airdrie	-	-	-	3	3
Arbroath	-	-	-	-	2
Ayr	-	-	-	-	1
Cupar	-	-	1	5	-
Dumbarton	-	-	1	-	-
Dundee	-	-	-	6	2
Dunfermline	-	2	1	3	6
Edinburgh	1	5	20	4	4
Glasgow	-	5	6	1	1
Hamilton	-	-	-	-	4
Kirkcaldy	-	-	-	5	5
Oban	-	-	1	-	-
Peebles	-	-	1	-	-
Peterhead	-	-	1	1	-
Selkirk	-	2	-	2	2
Stirling	-	-	-	-	2
Tain	-	-	-	-	2
Total¹	1	15	37	51	51

Notes:

1. Includes a small number of High Court and District Court cases.

2. Provisional data.

3. It is not possible to calculate the percentage of orders breached from this data as ASBOs may be breached more than once in an individual case and/or an ASBO may be breached and not lead to court action.

Question reference: S2W-15726

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 01 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 20 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will consult on the draft guidance referred to in the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Bill; when it expects the consultation period to end, and whether the Parliament will be able to consider the draft guidance before it is finalised.

Section 9 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Bill provides that the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) must, after consulting such persons as it thinks fit, produce guidance on how it determines whether a body meets the charity test. The guidance cannot be adopted until OSCR is set up in the form envisaged under the bill and those sections have been commenced. However, in preparation for this, OSCR will consult on the guidance before the charity test comes into force. The guidance will not be formally laid before the Parliament but the Communities Committee will be included in the consultation and OSCR will lay its annual report before the Parliament.

Question reference: S2W-15790

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on reports recorded to the Commission for Racial Equality from Scotland in each year from 1999 to date.

The Commission for Racial Equality do not routinely advise the Scottish Executive of racist incidents reported to them.

The commission keeps ministers informed of public bodies’ progress in terms of compliance with the statutory duty to promote race equality.

Copies of the commission’s annual report, both UK and Scottish, are sent to Scottish ministers each year.

The Commission in Scotland is a key partner of the Scottish Executive’s in terms of our work to tackle racism and promote race equality. We are therefore in regular contact with them on a wide range of issues.

Question reference: S2W-15628

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 15 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-15095 by Peter Peacock on 18 March 2005, how many enquiries to Enquire were from (a) parents and (b) other parties in each year since 2002-03.

It is not possible to provide a complete answer, as many callers opt not to provide identity details. Furthermore, until recently, the Enquire database did not store this information in the case of relatively straightforward enquiries such as requests for publications. Where the status of the caller is known, the breakdown is as follows:

2002-03

Parents: 973

Others: 431

2003-04

Parents: 1,509

Others: 523

2004-05

Parents: 15,52

Others: 510.

Question reference: S2W-15629

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 15 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-15095 by Peter Peacock on 18 March 2005, how many enquiries were received by Enquire in each year since 2002-03, broken down by local authority area.

It is not possible to provide a complete answer, as many callers opt not to provide addresses or other identity details. Furthermore, until recently, the Enquire database did not store this information in the case of relatively straightforward enquiries such as requests for publications. Where an address is known, the breakdown by local authority is set out in the following table:

Local Authority	2002-03 Number	%	2003-04 Number	%	2004-05 Number	%
Aberdeen City	57	4.1	84	4.1	67	3.2
Aberdeenshire	52	3.7	100	4.9	115	5.6
Angus	14	0.9	46	2.3	42	2.0
Argyll and Bute	26	1.9	30	1.5	26	1.3
Borders	29	2.1	23	1.1	44	2.1
Clackmannanshire	26	1.9	33	1.6	13	0.6
Dumfries and Galloway	26	1.9	30	1.5	61	3.0
Dundee City	27	1.9	40	2.0	52	2.5
East Ayrshire	20	1.4	28	1.4	15	0.7
East Dunbartonshire	11	0.8	24	1.2	50	2.4
East Lothian	26	1.9	42	2.1	33	1.6
East Renfrewshire	21	1.5	9	0.4	19	0.9
Edinburgh	199	14.2	293	14.4	225	10.9
Falkirk	52	3.7	88	4.3	80	3.9
Fife	55	3.9	86	4.2	105	5.1
Glasgow	196	13.9	257	12.7	243	11.8
Highland	95	6.8	73	3.6	125	6.1
Inverclyde	18	1.3	18	0.9	16	0.8
Midlothian	20	1.4	34	1.7	32	1.6
Moray	17	1.2	12	0.6	37	1.8
North Ayrshire	23	1.6	29	1.4	26	1.3
North Lanarkshire	30	2.1	74	3.6	70	3.4
Orkney	4	0.3	25	1.2	9	0.4
Perth and Kinross	54	3.8	102	5.0	69	3.3
Renfrewshire	28	2.0	51	2.5	53	2.6
Shetland	2	0.1	11	0.5	10	0.5
South Ayrshire	33	2.4	25	1.2	26	1.3
South Lanarkshire	43	3.1	45	2.2	56	2.7
Stirling	30	2.1	38	1.9	43	2.1
West Dunbartonshire	39	2.8	27	1.3	13	0.7
West Lothian	54	3.8	67	3.3	82	4.0
Western Isles	5	0.4	7	0.3	13	0.6
National	8	0.5	3	0.1	9	0.4
Outside Scotland	20	1.4	47	2.3	34	1.6
Not recorded*	1	0.1	45	2.2	61	3.0
Unknown*	43	3.1	86	4.2	88	4.3
Total	1404	100	2032	100	2062	100

Question reference: S2W-15630

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 15 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment will be made, and what follow-up will be carried out, in respect of the service provided by Enquire.

Question reference: S2W-15225

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 11 March 2005
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 April 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive when the review of community hospitals will be concluded.