- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24699 by Mr Jim Wallace on 1 May 2002, what the role of a community warden will be and whether it will be different from that of a neighbourhood warden.
Answer
The information requested isavailable in paragraph 12, page 12, of Building strong, safe and attractivecommunities: Guidance for submissions, published in 2003, copies of which areavailable in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 28543)
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1576 by Ms Margaret Curran on 13 August 2003, who, in addition to the Scottish Police Federation, responded to its plans for community wardens and whether it will place a copy of any such responses in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
Answer
A comprehensive list of respondentsis given in the annex of Building strong,safe and attractive communities: summary of consultation responses, published in 2003, copies of which are available inthe Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number: 29308). Copies of individual responsesare available in full for inspection at the Scottish Executive Library.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many community wardens are proposed and what funding is being allocated for them, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The information requested onindicative allocations is available in Annex 3, page 25 of Building strong,safe and attractive communities: guidance for submissions, published in 2003,copies of which are available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number28543). Local authorities have been asked to submit proposals that have been developedtogether with their community planning partners for how these resources will beused.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what input it has had to the Department for Transport's criteria for the placement of road markings since May 1999.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is represented at official level on the Department for Transport Road MarkingsTechnical Working Party.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment will be made of the effectiveness of the community warden scheme.
Answer
The information requested isgiven in section 11.4 (page 11) of Building strong, safe and attractivecommunities: Guidance for submissions, published in 2003, copies of which areavailable in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 28543)
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what uniform community wardens will wear
Answer
The choice of uniform is a localdecision.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on which ScotRail routes do not carry operational losses.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 29 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive who reviews the positioning of fixed speed cameras and how often such reviews take place.
Answer
Each local Safety Camera Partnershipis responsible for reviewing its use of fixed and mobile speed cameras, within therules of the Scottish Safety Camera programme. The monitoring process is continuous,but it is formalised on an annual basis during the preparation of the partnership’soperational case for the year ahead.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 29 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many assaults on (a) staff and (b) other young people and incidents involving (i) staff and (ii) other young people were recorded in young people's residential units in each year from 1999-2000 to 2002-03, in total and broken down by residential unit.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 29 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has under its road safety responsibilities on the number of new car drivers in the 17 to 20 age range there have been in each of the last five years.
Answer
The table gives the numberof full driving licences that commenced between 1997 and the end of May 2002where the driver was aged between 17 and 20 years old and resided in Scotland.
| Age when Licence Commenced | Commencement of Licence |
| 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 (to 31 May) | Total |
| 17 | 17,165 | 12,305 | 9,533 | 9,385 | 9,153 | 3,631 | 61,172 |
| 18 | 7,002 | 5,859 | 7,432 | 8,801 | 8,232 | 2,817 | 40,143 |
| 19 | 3,074 | 2,741 | 3,425 | 5,350 | 5,825 | 2,184 | 22,599 |
| 20 | 2,283 | 1,805 | 2,212 | 3,301 | 3,857 | 1,418 | 14,876 |
| Total | 29,524 | 22,710 | 22,602 | 26,837 | 27,067 | 10,050 | 138,790 |
