- 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: 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: Monday, 15 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 1 October 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the fourth supplementary question to question S2F-194 by the First Minister on 11 September 2003, what criteria will be applied to assess the business case for the Borders Railway.
Answer
All business cases are requiredto be compliant with the Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidelines (STAG)
- 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 whether it will consider funding an application from the Waverley Route Trust in respect of its proposed research project on modification of the current railway specification to accommodate the movement of charter and freight trains and of express services taking under 50 minutes from Tweedbank to Edinburgh and a specialist technical, operational and business case study of the potential application of innovative approaches to the Borders railway.
Answer
No. We have funded the WaverleyRailway Partnership to take the project to the current stage. The specificationof the railway is a matter for the partnership to justify in its business case.
- 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, further to the answer to the fourth supplementary question to question S2F-194 by the First Minister on 11 September 2003, whether the Waverley railway partnership has been advised of the criteria to be applied to assess the business case for the Borders Railway.
Answer
I can confirm that Waverley railwaypartnership has been advised of the criteria to be applied.
- 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, 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: 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 |
- 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 publicity has been given to the Pass Plus scheme in each of the last five years.
Answer
The Pass Plus scheme has beendeveloped by the Driving Standards Agency (DSA), which chairs a board that promotesthe scheme throughout Great Britain.
The Pass Plus scheme providesa structured course of post-test training for newly-qualified drivers, and thosewho complete the course can benefit from discounted insurance rates from participatinginsurance companies. Pass Plus courses are provided by Approved Driving Instructors,registered by DSA, and the scheme is administered by the agency, with support fromthe motor insurance industry.
Publicity for the scheme is carriedout in a number of ways. The scheme is promoted in a DSA leaflet which is sent outwith the 800,000 provisional driving licences which are issued annually. The benefitsof the Pass Plus scheme are covered in DSA’s Arrive Alive Road Safety Programmefor young people. The scheme is promoted in DSA’s Drive On magazine, a copyof which is handed to successful driving test candidates by their examiner. Thereis also a dedicated Pass Plus website, and local Road Safety Officers are encouragedto promote the scheme. Some of the insurance companies involved in the scheme havetaken their own steps to promote the benefits of Pass Plus.
The table gives the number ofdrivers completing the course in Great Britain in each of the last five years.
| 1998-99 | 19,685 |
| 1999-2000 | 25,920 |
| 2000-01 | 40,668 |
| 2001-02 | 56,203 |
| 2002-03 | 70,084 |
