- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 August 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 29 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been issued with fixed penalty notices for litter offences in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-27559 on 21 August 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 21 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of any increase in the incidence of public disorder since the introduction of the ban on smoking in enclosed public places.
Answer
There is no evidence at presentto suggest that public disorder related to the ban on smoking in enclosed publicplaces is a significant problem, although there is some anecdotal evidence of instancesof increased noise outside some licensed premises. Local authorities and the policehave existing powers to handle excessive noise and anti-social behaviour and theytogether with the Scottish Executive will be keeping these issues under review.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 21 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been fined for litter offences in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The available information isgiven in the following table.
Persons Fined in Scottish Courtsfor Litter Offences1, by Approximate Local Authority Area2,1999-2000 to 2004-05
| Local Authority Area | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 |
| Aberdeen City | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Aberdeenshire | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Angus | 1 | 1 | 4 | - | - | - |
| Argyll and Bute | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Clackmannanshire | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Dundee City | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| East Ayrshire | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | 1 |
| East Dunbartonshire | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| East Lothian | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| East Renfrewshire | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Edinburgh, City of | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Eilean Siar | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Falkirk | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 |
| Fife | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Glasgow City | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
| Highland | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 |
| Inverclyde | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | 1 |
| Midlothian | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Moray | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| North Ayrshire | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| North Lanarkshire | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| Orkney Islands | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Perth and Kinross | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Renfrewshire | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Scottish Borders | - | - | - | 2 | - | 3 |
| Shetland Islands | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| South Ayrshire | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| South Lanarkshire | - | - | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Stirling | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| West Dunbartonshire | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| West Lothian | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Scotland | 19 | 12 | 24 | 31 | 23 | 38 |
Notes:
1. Where main offence was categorisedas a litter offence under the Scottish Executive Justice Department’s classificationof crimes and offences.
2. Incorporates an approximatemapping of sheriff courts into local authority areas. Some sheriff courts will dealwith cases from more than one local authority area. Some local authority areas,including East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Midlothian and North Ayrshire, do not contain a sheriff court.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 21 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much additional money has been allocated to local authorities in respect of the implementation of the ban on smoking in enclosed public places.
Answer
Local authorities have been allocatedjust over £6 million over three years to enforce the smoke-free legislation (£0.6million in 2005-06, £3 million in 2006-07 and £2.5 million in 2007-08). In additionto providing for the employment of additional staff across the country, to enforcethe smoke-free laws, this funding will also provide additional resources more generallyfor environmental health services.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 21 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how people have been fined for dropping cigarette ends since the introduction of the ban on smoking in enclosed public places, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The number of fixed penalty noticesfor littering issued by police and local authorities under their respective powersin Part IV of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 21 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to monitor the impact of the ban on smoking in enclosed public places in relation to any additional costs incurred by local authorities in the clean-up of discarded cigarette ends.
Answer
Local authorities are responsiblefor handling the problem of litter and they will be keeping the issue under reviewas experience of the smoke-free legislation grows. Local authorities have been givensignificant additional funding not only to enforce the new law but also to providefor additional resources more generally for environmental health services in eachcouncil. It is for them to determine how the funding should be used depending onlocal circumstances.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 23 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive where the national concessionary travel scheme passes are produced and from where are they distributed.
Answer
The National Concessionary TravelScheme is one application on the National Entitlement Card. The Entitlement Cardis produced and managed under contract to the Improvement Service, which is partof the Scottish Executive’s Modernising Government programme.
The Entitlement Cards are producedand distributed from Hull in England, following a procurement exercise conducted under theappropriate regulations.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 16 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what role it has in procedures for dealing with the cases of victims of trafficking in Scotland who claim asylum.
Answer
The Executive has no role insuch procedures which are reserved matters.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has about how many victims of trafficking have claimed asylum in Scotland since 1999.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 12 June 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-26111 by Hugh Henry on 1 June 2006, whether the Executive intends to make representations to Her Majesty’s Government concerning it not signing up to the International Convention on Trafficking.
Answer
The Minister for Communitiesindicated during the member’s debate in the Parliament on 25 May 2006 on traffickingfor forced prostitution that we will ensure that Home Office ministers are madeaware of the strong support expressed during that debate for the UK to sign theConvention Against Trafficking in Human Beings.
