- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to publish the evaluation of the implementation and impact of community warden schemes.
Answer
The evaluation of the impactand implementation of community wardens was published on the Scottish Executivewebsite on 23 March 2007 and can be accessed at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/22104147/0.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how it monitors the success of each dispersal order.
Answer
The Scottish Executive doesnot monitor the success of each individual dispersal order; that is theresponsibility of the police force and partner agencies concerned. We are,however, conducting a study – as required under the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland)Act 2004 – of the operational effectiveness and impact of dispersal powers, asevidenced by the first 14 dispersal orders to be enforced. This study will bepresented to Parliament by 29 October 2007.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many antisocial behaviour notices have been served since April 2006, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of the antisocial behaviour outcome agreements prepared by Glasgow City Council and its community planning partners.
Answer
Glasgow City Council’sAntisocial Behaviour Strategy Outcome Agreement: Working Together to BuildStronger, Safer Communities, is available on the Council’s website at
www.glasgow.gov.uk. Annual progressreports are submitted to us for internal monitoring and assessment purposes butpublication of these is a matter for the Council.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 24 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dispersal orders have been enforced since October 2004, broken down by local authority area and giving details of each order.
Answer
The information requested,covering the period from October 2004 to end-March 2007 (the latest period forwhich data is held centrally), is provided in the following table. Please notethat dispersal orders are a police power rather than a local authority one.
| | Dispersal Order Location | Reason | Local Authority Area | Police Force Area | Dates |
| 1. | Beach Boulevard, Aberdeen (stretch of road on beach front – residential) | ‘Boy Racers’ | Aberdeen City | Grampian | 01.03.05 – 30.05.05 |
| 2 | Beach Boulevard, Aberdeen (As above) | ‘Boy Racers’ | Aberdeen City | Grampian | 31.05.05 – 28.08.05 |
| 3 | Hunter Sq, Edinburgh (Square in city centre – residential & business) | Street drinking and aggressive begging | City of Edinburgh | Lothian and Borders | 01.08.05 – 31.10.05 |
| 4 | Millbank/Chestnut Rd, Dingwall (2 streets in residential area) | Large groups of young people (around 20) engaged in underage drinking, vandalism and illegal use of ‘mini-motos’ | Highland | Northern | 30.09.05 – 29.12.05 |
| 5 | Hunter Sq, Edinburgh (As number 3) | Street drinking and aggressive begging | City of Edinburgh | Lothian and Borders | 01.11.05 – 31.01.06 |
| 6 | Mid Calder (Village – residential) | Large groups of young people (up to 60) engaged in underage drinking, shouting, littering. Plus violent incident. | West Lothian | Lothian and Borders | 01.12.05 – 28.02.06 |
| 7 | St Andrew’s Church, Dumfries (Church graveyard and Burns’ Mausoleum) | Groups of young people engaged in vandalism, graffiti, littering, underage drinking and drug taking. | Dumfries and Galloway | Dumfries and Galloway | 30.04.06 – 29.07.06 |
| 8 | St Michael’s Church, Dumfries (Church graveyard) | Groups of young people engaged in vandalism, graffiti, littering, underage drinking and drug taking. | Dumfries and Galloway | Dumfries and Galloway | 30.04.06 – 29.07.06 |
| 9 | Hunter Sq, Edinburgh (As number 3) | Street drinking and aggressive begging. | City of Edinburgh | Lothian and Borders | 05.06.06 – 31.08.06 |
| 10 | Moffat (Car park) | Groups of young people engaged in intimidation, noise nuisance, littering, public sexual activity and vandalism. | Dumfries and Galloway | Dumfries and Galloway | 26.08.06 – 25.11.06 |
| 11 | Lockerbie (Car park) | Groups of young people engaged in intimidation, noise nuisance, littering, public sexual activity and vandalism. | Dumfries and Galloway | Dumfries and Galloway | 26.08.06 – 25.11.06 |
| 12 | Knightswood, Glasgow (Residential area) | Groups of young people engaged in intimidation, noise nuisance, littering, public sexual activity and vandalism. | Glasgow City | Strathclyde | 01.09.06 – 30.11.06 |
| 13 | Sauchie (Village – residential) | Since beginning of 2006 and order coming into force more than 800 complaints and 430 crimes were recorded. Generally young people engaged in vandalism, fighting, drinking and acting in an unacceptable manner. | Clackmannanshire | Central | 18.09.06 – 17.12.06 |
| 14 | Dennistoun, Glasgow (Residential area) | Increase in the number of incidents involving large groups of youths gang fighting, carrying knives, vandalising property, drinking and causing disorder. | Glasgow City | Strathclyde | 13.10.06 – 11.01.07 |
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many restriction of liberty orders have been issued since April 2005, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
A total of 1,999 restrictionof liberty orders have been imposed between 1 April 2005 and31 March 2007. The information is not collected by local authorityarea but the following table provides details by court sheriffdom.
| Sheriffdom | 1 April to 31 December 2005 | 1 January to 31 December 2006 | 1 January to 31 March 2007 |
| Glasgow and Strathkelvin | 83 | 73 | 21 |
| Grampian, Highlands and Islands | 80 | 90 | 30 |
| Lothian and Borders | 83 | 76 | 28 |
| North Strathclyde | 53 | 70 | 25 |
| South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway | 156 | 308 | 59 |
| Tayside, Central and Fife | 272 | 402 | 83 |
| High Court | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Stipendiary Magistrates | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 731 | 1021 | 247 |
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many shared campus arrangements between denominational and non-denominational schools have been implemented in each local authority area.
Answer
The Executive doesnot collect systematic information on the incidence of shared campus arrangementsbetween denominational and non-denominational schools. However, we understand thatthe number of such campuses may be as set out in the following table, although thiscannot be taken as necessarily representing a complete list.
Known Number ofDenominational/Non-Denominational Shared Campuses
| Local Authority | |
| Edinburgh City | 3 |
| Fife | 1 |
| Glasgow | 1 |
| Midlothian | 3 |
| North Lanarkshire | 8 |
| Renfrewshire | 1 |
| South Ayrshire | 1 |
| West Lothian | 2 |
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many shared campus arrangements between denominational and non-denominational schools are being considered in each local authority area.
Answer
The Executive doesnot collect systematic information on numbers of shared campuses which may be underlocal authority consideration.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many shared campus arrangements between denominational and non-denominational schools also involve twinning arrangements in each local authority area.
Answer
Such information aswe have on schools involved in twinning does not identify whether the schools inquestion form part of a shared campus.
- Asked by: Bill Kidd, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Maureen Watt on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it intends to take to encourage both shared campus and twinning initiatives between denominational and non-denominational schools.
Answer
The Centrefor Education forRacial Equality in Scotland has been commissioned to updateand augment the Executive’s anti-sectarianism education resource
Don’t Give It,Don’t Take It. As part of that work a new section on twinning between denominationaland non-denominational schools is being added. It is also our intention to run fora second year a £100,000 fund to support anti-sectarian projects in schools, includingtwinning initiatives.
On sharedcampuses, it is entirely a matter for local authorities to decide the configurationof their school estate.
