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The information requested is not held in the format requested and the information that is held on sleeper passenger numbers is from 2004-05 and not 1999 as requested. This is due to the fact that First ScotRail has operated the current Franchise since October 2004 and rail powers transferred to Scottish ministers from October 2005.

The table gives the total sleeper journeys (thousands) for each four week period, each year, from 1 April 2004. The figures are given in rail industry periods. This gives the total for all Caledonian Sleeper routes which consist of the Highlander routes (operating between London and Fort William/Inverness/Aberdeen) and the Lowlander routes (operating between London and Glasgow/ Edinburgh).

Year/ Period	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
2004-05	1,838	1,701	1,695	1,669	1,849	1,784	1,796	1,837	1,922	1,470	1,612	1,799	1,651
2005-06	1,881	1,804	1,791	1,779	1,900	1,931	1,889	1,924	2,024	1,575	1,731	1,879	1,773
2006-07	1,872	1,823	1,814	1,752	2,047	2,013	1,951	1,991	2,093	1,584	1,767	1,927	1,829
2007-08	1,885	1,907	1,913	1,898	2,082	2,085	2,064	2,066	2,154	1,693	1,850	2,085	2,171
2008-09	1,923	2,088	2,073	1,913	2,171	2,109	2,012	2,100	2,217	1,753

 

Volume 5 of the Scottish Energy Study, published in November 2008, contains a set of predictions for possible energy related supply and demand trends up to 2020. In particular, table 12 of the report shows the overall demand projections disaggregated by fuel type up to 2020.

The report can be found on the Scottish Government website at the following location:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/11/14093227/0.

Each local authority determines its own criteria and rates for the payment of fostering allowances to its approved foster carers.

Information on the fostering allowances paid by each local authority is not held centrally.

Information on the number of direct flights connecting London and Scotland each day is set out in the following table:

Information for week 9-15 February 2009 in Current Timetables

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
London to Scotland	75	88	117	103	109	111	115
Scotland to London	78	87	118	103	107	111	111
Total flights London/Scotland/London	153	175	235	206	216	222	226

 

This question was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0212-01.htm

No. Decisions on remand are for the courts, not for the Scottish ministers.

The test in relation to dual criminality is, in essence, encompassed in the definitions of extradition offence as provided for in sections 64 and 65 (in relation to category 1 territories) and sections 137 and 138 (in relation to category 2 territories) of the Extradition Act 2003. The same definitions apply with one exception. In relation to category 1 requests, an extradition request also includes an alleged offence (or conviction) which is certified by the requesting state as falling within the European framework list and attracts the necessary minimum periods of detention. In respect of those European framework list offences (which are applicable in category one cases only) there is no requirement for dual criminality.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-20216 on 6 February 2009. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

Two people have been extradited from Scotland to the United States of America under the terms of the Extradition Act 2003.

Only one outgoing request has been made to the United States from Scotland in terms of the Extradition Act 2003. That case involved a contravention of the Road Traffic Act 1988. The request was successful.