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Transport Scotland has regular dialogue with key stakeholders via the Smart Ticketing Operators Steering group, and more focussed working groups on, for example, the implementation of the National ePurse. In addition all of Scotland's ferry operators were invited to a smart ticketing meeting held on 26 May 2017.

Transport Scotland continues to work with Scottish transport operators and other public bodies to deliver the Scottish Government’s vision that all journeys on Scotland’s bus, rail, ferry, subway and tram networks can be made using one type of smart ticket or payment.

In the UK, outside of London, bus services are deregulated so government cannot simply instruct bus operators or indeed certain ferry operators to adopt or participate in smart ticketing. The Programme for Government lays out a commitment to work with stakeholders to develop legislative options for improving bus services and securing nationwide multi modal smart ticketing as part of our preparation for a Transport Bill within the current Parliament.

Orkney and Shetland are part of the Scottish Government’s commitment that all journeys on Scotland’s bus, rail, ferry, subway and tram can be made using a single type of smart ticket or payment.

Orkney and Shetland will be part of the national e-Purse to be implemented during 2018. Oyster, it should be noted, is also an e-Purse.

The number of people under 18 sentenced to custody in each year since 2006-07 is presented in the following table. Individual people are counted more than once if they receive more than one custodial sentence within a year.

Source: Criminal Proceedings database.

Publication of the results of the pulse survey is a matter for Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority. The Scottish Government does not hold this information.

Any update on the future of the Inverness and other disease surveillance centres would be from Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) who are responsible for their operation.

The Scottish Government provides support for SRUC to deliver education, advisory and research activities in the rural sector. Part of this support enables SRUC to deliver the Scottish Government's Veterinary Disease Surveillance Programme. As a private company, SRUC are free to determine how their disease surveillance centres operate provided they can satisfy to the Scottish Government that the objectives of the Veterinary Disease Surveillance Programme are met.

The requested information is provided in the table titled 'Drug possession convictions by crime, selected drug types and disposal, 2010-11 to 2015-16' which is available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 58824).

The duty to provide education in a mainstream school, unless certain exceptions apply, rests with education authorities. Education authorities must identify, provide and review the additional support that their pupils need to overcome barriers to their learning.

To support this, the Scottish Government has developed, and will shortly publish for consultation, guidance on mainstreaming.

The requested information for the offences of "possession" and "possession with intent to supply" is presented in the following table.

Drug possession convictions by selected drug types1 and disposal, 2010-11 to 2015-16

The following table presents the average custodial sentences for all drug offences by the type of drug involved. This includes the offences of "illegal importation of drugs", "production, manufacture or cultivation of drugs", "possession with intent to supply drugs", "possession", "drugs, money laundering relating offences" and "bringing drugs into prison".

Average custodial sentence (days) for drugs offences by type of drug, 2010-11 to 2015-16

Source: Criminal proceedings database