Questions and answers

Question reference: S2W-23561

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many pregnancies there were amongst (a) 12, (b) 13, (c) 14, (d) 15 and (c) 16 year olds in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.

Question reference: S2W-23559

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what supported accommodation is currently available for 16 to 18 year olds who are not entitled to jobseekers allowance but who are living independently, broken down by local authority area.

Professor Alan Alexanderresigned as Chair of Scottish Water because he disagreed with the view of the Scottish Executive that Scottish Water’s 2006-10 delivery plan did not providea clear and convincing basis upon which Scottish Water would, as a minimum,achieve in full the Executive’s objectives for Scottish Water in the period,including those in relation to development constraints, within the limits setby the Water Industry Commission for Scotland’s determination of charges for2006-10.

Question reference: S2W-23215

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many successful prosecutions there have been in each year since 1999 in which the alleged victim was an adult with learning difficulties, broken down by sheriff court district.

Question reference: S2W-23216

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many reports were made to the police in each year since 1999 in which the alleged victim was an adult with learning difficulties, broken down by sheriff court district.

Question reference: S2W-23217

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions have taken place in each year since 1999 in which the alleged victim was an adult with learning difficulties, broken down by category of offence.

Question reference: S2W-22747

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 30 January 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 10 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what legal basis there is for any Executive involvement in whether prisoners were transported via Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd operated airports to a third country.

Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd (HIAL), as the licensedoperator of its 10 airports, is responsible for meeting UK Civil AviationAuthority and Department for Transport regulatory, and all statutory,requirements relating to its duties as the licensee of these airports. HIAL isalso accountable via its Board of Directors to the Scottish ministers for theoperation and management of its business.The Scottish Executiverequested information from HIAL regarding any flights operated on behalf of theUS Government and its agencies. As S2W-22577 answered on 10 February 2006makes clear, HIAL has no information that such flights have operated to or fromits airports. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available onthe Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

Question reference: S2W-22744

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 30 January 2006
Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 10 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what information must be provided in support of requests for flights by aircraft chartered by the CIA, or by agencies to whom the CIA has outsourced services, to land at airports operated by Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd and, specifically, whether a list of passenger names is required.

I refer the member to the answer question S2W-21090 on 20 December 2005. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

In addition to theinformation contained in S2W-21090, an aircraft operator using any airportoperated by Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd (HIAL) must also obtain orprovide: prior permission to land, and a flight plan.

There is no requirement toprovide HIAL with a list of passengers’ names.

Question reference: S2W-23247

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 16 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how long Monaghan Middlebrook Mushrooms at Drem in East Lothian sourced labour from gangmasters and when it claims that it ceased to do so.

Question reference: S2W-23212

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 8 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children have been in foster care in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

The numbers of looked after children in foster care on the 31 March each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area, are shown in the following table.

Number of Children Looked After by Foster Carers on the 31 March

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Aberdeen City	210	156*	119*	132*	97	124*	157
Aberdeenshire	91*	116	112	116	114	128	121
Angus	73	73	66	85	94	102	118
Argyll and Bute	37	30	27	32	39	45	35
Clackmannanshire	33	32	35	36	33	33	45
Dumfries and Galloway	119	105	127	127	144	120	111
Dundee City	125	151	118	122	127	149	137
East Ayrshire	32	56	72	66	84	86	82
East Dunbartonshire	7	9	10	15	9	18	18
East Lothian	54	65	79*	74	81	74	64
East Renfrewshire	12	6	6	12	11	13	13
Edinburgh City	304*	330	326	318	339	370	349
Eilean Siar	12	10	8	7	16	16	12
Falkirk	91	87	98	84	107	104	104
Fife	182	158	191	185	201	203	239
Glasgow City	657	686	640	714	706	800	804
Highland	178	117	111	103	96	99	107
Inverclyde	31	32	23	24	27	33	33
Midlothian	49*	56	40	46	51	58	61
Moray	95	56	58	54*	61	69	31
North Ayrshire	61	45	77	53	59	64	74
North Lanarkshire	118	134	145	142	134	136	123
Orkney Islands	5	5	10	8	6	5	6
Perth and Kinross	64	48	53	66	63	54	65
Renfrewshire	79	70	80	87	104	127	128
Scottish Borders	73	67	69	81	79	83	69
Shetland Islands	12	11	15	14	13	11	9
South Ayrshire	18	32	34	50	54	47	46
South Lanarkshire	82	82*	70*	74	80	78	78
Stirling	61	61	59	56	56	57	52
West Dunbartonshire	68	68	60	68	70	73	69
West Lothian	122	104	146	118	134	82	133
Scotland	3155	3058	3084	3170	3288	3461	3493

Notes:

Figures exclude children on short-term placements only.

*Estimated due to missing or incomplete data.

Question reference: S2W-23210

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been given to local authorities to provide supported accommodation in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

Local authorities are not given a specific budget for supported accommodation. The spending review 2004 invested £1.2 billion over three years in housing support services through the Supporting People programme to local authorities for vulnerable people, and an additional £50 million per year for preventing and alleviating homelessness. All these resources go towards supporting a variety of tenancies, including supported accommodation, but a breakdown by local authority of the total amount invested locally in supported accommodation is not held centrally.

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