- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much overtime each police force paid to police officers in each of the last three years and what percentage of the total salary budget of each force each of these figures represents.
Answer
This is set out in the table for the latest 3 years for which information is available.
| | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 |
| Force | Overtime £m | As % of salary budget | Overtime £m | As % of salary budget | Overtime £m | As % of salary budget |
| Central | 1.2 | 7.2 | 1.3 | 7.1 | 2.1 | 10.7 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 0.9 | 8.6 | 0.9 | 8.3 | 1.0 | 9.2 |
| Fife | 1.3 | 6.4 | 1.3 | 5.9 | 1.9 | 8.4 |
| Grampian | 2.4 | 8.0 | 2.9 | 9.1 | 3.3 | 9.9 |
| Lothian and Borders | 5.0 | 7.7 | 3.2 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 7.0 |
| Northern | 1.2 | 7.4 | 1.2 | 7.1 | 1.9 | 10.5 |
| Strathclyde | 13.1 | 7.4 | 14.2 | 7.7 | 20.0 | 10.2 |
| Tayside | 1.5 | 5.5 | 1.5 | 5.3 | 2.3 | 8.1 |
| Total | 26.7 | 7.3 | 26.5 | 7.0 | 32.4 | 9.4 |
Notes: (i) For the purposes of the table above, the salary budget for each force is taken as the total pay to police officers plus overtime but excluding allowances, pensions, superannuation and national insurance. (ii) Source: Police Grant Claim form (PG1) submitted annually by police authorities
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many and what percentage of police officers worked more than 48 hours per week averaged over any 17 week period in each of the last three years, broken down by police force.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration is being given to the establishment of a drug court in the north east, what the reasons are for its position on this matter and, if such a court is to be established, where it will be sited and what the timetable is for its establishment.
Answer
I expect to receive the proposals from the steering group considering the model for a drug court within Glasgow Sheriff Court shortly. This will inform my decision on the piloting of other drug courts. Meantime work is underway to introduce Drug Treatment and Testing Orders to sheriff courts in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time for paediatric orthodontic treatment was in each of the last three years, broken down by health board area.
Answer
Most paediatric orthodontic treatments carried out within hospital and community health service settings are undertaken on an outpatient basis and information on waiting times for such treatments is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many secure places for young offenders there were in each of the last three years, broken down by parliamentary region.
Answer
Any child or young person may be placed in secure accommodation either following a children's hearing, or by a local authority chief social work officer, with the agreement of the person in charge of the secure establishment, or by a court.
The number of secure places located in residential establishments available for children and young people as at 31 December in each of the last 3 years by parliamentary region is as follows:| Parliamentary Region | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
| Lothian | 12* | 12* | 12* |
| Mid-Scotland and Fife | 2 | 2 | Nil |
| North-East | 25* | 25* | 29** |
| Southern | 24 | 24 | 24 |
| West | 24 | 24 | 30 |
| Total | 87 | 87 | 95 |
* Includes one emergency bed** Includes two emergency beds
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the core contractual hours for police officers were in each police force in each of the last three years; how many and what percentage of officers in each force exceeded these core hours in each of these years, and what the average number of hours worked per week per officer was in each force in each year.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 3 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it supports voluntary and charitable organisations receiving assistance towards their water bills.
Answer
The Executive’s views on this issue were fully set out in the Members Debate on 4 April.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many discarded hypodermic needles were collected in public places in each of the last three years, broken down by local authority area, and what percentage of the number collected nationally each of these figures represents.
Answer
This information is not available centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much and what percentage of the budget made available to (a) Grampian Health Board and (b) Tayside Health Board for drug detoxification treatment was spent outwith the Grampian and Tayside areas in each of the last three years.
Answer
Figures available for the year 1998-1999 show that, for residential rehabilitation only, the spend outwith the area was for (a) Grampian Health Board £110,000 or some 66%, and for (b) Tayside Health Board, 100%. Figures are not available for 1997-98.The Drug Action Teams within both Health Board areas are working to establish local residential drug rehabilitation services in addition to the range of other treatment and other care services available for drug misusers.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 2 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether its legal advice is that it would be possible for the water authorities to be exempted from the Competition Act 1998.
Answer
The Executive's assessment of the scope for exempting the water authorities from the provisions of the Competition Act 1998 is set out in Annex B of its consultation paper on the Water Services Bill, which is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib number 12181).
