Andrew Wilson

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) adults and (b) juveniles arrested, taken into custody and charged with an offence at (i) Cumbernauld and (ii) Kilsyth police station were prosecuted in each of the last 12 months.

Answer · Colin Boyd: The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service does not collect statistical information by reference to individual police stations. Accordingly, the information is not available.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) adults and (b) juveniles arrested and taken into custody at (i) Motherwell and (ii) Wishaw police station were (1) charged with an offence and (2) cautioned in each of the last 12 months.

Answer · Jim Wallace: This information is not held centrally.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) adults and (b) juveniles arrested and taken into custody at (i) Cumbernauld and (ii) Kilsyth police station were (1) charged with an offence and (2) cautioned in each of the last 12 months.

Answer · Jim Wallace: This information is not held centrally.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) adults and (b) juveniles were arrested and taken into custody at (i) Motherwell and (ii) Wishaw police station in each of the last 12 months.

Answer · Jim Wallace: This information is not held centrally.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) adults and (b) juveniles were arrested and taken into custody at (i) Cumbernauld and (ii) Kilsyth police station in each of the last 12 months.

Answer · Jim Wallace: This information is not held centrally.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive (a) how many police officers paraded for operational duties at (i) Motherwell and (ii) Wishaw police station and (b) how many such officers at each station were required to patrol the streets unaccompanied, each given as an average per shift in each of the last 12 months.

Answer · Jim Wallace: This information is not held centrally. The deployment of police officers is an operational matter for the Chief Constable.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive (a) how many police officers paraded for operational duties at (i) Cumbernauld and (ii) Kilsyth police station and (b) how many such officers at each station were required to patrol the streets unaccompanied, each given as an average per shift in each of the last 12 months.

Answer · Jim Wallace: This information is not held centrally. The deployment of police officers is an operational matter for the Chief Constable.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers designated as being available for operational duties at (a) Motherwell and (b) Wishaw police stations have been required to take sick leave for any form of psychiatric illness in each of the last 12 months.

Answer · Jim Wallace: This information is not held centrally.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers designated as being available for operational duties at (a) Cumbernauld and (b) Kilsyth police stations have been required to take sick leave for any form of psychiatric illness in each of the last 12 months.

Answer · Jim Wallace: This information is not held centrally.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers designated as being available for operational duties at (a) Motherwell and (b) Wishaw police station have taken sick leave after being the victims of assault whilst on duty in each of the last 12 months.

Answer · Jim Wallace: This information is not held centrally.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers designated as being available for operational duties at (a) Cumbernauld and (b) Kilsyth police station have taken sick leave after being victims of assault whilst on duty in each of the last 12 months.

Answer · Jim Wallace: This information is not held centrally.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers designated as being available for operational duties at (a) Motherwell and (b) Wishaw police station have been the victims of assault whilst on duty in each of the last 12 months.

Answer · Jim Wallace: This information is not held centrally.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers designated as being available for operational duties at (a) Cumbernauld and (b) Kilsyth police station have been the victims of assault whilst on duty in each of the last 12 months.

Answer · Jim Wallace: This information is not held centrally.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers (a) should have been and (b) were available for operational duties at (i) Motherwell and (ii) Wishaw police station in each of the last 12 months.

Answer · Jim Wallace: This information is not held centrally. The deployment of police officers is an operational matter for the Chief Constable.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers (a) should have been and (b) were available for operational duties at (i) Cumbernauld and (ii) Kilsyth police station in each of the last 12 months.

Answer · Jim Wallace: This information is not held centrally. The deployment of police officers is an operational matter for the Chief Constable.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22282 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 7 February 2002, why it considers that it would serve no useful purpose to maintain details of which college and university lecture halls have loop systems and why there are no plans to do so.

Answer · Wendy Alexander: The Scottish Executive does not require detailed information on which institutions' lecture halls have loop systems. The provision of such auxiliary aids and services is a matter for individual institutions in response to local demand.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22274 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 7 February 2002, why it is appropriate that the decision on how funds should be disbursed to institutions is one for the Scottish Higher and Further Education Funding Councils alone.

Answer · Wendy Alexander: The Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992 provides that the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council shall be responsible for administering funds made available to it by the Scottish ministers and others for the purposes of providing financial sup…

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22274 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 7 February 2002, whether it will provide a full explanation of why it will not hypothecate monies for student welfare purposes as requested.

Answer · Wendy Alexander: I refer the member to the answer to question S1W-21385.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22275 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 7 February 2002, whether it has any concerns regarding the provision of student welfare provision at higher and further education establishments, detailing the reasons for its position on this matter.

Answer · Wendy Alexander: I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-21385.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22275 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 7 February 2002, why no advice or instruction has been provided to the Scottish Higher and Further Education Funding Councils regarding the funding of student welfare services.

Answer · Wendy Alexander: I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-21385 on 18 January 2002.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22276 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 7 February 2002, how its policies on access for all and lifelong learning are developed in the absence of the information being collated by the Scottish Further Education Funding Council on the number of students from s…

Answer · Wendy Alexander: I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-21387 on 18 January 2002.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22273 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 7 February 2002, what proposals it has to address the position whereby the Scottish Further and Higher Education Councils alone are responsible for the distribution of funds for welfare services, detailing the reasons f…

Answer · Wendy Alexander: The answer given to question S1W-22273 did not ascribe sole responsibility for the distribution of funds for student welfare services to the funding councils. I refer the member to that answer and to the answer given to question S1W-21385 on 18 January 2002.

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to review the autonomous position of further and higher education institutions, detailing the reasons for its position on this matter.

Answer · Wendy Alexander: The Scottish Executive has no current plans to review the autonomous status of further and higher education institutions. Ministers have indicated that they do not wish to pre-empt the findings of the Inquiry into Lifelong Learning which is being conducted by…

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive why it treats further and higher education institutions as autonomous bodies given that it funds them.

Answer · Wendy Alexander: Further and higher education institutions are constituted as independent, autonomous bodies, and are consequently treated as such by the Scottish Executive. The Executive does not consider autonomy to be a barrier to public funding, which, for example, in the…

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22280 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 7 February 2002, why it did not detail its reasons behind its decision not to centrally collate information on students failing to complete their courses and whether it will provide a full explanation of the reasons beh…

Answer · Wendy Alexander: I refer the member to the answers given to questions S1W-22975 and S1W-22976 on 11 March 2002.<P>Information on student completion rates has been centrally collated and previously published in the Secretary of State for Scotland's Annual Reports, <I>Further E…

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22280 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 7 February 2002, what specific new performance indicators are being developed by the Scottish Further Education Funding Council; what instructions or guidance it has provided to the council on these proposed indicators;…

Answer · Wendy Alexander: Policy guidance letters of 7 and 8 February 2001 and 17 December 2001 to the Scottish Further Education Funding Council (SFEFC), made various references to performance indicators. Each letter was placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre at the time.<P>SFEF…

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22280 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 7 February 2002, what action it took to ensure that the Parliament was aware of the position in regard to the suspension of the collection of college student completion rates; whether all relevant correspondence in rela…

Answer · Wendy Alexander: Parliament was made aware of the position in the Scottish Ministers' Annual Report, <I><P>Further Education in Scotland 1999</I>, which was laid before Parliament on 25 October 2000.<P>The report contained the following footnote:<P>Student Programme Achieveme…

12 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22280 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 7 February 2002, what the specific concerns were over the reliability of the source data which caused the suspension of the publication of information regarding college student completion rates; when it became aware of …

Answer · Wendy Alexander: In early 2000, the Scottish Further Education Funding Council (SFEFC) considered that the information systems then in place did not provide the complexity of data required to produce robust and publishable completion rates.<P>A footnote intimating the suspens…

11 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been paid by Lanarkshire NHS Board to (a) Stobhill Hospital, (b) North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust or (c) Greater Glasgow NHS Board for treatment of residents of the Cumbernauld and Kilsyth constituency.

Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-22948.

11 Feb 2002 · Written Question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether Lanarkshire NHS Board is required to reimburse (a) Stobhill Hospital (b) North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust or (c) Greater Glasgow NHS Board for treatment of residents of the Cumbernauld and Kilsyth constituency, and what the reasons are for the position on this matter.

Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-22948.