- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 16 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many communications support posts for deaf and partially hearing people there were in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Government.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 9 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many investigations into fraud were carried out by police forces in each year since 1999, broken down by constabulary.
Answer
The available information is given in the following table.
Number of Crimes of Fraud Recorded by the Police by Police Force Area, 1999-2000 to 2006-07
| Police Force | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
| Central | 632 | 694 | 871 | 1,152 | 1,235 | 781 | 1,077 | 633 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 478 | 293 | 440 | 514 | 460 | 1,066 | 212 | 262 |
| Fife | 1,348 | 1,747 | 1,130 | 1,333 | 1,279 | 1,296 | 866 | 710 |
| Grampian | 3,840 | 3,260 | 2,936 | 1,922 | 1,349 | 1,630 | 1,120 | 727 |
| Lothian and Borders | 5,456 | 6,217 | 5,087 | 4,325 | 4,630 | 7,242 | 2,241 | 1,741 |
| Northern | 675 | 965 | 971 | 940 | 674 | 934 | 744 | 566 |
| Strathclyde | 6,983 | 6,227 | 5,370 | 4,844 | 4,711 | 4,200 | 3,873 | 3,781 |
| Tayside | 1,208 | 640 | 590 | 798 | 939 | 1,158 | 941 | 912 |
| All Scotland | 20,620 | 20,043 | 17,395 | 15,828 | 15,277 | 18,307 | 11,074 | 9,332 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 9 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) complaints related to incidents of criminality were received by police forces from members of the public and (b) police investigations took place following complaints related to incidents of criminality in each year since 1999, broken down by constabulary.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. The police recorded crime statistics do not identify whether the crimes recorded were made known to them by members of the public.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 9 April 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many complaints related to breaches under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 were received by police forces in each year since enactment, broken down by constabulary.
Answer
The information requested cannot be shown separately, but is contained in the figures shown below.
Number of Election Offences Recorded by Police Force Area, 2000-01 to 2006-07.
| Police Force | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
| Central | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fife | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grampian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lothian and Borders | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Strathclyde | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tayside | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All Scotland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 14 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Elish Angiolini on 28 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of fraud were referred to the Procurator Fiscal by police forces in each year since 1999, broken down by constabulary.
Answer
The numbers of charges of fraud reported to Procurators Fiscal by police forces in each financial year since 2002-03 are shown in the following table. A further 2,161 such charges were reported to Procurators Fiscal by Specialist Reporting Agencies.
Charges: Fraud etc
| Police Force | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | Total |
| Central Scotland Police | 931 | 866 | 981 | 909 | 633 | 4,320 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Police | 442 | 343 | 540 | 97 | 122 | 1,544 |
| Fife Constabulary | 802 | 901 | 819 | 702 | 571 | 3,795 |
| Grampian Police | 919 | 660 | 709 | 554 | 354 | 3,196 |
| Lothian and Borders | 2,800 | 2,010 | 3,069 | 2,096 | 1,300 | 11,275 |
| Northern Constabulary | 853 | 487 | 697 | 645 | 341 | 3,023 |
| Strathclyde Police | 3,546 | 3,319 | 2,733 | 2,573 | 2,040 | 14,211 |
| Tayside Police | 879 | 845 | 1,175 | 845 | 739 | 4,483 |
| British Transport Police | 176 | 215 | 51 | 49 | 23 | 514 |
| Ministry of Defence Police | 26 | 69 | 53 | 16 | 88 | 252 |
| Total | 11,374 | 9,715 | 10,827 | 8,486 | 6,211 | 46,613 |
Notes:
1. The information in the table has been extracted from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service's case management database. The database is a live, operational database used to manage the processing of reports submitted to procurators fiscal by the police and other reporting agencies. If a Procurator Fiscal amends a charge submitted by a reporting agency, the database will record details only of the amended charge.
2. The database is charge-based. The figures quoted therefore relate to the number of charges rather than the number of individuals charged or the number of incidents that gave rise to such charges.
3. The information in the table is restricted to charges involving fraud, attempted fraud, fraud (board and lodging), fraud (credit/debit card), fraud (electronic means), fraud (taxi fare/vehicle/vessel etc fare) and fraudulent schemes.
4. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service completed an upgrade of its electronic case management system in April 2002. Only case records created after that date contain complete data which is capable of electronic analysis.
5. The table reflects the position at 20 March 2008.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 28 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations ministers will make to the relevant authorities to introduce the “sco” abbreviation as standard for official email addresses for all Scottish public bodies in place of “gov.uk” or “scottish.parliament.uk”.
Answer
We are giving careful consideration to the issues that would be raised by the introduction of the sco abbreviation so that, should the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) call for proposals for new generic top-level domain names, the Scottish Government will be able to make an informed decision about whether to support an sco abbreviation.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Johnstone on 25 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many IT incidents have been recorded where parliamentary account users have been unable to log on remotely from home or constituency offices due to problems associated with lack of capacity on parliamentary servers.
Answer
IT incidents have been categorised since December 2005. The table below shows the number of IT incidents logged with the Helpdesk per month where the user has been unable to connect to the Parliament remotely due to capacity issues.
| | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
| January | | 8 | 3 | 7 |
| February | | 17 | 5 | 35 |
| March | | 29 | 20 | 102 |
| April | | 1 | 0 | |
| May | | 0 | 0 | |
| June | | 48 | 1 | |
| July | | 2 | 0 | |
| August | | 10 | 1 | |
| September | | 2 | 0 | |
| October | | 6 | 7 | |
| November | | 1 | 4 | |
| December | 4 | 0 | 6 | |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-7395 by Richard Lochhead on 5 December 2007, when regulations in respect of the transportation of puppies pursuant to the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 will be laid and whether they will be subject to affirmative or negative procedure.
Answer
Draft regulations which will require puppy and kitten dealers to be licensed by local authorities will be laid in Parliament shortly after the Easter recess. These draft regulations will need to be approved by resolution of the Parliament before they can be made (the affirmative procedure).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Johnstone on 11 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body when the issues associated with lack of IT capacity, specifically the service related to remote access, will be resolved.
Answer
The remote access service offered by the SPCB to facilitate connection from locations other than the Holyrood building has recently been experiencing intermittent problems. An interim solution was brought online on Friday 7 March to alleviate the problems and it is expected that the final solution will be in place by Monday 17 March.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 03 March 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Johnstone on 11 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many parliamentary account users reported problems to the IT Helpdesk while logging on remotely from home or constituency office via the citrix log-on service from (a) 1 January to 29 February 2008 and (b) 1 January to 28 February 2007.
Answer
During the period 1 January to 29 February 2008, 185 parliamentary IT account users contacted the IT Helpdesk regarding the remote access service. During the period 1 January 2007 to 28 February 2007, 213 parliamentary IT account users contacted the Helpdesk regarding the remote access service.
