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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for ��˿�� to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S2W-30050

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Johann Lamont on 29 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-24528 by Hugh Henry on 11 April 2006, what funding was provided for residential rehabilitation services in each year since 2001-02.

The Executive provided £6.8million per annum to local authorities in the three years 2001-02 to 2003-04 specificallyto support drug rehabilitation services. Thereafter this funding was incorporatedinto Grant Aided Expenditure (GAE).

In addition, we provide £23.7million annually to NHS boards for drug treatment services.

Planning of services is doneat local rather than national level. Alcohol and Drug Action Teams (ADATs) and theirpartner agencies are responsible for assessing needs and commissioning servicesin their local areas, including residential services aimed at the rehabilitationof drug users.

Question reference: S2W-30049

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Johann Lamont on 29 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-24528 by Hugh Henry on 11 April 2006, how many individuals were unable to access residential drug rehabilitation places in each year since 2001-02 due to insufficient numbers of beds.

Question reference: S2W-29784

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 24 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many eligible applicants it estimates will have to wait until after the winter for (a) the provision of free central heating and insulation under its central heating programme and (b) grants to have their homes insulated under the Warm Deal scheme, broken down by local authority area.

I have asked Angiolina Foster,Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:

Information is not kept in theform requested covering local authority area but by main postcode area.

The central heating and WarmDeal Programmes are demand-led. The number of people waiting and the length of timeeach individual has to wait are dependent on the number of eligible applicants andthe target number of installations in any one year. The average waiting time iscurrently around six months. Where householders require gas connections, electricalupgrades, building warrants etc it may, in some circumstances, take longer for themto receive the measures.

The target number of centralheating and warm deal installations in 2006-07 is 12,000 and 12,800 respectively.However, to address the continuing high demandwe are allocating an additional £5 million, between now and the end of this financialyear, to help up to 5,000 more householders benefit from these successfulprogrammes.

Question reference: S2W-29847

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 22 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive when it estimates that the number of referrals to the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration on non-offence grounds will peak.

Question reference: S2W-29845

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 22 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has received from the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland in respect of a request from the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration for £20 million of additional funding to support front-line services.

Question reference: S2W-29844

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 22 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how regularly it monitors the number of referrals to the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration on (a) care and protection and non-offence grounds and (b) offence grounds and how many referrals there were in each category in the last six months, also showing how these figures compare with the corresponding six months in 2005.

The SCRA publish data quarterlyas well as an annual report which are analysed by the Scottish Executive to informaction.

The information requested onthe number of referrals for the six months in 2005 can be found in the ScottishChildren’s Reporter Administration Annual Report for 2005-06 which was publishedon 16 November. A copy is available in the Scottish Parliament InformationCentre (Bib. number 40988).

As regards data for the lastsix months, this information is not yet available. We expect the SCRA to publishthe second quarterly performance monitoring report in respect of 2006-07 early inDecember, thereafter it will be laid in Scottish Parliament Information Centre in the normalway.

Question reference: S2W-29850

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 22 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on possible sales of children’s hearing centre premises by the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration to address a financial shortfall resulting from the decision of Scottish ministers to refuse a request for £20 million of additional funding to support its front-line services.

Question reference: S2W-29846

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 22 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive when it estimates that the number of referrals to the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration on offence grounds will peak.

The Scottish Executive has madeno such estimates for either offence or non-offence grounds, nor are we in a positionto do so.

The multi-agency MinisterialTask Group, which was set up in the summer, has been developing a new way of workingfor the referrals process. The new model will help referring agencies to identifywhen compulsory measures might be needed and, when they are not, help agencies todeliver services for children much more quickly without a referral to thereporter.

We are primarily concerned thatchildren who offend or are at risk get an appropriate, proportionate and timelyresponse so that positive outcomes are secured. Where that may entail compulsorysupervision in an individual case, then the matter should be referred to theprincipal reporter.

Question reference: S2W-29848

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 22 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what evidence it has to link the number of offence referrals to the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration to children living in the 10 most deprived communities, as determined by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation.

I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-27307 on 2 August 2006 which stated that the Scottish Children’sReporter Administration (SCRA) does not hold information on children referred asdefined by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation.All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

Question reference: S2W-29767

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 November 2006
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 22 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many eligible householders received free central heating, insulation and other benefits worth around £3,000 per household by March 2006 from the Executive’s 2005-06 budget of £57 million for its central heating programme and Warm Deal scheme.