- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2022
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 22 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking in response to the most recent recorded crime statistics showing a rise in violent crime.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 22 February 2022
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 16 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how many and (b) what percentage of police officers, who are potentially able to, currently wear a body-worn camera on a regular basis, and what budget it has allocated to Police Scotland to increase these numbers.
Answer
Police Scotland have advised there are currently over 250 body worn cameras in use within North East Division. In addition, Police Scotland also equipped its Armed Policing officers ahead of COP26. In total 4.6 % of officers are currently equipped with Body worn Video (BWV). A consultation on a wider roll-out of body worn cameras closed in September 2021 and work is ongoing by Police Scotland to consider a national introduction.
The Scottish Government provided one off funding of £0.5m in 2021-22 to the Scottish Police Authority (SPA), to support the use of body-worn cameras for specialist officers for COP26.
For 2022-23, the total budget for policing is almost £1.4 billion, including an additional £40.5m increase in resource funding. The allocation of resources is a matter for the Scottish Police Authority and the Chief Constable.
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 January 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 3 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a list of the offences in relation to which a victim statement cannot be made.
Answer
The current list of prescribed offences where a victim impact statement can be made is set out here - The Scottish Government has committed to expanding the scope of the Victim Statement Scheme and work is currently ongoing to explore extensions to this list.
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 January 2022
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 25 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that 2 million calls to Police Scotland have gone unanswered since 2018.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 25 January 2022
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 December 2021
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 13 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the latest figures showing that recorded hate crimes against members of the LGBT+ community have risen for five years in a row.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 13 January 2022
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 20 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of the number of emergency bed days that have been allocated to patients as a result of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in each year since 2018, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The total number of bed days recorded for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with an emergency admission during their continuous inpatient stay (CIS) by NHS Board and financial year (2018/19–2020/21) is provided in the following table.
Table 1: Total bed days for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with an emergency admission during their continuous inpatient stay (CIS) by NHS board of Treatment and Financial Year, 2018/19 - 2020/21.
| NHS Board of Treatment | Total bed days 2018-19 | Total bed days 2019-20 | Total bed days 2020/21 |
| National Waiting Times Centre | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| NHS Ayrshire & Arran | 13,675 | 12,111 | 6,520 |
| NHS Borders | 2,436 | 2,057 | 967 |
| NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 3,730 | 4,538 | 2,663 |
| NHS Fife | 5,592 | 5,504 | 3,510 |
| NHS Forth Valley | 6,231 | 5,354 | 2,310 |
| NHS Grampian | 7,598 | 7,767 | 4,379 |
| NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 38,015 | 40,686 | 21,360 |
| NHS Highland | 6,385 | 5,592 | 2,193 |
| NHS Lanarkshire | 14,880 | 15,050 | 8,474 |
| NHS Lothian | 13,502 | 12,494 | 6,483 |
| NHS Orkney | 194 | 336 | 67 |
| NHS Shetland | 118 | 102 | 123 |
| NHS Tayside | 7,149 | 6,895 | 4,263 |
| NHS Western Isles | 574 | 301 | 156 |
| Non-NHS Provider | 68 | 96 | 295 |
| Total | 120,147 | 118,883 | 63,792 |
Source: Public Health Scotland, SMR01
Extracted: December 2021
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 December 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 20 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how convicted prisoners who identify as trans male or female are facilitated in the prison estate, and how many are currently held in each part of the prison estate, broken down by facility, prison or institution.
Answer
I have asked Teresa Medhurst, Interim Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. Her response is as follows:
Decisions by the SPS as to the most appropriate location to accommodate transgender people are made on an individualised basis, informed by a multi-disciplinary assessment of both risk and need.
Such decisions seek to protect both the wellbeing and rights of the individual as well as the welfare and rights of others around them, including staff, in order to achieve an outcome that balances risks and promotes the safety of all.
As of 3 December 2021, there were 15 transgender individuals held across 10 prisons in Scotland. In order to avoid the potential indirect identification of individuals, it is not appropriate to disaggregate the data as requested.
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 December 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Dorothy Bain on 17 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service will publish its annual report on the Victims’ Right to Review Scheme for 2020-21.
Answer
The Annual Report on the COPFS Victims' Right to Review Scheme for 2020-21 has been published today on the COPFS website. It is available to view at the following link:
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 December 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Graeme Dey on 16 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many electric vehicle charging points are installed at each of its buildings, and which of its buildings have no such charging points.
Answer
The total number of electric vehicle charging points installed at each building on the core Scottish Government Estate is in the following table. Each charging point can charge 2 electric vehicles at the same time except the charging points at Bonnington, Atlantic Quay and Kirkwall which are single points.
PROPERTY | LOCATION | NUMBER OF CHARGING POINTS |
Marine Laboratory | Aberdeen | 6 Double Points |
Ocean Trade Centre | Aberdeen | 0 |
Fishery Office | Anstruther | 0 |
Russell House | Ayr | 0 |
Balivanich | Benbecula | 0 |
Buckie Fishery Office | Buckie | 0 |
Fishery Office | Campbeltown | 0 |
Brooms Road | Dumfries | 1 Double Point |
Endeavour House | Dundee | 0 |
Bute House | Edinburgh | 1 Double Point |
Governors House | Edinburgh | 0 |
Saint Andrews House | Edinburgh | 1 Double Point |
Saughton House | Edinburgh | 5 Double Points |
Bonnington | Edinburgh | 13 Single Points |
Victoria Quay | Edinburgh | 7 Double Points |
SASA Labs | Edinburgh | 6 Double Points |
Alexander Fleming House | Elgin | 0 |
Fishery Office | Eyemouth | 0 |
Hadrian House | Falkirk | 0 |
Fishery Office | Fraserburgh | 0 |
Tweedbank | Galashiels | 2 Double Points |
Fruit Market | Glasgow | 0 |
Atlantic Quay 5 | Glasgow | 1 Single Points |
Atlantic Quay 4 | Glasgow | 0 |
The Links | Golspie | 0 |
Cadzow Court | Hamilton | 0 |
Bothwell House | Hamilton | 0 |
Hamilton House | Hamilton | 0 |
Longman House | Inverness | 1 Double Point |
Thainstone Court | Inverurie | 1 Double Point |
Fishery Office | Kinlochbervie | 0 |
Unit 4B | Kinlochleven | 0 |
Fishery Office | Kirkwall | 0 |
Tankerness Lane | Kirkwall | 1 Single Point |
Fishery Office | Lerwick | 0 |
Charlotte House | Lerwick | 0 |
Denholm House | Livingston | 0 |
Fishery Office | Lochinver | 0 |
Fishery Office | Mallaig | 0 |
Inchbraoch House | Montrose | 0 |
Cameron House | Oban | 3 Double Points |
Strathearn House | Perth | 0 |
Fishery Office | Peterhead | 0 |
Fresh Water Laboratory | Pitlochry | 1 Double Point |
Scorrybreck | Portree | 0 |
Fishery Office | Scrabster | 0 |
Keith Street | Stornoway | 0 |
Fishery Office | Stornoway | 0 |
Station Street | Stranraer | 0 |
Shieldaig Field Station | Strathcarron | 0 |
Fishery Office | Tarbert | 0 |
Strathbeg House | Thurso | 2 Double Points |
Crossapol | Tiree | 0 |
Fishery Office | Ullapool | 0 |
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 December 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Graeme Dey on 16 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-04433 by Graeme Dey on 30 November 2021, whether it will provide the information requested regarding whether it has undertaken an assessment of introducing a specific scheme for island businesses that lose income as a result of ferry delays and cancellations, and for what reason it did not provide this information in its answer.
Answer
There are no plans for a compensation scheme to be offered to businesses due to travel disruption as a result of ferry delays and cancellations. Any such scheme would be extremely challenging and would ultimately draw resources otherwise intended for the operation of ferry services.
Scottish Ministers do fully recognise the importance of reliable ferry services to the economic, social and cultural development of island and remote mainland communities. We have committed to investing at least £580 million in ports and vessels over the next five years to improve resilience.
CalMac Ferries Ltd (CFL), have operational responsibility to deliver the lifeline services and work throughout disruptions to find ways to continue the freight and passenger service to the communities. However, it is impossible to completely remove the risk of disruption due to either inclement weather or other reasons.
Transport Scotland continue to work with CalMac Ferries Ltd and engage with local stakeholders in order to ensure any disruption to services have minimum impact on communities, and assess all the options available to maximise available capacity across the CHFS network.
