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To ask the Scottish Executive whether its strategy aimed at reducing incidents of violence against women is meeting its targets.
Cathy Peattie (Falkirk East) (Lab)
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will give a commitment (a) to fund the associated women’s’ services in the criminal justice sector through section 27 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 and (b) that children and young people living with domestic abuse should have access to support in their own right, given its endorsement of work with partners as an essential element of any work with men who abuse.
Cathy Peattie (Falkirk East) (Lab)
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time prison officers there were at HM Prison Castle Huntly in each of the last five years and what the turnover of prison officers was in each year.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) recommended and (b) actual maximum number of inmates has been at HM Prison Castle Huntly in each month since 1999.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-2596 by Cathy Jamieson on 26 September 2003, what action it takes to ensure that prisons are always sufficiently staffed in accordance with management assessments.
Mr Andrew Welsh (Angus) (SNP)
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will decide whether both new prisons to be built at Low Moss and West Lothian will be privately operated.
Colin Fox (Lothians) (SSP)
To ask the Scottish Executive what the breakdown is of the basic components of its annual cost per prisoner place of £33,800, including food provision, building programmes, staff costs, and other costs.
Colin Fox (Lothians) (SSP)
To ask the Scottish Executive whether staff turnover rates at HM Prison Kilmarnock remain at three times the average for the publicly-owned estate.
Colin Fox (Lothians) (SSP)
To ask the Scottish Executive when the TETRA system will be fully operational and ready for use by police.
Mr Mark Ruskell (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Green)
To ask the Scottish Executive what projections it has of the number of police officers who will retire in (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007.
To ask the Scottish Executive what projections it has of the number of police officers whom it intends to recruit in (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007.
Mr Kenny MacAskill (Lothians) (SNP)
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Disclosure Scotland is made of aware of all crimes committed that resulted in a fiscal fine.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all people employed in the waged and unwaged sector who are subject to a Disclosure Scotland check have an obligation to notify their employers of all offences committed, included those which resulted in a fiscal fine.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many fiscal fines were offered in 2003-04.
To ask the Scottish Executive what categories of offence attract fiscal fine disposal.
Mary Scanlon (Highlands and Islands) (Con)
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions there have been against retailers for selling knives to underage customers.
Mr John Home Robertson (East Lothian) (Lab)