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To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases are currently awaiting hearings following decisions by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission.
Chris Ballance (South of Scotland) (Green)
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will now establish an independent police complaints commission.
Patrick Harvie (Glasgow) (Green)
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions there have been over the past year for offences related to football matches.
Dennis Canavan (Falkirk West) (Ind)
To ask the Scottish Executive what priority it gives to community policing.
Alex Johnstone (North East Scotland) (Con)
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish the Annual Report of the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will place a copy of the draft Annual Report of the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre along with correspondence between it and the SCRA relating to the annual report.
Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP)
To ask the Scottish Executive why the Public Defence Solicitors’ Office (PDSO) is allocated a fixed percentage of the custody court duty plan rather than applying as an individual agent as is the case with private firms; whether it is satisfied that this allocation does not constitute preferential treatment for the PDSO; whether any suggestion was made to private firms that the allocation would be reduced, and whether it now has any plans to reduce the allocation.
Mr Kenny MacAskill (Lothians) (SNP)
To ask the Scottish Executive when information on criminal proceedings relating to serious injury and careless driving offences which resulted in a fatality will be made available, including information on offences recorded by the police and on proceedings in court, showing the sentences imposed.
Mr Kenny MacAskill (Lothians) (SNP)
To ask the Scottish Executive how many reports of offences under section 52 of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 * have been made to procurators fiscal in each year since 1999, broken down by sheriff court area.
Mr Kenny MacAskill (Lothians) (SNP)
*Relates to vandalism.
Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 s.52.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average time is for a case which has been referred to the courts by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission to come before the courts.
Mark Ballard (Lothians) (Green)
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-12713 by Cathy Jamieson on 14 December 2004, what the average fine has been, where a monetary penalty was awarded, for a first offender convicted of (a) non-sexual crimes of violence, (b) serious assault, (c) robbery, (d) crimes of indecency, (e) rape, (f) attempted rape, (g) indecent assault, (h) crimes of dishonesty, (i) housebreaking, (j) shoplifting, (k) fraud, (l) fire-raising, (m) vandalism, (n) handling an offensive weapon, (o) drugs, (p) petty assault, (q) breach of the peace and (r) drink driving in each of the last five years.
Mr Brian Monteith (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con)