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Scottish Office

Answer

Mr. Swinney: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide a breakdown of all allocations of money over £10,000 for research projects into crime, the causes of crime, the prison system, the police or the criminal justice system; if he will give the allocations over £10,000 already made for such research projects for financial years 1998-99 and 1999-2000; if he will give the total funds available for each of the next three financial years for such projects; and what percentage of this will be under the control of the Scottish Parliament. [65812] Mr. McLeish: [holding answer 18 January 1999]: Research on crime, the causes of crime, the prison system, the police and the criminal justice system is commissioned by The Scottish Office from its criminal law research vote and, in part, from the social work research vote (offender social work services). Funds available from these research votes over the next three years are shown in the following table. From July 1999, these funds will come under the control of the Scottish Parliament. £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year Criminal law research vote Social work research vote 1999-2000 532,000 150,000 2000-01 532,000 150,000 2001-02 532,000 150,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Research projects for 1998-99 and 1999-2000 costing over £10,000 are listed in the table. £000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Research projects 1998-99 1999-2000 Young men and offending 65 -- Young women and offending 8 2 Women offenders -- 60 Evaluation of Freagarrach (President Young 13 17 Offenders) Children Jointly Reported to Reporters and -- 18 Procurators Fiscal Children's Hearing's Cohort Study (not soley offenders) Evaluation of Diversion 30 10 Taking Account of Victims Views 12 -- Social Work and Criminal Justice 9 5 Programme--Phase 3: Re-conviction of probationers and ex-prisoners Evaluation of Supervised Attendance Orders -- 34 Evaluation of Airborne Initiative -- 28 Research To Develop A New Police Standard 36 -- Entrance Test Child Witness Support Initiative 13 -- Intermediate Diets and the Agreement of 22 9 Evidence Evaluation of the Strathclyde Police Witness 17 -- Protection Pilot Project Comparison of Homicide Rates in Scotland, 14 -- England and Wales Evaluation of the Open Doors Programme HMP 20 19 Barlinnie Young Offenders Held in Custody 31 -- Repeat Victimisation 21 3 Evaluation of the Young Offender Mediation 11 -- Evaluation of Electronically Monitored 15 25 Restriction of Liberty Orders Survey of Crimes Against Business in 46 69 Scotland Experience of Violence and Harassment of Gay 11 3 Men in the City of Edinburgh _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

65812; 324 c119-21W

Session

1998-99

Subjects

Crime Criminal law Devolution Grants Police Scotland Scottish Parliament Research Scottish Office

Contains statistics

Yes