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I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Court Service to respond. His response is as follows:The Scottish Court Service is currently undertaking an audit of the Court estate to determine the scale and extent of work required throughout the Estate to ensure compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act. Additional resources have been provided to the Court Service to enable any reasonable and necessary adaptations to proceed. The information is not collected centrally in respect of District Courts as responsibility for this rests with the relevant local authority.

I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Court Service to respond. His response is as follows:The feasibility study, which was commissioned after the discovery of dry rot, was prepared with regard to the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act and contains proposals to comply with the requirements of the legislation. No further report has been commissioned.

I have asked John Ewing, the Chief Executive of the Scottish Court Service to respond. His response is as follows:The Scottish Court Service is currently assessing the scale and extent of the work required to bring the court up to the level of compliance required by the Disability Discrimination Act. In most courts there is already disabled access to the sheriff clerk's offices but in other cases work may be needed to extend the access to a wider range of courts, jury rooms and witness accommodation. The full extent of work needed and costings have yet to be determined. The following table lists the courts where work is likely to be required.Facilities for the Disabled

Location	Disabled Access to Jury and Witness Rooms	Disabled Access to Courts	Disabled Access to General Office
Aberdeen	Yes	Yes in Cts 2,3 4 & 7	Yes
Airdrie	Yes	Yes but not Ct 4	Yes
Alloa	No	No	Yes
Banff	Yes	Yes	Yes
Campbeltown	No	Yes	Yes
Cupar	No	Yes	Yes
Dingwall	No	No	Yes
Dornoch	No	No	Yes
Dumfries	Ct 1 only	Ct 1 only	Yes
Dunoon	No	No	Yes
Duns	No	No	-
Elgin	Yes	Yes	Yes
Forfar	Ct 1 only	Yes	Yes
Fort William	No	No	Yes
Greenock	Only 1	Yes	Yes
Hamilton	Not Ct 2, 4	Yes but not Ct 4	Yes
Inverness	Not Ct 1, 3	No	Yes
Kilmarnock	Yes	No	Yes
Kirkcaldy	Ct 2 & 3 only	Ct 1 only	Yes
Kirkcudbright	No	No	Yes
Kirkwall	No	No	No
Lanark	Ct 3 only	No	No
Lerwick	No	No	Yes
Linlithgow	Yes	Yes	Yes
Lochmaddy	No	No	No
Oban	No	No	Yes
Paisley	Yes	Yes	Yes
Peebles	No	No	Yes
Portree	Yes but too small	Yes	Yes
Rothesay	No	No	Yes
Selkirk	No	No	Yes
Stirling	One Ct	One Ct only	Yes
Stonehaven	No	No	No
Stornoway	No	Yes	Yes
Stranraer	No	No	Yes
Tain	No	No	Yes
Wick	No	No	Yes"

The Cryptosporidium Directions required Scottish Water to carry out a risk assessment on all its supplies and introduced sampling appropriate to the assessed risk. The Drinking Water Quality Regulator (DWQR) audits the requirements of the directions annually. Following the recent events in Glasgow and Edinburgh I have asked the DWQR to carry out a review of the detailed workings of the directions. The outcome of this review will be available in about two months. In the meantime, my initial assessment is that the investment priorities for 2002-06 given in the Quality and Standards paper published in August 2001 were broadly correct.

Provision of a police station at Peebles is a matter for Lothian and Borders Police. I am not aware of any proposals for upgrading or refurbishing the police station at Peebles nor of any plans for building a combined police station and courthouse at Peebles. No combined police station and courthouse have been built elsewhere in Scotland in recent years.

Yes. The Scottish Court Service will be consulting with Lothian and Borders Police on the options for future provision of court services in Peebles.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The readily available information is shown in the following table.

Date	Staff in Post	%Age
1 April 1999	250	102
1 August 1999	247	100
1 December 1999	246	99
1 April 2000	246	99
1 August 2000	248	100
1 December 2000	245	99
1 April 2001	239	97
1 August 2001	244	99
1 December 2001	254	99
1 April 2002	278	107
1 August 2002	269	103

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:Cornton Vale makes available and is further developing a range of interventions/drugs programmes including health care and addictions assessment, information and awareness, detoxification and substitute prescribing, relapse prevention and pre- and post-release support. Mandatory drug testing allows the prison to monitor drug misuse and the effectiveness of interventions and to identify inmates who may need specialist support. The increased pressures on Cornton Vale have been caused by numbers rising markedly above the available capacity of the establishment. SPS have announced the conversion of Darroch Hall at HM Prison Greenock to house women prisoners. This will ease overcrowding at Cornton Vale.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:The increased pressures on Cornton Vale have been caused by numbers rising markedly above the available capacity of the establishment.Procedures are in place which identify women with serious medical conditions and exclude them from cell sharing. Access times to toilet facilities are being monitored during patrol periods and an additional member of staff has recently been allocated to the night shift to cope with increased demand. The SPS have announced the conversion of Darroch Hall at HM Prison Greenock to house women prisoners. This will ease overcrowding at Cornton Vale. This will be in addition to the creation of an open prison facility in the SPS houses adjacent to Cornton Vale which will also help ease pressures.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:The standard induction process of three days for convicted prisoners has continued to operate as normal. Additional nursing resource has been supplied in order that health care for the increased number of admissions can be more effectively provided. The increased pressures on Cornton Vale have been caused by increased numbers rising markedly above the available capacity of the establishment. SPS have announced the conversion of Darroch Hall at HM Prison Greenock to house women prisoners. This will ease overcrowding at Cornton Vale. This will be in addition to the creation of an open prison facility in the SPS houses adjacent to Cornton Vale which will also help to ease pressures.