- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 6 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any new cases of foot-and-mouth disease in Scotland as at 17 August 2001.
Answer
The last confirmed case of foot-and-mouth disease in Scotland was on 30 May 2001. There have been no new cases of foot-and-mouth disease in Scotland since that date.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 6 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many misconduct reports were lodged at each Scottish Prison Service prison in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01 and (c) 2001 to date.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:This information is not readily available in the form requested. However, details of breaches of discipline committed by type, and by male and female prisoners and young offenders, are published annually in the SPS Annual Report. A copy of the Annual Report for 1999-2000 is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre and the SPS website. The Annual Report for 2000-01 is not yet published.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 6 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prison officers were employed in Scottish Prison Service prisons in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01 and (c) 2001-02 to date and what the percentage turnover of prison officers was in each of these periods.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The figures are:
| Year | No. of officers at 1 April | % turnover in year* |
| 1999 | 3,091 | 2.9% |
| 2000 | 2,893 | 3.7% |
| 2001 | 2,800 | 2.0% |
*Turnover is based on voluntary resignations, and does not include retirals.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 6 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-16943 by Mr Jim Wallace on 8 August 2001, whether it will place copies of the protocol on the release of information to the media about escaped or absconding prisoners in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:Yes. I am placing a copy of the media protocol agreed by ACPOS and SPS in the Parliament's Reference centre (Bib. no. 15579).
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 4 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the rate of pay for prisoners in HM Prison Kilmarnock was in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01 and (c) 2001-02 to date.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:The SPS have been advised by Premier Prison Services Ltd that the average weekly wage for prisoners has been approximately:
| 1999-2000 | £21 per week |
| 2000-01 | £18 per week |
| 2001 to date | £17 per week |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 4 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the rate of pay for prisoners in Scottish Prison Service prisons was in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01 and (c) 2001-02 to date.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:The weekly rates of pay for prisoners are tabulated below.The actual amount paid to each prisoner depends on the type of work and response.(a) £3.40-£15.00(b) £3.40-£15.00(c) £4.80-£18.00
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 4 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the children enrolled for (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each local authority area for academic session 2001-02 have special educational needs and what each of these figures represents as a percentage of the total number of pupils in the relevant sector in each area.
Answer
The information requested is not available at this time. The annual School Census in September 2001 will collect information about school pupils for 2001-02, the results of which will be published in 2002.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 4 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the children enrolled for (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each local authority area for academic session 2001-02 have a Record of Needs and what each of these figures represents as a percentage of the total number of pupils in the relevant sector in each area.
Answer
The information requested is not available at this time. The annual School Census in September 2001 will collect information about school pupils for 2001-02, the results of which will be published in 2002.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-16943 by Mr Jim Wallace on 8 August 2001, what measures it has taken to ensure, without causing unnecessary alarm, that groups known to be at risk from Gordon Johnstone, particularly the vulnerable elderly, are aware that he has not been recaptured since he absconded in July 2001 and that he should not be approached.
Answer
Lothian and Borders Police have the lead responsibility for the recapture of Gordon Johnstone. We understand that the main approach used to inform the public has been through the media. Extensive information has been provided, highlighting the groups that might be at particular risk, including the elderly, coupled with warnings not to approach him.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 28 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, given that (a) additional financial resources for schools, as described in the Scottish Executive Education Department's circular 5/2000, "must be clearly seen to be additional to existing planned education spending and to spending on individual schools", (b) the Scottish Borders Council (SBC) Directors of Finance and Education certified in their application for a grant for #416,000 on 18 December 2000 that the resources to be distributed to schools would be additional to existing or planned school budgets and (c) at the SBC Education Committee meeting on 30 January 2001 school budgets were reduced by #350,000, SBC is in breach of the terms of the award of the grant and, if so, what the consequences of such a breach are.
Answer
It is not unprecedented for authorities to make adjustments, both up and down, to planned budgets for services during a financial year. The money to which circular 5/2000 refers has been allocated by the council to schools. The council has assured the Executive that this allocation is additional to the resources that would otherwise have been available to schools in the area.
