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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.

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Question reference: S2W-08444

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 21 May 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 8 June 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many companies, individuals and organisations tendered for the contract to provide prisoner escort and court custody services.

Question reference: S2W-08446

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 21 May 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 8 June 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many bids were received for the contract to provide prisoner escort and court custody services.

Question reference: S2W-08449

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 21 May 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 8 June 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider amending Contract between The Scottish Ministers and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the Provision of Prisoner Escort & Court Custody Services in Scotland to ensure that penalties for prisoner releases reflect the severity of the crime for which the prisoner was convicted.

Question reference: S2W-08508

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 24 May 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 8 June 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is satisfied that there has been significant improvement in the performance of Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd following the meeting between the company and the Scottish Prison Service on 12 April 2004.

Question reference: S2W-08331

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 May 2004
Current Status: Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 4 June 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7832 by Cathy Jamieson on 14 May 2004, which individuals, agencies and organisations are asked to respond to parliamentary questions on behalf of ministers.

Only ministers can respond to parliamentary questions. However, under the terms of the Executive’s Guidance on Parliamentary Questions, where a question relates to operational matters, Chief Executives of Executive Agencies can be invited to provide information to form the substance of the answer.

The Executive Agencies are as follows:

Accountant in Bankruptcy

Communities Scotland

Fisheries Research Service

Historic Scotland

HM Inspectorate of Education

National Archives of Scotland

Registers of Scotland

Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR)

Scottish Court Services

Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency

Scottish Prison Service

Scottish Public Pensions Agency

Student Awards Agency for Scotland

Scottish Agricultural Science Agency.

Question reference: S2W-08330

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 May 2004
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 June 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7829 by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 May 2004, whether there has been an increase in real terms in public funding for the NHS between 1999 and 2004 and, if so, what the increase has been.

Question reference: S2W-07765

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 23 April 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 June 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-33537 and S1W-34414 by Mr Jim Wallace on 27 February and 31 March 2003 respectively, what information it has regarding the number of reports to the Procurator Fiscal in respect of offences of violence or other similar categories of offences arising from incidents at HM Prison Kilmarnock.

Question reference: S2W-07763

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 23 April 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 June 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-34415 by Mr Jim Wallace on 31 March 2003, what system exists to ensure that the Scottish Prison Service is made aware of convictions in court that might incur performance points.

Question reference: S2W-07808

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 26 April 2004
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 June 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-4525 by Cathy Jamieson on 16 December 2003, what equivalent training there is for staff at HM Prison Kilmarnock.

Question reference: S2W-08325

Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 May 2004
Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 2 June 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how the costs incurred in each PFI and PPP project since 1999 compare with the capital costs that would have been incurred had each project been funded through traditional procurement methods.