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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.

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Question reference: S1W-25678

Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 May 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 July 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-25236 by Mr Jim Wallace on 3 May 2002, whether and when it received any submission from the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) on the proposals of the internal SPS submission Constructing the Future prepared by Mr Eric Murch of HM Prison Low Moss on or about 21 April 2000

Ministers did not receive such a submission. In the first phase of the Estates Review submissions were sought by SPS of most of its establishments in relation to their development plans. Detailed submissions were made by those establishments which required major development as part of Constructing the Future. This phase of the estates review led to settled conclusions regarding the majority of establishments involving some local development work. Further work then took place to consider integrated national options rather than local options to move towards an ideal estate. It was the investment decisions involved in these overall options which were reviewed by PricewaterhouseCoopers on behalf of the Scottish Executive.

Question reference: S1W-25680

Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 May 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 July 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-25238 by Mr Jim Wallace of 3 May 2002, what financial review has been made on its behalf or by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) of the investment decisions proposed in the internal SPS submission Constructing the Future prepared by Mr Eric Murch of HM Prison Low Moss on or about 21 April 2000.

Question reference: S1W-25234

Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 July 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the e-mail message of 12.58 pm on 21 March 2002 to Scottish Prison Service (SPS) staff by Mr Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the SPS, regarding the prison estate review, which of the proposals contained in its consultation on the review are elements of Executive policy or of SPS practices.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The options were prepared by SPS with the costs reviewed by PricewaterhouseCoopers at the request of the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Executive published its proposals for consultation. As the results of the consultation are currently being considered, these remain proposals unless and until they are adopted as Executive policy.

Question reference: S1W-25233

Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 April 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 July 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what reports it has received or requested from the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) on the e-mail message of 12.58 pm on 21 March 2002 to SPS staff by Mr Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the SPS, regarding the prison estate review.

No reports have been requested. I have however seen a copy of the relevant e-mail and I am satisfied that Mr Cameron was properly advising staff about their duty of impartiality as civil servants and providing the means whereby staff could express their views through line management or trade union representatives. No instructions have been issued to SPS staff either in the e-mail from the Chief Executive or otherwise that would infringe their right to raise any matters of concern with their elected representatives.

Question reference: S1W-27070

Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 June 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 July 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive which bodies it consulted with in April 2002 on civil court fees in the Court of Session and the sheriff courts.

The Executive's consultation exercise was based on a paper issued in September 2001. The names of the bodies to whom the consultation paper were sent are given in the following list:Action of Churches Together in ScotlandCatholic Church in ScotlandEvangelical Alliance (Scotland)Faculty of AdvocatesThe General AssemblyThe Law Society of ScotlandPart-time Sheriffs' AssociationScottish Association of Citizens Advice ScotlandScottish Consumer CouncilScottish Inter Faith CouncilScottish Legal Aid BoardScottish Parliament Justice CommitteeScottish Sheriff Court Users GroupThe Sheriffs' AssociationSt Columbas Episcopal ChurchThe consultation paper was also placed on the Scottish Executive Website inviting responses. The following organisations and individuals responded to this general invitation to give comments:Scottish Council for the Single HomelessCampbell Smith WSThe Association of Personal Injury LawyersScottish Legal Action GroupSimpson and Marwick WSScottish Liberal DemocratsProfessor Alan Paterson, Strathclyde University.

Question reference: S1W-26775

Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 June 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 3 July 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects the appointment of the new Chair of the Scottish Law Commission to be announced.

Question reference: S1W-26375

Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 2 July 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-25554 by Mr Jim Wallace on 27 May 2002, how many hearings of the Criminal Compensation Authority were conducted for the authority in Scotland by persons other than members of the Law Society of Scotland in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

Question reference: S1W-26374

Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 2 July 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-25554 by Mr Jim Wallace on 27 May 2002, what information it holds on the number of members of the Law Society of Scotland likely to be employed for the determination of applications for compensation by victims of criminal injuries to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority by the end of 2002-03 in light of the reduced volume of outstanding non-statutory scheme cases in respect of which they are mainly employed.

Question reference: S1W-26122

Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 May 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 1 July 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-25553 by Mr Jim Wallace on 15 May 2002, what the reasons were for each adjournment of a hearing under the (a) non-statutory Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme and (b) 1996 Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme.

Question reference: S1W-26121

Asked by: Brian Fitzpatrick, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 May 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 1 July 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-25552 by Mr Jim Wallace on 15 May 2002, on what date each application was lodged in each year from 1990 to date; how many hearings were held in each year for each such application; how many such hearings were adjourned in each year, and what the reasons were for each such adjournment.