- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any land has been transferred to the Scottish Prison Service in each of the last five years; if so, where, why and from whom the transfer was made, and what the value of the land was.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:Yes, at HM Prison Low Moss. Details of this transfer are available in the SPS Annual Report and Accounts 1999-2000. (Note 7 to the accounts refers.)
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30092 by Mr Jim Wallace on 23 October 2002, whether it will give full details of the notice it received under paragraph 6.8 of the Minute of Agreement Between the Secretary of State for Scotland and Kilmarnock Prison Services Ltd for the Design, Construction, Management and Financing of a Prison at Kilmarnock as requested in question S1W-28728.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The content of the notice is regarded as commercially confidential information.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-25569 by Mr Jim Wallace on 16 May 2002, whether it will show the performance points accrued by the operating company of HM Prison Kilmarnock broken down for each heading and by sub-section in sections 2.1(i), 2.2(a), 2.2(b), 2.4(a), 2.4(b), 2.4(c), 2.4(d) and 2.4(e) in Schedule F to the Minute of Agreement between the Secretary of State for Scotland and Kilmarnock Prison Services Ltd for the Design, Construction, Management and Financing of a Prison at Kilmarnock for each quarter of operation of the contract to date.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The information requested is given in the document (Bib. number 25002) a copy of which is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-29901 by Mr Jim Wallace on 23 October 2002, what the location was of each parcel of land sold shown in the table.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
| Location | Number |
| Aberdeenshire | 3 |
| Angus | 1 |
| Falkirk | 4 |
| Inverclyde | 1 |
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-29770 by Mr Jim Wallace on 18 October 2002, whether it will publish any of the contracts for provision of education services in prisons and, if so, which specific contracts it will publish, giving the reasons for its position on this matter.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:Except where disclosure of parts of the contract would not be in the public interest as specified in Part 11 of the Code of Practice on Access to Scottish Executive Information, the SPS will make arrangements to publish these contracts following discussions with the contractors and, once finalised, copies will be placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has sought to discover what element of the cost saving asserted for private prisons by PricewaterhouseCoopers comes from (a) lower staff wage costs and (b) management efficiencies.
Answer
Section 3 of the Financial Review of the Scottish Prison Service Estates Review describe the methodology used by PricewaterhouseCoopers to assess the cost of a private-build, private-operate prison based on historic data for the market prices of six similar prisons. Market prices do not separately identify staff costs and management efficiencies. Paragraphs 64 to 84 of the Scottish Executive's Consultation on Future of the Scottish Prison Estate set out reasons for the cost differences between options.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement made by the Deputy First Minister and Minister for Justice on 5 September 2002, whether it intends to appoint an adviser for the procurement of its proposed private-build, private-operate prison and what the projected cost of such an appointment would be.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:This procurement project is in its early stages and no such decisions or projections have yet been taken by SPS. Any decision to appoint advisers would take account of the need to provide value for public money and would be implemented through a competitive tendering exercise.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, for each prison, what (a) its total budget and (b) the underspend (i) was in each year since 1999-2000 and (ii) is projected to be in 2002-03.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:Total budgets for individual establishments do not exist. Expenditure relevant to a prison or prisons is spent locally or centrally according to circumstances and is not disaggregated.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-28789 by Mr Jim Wallace on 13 September 2002, when it will publish its contracts with City of Edinburgh, Dumfries and Galloway, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire councils for the provision of social work services in prisons.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:Except where disclosure of parts of the contract would not be in the public interest as specified in Part 11 of the Code of Practice on Access to Scottish Executive Information, SPS will make arrangements to publish these contracts following discussions with the contractors and, once finalised, copies will be placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 23 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-26897 and S1W-27654 by Mr Jim Wallace on 3 July 2002 and 13 August 2002 respectively, where a standard for health care in a prison has been recorded as "partially achieved", what progress this implies has been made in working to achieve all aspects of the standard for (a) 100% of prisoners having their weight recorded on each admission to prison and their height recorded on their initial admission to prison, (b) the provision of basic equipment within each consulting room, minimum si'e of 10.8m2, in the health centre which shall include an examination couch, a mercury sphygmomanometer, scales, desk, three chairs, examination/treatment lamp, stethoscope, eye charts, ophthalmoscope, auroscope and a copy of BNF in 100% of cases, (c) the provision of adequate facilities for visiting psychiatrists in 100% of cases, (d) the referral of routine cases to the psychiatrist being seen within four weeks in 100% of cases, (e) the referral of urgent cases to the psychiatrist being seen within seven days in 100% of cases, (f) emergency (psychiatric) cases being seen within 24 hours in 100% of cases, (g) the transfer to hospital following completion of a Section under the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 being effected within the timescale agreed by the health care staff and the forensic psychiatrist in 100% of cases, (h) health centre staff being given 24 hours' notice of proposed transfer on 100% of occasions, (i) 100% of prisoners aged 55 or over and in prison for more than four weeks being offered a urinalysis check if not carried out within the last three years and (j) 100% of prisoners aged 35 and over and in prison for more than four weeks being offered the opportunity to have their blood pressure recorded if not carried out within the last five years.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The recording of "partially achieved" implies that the establishment has either met some parts of a standard containing multiple criteria, but not all, or has achieved at least 50% compliance in working towards the target set, but has not yet fully met the standard.
