- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 27 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is any internal guidance to staff of the Scottish Prison Service on how to deal with parliamentary questions and whether any such guidance will be published.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:The guidance to SPS staff is the same as that used in the Scottish Executive, the current version of which has been placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 21309).
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Simpson on 23 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the recommendations of the joint Scottish Executive and Brigades Purchasing Arrangements Working Group on the review of procurement within the fire service are publicly available; if so, in what format and, if not, what the reasons are for withholding these recommendations.
Answer
The document produced by the Purchasing Arrangements Working Group is available on the Scottish Executive website at the following address:
www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/justice/sfsbpp-00.asp.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 20 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether written parliamentary questions are ever referred to political advisers for input into the answer and, if so, what proportion, and what its reasons are for its position on this matter.
Answer
Advice is given and sought, appropriate to the question. No central record is held of referrals to special advisers.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 20 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has issued any internal guidance to civil servants on how to answer parliamentary questions additional to the civil service code and whether any such guidance will be published.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-25651 today.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 16 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-25133 by Mr Jim Wallace on 1 May 2002, whether it will show the performance points accrued by the operating company of HM Prison Kilmarnock broken down for each heading 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 and for each year of operation of the contract.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The performance points are listed in the following table.
| | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 |
| 2.1(c) | 0 | 30 | 30 |
| 2.1(d) | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.1(e) | 135 | 15 | 0 |
| 2.1(f) | 90 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.1(g) | 150 | 50 | 100 |
| 2.1(h) | 55 | 55 | 0 |
| 2.1(i) | 185 | 125 | 260 |
| 2.2(a) | 290 | 230 | 235 |
| 2.2(b) | 225 | 295 | 645 |
| 2.2(c) | 160 | 20 | 40 |
| 2.2(d) | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 2.2(f) | 170 | 65 | 110 |
| 2.2(g) | 580 | 750 | 1170 |
| 2.2(h) | 285 | 100 | 185 |
| 2.2(i) | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.2(k) | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 2.2(l) | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| 2.2(m) | 12 | 16 | 4 |
| 2.3(e) | 81 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.3(g) | 45 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.3(h) | 130 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.3(i) | 55 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.4(a) | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.4(b) | 105 | 365 | 175 |
| 2.4(c) | 200 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.4(d) | 65 | 140 | 240 |
| 2.4(e) | 270 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.4(f) | 5 | 10 | 25 |
| 2.4(g) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.5(b) | 639 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 3,843 | 2,268 | 3,243 |
The following is a corrected answer (published on 24 May 2002); see below.| | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 |
| 2.1(c) | 0 | 30 | 30 |
| 2.1(d) | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.1(e) | 135 | 15 | 0 |
| 2.1(f) | 90 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.1(g) | 150 | 50 | 100 |
| 2.1(h) | 55 | 55 | 0 |
| 2.1(i) | 185 | 125 | 260 |
| 2.2(a) | 290 | 230 | 235 |
| 2.2(b) | 225 | 295 | 645 |
| 2.2(c) | 160 | 20 | 40 |
| 2.2(d) | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 2.2(f) | 170 | 65 | 110 |
| 2.2(g) | 580 | 750 | 1170 |
| 2.2(h) | 285 | 100 | 185 |
| 2.2(i) | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.2(k) | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 2.2(l) | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| 2.2(m) | 12 | 16 | 4 |
| 2.3(e) | 81 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.3(g) | 45 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.3(h) | 130 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.3(i) | 55 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.4(a) | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.4(b) | 105 | 365 | 175 |
| 2.4(c) | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.4(d) | 65 | 140 | 240 |
| 2.4(e) | 270 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.4(f) | 5 | 10 | 25 |
| 2.4(g) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.5(b) | 639 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 3,843 | 2,268 | 3,243 |
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 13 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to paragraph 95 of the Scottish Prison Service Estates Review, whether in estimating costs for a publicly built prison the review assumed the adoption of a project management approach to add certainty to the delivery of the project to deadline, detailing the reasons for its position on the matter.
Answer
The estimated costs assumed that an appropriate project management system would be in place. The Scottish Prison Service is already using a project management approach in its present houseblock building programme and would apply a similar approach in the construction of any new prison.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 13 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses in multiple occupation were built by local authorities in (a) 1999, (b) 2000 and (c) 2001.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-24567 on 24 April 2002.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 13 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many properties were converted into houses in multiple occupation by social landlords other than local authorities and by private developers in (a) 1999, (b) 2000 and (c) 2001.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-24567 on 24 April 2002.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 13 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many properties were converted into houses in multiple occupation by local authorities in (a) 1999, (b) 2000 and (c) 2001.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-24567 on 24 April 2002.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 10 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive why the Falkirk Council structural plan has not been approved.
Answer
It is expected that a final decision on the Falkirk Structure Plan will be announced by the Scottish ministers in the summer. The large number of representations made on this plan, together with other pressures of work, mean that the Scottish Executive has yet to complete its consideration of the plan.
