- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 30 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many penal establishments other than those operated by the Scottish Prison Service or legalised police cells received financial support from it in each of the last three years and how many such establishments it plans to support in each of the next three financial years.
Answer
I have asked Mr Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. Mr Cameron's response is as follows:
There was one penal establishment (HMP Kilmarnock) which commenced receiving financial support during the financial year 1999-2000 from the Scottish Prison Service which will continue during the next three financial years. Plans for future years will be published in the SPS Corporate Plans submitted to Ministers annually.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 19 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what the maximum number of available spaces in (a) penal establishments directly operated by the Scottish Prison Service, (b) legalised police cells and (c) privately operated penal establishments (i) was in each of the last three financial years and (ii) is anticipated to be in each of the next three financial years.
Answer
The information is as follows:
| | (a) | (b) | (c) |
1997-98 | 5,960 | 73 | 0 |
1998-99 | 5,995 | 73 | 0 |
1999-2000 | 6,014 | 73 | 500 |
2000-01 | 5,600 | 73f | 500 |
2001-02 | 6,150 | 73f | 500 |
2002-03 | 6,150* | 73f | 500* |
* Subject to the outcome of the fundamental review of the SPS estate currently underway.
f Need for and number of police cells at Ayr and Portree is currently being reviewed.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 19 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-4825 by Sarah Boyack on 21 March 2000, what steps it takes to monitor clusters of accidents at particular locations and routes with high accident rates on roads other than trunk roads.
Answer
None. Local authorities have a duty under the Road Traffic Act 1988 to carry out a programme of measures designed to promote road safety. This includes carrying out studies into accidents on roads other than trunk roads.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 19 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-4825 by Sarah Boyack on 21 March 2000, how it defines (a) a cluster of accidents and (b) a route with a high accident rate.
Answer
A cluster of accidents is defined as three or more accidents resulting in injury occurring on any 200 metre stretch of road.
A route with a high accident rate is one where the number of injury accidents per million vehicle kilometres is higher than the average for that class of road.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 February 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 7 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the ministerial recommendations made to Historic Scotland regarding the listing of historic buildings.
Answer
The principles behind the statutory listing of historic buildings are set out at paragraph 1.8 of Historic Scotland's Memorandum of Guidance on Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas (1998), a copy of which is placed in SPICe.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 31 May 2000
To ask the Presiding Officer what percentage of recycled materials is contained in Scottish Parliament headed paper.
Answer
The Scottish Parliament headed paper is made from 100% recycled materials.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 31 May 2000
To ask the Presiding Officer whether the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body intends to extend the use of the new Scottish Parliament logo to the signage and other materials relating to the corporate identity of the Parliament and what the associated costs of such a move are likely to be.
Answer
The SPCB has agreed that existing stocks of materials should be used before new stocks incorporating the logo are commissioned. It has also agreed that signage should only be replaced incorporating the logo as and when necessary.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 31 May 2000
To ask the Presiding Officer what the typesetting, printing and other implementation costs of the new Scottish Parliament logo were, and what costs are expected to be incurred in relation to the disposal and wastage of unused stationary and other items which do not include the logo.
Answer
The typesetting cost for introducing the new Scottish Parliament logo was £120. There are no incremental costs in printing the new logo, as the cost is the same as the printing of the original design.
In line with the SPCB decision that there should be no wastage of materials, MSPs and Parliament staff have been asked to use up existing stocks of stationery and other materials before ordering fresh supplies which incorporate the logo, and this is being monitored within the Parliament estate.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 30 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many road traffic accidents took place on the A71 in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area and specifying in each case the number of fatalities or serious injuries.
Answer
Data about injury road accidents are collected by the police and reported to the Scottish Executive using the STATS 19 statistical report form. These returns cover only road accidents in which one or more people were injured: they do not cover damage only accidents.
The table below gives the numbers of road accidents which were identified in the STATS 19 returns as occurring on the A71, and the associated fatalities and serious casualties. The information is broken down by local authority area.
It should be noted that the statistics given below are based upon the data which are held in the central statistical database and which were collected by the police at the time of the accident and subsequently reported to the Executive. They may differ from any figures which the local authorities would provide now, because they do not take account of any subsequent changes or corrections that local authorities may have made to the statistical information, for use at local level, about the location of each accident, based upon their knowledge of the roads and areas concerned.
Injury road accidents occurring on the A71, and the associated numbers of fatalities and seriously-injured casualties, as reported in the "STATS 19" statistical returns.
Local Authority | Year | Injury road accidents | Fatalities | Seriously-injured casualties |
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Edinburgh | 1994 | 66 | 0 | 24 |
| | 1995 | 57 | 0 | 9 |
| | 1996 | 63 | 0 | 9 |
| | 1997 | 77 | 1 | 7 |
| | 1998 | 69 | 1 | 7 |
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West Lothian | 1994 | 23 | 1 | 6 |
| | 1995 | 36 | 2 | 12 |
| | 1996 | 26 | 3 | 5 |
| | 1997 | 24 | 0 | 10 |
| | 1998 | 32 | 6 | 11 |
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North Lanarkshire | 1994 | 20 | 3 | 8 |
| | 1995 | 20 | 1 | 12 |
| | 1996 | 16 | 0 | 4 |
| | 1997 | 8 | 0 | 4 |
| | 1998 | 27 | 1 | 11 |
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South Lanarkshire | 1994 | 33 | 3 | 18 |
| | 1995 | 27 | 0 | 6 |
| | 1996 | 25 | 3 | 13 |
| | 1997 | 23 | 2 | 4 |
| | 1998 | 22 | 3 | 4 |
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East Ayrshire | 1994 | 26 | 1 | 12 |
| | 1995 | 37 | 1 | 15 |
| | 1996 | 22 | 1 | 3 |
| | 1997 | 36 | 1 | 12 |
| | 1998 | 27 | 1 | 9 |
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North Ayrshire | 1994 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| | 1995 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| | 1996 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| | 1997 | 8 | 0 | 4 |
| | 1998 | 9 | 0 | 6 |
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 30 May 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive when the last safety audit was carried out on the A71 and which parts of the route were covered by this audit.
Answer
The Scottish Executive reviews annually accidents on trunk roads and investigates clusters of accidents at particular locations and routes with high accident rates. Local authorities are responsible for road safety on local roads in their areas. The A71 is classified as a local road and decisions relating to safety audits are matters for the local authorities through whose areas the road passes.
