- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-21259 by Cathy Jamieson on 15 December 2005, how this answer indicates what the distinction is between “failure to meet a particular contractual commitment” and a “breach of contract”.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
The response referred to the terms of the contract. It makes no such distinction as it does not define a breach of contract.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-21258 by Cathy Jamieson on 15 December 2005, how this answer indicates what the definition of a breach of contract is.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-21860 on 20 January 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-21073 by Cathy Jamieson on 5 December 2005, how much taxpayers money has been saved by not placing carefully selected prisoners in a regular prison but in the open estate instead in the last year for which figures are available.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
No such figures are available. SPS calculate annually an average cost per prisoner place which is reported in our Annual Reports and Accounts. It would not be cost effective to attempt to disaggregate all cost elements to attempt to arrive at a total average cost for each prison.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16679 by Cathy Jamieson on 2 June 2005, on how many occasions the Director of HM Prison Kilmarnock has consulted the Scottish Prison Service about visits to the prison since its opening.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
The information requested is not available as it is not collected or collated.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 20 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact the new EU budget 2007-2013 will have on agricultural funding.
Answer
The new EU budget 2007-13 was agreed in December 2005. The total budget for EU expenditure 2007-13 has been set at €862.3 billion.
Within this, provision for Pillar II of the CAP which funds agri-environment schemes and other rural development measures, was reduced during the budget negotiations and now stands at €69.75 billion for the seven year period. The UK share of Pillar II funds for 2007-13 is not yet known.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 20 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been paid by the NHS in Scotland in each of the last five years in respect of medical negligence, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The information held centrally on claim settlements made after April 2000 does not differentiate between clinical and non-clinical claims. The cost of settlements made in relation to clinical and, where appropriate, non-clinical claims against NHSScotland in each financial year since 2000-01, broken down by NHS board, is detailed in the table.
| NHS Board | 2000-01 (£) | 2001-02 (£) | 2002-03 (£) | 2003-04 (£) | 2004-05 (£) |
| Argyll and Clyde | 91,550 | 265,519 | 2,558,831 | 270,041 | 1,219,640 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 158,263 | 828,865 | 671,398 | 230,560 | 234,702 |
| Borders | 12,500 | 5,000 | 20,111 | 13,650 | 157,580 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 407,500 | 701,116 | 362,018 | 219,096 | 65,927 |
| Fife | 280,647 | 51,693 | 125,346 | 492,449 | 320,806 |
| Forth Valley | 434,007 | 292,525 | 112,954 | 2,518,400 | 553,359 |
| Grampian | 186,061 | 175,375 | 77,250 | 199,313 | 912,877 |
| Greater Glasgow | 981,944 | 2,894,856 | 2,078,799 | 1,419,508 | 1,441,834 |
| Highland | 40,600 | 220,276 | 197,581 | 1,324,739 | 159,490 |
| Lanarkshire | 746,336 | 51,480 | 406,282 | 569,846 | 275,250 |
| Lothian | 252,962 | 815,557 | 1,933,644 | 879,506 | 437,323 |
| Orkney | 0 | 5,500 | 0 | 0 | 29,120 |
| Shetland | 2,550 | 7,700 | 78,345 | 10,200 | 2,000 |
| Tayside | 225,552 | 138,353 | 98,150 | 105,163 | 2,460,004 |
| Western Isles | 104,990 | 5,500 | 0 | 0 | 1,500 |
| State Hospitals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Common Services Agency | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55,000 | 49,000 |
| Scottish Ambulance Service | 0 | 3,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 3,925,462 | 6,462,315 | 8,720,709 | 8,307,471 | 8,320,412 |
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to increase the number of available secure unit places for children under the age of 16, given the statement by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons in paragraph 11.1 of his inspection report of March 2005 on HM Young Offenders Institute Polmont that seven such people were held there between May 2004 and March 2005 as a result of there being no space in a secure unit.
Answer
On 18
September 2002 ministers announced specific plans to reconfigure the secure estate with the creation of an additional 29 extra secure places.
Distribution of the additional 29 places announced on 24 March 2003. These will be able to offer much needed facilities for girls only and, as far as possible, avoid under 16s being remanded to young offenders’ institutions.
When complete by 2007 the secure estate will therefore consist of:
18 boys only at Kibble
24 mixed at St Philip’s
18 girls only at Good Shepherd
18 mixed at Rossie
31 mixed at St Mary’s
12 mixed in Edinburgh
four mixed in The Elms.
By 2007, Scotland will have an increase of 40 places since 2000.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers from outwith Scotland were deployed in Scotland in relation to policing the G8 summit and related events, such as the Make Poverty History march.
Answer
A total of 15,400 policeofficers and staff were involved in the policing operation for the G8 summit andassociated events. Seven thousand, eight hundred and ninety-six of this totalwere officers deployed from forces based in England and Wales.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has given consideration to the allegations of Amnesty International that three US agency chartered flights flew terror suspects from various locations to countries where they faced torture and on the plane’s return to America stopped over at Glasgow Prestwick airport to refuel on each occasion, as reported in The Herald on 16 December 2005.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-21577 on 22 December 2005. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Her Majesty’s Government to establish the nature of the business of CIA flights landing at Scottish airports which an official spokesperson for the Prime Minister identified as “normal CIA business, not related to renditions” in a Downing Street press briefing on 12 December 2005.
Answer
The Scottish Executive hasnot had any discussions with the UK Government to establish the nature of thebusiness of CIA flights landing at Scottish airports.
