- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 5 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-20283 by Tavish Scott on 17 November 2005, whether these extra costs that must be met by the contractor result from their contract with the Executive and, if so, whether it will provide details.
Answer
Under the contract, the contractor is responsible for the design and construction of the works. As I said in my reply to you on 17 November 2005 the amount of any extra costs incurred by the contractor is not known to the Scottish Executive.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-17406 by Cathy Jamieson on 30 June 2005, whether the Chief Executive or any other official of the Scottish Prison Service instructed Premier Prison Services Ltd to commission the independent report in respect of HM Prison Kilmarnock or whether Premier Prison Services Ltd took the decision itself to commission such a report.
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 question S2W-17406 answered on 30 June 2005. The SPS did not do so. It was the Company’s decision. 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: Friday, 18 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in respect of the introduction of the non-numeric fingerprint standard; when it will be implemented, and whether the disagreement between fingerprint experts in the Scottish Fingerprint Service has had any impact on any delay.
Answer
Preparations to enable the introduction of a non‑numeric standard for fingerprint evidence in Scotland are well advanced. To that end, plans are being put in place for a national consultative process with all stakeholders in the Scottish Criminal Justice Community. There is no disagreement between experts in the Scottish Fingerprint Service about the introduction of a non-numeric standard of fingerprint identification.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether agreement has been formally reached with the Scottish Police Federation, at both national and local level, in respect of taking finger and palm print impressions from all serving police officers and holding the impressions on an computerised database to enable IDENT1 searches of crime scene marks to be carried out.
Answer
At present all fingerprints of serving police officers are held in hard copy format for elimination purposes. The Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland are considering the possibility of creating a Police Eliminations Database as a partioned part of the IDENT1 project as it would make sense to transfer police officers’ prints from their existing format.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Duncan McNeil on 1 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what (a) lunches, (b) dinners, (c) trips within the United Kingdom, (d) overseas trips and (e) other forms of hospitality it has paid for (i) its members, (ii) the Parliament's Chief Executive and officials within his staff and (iii) any guests in each of the last three financial years to date; who authorised the expenditure on each occasion, and what the purpose of each event or trip was.
Answer
The Presiding Officer has agreed to write to the member on this matter.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 1 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of serious assault on fellow prisoners there have been by prisoners in Reliance's custody in the financial year 2005-06 to date, broken down by quarter, and what the comparable figures were in 2004-05.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
I refer the member to the answers to questions S2W-8431 and S2W-16511 on 8 June 2004 and 23 May 2005 respectively which clearly outline the summary performance information which it has been agreed to release.
This summary performance information can be viewed on the SPS website at www.sps.gov.uk.
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.
The other information is not releasable under the terms of the agreement with the company.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 1 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of concerted disorder there have been by prisoners in Reliance's custody in the financial year 2005-06 to date, broken down by quarter, and what the comparable figures were in 2004-05.
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 answers to question S2W-8431 and S2W-16511 on 8 June 2004 and 23 May 2005 respectively which clearly outline the summary performance information which it has been agreed to release.
This summary performance information can be viewed on the SPS website at www.sps.gov.uk.
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.
The other information is not releasable under the terms of the agreement with the Company.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 1 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of serious assault against staff and/or other non-prisoners there have been by prisoners in Reliance's custody in the financial year 2005-06 to date, broken down by quarter, and what the comparable figures were in 2004-05.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
I would refer the member to the answers questions S2W-8431 and S2W-16511 on 8 June 2004 and 23 May 2005 respectively which clearly outline the summary performance information which it has been agreed to release.
This summary performance information can be viewed on the SPS website at www.sps.gov.uk.
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.
The other information is not releasable under the terms of the agreement with the company.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 1 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of attempted escape there have been by prisoners in Reliance's custody in the financial year 2005-06 to date, broken down by quarter, and what the comparable figures were in 2004-05.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
I refer the member to the questions S2W-8431 and S2W-16511 on 8 June 2004 and 23 May 2005 respectively which clearly outline the summary performance information which it has been agreed to release.
This summary performance information can be viewed on the SPS website at www.sps.gov.uk.
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.
The other information is not releasable under the terms of the agreement with the Company.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 1 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents of key/lock compromise or loss there have been by prisoners in Reliance’s custody in the financial year 2005-06 to date, broken down by quarter, and what the comparable figures were in 2004-05.
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 questions S2W-8431 and S2W-16511 on 8 June 2004 and 23 May 2005 respectively which clearly outline the summary performance information which it has been agreed to release.
This summary performance information can be viewed on the SPS website at www.sps.gov.uk.
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.
The other information is not releasable under the terms of the agreement with the Company.
