- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 7 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it is able to provide on the names of the Scottish Criminal Records Office personnel who were involved at any stage of the Lockerbie investigation and their duties.
Answer
I will provide a full answerto the member in due course once the records of the Lockerbie criminalinvestigation have been examined.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 7 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it is able to provide on whether Chief Superintendent Harry Bell of Strathclyde Police and later head of the Scottish Criminal Records Office was involved in the Lockerbie investigation and, if he was, on what his duties were, over what period he performed them and what domestic and foreign agencies he liaised with in this connection.
Answer
Chief Superintendent HarryBell, now retired as Head of the Scottish Criminal Records Office, was a ChiefInspector in Strathclyde Police at the time of the Lockerbie bombing and wassent to Lockerbie in the immediate aftermath of the bombing as part ofStrathclyde Police’s assistance to Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary.
He was initially involved inthe supervision of part of the crime scene in Lockerbie and then took part inthe criminal investigation which led to the conviction of Abdelbaset Ali MohmedAl Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence agent, in January 2001.
His work on the criminalinvestigation involved enquiries in Japan to identify the improvised explosivedevice, in the United States of America in connection with the forensicevidence and in Malta to identify the purchaser of clothing which was part of the improvised explosive device and was recovered from the crime scene. In allof these countries he worked closely with the local law enforcement agencies aspart of the investigation and in the United Kingdom worked closely with all lawenforcement agencies involved in the investigation.
His work with theinvestigation came to an end in 1992 when he returned to duties at StrathclydePolice.
He later gave evidence inthe Lockerbie trial at Camp Zeist in connection with his work on the investigation.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 7 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it is able to provide on the names of any Scottish fingerprint experts who were cited as witnesses at the Lockerbie trial or were precognosced in this connection.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-20010 on 7 November 2005. All answers to written 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, 24 October 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 7 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it is able to provide on the names of all the fingerprint experts from the Scottish Criminal Records Office or other Scottish fingerprint bureau who were involved in expert examination related to the Lockerbie investigation, on what material each worked on, and on what their findings were.
Answer
Fingerprint examination wascarried out in the Lockerbie investigation in 1991 and 1992 by officers ofLothian and Borders Police, who compared fingerprints taken from Malteseimmigration documents, hotel registration cards and other documents. Theofficers involved in this work were cited as witnesses in the Lockerbie trialat Camp Zeist.
Some of the documents werein the name “Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi” and some in the name of “AhmedKhalifa Abdusamad”.
It was later established inthe Lockerbie trial that Megrahi entered Malta from Tripoli on the evening of20 December 1988 and left for Tripoli on the morning of 21 December 1988, at atime when the improvised explosive device was placed on an Air Malta flight toFrankfurt, using a false Libyan passport in the name of “Ahmed Khalifa Abdusamad”issued on the instructions of the Libyan Intelligence Service. The fact thatthis false passport belonged to Megrahi and was used by him on these dates wasaccepted by the defence.
- 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 Tom McCabe on 4 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total value was of its Education Department contracts awarded to businesses with headquarters in Scotland; how many such contracts there were; what percentage these values and numbers represented of the total (a) value and (b) number of its Education Department contracts, and what the value was of each contract in each of the last three financial years.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not hold this information centrally and therefore could only provide this information at disproportionate cost.
- 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 Tom McCabe on 4 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total value was of its Justice Department contracts awarded to businesses with headquarters in Scotland; how many such contracts there were; what percentage these values and numbers represented of the total (a) value and (b) number of its Justice Department contracts, and what the value was of each contract in each of the last three financial years.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does nothold this information centrally and therefore could only provide this informationat disproportionate cost.
- 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 Tom McCabe on 4 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total value was of its Health Department contracts awarded to businesses with headquarters in Scotland; how many such contracts there were; what percentage these values and numbers represented of the total (a) value and (b) number of its Health Department contracts, and what the value was of each contract in each of the last three financial years.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does nothold this information centrally and therefore could only provide this informationat disproportionate cost.
- 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 Tom McCabe on 3 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total value was of its rail improvement contracts awarded to businesses with headquarters in Scotland; how many such contracts there were; what percentage these values and numbers represented of the total (a) value and (b) number of its rail improvement contracts, and what the value was of each contract in each of the last three financial years.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not hold this information centrally and therefore could only provide this information at disproportionate cost.
- 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 Tom McCabe on 3 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total value was of its Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning Department contracts awarded to businesses with headquarters in Scotland; how many such contracts there were; what percentage these values and numbers represented of the total (a) value and (b) number of its Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning Department contracts, and what the value was of each contract in each of the last three financial years.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not hold this information centrally and therefore could only provide this information at disproportionate cost.
- 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 Tom McCabe on 3 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Her Majesty's Government in respect of the St Andrew's Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Bill, as introduced by Dennis Canavan MSP.
Answer
None.
