- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many officers in HM Prison Kilmarnock have been disciplined since January 2002 for failing to carry out watches.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
The SPS does not hold this information as staffing issues at HM Prison Kilmarnock are a matter for Premier Prison Services.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Premier Prison Services has at all times met its contractual commitments in respect of employing one or more registered mental health nurses.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
Yes.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has checked whether the watches in HM Prison Kilmarnock are now properly carried out.
Answer
The report by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons on his inspection of HM Prison Kilmarnock between 25 October and 2 November 2004 will be published on 26 April. Inspection of anti-suicide procedures is always part of inspections and will continue to be so.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has checked, as part of his most recent inspection of the prison, whether the watch logs in HM Prison Kilmarnock are being falsified.
Answer
HM Chief Inspector of Prisons checked the “High Risk Assessment Observation and Support Records” (referred to by staff as “watch logs”) as part of his most recent inspection of Kilmarnock. He had no reason to believe that the entries were anything other than authentic.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) average number of prisoners, (b) prisoner capacity, (c) average number of full-time prison officers and (d) incidence of (i) self harm and (ii) suicides was in each prison in each of the last six years.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
(a) The average number of prisoners located in each prison in the last six years is contained in the SPS Annual Reports which can be found at www.sps.gov.uk .
(b) The average design capacity in each prison in each of the last six years is as follows:
| Establishment | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
| Aberdeen | 163 | 163 | 162 | 155 | 154 |
| Barlinnie | 943 | 943 | 952 | 1016 | 1003 |
| Castle Huntly | 150 | 152 | 151 | 156 | 156 |
| Cornton Vale | 217 | 219 | 230 | 230 | 255 |
| Dumfries | 150 | 150 | 156 | 175 | 178 |
| Dungavel* | 135 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Edinburgh | 620 | 597 | 605 | 643 | 748 |
| Glenochil | 670 | 670 | 670 | 670 | 598 |
| Greenock | 238 | 243 | 250 | 254 | 254 |
| Inverness | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 | 108 |
| Kilmarnock | 500 | 528 | 548 | 548 | 596 |
| Longriggend* | 176 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Low Moss | 396 | 399 | 389 | 375 | 330 |
| Noranside | 135 | 135 | 135 | 135 | 135 |
| Penninghame* | 96 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perth | 526 | 550 | 583 | 593 | 594 |
| Peterhead | 305 | 305 | 306 | 306 | 306 |
| Polmont | 422 | 422 | 422 | 458 | 609 |
| Shotts | 528 | 528 | 528 | 528 | 528 |
| Zeist** | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
Note:
*Closed 2000.
**Closed 2001.
(c) Average number of full-time prison officers in each of the last six years:
| Establishment | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
| Aberdeen | 115 | 116 | 111 | 113 | 108 |
| Barlinnie | 437 | 433 | 429 | 432 | 433 |
| Castle Huntly | 45 | 44 | 44 | 43 | 41 |
| Cornton Vale | 171 | 170 | 163 | 195 | 181 |
| Dumfries | 112 | 111 | 109 | 106 | 110 |
| Edinburgh | 345 | 338 | 323 | 333 | 333 |
| Glenochil | 321 | 331 | 332 | 323 | 325 |
| Greenock | 125 | 126 | 127 | 126 | 136 |
| Inverness | 69 | 71 | 68 | 72 | 72 |
| Low Moss | 112 | 104 | 109 | 124 | 115 |
| Noranside | 44 | 43 | 44 | 39 | 39 |
| Perth | 278 | 291 | 288 | 281 | 293 |
| Peterhead | 176 | 180 | 159 | 143 | 149 |
| Polmont | 240 | 228 | 234 | 234 | 248 |
| Shotts | 300 | 299 | 316 | 297 | 295 |
(d) (i) Incidence of self harm in each prison in each of the last six years.
(Note: Records have only been kept since 2002-03)
| Establishment | (i) Self Harm |
| | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
| Aberdeen | 18 | 21 |
| Barlinnie | 34 | 33 |
| Castle Huntly | 0 | 0 |
| Cornton Vale | 115 | 100 |
| Dumfries | 5 | 5 |
| Edinburgh | 28 | 25 |
| Glenochil | 10 | 5 |
| Greenock | 26 | 21 |
| Inverness | 9 | 7 |
| Kilmarnock | * | * |
| Low Moss | 1 | 0 |
| Noranside | 0 | 1 |
| Perth | 14 | 6 |
| Peterhead | 3 | 0 |
| Polmont | 47 | 18 |
| Shotts | 18 | 5 |
Total | 328 | 247 |
Note: *=Information not available.
(d) (ii) Incidence of suicides in each prison in each of the last six years.
| Establishment | (ii) Apparent self-inflicted Deaths |
| | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
| Aberdeen | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Barlinnie | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Castle Huntly | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Cornton Vale | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Dumfries | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Edinburgh | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Glenochil | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Greenock | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Inverness | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kilmarnock | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Low Moss | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Noranside | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perth | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Peterhead | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Polmont | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Shotts | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Longriggend | 1 | | | | | |
| Total | 14 | 17 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 5 |
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many officers in HM Prison Kilmarnock have been disciplined since January 2002 for falsifying watch logs.
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-15609 on 14 April 2005. 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: Thursday, 24 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any of those who held senior management positions in HM Prison Kilmarnock in January 2002 and who, according to the fatal accident report on the death of James Barclay in January 2002, "showed a careless or even negligent disregard for securing compliance with the Director"s Rules" are still in post.
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 S2W-15609 on 14 April 2005. 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: Thursday, 31 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 14 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Department for Education and Skills and Skillset regarding the plans for a compulsory levy on film productions to fund training for prospective film makers and what information it has on what proportion of the £500,000 expected to be raised each year will be (a) levied from films made in Scotland and (b) spent on training Scottish-based film makers.
Answer
Scottish ministers have been fully consulted on the proposal for a compulsory levy on film production in the UK. Dr Lewis Macdonald, the then Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning, gave his agreement in August 2004 to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills taking forward work which would consider moving the current voluntary levy onto a compulsory footing.
The consultation process to consider making the current voluntary levy compulsory is still on-going. I understand however that Skillset and Scottish Screen’s Scottish Industry Skills Panel (SISP), which is a cross industry group, have advised that they see this as a positive step.
Given the current consultation, I understand that no final decision has been made yet on how any new compulsory levy will be applied or how it will be invested.
I can advise, however, that under the current voluntary levy, Scotland has been a net beneficiary of the Skills Investment Fund.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it or its agencies have to expand HM Prison Kilmarnock.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
The SPS has no such plans.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost has been to it and its agencies in the current year and each of the past three financial years of monitoring (a) the performance of HM Prison Kilmarnock and (b) its compliance with the contract between the Scottish Prison Service and Premier Prison Services to run the prison.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows: (a) I refer the member to the answer to S2W-15474 on 14 April 2005. 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 costs are not available in the form requested.(b) The SPS Controllers, based in HM Prison Kilmarnock, monitor both the prison’s performance and the level of compliance with the contract between SPS and Premier Prison Services. Estimated costs of this monitoring are as follows:
| Period | Estimated Cost (£) |
| 2003-04 | 178,000 |
| 2002-03 | 162,000 |
| 2001-02 | 126,000 |
