- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when the capital costs of constructing the Forth Road Bridge were recouped by the revenue from tolls on the bridge.
Answer
Tolling income at the Forth RoadBridge repaid construction costs in 1993.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made any assessment of the annual cost to the Scottish economy caused by traffic delays as a result of the collection of tolls on the (a) Forth Road Bridge and (b) Tay Road Bridge.
Answer
No.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many instances of serious injury of prison officers by prisoners there have been at HM Young Offenders Institution Polmont in each year since 1999 and how these figures compare with the incidence of such injuries at other prisons.
Answer
Ihave asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond.His response is as follows:
The information is not availableas incidents involving prison officers are not differentiated from those againstour other staff. Incidents of serious assaults on all staff are as follows:
| Establishment | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 |
| Aberdeen | | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 |
| Barlinnie | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Cornton Vale | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Castle Huntly | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dumfries | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Edinburgh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Glenochil | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Greenock | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Inverness | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Kilmarnock | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| Low Moss | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Noranside | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perth | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Peterhead | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Polmont | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Shotts | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 0” |
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how far it has met its commitments as set out in Closing the Opportunity Gap: Scottish Budget 2003-06.
Answer
The Executive last publishedits progress against the 2002 Spending Review targets, including the sub-set containedwithin
Closing the Opportunity Gap: Scottish Budget 2003-06, in the Annual Evaluation Report (AER) 2005-06, whichwas published in March 2004. Since then a formal agreement has been reached withthe Finance Committee (June 2005) that an AER would not be published in 2005 or2006.
We intend to publish a furtherprogress report on these targets in autumn 2006, following the conclusion of the2002 Spending Review period (end March 2006), allowing the Executive time to collateand evaluate the information relating to those targets whose timeframes concludein March 2006.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with Her Majesty’s Government about the possibility of securing increased expenditure in Scotland of revenue created by North Sea oil.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-23933 on 14 March 2006. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan 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, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what communication it has had with Her Majesty’s Government on the Executive’s position that no new nuclear power stations should be built in Scotland until issues relating to the waste management of such facilities have been resolved.
Answer
There have been no discussionsbetween the Executive and the UK Government on the subject of new nuclear stationsin Scotland. The Scottish Executive is, however, engaged in discussionswith DTI on issues raised in the UK Energy Review and DTI are aware of ScottishExecutive policy. In this regard, the Scottish Executive is unaware of any proposalto build a new nuclear power station anywhere in Scotland.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many instances of wilful fire raising there have been at each prison in each of the last seven years.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:Our information relates to “Arson”.I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-23890 on 16 March 2006. All answersto written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, thesearch 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, 06 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many breaches of discipline by prisoners there have been in each prison in each year since 1999, broken down by category of breach of discipline, and expressed as a percentage of the total population in each prison.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows:
The available information onbreaches of discipline by prison establishment in financial years 1999-2000 to2004-05 has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib.number 39090).
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-22551 by Cathy Jamieson on 2 February 2006, what its opinion was of the detail contained within the dossier sent to the First Minister by Angus Robertson MP.
Answer
I wrote to Angus RobertsonMP on 22 February thanking him for his letter of 17 January which included areport. I suggested to him that the author of the report take the informationin the report to the police.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 16 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-22707 by Cathy Jamieson on 2 February 2006, why it does not intend taking a position on the opinions expressed by Lord Steyn.
Answer
The Scottish Executive hasnot approved and will not approve a policy of facilitating the transfer ofindividuals through Scottish territory or airspace to places where there aresubstantial grounds to believe they would face a real risk of torture. The Scottish Executive is not aware of any credibleand reliable information to support allegations that Scottish airports arebeing used for such transfers. As stated in the question S2W-22707 answered on2 February 2006, ministers have consistently made clear that if anyone hascredible and reliable information regarding criminal activity it should bepassed to the police.
