- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 8 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to Contract between The Scottish Ministers and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the Provision of Prisoner Escort & Court Custody Services in Scotland, what it considers to be the difference between a service failure, which is not defined in the contract, and a default, which is defined in clause 1.12 of Schedule 3.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
The SPS consider service failureto be a failure as described at clause 6.2 of Schedule 3.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 8 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, with reference to Contract between The Scottish Ministers and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the Provision of Prisoner Escort & Court Custody Services in Scotland, it considers the escape of a prisoner to be a default, as defined in clause 1.12 of Schedule 3.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows:I refer the member to the answer given to S2W-8431 answered 8 June 2004 . All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 8 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to Contract between The Scottish Ministers and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the Provision of Prisoner Escort & Court Custody Services in Scotland, whether it considers the recurring escape of prisoners to be a default that would allow it to (a) give written notice to Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd under clause 14.2.1 of Schedule 3 to rectify the default or (b) terminate the contract with immediate effect under clause 14.2.2 of Schedule 3.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows:I refer the member to the answer given to S2W-8431 answered 8 June 2004 . All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has had to sanction overtime payments for staff at any prison due to delay in prisoners being transferred by Reliance Custodial Services and, if so, what the additional cost to the SPS budget has been.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
No – theSPS does not pay overtime to prison officers.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many operational hours Strathclyde Police has spent in trying to apprehend James McCormick, the prisoner mistakenly released by Reliance Custodial Services.
Answer
The deployment of police officersis an operational matter for the Chief Constable.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 6 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many registered care homes have had an advisory visit from the fire service following the Rosepark Care Home fire, broken down by local authority area, and, of these, how many the fire service reported as unsatisfactory to the Care Commission and, of these, how many are local authority-owned.
Answer
As at 18 April 2004 the eightScottish Fire Brigades had carried out 1,204 advisory visits to residential carepremises in their brigade areas as set out in the following table.
| Brigade | Number of Visits |
| Central Scotland Fire Brigade | 72 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Fire Brigade | 45 |
| Fife Fire and Rescue Service | 121 |
| Grampian Fire and Rescue Service | 115 |
| Highland and Islands Fire Brigade | 98 |
| Lothian and Borders Fire Brigade | 230 |
| Strathclyde Fire Brigade | 359 |
| Tayside Fire Brigade | 164 |
| Total | 1,204 |
This number of advisory visitsrepresents approximately 65% of residential care services registered by the CareCommission in Scotland. Brigades will be continuing these visits, which havebeen welcomed by staff and residents, until all care premises have been covered.In some 80% of the visits, recommendations have been made about improvements infire safety. These were generally of a minor nature. The Care Commission has onlymoved to formal enforcement action in one case. However, for all visits which haveresulted in recommendations being made, the Care Commission has asked the providersof the service for action plans with timescales and is seeking the advice of brigadeson these plans where necessary. The information sought on ownership details is notheld centrally.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 6 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many registered care homes there are.
Answer
The Care Commission has confirmedthere were 1,780 registered care home services on 27 April 2004.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 4 February 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Fosamax (70mg) and Calcichew D3 will no longer be prescribed to patients under 65 with osteoporosis, and, if so, what the reasons are for the withdrawal of these drugs.
Answer
The regulation and safety of medicines is reserved and is the responsibility of the Medicines and Health care products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
The MHRA has advised thatthere are no plans on safety grounds to restrict the use of Fosamax (70mg) andCalcichew in patients under 65 with osteoporosis.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 29 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, in respect of each executive non-departmental public body (NDPB), advisory NDPB, tribunal, public corporation, nationalised industry and NHS body for which ministers are accountable, how much each organisation has spent on external legal advice in each year since 1980, (a) in total and (b) adjusted for inflation with 1980 as the base year, broken down by legal jurisdiction of the invoicing provider.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 January 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 29 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, in respect of each executive non-departmental public body (NDPB), advisory NDPB, tribunal, public corporation, nationalised industry and NHS body for which ministers are accountable, what external legal advice each organisation receives and from whom, what the jurisdiction is of each such legal advice provider, and what statutes govern the operation of each NDPB or other organisation and any contracts that they may enter into with third parties.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
Arrangements for theprovision of legal advice to non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) are mattersfor individual organisations to consider. Details of the legislative basis ofpublic bodies where appropriate, can be found in the Directory of ScottishPublic Bodies on the Public Bodies Website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/government/publicbodies/direct.asp.NDPBs are required to complywith Scottish Executive guidelines on procurement and delegated limits whencontracting for goods and services.
