- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 28 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to questions S1W-31088, S1W-31487, S1W-32018 and S1W-33898 by Mr Jim Wallace on 8 November, 22 November and 10 December 2002 and 18 February 2003 respectively, whether it will show the performance points accrued by the operating company of HM Prison Kilmarnock, broken down for each heading and subsection in Schedule F to the Minute of Agreement between the Secretary of State for Scotland and Kilmarnock Prison Services Ltd for the Design, Construction, Management and Financing of a Prison at Kilmarnock other than sections 2.1(i), 2.2(a), 2.2(b), 2.4(a), 2.4(b), 2.4(d) and 2.4(e) for the quarter October to December 2002.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The information requested is shown in the following table.Performance Points - Year 4, Quarter 3
2.1 (a) | Absconds | 0 |
2.1 (b) | Temporary Release: Inadequate Risk Assessment | 0 |
2.1 (c) | Release of Prisoner in Error | 0 |
2.1 (d) | Failure to Provide Accurate Daily Report | 0 |
2.1 (e) | Failure to input basic Details into Prisoner Records | 0 |
2.1 (f) | Failure to Process Accurate Warrant Details | 10 |
2.1 (g) | Discovery within Prison of Smuggled-in-Items | 175 |
2.1 (h) | Key/Lock Compromise | 0 |
2.2 (c) | Incident of Concerted Indiscipline | 20 |
2.2 (d) | Incident of Hostage Taking | 0 |
2.2 (e) | Incident of Roof Climbing | 0 |
2.2 (f) | Incident of Self Harm | 15 |
2.2 (g) | Incident of Class 'A' Drugs | 400 |
2.2 (h) | Incident of Drugs Other than Class 'A' | 60 |
2.2 (i) | Contingency Planning Exercise (non-completion) | 0 |
2.2 (j) | Fire Evacuation Exercise (non-completion) | 0 |
2.2 (k) | Failure to Comply with Agreed Reporting Procedures | 10 |
2.2 (l) | Tool/Implement Loss (Recovered) | 4 |
2.2 (m) | Tool/Implement Loss (Not recovered) | 12 |
2.3 (a) | Failure to Provide Timeous Medical Assistance | 0 |
2.3 (b) | Failure to see Medical Officer on Admission | 0 |
2.3 (c) | Failure to Provide Meal | 0 |
2.3 (d) | Failure to Comply with Health & Safety and Hygiene Requirements/Legislation | 0 |
2.3 (e) | Failure to Respond to Prisoner Complaint Timeously | 0 |
2.3 (f) | Substantiated Complaints against Staff | 0 |
2.3 (g) | Failure to Comply with Cleaning Schedule | 0 |
2.3 (h) | Failure to Repair (Equipment and Services) | 0 |
2.3 (i) | Failure to Repair (Accommodation & other Areas of Prison | 0 |
2.4 (c) | Failure to Deliver Education Hours (76-95%) | 0 |
Failure to Deliver Education Hours (66-75%) | 0 |
Failure to Deliver Education Hours (56-65%) | 0 |
Failure to Deliver Education Hours ( Less than or equal to 55%) | 0 |
2.4 (f) | Failure to Provide Sentence Planning | 0 |
2.4 (g) | Failure to Provide Prisoner Compacts | 0 |
2.4 (h) | Failure to Deliver Offending Behaviour Programmes | 0 |
2.5 (a) | Failure to Deliver Pre-Release Programmes | 0 |
2.5 (b) | Visits - Failure to Start within 20 mins. of Visitor Arriving | 4 |
2.5 (c) | Prisoner Not Visited by Legal Advisor | 0 |
2.6 | Failure to Report/Incorrect Reporting of any Performance Measure | 0 |
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 27 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding will be available for schemes funded by the Better Neighbourhood Services Fund when that fund ends.
Answer
We have made no commitment to continue to fund BNSF pathfinder schemes after the programme ends in 2003-04. We are considering how the regeneration resources identified in the 2003-06 budget can be used to take forward our commitments in the Community Regeneration Statement and further announcements will follow in due course.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 January 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 27 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners have (a) had proceedings taken against them for and (b) received (i) an adjudication or (ii) a criminal conviction for violence at HM Prison Kilmarnock in each quarter since the prison came into operation.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:The number of cases dealt with in the orderly room has been:Year 1 (including opening months): 3,200Year 2: 4,300Year 3: 4,100Year 4 (10 months): 4,200A breakdown of types of breaches of discipline is contained in Appendix 6 of the latest SPS Annual Report and Accounts. This document can be found in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 22587).The remainder of the information is not available.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 26 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will re-examine any of its present contracts with companies that are part of the Premier Custodial Group Ltd which operates HM Prison and Young Offenders Institution Ashfield and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:The SPS see no need to do so. Our contract is working satisfactorily.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive in which performance quarters the maximum limit of 5% of contract price for performance revenue deductions, as referred to in the second paragraph of Schedule F to the Minute of Agreement between the Secretary of State for Scotland and Kilmarnock Prison Services Limited for the Design, Construction, Management and Financing of a Prison at Kilmarnock, has been applied since operation of HM Prison Kilmarnock began and what the performance revenue deduction would have been in each case had there been no such maximum limit.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:Quarters 1, 2 and 3 of performance year 1 and performance quarters 1, 2 and 3 of performance year 4.The contract does not provide for the calculation of performance revenue deductions where no maximum limit applies; such a figure cannot therefore be calculated.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many probationer police officers there have been in each police force in each of the last five financial years and in the current financial year to date.
Answer
Information in the form requested is not held centrally. However, the following figures give a breakdown of entrants to probationer training at the Scottish Police College, in each of the past three years. Prior to 2000, figures were recorded for the whole of Scotland and not split between forces. Totals for 1998 and 1999 were 476 and 356 respectively.
Force | Number of New Recruits |
2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
British Transport Police | 6 | 18 | 16 |
Central | 47 | 21 | 51 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 29 | 34 | 12 |
Fife | 41 | 75 | 57 |
Grampian | 82 | 75 | 52 |
Lothian and Borders | 174 | 109 | 173 |
Northern | 20 | 98 | 42 |
Strathclyde | 404 | 378 | 383 |
Tayside | 61 | 55 | 65 |
Scotland | 864 | 863 | 851 |
Note:Recruits normally retain probationer status for around two years.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 21 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30309 by Mrs Elish Angiolini on 18 November 2002, how many (a) proceedings were taken by procurators fiscal and (b) convictions were obtained under sections (i) 4(2), (ii) 4(3) and (iii) 5(3) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 in 2001, broken down by sheriff court.
Answer
The available information is given in the following table.Persons Proceeded Against Under Sections 4(2), 4(3) and 5(3) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
1, 2001
| Section 4(2) | Section 4(3) | Section 5(3) |
Proceeded against | Charge proved | Proceeded against | Charge proved | Proceeded against | Charge proved |
All Courts2 | 35 | 28 | 1,139 | 827 | 615 | 429 |
Non- Sheriff Courts | 1 | 0 | 297 | 244 | 6 | 4 |
Sheriff Court |
Aberdeen | 0 | 0 | 37 | 30 | 19 | 16 |
Airdrie | 0 | 0 | 22 | 10 | 22 | 14 |
Alloa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 8 |
Arbroath | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
Ayr | 0 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 31 | 17 |
Banff | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
Campbeltown | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
Cupar | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
Dingwall | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Dornoch | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dumbarton | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 21 | 12 |
Dumfries | 2 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 2 |
Dundee | 0 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 8 |
Dunfermline | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 13 | 8 |
Dunoon | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Duns | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Edinburgh | 12 | 9 | 80 | 65 | 48 | 41 |
Elgin | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6 |
Falkirk | 0 | 0 | 36 | 29 | 12 | 12 |
Forfar | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 3 |
Fort William | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
Glasgow | 3 | 2 | 258 | 163 | 147 | 92 |
Greenock | 0 | 0 | 19 | 15 | 24 | 19 |
Haddington | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Hamilton | 0 | 0 | 62 | 28 | 74 | 45 |
Inverness | 0 | 0 | 19 | 17 | 6 | 6 |
Jedburgh | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
Kilmarnock | 1 | 1 | 36 | 25 | 32 | 22 |
Kirkcaldy | 1 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 13 | 8 |
Kirkcudbright | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Kirkwall | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Lanark | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 6 |
Lerwick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
Linlithgow | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 5 |
Lochmaddy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Oban | 2 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 |
Paisley | 0 | 0 | 22 | 13 | 17 | 8 |
Peebles | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Perth | 0 | 0 | 39 | 26 | 21 | 18 |
Peterhead | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
Portree | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Rothesay | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Selkirk | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Stirling | 1 | 1 | 25 | 23 | 8 | 7 |
Stonehaven | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Stornoway | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Stranraer | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
Tain | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Wick | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
Notes:1. Where main offence.2. All courts figure includes a small number of High Court and district court cases.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 06 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 20 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what communications it has had with HM Prison Service with regard to HM Prison and Young Offenders Institution Ashfield and, in particular, the management of the institution.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:The SPS has discussions with HM Prison Service, covering a range of issues, but not normally the management of individual establishments.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 20 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many, and what value of, fines were written off in each of the last three years, broken down by sheriff court district.
Answer
The information available is given in the following tables. The values of district court fines remitted are not held centrally. The system for writing off sheriff court fines changed in the course of the year 2001-02. Fines due for write off in 2001-02 were not written off until after the end of the financial year and so will be included in the data for 2002-03.Fines Written Off in the Sheriff Courts, 1999-2000 to 2000-01
| 1999-2000 | 2000-01 |
No. of Fines | Value (£) | No. of Fines | Value (£) |
Aberdeen | 84 | 21,615 | 51 | 10,680 |
Airdrie | 71 | 15,575 | 49 | 11,823 |
Alloa | 8 | 977 | 6 | 540 |
Arbroath | 29 | 9,063 | 23 | 6,364 |
Ayr | 64 | 22,053 | 71 | 21,782 |
Banff | 3 | 506 | 2 | 490 |
Campbeltown | 12 | 3,609 | 19 | 6,286 |
Cupar | 4 | 850 | 1 | 250 |
Dingwall | 53 | 5,812 | 39 | 5,393 |
Dornoch | 3 | 553 | 3 | 375 |
Dumbarton | 60 | 11,800 | 49 | 8,920 |
Dumfries | 56 | 9,944 | 36 | 7,140 |
Dundee | 60 | 10,446 | 73 | 16,262 |
Dunfermline | 24 | 6,098 | 25 | 6,409 |
Dunoon | 6 | 639 | 6 | 1,860 |
Duns | - | - | 4 | 1,990 |
Edinburgh | 329 | 67,576 | 222 | 75,948 |
Elgin | 25 | 9,455 | 12 | 2,481 |
Falkirk | 142 | 34,215 | 74 | 25,760 |
Forfar | - | - | - | - |
Fort William | 4 | 1,429 | 4 | 1,085 |
Glasgow | 339 | 64,255 | 391 | 109,678 |
Greenock | 73 | 19,409 | 23 | 5,145 |
Haddington | - | - | 8 | 2,756 |
Hamilton | 336 | 91,848 | 128 | 26,684 |
Inverness | 30 | 7,390 | 9 | 1,701 |
Jedburgh | 5 | 817 | 10 | 1,620 |
Kilmarnock | 40 | 11,875 | 47 | 9,962 |
Kirkcaldy | 3 | 1,957 | 17 | 3,525 |
Kirkcudbright | 10 | 1,910 | 3 | 1,155 |
Kirkwall | 4 | 1,275 | - | - |
Lanark | 17 | 8,124 | 5 | 3,260 |
Lerwick | 5 | 1,275 | 1 | 170 |
Linlithgow | 81 | 16,827 | 63 | 17,325 |
Lochmaddy | 1 | 55 | 1 | 200 |
Oban | 4 | 2,017 | 8 | 2,877 |
Paisley | 188 | 49,370 | 120 | 33,943 |
Peebles | - | - | - | - |
Perth | 23 | 4,469 | 21 | 5,330 |
Peterhead | 5 | 1,040 | 5 | 1,733 |
Portree | - | - | 2 | 400 |
Rothesay | 1 | 150 | - | - |
Selkirk | 1 | 60 | 5 | 427 |
Stirling | 21 | 2,988 | 13 | 5,416 |
Stonehaven | 9 | 3,865 | 6 | 845 |
Stornoway | 1 | 450 | 4 | 856 |
Stranraer | 27 | 7,509 | 22 | 6,365 |
Tain | 4 | 953 | 8 | 2,140 |
Wick | 2 | 380 | 2 | 255 |
Scotland | 2,267 | 532,481 | 1,691 | 455,604 |
District Court Fines
1 Remitted by Court, 1999-2000 to 2001-02
| 1999-00 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 |
| Fully or Partly Remitted | Fully Remitted | Partly Remitted | Fully Remitted | Partly Remitted |
Aberdeen City | 146 | 33 | 26 | 94 | 17 |
Aberdeenshire | 61 | 28 | 21 | 79 | 31 |
Angus | 27 | 6 | 15 | 5 | 10 |
Argyll and Bute | 162 | 60 | 25 | 54 | 22 |
Clackmannanshire | 12 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 28 | - | 12 | 11 | 6 |
Dundee City | 38 | 25 | 69 | 30 | - |
East Ayrshire | 116 | 13 | 8 | 68 | 37 |
East Dunbartonshire | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 |
East Lothian | - | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
East Renfrewshire | - | 2 | 3 | - | - |
Edinburgh, City of | 408 | N/A | N/A | 240 | 38 |
Eilean Siar | - | 19 | - | N/A | N/A |
Falkirk | 42 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 6 |
Fife2 | 225 | 117 | 38 | 137 | 42 |
Glasgow City | 385 | 141 | 40 | 43 | 39 |
Highland | 180 | 125 | 103 | 19 | 18 |
Inverclyde | 31 | 23 | 9 | 31 | 19 |
Midlothian | 2 | 5 | - | 12 | 5 |
Moray | 2 | 1 | - | 19 | 1 |
North Ayrshire | 59 | 13 | 36 | 24 | 36 |
North Lanarkshire3 | 425 | 250 | 10 | 645 | (4) |
Perth and Kinross | 80 | 126 | 57 | 79 | N/A |
Renfrewshire | 255 | 143 | 129 | 49 | 57 |
Scottish Borders | 41 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
South Ayrshire | 2 | 6 | 2 | 44 | 46 |
South Lanarkshire | 106 | 41 | 36 | 21 | 7 |
Stirling | 32 | 40 | 7 | N/A | N/A |
West Dunbartonshire | 436 | 55 | 26 | 22 | 22 |
West Lothian | 36 | 154 | 4 | 154 | 6 |
Scotland | 3,353 | 1,457 | 695 | 1,906 | 475 |
Notes:1. For some courts other types of fine (e.g. registered fines/compensation orders) are included as not separately identifiable.2. 2001-02: Fife figures are for Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy only, N/A for Cupar. 3. 2000-01: North Lanarkshire figures are for Coatbridge only.4. Included with fines fully remitted.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 February 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 19 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how the stabbings of three prisoners at HM Prison Kilmarnock in September 2002 were recorded for the purpose of the (a) prison's performance points and (b) Scottish Prison Service's key performance indicators.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:Three KPI assaults were recorded. No performance points have been recorded; the police are investigating the incident.