- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 April 2002
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Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 22 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Deputy Minister for Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning will to reply to my letter of 19 March 2002 regarding Caledonian MacBrayne and Northern Isles ferry services.
Answer
I wrote to the member on 29 April in response to his letter.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 April 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 21 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many places are currently available for prisoners wishing to achieve qualifications to level SVQ 3 and how many achieved that level in each of the last three years at (a) HM Prison Kilmarnock and (b) each Scottish Prison Service prison.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The information requested is not held centrally and is not available for previous years. SVQ level 3 is currently offered at present by HM Prison Peterhead (six places on Carpentry and Joinery) and from HM Prison Castle Huntly (one place on Professional Cookery).
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 January 2002
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Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will include provision within its NHS capital expenditure allocations for 2002-03 to fund developments in the Banff area.
Answer
It is entirely a matter for NHS Grampian to fund any capital developments in the Banff area from within available resources.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 April 2002
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Answered by Ross Finnie on 17 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what involvement its Environment and Rural Affairs Department will have in the introduction of the Welfare of Laying Hens Directive 99/74/EC and whether it intends to make proposals for the introduction of the Laying Hens Welfare Code which go beyond those stated in the 1999 Directive.
Answer
Animal welfare is a devolved issue. Draft Scottish regulations to implement Directive 99/74/EC on the Welfare of Laying Hens will be laid before the Parliament in the next few days. Whilst we are obliged to implement EU Directives in full, the regulations do not go beyond the requirements of the directive.A revised Code of Recommendations for the Welfare of Laying Hens will also be put before the Parliament. This advisory code is intended to encourage all these who care for laying hens to adopt the highest standards of husbandry.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24755 by Mr Jim Wallace on 29 April 2002, how many members of staff in total from the Scottish Prison Service attended the risk workshop referred to in section 2.7 of the Financial Review of Scottish Prisons Service Estates Review prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Answer
Six.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24755 by Mr Jim Wallace on 29 April 2002, how many prison officers attended the risk workshop referred to in section 2.7 of the Financial Review of Scottish Prisons Service Estates Review prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers, broken down by rank.
Answer
None.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24755 by Mr Jim Wallace on 29 April 2002, how many members of staff from the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) who attended the risk workshop referred to in section 2.7 of the Financial Review of Scottish Prisons Service Estates Review prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers were attached to SPS headquarters.
Answer
Six.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24755 by Mr Jim Wallace on 29 April 2002, whether anyone who attended the risk workshop referred to in section 2.7 of the Financial Review of Scottish Prisons Service Estates Review prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), was attached to the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) headquarters but was not employed either by the SPS or by PwC and, if so, what organisation they came from.
Answer
All those who attended were employed by SPS or PwC.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 13 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the minutes of the quarterly meetings of Family Contact Development Officers in the Scottish Prison Service record any note of difficulties encountered by visitors to sex offenders in non-specific sex offender jails.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The minutes of the quarterly meetings of the Family Contact Development Officers in the Scottish Prison Service do not record any note of difficulties encountered by visitors to sex offenders in any Scottish prisons.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 13 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Family Contact Development Officers there are within the Scottish Prison Service.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The number of officers designated as Family Contact Development Officers within the Scottish Prison Service is 86. This number includes 17 managers.
