- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 11 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the ministerial statement on the prison estates review by the Deputy First Minister and Minister for Justice on 5 September 2002, what catchment area is envisaged for the private-build, private-operate remand prison.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:It is anticipated that the new private-build private-operate prison will mainly serve courts in the Central Belt.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 11 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the ministerial statement on the prison estates review by the Deputy First Minister and Minister for Justice on 5 September 2002, what assessment it has made of the additional cost of transporting remand prisoners to a 700-place remand prison.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:None.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 11 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the ministerial statement on the prison estates review by the Deputy First Minister and Minister for Justice on 5 September 2002, whether the proposed private-build, private-operate prison will be entirely for remand prisoners.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The new private-build private-operate prison will be designed and built as a fully flexible prison in order to secure value for money, but as the Deputy First Minister made clear during the debate in Parliament, it is our intention to use those places to respond to the recent significant increase in remand prisoners.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 11 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the ministerial statement on the prison estates review by the Deputy First Minister and Minister for Justice on 5 September 2002, whether women prisoners might be held in the private-build, private-operate remand prison.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:A detailed specification for the new private-build private-operate prison has yet to be developed.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 11 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it costs to administer the Fuel Duty Rebate scheme annually.
Answer
he Bus Service Operator's Grant (BSOG) scheme is administered by the Department for Transport on a Great Britain basis with the overall costs met from that department's running cost provision, reflecting the position before devolution. BSOG is a devolved matter and as such payments to Scottish bus operators are funded by the Scottish Executive. The budget for BSOG in this financial year is £54.8 million.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-26897 by Mr Jim Wallace on 3 July 2002, when work on revision of the Scottish Prison Service's Standards of Health Care for Prisoners will be completed and whether the revised version of the standards will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:The SPS has recently been in contact with the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland to identify how our standards could be improved. We are currently in the process of commissioning this piece of work. It is hoped that the revision of our standards will be completed by March 2003. I will arrange for the revised version to be placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-26897 by Mr Jim Wallace on 3 July 2002, who the external adviser is engaged by the Scottish Prison Service to consider how development of Standards of Health Care for Prisoners may be taken forward.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The external adviser engaged was the Nursing Adviser to HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-26897 by Mr Jim Wallace on 3 July 2002, when it plans to make a further assessment of compliance with Standards of Health Care of Prisoners in prisons operated by the Scottish Prison Service.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:A further assessment will be undertaken 12 months after the revised standards are introduced.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-28700 by Mr Jim Wallace on 24 September 2002, what evidence it receives of compliance with Standards of Health Care of Prisoners by the private contractors for medical services in prisons.
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 S1W-30021 today. 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/search_wa.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-28699 by Mr Jim Wallace on 24 September 2002, what information is provided to the Scottish Prison Service by Medacs at (a) individual health centre level and (b) the regular meetings of the national Medical Services Contract Monitoring Group.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:Information and evidence provided relates to the agreed key performance indicators contained in the contract between SPS and Medacs Forensic Services. I refer the member to the answer to question S1W-28224 on 2 September 2002. 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/search_wa.
