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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S1W-29257

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 13 September 2002
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.

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.

Question reference: S1W-29262

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 13 September 2002
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 financial risk to it of a change in policy leading to there being not sufficient remand prisoners to fill a 700-place privately-operated remand prison.

Question reference: S1W-29264

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 13 September 2002
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.

Question reference: S1W-30032

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 September 2002
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, whether any assessment has been made of targets 1.1.5, 1.1.7, 1.1.10, 1.2.1, 1.3.1, 2.2.2, 2.4.1, 3.4.1, 4.0.2, 5.1.2, 5.1.8, 5.2.7, 5.2.10, 5.3.2, 5.4.1, 5.4.2, 5.5.3, 7.1.4, 7.1.7, 7.1.11, 7.2.1, 7.4.1, 7.5.3, 8.1.2, 8.2.1, 8.4.4, 8.7.5 and 9.2.3 in Standards of Health Care for Prisoners.

Question reference: S1W-30031

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 September 2002
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.

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.

Question reference: S1W-30030

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 September 2002
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.

Question reference: S1W-30023

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 September 2002
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.

Question reference: S1W-30024

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 September 2002
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.

Question reference: S1W-30021

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 September 2002
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.

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.

Question reference: S1O-05717

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 October 2002
Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 10 October 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what concerns it has regarding delay in the transfer of Scottish Borders Council housing stock.

The transfer of the Scottish Borders housing stock to Scottish Borders Housing Association is progressing. The independent valuation required to be updated to reflect the basis of the sale e.g. intervening right to buy sales, rent increases and capital investment undertaken by the council. This work has been completed and Scottish Borders Housing Association is in the process of updating its business plan which is now due for submission by 31 October. The formal consent of ministers' should be available thereafter, allowing the transfer to complete by the end of the year. All parties remain fully committed to concluding this complex process as soon as possible in order that the significant commitments to tenants can be actioned.