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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: S3W-08920

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Frank Mulholland on 20 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all existing protocols between the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland and the Crown Office which determine and set out when police investigations should be undertaken.

The current formal protocols between ACPOS and the Crown Office Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) which determine and set out when police investigations should be undertaken are as follows:

Joint Protocol between ACPOS and COPFS on Domestic Abuse.

Work Related Deaths - A Protocol for Liaison among COPFS, ACPOS, the Health and Safety Executive and British Transport Police.

These protocols deal with specific types of investigation.

Question reference: S3W-09090

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 18 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many reported incidents of self-harm by prisoners have taken place in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S3W-09092

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 18 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many suicides have taken place in Scottish prisons in each year since 1999, broken down by gender.

I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:

I refer the member to the answers to questions S2W-14693 on 9 March 2005, and S2W-15577 on 14 April 2005, for the years 1999-2000 to 2003-04. 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/wa.search.

The following table sets out self-inflicted and apparent self-inflicted deaths in prison custody for the years 2004-05 to 2006-07, by prison. There were only two female deaths over this period, both occurring at HM Prison and Institution, Cornton Vale. Information relating to statistics of self-harm or attempted suicide is not available for these years.

Establishment	Year
Establishment	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Aberdeen	2	0	1
Barlinnie	1	5	4
Cornton Vale	1	1	0
Dumfries	0	0	0
Edinburgh	0	0	1
Glenochil	0	0	0
Greenock	0	0	0
Inverness	1	0	2
Kilmarnock	0	0	0
~Low Moss	0	0	0
Open Estate	1	0	0
Perth	2	2	1
Peterhead	0	1	0
Polmont	0	1	0
Shotts	1	0	1
Total	9	*10	#10

Notes:

~Low Moss closed, spring 2006.

*1 apparent self-inflicted death subject to Fatal Accident Inquiry Determination.

#5 apparent self-inflicted deaths subject to Fatal Accident Inquiry Determination.

Question reference: S3W-09091

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 18 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many suicide attempts have been made by prisoners serving sentences in Scottish prisons in each year since 1999, broken down by gender.

Question reference: S3W-09099

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 18 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners, eligible for parole and serving sentences in Scottish prisons, were refused parole in each year since 1999, broken down by prison.

The information sought is as follows:

Year	Number of Eligible Prisoners Refused Parole	Number of Prisoners not Recommended for Release on Life Licence
1999	304	Not available
2000	279	110
2001	301	85
2002	272	89
2003	354	117
2004	380	124
2005	395	136
2006	463	117

It is not possible to provide the information by prison. The figures also include those who were transferred to England to serve their sentences and those transferred to serve their sentences in psychiatric hospitals.

Question reference: S3W-09104

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 18 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it has given to bringing Scotland’s eight police forces together under one structure.

Question reference: S3W-09098

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 18 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners required inpatient hospital treatment from (a) an NHS hospital and (b) a prison hospital in each year since 1999, broken down by prison.

Question reference: S3W-08921

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Frank Mulholland on 7 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the details of the protocol between the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland and the Crown Office concerning complaints made to police forces in relation to breaches of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.

Question reference: S3W-08922

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Frank Mulholland on 7 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive on what date the protocol between the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland and the Crown Office concerning complaints made to police forces in relation to breaches of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 was agreed.

Question reference: S3W-08919

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Frank Mulholland on 7 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to review the protocol agreed between the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland and the Crown Office concerning complaints in relation to breaches of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.