- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 22 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail all costs it incurs associated with HM Prison Kilmarnock.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:In addition to the obligations of the respective parties to the contract, details of which were published on the SPS website on 8 March 2002, SPS also incur costs associated with HMP Kilmarnock in relation to the Assisted Prison Visit Scheme (for prisoners' families); addiction transitional care service (in respect of prisoners released from Kilmarnock); prisoners' discharge grants, and the cost of the controller function.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 22 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what total fees (a) have been paid and (b) are now due for work by external consultants employed on the Scottish Prison Service'ss Estates Review.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:(a) £107,584 excluding VAT and (b) none.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 18 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many new sheltered housing complexes were built by social landlords other than local authorities and by private developers in (a) 1999, (b) 2000 and (c) 2001.
Answer
I have asked Mr Bob Millar, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. His response is as follows:Sheltered housing is now classified as supported residential accommodation on an individual or group basis. The number of new build unit approvals by Registered Social Landlords in the period 1999-2000 to 2001-02 are:
| 1999-2000 | New Build |
| Supported Residential | 148 |
| 2000-01 | New Build |
| Supported Residential | 173 |
| 2001-02 | New Build |
| Supported Residential | 78 |
No information is held on provision by private developers.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 18 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many properties were converted into sheltered housing complexes by social landlords other than local authorities and by private developers in (a) 1999, (b) 2000 and (c) 2001.
Answer
I have asked Mr Bob Millar, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. His response is as follows:Sheltered housing is now classified as supported residential accommodation on an individual or group basis. The number of unit approval rehabilitations by Registered Social Landlords in the period 1999-2000 to 2001-02 were:
| 1999-2000 | Rehabilitation |
| Supported Residential | 27 |
| 2000-01 | Rehabilitation |
| Supported Residential | 17 |
| 2001-02 | Rehabilitation |
| Supported Residential | 3 |
No information is held on provision by private developers.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Legal Aid Board has undertaken a comparative exercise on the value of work now being performed under the Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1999, applying Schedule 1 of the Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Regulations 1989 and, if so, what the results were.
Answer
The Executive will commission an independent research project into the impact of fixed payments in the course of this year.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive to what extent the Scottish Legal Aid Board considers that a block fee regime would encourage additional usage of the courts in civil legal aid matters and what evaluations have been undertaken on this matter.
Answer
The Scottish Legal Aid Board is by statute an independent body. It is not for Scottish ministers to speak for the board on its opinions. This question should be raised with the board. However, I await proposals from the Law Society of Scotland on fees for civil legal aid work.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 15 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many properties were converted into sheltered housing complexes by local authorities in (a) 1999, (b) 2000 and (c) 2001.
Answer
The numbers of dwellings converted into sheltered housing in the years 1999-2000 to 2001-02 are shown in the following table.
| 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 |
| Conversions | Very sheltered | Sheltered | Very sheltered | Sheltered | Very sheltered | Sheltered |
| Aberdeen City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aberdeenshire | 0 | 72 | 0 | 88 | 0 | 0 |
| Angus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Argyll and Bute | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Clackmannanshire | 0 | 20 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 17 |
| Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A |
| Dundee City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154 |
| East Ayrshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| E. Dunbartonshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| East Lothian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| East Renfrewshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| City of Edinburgh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 285 | 0 | 0 |
| Falkirk | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fife | 0 | 1,320 | 0 | 85 | 0 | 2 |
| Glasgow City | 64 | 0 | 60 | 0 | 60 | 0 |
| Highland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| Inverclyde | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A |
| Midlothian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Moray | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| North Ayrshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| North Lanarkshire | 0 | 30 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| Orkney Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perth and Kinross | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Renfrewshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scottish Borders | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Shetland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A |
| South Ayrshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Lanarkshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A |
| Stirling | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A |
| W. Dunbartonshire | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| West Lothian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scotland | 64 | 1,480 | 61 | 495 | 60 | 202 |
Source: Housing Capital Programme 1999-2000 to 2001-02.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 12 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24120 by Mr Jim Wallace on 27 March 2002, whether it will specify all the omissions from the published version of the contract on HM Prison Kilmarnock in each case showing in which part of the contract the omissions were made, what information has been omitted and on what grounds it was omitted.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The categories omitted were detailed in the response to question S1W-24120. These were omitted on the grounds of security, commercial in confidence and unnecessary detail in the case of lengthy lists of fixtures, fittings, etc.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-12540 by Mr Jim Wallace on 21 February 2001, what methodology is used to estimate the cost of the Scottish Prison Service's provision of a custodial service equivalent to that provided at HM Prison Kilmarnock, detailing the assumptions made with regard to the calculation of net present value, inflation rates, interest rates, design costs, construction costs, financing costs, staff costs and any other relevant costs.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:The costs for Kilmarnock Prison date back to 1997, the date of contract signature. The most up to date estimates for the delivery of a modern customised service were prepared for the SPS Estates Review, published on 21 March 2002. Full details of the methodology and relevant assumptions are contained in the consultation documents.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it pays any additional fees when the number of prisoners at HM Prison Kilmarnock is greater than the number of places available for prisoners.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:Details of the payment mechanisms are given in the contract published on 8 March 2002, on the SPS website.
