- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive why no performance summary for the Reliance contract has been published since June 2004.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
Performance summaries are published after the relevant performance management processes have been concluded. The figures for July and August were published on 7 October.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-9015 by Cathy Jamieson on 30 August 2004, why the costs given did not include the opportunity costs of assigning prison officers to escort duties.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
Because such costs are not readily quantifiable.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-9015 by Cathy Jamieson on 30 August 2004, whether it includes in the cost of risks associated with escort duties the cost of recapturing an escaped prisoner.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The costs given in the answer to question S2W-09015, answered on 30 August 2004, do not include the cost of recapturing an escaped prisoner. All answers towritten PQs are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-9015 by Cathy Jamieson on 30 August 2004, whether there were any other reasons for the delay in providing the information requested other than commercial confidentiality.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
No.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what authority Reliance employees have to take into custody a prisoner who is unlawfully at large.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
None: This remains a matter for the police.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost to the public purse was in each of the last five years of the duties that will be taken over by Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd under the contract for the provision of prisoner escort and court custody services.
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 S2W-11075 answered 19 October 2004. All answers to written PQs are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.”
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the public sector comparator used for the contract for the provision of prisoner escort and court custody services.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
The Public Sector Comparator PSC) used in the value for money evaluation for the Prisoner Escorts and Court Custody project is given in the following table. The value for money evaluation was conducted in line with Treasury guidance and was among the aspects of the procurement audited and recently reported on by the Auditor General.
| | | | £m |
| Direct costs | Staff | Police | 11.8 |
| | | SPS | 4.6 |
| | Transport | Police | 0.6 |
| | | SPS | 0.6 |
| Indirect costs | Overheads | Police | 1.4 |
| | | SPS | 1.6 |
| Risk adjustment | | | 2.5 |
| Total PSC (annual) | 23.0 |
| Net present value over seven years | 145.3 |
In this table, the direct SPS costs are those given separately in the answer toquestion S2W-9015; other direct costs are the equivalent figures for thepolice; overheads represent a proportion of the costs of training, headquartersfunctions and other central costs; and the risk adjustment results fromanalysis conducted in line with Treasury guidance and taking account of a rangeof quantifiable risks in the design, development, transition to and operationof the new service and the extent to which these are transferred by the contract. The annual total differs from the sum of the PSC components because ofrounding.
All answers to written PQs are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the public interest in the release of commercially confidential information in Contract between The Scottish Ministers and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the Provision of Prisoner Escort and Court Custody Services in Scotland is outweighed by any harm likely to arise from such a release.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
Yes. The exemptions under which the SPS withheld information from the published version of the contract are subject to a public interest test. The SPS concluded that the harm likely to arise from the publication of the withheld information outweighed the public interest in releasing the information.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive under what exemption to the Code of Practice on Access to Scottish Executive Information it decided to withhold information contained in Contract between The Scottish Ministers and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the Provision of Prisoner Escort and Court Custody Services in Scotland.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
Information was withheld under exemptions 4(b), 4 (e), 7(a) and 13.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 12 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive under what exemption to the Code of Practice on Access to Scottish Executive Information it decided to withhold information contained in appendix A of schedule 2 to Contract between The Scottish Ministers and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the Provision of Prisoner Escort and Court Custody Services in Scotland.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
The information was withheld under exemptions 7(a) and 13.
