- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 December 2002
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Answered by Hugh Henry on 3 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the value of proceeds of district court fines sent to HM Treasury has been for each 12-month period from 1 July 1999 to date.
Answer
The available information is given in the following table:Value of Fines Sent to Exchequer (£000s)
| 1999-20001 | 2000-012 | 2001-023 |
| 2,860 | 2,200 | 2,259 |
Notes:1. Excludes Stirling and North Lanarkshire.2. Excludes Edinburgh, North Lanarkshire and Stirling.3. Excludes North Lanarkshire, Stirling and West Lothian.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 December 2002
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Answered by Andy Kerr on 3 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the value has been of receipts that were designated for the purposes of section 64(5) of the Scotland Act 1998 by article 2 of the Scotland Act 1998 (Designation of Receipts) Order 2000 (SI 2000/687) and article 8 of the Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Finance) Order 1999 (SI 1999/441) in each twelve-month period since 1 July 1999, broken down by (a) fines, forfeitures and fixed penalties, (b) dividends on public dividend capital, (c) interest and (d) sums received from the European Social Fund in respect of training expenditure incurred by Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
Answer
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 December 2002
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Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made on implementation of the recommendations of the Advisory Group on Youth Crime, which reported in June 2000.
Answer
The Executive accepted the recommendations of the multi-agency Advisory Group on youth crime in June 2000. Scotland's Action Programme to Reduce Youth Crime 2002 and the 10-point Action Plan to tackle Youth Crime and Disorder are currently being implemented.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 December 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 3 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when the multi-agency group referred to on page 14 of Scotland's Action Programme to Reduce Youth Crime 2002 under the heading "increasing public confidence in Scotland's system of youth justice", due to report in Autumn 2002, will report.
Answer
The National Youth Justice Standards were published on 19 December. The document is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 25683).
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 December 2002
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Answered by Iain Gray on 19 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions there have been regarding passenger railway provision in the area between Dunblane and Perth.
Answer
Local authorities are best placed to identify local public transport requirements and to take any resulting projects forward. In this case any such proposals would therefore be for Perthshire and Kinross Council or Stirling Council to bring forward.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 November 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 13 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what separate provision is made in each Scottish Prison Service adult prison for young offenders, showing the design capacity of any separate accommodation available for such offenders.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:Separate provision for under-21 remand prisoners in adult prisons is provided at HM Prison Barlinnie. The design capacity is 122. Separate provision for young offenders is provided at HM Prison Edinburgh. The design capacity is 42 with the ability to increase it to 62 by doubling up in some certain cells.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 13 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any separate provision is made in each Scottish Prison Service young offenders institution for offenders under the age of 16.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:The SPS has no separate accommodation for this purpose. Prisoners under the age of 16 are normally held in single cell accommodation with integral sanitation. If the person is considered particularly "at risk" then that prisoner may for their best interest be detained in the health centre.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 November 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 13 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30372 by Mr Jim Wallace on 12 November 2002, whether there is a discrepancy between the totals for injuries reportable to the Health and Safety Executive given in the answer and the totals shown on page 9 of the Scottish Prison Service Annual Report and Accounts 2001-02 and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The figures given in the answer to S1W-30372 were those available for each existing prison. The figures in the annual report refer to the whole of the agency and to establishments which had closed.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: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 11 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive why target 6 in the Justice section of Building a Better Scotland, Spending Proposals 2003-2006: What the money buys is to provide 6,300 prisoner places by 2005-06, given that the projection for that year made in August 2002, referred to in the Scottish Prison Service press release on 24 September 2002, is for a prison population of 6,900.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:Current projections for 2005-06 indicate a basic design capacity for our estate of about 6,100. In addition, the new houseblocks at Polmont and Edinburgh will have over 200 purpose-designed doubling-up cells giving just over 6,300 available spaces.These figures do not include the anticipated closure of HM Prison Low Moss, the downsizing of HM Prison Barlinnie or the provision of two new 700-place prisons. Implementation plans and timescales for these recently announced projects are now being prepared.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 November 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 11 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the progress of the operation of the contract for HM Prison Kilmarnock in comparison with the financial projection contained in schedule P of the Minute of Agreement between the Secretary of State for Scotland and Kilmarnock Prison Services Limited for the Design, Construction, Management and Financing of a Prison at Kilmarnock.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:No such assessment has been made but the contract costs are in line with those envisaged at the time of contract signature.
