- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 28 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the costs of education services have been in each Scottish Prison Service prison in each of the last five years.
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 given to question S1W-29771 on 15 October 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.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 28 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-28706 by Mr Jim Wallace on 24 September 2002, when it will be able to give the cost to the Scottish Prison Service of providing prisoner escorts in each of the last three years and whether it will place the information in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre once it is available.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:Relevant data is being collected and analysed for the 12 months from December 2001. This will be placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre in due course.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 28 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-28706 by Mr Jim Wallace on 24 September 2002, whether it has sought any external advice with regard to contracting out prisoner escorts.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:As part of the project to contract out prisoner escort services and following competitive tender exercises, the SPS has engaged the services of PA Consulting and Semple Fraser WS to provide project management, commercial, legal and financial advice.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 28 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-28706 by Mr Jim Wallace on 24 September 2002, what annual savings it estimates that it will make by contracting out prisoner escorts.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:Accurate information is not currently available. Arrangements for the collection and analysis of relevant data are being made as part of the tender exercise currently under way.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 28 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-28706 by Mr Jim Wallace on 24 September 2002, what assessment it has made of best value in respect of contracting out prisoner escorts.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The information referred to in the answer given to question S1W-28706 will be used to assess value during the evaluation of bids received in response to the tender exercise now under way.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 28 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-28127 by Mr Jim Wallace on 29 August 2002, whether it is aware of the internal procedures for preventing conflict of interest in PricewaterhouseCoopers and whether these procedures were applied in the case of the prison estates review.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The Scottish Prison Service is satisfied that PricewaterhouseCoopers' procedures for preventing conflict of interest were applied in the case of the prison estates review.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 28 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost was of the consultation on the prison estates review.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The cost of printing the estates review consultation paper and its two associated documents was £4,238.35. Preparation of the documents and conduct of the public consultation exercise was primarily the responsibility of a team of between three and five Scottish Prison Service staff, who also dealt with other matters connected with the review. A number of other staff in the Scottish Prison Service and elsewhere in the Executive were also involved.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-21183 and S1W-24978 by Mr Jim Wallace on 25 February 2002 and 24 July 2002, how it concluded that the difference between tendering costs for a privately-financed project and design costs for a publicly-financed project is not significant in a project of this scale, given that the Scottish Prison Service did not collect tender cost data in respect of the contract for HM Prison Kilmarnock.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:The PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Review calculated the total cost of a new 700-place private build private operate prison as being around £206.2 million in net present value terms (around £453.2 million in cash value real terms), compared to £453.4 million in NPV terms (£855.4 million in CVR terms) for the public sector comparator. The tendering and design costs will not be significantly different due to the costings for the design and service specification for any new prison in the Estates Review, for both the Private Build Private Operate option and the Public Sector Comparator, being based upon those for HM Prison Kilmarnock.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-26497 by Mr Jim Wallace on 18 July 2002, whether the cost of non-domestic rates was included in the private sector model and what the reasons are for the position on this matter.
Answer
No. The private sector model was based on the contract cost of privately-managed prisons and non-domestic rates are not a contractual cost. The net present value of non-domestic rates is estimated to be approximately £3 million over 25 years. The public sector comparator included non-domestic rates to facilitate comparison with the new houseblock options. The total contractual cost plus non-domestic rates for the private sector model is £209 million compared with the public sector comparator of £429 million on the same basis.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-26497 by Mr Jim Wallace on 18 July 2002, why the cost of non-domestic rates was included in the costing of the public sector comparator.
Answer
To facilitate comparison of the new prison and houseblock options in the Scottish Prison Service Estate Review.
