- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 7 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether target 10(a) in the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service section of Building a Better Scotland - Spending Proposals 2003-06: What the money buys on the time period for investigations of complaints of criminal conduct by police officers and advising complainers of outcome replaces the existing Crown Office target for complaints against the police.
Answer
Yes.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 7 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there will be any time limit for the conclusion of those remaining 40% of cases which require further investigation and advising next of kin, as referred to in target 9 in the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service section of Building a Better Scotland - Spending Proposals 2003-06: What the money buys.
Answer
The remaining 40% of cases are expected to be the more complex ones where the time taken to carry out a thorough investigation can vary widely. We are committed to ensuring that the next of kin in these cases are kept informed of the progress of the investigation.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 4 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the random mandatory drug testing results were for HM Prison Kilmarnock, broken down by (a) type of drug including (i) cannabis, (ii) ben'odia'epines, (iii) opiates, (iv) methadone, (v) LSD, (vi) amphetamines, (vii) barbiturates, (viii) cocaine and (ix) temgesic, and (b) all tests and in-prison tests, in (1) 1999-2000, (2) 2000-01 and (3) 2001-02.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:Readily available information on random mandatory drug test results are published annually in the Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland annual bulletin,
Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2001, published by the Information and Statistics Division in 2002. The figures for 1999-2000 and 2000-01 for HMP Kilmarnock, which were not included in previous bulletins, will be included in the next bulletin, and are as follows:
| | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 |
| Overall per cent positive |
| All tests % positive (includes all prisoners) | 34 | 24 |
| In-prison tests % positive (excludes results attributable to pre-prison use) | 23 | 16 |
| Percentage of samples positive for stated drug type1 |
| Cannabis | 22 | 11 |
| Benzodiazepines | 7 | 3 |
| Opiates | 14 | 20 |
| Methadone | 0 | 0 |
| LSD | 0 | 0 |
| Amphetamines | 0 | 0 |
| Barbiturates | 0 | 0 |
| Cocaine | 0 | 0 |
| Temgesic | 1 | 0 |
Note:1. These percentages relate to the all-test positive rate (which includes those whose test result may have been due to pre-prison misuse), as this figure better relates to treatment need.The figures for 2001-02 will be published in the next annual bulletin.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 4 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27734 by Mr Jim Wallace on 15 August 2002, what the total value was of the fixtures, fittings and equipment removed from the buildings comprising HM Prison Zeist for reuse by the Scottish Prison Service prior to the buildings' return to the Netherlands Government.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:£11,000 approximately.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 2 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-25569 and S1W-27720 by Mr Jim Wallace on 16 May and 14 August 2002 respectively, how incidents of the disciplinary offences of (a) denying an officer access to any part of the prison, (b) intentionally endangering the health or personal safety of others, (c) intentionally obstructing an officer in the execution of his duty, (d) possession of an article or quantity of an article, (e) sale or delivery of an authorised article, (f) arson, (g) destroying or damaging property, (h) unauthorised absence from or presence in any part of the establishment, (i) inhaling a prohibited or unauthorised substance, (j) consuming, taking, injecting, ingesting or concealing a prohibited substance and (k) committing an indecent or obscene act are recorded in the performance points incurred in respect of HM Prison Kilmarnock.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The performance measures in Schedule F of the contract relate to the extent to which the contractor is expected to manage events, incidents or activities. Acts of indiscipline by prisoners, such as those cited, are often spontaneous and difficult to predict: the performance measures reflect whether the contractor has minimised the potential for such an incident and/or to have contained its effect. If, for example, the items cited in (d), (e), (i) or (j) had been smuggled into the prison, that is how the event would be reflected as a performance measure; if a breach of security procedures allowed a prisoner to be somewhere he should not be - as in (h) - again that is how it would be reflected. In a number of the cases cited, the measure is about whether the management of prisoners is such that other prisoners do not become involved in isolated incidents of serious indiscipline, thereby preventing these from escalating. Each individual incident/prisoner is dealt with in the orderly room, as appropriate.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 2 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27653 by Mr Jim Wallace on 15 August 2002, why the information placed in the Scottish Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 23085) did not include information on HM Prison Kilmarnock.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:Some of the questions asked as part of the August 1999 audit involved retrospective analysis which was not possible for HM Prison Kilmarnock which had become fully operational just over a month before.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 2 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-25705 by Mr Jim Wallace on 15 August 2002, why the two offers received by 3 May 2000 for the buildings of the former HM Prison Penninghame were considered unacceptable.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The offers received failed to reach the lower limit of the expected price range.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 2 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27653 by Mr Jim Wallace on 15 August 2002, what information on compliance with Standards for the Health Care of Prisoners is collected for HM Prison Kilmarnock.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:An audit of SPS run prisons was undertaken in August 1999. No information has been collected on compliance against Standards for the Health Care of Prisoners in Kilmarnock or any other prison since then. Work is currently in hand on the revision of these standards to improve their auditibility. The revised standards, when introduced, will enable collection of information against compliance in all prisons.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 1 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-28356 by Mr Jim Wallace on 9 September 2002, what representations it has made to the Firearms Consultative Committee with regard to the regulation of air weapons.
Answer
In January 2002 an Order was placed before the UK Parliament extending the remit of the Firearms Consultative Committee for a further two years. The reconstituted committee has not yet met, so has still to conduct any business and its forward work programme has yet to be determined.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 1 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will have any representative at the informal Council of the European Union on Justice and Home Affairs on 14 to 15 March 2003.
Answer
No decisions have yet been taken either on agenda or on attendance at the informal Council of the European Union on Justice and Home Affairs on 14 to 15 March 2003. Negotiations within the European Union are conducted by the UK Government, taking due account of the views of the devolved administrations. The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the UK Government on a wide variety of EU-related issues and is represented as necessary at meetings in Brussels, whether at working groups of officials or Councils at ministerial level.
