- 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 2 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, PricewaterhouseCoopers was asked all of the questions given in section 5.2.1 of Treasury Taskforce's Technical Note No. 3: How to Appoint and Manage Advisors to PFI Projects in any interviews in respect of appointment to perform the financial review of the Scottish Prisons Service estates review.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-28228.
- 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 2 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what specific representations it has made to Her Majesty's Government about the proposed EU directive to establish minimum common rules relating to legal aid and other financial aspects of civil proceedings in order to improve access to justice in cross-border disputes.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the United Kingdom Government on a wide range of EU-related issues, including the proposed directive on legal aid.
- 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 2 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of any impact on the legal system of an EU directive establishing minimum common rules relating to legal aid and other financial aspects of civil proceedings in order to improve access to justice in cross-border disputes.
Answer
The Council of Ministers has decided that the scope of the proposed directive should be limited to cases involving litigants from different member states. On that basis, and on the basis of the current state of discussions in Brussels, the Executive expects the impact of the directive on the Scottish system to be very limited.
- 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 Andy Kerr on 2 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when its contract monitoring procedures were last independently checked or audited in line with paragraph 2.3.10 of the Treasury Taskforce's Technical Note No. 6: How to Manage the Delivery of Long Term PFI Contracts and what the results of the audit were.
Answer
The Treasury Taskforce's Technical Note No. 6: How to Manage the Delivery of Long Term PFI Contracts refers to contract monitoring in the development (award of the contract to the commencement of delivery of the services) and delivery (the provision and use of the contracted services during the remaining life of the contract) stages.Of the three Scottish Executive private finance initiative contracts, the technical professional consultant which monitors the M6 DBFO on behalf of Scottish ministers had its procedures audited by the Scottish Executive in December 2001, with a follow up in January 2002. An audit of the contract monitoring procedures in relation to Kilmarnock Prison will be included in the strategic audit plan covering the period 2003-06. Monitoring of the Skye Bridge contract is the responsibility of a unit within the Executive, and its procedures have been checked through internal audits over the period.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 30 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the introduction of transitional care arrangements between prison and community at HM Prison Kilmarnock will require a renegotiation of its contract with the prison's operators.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:No.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 30 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what assistance it has given in each of the last three years and intends to give in the present year and the next two years to the operators of HM Prison Kilmarnock for the provision of transitional care arrangements between prison and community for problem drug misusers.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:Transitional care arrangements for problem substance misusers have been made available to all short-term prisoners released from all prisons in Scotland including Kilmarnock through a national contract signed in October 2001 and which will run, initially, until April 2004.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 30 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made any specific representations to Her Majesty's Government on the draft European Union Framework Decision on combating racism and xenophobia and what form any such representations took.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the UK Government on a wide range of issues, including the draft European Union Framework Decision on combating racism and xenophobia.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 30 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made any specific representations to (a) the Council of the European Union, (b) any member or body of the European Parliament, (c) any member or body of the Committee of the Regions and (d) the European Commission, on the draft European Union framework decision on combating racism and xenophobia and what form any such representations took.
Answer
No. Relations with the EU are reserved and therefore representations to these EU bodies are agreed with the UK Government and carried out by and through the UK Government.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 30 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide substantive answers to questions S1W-25707 and S1W-25705 lodged on 9 May 2002.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:Questions S1W-25705 and S1W-25707 were answered on 15 August 2002.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 August 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is any conflict of interest arising from PricewaterhouseCoopers carrying out the financial review of the Scottish Prison Service estates review, given that the firm is the auditor of Group 4 Falck.
Answer
No. PricewaterhouseCoopers are a multi-national company performing thousands of audits world-wide and have internal procedures for preventing conflicts of interest.
