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Question reference: S1W-25726

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 May 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 20 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-25236, S1W-25237 and S1W-25238 by Mr Jim Wallace on 3 May 2002, whether the internal Scottish Prison Service (SPS) submissions which were subsequently taken into account in the SPS Estates Review will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre, detailing the reasons behind its response.

Question reference: S1W-25725

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 May 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 20 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-25236, S1W-25237 and S1W-25238 by Mr Jim Wallace on 3 May 2002, whether the internal Scottish Prison Service (SPS) submissions which were subsequently taken into account in the SPS Estates Review will be made publicly available, detailing the reasons behind its response.

Question reference: S1W-25728

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 May 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 20 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-25236, S1W-25237 and S1W-25238 by Mr Jim Wallace on 3 May 2002, whether the feasibility studies such as Constructing the Future which were subsequently taken into account in the Scottish Prison Service Estates Review will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre, detailing the reasons behind its response.

Question reference: S1W-25723

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 May 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 20 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-25236, S1W-25237 and S1W-25238 by Mr Jim Wallace on 3 May 2002, how many internal Scottish Prison Service (SPS) submissions were subsequently taken into account in the SPS Estates Review.

Question reference: S1W-25721

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 May 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 20 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-25236, S1W-25237 and S1W-25238 by Mr Jim Wallace on 3 May 2002, which internal Scottish Prison Service (SPS) submissions were subsequently taken into account in the SPS Estates Review, detailing the reasons behind its response.

The Executive is committed to open government. Under the Code of Practice on Access to Scottish Executive Information, the assumption is that information will be released except where disclosure would not be in the public interest as specified in Part II of the code. In the case of the Prison Estates Review, all the relevant material from internal Scottish Prison Service submissions was included in the three volumes of material published as part of consultation on the Review. Material not included was either irrelevant or is covered by Exception 2 to the code, which covers internal discussion and advice. The purpose of this exception is to maintain the frankness and candour of internal discussion including internal opinion, advice, recommendation, consultation and deliberation.

Question reference: S1W-25722

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 May 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 20 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-25236, S1W-25237 and S1W-25238 by Mr Jim Wallace on 3 May 2002, which feasibility studies such as Constructing the Future were subsequently taken into account in the Scottish Prison Service Estates Review, detailing the reasons behind its response.

Question reference: S1W-27656

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 15 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive which targets in the report Standards of Health Care of Prisoners were not met by health care providers in each of the last three years, broken down by provider and prison, where such data is available.

Question reference: S1W-27653

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 15 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-26897 by Mr Jim Wallace on 3 July 2002, whether it will give a breakdown of each prison's performance in relation to each of the targets referred to.

Question reference: S1W-27750

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 July 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 15 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive what the random mandatory drug testing results were for prisons broken down by (a) type of drug including cannabis, ben'odia'epines, opiates, methadone, LSD, amphetamines, barbiturates, cocaine and temgesic, (b) headline and underlying figures, (c) month and (d) prison for 2000-01 and 2001-02.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:Readily available information on MDT test results are published annually in the Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland annual bulletin. The figures for 2000-01 are at table 110 in the 2001 report (Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2001, Information and Statistics Division, 2002).The figures for 2001-02 will be published in the next annual bulletin.

Question reference: S1W-26500

Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2002
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 15 August 2002

To ask the Scottish Executive how many convictions there have been in each of the last five years under each of sections 47, 48(2), 49, 49A and 50(4) of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995, broken down by sheriff court district.

The available information is given in the following tables. When interpreting individual figures at this level of detail it should be borne in mind that their accuracy is subject to the limitations inherent in any large scale statistical database. Information for 2001 is not expected to be available until around November 2002.Persons with a charge proved in Scottish courts where the main offence was under section 47 of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) Act 1995

	1996			1997			1998			1999			2000
All courts¹	227			901			1,051			1,065			1,137
Sheriff courts:
Aberdeen	8			14			20			26			26
Airdrie	9			19			20			16			22
Alloa	3			3			-			-			2
Arbroath	5			11			13			8			10
Ayr	8			26			20			16			17
Banff	-			-			1			-			-
Campbeltown	-			4			2			2			1
Cupar	3			5			3			5			6
Dingwall	-			1			1			2			-
Dornoch	-			1			1			1			-
Dumbarton	3			18			22			16			39
Dumfries	3			11			12			13			15
Dundee	5			41			37			51			40
Dunfermline	4			10			5			6			3
Dunoon	3			3			6			2			2
Duns	-			2			1			-			-
Edinburgh	12		81			80			67			64
Elgin	6		8			13			9			4
Falkirk	6		9			22			15			20
Forfar	1		5			8			8			9
Fort William	-		-			-			4			9
Glasgow	44		280			360			434			489
Greenock	8		17			21			35			27
Haddington	1		7			8			8			2
Hamilton	13		83			101			89			118
Inverness	2		6			9			3			5
Jedburgh	-		2			2			1			4
Kilmarnock	19		44			49			46			53
Kirkcaldy	7		16			10			11			13
Kirkcudbright	1		2			4			4			1
Kirkwall	-		-			4			-			-
Lanark	6		11			10			16			7
Lerwick	-		1			1			-			1
Linlithgow	5		20			18			8			20
Lochmaddy	-		-			1			-			-
Oban	1		5			2			-			1
Paisley	19		49			73			63			45
Peebles	-		-			-			-			1
Perth	2		21			21			10			20
Peterhead	4		7			9			3			5
Portree	-		-			1			-			1
Rothesay	-		1			1			-			-
Selkirk	4		-			6			4			1
Stirling	4		11			9			9			8
Stonehaven	1		11			5			5			1
Stornoway	-		2			-			2			-
Stranraer	1		5			9			10			4
Tain	-		1			-			3			3
Wick	1		1			2			-			1

Stipendiary Magistrates Court		1			5			10			10			5

District Courts:
Aberdeen City		2			5			3			1			-
Aberdeenshire		1			1			1			2			-
Clackmannanshire		-			1			-			1			-
Dumfries and Galloway		-			1			2			1			-
Dundee City		-			-			4			3			-
East Renfrewshire		-			-			-			-			1
Falkirk		-			4			1			-			-
Fife		-			-			1			2			1
Glasgow City		-			-			2			1			-
Highland		-			-			-			2			-
North Lanarkshire		-			-			1			5			4
Perth and Kinross		-			3			-			-			-
Renfrewshire		-			-			1			-			-
Scottish Borders		-			3			-			2			2
Stirling		-			-			1			2			1
West Dunbartonshire		-			-			-			1			2
West Lothian		1			3			-			-			-

Notes:1. Includes High Court cases.Persons with a charge proved in Scottish courts where the main offence was under section 48(2) of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) Act 1995

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
All Courts	-	1	-	1	1

Persons with a charge proved in Scottish courts where the main offence was under section 49 of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) Act 1995

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
All Courts¹	317	855	963	1,003	1,101

Sheriff courts:

Aberdeen	5	17	25	20	19
Airdrie	6	12	13	14	22
Alloa	-	-	3	-	1
Arbroath	1	7	9	2	5
Ayr	5	19	16	18	27
Banff	1	-	-	-	1
Cupar	-	4	-	1	1
Dingwall	-	3	1	-	1
Dornoch	-	-	-	1	-
Dumbarton	8	25	37	37	32
Dumfries	3	13	5	10	10
Dundee	6	18	31	36	33
Dunfermline	3	9	6	9	8
Dunoon	3	-	2	2	3
Duns	-	1	-	1	1
Edinburgh	21	84	117	95	86
Elgin	4	3	5	5	5
Falkirk	10	16	13	16	18
Forfar	1	1	-	2	5
Fort William	-	2	2	1	1
Glasgow	107	315	318	395	433
Greenock	21	21	39	37	52
Haddington	1	5	9	6	1
Hamilton	18	39	63	87	119
Inverness	10	7	10	4	1
Jedburgh	2	1	2	3	2
Kilmarnock	27	58	63	58	65
Kirkcaldy	8	3	5	6	8
Kirkcudbright	-	3	-	-	5

Persons with a charge proved in Scottish courts where the main offence was under section 49 of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) Act 1995 (continued)

	1996		1997		1998		1999		2000
Sheriff courts:
Kirkwall	-		-		-		4		-
Lanark	2		6		7		11		9
Lerwick	-		-		1		1		1
Linlithgow	4		16		15		9		14
Oban	-		1		2		4		3
Paisley	29		83		92		67		71
Peebles	-		-		1		-		-
Perth	2		13		6		2		8
Peterhead	2		11		10		1		1
Portree	2		-		-		-		-
Rothesay	1		-		1		-		1
Selkirk	-		1		8		5		4
Stirling	-		12		4		5		4
Stonehaven	-		1		-		-		-
Stornoway	-		2		3		1		1
Stranraer	2		5		5		6		-
Tain	1		5		-		4		3
Wick	-		2		1		1		2

Stipendiary Magistrates court	1		2		1		6		4
District courts:
Aberdeen City		-		1		3		-		-
Aberdeenshire		-		-		1		2		1
Argyll and Bute		-		-		1		1		-
Clackmannanshire		-		-		-		1		-
Dumfries and Galloway		-		1		-		-		-
Edinburgh, City of		-		1		-		-		-
Fife		-		-		3		2		1
Highland		-		1		1		-		1
North Lanarkshire		-		-		1		2		2
Perth & Kinross		-		1		-		-		-
Scottish Borders		-		1		-		1		2
Stirling		-		1		-		-		-
West Dunbartonshire		-		-		1		-		3
West Lothian		-		1		-		-		-

Notes:1. Includes High Court cases.Persons with a charge proved in Scottish courts where the main offence was under section 49A of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) Act 1995

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
All courts	-	-	-	2	-

Persons with a charge proved in Scottish courts where the main offence was under section 50(4) of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) Act 1995

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
All courts	-	-	-	-	1