- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to the allowance for medical facilities costs, referred to on page 18 of the Financial Review of the Scottish Prison Service Estates Review by PricewaterhouseCoopers, what such allowance was made in the estates review public sector comparator.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-25107 today. For similar reasons, it would require a disproportionate amount of time and expertise to disaggregate the specific figure for medical facilities from the total costs.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to the allowance for prison industries costs, referred to on page 18 of the Financial Review of the Scottish Prison Service Estates Review by PricewaterhouseCoopers, what such allowance was made in the estates review public sector comparator.
Answer
Allowance was made in calculating the costs for the area and resources (including staff) required to deliver prisons industries. These were included in the calculation of total building and running costs; account was taken of risk factors before the NPV calculation was done. It would require a disproportionate amount of time and expertise to disaggregate the specific figure for industries from these costs.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to the allowance for Technical Support Group facilities in the M&E services, referred to on page 18 of the Financial Review of the Scottish Prison Service Estates Review by PricewaterhouseCoopers, what such allowance was made in the estates review public sector comparator.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-25107 today. For similar reasons, it would require a disproportionate amount of time and expertise to disaggregate the specific figure for Technical Support Group facilities from the total costs.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the costs of ensuring contract compliance for the envisaged private build, private operate prisons have been included in the price per prisoner place shown in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Review of Scottish Prison Service Estates Review, and what the reasons are for the position on this matter.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-24977.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the Scottish Prison Service estates review, what the estimated cost will be to the Executive of ensuring contract compliance for each of the three proposed private prisons, detailing each head of costs.
Answer
The costs of ensuring compliance have not been identified at this stage. While only private sector involvement would be regulated by a contract, similar performance measurement and compliance arrangements would be implemented as regards public sector involvement and so there would be no material cost differential under this heading among the three options. In doing so, the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) have accepted the recommendation of HM Chief Inspector of Prisons that the performance management system at Kilmarnock should be adapted for use in other SPS prisons.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the Scottish Prison Service estates review, whether it is satisfied that the Scottish Prison Service adopted an appropriate and reasonable methodology for establishing costs and risk pricing in the public sector comparator model, giving the reasons for its position on this matter.
Answer
Yes. As I have made clear the costs of the PSC were a factor in my decision to have the costs and underlying assumptions verified by PricewaterhouseCoopers independently of the Scottish Prison Service. The resulting verification of the costs and methodology was published simultaneously with the Scottish Executive proposals.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the Scottish Prison Service estates review, whether it envisages in its contracts for private prisons setting basic standards for staff turnover and whether this will be a key performance indicator, giving the reasons for its position on this matter.
Answer
It is not envisaged that basic standards for staff turnover will be set in any contracts for private prisons. At present staff turnover is not a key performance indicator for any existing prison in Scotland or for the Scottish Prison Service as a whole, and there are no plans to make it one for either existing or proposed prisons as it is not seen as being a key output.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 22 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether a clause preventing members of the senior management of the Scottish Prison Service involved in monitoring the performance of private prisons, or in ensuring contract compliance of private prison operators, from taking work from a private prison operator for a specified period following the termination of their employment with the Scottish Prison Service is contained within their employment contracts and, if so, what the length of any such period is.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The Civil Service Business Appointment Rules provide for this, therefore no specific clause within such staff's contracts is deemed necessary. The period for which an individual must seek approval before taking any form of full, part-time or fee-paid employment with such an organisation is two years.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 22 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will place in the employment contracts of persons in the senior management of the Scottish Prison Service involved in monitoring the performance of private prisons, or in ensuring contract compliance of private prison operators, a clause preventing them from taking work from a private prison operator for a specified period following the termination of their employment with the Scottish Prison Service and, if so, what the length of any such period would be.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The Scottish Prison Service has no plans, at this time, to place such a clause in staff's Terms and Conditions of employment, as the current Civil Service Business Appointment Rules already cover this issue.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 May 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 22 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-25065 by Mr Jim Wallace on 29 April 2002, what closing date or dates for offers were intimated to those who expressed interest in purchasing the buildings of HM Prison Penninghame after 3 May 2000.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:11 August 2000.
