- 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 16 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what administration is required to be carried out by the Scottish Prison Service headquarters in relation to prisoners incarcerated in private prisons and what annual costs are incurred on such activity.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The administration carried out by the Scottish Prison Service headquarters in relation to prisoners is the same regardless of whether they are held in a public or a privately managed prison. The costs of such administration are not separately identifiable.
- 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 16 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail the costs of the Scottish Prison Service headquarters per prisoner place included in the public sector comparator in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Review of Scottish Prison Service Estates Review.
Answer
The estimated total cost of the Scottish Prison Service headquarters and college, taken as a whole, per prisoner place for the public sector comparator, based on a new 700-place prison, is £1,252 in net present value terms. The cost of the headquarters as a separate item has not been identified.
- 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 16 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Review of Scottish Prison Service Estates Review, whether it will provide a table equivalent to that in paragraph 3.5 of the report which includes the costs of HM Prison Altcourse and HM Prison Parc.
Answer
No. Inclusion of HM Prison Altcourse and HM Prison Parc in the table would not be appropriate, for the reasons given in paragraph 3.3 of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Review.
- 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 16 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Review of Scottish Prison Service Estates Review, what the breakdown is for the operational costs in (a) the comparison model and (b) the funding model in paragraphs 2.2.2 and 2.2.3 respectively of that document, showing heads of costs in each case.
Answer
The breakdown for capital and development costs in the comparison model is shown in the table in paragraph 75 of the Scottish Executive's consultation paper on the Future of the Scottish Prison Estate. The breakdown of the funding model is the same as that for the comparison model.
- 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 16 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Review of Scottish Prison Service Estates Review, what the breakdown is for capital and development costs in (a) the comparison model and (b) the funding model in paragraphs 2.2.2 and 2.2.3 respectively in that document, showing heads of costs in each case.
Answer
The breakdown for capital and development costs in the comparison model is shown in the table in paragraph 69 of the Scottish Executive's consultation paper on the Future of the Scottish Prison Estate. The breakdown of the funding model is the same as that for the comparison model.
- 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 16 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Review of Scottish Prison Service Estates Review, whether any calculation has been made and added to the cost of private prisons of the cost to it of any additional risk of pursuing a private prison operator for non-compliance with the contract and, if so, what the method of calculation was and, if not, what the reasons were for not calculating any such risk.
Answer
Non-compliance would not result in any additional cost or risk. There would be no need to pursue a private prison operator for non-compliance since the remedy for non-compliance would be to retain monies that would otherwise be payable under the contract.
- 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 16 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive in relation to the PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Review of Scottish Prison Service Estates Review, what the price in real terms would be for the Public/Private Partnership Private Build Private Operate model, showing the price in real terms for each year of the contract discounted back to the date of contract signature at a rate of 5% per annum.
Answer
This information is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
- 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 16 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Review of Scottish Prison Service Estates Review what the justification is for choosing a 6% discount rate to calculate net present value.
Answer
Six per cent is the discount rate laid down in Treasury Guidance.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 16 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Review of Scottish Prison Service Estates Review, why the chart in paragraph 1.4, page 6, shows net present values averaged only over the 25 years of operation of the prison models and not over the 27 years of operation and construction, even though construction costs are included.
Answer
The chart does not show net present value averaged over 27 years because prisoner places are not available for use during the construction period.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 10 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24129 by Mr Jim Wallace on 8 April 2002, whether there have been any reports to the procurator fiscal of offences under paragraph 5 of Schedule 6 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 and, if so, how many such reports there have been and how many have led to convictions.
Answer
No such reports have been received.
