- 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 9 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-23458 by Mr Jim Wallace on 4 April 2002, on what dates offers were received for the buildings of HM Prison Penninghame and how many offers were received on each date.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:Two offers were received for the buildings at HM Prison, Penninghame on 3 May 2000. One further offer was received on 11 August 2000.
- 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 9 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24283 by Mr Jim Wallace on 4 April 2002, whether it or the Scottish Prison Service (a) has approached or (b) will approach the persons who made the offers for the buildings of former HM Prison Penninghame to request the waiver of commercial confidentiality so that the information in the offers can be made available to the Parliament, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:(a) No.(b) We do not propose to do so. My answer to question S1W-24283 on 4 April 2002 reflects the current position.
- 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 9 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the Scottish Prison Service estates review, whether it will guarantee that a proportion of prison officers will be transferred from the prisons to be closed under the estates review to the new private prisons and, if so, what proportion will be transferred, and what the reasons are for the position on this matter.
Answer
No such transfers are proposed.
- 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 9 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive why no evaluation was made in the Scottish Prison Service estates review of market-testing of the management of prisons.
Answer
Such an evaluation is irrelevant to the proposals. The Scottish Prison Service has at present no plans to market test the management of 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 9 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the costs of the Scottish Prison Service college have been in each of the last five financial years and the present year to date, detailing each head of costs.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The readily available information on costs covering Training and Development, Management and Organisational Development and Customer Services is as follows:
| £ million |
| 1997-98 | 3.0 |
| 1998-99 | 3.3 |
| 1999-2000 | 3.3 |
| 2000-01 | 3.5 |
| 2001-02 | 3.5 |
- 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 9 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Prison Service estates review, in estimating the cost of private prisons, has included the cost of applying freedom of information provisions to the private prison operators and, if so, what these costs were estimated as being and how they were arrived at.
Answer
No, but the costs are likely to be minimal in relation to 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 Andy Kerr on 9 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail the work that PricewaterhouseCoopers and its predecessor firms have done for it in the last 10 years, specifying the work produced, the type of work and the price paid in each case.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, the answer given to question S1W-22582 on 14 February 2002 provided details of expenditure with PricewaterhouseCoopers since 1997.
- 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 9 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the Scottish Prison Service estates review, whether it will detail all types of information that will be regarded as commercially confidential in its dealings with private prison operators.
Answer
Such details would be considered by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) in the procurement process. The intention would be to maximise the information availability subject to consideration of any potential impact on security and value for money as was done by SPS in the contract for HM Prison Kilmarnock.
- 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 9 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the Scottish Prison Service estates review, whether prison officers transferred from the prisons to be closed under the estates review to new private prisons will retain their present status, salary and pension rights.
Answer
No such transfers are proposed.
- 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 9 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, in relation to the Scottish Prison Service estates review, whether it envisages ensuring by contract or otherwise that it has the power to veto the takeover of the operator of one of the private prisons envisaged in the review and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
Answer
Such matters would fall to be considered by the Scottish Prison Service in the procurement process.
