- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 11 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive why it has sent no representative to the meetings of the Council of Ministers of the European Union at which the European arrest warrant was discussed.
Answer
I attended the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 16 November 2001, where the proposal for a European Arrest Warrant was discussed.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 11 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to the European Commission with regard to ensuring that the rule of Scots law preventing imprisonment before trial for more than 110 days is preserved or a similar limitation on imprisonment is included in the implementation of the European arrest warrant.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-23443.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 11 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what commitments it has obtained from the European Commission with regard to ensuring that the rule of Scots law preventing imprisonment before trial for more than 110 days is preserved or a similar limitation on imprisonment is included in the implementation of the European arrest warrant.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-23443.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 11 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many invitations to tender for the purchase of HM Prison Penninghame were made.
Answer
I have asked Mr Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:None. The property was placed for sale on the open market.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 11 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what commitments it has obtained from Her Majesty's Government with regard to ensuring that the rule of Scots law preventing imprisonment before trial for more than 110 days is preserved or a similar limitation on imprisonment is included in the implementation of the European arrest warrant.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-23443.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 11 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-20333 by Mr Jim Wallace on 28 January 2002, whether it will place the details of the sale of the buildings of the former HM Prison Penninghame in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
Answer
I have asked Mr Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:As confirmed in the written answer to question S1W-20333 on 28 January 2002, the sale price of the former HM Prison, Penninghame was £275,000. This information is recorded and can be accessed in the Land Register.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 11 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to ensure that the rule of Scots law preventing imprisonment before trial for more than 110 days is preserved or a similar limitation on imprisonment is included in the implementation of the European arrest warrant.
Answer
Under present extradition arrangements with European member states, the 110-day rule does not apply to a fugitive committed to custody in Scotland pending a decision as to their extradition but it applies to fugitives extradited to Scotland once they have been fully committed. The position will be the same under the proposed European Arrest Warrant arrangements.The purpose of the Framework Decision on the European Arrest Warrant is to introduce simplified arrangements for the surrender of a fugitive from one member state to another. It does not attempt to regulate how each member state issuing a European Arrest Warrant deals with a fugitive on his return.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 19 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many reports of river pollution have been made to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency; how many such reports resulted in a prosecution, and what the verdicts and disposals were in respect of such prosecutions, in each of the past five years.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally. Information on some successful prosecutions is published by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency on its website, at:
http://www.sepa.org.uk/data/prosecutions/.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many contracts, and to what value, it has awarded to (a) Arthur Andersen, (b) Deloitte & Touche, (c) Ernst & Young, (d) KPMG and (e) PricewaterhouseCoopers in each year since 1997.
Answer
The Executive does not keep a central record of contracts placed by individual departments and agencies with particular suppliers. However, the value of payments made in each year is set out in the following table:
| 1997 (£000) | 1998 (£000) | 1999 (£000) | 2000 (£000) | 2001 (£000) | Total (£000) |
(a) Arthur Andersen | nil | 64 | 30 | nil | 381 | 475 |
(b) Deloitte and Touche | 7 | 30 | 51 | 51 | 390 | 706 |
(c) Ernst &Young | 15 | Nil | 7 | 7 | 45 | 74 |
(d) KPMG | 12 | 119 | 48 | 48 | 116 | 334 |
(e) PWC* | 724 | 154 | 440 | 440 | 153 | 1,897 |
Note:* Includes expenditure with "PriceWaterhouse" and "Coopers and Lybrand".In the particular case of Arthur Andersen it has been established that six contracts have been awarded since 1997. Of these, three have not yet been completed. The total value of all current contracts with Arthur Andersen, on completion (expected in 2003) is estimated at around £1.2 million.
- Asked by: Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perth, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish a list of all employees of (a) Arthur Andersen, (b) Deloitte & Touche, (c) Ernst & Young, (d) KPMG and (e) PricewaterhouseCoopers who have been seconded to work for it in each year since 1997.
Answer
The information requested can be found in the following table:
| | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
Arthur Andersen | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Deloitte & Touche | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Ernst & Young | - | - | - | - | - | - |
KPMG | - | - | - | - | - | - |
PricewaterhouseCoopers | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
