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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S1W-02951

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 03 December 1999
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 15 December 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive how many empty prisoners' places are maintained in reserve to house prisoners moved from one prison to another in the event of a prison riot.

Question reference: S1W-02947

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 03 December 1999
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 15 December 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what account it has taken of the potential requirement to move large numbers of prisoners from one prison to another in the event of a prison riot or disturbance.

Question reference: S1W-02952

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 03 December 1999
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 15 December 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the 374 Scottish Prison Service posts to be cut will be operational staff, such as prison officers and governors, and how many will be administration staff.

Question reference: S1W-02949

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 03 December 1999
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 15 December 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to sell HMP Penninghame and HMP Dungavel further to their proposed closure.

Question reference: S1W-02948

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 03 December 1999
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 15 December 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what provision it is making to ensure that more prisoners in Scottish prisons undertake rehabilitation in open prisons prior to their release.

Question reference: S1W-02950

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 03 December 1999
Current Status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 December 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had any discussions with Premier Prison Services regarding the sale of HMP Penninghame, HMP Dungavel and HMP Dumfries.

Question reference: S1W-02783

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 November 1999
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 9 December 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been received in Scotland from the Common Agricultural Policy in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area.

The table below shows, for the last five years, spending by the Scottish Executive on CAP on-farm payment schemes and Accompanying Measures (Agri-environment and Farm Woodlands). The figures in the table also includes spending on schemes which are permitted under the CAP and are in operation throughout the EU such as the LFA schemes. Details of this spending are not held on a local authority area basis.

Table

£ million

1994-95	1995-96	1996-97	1997-98	1998-99
427	500	495	487	500

Question reference: S1W-02515

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 12 November 1999
Current Status: Answered by Donald Dewar on 3 December 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what sections of the concordats between itself and Her Majesty's Government result in the day-to-day responsibility for devolved matters resting with UK Departments.

Question reference: S1W-02516

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 12 November 1999
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 26 November 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what contact it has had with Her Majesty's Government over the current ban on beef exports to France.

Question reference: S1W-02518

Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 12 November 1999
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 26 November 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it has put in place to deal with responsibilities devolved under Parts I and II of the Plant Varieties Act 1997.

Functions relating to plant variety rights, which are governed by the Plant Varieties Act 1997, are dealt with on a UK basis by the Plant Variety Rights Office. This Office, the Controller of Plant Variety Rights and the Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal, which deals with infringement of rights, are specified as cross-border public authorities under The Scotland Act 1998 (Cross-Border Public Authorities) (Specification) Order 1999. Schedule 8 of The Scotland Act 1998 (Cross-Border Public Authorities) (Adaptation of Functions etc.) Order 1999 which modifies the 1997 Act provides for a Minister of the Crown to act jointly with, or with the consent of, Scottish Ministers in respect of functions previously exercised by the Secretary of State for Scotland.

Operational Staff	285
Non-operational Staff	69
Governors and Managers	20