- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 8 February 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) cost and (b) start date of work on phase 2 of the Scottish Crime Campus at Gartcosh will be.
Answer
The contract price for phase two of the construction of the Scottish Crime Campus is £11,744,547.73 excluding VAT. Work is scheduled to start on the site on 21 February 2011.
- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 December 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 14 January 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether its draft budget for 2011-12 contains specific funds to finance the implementation of section 18 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 and, if so, which budget line it is contained in
Answer
The draft budget does not contain specific funds to finance the implementation of section 18 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010. The Scottish Government remains committed to ending automatic unconditional early release and officials have been in discussion with a range of interests to determine how we can implement this effectively in light of the spending cuts passed down by the UK Government. We will review funding under the spending review proposals for 2012-13 and beyond.
- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 December 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 11 January 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what its estimate is of the potential costs of ending automatic early release
Answer
The government published its estimate of the cost of early release in the Financial Memorandum of the Criminal Justice and Licensing Act 2010, which can be accessed via the Scottish Parliament website (page 122 onwards):
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/bills/24-CrimJustLc/b24s3-introd-en.pdf.
- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 7 December 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will commence section 18 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010.
Answer
The Scottish Government remains committed to ending automatic unconditional early release and officials have been in discussion with a range of interests to determine how we can implement this effectively in light of the spending cuts passed down by the UK Government.
- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 6 December 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to end automatic early release.
Answer
The Scottish Government remains committed to ending automatic unconditional early release and has taken action to make this happen.
- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 2 December 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the planned expenditure on the Gartcosh crime campus will be financed from the capital budget of the police central government grant.
Answer
The Scottish Crime Campus is being funded by both the capital budget and key efficiencies and savings from resource budgets.
- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 2 December 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what its assessment is of the effect on the prison population of section 18 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010.
Answer
Our assessment is that it would deliver a significant change to the way that the criminal justice system deals with offenders. This would include a potential increase in the prison population, all other things being equal.
- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 2 December 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the planned annual expenditure on the Gartcosh crime campus project will be in each of the remaining years of the project.
Answer
Planned expenditure in 2011-12 is £14 million. Expenditure in subsequent years is subject to contract and market conditions.
- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 2 December 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the planned completion dates are for each phase of the Gartcosh crime campus project.
Answer
The project to build the Scottish Crime Campus is being delivered through three separate main works construction packages. Contract 1, the enabling works; contract 2, the shell and core of the campus, and contract 3 the fit out.
Contract 1 is currently on site and due to complete in March 2011; contract 2 is due to be awarded shortly and is currently planned to be complete in February 2012. Contract 3 has not yet been advertised and its start and completion date remains to be confirmed but we expect the crime campus to be fully operational by mid 2013.
- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Glasgow Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 26 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people given a custodial sentence in cases involving domestic abuse received a sentence of (a) three months or less and (b) six months or less in each of the last 10 years.
Answer
The available information is given in the following table.
Persons convicted for an offence with a domestic aggravator1 recorded, receiving a custodial sentence of six months or less, 2005-06 - 2008-09
| Main Result of Proceedings | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
| <= 3 mths | 325 | 362 | 421 | 402 |
| > 3 mths and <= 6 mths | 117 | 111 | 166 | 266 |
| Total | 442 | 473 | 587 | 668 |
1. The recording of aggravators has improved with time therefore caution is needed when comparing changes over time. 2005-06 is the first year where it has been considered that the use and recording of domestic abuse aggravator codes from the Scottish Government Court Proceedings Database has been of sufficient coverage to be used.
