- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 4 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29336 by Cathy Jamieson on 8 November 2006, what the staffing levels will be at HM Prison Addiewell; what the annual staff salary costs of the prison will be, and whether there is any provision in the contract for any part of the staffing costs to be paid from the public purse.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
The staffing levels and salarycosts are matters for Addiewell Prison Limited, the contractor of HM Prison Addiewell.
There is no provision in thecontract for any part of the staffing costs to be paid from the public purse.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 4 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29336 by Cathy Jamieson on 8 November 2006, whether there are any provisions in the contract for HM Prison Addiewell to reduce the annual payments if the population of the prison falls below capacity.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
Yes.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 4 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29336 by Cathy Jamieson on 8 November 2006, what discount rate was used in calculating the net present value costs of HM Prison Addiewell.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
3.5%.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 4 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29336 by Cathy Jamieson on 8 November 2006, what account is taken of the impact of inflation in the annual net present value costs of HM Prison Addiewell.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
The contract price for HM PrisonAddiewell is revised annually based on a formula specified in the contract and linkedto the Retail Price Index (RPI). In accordance with accepted practice, the impactof RPI is not included in the net present value calculation.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 4 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29336 by Cathy Jamieson on 8 November 2006, how many staff members of the Scottish Prison Service will be involved in overseeing HM Prison Addiewell from 2008 onwards and what the annual salary costs for these staff will be.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-30011 on 4 December 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’swebsite, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 4 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29336 by Cathy Jamieson on 8 November 2006, what the annual cost will be to the public sector of monitoring the HM Prison Addiewell contract.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
The SPS will finalise arrangementsprior to the prison opening around the end of 2008.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 30 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many foreign drivers have been prosecuted for road traffic offences in each year since 1999.
Answer
The information requested isnot available from the statistics collected centrally on persons proceeded againstin court as these do not include information on the nationality of the accused.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 30 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dispersal orders it estimates will be used annually by each local authority.
Answer
Police forces, in consultationwith relevant local authorities, have discretion to use the power in appropriatecircumstances i.e. where antisocial behaviour is significant, persistent and serious.We are not in a position to estimate how frequently such circumstances will arise.
Latestfigures, to end September 2006, indicate that dispersal orders have been used 12times, by six police forces across Scotland, as follows.
| Police Force | Dispersal Orders Issued |
| Grampian | 2 |
| Lothian and Borders | 3 |
| Central Scotland | 1 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 4 |
| Northern | 1 |
| Strathclyde | 1 |
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 27 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) passengers and (b) vehicles were carried on the North Channel ferry services in each year since 1999.
Answer
The information requested isgiven in table 10.12 (a) of
Scottish Transport Statistics, published bythe Scottish Executive in 2005, a copy of which is available in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 37306). Figures which have subsequently becomeavailable are on the Scottish Executive website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/transtat/stsupdate.The printed version of Scottish Transport Statistics 2006 will be published on 18 December 2006.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Elish Angiolini on 27 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) qualified and (b) unqualified staff have been employed in the Procurator Fiscal Service in each year since 1999.
Answer
The following table showsthe number of legally and non-legally qualified staff in post at 1 April eachyear since 1999. These figures are recorded on a full time equivalent basis anddo not include staff on unpaid leave or casual staff.
| Date | Legally Qualified | Trainee Solicitors | Non-Legally Qualified | Total |
| 1 April 1999 | 292 | 10 | 763.8 | 1,065.8 |
| 1 April 2000 | 306.4 | 13 | 797.2 | 1,116.6 |
| 1 April 2001 | 332.7 | 18 | 811.2 | 1,161.9 |
| 1 April 2002 | 355 | 27 | 869.7 | 1,251.7 |
| 1 April 2003 | 377.4 | 37 | 963.3 | 1,377.7 |
| 1 April 2004 | 398.7 | 37 | 996.8 | 1,428.5 |
| 1 April 2005 | 401.3 | 32 | 961.8 | 1,395.1 |
| 1 April 2006 | 403.1 | 32 | 996.3 | 1,431.5 |
