- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 16 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional funds will be made available to police forces in order that they can recruit and train new officers to replace those transferred to the new Drug Enforcement Agency.
Answer
We have made it clear that the costs of establishing the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency, of increasing the size of the Scottish Crime Squad and in strengthening force drug squads will be met centrally. Consequently, no additional resources will be required by forces to recruit and train replacements.
- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 December 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 16 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional funds will be made available to police forces in order that they can recruit and train new officers to replace those transferred to the new drugs enforcement agency.
Answer
We have made it clear that the costs of establishing the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency, of increasing the size of the Scottish Crime Squad and in strengthening force drug squads will be met centrally. Consequently, no additional resources will be required by forces to recruit and train replacements.
- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the total number of prison places available in Scotland in each year from 1979 until 1999 and the projected number of prison places available in all future years for which figures are available and the percentage increase or decrease both year on year and over the entire period.
Answer
| Year | Available Prisoner Places | Percentage Increase (+)/ Decrease(-) Year on Year | Overall Percentage Increase |
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1998-99 | 5,852 ( actual) | - | } |
1999-00 | 6,384 (forecast) | +9.1 | } |
2000-01 | 6,161 | -3.6 | } +5.7 |
2001-02 | 6,183 | +0.4 | } |
2002-03 | 6,171 | -0.2 | } |
2003-04 | 6,184 | +0.2 | } |
Comparable information for years prior to 1998-99 is not available.
- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive from what areas of the Scottish Prison Service budget the #13 million "underspend" originated, and whether it will list the estimated savings in each individual case.
Answer
The £13 million related to 1998-99 (£12 million) comprising running costs (£7 million), other current costs (£2 million), capital (£2.5 million) and Appropriation-in-Aid (£0.5 million), and £1 million to 1997-98 related to running costs.
- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive when the conclusions of the "urgent option appraisal" into the future of Low Moss Prison, Bishopbriggs will be announced.
Answer
The Scottish Prison Service intend to complete their option appraisal in the Spring of next year.
- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive to specify, in 1999 prices, the total amount of funding available to prisons in Scotland in each year from 1979 to 1999, the amount of funding to be made available in all future years for which figures are available, and the percentage increase or decrease in funding both year on year and over the entire period.
Answer
The total amount of funding (at 1998-99 prices) available to prisons in Scotland in each year from1978-79 to 2001-02 is shown below. The percentage year on year change is also shown. The total percentage increase over the whole period is 178%.
| Year | £'000 | % Change |
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| 1978-79 | 70,487 | |
| 1979-80 | 76,766 | 8.91% |
| 1980-81 | 86,292 | 12.41% |
| 1981-82 | 90,194 | 4.52% |
| 1982-83 | 84,814 | -5.97% |
| 1983-84 | 96,546 | 13.83% |
| 1984-85 | 102,879 | 6.56% |
| 1985-86 | 101,498 | -1.34% |
| 1986-87 | 104,613 | 3.07% |
| 1987-88 | 127,687 | 22.06% |
| 1988-89 | 136,122 | 6.61% |
| 1989-90 | 138,111 | 1.46% |
| 1990-91 | 135,372 | -1.98% |
| 1991-92 | 147,167 | 8.71% |
| 1992-93 | 158,618 | 7.78% |
| 1993-94 | 178,849 | 12.75% |
| 1994-95 | 185,283 | 3.60% |
| 1995-96 | 182,128 | -1.70% |
| 1996-97 | 191,627 | 5.22% |
| 1997-98 | 191,014 | -0.32% |
| 1998-99 | 190,623 | -0.20% |
| 1999-2000 | 210,535 | 10.45% |
| 2000-01 | 199,866 | -5.07% |
| 2001-02 | 195,923 | -1.97% |
Notes: 1) The figures are based on the Appropriation Accounts.
2) The percentage change calculation does not take account of expenditure re-classifications during this period.
Figures have been restated to 1998-99 prices using GDP Deflators as at November 1999.
- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the total prison population in Scotland in each year from 1979 until 1999, the projected prison population in all future years for which figures are available and the increase or decrease in the prison population both year on year and over the entire period.
Answer
The information requested is given below:
Average daily population and projected population in all Scottish penal establishments, 1979-2004
| Year | Number | Percentage change on previous year(1) |
| 1979 | 4,585 | |
| 1980 | 4,860 | 6.0 |
| 1981 | 4,518 | -7.0 |
| 1982 | 4,891 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 5,052 | 3.3 |
| 1984 | 4,753 | -5.9 |
| 1985 | 5,273 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 5,587 | 6.0 |
| 1987 | 5,446 | -2.5 |
| 1988 | 5,229 | -4.0 |
| 1989 | 4,986 | -4.6 |
| 1990 | 4,724 | -5.3 |
| 1991 | 4,839 | 2.4 |
| 1992 | 5,257 | 8.6 |
| 1993 | 5,637 | 7.2 |
| 1994 | 5,585 | -0.9 |
| 1995 | 5,626 | 0.7 |
| 1996 | 5,862 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 6,084 | 3.8 |
| 1998 (prov) | 6,018 | -1.1 |
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Projections |
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| 1999 | 6,100 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 6,200 | 1.8 |
| 2001 | 6,300 | 1.9 |
| 2002 | 6,500 | 2.9 |
| 2003 | 6,700 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 6,900 | 3.4 |
1.Calculated using unrounded numbersBetween 1979 and 1998, the prison population increased by 31.3%.
- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 November 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the total number of prisons in Scotland in each year from 1979 until 1999 and the projected number of prisons in future years.
Answer
Prison or Young Offender Institution sites1979 until 1998 | 19 |
1999 | 20 |
2000 | 17 |
- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 September 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 15 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it intends to take to reduce the number of accidents on the A77.
Answer
A Route Accident Reduction Plan study of the A77 between Fenwick and Malletsheugh has recommended a package of measures to improve safety, particularly at junctions and accident sites. Work on four sites has already been completed, with work programmed for another 2 sites in the autumn. Subject to the availability of funding, the installation of central reserve safety fencing around Kilmarnock is programmed for completion in 2000-01.
- Asked by: Mrs Lyndsay McIntosh, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 1999
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Current Status:
Answered by John Home Robertson on 12 July 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to initiate a feasibility study before making a decision regarding the preferred road route for the transport of felled timber from Whitelee Forrest in East Ayrshire.
Answer
I refer the member to answer S1W-00194, given to Alex Neil today.
