- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 26 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what contracts with a value of #100,000 and over it and the Scottish Office placed with PricewaterhouseCoopers and their predecessors, Price Waterhouse and Coopers and Lybrand, in each year since 1993.
Answer
Since 1 April 1996 only two contracts with a value in excess of £100,000 have been placed with Price Waterhouse, Coopers and Lybrand or PricewaterhouseCoopers. In 1996 a contract was awarded to Coopers and Lybrand to provide financial advice on the Kilmarnock Prison PFI project. In 2000 a contract was awarded to PricewaterhouseCoopers in respect of a feasibility study of broadband connectivity for schools. Information for the period prior to 1 April 1996 is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 26 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many senior management staff are currently employed at the headquarters of the Scottish Prison Service and how many of these have had work experience within a prison in the last (a) one, (b) three and (c) five years.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:The number of staff at SPS Headquarters at Band G or above as at 1 November 2001 was 63.The remainder of the information sought is not readily available and could not be produced except at disproportionate cost.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 23 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what forms of support are available from it and Her Majesty's Government for the production of wind energy.
Answer
The Executive is committed to the promotion of renewable energy in Scotland, and to its accounting for 18% of electricity supply in Scotland by 2010. This will be achieved by means of the Renewables Obligation (Scotland) which will start next year, subject to parliamentary approval. We expect that most of the resultant development will comprise wind energy projects.Financial assistance for the development of specific renewable energy technologies is a matter for the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). Funding for research and development, and capital grants for development of offshore wind technologies, is available from DTI for projects across the UK.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 09 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many multiple sclerosis sufferers there currently are in the Banff and Buchan parliamentary constituency.
Answer
I refer the member to the answers given to questions S1W-12859 and S1W-15296 on 9 February 2001 and 4 May 2001 respectively, which made it clear that information on multiple sclerosis in individual areas is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail the number of reported incidences of mites and varroa disease in the bee population in each of the past five years, giving the most appropriate area breakdown available.
Answer
Incidence of
Varroa destructor in Scotland (number of infested apiaries) is as follows:
| Numbers of infested apiaries1 |
| | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 (to 23 Oct.) |
| Dumfries & Galloway (plus part of Borders region) | 9 | | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Fife/Perthshire | | 8 | 16 | 12 | 15 |
| Argyll and Bute | | | | 1 | |
| Total | 9 | 8 | 20 | 17 | 23 |
Notes:1. The numbers of infested apiaries in the table are following detection of
Varroa destructor in samples submitted by SEERAD bees officers and findings of the mite in samples of bee debris submitted for analysis at SASA by beekeepers. Some apiaries in the table may have been recorded as infested in previous seasons.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to prevent the spread of mites and varroa disease in the bee population.
Answer
All bee movements to non-infected islands from within the Statutory Infected Area (SIA) are prohibited. As a result, on 8 December 2000 the SIA was extended to cover the whole of mainland Scotland and the Isle of Bute. By this action it is hoped that we will maintain a source of varroa free bees. In addition, we continue to monitor the varroa situation throughout Scotland by testing samples submitted by beekeepers for signs of varroa. However, it is generally accepted that the spread of varroa throughout mainland Scotland is inevitable.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 20 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will respond to the request from Aberdeenshire Council to stop-up the right of way at Philorth Avenue/Witchhill Road, Fraserburgh, which was submitted on 8 May 2000, and whether there are any plans to hold a local inquiry into this matter.
Answer
Aberdeenshire Council advertised the Aberdeenshire Council (Philorth Avenue, Fraserburgh) Stopping Up Order 2000 on 10 September 1999. There were sustained objections to the Order and in May 2000 it was passed to Scottish ministers for consideration.The Order was promoted under section 68(1) of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984. To stop up a road under section 68(1) the council must demonstrate that the road is either "dangerous" or "unnecessary". There has been correspondence on this matter between the council and the Executive since May 2000 and currently we await further information from the council. At this stage, it is not known whether or not a Public Local Inquiry would be an appropriate means to resolve this Order.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 16 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prison officers have attained qualifications at higher national diploma level and above since 1997, broken down by qualification and by prison.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:The following figures relate to studies supported corporately by SPS. Figures for locally supported studies are not collated centrally.
Qualification | Estblishment | Number of Staff |
Professional Diploma in Management | Glenochil | 2 |
Diploma in Management Studies | Aberdeen | 1 |
Barlinnie | 2 |
Cornton Vale | 1 |
Edinburgh | 1 |
Glenochil | 1 |
Greenock | 2 |
Polmont | 1 |
Low Moss | 1 |
Penninghame | 1 |
Perth | 3 |
Shotts | 1 |
HQ | 1 |
NEBS Management Diploma | Barlinnie | 1 |
Edinburgh | 2 |
Glenochil | 4 |
Noranside | 2 |
Polmont | 3 |
Shotts | 2 |
SPSC | 1 |
Psychology Degree | SPSC | 1 |
Shotts | 1 |
Greenock | 1 |
BA (Hons) Psychology | Shotts | 1 |
BSc (Hons) Psychology | Polmont | 1 |
General Degree of Business Admin | Cornton Vale | 1 |
BA Degree - Business Studies | Cornton Vale | 1 |
Glenochil | 1 |
BA Degree (Hons) Social Sciences | Friarton | 1 |
Degree of Master of Science in Criminal Justice Studies | Glenochil | 1 |
BSc Hons | Glenochil | 1 |
CIPD | Longriggend | 1 |
MBA | Edinburgh | 1 |
Longriggend | 1 |
Shotts | 1 |
HQ | 1 |
Diploma in Company Direction | HQ | 1 |
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 16 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many sex offenders were serving sentences of four years or over in each prison for part or the whole of each year since 1993.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The supply of this information would incur disproportionate cost to the Scottish Prison Service.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 16 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many psychologists are employed or contracted to the Scottish Prison Service for the treatment of sex offenders and in which prisons they are based.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:Psychologists throughout the Scottish Prison Service cover a number of areas, but those with a significant input to the treatment of sex offenders are:HMP Peterhead 4HMP Barlinnie 4HMP & YOI Polmont 4.
