- Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 November 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases have been referred to the appeal court on the grounds of an alleged misdirection of a jury by a judge when summing-up in each of the last five years.
Answer
This information is not held centrally by the Scottish Court Service.
- Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring is in place in respect of prisoners’ bank accounts.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
External bank accounts heldby prisoners are not a matter for the SPS.
The SPS sets up internalaccounts for prisoners and these are subject to monitoring by SPS Intelligencestaff, SPS Audit Unit and by Audit Scotland.
- Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what average amount of money is placed in prisoners’ bank accounts by relatives and what maximum amount is allowed to be so placed in their accounts.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
There are no limits in placewith regards to funds either sent in or posted to prisoners. The SPS does applylimits to the subsequent flow of funding from personal cash accounts whichrestricts opportunity for abuse.
The SPS does not knowwhether persons handing in or mailing money to prisoners are relatives.
- Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prison wardens were (a) disciplined, (b) dismissed, (c) charged and (d) prosecuted for smuggling illicit items into prisons in (i) 1997, (ii) 1998, (iii) 1999, (iv) 2000, (v) 2001, (vi) 2002, (vii) 2003, (viii) 2004 and (ix) 2005 and what the figures are for 2006.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the ScottishPrison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
The SPS does not employ any“wardens”. The SPS does not hold any information on prison officers who werecharged or prosecuted for smuggling illicit items into prisons. Since 1997 twoprison officers have been recorded as being disciplined and subsequentlydismissed for smuggling illicit items into prisons.
- Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many attacks were reported on prison wardens, broken down by prison, in (a) 1997, (b) 1998, (c) 1999, (d) 2000, (e) 2001, (f) 2002, (g) 2003, (h) 2004 and (i) 2005 and how many there have been in 2006.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish PrisonService (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
The SPS does not employ any“wardens”. Data on serious assaults by prisoners on SPS staff are contained inSPS Annual Reports which are available in the Scottish Parliament InformationCentre (Bib. numbers 39629, 39630, 34446, 4045, 7929, 18239, 22587, 28640,34075 and 37154). Figures for 2006-07 will be published in the next annual report.
- Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the absence rates of prison wardens were broken down by prison, in (a) 1997, (b) 1998, (c) 1999, (d) 2000, (e) 2001, (f) 2002, (g) 2003, (h) 2004 and (i) 2005 and what the figures are for 2006.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
The information requested iscontained in the following table. The information is not available for 1997,1998 and 1999. The table provides the number of days lost per prison in each of the years as recorded in the SPS Human Resource Information System.
Location | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 |
Aberdeen | 1,491 | 2,406 | 2,375 | 2,268 | 2,901 | 1,796 |
Barlinnie | 8,707 | 10,068 | 12,661 | 9,726 | 8,272 | 11,276 |
Cornton Vale | 6,381 | 6,660 | 5,377 | 6,853 | 4,051 | 4,027 |
Dumfries | 5,052 | 3,397 | 3,028 | 2,973 | 4,169 | 2,093 |
Edinburgh | 8,553 | 5,869 | 7,180 | 7,005 | 6,507 | 7,053 |
Glenochil | 10,435 | 5,551 | 3,700 | 4,283 | 3,612 | 6,770 |
Greenock | 2,523 | 2,639 | 1,848 | 2,906 | 2,849 | 2,227 |
Inverness | 1,258 | 2,115 | 1,136 | 1,104 | 800 | 1,266 |
Low Moss | 3,874 | 3,168 | 1,714 | 1,784 | 1,410 | 2,221 |
Open Estate | 1,665 | 1,514 | 1,611 | 2,623 | 2,557 | 2,152 |
Perth | 5,721 | 4,126 | 4,797 | 3,780 | 4,500 | 5,343 |
Peterhead | 1,698 | 2,211 | 1,440 | 2,788 | 3,202 | 2,654 |
Polmont | 5,940 | 6,418 | 4,892 | 8,702 | 5,415 | 4,488 |
Shotts | 5,749 | 7,664 | 9,006 | 9,773 | 5,505 | 4,571 |
- Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 13 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the street value was of drugs seized in prisons, broken down by prison, in (a) 1997, (b) 1998, (c) 1999, (d) 2000, (e) 2001, (f) 2002, (g) 2003, (h) 2004 and (i) 2005 and what the figure is for 2006.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish PrisonService to respond. His response is as follows:
This information requestedis not available. Drug seizures are handed over to the police for them to test andthey then become evidence in any criminal proceedings that may take place. Wedo not receive information from the police on their street value.
- Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 30 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 10 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has spent on the advertising campaign to highlight the two-year anniversary of the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004.
Answer
There is no advertising campaignplanned to highlight the second anniversary of the Antisocial Behaviour (Scotland) Act2004. A regular newsletter is issued to inform local communities on the use of measuresin the act and the progress being made to tackle antisocial behaviour and promotesafer communities. This will make reference to the second anniversary of theact.
- Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 16 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on private care hire for transporting (a) patients and (b) medical notes in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
This information is not collectedby the Scottish Executive.
- Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on the average length of time taken between an appeal against an asylum application outcome being lodged and the case being (a) heard and (b) concluded.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does nothold information on asylum proceedings within the tribunal system. This is a matterfor the Home Office.
The various types of appeal thatreach the Scottish Courts are referred to in the answer to question S2W-29303. Theaverage length of time taken in relation to each of the four types of appeal isas follows:
| 1. Petitions for Statutory Review | 2. Petitions for Reconsideration | 3. Statutory Applications Regarding Appeal | 4. Petitions for Judicial Review |
Current average waiting period (in term weeks) | N/A (see note 1) | 12 | 32 | 8 |
Note: 1. Applications to thecourt by way of petition for statutory review of decisions of the old ImmigrationAppeal Tribunal are no longer dealt with.