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To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-25238 by Mr Jim Wallace of 3 May 2002, what financial review has been made on its behalf or by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) of the investment decisions proposed in the internal SPS submission Constructing the Future prepared by Mr Eric Murch of HM Prison Low Moss on or about 21 April...
As part of the Spending Review 2002, we are looking with COSLA at the future funding requirements for local government, taking into account all relevant cost pressures.
The Scottish Prison Service's Vision is to improve its correctional services, of which drug regimes are a part, in all present and future prisons; and is, and will be, able to establish suitable contractual arrangements to achieve this.
While recognising that there are no short-term solutions we are confident that our policies, within a stable macro-economic framework, will help to ensure future growth. S1O-05146
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 April 2002