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To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to Schedule 3, clause 5.3 in Contract between The Scottish Ministers and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the Provision of Prisoner Escort & Court Custody Services in Scotland, (a) what the percentage rate for deduction is and (b) what percentage will be deducted in respect of any disputes or claims against the service provider.
In planning services, boards are obliged totake account of the assessed current and future needs of patients, and the existingand planned pattern of service provision regionally, and, where appropriate,nationally.
There is no universallyaccepted definition of a “community care service”; however, statisticalinformation on day care, home care, care homes and other services provided bylocal authorities can be found in the publication “Scottish Community CareStatistics 2002”.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 September 2003
In advance of the establishment of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland, the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland and the Scottish Health Advisory Service have convened a working group to produce a set of integrated core standards for mental health services to which specific standards for diagnostic groups can be added....
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 November 2002
This is an operational matter for the Care Commission as the independent regulator of care services in Scotland. The commission must decide which of the definitions in section 2 of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 fit any particular care service, based on that service's statement of purpose and function, then register and regulate it as such.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current design capacity is of each Scottish Prison Service prison and what the average daily prisoner population was in each prison in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has held, or now holds, on past political activity of members of its staff and staff of the Scottish Prison Service. I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond.