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To ask the Scottish Executive what ministerial visits have been arranged, or are being planned, to (a) Banff and Buchan and (b) north-east Scotland between now and 3 May 2007.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what procedures are in place to ensure that both male and female prison officers are available to search prisoners at visiting times. I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond.
As I made clear in my response to S1W-33632, it is for individual ministerialprivate offices to ensure that constituency MSPs, Regional MSPs and MPs are notifiedwhen official visits take place. S2W-07519
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 November 2001
His response is as follows:SPS has no record of any prison visiting committee having made representations since 1997 on the treatment of sex offenders in prisons.
We will develop the matter in discussion with the minister and I hope that we will produce amendments that deal with the committee's comments. Meeting suspended until 15:26 and thereafter continued in private until 16:39.