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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-26856 by Mr Jim Wallace on 18 July 2002, whether any reduction in staff following the contracting out of prisoner escorts was taken into account in estimating the number of staff required for the 700-place prison in the public sector comparator model. No, because the comparable private sector option excludes escorts.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-26856 and S1W-26858 by Mr Jim Wallace on 18 July 2002, what formula was used to estimate from existing prisons the cost of staff required for the 700-place prison in the public sector comparator prison model. The cost of staff was based on the staff cost at the comparable prisons.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-25022 by Mr Jim Wallace on 10 June 2002 in relation to the PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Review of Scottish Prison Service Estates Review, how the figure of 545 staff for the public sector comparator was arrived at. By reference to the latest staffing practice at comparable Scottish Prison Service establishments.
This represents a 3.0% increase from 2019, but is not entirely comparable as changes to registration allowed temporary registrations as a COVID-19 measure1Scottish Social Service Sector. (2021, August 31).
That recommendation was a response to many submissions that were made to the committee and to members' experience of visiting different parts of Scotland and seeing how so-called joint working was not working.I have one problem.
Once the committee has had a discussion, we might want to take up your offer of coming out for a visit. I am sure that we would get much more out of that.
I have to confess that, because of other pressures, I have not gone into as much detail as I would have liked, but I now have a programme of visits to various schools and educational facilities.
It summarises areas in which the committee expressed an interest in the past and during the visit to Brussels, when some interesting presentations were made to us.