- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-5082 by Mr Jim Wallace on 26 September 2000, how many children under the age of 16 were held in each adult prison for less than (a) 24 hours and (b) 48 hours, (c) up to seven days and (d) more than seven days in (i) 1999, (ii) 2000 and (iii) to date this year.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The following table sets out the number of unruly certificate remands for 1999 and 2000 where the child was under the age of 16. Figures to date this year are not yet available.
| 1999 | 2000 |
| < 24hrs | < 48hrs | 3 to 7 Days | > 7 Days | Total | < 24hrs | < 48hrs | 3 to 7 Days | > 7 Days | Total |
Aberdeen | | | | | 0 | | | | | 0 |
Barlinnie | | | | | 0 | | | | | 0 |
Corton Vale | | | | | 0 | | | | | 0 |
Dumfries | | | | | 0 | | | | 1 | 1 |
Edinburgh | | | | | 0 | | | | 1 | 1 |
Glenochil YOI | | | | | 0 | | | | | 0 |
Greenock | | | | 1 | 1 | | | | | 0 |
Inverness | | | | | 0 | | | | | 0 |
Kilmarnock | | | | | 0 | | | 1 | | 1 |
Longriggend | | | 2 | 2 | 4 | | | | 2 | 2 |
Perth | | | 4 | | 4 | | | | 1 | 1 |
Polmont | | | | | 0 | | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
Total | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 14 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-11578 by Mr Jim Wallace on 12 December 2000, whether data is now collected on the prevalence of speech and language difficulties among the prison population and, if so, what data has been collected.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:Yes, data relating to needs assessment is currently being collected via referrals to speech therapy at Polmont Young Offenders Institute.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the turnover of general practitioners who provided a prison medical service was in (a) 1998-99, (b) 1999-2000 and (c) 2000-01, broken down by prison.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:The information requested is not available.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many general practitioners previously providing a prison medical service have gone on to employment with Medacs.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:All medical practitioners who had an individual contract of employment with the Scottish Prison Service on 1 November 2001 had their contracts transferred to Medacs, in accordance with the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-7645 by Mr Jim Wallace on 8 September 2000, what the average daily population of penal establishments is projected to be in each of the next three financial years, broken down into (a) privately operated penal establishments, (b) Scottish Prison Service establishments and (c) legalised police cells.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:The average daily population in the next three financial years is projected to be:
2002-03 | 6,400 |
2003-04 | 6,500 |
2004-05 | 6,700 |
The prisoner population projections do not distinguish between privately operated penal establishments, Scottish Prison Service establishments and legalised police cells.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many general practitioners Medacs provides to prisons, how these general practitioners are distributed between prisons, and what the ratio of these general practitioners is to prisoners, broken down by prison.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. His response is as follows:The information is not collected by SPS. It is for the contractor to arrange to provide the outputs specified in the contract.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-8916 by Mr Jim Wallace on 17 August 2000, what the current ratio is of prisoners to uniformed staff in the Scottish Prison Service, broken down by establishment.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:The information requested is shown in the following table.Ratio of Prisoners to Uniformed Staff in the SPS
Establishment | 01/04/01 |
HMP Aberdeen | 1.5:1 |
HMP Barlinnie | 2.1:1 |
HMP Castle Huntly | 2.5:1 |
HMP Cornton Vale | 1.1:1 |
HM YOI Dumfries | 1.1:1 |
HMP Edinburgh | 1.8:1 |
HMP YOI Glenochil | 1.4:1 |
HMP Greenock | 2.0:1 |
HMP Inverness | 1.4:1 |
HMP Low Moss | 2.6:1 |
HMP Noranside | 1.9:1 |
HMP Perth | 1.2:1 |
HMP Peterhead | 1.5:1 |
HMP Polmont | 1.4:1 |
HMP Shotts | 1.0:31 |
HMP Zeist | |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 5 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time for an appointment with an audiologist has been in (a) 1999-2000 (b) 2000-01 and (c) 2001-02 to date, broken down by health board.
Answer
The information requested is not available centrally.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 4 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when an announcement will be made with regard to a replacement block at Polmont Young Offenders Institution, as identified in the Visiting Committee of Polmont Young Offenders Institution Annual Report 1 April 2000-31 March 2001.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:On 15 October 2001 the Scottish Prison Service announced that a contract to build a new houseblock at HM Young Offenders Institution, Polmont, at a cost of around £17 million had been awarded to Skanska Construction UK Ltd.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 November 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by David Steel on 4 December 2001
To ask the Presiding Officer how many calls and complaints have been logged to the Parliament's IT Helpdesk concerning any failures of the remote access service since 1 January 2001.
Answer
Remote access difficulties which were caused by technical problems at the Parliament accounted for around 1.5% of all calls to the IT Helpdesk in the period 1 January 2001 to 23 November 2001. Of the 145 such calls, the main problems were: faulty remote access security tokens, faulty 0845 dial-in, server downtime (where several calls by users all related to the same incidents).
