Questions and answers

Question reference: S3W-09100

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many offenders released on licence have been recalled to prison to serve the remainder of their sentence in each year since 1999, broken down by prison.

I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:

The following table illustrates those offenders who have been recalled having been released on licence.

Establishment	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	Grand Total
Aberdeen	16	22	16	21	20	22	16	23	19	2	177
Barlinnie	156	133	132	163	147	117	137	156	137	24	1,302
Castle Huntly	2	4	4	12	9	5	1	1			38
Cornton Vale	14	15	17	9	5	10	7	15	18	1	111
Dumfries	7	7	10	13	13	7	8	16	9	3	93
Edinburgh	48	41	55	85	85	70	93	115	133	12	737
Glenochil	26	21	23	31	39	50	50	82	85	7	414
Glenochil YOI	4	2									6
Greenock	28	27	34	34	11	26	24	22	28	5	239
Inverness	7	4	6	8	7	10	9	7	9	0	67
Kilmarnock	70	61	82	81	40	30	46	64	57	5	536
Low Moss	30	17	21	11	12	11	14	9	2		127
Noranside		1		4	5	4	1				15
Open Estate	3	7	3	8	20	12	16	17	8	0	94
Perth	40	26	44	31	45	43	30	59	78	11	407
Peterhead	6	2	4	5	7	10	16	19	17	1	87
Polmont	6	3	5	2	3	10	10	23	38	6	106
Shotts	27	14	21	24	22	21	41	31	34	0	235
Grand Total	490	407	477	542	490	458	519	659	672	77	4,791

Question reference: S3W-09096

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many incidents there have been involving the recovery of illegal drugs by prison officers carrying out searches of prisoner accommodation and prisoners in each year since 1999, broken down by category of drug recovered and prison.

Incident Establishment Name	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	Grand Total
Aberdeen	13	68	52	35	41	20	29	4	262
Barlinnie	128	146	168	200	265	307	378	40	1,632
Castle Huntly	2	5	13	17	37	79	19		172
Cornton Vale	46	79	52	58	94	83	106	4	522
Dumfries	5	12	31	23	20	22	33	2	148
Edinburgh	112	231	309	231	265	219	215	38	1,620
Glenochil Prison	79	93	69	98	116	114	137	15	721
Glenochil YOI	13	21	4						38
Greenock	27	51	50	85	71	80	64	8	436
Inverness	1	1			1	18	12	1	34
Kilmarnock	79	86	123	171	236	333	226	30	1,284
Low Moss	80	71	66	89	102	68	25		501
Noranside	2	2	4	24	23	22	5		82
Open Estate							48	8	56
Perth	44	94	103	182	202	163	130	14	932
Peterhead	4	2	2	3	1	9	5		26
Polmont	32	71	53	163	157	102	99	20	697
Shotts	68	29	47	65	154	135	90	15	603
Grand Total	735	1,062	1,146	1,444	1,785	1,774	1,621	199	9,766

Question reference: S3W-09101

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how much was received in public funds by the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland in each year since 1999.

Information on Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (ACPOS) accounts is held by the Association. The Scottish Government has contributed to the costs of the association''s secretariat. Details of the amounts involved are as follows:

Scottish Government Funding to ACPOS, 1998-99 to 2007-08

Year	Amount (£000)
1998-99	152
1999-2000	146
2000-01	142
2001-02	145
2002-03	185
2003-04	155
2004-05	267
2005-06	231
2006-07	224
2007-08	314

Question reference: S3W-09094

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 20 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many weapons have been recovered from (a) prisoner accommodation and (b) prisoners following searches by prison authorities in each year since 1999, broken down by prison.

I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:

The following table displays the total number of weapons recovered in each SPS establishment. Reliable data is not available prior to 2001. Records do not distinguish between finds in accommodation and on persons.

Establishment	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Aberdeen			2	2	10	7	5	2
Barlinnie		12	13	11	31	60	64	5
Castle Huntly	1		1		1	2
Cornton Vale				7	16	10	13
Dumfries				1	13	1	16	4
Edinburgh	46	111	61	46	31	48	76	4
Glenochil	1	32	34	20	16	25	30	1
Greenock		6	6	14	9	31	21	3
Inverness	8	4	2	3	4	7	1
Kilmarnock		36	85	31	30	53	66	5
Low Moss	1	16	7	8	15	16	1
Noranside						2
Open Estate							4
Peterhead						2
Polmont		4	118	125	133	104	82	1
Perth			3	23	61	46	80	4
Shotts	32	31	30	34	48	34	18	7
Grand Total	89	252	362	325	418	448	477	36

Question reference: S3W-08920

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Frank Mulholland on 20 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all existing protocols between the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland and the Crown Office which determine and set out when police investigations should be undertaken.

The current formal protocols between ACPOS and the Crown Office Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) which determine and set out when police investigations should be undertaken are as follows:

Joint Protocol between ACPOS and COPFS on Domestic Abuse.

Work Related Deaths - A Protocol for Liaison among COPFS, ACPOS, the Health and Safety Executive and British Transport Police.

These protocols deal with specific types of investigation.

Question reference: S3W-09140

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 20 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what role the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has in monitoring large-scale poultry developments and planning requests that lie in the path of migratory birds.

Question reference: S3W-09142

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 20 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are employed in the poultry industry, broken down by local authority area.

Information on the total number of people employed throughout all parts of the poultry industry is not available in the Scottish Government.

Information is available from the June Agricultural Census on the number of people working on specialist poultry holdings¹. The following table shows the number of people working full-time and part-time on 1 June 2007 by local authority area, and includes occupiers, spouses, family members, employees as well as casual and seasonal workers.

Local Authority	Holdings	Workers
Aberdeen City	*	*
Aberdeenshire	231	254
Angus	28	49
Argyll and Bute	64	76
Clackmannanshire	9	30
Dumfries and Galloway	129	212
Dundee City	0	0
East Ayrshire	29	48
East Dunbartonshire	7	17
East Lothian	14	50
East Renfrewshire	*	*
Edinburgh (City of)	*	*
Eilean Siar	73	52
Falkirk	18	33
Fife	69	228
Glasgow City	0	0
Highland	227	194
Inverclyde	*	*
Midlothian	8	23
Moray	40	48
North Ayrshire	27	43
North Lanarkshire	12	15
Orkney Islands	60	43
Perth and Kinross	71	148
Renfrewshire	*	*
Scottish Borders	79	317
Shetland Islands	23	23
South Ayrshire	28	29
South Lanarkshire	44	46
Stirling	34	45
West Dunbartonshire	9	12
West Lothian	27	59
Scotland	1,374	2,124

Source: June 2007 Agricultural Census.

Notes:

* - Indicates cell suppressed to prevent disclosure of information about individual holdings

1. A specialist poultry holding is classified as one where poultry accounts for more than two-thirds of that holding''s economic activities. Consequently, there will be some workers involved in poultry production on other holdings which are not included in these results. Data from the June Agricultural Census show that 89% of poultry in Scotland on 1 June 2007 were kept on specialist poultry holdings.

People working on more than one holding are only recorded once, which explains why for some local authorities the number of holdings is greater than the number of workers.

Question reference: S3W-09141

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 20 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive what preparations are being considered to deal with any major outbreak of avian flu originating from large-scale poultry developments.

Question reference: S3W-09695

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 08 February 2008
Current Status: Answered by Frank Mulholland on 20 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-8921 by Frank Mulholland QC on 7 February 2008, whether the protocol between the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland and the Electoral Commission, specifically relates to the Scottish parliamentary and local government elections of May 2007.

on 7 February 2008, whether the protocol between the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland and the Electoral Commission, specifically relates to the Scottish parliamentary and local government elections of May 2007.

(S3W-09695)

Frank Mulholland QC I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-9752, on 20 February 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

Question reference: S3W-09099

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2008
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 18 February 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners, eligible for parole and serving sentences in Scottish prisons, were refused parole in each year since 1999, broken down by prison.

The information sought is as follows:

Year	Number of Eligible Prisoners Refused Parole	Number of Prisoners not Recommended for Release on Life Licence
1999	304	Not available
2000	279	110
2001	301	85
2002	272	89
2003	354	117
2004	380	124
2005	395	136
2006	463	117

It is not possible to provide the information by prison. The figures also include those who were transferred to England to serve their sentences and those transferred to serve their sentences in psychiatric hospitals.

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