Parliamentary questions
Linda Fabiani
2,507 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
24 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many additional police officers could have been employed using the resources that have been allocated to Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd under Contract between The Scottish Ministers and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the Provision of Prisoner Escort & Court Custody Servi…
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:</p><p>The contract with Reliance freesup Prison and Police Officers who would otherwise have been deployed to escortduties.</p>
24 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many additional prison officers could have been employed using the resources that have been allocated to Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd under Contract between The Scottish Ministers and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the Provision of Prisoner Escort & Court Custody Servi…
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:</p><p>The contract with Reliance freesup prison and police officers who would otherwise have been deployed to escort duties.</p>
24 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the provision for transport of prisoners under Contract between The Scottish Ministers and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the Provision of Prisoner Escort & Court Custody Services in Scotland includes hospitals as relevant premises, as specified under section 102(3) of th…
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:</p><p>Yes; 32 movements up to and including28 May 2004.</p>
21 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider amending Contract between The Scottish Ministers and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the Provision of Prisoner Escort & Court Custody Services in Scotland to ensure that penalties for prisoner releases reflect the severity of the crime for which the prison…
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:</p><p>The SPS has no plans to revise the service credits set out in the contract.</p>
21 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the total value of each bid for the contract to provide prisoner escort and court custody services.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows:</p><p>I refer the member to the answer given to S2W-8434 answered 8 June 2004 . All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the…
21 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria it used for determining value for money when considering tenders for the contract to provide prisoner escort and court custody services.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:</p><p>I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-7557 answered on 20 May 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are ava…
21 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many bids were received for the contract to provide prisoner escort and court custody services.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:</p><p>I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-7556 answered on 20 May 2004. All answers to writtenparliamentaryquestions are avail…
21 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd submitted the lowest bid in cash terms for the contract to provide prisoner escort and court custody services.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:</p><p>I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-7557 answered on 20 May 2004. All answers to writtenparliamentaryquestions are avail…
21 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many companies, individuals and organisations tendered for the contract to provide prisoner escort and court custody services.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:</p><p>I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-7556 answered on 20 May 2004. All answers to writtenparliamentaryquestions are avail…
21 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it determined to have a single rate of penalty for the release in error of prisoners under Contract between The Scottish Ministers and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the Provision of Prisoner Escort & Court Custody Services in Scotland or whether that determination was ma…
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:</p><p>Service credits were negotiated between the SPS and Reliance.</p>
21 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the tender documents which led to the signing of Contract between The Scottish Ministers and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the Provision of Prisoner Escort & Court Custody Services in Scotland.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:</p><p>The SPS has no plans to publish these documents as they contain informationwhich is commercially sensitive.</p>
21 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how often it expects the Escort Monitor to report to it under clause 1.4.2.1 of Schedule 1 of Contract between The Scottish Ministers and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the Provision of Prisoner Escort & Court Custody Services in Scotland.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows:</p><p>I refer the member to the answer given to S2W-8431 answered 8 June 2004 . All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on th…
21 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Escort Monitor has reported to it under clause 1.4.2.1 of Schedule 1 of Contract between The Scottish Ministers and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the Provision of Prisoner Escort & Court Custody Services in Scotland and, if not, when it expects to receive such report…
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:</p><p class=MsoBodyText>The Escort Monitor reports regularly to, and is part of the SPS. The SPS and Reliance have agreed that a performanc…
21 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to use its powers under section 39 of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989 to alter the rules for the management of prisoners in light of recent events concerning the operation of Contract between The Scottish Ministers and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the Provisi…
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:</p><p>The SPS keeps the Prison Rules under review but has no immediateplans to recommend changes to ministers.</p>
21 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd will carry out custody duties of prisoners specified in section 102(2)(d) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 under Contract between The Scottish Ministers and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd for the Provision of Prisoner Escor…
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows:</p><p>Yes.</p>
21 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7810 by Cathy Jamieson on 20 May 2004, how many police officers (a) have been and (b) were expected to be redeployed at the completion of each phase of the contract.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: The first phase of thecontract, when complete, is expected to lead to the planned redeployment of 105police officers. As indicated in the answer to S2W-3488 answered on 13 November 2003,the full contract would be expected to lead to the redeployment of up to …
19 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-34819 and S2W-7753 by Iain Gray and Lewis Macdonald on 27 March 2003 and 7 May 2004 respectively, why the information on modern apprenticeships has ceased to be held centrally; when this information ceased to be held centrally, and whether it will …
Answer · Lewis Macdonald: This information on modern apprenticeshas never been held centrally. It has been accessed by ministers on occasion inthe past from Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise but the mostappropriate course of action for members seeking this infor…
19 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7789 by Mr Andy Kerr on 10 May 2004, how it ensures value for money in public expenditure in the absence of information on the rate of interest paid to lenders by PPP consortia for the provision of capital.
Answer · Andy Kerr: I refer the member to the answergiven to question S2W-8343 on 2 June 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan be found at <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp…
19 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7781 by Mr Andy Kerr on 10 May 2004, how it ensures value for money in public expenditure in the absence of information on costs incurred by each local authority on external consultants and advisers for PFI and PPP projects in each year since 1999.
Answer · Andy Kerr: It is the responsibility of theprocuring public sector body to ensure that the public private partnership procurementroute shows value for money compared to a conventional procurement route, takingall relevant costs and benefits into account.</p>
19 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7791 by Mr Andy Kerr on 10 May 2004, whether it will provide a substantive answer to the question in respect of PFI projects.
Answer · Andy Kerr: Guidance on the considerationof the public private partnership procurement route compared to the conventionalprocurement route is set out in Treasury Taskforce Technical Note No. 5 <i>How toConstruct a Public Sector Comparator</i>, a copy of which has been pl…
19 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7791 by Mr Andy Kerr on 10 May 2004, what research and monitoring it carries out to satisfy itself that approved PPP projects are better value for money than a conventional procurement route over the lifetime of the projects concerned.
Answer · Andy Kerr: Value for money is assessed atOutline business case stage and full business case stage. It is for the procuringpublic sector body to monitor value for money throughout the procurement process.</p>
19 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7796 by Mr Jim Wallace on 11 May 2004, what the growth in Scotland's GDP would have been if it had been measured in market prices.
Answer · Jim Wallace: The Scottish GDP index ismeasured in basic prices (also known as Gross Value Added) and is not availablein market prices. The main difference between these two measures is theinclusion (in the market prices measure) of taxes and subsidies on products.Due to t…
19 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the mean average figures for each category in NHSScotland Acute Activity, Waiting Times and Waiting Lists - Quarter ending 31st December 2003.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: As already stated in responsegiven to question S2W-5778 on 10 February 2004, ISD Scotland has noplans to publish arithmetic mean values for each category in NHSScotland AcuteActivity, waiting times and waiting lists. Waiting times follow a highlypositive skew…
19 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7822 by Cathy Jamieson on 11 May 2004, how it arrived at the assumption that legal aid costs associated with any newly-formed UK Supreme Court would not be greater than the legal aid costs that would have arisen in the House of Lords and Judicial Com…
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: As indicated in the answergiven to question S2W-7822 answered on 11 May 2004,the new Supreme Court will have the same jurisdiction in relation to Scotland asthe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the Appellate Committee of the Houseof Lords. Conseque…
19 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7813 by Cathy Jamieson on 11 May 2004, whether the same level of performance information will be available for HM Prison Kilmarnock as for other prisons in Scotland.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:</p><p>No. HM Prison Kilmarnock issubject to a separate performance framework set out in its contract. Informationon key performance indicat…
19 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how it has ensured that Her Majesty's Government's representations to the European Union in respect of the General Agreement on Trade in Services reflect the Executive's commitment to retain Scotland's public water services in the public sector.
Answer · Ross Finnie: The Scottish Executive achieved this outcome by advising the Department of Tradeand Industry of the Executive’s commitment to retaining Scotland’s public water services in the public sector. </p><p> </p>
19 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7832 by Cathy Jamieson on 14 May 2004, why the response in the answer was not provided by the Minister for Justice.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: I refer the member to paragraph4.4 of the <i>SPS Framework Document</i>, a copy of which has been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 8194).</p>
19 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7832 by Cathy Jamieson on 14 May 2004, which individuals, agencies and organisations are asked to respond to parliamentary questions on behalf of ministers.
Answer · Patricia Ferguson: Only ministers can respond to parliamentary questions. However, under the terms of the Executive’s Guidance on Parliamentary Questions, where a question relates to operational matters, Chief Executives of Executive Agencies can be invited to provide informati…
19 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7829 by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 May 2004, whether there has been an increase in real terms in public funding for the NHS between 1999 and 2004 and, if so, what the increase has been.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: The real terms increase in publicfunding for NHSScotland between 1999-2000 and 2004-05 is just under 37%.</p>
19 May 2004 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7829 by Malcolm Chisholm on 12 May 2004, whether there has been an increase in public funding in real terms for capital expenditure in the NHS since 1997.
Answer · Malcolm Chisholm: Yes, there has been a real termsincrease of £158 million in public funding for capital expenditure in the NHS since1997.</p>