Daily Written Answers Friday 27 January 2012 (138KB pdf)

Friday 27 January 2012
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE
Enterprise and Environment
Alison Johnstone (Lothian) (Scottish Green Party): To ask the Scottish Executive how many
crew in the offshore fishing fleet are from (a) EU countries and (b) the Philippines.
Holding answer issued: 26 January 2012
(S4W-04958)
Richard Lochhead: The information requested is not held centrally by the Scottish Government as
EEA nationals are not subject to immigration controls and responsibility for non-EEA nationals is
reserved to the UK Government.
Graeme Pearson (South Scotland) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to
the answer to question S4W-04879 by Stewart Stevenson on 18 January 2012, on what date the
application for each of the 461 projects was received.
(S4W-05075)
Stewart Stevenson: Further to the answer provided to question S4W-04879, a table listing all 461
individual projects in receipt of an award from the Climate Challenge Fund since its launch in 2008 has
been produced. This provides details of the project name, the date the project submitted an
Expression of Interest to apply to the fund, and the date their final application was submitted for
consideration by the Independent Grants Panel. Copies of this table are available from the Scottish
Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 53620).
On providing the information above, some of the dates provided for the answer to S4W-04879 were
found to be inaccurate. This has been amended with an updated copy of the table provided to the
Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 53591).
Rhoda Grant (Highlands and Islands) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Executive how
much funding has been allocated to developing local community energy schemes on Forestry
Commission land in each year since 2007.
(S4W-05087)
Stewart Stevenson: The following table lists Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES)
funding to communities on the national forest estate. The CARES funding was a grant unless stated
as a loan.
Project Amount of Funding since 2007
Callander Development Trust £9,733
Colintraive and Glendaruel Development Trust £8,812
Gleneig and Arnisdale Community Trust £15,000
Kilfinan
£8,340 + £146,000 Cares Loan
Lochgoilhead £2,143
Mull and Iona Community Trust £2,143
Mull and Iona Community Trust £42,786 + Cares Loan £37,940
North West Mull Community Woodland Company £26,089
Rumster £99,777
Tarbert and Skipness £21,553
Sunart Community £18,000
Rhoda Grant (Highlands and Islands) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Executive which
renewables developers have entered into (a) rental agreements or (b) joint ventures with Forestry
Commission Scotland.
(S4W-05092)

Stewart Stevenson: To date, Forestry Commission Scotland has entered into lease rental
agreements for wind power with EoN Climate and Renewables UK, National Engineering Laboratory,
RWE Npower Renewables, Scottish Power Renewables and Scottish and Southern Renewables.
Additionally, lease rental agreements for hydro power have been arranged with Conaglen Estate,
Dulas Hydro Generation, Inverleiver Hydro, Infinis, Triodos Renewables, Wyvis Plant & Power, RWE
Npower Renewables, Mr Peter Brown, Mr Tony Dalton and Mr Roy Foster.
Forestry Commission Scotland has not entered into any Joint Venture arrangements as yet. However,
Forestry Commission Scotland will have the option of entering into joint ventures with Partnership for
Renewables, Scottish Power Renewables, PNE Wind UK, E.ON Climate & Renewables and Fred
Olsen Renewables (for wind power) and with Green Highland Renewables and a consortium of
Broadland Properties and Gilbert Gilkes & Gordon (for hydro power).
In addition, Forestry Commission Scotland has a number of agreements relating to access across
the national forest estate that is required to service renewable developments on neighbouring land.
Finance
Alison McInnes (North East Scotland) (Scottish Liberal Democrats): To ask the Scottish
Executive what employment opportunities are available to locally resident long-term unemployed
people as a result of the Forth Replacement Crossing construction project.
(S4W-05071)
John Swinney: The Principal Contract for the Forth Replacement Crossing includes a requirement
for the Contractor to provide an average of 46 positions for the long-term unemployed each year and
for all positions to be advertised in local job centres.
Similarly, for the M9 Junction 1a Contract an average of five positions each year must be provided.
Governance and Communities
Siobhan McMahon (Central Scotland) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Executive how
much the First Minister’s private office has spent on hospitality for employees of News International
Ltd in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11.
Holding answer issued: 13 September 2011
(S4W-02243)
Siobhan McMahon (Central Scotland) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Executive when it
will provide a substantive answer to question S4W-02243.
Holding answer issued: 16 November 2011
(S4W-03791)
Siobhan McMahon (Central Scotland) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Executive when it
will provide substantive answers to questions S4W-02243 and S4W-03791, which received holding
answers on 13 September 2011 and 16 November 2011 respectively.
Holding answer issued: 10 January 2012
(S4W-04568)
John Swinney: The Scottish Government hosted a dinner on 19 March 2009, involving the then
editor of the Scottish News of the World, Bob Bird, to discuss the campaign for Mark’s Law. The cost
was £173.30. There was no expenditure in 2009-10 or 2010-11. The Scottish Government routinely
publish information on ministerial engagements online at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/14944/Events-Engagements/MinisterialEngagements.
Learning and Justice
Neil Findlay (Lothian) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) prisoner-onprisoner
and (b) prisoner-on-staff assaults have been recorded at HMP Addiewell in each year since it
opened.
(S4W-04825)
Kenny MacAskill: I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to
respond. His response is as follows:
The following table shows the number of assaults in HMP Addiewell since it opened in December
2008.

Prisoner on Prisoner
Assaults
Prisoner on Staff
Assaults
2008-09 83 45
2009-10 59 40
2010-11 43 19
Neil Findlay (Lothian) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Executive what the cause was of the
reported incident that occurred at HMP Addiewell on 2 January 2012.
(S4W-04826)
Kenny MacAskill: I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to
respond. His response is as follows:
This incident is currently subject to an investigation by Lothian and Borders Police and may be
subject to court action. It would not be appropriate therefore to comment further in advance of the
completion of these enquiries.
Neil Findlay (Lothian) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) prisoner-onprisoner
and (b) prisoner-on-staff assaults have been reported in each prison in each of the last five
years.
(S4W-04828)
Kenny MacAskill: I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to
respond. His response is as follows:
The following table illustrates the total number of prisoner on prisoner assaults and prisoner on staff
assaults broken down by establishment for the last five years. Serious, minor and non-injury assaults
are included. The difference in the number of assaults is in part linked to differences in the prisoner
population housed in each prison.
(a) Prisoner-on-Prisoner Assaults
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Aberdeen 20 51 30 25 18
Addiewell* 83 59 43
Barlinnie 63 67 79 67 66
Cornton Vale 38 47 50 53 67
Dumfries 34 18 26 20 34
Edinburgh 67 83 89 74 79
Glenochil 20 34 25 38 39
Greenock 24 34 22 9 20
Inverness 19 20 13 10 14
Kilmarnock 53 68 41 39 74
Low Moss** 12
Open Estate 1 2 0 3 2
Perth 59 67 54 48 61
Peterhead 16 13 10 14 2
Polmont 145 130 161 166 167
Shotts 11 11 19 17 12
Totals 582 645 702 642 698
(b) Prisoner-on-Staff Assaults
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Aberdeen 2 7 6 9 3
Addiewell* 45 40 19
Barlinnie 25 28 16 19 20
Cornton Vale 25 34 48 45 57
Dumfries 2 2 3 1 4
Edinburgh 11 12 10 18 17

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Glenochil 9 2 4 2 0
Greenock 1 0 4 1 6
Inverness 4 2 0 2 1
Kilmarnock 13 17 9 6 20
Low Moss** 0
Open Estate 0 0 0 1 0
Perth 13 9 15 5 6
Peterhead 2 3 1 3 5
Polmont 13 6 15 11 25
Shotts 2 11 4 5 5
Totals 122 133 180 168 188
Notes:
*HMP Addiewell opened December 2008.
**HMP LowMoss closed in March 2007.
Neil Findlay (Lothian) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-scale
responses have been required at HMP Addiewell since it opened and what the cause was in each
case.
(S4W-04829)
Kenny MacAskill: I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS),
to respond. His response is as follows:
There have been no “full-scale” responses required at HMP Addiewell since it opened in 2008.
The SPS defines a “full-scale” or Level 3 incident as one that requires a full (prison) command
structure which will require additional resources and back up services to be deployed.
Neil Findlay (Lothian) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-scale
responses have been required at prisons other than HMP Addiewell in the last five years.
(S4W-04830)
Kenny MacAskill: I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to
respond. His response is as follows:
There have been no “full-scale” responses at prisons in the last five years, inclusive of HMP
Addiewell. All incidents have been resolved locally without recourse to a full Incident Command
response from the Scottish Prison Service.
Patricia Ferguson (Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish
Executive what progress it is making in maximising the potential for parents to access and sustain
good quality employment and what progress was made in the previous parliamentary session.
(S4W-04995)
Aileen Campbell: The Scottish Government is committed to supporting everyone who wants to
work to do so. Scotland currently has the highest rate of working households with children of any part
the UK. The employment rate for lone parents in Scotland has also risen from 56.3% in 2007 to 56.8%
in 2010.
Our Early Years Framework affirms that high quality, affordable and accessible early learning and
childcare is key both for children’s development and to enable parents to balance work and family life.
A number of organisations receive Scottish Government funding to provide a wide range of support,
including benefit advice, to individuals and families. These include:
One Parents Families Scotland;
Parenting in Scotland;
Citizens Advice Direct;
Contact-a-Family, and

The Family Nurse Partnership.
Roderick Campbell (North East Fife) (Scottish National Party): To ask the Scottish Executive
what recent discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding the Criminal Injuries
Compensation Scheme Review announced in 2010.
(S4W-05097)
Kenny MacAskill: The UK Government has not yet published its proposed changes to the Criminal
Injuries Compensation Scheme. Scottish Government officials are in regular contact with the Ministry
of Justice and the most recent meeting was on 23 January 2012.
Drew Smith (Glasgow) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to
the supplementary to question S4F-00316 by the First Minister on 1 December 2011 (Official Report,
c. 4225) when it will seek a debate in the parliament on human trafficking.
(S4W-05135)
Kenny MacAskill: The Scottish Government is currently considering the recommendations
contained within the report referred to on 1 December and others on the same subject. A date for the
debate will be announced in due course.
Strategy and External Affairs
Graeme Dey (Angus South) (Scottish National Party): To ask the Scottish Executive what its
performance was in answering ministerial correspondence in the second and third quarters of 2011.
(S4W-05265)
Brian Adam: In the period May and June 2011, 2882 letters were received by ministers and 92%
received a reply within our target of 20 working days.
In the period July to September 2011, 7,217 letters were received by ministers and 92% received a
reply within our target of 20 working days.
The following questions received holding answers:
S4W-04973
S4W-04974