§ Mr. McMasterTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many exhumations to allow reburial of executed prisoners have taken place since the abolition of capital punishment.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonResponsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to the Scottish Prison Service under its chief executive Mr. E. W. Frizzell. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Mr. E. W. Frizzell to Mr. Gordon McMaster, dated 14 April 1994:
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton has asked me to reply to your Question about the number of exhumations to allow reburial of executed prisoners which have taken place since the abolition of capital punishment.Enquiries have been made at all prison establishments and no record has been found of any such exhumations having taken place.