Prison Service (Hansard, 24 June 1997)

§ Mr. David Stewart

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what targets he has set for the Scottish Prison Service for 1997–98. [5547]

£Million
Authority	Right to buy	Land sales	Total receipts²
	Target	Near actual¹	Target	Near actual¹	Target	Near actual¹
Aberdeen City Council	13.050	11.381	0.300	0.164	15.212	12.018
Aberdeenshire Council	7.260	7.005	0.500	0.626	8.533	7.954
Angus Council	3.600	4.508	0.050	0.025	4.070	4.557
Argyll and Bute Council	3.060	3.379	0.260	0.141	3.622	3.543
Clackmannanshire Council	2.706	2.856	0.219	0.102	3.166	2.958
Dumfries and Galloway Council	6.274	7.103	0.400	0.578	7.210	7.691
Dundee City Council	4.500	4.103	0.400	0.044	5.984	4.305
East Ayrshire Council	5.154	7.220	0.125	0.000	6.016	7.234
East Dunbartonshire Council	2.451	2.674	0.000	0.000	2.705	2.695
East Lothian Council	3.730	3.836	0.200	0.030	4.386	3.919
East Renfrewshire Council	1.409	0.922	0.020	0.764	1.609	1.686
City of Edinburgh Council	9.410	9.039	2.000	1.449	12.650	10.531
Falkirk Council	6.206	6.400	1.000	0.813	8.067	7.213
Fife Council	15.066	11.771	1.500	0.351	18.051	12.357

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§ Mr. Dewar

I have set the Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service the following targets:

Performance measures	Key targets
The number of prisoners	No A Category prisoners should
unlawfully at large.	escape.
	The number of escapes by B Category
	prisoners should be no higher than 1.7
	per 1,000 prisoners.
	The number of escapes by C Category
	prisoners should be no higher than 2
	per 1,000 prisoners.
The number of serious	The number of serious assaults on staff
assaults on staff and	should be no higher than 3 per 1,000
prisoners.	staff.
	The number of serious assaults on
	other prisoners should be less than the
	1996–97 outturn.
Basic quality of life for	By end March 1998 70 per cent. of
prisoners	prisoners will have access to forms of
	night sanitation.
The amount of available	To ensure that 450 prisoners have
opportunities for	completed a cognitive skills
prisoners' self	programme and 70 prisoners have
development.	completed a sex offender programme
	during 1997–98.
Average annual cost per	To keep costs within £28,317 per place
prisoner place.	available for use.
The level of absence	To reduce the average number of days
through staff sickness.	lost per person per year through staff
	sickness to 15.