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

This information is not readily available on our electronic Prisoner Records System and requires significant resource time to extract this data. Given the quantity of prisoner movements involved in this enquiry, this response covers the 5 year period 2013 to 2017 in the following table.

The Scottish Government is absolutely committed to supporting food and drink producers from across Scotland, including those located across the islands and regions. The industry leadership body, Scotland Food and Drink, has recently facilitated an extensive engagement exercise with businesses across Scotland to help inform the development of a new national food and drink strategy - as part of that, ideas were sought on actions to further promote island and regional produce. The new strategy will be published soon and, when it is, we will set out our plans for further supporting the industry.

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-07232 on 15 March 2017. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx

The SPA board considered an update on the current status of the implementation plan, which has been developed from the recommendation made within the Chair's Review of Governance report, at the public board meeting on 24 February 2017. The paper is available on the SPA's website at: http://www.spa.police.uk/assets/126884/386205/item_13.pdf

I refer the member to my answer to S5W-07384 on 22 February 2017, and to my letter of 10 March 2017 to the Finance and Constitution Committee, which is available in SPICe (BiB number 58578).

All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

It already is a criminal offence to carry in public any blade or instrument with a sharp point. There is an exception relating to a folding pocketknife less than three inches in length. The criminal law therefore bans the carrying of so called zombie-knives in public. Scottish Government legislation to increase the penalties for this offence came into force in March 2016 with maximum penalties increasing from four years to five years.

The £12 million Transition Training Fund, launched in 1 February 2016, offers support with training grants to help individuals retrain, upskill or get accreditation or certification that could help individuals get a new job in oil and gas, the wider energy sector, or engineering and manufacturing.

The latest figures shows that over 1600 individuals have had applications approved from the fund. Training programmes procured by the TTF will also create around 330 employment opportunities across Scotland, with the latest tranche supporting over 400 opportunities. There are also 12 individuals being supported into STEM teaching opportunities within the North East.

Skills Development Scotland have carried out an initial sample survey of participants who had undertaken training through the TTF. The findings were that 58% were in employment, of which 78% transitioned to work in new sectors. Of those in employment, 85% said that support accessed through the fund had helped them secure a job.

The latest Local Authority level statistics from the Scottish House Condition Survey, relating to 2013-2015 did not record an increase in fuel poverty in any Local Authority. All differences with the previous set of statistics, relating to the period 2012-2014, are within the margin of error.

Latest figures on the level of fuel poverty in Scotland as a whole indicated that between 2014 and 2015 fuel poverty fell from 35% to 31% of all households. To achieve sufficient sample size for Local Authority level estimates, three years’ worth of Scottish House Condition Survey data are merged and this is therefore less well suited to reflect the drop in the rate of fuel poverty which occurred between 2014 and 2015.

The Scottish Government remains committed to tackling fuel poverty and, despite the welcome drop in the number of households affected, we know there is much more to be done. We also recognise that there are specific challenges in rural areas. That is why we established the Scottish Rural Fuel Poverty Task Force to examine the full range of issues around fuel poverty in rural areas. The Task Force reported on its findings in October 2016 and our response published on 8 March 2017 sets out the action we are taking to address the recommendations.

The Scottish Government’s response to reports by the Scottish Fuel Poverty Strategic Working Group and the Scottish Rural Fuel Poverty Task Force, published on 8 March 2017, sets out that we will consult on a new, long term fuel poverty strategy, including proposals for a new overarching target, in Autumn 2017. This strategy will feed into the development of a new Warm Homes Bill, which we plan to introduce in 2018.