- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 January 2002
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Answered by Wendy Alexander on 25 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will receive the #16.7 million Regional Selective Assistance clawback from Motorola announced by the Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning on 25 April 2001.
Answer
Motorola repaid £16.75 million to the Executive in May 2001.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 January 2002
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Answered by Iain Gray on 23 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what analysis it has done of the efficacy of its pilot debtline in Fife.
Answer
The debtline pilot in Fife is part of a joint pilot led by the Department of Trade and Industry. At present the advice work has not started and therefore no analysis has been done. However, we hope the pilot will be fully operational in the next few months.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 January 2002
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Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 23 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has revised its systems for keeping Scottish Transport Group pensioners informed of the progress of their applications with regard to the wind-up of the Scottish Transport Group pension schemes and, if so, what its current arrangements are.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-17011. In addition, the Executive has taken the decision to issue a copy of the Scottish Transport Group Pension Funds Information Bulletin - December 2001 to each potential beneficiary who has registered an interest with or who requests a relevant form from the Executive. This distribution is under way.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 January 2002
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Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 23 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the remit is of its Constitutional Policy Unit.
Answer
The Executive's Constitutional Policy Unit works on a range of issues relating to the operation of the Scotland Act and the devolution settlement, including advice, guidance and training; relations with the UK Government and the other devolved administrations; the Joint Ministerial Committees and the British Irish Council, and the preparation of subordinate legislation under the Scotland Act. The unit is also responsible for the preparation and implementation of the Public Sector Ombudsman Bill.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 January 2002
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Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 23 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what agencies, organisations or persons it instructs to draft both primary and subordinate legislation.
Answer
Primary and subordinate legislation on devolved matters is drafted by the Office of the Scottish Parliamentary Counsel in the Scottish Executive and by the Office of the Solicitor to the Scottish Executive, respectively.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 December 2001
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Answered by Wendy Alexander on 22 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-18938 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 26 October 2001, how much of the #10 million allocated has been spent by the Motorola Task Force.
Answer
Expenditure reports from Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh & Lothian for the period 1 April 2001 - 17 December 2001 show total costs to date of £3.0 million. Total spending in respect of the work of the Motorola Taskforce on the Action Plan is anticipated to rise to £4.1 millionIn my statement to Parliament on Thursday 20 December 2001 following announcement of the NEC redundancies, I announced that the Executive will provide £6 million to the West Lothian Strategic Action Plan for economic development in the area.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 January 2002
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Answered by Wendy Alexander on 21 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-20971 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 3 January 2002, why the information provided in response to question S1W-5623 was collected from reports in the daily Scottish newspapers rather than from Department of Trade and Industry information gleaned from submissions under the statutory redundancy consultation and notification provisions contained in Part IV of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, as amended by the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993, the Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (SI 1995/2587) and the Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (SI 1999/1925) implementing the EC Collective Redundancies Directive (98/59/EC).
Answer
The information collected by the Department of Trade and Industry under the provision of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 gives details of proposed redundancies from individual companies. It is not known how many of the notified redundancies actually took place, nor is individual company data made public for commercial reasons.The data collected from the Scottish daily newspapers is intended for internal use only. It provides a general overview of the current position and trends.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 January 2002
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Answered by Wendy Alexander on 21 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it and Local Enterprise Companies are being informed by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) of any instances in Scotland of statutory notification to the DTI under Part IV of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, as amended by the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993, the Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (SI 1995/2587) and the Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (SI 1999/1925).
Answer
The Department of Trade and Industry makes available to the Scottish Executive the notifications of proposed redundancies in Scotland, provided in accordance with the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.This information is used as appropriate in connection with the local response teams, including local enterprise companies, under Partnership Action for Continuing Employment for assisting in redundancy situations.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 January 2002
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Answered by Wendy Alexander on 21 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-19322, S1W-19323, S1W-19324, S1W-19325, S1W-19326, S1W-19327, S1W-19328, S1W-19329 and S1W-19330 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 6 November 2001 why the information requested is not held centrally given the obligation on employers to make statutory redundancy notifications to the Department of Trade and Industry under Part IV of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, as amended by the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993, the Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (SI 1995/2587) and the Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (SI 1999/1925).
Answer
Under the provisions contained in Part IV of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, employers must notify the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, in writing, if they propose to make 20 or more redundancies within a month. The Department of Trade and Industry therefore hold information on those proposed redundancies that fall within the scope of the Act. Data on individual companies is not made public as this information is potentially commercially sensitive. Companies are not required by the Act to confirm how many of the notified redundancies actually took place. Nor is the data collated in the disaggregated form requested.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 January 2002
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Answered by Wendy Alexander on 21 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-19322, S1W-19323, S1W-19324, S1W-19325, S1W-19326, S1W-19327, S1W-19328, S1W-19329 and S1W-19330 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 6 November 2001, why it does not hold centrally information on job losses in Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish labour market is dynamic. The monthly labour market statistics from the Office of National Statistics give net employment changes from quarter to quarter. There are large shifts between employment, unemployment and inactivity each month/quarter. Any attempt to measure job loss figures is likely to be swamped by these large flows.The Labour Force Survey (run by the Office of National Statistics) provides data on a quarterly basis for redundancies, although it is a survey of households and individuals, not businesses. The information collected on redundancies relates to whether an individual was made redundant in the three months prior to the survey interview. The data, however, is not sufficiently large to disaggregate reliably below an all-Scotland level.Jobs are constantly being created and lost across the country as firms start-up, expand, contract, close or merge. It would be a substantial burden on business - and indeed - all employers to require notifications of all job changes.
