- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 6 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the Edinburgh Central constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 6 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the Midlothian constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 6 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the Linlithgow constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 6 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the Edinburgh West constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 1 November 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what education research supports increasing significantly the number of composite classes of Primary 1, 2 and 3 children in order to achieve reduction of all class si'es to 30.
Answer
Results from the school census indicate that between 1998 and 2000 the number of composite classes involving P1 to P3 classes declined from 2,374 to 2,329.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 3 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to address problems faced by asylum seekers in Scotland.
Answer
We have announced a number of significant developments in relation to asylum and refugee issues.
Scotland is to have its own minister with responsibility for all devolved aspects of asylum issues. These include health, education, social work and police matters as they relate to asylum seekers.
We made an announcement on 19 September about Social Inclusion Partnership involvement. The Glasgow Alliance will receive an extra £700,000 to develop projects in areas such as Sighthill and Barmulloch that will tackle community integration and improve local services.
These projects will benefit both the established and the new asylum seeker population in Sighthill.
We also announced on 20 September extra money to improve access to further education for basic English language classes. We announced new funding of £1.7 million in the current financial year, including £0.5 million to boost college provision specifically for asylum seekers.An "anti-bullying in Schools" newsletter will be available in October.
The research study into the effects of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 in Scotland is about to start.
We are establishing the Scottish Refugee Integration Forum, which I will lead.
We are establishing a unit within the Executive, whose sole task will be to deal with asylum seekers and with refugee integration issues: it will support ministers on the forum.
This will provide a sound basis for the further consideration of asylum and refugee issues in Scotland.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 3 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken to address the issues identified by the Social Justice Committee's response to Petition PE242 on asylum seekers.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-17706.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 20 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether its employees will be protected under TUPE regulations if further services are outsourced and whether these protections will match those which would apply to civil servants employed in England or Wales.
Answer
The TUPE Regulations implement obligations under European law and apply in the same way throughout Great Britain. Therefore, if the regulations apply they will have the same effect whether the affected civil servants work in Scotland, England or Wales. Whether the regulations apply in any particular case will depend upon the particular circumstances of that case.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 20 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its staff have taken sick leave as a result of stress-related conditions, and how many sick days in total this represents, in each year since its inception and whether the reasons for these conditions have been identified.
Answer
In the 12-month period from 1 August 1999 to 31 July 2000, 82 officers took sick leave because of stress-related illnesses. These absences represented a loss of 3,402 working days.In the following 12-month period, 1 August 2000 to 31 July 2001, 73 officers took stress-related sick leave, representing a loss of 2,741.5 working days.As medical certificates do not always specify the cause of a stress-related illness, it is not possible to determine whether these absences result from problems at work or from personal or domestic difficulties.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 20 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much is owed, in total, to its Security Branch staff in back pay and travel allowances, what grades of staff these monies are owed to, over what period of time these monies have accrued, why this position has arisen, when these monies are to be paid and what steps have been taken regarding future arrangements.
Answer
There is no money due to security staff in back pay. Management in the Scottish Executive became aware earlier this year that security staff had not been claiming payment for time spent travelling to work. Steps have been taken to ensure that security staff are fully aware that they are able to claim travel time and consequently they have been doing so since 1 April 2001. Management and the relevant trade union have recently issued joint guidance to security staff advising them how to make retrospective claims back to 1 April 1995. These claims will be paid as soon as possible after they have been received. Until such time as all of the claims are received, the total payments to be made will not be known.
