- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 March 2015
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Current Status:
Answered by Marco Biagi on 1 April 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-10977 by Aileen Campbell on 25 January 2013, whether it has established whether local authority personnel have been involved in the transfer of asylum-seeking families with children to or from the Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre since 1 May 2010, and, if so, on how many occasions, on what dates and from which departments.
Answer
This is a reserved matter by the UK Government and the Scottish Government does not hold this information. However, officials of both the Scottish Government and Lanarkshire Council have established that since children and families are no longer detained at Dungavel, the local authority contact is limited to ‘age dispute’ cases only which are rare.
The Scottish Government remains opposed to detaining any children of asylum seekers; detention of children in an asylum context is unnecessary and disproportionate. It is a breach of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and should not be happening in the UK.
The Scottish Government will continue to reaffirm this position at every available opportunity.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 March 2015
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Current Status:
Answered by Marco Biagi on 1 April 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-10975 by Aileen Campbell on 25 January 2013, whether it has established whether personnel from social work or education departments of any local authority have been involved in work with families with children who have been held at the Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre since 1 May 2010, and, if so, on how many occasions and on what dates.
Answer
This is a reserved matter by the UK Government and the Scottish Government does not hold this information. However, officials of both the Scottish Government and Lanarkshire Council have established that since children and families are no longer detained at Dungavel, the local authority contact is limited to ‘age dispute’ cases only which are rare.
The Scottish Government remains opposed to detaining any children of asylum seekers; detention of children in an asylum context is unnecessary and disproportionate. It is a breach of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and should not be happening in the UK.
The Scottish Government will continue to reaffirm this position at every available opportunity.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 March 2015
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 12 March 2015
To ask the Scottish Government when it will next meet the Scottish Police Federation.
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Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 12 March 2015
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2015
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 4 March 2015
To ask the Scottish Government when it last met NHS Lanarkshire.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 4 March 2015
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 January 2015
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 29 January 2015
To ask the Scottish Government when it will next meet NHS Lanarkshire.
Answer
Ministers and government officials regularly meet with representatives of all health boards, including NHS Lanarkshire.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 January 2015
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 4 February 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how it encourages engineering apprenticeships.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 4 February 2015
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 December 2014
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 8 January 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made in integrating health and social care in South Lanarkshire.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 8 January 2015
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 December 2014
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 11 December 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it is giving to Unison’s campaign to bring ancillary services in-house at Hairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 11 December 2014
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 September 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 1 October 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made toward providing additional powers to the Parliament to enhance Scotland's role internationally.
Answer
As the First Minister set out in his statement on 23 September 2014, any enhanced devolution settlement should enable Scotland to have a stronger and more clearly articulated voice on the international stage. The Scottish Government will be pursuing that objective in the next phase of this work.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 June 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 24 June 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what guidance it provides to local authorities on the (a) licensing and (b) inspection of puppy farms.
Answer
No guidance is provided by the Scottish Government to local authorities on the matter of licencing or inspection of dog breeders and their establishments. All requirements on these matters are clearly laid out in the Breeding of Dogs Act 1973, as amended by the Breeding of Dogs Act 1991 and the Breeding and Sale of Dogs (Welfare) Act 1999.
However, in 2013 the Scottish Government animal welfare team worked with Fife Council to draw up a set of robust licence conditions under the Licensing of Animal Dealers (Young Cats and Young Dogs) (Scotland) Regulations 2009, to ensure the welfare of any puppies that may pass through a dealer.