- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-1142 by Shona Robison on 27 June 2007, whether ambulance workers in single-staffed units have the right to refuse to attend an emergency call on safety grounds.
Answer
Ambulance staff wouldbe expected to attend the scene of an emergency call and make a dynamic risk assessment.If that assessment showed that the scene was too dangerous, staff would be expectedto withdraw to a safe area and call for assistance.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any outstanding Health and Safety Executive improvement notices in place in respect of the Scottish Ambulance Service.
Answer
There are no outstandingHealth and Safety Executive improvement notices in place in respect of the ScottishAmbulance Service.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made by the Scottish Ambulance Service to comply with the Health and Safety Executive improvement notice issued to it on 19 January 2005.
Answer
The Scottish AmbulanceService complied with all Improvement Notices issued in 2005 to the satisfactionof all parties and within the relevant timeframes.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of all Health and Safety Executive improvement notices issued in respect of the Scottish Ambulance Service in 2005 and what action has been taken to comply with such notices.
Answer
Details of all Healthand Safety Executive (HSE) Notices can be found on the HSE’s website at
www.hse.gov.uk/notices. A brief summaryof the seven HSE improvement notices from 2005 and the Scottish Ambulance Service’sactions to comply with these are listed in the following table. | a. Improvement Notice | a. Scottish Ambulance Service Action |
| b.Requirement to recruit an ergonomist. | b. Ergonomist has been employed. |
| c. Provision of low tech manual handling aids. | c. Low tech manual handling aids are provided to all staff. |
| d. Requirement to carry out specified manual handling risk assessments. | d. Specified manual handling assessment are completed. |
| e. Provision of manual handling training to vehicle crew staff. | e. All staff have received ambulance specific manual handling training. In addition, mechanised handling equipment is being rolled out across Scotland. |
| f. Health and safety training for frontline managers. | f. All line managers within the Ambulance Service have received accredited health and safety training. |
| g. Modification of vehicle fleet to remove the need to lift trolley cots into the vehicle. | g. All ambulances that required staff to lift trolley cots in and out have been replaced with ambulances that utilise various forms of ramps. |
| h. Requirement to carry out risk assessment with regard to violence to staff. | h. Violence to staff risk assessment has been completed. |
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 August 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 14 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of the remit and focused plan of action of the proposed housing supply task force.
Answer
The Housing SupplyTask Force will be charged with tackling the obstacles, such as land supply andplanning issues that have been hampering the delivery of more housing of all types.I expect it to challenge the way things are done so that more homes are built wherewe need them. An action plan for the task force’s work will be agreed at the firstmeeting which is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 29 August 2007.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 7 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how it is monitoring the implementation of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006.
Answer
Scottish Executive officialshave provided training on the provisions of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland)Act 2006 for local authority, Scottish SPCA and Animal Health staff. Localauthority and Animal Health staff and Scottish SPCA officers are in regularcontact with Scottish Executive officials about how the provisions of the Actare being implemented by enforcement officers and inspectors.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Bruce Crawford on 2 August 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider the setting up of a working group to monitor and report to the Parliament on the devolved impact of nuclear weapons based in Scotland.
Answer
This Government wishes to befree to remove nuclear weapons from Scotland. The majority of Scots support that view. We plan tobring together key stakeholders from across Scottish civic life in an allianceof people who are opposed to the deployment of nuclear weapons in Scotland. Wewill reflect on how the UK Government’s plans to replace Trident impact ondevolved areas and will consider what we can do, within our devolvedresponsibilities, to persuade the UK Government to change its position on thesematters.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive from where the costs associated with policing requirements, legal aid and legal costs in dealing with detainees at Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre are met.
Answer
The costs associated withpolicing requirements are met from within the overall funding of £1.1 billionavailable to the police. Strathclyde Police receive £504.2 million of thistotal. Information on the cost of policing requirements for dealing withDungavel is not held centrally and is a matter for the Chief Constable ofStrathclyde Police.
The costs of legal aid are met from the legal aid fund whichis managed by the Scottish Legal Aid Board. Information on legal aid providedin relation to those detained at Dungavel is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the costs to Scottish police forces have been of any supporting work required in relation to asylum seekers in each year since 1999.
Answer
This information is not held centrally and is a matter for individual chief constables.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Linda Fabiani on 25 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the children of asylum seekers who have graduated from a Scottish higher or further education institution with an HND, degree, masters or PhD will be eligible to apply for leave to remain for up to two years without requiring a work permit under the Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland scheme.
Answer
As you will be aware,immigration policy is currently reserved to the UK government and as such we donot set the criteria.
However, I have been advisedthat under the current immigration rules, asylum seekers and their dependentsin the UK would not be allowed to make an in-country application for leaveunder the Fresh Talent Working in Scotland Scheme (FT:WiSS). Only those withvalid leave as a student, or a participant in the Science and EngineeringGraduates Scheme or the International Graduate Scheme, are allowed to make anapplication while in the country. In order to apply for FT:WiSS an asylumseeker or a dependent of an asylum seeker must leave the UK and applyfor entry clearance in a managed migration route. The Border and ImmigrationAgency would then make a decision on their application.
