- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 20 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many black and minority ethnic employees it has, expressed as a percentage of the total number of its employees and broken down by department.
Answer
The number of black and minority ethnic employees, expressed as a percentage of the total number of permanent employees in the Scottish Executive core departments is given in the following table. Declaration of ethnicity by staff in the Scottish Executive is voluntary and 11.5% of staff have not provide information on their ethnic background.
Permanent Staff from an Ethnic Minority at January 2006
| Department | Total |
| Centrally Managed Staff | 0.00% |
| Development Department | * |
| Education Department | 0.11% |
| Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning Department | 0.20% |
| Environment and Rural Affairs Department | 0.15% |
| Finance and Central Services Department | 0.15% |
| Health Department | * |
| Justice Department | 0.13% |
| Legal and Parliamentary Services | * |
| Office of The Permanent Secretary | 0.11% |
| Grand Total | 1.06% |
Note: *To prevent disclosure of sensitive personal information we do not report on those percentages which would reflect a figurer of less than five.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 20 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many claims of bullying or harassment were made against it by its employees in each year since 1999.
Answer
There have been a total of 55 recorded cases of bullying and harassment raised by Scottish Executive employees since 1999. In line with its Dignity at Work policy, the Executive takes all complaints of this nature very seriously. It aims to ensure that all staff have the opportunity to work in an environment where they feel safe and secure and are not subject to unacceptable behaviour.
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2000 | 13 |
| 2001 | 15 |
| 2002 | 6 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2004 | 4 |
Figures for 2005 are not yet available.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 20 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its employees have been recommended for an honour in the (a) Queen’s Birthday Honours List and (b) New Year Honours List in each year since 1999.
Answer
The number of Scottish Executive employees recommended for an honour in the (a) Queen’s Birthday Honours List and (b) New Years Honours List in each year since 1999 are detailed in the following table.
| Honours List | Recommendations |
| New Year 2006 | 6 |
| Birthday 2005 | 7 |
| New Year 2005 | 6 |
| Birthday 2004 | 5 |
| New Year 2004 | 5 |
| Birthday 2003 | 8 |
| New Year 2003 | 8 |
| Birthday 2002 | 6 |
| New Year 2002 | 7 |
| Birthday 2001 | 7 |
| New Year 2001 | 4 |
| Birthday 2000 | 7 |
| New Year 2000 | 10 |
| Birthday 1999 | 5 |
| New Year 1999 | 9 |
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 20 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many complaints of a racial nature have been made against it in each year since 1999.
Answer
There is no central record held of complaints of a racial nature made against the Scottish Executive. In the period 1999-2004 there has been only one such recorded complaint made by a Scottish Executive member of staff, in 2002. Figures for 2005 are not available yet.
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-22117 on 20 January 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 20 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many equal pay claims it has settled in each year since 1999, broken down by department.
Answer
There have been no equal pay claim settlements within the Scottish Executive core departments since 1999.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 20 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what research it has commissioned into the economic benefits of greater integration of races into the labour force and the impact that this would have on the economy.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has commissioned the following research in this area:
Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Scotland: a Skills and Aspirations Audit (March 2004) and Minority Ethnic Enterprise in Scotland: a National Scoping Study (June 2005).
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 20 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-20910 by Cathy Jamieson on 7 December 2005, whether it will recommend to Her Majesty’s Government that it monitors the international press coverage on rendition flights in order to be kept aware of the issue.
Answer
It is not necessary or appropriate for the Scottish Executive to make such a recommendation. The UK Government will decide for itself what action is required in this respect.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 19 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding has been allocated specifically to reducing the 21% gap in employment between white women and women from a black or minority ethnic background.
Answer
The specific information requestedis not held centrally.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by George Lyon on 19 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many female councillors there have been in each year since 1999, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of councillors in the same timescale and broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Two hundred and seventy-six femalecouncillors were elected in 1999, which constituted 22.6% of the total number ofcouncillors. Following the 2003 elections, these figure decreased to 266 and 21.8%respectively.
The gender breakdown of localauthority councillors after the 2003 election is shown as a percentage in the followingtable 1.
Table 1: Gender Profile ofScotland’s Councillors 2003
| Council | Total Councillors | Percent Male | Percent Female |
| Aberdeen | 43 | 67 | 33 |
| Aberdeenshire | 68 | 74 | 26 |
| Angus | 29 | 76 | 24 |
| Argyll and Bute | 36 | 86 | 14 |
| Clackmannanshire | 18 | 89 | 11 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 47 | 79 | 21 |
| Dundee | 29 | 76 | 24 |
| East Ayrshire | 32 | 81 | 19 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 24 | 67 | 33 |
| East Lothian | 23 | 83 | 17 |
| East Renfrewshire | 20 | 85 | 15 |
| Edinburgh | 58 | 81 | 19 |
| Eilean Siar | 31 | 90 | 10 |
| Falkirk | 32 | 84 | 16 |
| Fife | 78 | 73 | 27 |
| Glasgow | 79 | 71 | 29 |
| Highland | 80 | 74 | 26 |
| Inverclyde | 20 | 95 | 5 |
| Midlothian | 18 | 83 | 17 |
| Moray | 26 | 85 | 15 |
| North Ayrshire | 30 | 70 | 30 |
| North Lanarkshire | 70 | 87 | 13 |
| Orkney Islands | 21 | 90 | 10 |
| Perth and Kinross | 41 | 76 | 24 |
| Renfrewshire | 40 | 75 | 25 |
| Scottish Borders | 34 | 74 | 26 |
| Shetland Islands | 22 | 86 | 14 |
| South Ayrshire | 30 | 80 | 20 |
| South Lanarkshire | 67 | 78 | 22 |
| Stirling | 22 | 82 | 18 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 22 | 73 | 27 |
| West Lothian | 32 | 84 | 16 |
We do not hold centrally annualhistorical records of the number of female councillors in Scotland as awhole, nor broken down by local authority area.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 19 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many female construction apprenticeships there have been under the modern apprenticeship programme in each year since 2001, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of construction apprenticeships in the same timescale.
Answer
Details about the number of modernapprentices (MAs) broken down by framework and gender since 2001 is an operationalmater for Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. The information is not held centrally.
However, Scottish Enterprisehave published MA figures for males and females in the top 12 frameworks since 1998-99,as well as the gender split for each framework by age groups 16 to 24 and over 25sfor the year ending 31 March 2005.
These tables are available onthe Scottish Enterprise website:
www.scottish-enterprise.com/sedotcom_home/training-providers-top/training-providers/performance-and-reports.htm?siblingtoggle=1.
