- 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 male childcare apprenticeships there have been under the modern apprenticeship programme in each year since 2001, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of childcare 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.
- 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 what initiatives it has piloted or launched in each year since 2001 to end gender segregation for modern apprenticeship trainees.
Answer
The Executive’s Equality Unithas developed an Equality Strategy with the aim of mainstreaming equality throughoutthe policy making process. This provides a means by which effective action can beput in place by strategic collaborative partnership working, without the need todevelop individual strategies to tackle specific areas of policy. Also, one of themain drivers in our Diversity Policy is a commitment by ministers to put the promotionof equality at the heart of all policy making.
Officials were involved in theEqual Opportunities Commissions (EOC) External Advisory Group as part of their researchinto occupation segregation. I have met with the EOC since the launch of their investigative report into occupational segregation inMAs, Jobs for the boys and the girls. We will continue to work with them, and others, in tacklingissues through collaborative partnership working.
We have also, through the ModernApprenticeship Implementation Group (MAIG), encouraged changes to the role of thegroup, the way it operates and also the process that MA frameworks are approved.The process is now more robust and through Sector Skills Agreements we can encourageemployers to become more proactive in tackling occupational segregation and sharebest practice.
- 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 plumbing apprenticeships there have been under the modern apprenticeship programme in each year since 2001, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of plumbing 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.
- 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 engineering apprenticeships there have been under the modern apprenticeship programme in each year since 2001, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of engineering 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.
- 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 council leaders there have been in each year since 1999, expressed as a percentage of the total number of all councillors in the same timescale and broken down by local authority area.
Answer
There are currently six femalecouncil leaders at Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Clackmannanshire, Dundee City, Fife and HighlandCouncils. That is 18.75% of all council leaders. Historical records of such dataare not held centrally.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-21502 by Cathy Jamieson on 14 December 2005, whether the term “otherwise”, as defined by section 43(1) of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989, would cover a person committed for torture.
Answer
No. The Scottish Prison Servicemay only detain a person for lawful purposes. Torture is prohibited under Article3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many respirators with filters are available to local authority and emergency services personnel in the event of a major contamination incident, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
All three Emergency Serviceshave stocks of protective equipment including respirators, breathing equipment orair filter units, as follows:
The Scottish Ambulance Serviceholds 1,000 Chemical Personal Protection Equipment Suits which have, as an integralpart, air filtration units, each of which uses two filters. These suits are intendedto be used by trained ambulance service personnel;
UK-wide the Police Service has5% of its officers trained and equipped (including respirators) in dealing withchemical, biological, radiological and nuclear incidents;
The Scottish Fire and RescueService do not presently use respirators with filters as they would use full breathingapparatus at all times.
It is not possible to provideinformation on a local authority basis as all decontamination equipment held bythe emergency services is mobile and any response to a decontamination incidentwould be Scotland wide. Dependent on the incident resources could alsobe called upon from England and Wales.
- 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 18 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its employees from a black or minority ethnic background have been awarded an honour in the (a) Queen’s Birthday Honours List or (b) New Year’s Honours List in each year since 1999.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not hold information on the number of employees from a black or minority ethnic background who have been awarded an honour in Her Majesty the Queen’s Honours Lists since 1999.
- 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 Malcolm Chisholm on 18 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to eradicate gender stereotyping among young people.
Answer
The Executive is committed to addressing gender inequalities and stereotyping among young people in Scottish schools. Specific initiatives - past and on-going - are detailed in the answer to question S2W-22055 on 12 January 2005. 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.
Executive work to tackle discrimination and prejudice and promote gender equality in all aspects of Scottish life is relevant and will benefit people of all ages, including the young. For example, in recognition that there are a complex set of factors which influence career choice, the Executive has recently agreed to set up an interdepartmental working group on occupational segregation. Officials are currently liaising with the Equal Opportunities Commission Scotland over the remit, membership and duration of the group. Careers Scotland, which has done a lot of work on gender stereotyping and the career choices of young men and women, is likely to be involved with the group.
The Executive is also involved in raising awareness of occupational segregation in the context of equal pay through its involvement with the Close the Gap partnership project.
- 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 Tom McCabe on 18 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many female heads of service it has had in each of its departments in each year since 1999, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of heads of service in its departments in the same timescale.
Answer
The first female head of department in the Scottish Executive was appointed in 2001 and remains in post. Since eight people currently hold head of department posts, (not including the Permanent Secretary) this is 12.5% of the complement.
The percentage of women in the Senior Civil Service in the Scottish Executive as a whole is currently 31.3%.
