- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list by title each document that it has sent to each police force in each of the last three years.
Answer
The Executive is in regular contact with police forces and there is a regular flow of material, in both directions, across a range of subjects. This flow includes e-mails and letters, in addition to circulars and other papers. There is no central monitoring of this exchange and to put such a process in place would be unduly bureaucratic and costly.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 16 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Sewel motions it has lodged with the Parliament in each year since 1999 and how many of these were passed.
Answer
The Scottish Executive lodged five Sewel motions in 1999, 11 in 2000, 13 in 2001 and four to date this year. All of these motions were approved by the Scottish Parliament.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 16 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what powers the First Minister has to recruit and appoint civil servants.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-27034.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 16 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what powers the First Minister has to discipline and terminate the employment of civil servants.
Answer
Powers in relation to personnel issues such as the recruitment and appointment of staff outside the Senior Civil Service, discipline and the termination of employment of civil servants are delegated to the First Minister under the Civil Service (Management Functions) Act 1992. These powers are exercised on the First Minister's behalf by civil servants in accordance with the rules and principles set out in the Civil Service Management Code and in the Civil Service Commissioners' Recruitment Code.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 10 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what policies it (a) has implemented and (b) is planning to implement in order to tackle youth crime.
Answer
In January of this year we launched Scotland's Action Programme to reduce youth crime. This has already delivered multi-disciplinary youth justice teams in each area which have been supported by £25.5 million to identify offending young people in their areas and roll-out effective programmes to address their behaviour. On 27 June, we announced a 10-point action plan which sets out the Executive's action to tackle the problem of persistent offending, enhancing community safety and improve the effectiveness of Scotland's youth justice system.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what representation it will have at ministerial and official level at the ECOFIN Council on 8 October 2002.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-27162.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what representation it will have at ministerial and official level at the ASEM Ministers of Finance meeting in Copenhagen on 5 and 6 July 2002.
Answer
The ASEM summit will deal with the European Union's relationship with Asia. Foreign Policy is a reserved matter and therefore there will be no Scottish Executive representation at this meeting.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what representation it will have at ministerial and official level at the informal ECOFIN meeting in Copenhagen on 7 and 8 September 2002.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-27162.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what representation it will have at ministerial and official level at the EU Agriculture Council meeting on 23 and 24 September 2002.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-27162.
- Asked by: Alex Neil, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 June 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 July 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what representation it will have at ministerial and official level at the ECOFIN Council on 12 July 2002.
Answer
The Seville European Council on 21 and 22 June 2002 agreed to reduce the number of Council formations from 16 to 9. The Danish Presidency has indicated it will apply these new Council formations with immediate effect, and is working on a wholesale revision of its presidency programme. This means that the dates and Council meetings referred to may no longer exist. Decisions on Scottish Executive attendance at Council meetings will be made when this situation becomes clearer and the agendas for the meetings are available.
