- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 9 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether local authorities have carried out equality impact assessments on their draft single outcome agreements.
Answer
Councils have a duty to properly assess their activities for equalities impact. It is not for the government to compel a council to undertake an EQIA. However as the Scottish Government is engaged with local authorities in the development of single outcome agreements, it recognises its responsibility to work with councils to ensure that equality is properly considered and reflected.
Under the arrangements set out in the concordat between the Scottish Government and local government, each council will be required to submit an annual report setting out progress and achievements towards the national outcomes. This will include National Outcome 7, which relates to tackling inequalities in Scottish society.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 9 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is written evidence that local authorities have carried out equality impact assessments on their draft single outcome agreements.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-13462 on 9 June 2008. 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: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 9 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all equality impact assessments on draft single outcome agreements will be made publicly available
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-13462 on 9 June 2008. 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: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 4 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all equality impact assessments on the draft spending plans of community planning partnerships will be made publicly available.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-13467 on 4 June 2008. 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: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 4 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in the event of there being no written evidence that equality impact assessments have been carried out by community planning partnerships on their draft spending plans, these plans will not be signed off by the Scottish Government.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-13467 on 4 June 2008. 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: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 4 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is written evidence that community planning partnerships have carried out equality impact assessments on their draft spending plans.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-13467 on 4 June 2008. 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: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 4 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether community planning partnerships have carried out equality impact assessments on their draft spending plans.
Answer
Responsibility for the implementation of community planning sits with the partnerships themselves and it is up to individual partnerships to decide how they consider financial planning, within the overall context of Scottish Government priorities.
The Local Government (Scotland) Act 2003 provides a statutory framework for best value and community planning and provides a statutory underpinning for the mainstreaming of equal opportunities in the implementation of these duties.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 4 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in the event of there being no written evidence that equality impact assessments have been carried out by community planning partnerships on their draft spending plans, these plans will be referred back for this process to take place.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-13467 on 4 June 2008. 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: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 2 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people with incomes below £16,000 per annum will benefit from the abolition of prescription charges.
Answer
We estimate that around 600,000 adults living in families with annual income below £16,000 will benefit from the abolition of prescription charges.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 2 June 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students from families with incomes below £16,000 per annum will benefit from the abolition of the graduate endowment scheme.
Answer
The exact figure is not held centrally, because liability to pay the graduate endowment was dependent not only on current circumstances but on future events, such as academic success or becoming eligible for loan parents’ grant in the future. If the student chose to add the graduate endowment to their loan then actual repayment would depend on the students own current and future income, which is not known.
A broad estimate of the number of students enrolled in higher education in 2006-07 from families who had declared incomes below £16,000 when applying for student support and who would have been liable to either pay the graduate endowment or add it to their student loan is around £9,000. This is the number of students from low income families who benefit from the abolition of the scheme.
