Chamber and committees

Information on the number of boys born in 2006 is available on the National Records for Scotland website available at: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/. As per my previous answer, eligibility for the HPV vaccine is based on boys being in S1 during 2019/20 and not by DOB criteria.

The Scottish Government has not undertaken any analysis in respect of the efficacy of planning conditions in wind farm developments. It is the responsibility of the determining authority, whether that be the planning authority or Scottish Ministers on appeal, to ensure that conditions meet the six tests set out in Circular 4/1998 on the Use of Planning Conditions in Planning Permissions, in that they are necessary, relevant to planning, relevant to the development to be permitted, enforceable, precise, and reasonable in all other respects. Any party, including the local planning authority, has the right to challenge the reporters decision to the Court of Session on a point of law – this could include matters relating to conditions attached to a planning permission.

Enforcement of planning control is a matter for the planning authority. There are a wide range of enforcement powers in planning legislation and planning authorities have discretion to determine what power, or combination of powers, to use in any particular situation.

Where an appeal has been made to Scottish Ministers, planning regulations require the planning authority to provide to the appointed reporter, amongst other things, a note of the conditions that the planning authority consider should be imposed in the event that planning permission is granted. In the majority of appeals which are allowed these conditions are largely accepted by the reporter however it is open to them to decide that some or all of those conditions should be amended or that additional conditions should be imposed. DPEA will give careful consideration to any possible impact on any future decisions in relation to any matters raised in this regard from a planning authority.

It is the responsibility of the resident to familiarise themselves with their rights. As with all forms of home ownership, the Scottish Government would encourage prospective purchasers of residential caravans to make themselves aware of all of their rights and obligations before purchasing a home. If a site owner has failed to give the occupier a written statement, the occupier may apply to the court for an order requiring the owner to give him a written statement.

The Mobile Homes (Written Statement) (Scotland) Regulations 2013 require that the written statement must be in the form set out in the Schedule to the Regulations or a form substantially to the same effect. The Mobile Homes Act 1983 states that if the owner has failed to give the occupier a written statement, the occupier may apply to the court for an order requiring the owner to give him a written statement.

I refer the Member to the answer to question S5W-27190 on 25 February 2020. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx .

Vaccination policy in Scotland, as with the rest of the UK, is based on recommendations from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). Following the Committee’s recommendation the HPV vaccination programme has been extended to include S1 boys this academic year (2019-20) and we would encourage all those eligible to take up the offer. The JCVI has not recommended a catch up approach for the HPV boys programme. The JCVI keeps its recommendations under review and if the advice on HPV vaccination was to change we would of course give this due consideration.

Vaccination policy in Scotland, as with the rest of the UK, is based on recommendations from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). The JCVI has not recommended a catch up of older boys at this time on the basis that the girls’ HPV vaccination programme has proved highly successful, with coverage in Scotland exceeding 90% in the routine cohort, which has established good levels of herd protection and means that there would be limited additional benefits to be gained from a catch up programme in boys. The JCVI keeps its recommendations under review and if the advice on HPV vaccination was to change we would of course give this due consideration.

The Mobile Homes Act 1983 requires that, before making an agreement to station a mobile home on a site and occupy the mobile home as an only or main residence, the site owner shall give the proposed occupier a written statement. The Mobile Homes (Written Statement) Scotland Regulations 2013 set out the form of the written statement. The written statement forms part of the contract between the site owner and the occupier. Each party has recourse to the courts if they consider that the other party is not complying with the written statement. Local authorities, when assessing an application for a site licence under Part 5 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2014, must consider material that shows a person has breached a written agreement under the Mobile Homes Act 1983.

Our position on this matter is clear, bullying and harassment of any kind is wholly unacceptable.

The powers to extend equality and employment protections, including on matters such as bullying and harassment, remain reserved to the UK Government. However, we will use all of the levers available to the Scottish Government to make Fair Work the norm in Scottish workplaces.

We will continue to press the UK Government for the full set of powers around employment law in order to allow us to fully deliver our Fair Work ambitions.

In 2020-21 the debt advice levy funding will be used to support the Scottish Government's vision for a user-centred, collaborative and sustainable free debt advice system which was set out in A Debt Advice Routemap for Scotland published on 17 December 2019. The levy funding will be distributed during that year in accordance with the arrangements made by the Scottish Government with recipients of the funds.