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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
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Question reference: S1W-19323

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2001
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 6 November 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the Edinburgh East and Musselburgh constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.

Question reference: S1W-19326

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2001
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 6 November 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the Edinburgh South constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.

Question reference: S1W-19327

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2001
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 6 November 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the Edinburgh West constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.

Question reference: S1W-19328

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2001
Current Status: Answered by Wendy Alexander on 6 November 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many job losses have been announced in the Linlithgow constituency since May 1999, broken down by employing organisation.

Question reference: S1O-03957

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jack McConnell on 1 November 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what education research supports increasing significantly the number of composite classes of Primary 1, 2 and 3 children in order to achieve reduction of all class si'es to 30.

Question reference: S1W-17706

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 August 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 3 October 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to address problems faced by asylum seekers in Scotland.

We have announced a number of significant developments in relation to asylum and refugee issues.

Scotland is to have its own minister with responsibility for all devolved aspects of asylum issues. These include health, education, social work and police matters as they relate to asylum seekers.

We made an announcement on 19 September about Social Inclusion Partnership involvement. The Glasgow Alliance will receive an extra £700,000 to develop projects in areas such as Sighthill and Barmulloch that will tackle community integration and improve local services.

These projects will benefit both the established and the new asylum seeker population in Sighthill.

We also announced on 20 September extra money to improve access to further education for basic English language classes. We announced new funding of £1.7 million in the current financial year, including £0.5 million to boost college provision specifically for asylum seekers.An "anti-bullying in Schools" newsletter will be available in October.

The research study into the effects of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 in Scotland is about to start.

We are establishing the Scottish Refugee Integration Forum, which I will lead.

We are establishing a unit within the Executive, whose sole task will be to deal with asylum seekers and with refugee integration issues: it will support ministers on the forum.

This will provide a sound basis for the further consideration of asylum and refugee issues in Scotland.

Question reference: S1W-17705

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 August 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 3 October 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken to address the issues identified by the Social Justice Committee's response to Petition PE242 on asylum seekers.

Question reference: S1W-17741

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 20 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its staff have taken sick leave as a result of stress-related conditions, and how many sick days in total this represents, in each year since its inception and whether the reasons for these conditions have been identified.

In the 12-month period from 1 August 1999 to 31 July 2000, 82 officers took sick leave because of stress-related illnesses. These absences represented a loss of 3,402 working days.In the following 12-month period, 1 August 2000 to 31 July 2001, 73 officers took stress-related sick leave, representing a loss of 2,741.5 working days.As medical certificates do not always specify the cause of a stress-related illness, it is not possible to determine whether these absences result from problems at work or from personal or domestic difficulties.

Question reference: S1W-17738

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 20 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether its employees will be protected under TUPE regulations if further services are outsourced and whether these protections will match those which would apply to civil servants employed in England or Wales.

Question reference: S1W-17743

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 23 August 2001
Current Status: Answered by Angus MacKay on 20 September 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether any of its Security Branch management staff have had complaints lodged against them by other staff since amalgamation and, if so, what the nature of the complaints have been, what grades the staff members who have had such complaints lodged against them are, how such complaints have been investigated and what the outcomes have been of the investigations into each of the complaints lodged.