- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 10 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to answer to question S2W-21023 by Cathy Jamieson on 5 December 2005, how it ensures that this guidance is complied with by police forces.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-29353 on 8 November 2006. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for whichcan be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 10 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-21023 by Cathy Jamieson on 5 December 2005, whether the failure of a chief constable to follow this guidance would be a breach of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
Answer
It is the responsibilityof a Tribunal to determine whether the Disability Discrimination Act has been breachedand not for Scottish ministers.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what redress is available to people who are wrongfully refused entry to the police force on medical grounds.
Answer
If an applicant believes theywere wrongfully refused entry to the police service on medical grounds then theycan write to the Force Medical Advisor seeking a review.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 8 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what legal force the police recruitment mandatory eyesight standards requirements, contained in an attachment to police circular 8/2003, have.
Answer
The Regulations andDeterminations set out in police circular 8-2003 are made by Scottish Ministersunder powers granted in the Police (Scotland) Act 1967.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 8 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-21022 by Cathy Jamieson on 5 December 2005, what degree of discretion chief constables have in determining what parts of the guidance issued by ministers should be followed.
Answer
As was made clear in myprevious answer, issues relating to recruitment to the police service is amatter for individual chief constables. The guidance contained in policecirculars is provided to chief constables to assist in their operationaldecision-making. It is for chief constables alone to determine whichindividuals are, or are not, suitable for appointment to the police service.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2006
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Answered by Margaret Curran on 31 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the sections of each Act of the Scottish Parliament which await commencement orders.
Answer
Often acts will require to becommenced in stages (for particular provisions or particular purposes) for policyor practical reasons. Decisions about such matters are the responsibility of theminister in charge of the act and so the information requested is not held centrally.Acts of the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Statutory Instruments, including CommencementOrders, are published on the HMSO website. Is it in Force? 2006, which ispublished by LexisNexis, Butterworths, provides details of provisions in acts of the Scottish Parliament which have been brought into force. If the member wouldlike information about any specific act or any specific provision or provisionsin an act, the relevant portfolio minister will be happy to provide that information.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 September 2006
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Answered by Peter Peacock on 26 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what work it has carried out, or intends to carry out, to define the organisational and resource implications before deciding whether and, if so, when to implement the linguistic competence indicator called for at the Barcelona European Council in 2002.
Answer
The Scottish Executive,along with other UK administrations, has seen and commented on theEuropean Commission’s proposals for aEuropean Indicator of Language Competence.
However, we believe that furtherdevelopment work is needed at an EU level to define the organisational and resourceimplications of this work. An expert group, comprising representatives from allmember states, is being established by the Commission to look at how the indicatorshould be developed. The Executive is awaiting the conclusions of this groupbefore undertaking any work in this area.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by George Lyon on 24 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what further dialogue it has had with the participants in the “Our Voice in Europe” Youth Forum, held in the Parliament in May 2006.
Answer
None. The forum report waspublished by the Scottish Parliament in October and the views of the youngpeople will be reflected in the Building a Bridge report that the Scottish Executive will publish later this year.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by John Scott on 23 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body when the report on the “Our Voice in Europe” Youth Forum held in the Parliament in May 2006 was completed.
Answer
The External Liaison Unitreport on the “Our Voice in Europe” Youth Forum was completed on 19 September 2006.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 23 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-5784 by Ms Margaret Curran on 27 February 2004, what the position now is in respect of its research into right to buy sales and re-sales.
Answer
The Executive’s report The
Rightto Buy in Scotland – Pulling Together the Evidence contains our most recentanalysis of Right to Buy sales and resales. Copies of the report were sent to allMSPs on 28 September 2006. The report is available in the Scottish ParliamentInformation Centre (Bib. number 40721), or on the Executive’s website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/09/26114727/0.
