- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether anomalous trichromacy would be regarded as a sufficient reason to debar an applicant from entry to the police service.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has issued guidance to the effect that mild anomalous trichomats should be treated as normal whereas severe anomalous trichomats, while still acceptable, should nonetheless be considered in the context of their impact on certain policing activities.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 5 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether police forces should consider the guidelines contained in police circular 08/2003 on eyesight standards for entry to the police service as being mandatory.
Answer
No. Appointment to the police service is a matter for the Chief Constable rather than the Scottish Executive.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 1 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of discrimination have been brought against police forces under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. Employment matters are in the first instance for the chief constable and the police board.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 28 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to promote Scotland as a country to visit, if not to live in, to help boost the economy.
Answer
VisitScotland promotes Scotland as a great country to visit both within the UK and overseas. VisitScotland’s marketing strategy shows clear benefits to the Scottish economy with figures for the first half of 2005 showing an increase of 57% in the number of visitors from overseas compared to the comparative period for last year. Each £1 spent by VisitScotland on its pan-European marketing campaign last year resulted in £23 of additional tourism revenues spent in Scotland. The Scottish Executive remains committed to working in partnership with the tourism industry as it strives to achieve the ambition of increasing tourism revenues by 50% over the next decade.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 28 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to encourage the Scottish diaspora in Canada to contribute to reducing the skills shortage in Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish Executive intends to engage with and mobilise the Scottish diaspora to further Scotland’s interests for the long-term benefit of our economy and society. We aim to encourage the diaspora’s active participation and engagement in promoting Scotland as a great country to visit, live, learn work, do business and invest.
We will encourage Canadians, through marketing and promotional activities, to find out about living and working in Scotland by going to www.scotlandistheplace.com and contacting the Relocation Advisory Service if they have specific enquiries. We also use case studies of Canadians who are already in Scotland- for study or work purposes- to help us showcase what Scotland has to offer.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 28 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken, and intends to take, to encourage the Scottish diaspora in Canada to invest in the Scottish economy.
Answer
The Scottish Executive intends to engage with and mobilise the Scottish diaspora to further Scotland’s interests for the long-term benefit of our economy and society. We aim to encourage the diaspora’s active participation and engagement in promoting Scotland as a great country to visit, live, learn work, do business and invest.
Scottish Development International (SDI) is already highly active in the North American market, with a presence which covers all the Canadian provinces and which supports both the trade and inward investment agendas in a way that is knowledge driven and highly integrated. The Executive will work closely with SDI, where appropriate, to further Scottish interests including encouraging inward investment.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 28 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to encourage the Scottish diaspora in Canada back to Scotland to live and to help reverse the population decline.
Answer
The Scottish Executive intends to engage with, and mobilise, the diaspora to further Scotland’s interests for the long-term benefit of our economy and society. We aim to encourage the diaspora’s active participation and engagement in promoting Scotland as a great country to visit, live, learn work, do business and invest.
During the First Minister’s recent visit to Canada, he hosted two events (one in Toronto and one in Guelph) for over 600 people including members of the diaspora. To coincide with the visit, a supplement containing features on contemporary Scotland was distributed in the Toronto Globe and Mail, which has a circulation of over 360,000.
The First Minister’s visit marked the beginning of a long-term engagement with the Canadian diaspora to showcase what 21st century Scotland has to offer and to encourage some of these bright, talented people to come here to live and work.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 25 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many police officers with a disability, as defined in the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, have been employed in each police force in each of the last 10 years and what percentage of the force strength this represents.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. Employment matters are in the first instance for the Chief Constable and the Police Board.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 25 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how many cases of discrimination against police forces under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 have been presented to industrial tribunals in each year since the Act came into force.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. Employment matters are in the first instance for the Chief Constable and the Police Board.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 25 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what assistance and support it gives to police forces in meeting their obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
Answer
We have on-going dialogue with Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland where the cost of meeting new legislative burdens is concerned, such as capital works to make buildings more accessible etc. However employment matters (including those obligations covered by the Disability Discrimination Act) are for the Chief Constable and the Police Board in the first instance.
