Chamber and committees

This is a matter for the Equal Opportunities Commission Scotland. The information is not held centrally.

I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:

The information requested is in SPS Annual Reports which can be found at www.sps.gov.uk. Copies of SPS Annual Reports are also available in the Scottish Parliament’s Reference Centre.

Within the Scottish Executive core departments there are 90 part-time staff in the highest 20% salary bracket.

There are 113 part-time staff employed by the Scottish Executive core departments within in the lowest 20% salary bracket.

The direct spend on learning and development in the Scottish Executive in year since 1999 is shown in the following table. The figures include expenditure on training events and the running costs of the Scottish Executive Corporate Learning Services.

Financial Year	Expenditure
1999-2000	£2.43 million
2000-01	£2.89 million
2001-02	£3.7 million
2002-03	£4.2 million
2003-04	£4.74 million
2004-05	£5.27 million

 

I refer Ms White to the answer given to questions S2W-16562 on 23 May 2005. 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.

I refer Ms White to the answer given to question S2W-16562 on 23 May 2005. 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.

The Scottish Executive does not hold information on the number of employment tribunal cases relating to the agencies of its main bargaining unit on a central database prior to January 2005 and it could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Information relating to agencies out with the main bargaining unit and other non-departmental public bodies is a matter for them. However, the Central Office of the Employment Tribunals in Scotland, The Eagle Building, 215 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, holds a public record of all Employment Tribunal cases brought in Scotland.

The Scottish Executive does not currently hold information centrally about the average working hours of staff. Line managers are responsible for the monitoring and management of the working hours of their staff.

I refer Ms White to the answer given to S2W-16562 on 23 May 2005. 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.