- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 11 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the recommendations of the Disability Rights Task Force in its report From Exclusion to Inclusion in December 1999 can be implemented without legislation.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-5656.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 11 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many meetings it has had since July 1999 with the National Disability Council.
Answer
There has been regular contact between the Scottish Executive and the National Disability Council (NDC) since July 1999. We look forward to working with the new GB-wide Disability Rights Commission (DRC) which will formally replace the NDC on 25 April 2000.
I met with Bert Massie, Chair of the DRC, and with DRC officials when they were in Edinburgh recently to give evidence to the Parliament's Equal Opportunities Committee. We look to develop a close working relationship, across the work of the Executive and more widely, with the DRC and in particular with the Commissioner with special knowledge for Scotland and the Director for Scotland.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 11 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has for a formal consultation strategy, across all departments, with the Disability Rights Commission.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-5654.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 11 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in implementing the 156 recommendations from the Disability Rights Task Force which were published in its report From Exclusion to Inclusion in December 1999.
Answer
The UK Government has already announced its intention to legislate to implement the Task Force's recommendations on education. A consultation paper on the measures to be included in the legislation was issued by the Department for Education and Employment on 17 March.
The Executive intends to publish its response to the Disability Rights Task Force report in the summer. To inform the ongoing cross-Departmental consideration of the recommendations the Executive will shortly be inviting comments from a broad range of organisations based in Scotland on how to take forward the recommendations in devolved areas.
A number of the recommendations are specifically directed at the Disability Rights Commission (DRC). The Executive will look to work closely with the new Commission, as they take forward consideration of those aspects of the report, to ensure that account is taken of Scottish circumstances.
Decisions on whether to proceed in Scotland by way of legislation or otherwise would take account of the responses to the consultation as well as consideration of the package proposed by the UK Government and the DRC.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 11 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive which department has responsibility for considering the recommendations made by the Disability Rights Task Force in its report From Exclusion to Inclusion published in December 1999.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to S1W-5656.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 11 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the 156 recommendations made by the Disability Rights Task Force in its report From Exclusion to Inclusion in December 1999 fall within the powers of the Executive.
Answer
I refer to the answer given to question S1W-5656.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 11 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has for an information campaign to raise public, commercial and industry awareness of Part III of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
Answer
The Executive is currently considering the matter of awareness raising for Part III of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995. That consideration will be informed by discussion with the Department for Education and Employment and the new Disability Rights Commission (DRC). One of the functions of the DRC will be to promote equality of opportunity for disabled people including raising awareness of the requirements of the DDA.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 11 April 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to meet the Disability Rights Commission.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-5654.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 30 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to fund Gingerbread Scotland.
Answer
I refer to my earlier response of 17 March to Dr Richard Simpson (Ochil) on the issue of funding for Gingerbread Scotland.
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 30 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has undertaken any assessment of the impact on social inclusion of the abolition of Mortgage Interest Relief at Source (MIRAS).
Answer
Responsibility for taxation policy, including the abolition of MIRAS, rests with Her Majesty's Treasury. The Treasury advise that, because of current low interest rates, even after the withdrawal of MIRAS, the average monthly mortgage will cost £300 a month less than it did when interest rates were at their peak in the early 1990s.The Scottish Executive have no plans to carry out any additional assessment.
