- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 16 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of its temporary staff since devolution have obtained permanent full-time employment with the Executive.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 16 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many temporary workers it has employed in each year since devolution.
Answer
The information requested is shown in the following table and refers to temporary staff employed directly in the Scottish Executive core departments.
Temporary Staff in Scottish Executive Core Departments as at 1 April of Each Year
| Year | All Temporary Staff |
| 1999 | 153 |
| 2000 | 93 |
| 2001 | 95 |
| 2002 | 178 |
| 2003 | 109 |
| 2004 | 71 |
| 2005 | 52 |
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 15 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what its policy is on hiring temporary staff.
Answer
Where the need for staffing is short term or for a defined period, the hiring of temporary staff for fixed term assignments is one of the options that may be considered under the Scottish Executive’s Resourcing policy.
Recruitment of all, including temporary, staff is in accordance with the rules and principles set out in the Civil Service Management Code (CSMC), and in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Code (CSCRC).
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by George Lyon on 13 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil service jobs have been relocated to rural Scotland and to where they have been relocated.
Answer
Under the Scottish Executive’s Relocation policy 507 public service jobs have been relocated to rural Scotland. The relocation of job opportunities to Scotland’s more rural areas includes:
Tiree (Croft House Grant Scheme, eight posts);
Kinlochleven (Scottish Executive’s Central Enquiry Unit, nine posts);
Dumfries (NHS Central Registrar, 17 posts);
Inverness (Scottish Natural Heritage, 245 posts);
Galashiels (Scottish Public Pensions Agency, 218 posts), and
Dingwall and Tain (Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, six and four posts).
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 July 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16265 by Allan Wilson on 9 May 2005 and in light of the fact that none of the CORGI council members with a Scottish mandate and very few members from the rest of the United Kingdom were consulted prior to the introduction of CORGIs Gaswork Notification Scheme, whether it is still the Executives intention not to intervene on behalf of small business and trades people in Scotland to ensure that the needs of Scotland are fully taken into account by UK-wide quangos.
Answer
The Executive has been liaising with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) about developments and I know that Lord Hunt, the UK minister responsible for the Health and Safety Commission and Executive (HSC/E), has recently written to The Scottish and Northern Ireland Plumbing Employers’ Federation (SNIPEF) encouraging it to make good use of the position it holds on the CORGI Council to raise the matters that concern the federation. He has also confirmed that it is not for ministers or the HSC/E to intervene between CORGI and its members. My officials will continue their contact with HSE on this matter.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 11 July 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-17352 by Allan Wilson on 17 June 2005 in which it was admitted that the information that it supplied to members of the public and placed in the Parliaments Reference Centre is factually incorrect, what plans it has to rectify this.
Answer
The material that was placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre is an exact copy of what was sent to the correspondents and we have no plans to alter or extract anything from these. However, a copy of the subsequent letter that was sent to the Scottish and Northern Ireland Plumbing Employers’ Federation in response to their assertion that we had provided factually incorrect information in our reply to Mr McIver, has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 36996).
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 17 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16265 by Allan Wilson on 9 May 2005, what information it has on which Scottish organisations or individuals were consulted by CORGI prior to the introduction of the Gasworks Notification Scheme.
Answer
The Scottish Executive does not hold such information. The Gas Work Notification Scheme is for CORGI, its council and members to decide upon. The information may be available direct from CORGI who can be contacted at 1 Elmwood, Chineham Park, Crockford Lane, Basingstoke, Hants, RG24 8WG.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 17 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-16264 by Allan Wilson on 9 May 2005 and in light of the statements from SNIPEF and other CORGI Council members that there was no consultation on the introduction of the Complete Safety Initiative scheme, who informed the Executive that SNIPEF, as a member of the CORGI Council, was consulted, as stated in the Executive's response to representations made to it on the introduction of the scheme.
Answer
Information received from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) suggested that SNIPEF, as a member of the CORGI Council, was as fully engaged as other interested parties when CORGI announced the scheme in August 2004. Officials took this to mean that they had been consulted. Following SNIPEF’s letter to us pointing out that our response to Mr McIver of John Fulton (Plumbers) Ltd provided factually incorrect information, my officials wrote to SNIPEF. They apologised for any confusion caused by the earlier response and pointed out that it was never the intention to mislead or misinform Mr McIver. We wanted to be helpful given Mr McIver’s concern that no responses had been received from the Health and Safety Commission (HSC), HSE or CORGI to earlier correspondence from SNIPEF.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 April 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 9 May 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to conduct an economic impact assessment on the introduction of the Gas Work Notification Scheme.
Answer
We have no such plans. The Gas Work Notification Scheme is for CORGI (the Council for Registered Gas Installers), its council and members to decide upon.
- Asked by: Andrew Welsh, MSP for Angus, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 April 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 9 May 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-15979 by Allan Wilson on 21 April 2005 on the introduction of the Gas Work Notification Scheme, why it did not make any representations to the UK Government on the impact of the introduction of the scheme.
Answer
When we received the first letter on this issue in February we felt that, as the Health and Safety Commission (HSC), the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the Better Regulation Task Force and CORGI (the Council for Registered Gas Installers) had all been contacted by the Scottish and Northern Ireland Plumbing Employers’ Federation (SNIPEF) and other UK installer bodies, the best course of action would be to contact HSE and find out what the position was in respect of the claim that SNIPEF had not received any response to their representations. We were informed that the Chair of the HSC had responded to the Association of Plumbing and Heating Contractors (APHC) which had written on behalf of itself, SNIPEF and two other trade bodies. A response was due to be issued by the Better Regulation Task Force. On this basis and the fact that health and safety is reserved, we felt that it was sufficient to respond setting out this information.
