- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 December 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 10 January 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the possibility that the prison education service provided in the west and east of the country might differ if Motherwell College continues to provide a service using fully qualified lecturing staff but Carnegie College does not.
Answer
I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:
The staffing model proposed by Carnegie College to deliver Learning and Skills Services to the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), was assessed by the SPS as being technically competent to deliver the required services to the SPS establishments. The contracts have only been in place for a short time and to date the SPS have no concerns about the services being delivered.
- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 December 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 10 January 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on reports that the Scottish Prison Service did not allow Carnegie College to engage in discussion or consultation with the college's staff during the bidding process for the provision of the prison education service and that, as a result of this, the staff were unaware of any possible threat to their positions until after the contract had been signed.
Answer
I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:
It is routine practice during bidding processes with the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) that bidders are asked not to advertise or publicly announce that they are entering into discussions with and/or undertaking work for the SPS without prior written consent. This position is intended to minimise collusion amongst bidders and is not intended to restrict internal management discussions within the bidder organisations or effective management of incumbent staff. The SPS did not receive a request from Carnegie College seeking approval to discuss or consult on their bid with staff during the bidding process.
The Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment (TUPE) Regulations are applicable to this contract. The SPS has received assurances from Carnegie College that they are complying fully with the TUPE Regulations, including the required consultations with both staff and their representatives. Any matters that arise from these consultations are matters for negotiation between the employer, the staff concerned and their representatives.
- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 December 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 10 January 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to resolve the dispute between the Educational Institute of Scotland and Carnegie College in light of any possible short-term impact that this might have on the prison education service.
Answer
I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. His response is as follows:
As the current dispute between the Educational Institute of Scotland and Carnegie College concerns the college staffs terms and conditions, the SPS has no locus to intervene. Such matters are for negotiation between an employer, the staff concerned and their representatives.
To date the impact on the provision of learning and skills services to prisons has been limited to a reduction in services at two sites on the 8 December, following industrial action by EIS members.
The SPS is currently in discussions with Carnegie College to determine how they will ensure continuity of service to the SPS during any extended period of Industrial action.
- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 December 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 10 January 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the proposal by Carnegie College to replace qualified lecturing staff with non-qualified staff for the delivery of prison education.
Answer
I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:
It is a matter for Carnegie College to determine how best to deliver the service it has contracted for. The staffing model proposed by Carnegie College to deliver Learning and Skills Services to the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), was assessed by the SPS as being technically competent to deliver the required services to the SPS establishments.
- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 December 2011
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 22 December 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it expects all local authorities to recycle at least 70% of their waste by 2025, with a maximum of 5% being sent to landfill.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 22 December 2011
- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 December 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 14 December 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding will be available to South Lanarkshire Council for the No Knives, Better Lives initiative.
Answer
To build on the success of the initial two years of the successful No Knives Better Lives campaign, the Cabinet Secretary for Justice announced a doubling of the funding to £500,000 for 2011-12. The budget is managed centrally and there is no specific allocation per area. Monies are used to create a national program of materials that can be used as No Knives Better Lives rolls out to new areas. This includes social advertising, web resources, educational and youth work toolkits, training to build the capacity of local workers, resources to support youth diversion activities/youth engagement projects, peer education and schools programmes.
Each area level campaign is tailored to the local communities needs, building on work that is already existing. Our investment is then maximised by local partners who are also bringing their time, resources and in-kind support to the local campaigns.
- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 December 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 14 December 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding will be available for the No Knives, Better Lives initiative in (a) South Lanarkshire, (b) North Lanarkshire, (c) South-east Glasgow, (d) West Edinburgh, (e) East Ayrshire and (f) North Ayrshire.
Answer
To build on the success of the initial two years of the successful No Knives Better Lives campaign, the Cabinet Secretary for Justice announced a doubling of the funding to £500,000 for 2011-12. The budget is managed centrally and there is no specific allocation per area. Monies are used to create a national program of materials that can be used as No Knives Better Lives rolls out to new areas. This includes social advertising, web resources, educational and youth work toolkits, training to build the capacity of local workers, resources to support youth diversion activities/youth engagement projects, peer education and schools programmes.
Each area level campaign is tailored to the needs of local communities, building on work that is already existing. Our investment is then maximised by local partners who are also bringing their time, resources and in-kind support to the local campaigns.
- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 November 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 November 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many football banning orders have been (a) applied for and (b) granted since May 2011, broken down by sherrifdom.
Answer
Between 1 May and 31 October 2011, 159 cases requesting football banning orders (FBO) have been submitted to the Procurators Fiscal across the country. To date, 23 of these cases have passed through the Scottish legal system, of which 19 resulted in conviction and 10 had an FBO attached. A further 31 FBOs have been issued by the courts since 1 May which relate to offences reported prior to that date.
A detailed breakdown of the figures by sheriff court is set out in the following table.
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Court
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FBOs applied for 1/5/11 to 31/10/11
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Pre-May
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May to October
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Total
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Aberdeen
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3
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-
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-
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-
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Airdrie
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-
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1
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-
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1
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Ayr
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1
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3
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1
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4
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Dumbarton
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1
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-
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-
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-
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Dumfries
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4
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-
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-
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-
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Dundee
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1
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1
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-
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1
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Dunfermline
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12
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-
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-
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-
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Edinburgh
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51
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-
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2
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2
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Falkirk
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5
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-
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-
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-
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Glasgow
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47
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23
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5
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28
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Hamilton
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2
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-
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-
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-
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Inverness
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4
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-
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1
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1
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Kilmarnock
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11
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2
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1
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3
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Oban
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1
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-
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-
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-
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Paisley
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10
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1
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-
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1
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Perth
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6
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-
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-
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-
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Total
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159
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31
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10
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41
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- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 November 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 November 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many football banning orders have been issued to people convicted of (a) racist or (b) sectarian behaviour since their introduction.
Answer
A total of 166 football banning orders have been issued on conviction between 1 September 2006 and 31 October 2011. Of these, 12 have been issued in relation to racist behaviour, and 62 in relation to sectarian behaviour.
- Asked by: James Kelly, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 November 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 November 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Ministerial Delivery Group on Tackling Sectarianism has been discontinued and, if so, who took the decision and when.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-03727 on 15 November 2011. 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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.
