- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how it expects that the UK Government's plans to introduce mandatory English language tests for immigrants, as announced in the Home Office document, Controlling our borders: Making migration work for Britain, will impact on the Executive's aim of attracting more economic immigrants to Scotland.
Answer
I refer the member to the answergiven to question S2W-14428 on 10 March 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how it expects that the UK Government's plans to lengthen the period before immigrants are offered permanent settlement in the United Kingdom to five years in employment, as announced in the Home Office document, Controlling our borders: Making migration work for Britain, will impact on the Executive's aim of attracting more immigrants to Scotland.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-14428 on 10 March 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what Scottish representation there will be on the skills advisory body, as announced in the Home Office document, Controlling our borders: Making migration work for Britain, to ensure that skills shortages and labour gaps in Scotland are taken into account when drawing up a points system for potential economic immigrants.
Answer
The Scottish Executive will be represented on the new body which will be drawn from existing sectorskills councils and the Skills for Business Network. The new body will cover interestsacross the UK.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how it expects that the UK Government's plans to restrict the categories of immigrants with a "route to settlement" to only skilled or highly-skilled immigrants, as announced in the Home Office document, Controlling our borders: Making migration work for Britain, will impact on the Executive's aim of attracting more immigrants to Scotland.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-14428 on
10 March 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what extra resources it will make available to assist in UK knowledge classes for immigrants following the UK Government's announcement of mandatory UK knowledge tests for all immigrants, as announced in the Home Office document, Controlling our borders: Making migration work for Britain.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-14428 on 10 March 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how it measures the number of immigrants who enter Scotland originating from the EU accession states.
Answer
Immigration is a reserved matter,and statistics on the control of immigration are a matter for the Home Office.
The General Register Office forScotland compiles estimates of international migration into Scotland, forthe purposes of demographic estimation and projections. A migrant is internationallydefined as someone who changes his or her country of residence for a period of atleast a year. These estimates are derived primarily from the International PassengerSurvey (IPS). Because the sample-size involved is relatively small, the estimatesdo not allow figures for the accession states to be separately identified.
There is some information availableon workers and visitors from accession states:
Information about the numberof people from the EU accession states who have registered to work in Scotland, includingseasonal workers as well as immigrants, is available from the Home Office
(
http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/ind/en/home/0/reports/accession_monitoring.Maincontent.0007.file.tmp/Final%20Feb%20accession%20report.pdf)Information from the IPS aboutall visitors to the UK from accession countries (including those who visit forless than 12 months and are therefore not defined as migrants) is published monthlyand is available through the following link:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=12222&More=nThis does not give informationfor Scotland due to the small sample size.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 10 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements are in place between it and the Home Office to promote Scotland as a place to settle for immigrants from the EU accession states.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-14434 on 10 March 2005. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for whichcan be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what input it will have to the G8 summit's discussions on its recommendations on counter-terrorism.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-14805 on 9 March 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what influence or direct input it will have on the UK Government's contribution to the G8 summit's discussions on the G8's Counter Terrorism Action Group (CTAG).
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to S2W-14805, answered on 9 March 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.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what influence or direct input it will have on the European Council's contribution to the G8 summit discussions on counter-terrorism in respect of the G8's recommendations on counter-terrorism.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-14808 on 9 March 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for whichcan be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament/webapp/wa.search.
