- Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Mike Pringle on 20 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many Parliament staff have used the Bray Leino Broadskill training services since the contract began.
Answer
Since the start of the Bray Leino Broadskill contract in June 2009, a total of 439 Parliament staff have attended training available on the SPCB Corporate Training Programme which is delivered using the Bray Leino Broadskill contract. Bray Leino Broadskill have also provided professional advice services to 37 Parliament staff relating to specific projects and 14 Parliament staff who are Subject Matter Experts have used the contract for administrative support.
- Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Mike Pringle on 20 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, further to the answer to question S3W-31930 by Mike Pringle on 10 March 2010, whether it will provide a breakdown by party affiliation of MSP staff members who attended training.
Answer
The breakdown by party affiliation of MSPs staff who have attended training using the Bray Leino Broadskill training services contract is:
Number of Staff Attending Training
| Party | |
| Scottish National Party | 26 |
| Scottish Green Party | 12 |
| Labour | 5 |
| Scottish Liberal Democrats | 4 |
| Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party | 2 |
| Total | 49 |
- Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Mike Pringle on 20 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many permanent vacancies have been advertised internally only since May 2003.
Answer
Permanent internally advertised vacancies are broken down by year below.
| Year | Vacancies (Full-Time Equivalent) |
| 2003 (from 1 May) | 17 |
| 2004 | 12 |
| 2005 | 4 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2007 | 9 |
| 2008 | 7 |
| 2009 | 6 |
| 2010 (to 12 March) | 5.5 |
| Total | 65.5 |
- Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 18 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what changes are being made by the North Lanarkshire Partnership to the tender specification for the allocation of awards through the working engagement fund for 2010-11.
Answer
The tender for North Lanarkshire''s Working Engagement Fund is largely the same specification as the previous tender for the Specialist Job Brokerage Fund. The name of the fund has been changed to more accurately reflect the nature of the activities that the North Lanarkshire Partnership is looking to contract. The fund is now £300,000 over one year where it was previously £400,000 over two years. This represents a 50% increase in the fund for the year 2010-11.
- Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 18 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what is being done to ensure the delivery of employability services for the hardest to reach unemployed residents in North Lanarkshire.
Answer
North Lanarkshire''s Working is North Lanarkshire''s employability partnership. It has responsibility for ensuring the delivery of employability services to all workless groups in the North Lanarkshire area. In the past year, the partnership, which works with public, private and third sector partners to progress agreed employability activities, has progressed over 1,000 people into employment. The Employability Team within the Scottish Government continues to work with North Lanarkshire, and other local areas, to support its employability work locally.
- Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 18 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what third sector organisations were awarded contracts through North Lanarkshire Council’s working engagement fund in 2008-09.
Answer
North Lanarkshire Partnership''s Specialist Job Brokerage Fund, now known as North Lanarkshire''s Working Engagement Fund, was tendered in 2008-09 for the delivery of employability focused services aimed at helping the hardest to reach client groups within North Lanarkshire. This resulted in the award of contracts to the following third sector organisations for 2008-10:
Reeltime Music
Lanarkshire Association for Mental Health
Lanarkshire Association for Mental Health Recycle (two contracts)
Bellshill and Mossend YMCA (two contracts)
Airdrie Citizen''s Advice Bureau
Monklands Women''s Aid
Kirkshaw''s Neighbourhood Centre
Haven Products
Utheo
Street League
Shaw Trust
Right Track
One Parent Families Scotland.
- Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Mike Pringle on 10 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many MSP staff members have used the Bray Leino Broadskill training services since the contract began.
Answer
Since the start of the Bray Leino Broadskill contract in June 2009, a total of 49 MSP staff have attended training using the Bray Leino contract. Of those, 19 MSP staff have attended courses on the Corporate Training Programme and 30 MSP staff have attended external training courses using the funding provision available through the Members'' Expenses Scheme.
- Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 29 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the impact of the 1% increase in employers’ national insurance contributions is on (a) police and (b) fire and rescue services throughout Scotland.
Answer
Employers'' National Insurance contributions are to increase by a total of 1% from 1 April 2011. The estimated additional costs for the police and fire services are £8.3 million for Police and £2.1 million for Fire and Rescue services.
- Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 27 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many civil servants in the directorates under the responsibility of its Director-General Justice and Communities initiated grievance procedures against their employer in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07, (c) 2007-08 and (d) 2008-09.
Answer
Under the Scottish Government''s normal grievance procedures, grievances are handled by local line management and there is no central information available on the numbers of cases raised.
Grievances raised under the Dignity at Work policy are coordinated within the HR function and it is therefore possible to identify the number of cases raised. The Dignity at Work cases initiated in DG Justice and Communities are as follows:
April 2005 to March 2006 “ 0 cases
April 2006 to March 2007 “ 2 cases
April 2007 to March 2008 “ 0 cases
April 2008 to March 2009 “ 2 cases.
- Asked by: John Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 27 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average time is for dealing with grievance procedures in the directorates under the responsibility of its Director-General Economy and Chief Economic Adviser.
Answer
Under the Scottish Government''s normal grievance procedures, grievances are dealt with by the local line manager of the complainant and given the sensitivity of these matters, details of cases are not shared. Information on the average time for handling normal grievance procedures is therefore not available.
Grievances raised under the Scottish Government''s Dignity at Work policy are
co-ordinated by the HR function. Each Directorate General has very few cases and the length of time the process takes, varies depending on the complexity of the case. Across the Scottish Government as a whole, the average time to complete a grievance raised under the Dignity at Work policy, is between four to six months.
