- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will require NHS boards to use nationally agreed nursing workforce and workload planning tools and produce detailed clinical assessment plans before plans are agreed and implemented
Answer
We will continue to encourage NHS boards to use workforce and workload planning tools when undertaking workforce planning to produce detailed clinical assessment plans. The boards then use this information to decide the service provision required to deliver high quality, safe and sustainable services to meet the needs of the population.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will offer funding for disabled people to improve access to elected office in local authorities and the Scottish Parliament.
Answer
The Scottish Government fully endorses the principle that opportunities to participate, including standing for elected office, should be open to everyone and that active citizens are at the heart of the democratic process. Ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and similar factors should never constitute a barrier to involvement. The Scottish Parliament is founded on important principles which emphasise the importance of access, power-sharing and equal opportunities.
The Scottish Government provided funding of £2.1 million over 2008-11 to national disabled people''s organisations with the aim of increasing the participation and inclusion of disabled people in the development and delivery of public policy at a national and local level. Ministers will shortly announce what national disability projects will be funded in 2011-12.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities have fully implemented the Disabled Persons’ Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009.
Answer
It is the responsibility of each local authority to implement the Act. The Act states that each local authority is required to publish an annual report on its performance of its functions in relation to the Act. The first reports cover the period 1 October 2009 to 31 March 2010 and are due to be published by 30 June 2011.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial allocation has been made to each local authority to assist with the implementation of the Disabled Persons’ Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009.
Answer
During parliamentary passage of the then Bill, no additional funding was deemed necessary for implementation of the Disabled Persons'' Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide a report to the Parliament on the progress made by local authorities in implementing the Disabled Persons’ Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009.
Answer
As set out in the Act, the Scottish Government will lay a report before the Parliament on the performance of local authorities in relation to the Act by 30 September 2011.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have written to it raising concerns about CACI Ltd being contracted to provide IT work for the 2011 Census.
Answer
52.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has concerns regarding CACI Ltd being a wholly owned subsidiary of CACI International.
Answer
The contract to help with the Scottish census is with CACI (UK) Ltd. It was awarded under EU procurement rules which do not allow bidders to be excluded because they are subsidiaries of US companies. But the Registrar General put in place contractual precautions described in paragraph 6.8 of Scotland''s Census 2011, laid before the Parliament in December 2008, to ensure that personal information collected in the census could not leave Scotland and that the US Patriot Act could not catch that information.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive who was awarded the contract for IT work on the 2011 Census.
Answer
The main contract for back office services for the 2011 Census, including certain IT services, was awarded in June 2009 to CACI (UK) Ltd.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is regarding information on the Scotland Against Criminalising Communities website alleging that CACI International Inc., the parent company of CACI Ltd, is a US-based defence contractor that was contracted to provide interrogation services for the US army at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Answer
Interrogation of prisoners is a legal activity, but the website alleges that a different subsidiary of CACI International, working for the US Government in Iraq, was involved in human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib. The company vehemently denies these allegations and strongly deplores any form of abuse of human rights. The allegations of involvement in torture of inmates at Abu Ghraib have never been proved. Nor has the US Government, which court-martialled some of its troops over abuses at Abu Ghraib, taken any action against CACI or its subsidiary.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 2 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive when it awarded the contract for IT work on the 2011 Census.
Answer
In June 2008, the Registrar General awarded a contract for work on the 2011 census which included certain IT services and other services such as the printing of the questionnaires.
