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To ask the Scottish Executive which police forces have their own diversity unit whose objective is to promote equality in the areas of sexual orientation, race, age, religion/faith, disability and gender issues.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 December 2004
The campaign’s budget for 2004-05 is £400,000, of which the majority will be spent promoting energy efficiency, a key element of the Executive’s response to climate change.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what Scottish literature is promoted and used within the school curriculum for (a) English and (b) other studies; what mandatory study of Scottish literature there is in the school curriculum, and what minimum knowledge of Scottish literature is required for children completing their education in Scottish schools.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 September 2004
recommended that Scottish Consortium for LearningDisability should set up a national network of support to local providersoffering advice and training on the extra needs of people with profound andmultiple disabilities. PAMIS, (Promoting A More Inclusive Society), a voluntaryorganisation that works in partnership with people with profound learningdisabiliti...
The overall intention of the act is to offer trust withina framework: it is for the local authorityto decide whether any particular action would be likely to promote or improve thewell-being of its area and/or persons in it.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 March 2004
The Executive shares theinterest of the UK Government in promoting agreements by separating parents inrelation to contact and residence matters affecting children, without the needfor court intervention.To this end, we providegrant aid to Family Mediation Scotland and ten local mediation services toassist separating parents reach anegotiated settlement for ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 November 2003
Wehave also recently established the Educationfor Sustainable Development Liaison Group (ESDLG) to consider wider issues ofeducation for sustainable development in schools and to make recommendationsfor a strategy for the future.We are also taking forwardpolicies of promoting sustainable development in further and higher educationthrough the Scottish Furthe...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 August 2003
Furthermore, European Community law places detailed obligations (aimed at promoting fair and open competition) on public bodies when procuring services.
The Scottish Executive has allocated around £15 million from the Transport Budget to the City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) for the promotion of the necessary private bills which will allow the construction of the proposed Edinburgh tram lines.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 February 2003
Appropriate diversion routes, to assist local traffic entering or leaving the affected section of A90, were identified and orders were promoted and published. The B979 is not part of the diversion routes.Local roads are the responsibility of local road authorities and it is for them to ensure that these roads are maintained and to identify any restrictions ...