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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee 26 October 2021 Health, Social Care and Sport Committee 26 October 2021Decision on Taking Business in Private Decision on Taking Business in Private Welcome to the eighth meeting in 2021 of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 January 2013
The Scottish Government, remains opposed to detaining any children of asylum seekers anywhere in the UK, including those who may be transferred from Scotland, and urge the UK Government to end this practice immediately.
The minister refers to the green jobs academy but, in giving evidence to the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee, the Scottish Trades Union Congress highlighted that that is merely a website listing jobs. Will the minister confirm whether the green jobs academy is an academy with teachers providing training and other assets that we normally associate with an academy, or is it merely a website?
We note the Scottish Government has committed to developing a ‘Product Stewardship Plan’ by 2025/26 in the 2030 Routemap which will set out a strategic approach to tackling problematic products.
Cold reviews by internal teams and ICAS confirmed that all audits complied with the Financial Reporting Council's Ethical Standard to avoid any actual or perceived conflicts of interest. Non-audit services 26. Auditors may undertake some non-audit services for the bodies they audit.
What we agreed to do—Kevin Hobbs can talk about the very laborious process that we went through to ensure it—when we sat down next to FMEL was to transfer into its bank account money that was then immediately transferred out to pay suppliers.
Police Scotland says that it will try to recruit more than 300 probationers a quarter—I am sure that it will make every attempt to do that—and consider opportunities for transfer from across police forces so that people who do different functions could come into Police Scotland.