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The Scottish Government supports the position set out in S6W-16710, which outlined the Scottish Government’s commitment to being guided by the democratically expressed wishes of the people of Scotland on these matters.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 December 2021
The Scottish Government shares the concerns which have been widely expressed in relation to China’s human rights record, including the reports of serious, widespread and systematic human rights violations being committed in Xinjiang.
I wrote to the cabinet secretary about Unite’s 15-point plan and asked her to call a summit and to use the plan as the basis for discussions. De-escalation training must be given to all staff—surely the Government can put pressure on the companies to do that.
I am interested in sections 25 and 26. Concern has been expressed to the committee that trustees’ duties to provide information to beneficiaries and potential beneficiaries under those sections are too onerous and that the extent of the duties is uncertain.
That partly helps to alleviate the concerns that were expressed earlier about additional burdens and costs, because there are many businesses that are already operating to a particular standard.
When an initial meeting of the group was held on 14 December, five MSPs were in attendance, a number of others sent representatives and interest was expressed by parties across the Parliament.
Is the Scottish Government picking up all the additional costs in relation to running two sites, the additional maintenance costs at the existing site and so on?