- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 25 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1922 by Peter Peacock on 5 September 2003, what provisions of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 are disapplied by the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
Answer
The child welfare provisions in section 22 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 are disapplied where section 122 of the Immigrationand Asylum Act 1999 applies.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 25 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what respite care is available for adults with learning difficulties.
Answer
There were 302 respite placesin residential care homes for adults with learning disabilities at 31 March 2002. During2001-02, there were 12,123 short-stay admissions to residential care homes for adultswith learning disabilities.
Information on other types ofrespite is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 25 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many respite care places are available for adults with learning difficulties in each local authority area.
Answer
The following table shows thenumber of registered residential care respite places in residential care homes foradults with learning disabilities; in the local authority, private andvoluntary sectors. (The figures do not include places within the new SupportingPeople arrangements. Nor is there information available on the number of placeswithin private nursing homes). Homes which do not register respite places may stillaccept short-stay or respite residents.
Number of Residential Care HomeRespite Places, by Local Authority Area, 2002
| Local Authority Area | Residential Home Respite Places |
| Aberdeen City | 16 |
| Aberdeenshire | 20 |
| Angus | 4 |
| Argyll and Bute | 5 |
| Clackmannanshire | 1 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 8 |
| Dundee City | 5 |
| East Ayrshire | 15 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 1 |
| East Lothian | 0 |
| East Renfrewshire | 1 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 36 |
| Eileanan Siar | 3 |
| Falkirk | 3 |
| Fife | 12 |
| Glasgow, City of | 52 |
| Highland | 11 |
| Inverclyde | 13 |
| Midlothian | 0 |
| Moray | 5 |
| North Ayrshire | 9 |
| North Lanarkshire | 33 |
| Orkney Islands | 3 |
| Perthshire and Kinross | 4 |
| Renfrewshire | 11 |
| Scottish Borders | 5 |
| Shetland Islands | 5 |
| South Ayrshire | 7 |
| South Lanarkshire | 3 |
| Stirling | 5 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 3 |
| West Lothian | 3 |
| Scotland | 302 |
Source: Scottish Executive R1 Return.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 25 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has undertaken any autonomous liberalisation measures to facilitate Her Majesty's Government negotiations on further liberalisation under the General Agreement on Trade in Services.
Answer
The regulation of internationaltrade is a reserved matter. However, the Scottish Executive continues to be in regular contactwith the Department of Trade and Industry and other government departments on tradeissues, including the General Agreement on Trade in Services negotiations, to ensurethat Scottish interests are fully taken account of.
The Scottish Executive has not undertaken any autonomous liberalisation measures to facilitateHer Majesty’s Government negotiations on further liberalisation under the GeneralAgreement on Trade in Services.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 25 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact the current round of negotiations on environmental services under the General Agreement on Trade in Services will have on public services if the United States of America's proposal to liberalise sewage, refuse, sanitation and similar services and, in particular, the proposed extension of environmental services in that proposal to include construction, engineering, consulting, advertising, and business and professional services as environmental services, is accepted.
Answer
The regulation of internationaltrade is a reserved matter. However, the Scottish Executive continues to be in regular contactwith the Department of Trade and Industry and other government departments on tradeissues, including the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) negotiations,to ensure that Scottish interests are fully taken account of.
The purpose of the GATS negotiationsis to obtain further binding non-discriminatory market access for service suppliersin those sectors and to such extent that governments see benefit from internationalcompetition. Nothing in the GATS can force a country to privatise. World TradeOrganization members choose in which sectors and to what extent they want to makecommitments. Public services are in any event excluded from the scope of GATS.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 25 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students on Erasmus programmes at Scottish universities receive exemption from tuition fees.
Answer
For the academic year 2001-02, approximately 2,130 students on Erasmus programmes attended Scottish higher education institutions. It is a condition of the Erasmus programme that, where students are studying on courses which last for a full academic year (nine months or more), no tuition fees are charged by the host institution. This condition applies to all participating institutions.
Source: Statistics provided by UK Socrates Erasmus council
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 25 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1922 by Peter Peacock on 5 September 2003, under what circumstances provisions of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 are disapplied.
Answer
Section 22 of the Children (Scotland) Act1995 is disapplied where section 122 of the Immigration and Asylum 1999 Act applies.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1960 by Ms Margaret Curran on 3 September 2003, on what specific practical issues relating to the dispersal of asylum seekers ministers have written to the Home Office.
Answer
The Executive has written tothe Home Office about the discontinuation of a pilot scheme of holding asylum interviewsin Glasgow and the work of the Scottish Refugee Integration Forum.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1625 by Ms Margaret Curran on 19 August 2003, whether it will now seek a meeting with the Home Office regarding the fingerprinting and photographing of visitors to the Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre.
Answer
The Executive regularlymeets with the Home Office and raises a number of issues at these times.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken towards harmonisation to create a European area of education, as outlined in the Sorbonne Agreement of 25 May 1998.
Answer
I refer the member to the answergiven to question S2W-2259 today, which isavailable on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be foundat
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
