- 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 how the Bologna Agreement of 29 July 1999 will affect the autonomy of Scottish universities.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-2259 today, which is available on the Parliament’swebsite, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- 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 whether the Bologna Agreement of 29 July 1999 obliges Scottish universities to accede to a common European system.
Answer
I refer the member to the answergiven to question S2W-2259 today, which is available on the Parliament’s website,the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- 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 effect the Sorbonne Agreement of 25 May 1998 has had on tertiary education and the international mobility of Scottish students.
Answer
The Sorbonne Agreement, andits successor the Bologna Declaration, aim to strengthen collaboration betweenhigher education institutions across Europe and to enhance levels of mobility for staff andstudents by 2010. It is an inter-governmental process, dependent on theco-operation of institutions and other stakeholders in taking forward thenecessary detail behind the principles of the Declaration. The processrecognises the need for diversity and flexibility, and the autonomy ofindividual higher education institutions. A summary of progress madeby the Scottish higher education sector towards implementing the Bologna Declarationcan be found in the UK National Report at
http://www.bologna-berlin2003.de/en/national_reports/index.htmThis report has been produced for a ministerial conference taking place inBerlin on the Bologna process, which the Deputy Minister for Enterprise andLifelong Learning, Lewis Macdonald, will attend to represent Scottish interests.
- 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: Wednesday, 27 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Duncan McNeil on 16 September 2003
To ask the Presiding Officer what proportion of staff employed by (a) the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) and (b) MSPs and party central units participate in a company pension scheme.
Answer
All staff currently employedby the SPCB participate in an occupational pension scheme. There is no occupationalpension scheme available to MSPs staff in their employment with Members of the Scottish Parliament.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 July 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 12 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any involvement it has in the treatment of asylum seekers at the Dungavel House immigration removal centre is compatible with its duties and responsibilities under the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998 as incorporated into Scots law.
Answer
The management and operationof Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre is the responsibility of the HomeOffice. Scottish ministers are responsible for ensuring our actions arecompatible with the ECHR and the Human Rights Act 1998 as incorporated intoScots law. Responsibility for the actionsof the Home Office (including the ECHR compatibility of those actions) in areserved area is of course a matter for the Home Office on which it would notbe appropriate for us to comment.
- 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 11 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many specialist or supported homes are available for adults with learning difficulties in each local authority area.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally, although work to collate this data is on-going.
- 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 9 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many adults with learning difficulties live in the family home in each local authority area.
Answer
This information 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 Peter Peacock on 8 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any of the provisions of the Standards in Scotland's Schools etc. Act 2000 are overridden by the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.
Answer
Section 40 of Nationality,Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 allows the Secretary of State to make an orderin relation to the education of residents of accommodation centres, were one tobe set up in Scotland. Such an order could apply, disapply or modify theeffect of an enactment including the Standards in Scotland'sSchools etc. Act 2000.
The 2002 act does nototherwise override the provisions of the 2000 act.
