- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 19 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many female construction apprenticeships there have been under the modern apprenticeship programme in each year since 2001, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of construction apprenticeships in the same timescale.
Answer
Details about the number of modernapprentices (MAs) broken down by framework and gender since 2001 is an operationalmater for Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. The information is not held centrally.
However, Scottish Enterprisehave published MA figures for males and females in the top 12 frameworks since 1998-99,as well as the gender split for each framework by age groups 16 to 24 and over 25sfor the year ending 31 March 2005.
These tables are available onthe Scottish Enterprise website:
www.scottish-enterprise.com/sedotcom_home/training-providers-top/training-providers/performance-and-reports.htm?siblingtoggle=1.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 19 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what initiatives it has piloted or launched in each year since 2001 to end gender segregation for modern apprenticeship trainees.
Answer
The Executive’s Equality Unithas developed an Equality Strategy with the aim of mainstreaming equality throughoutthe policy making process. This provides a means by which effective action can beput in place by strategic collaborative partnership working, without the need todevelop individual strategies to tackle specific areas of policy. Also, one of themain drivers in our Diversity Policy is a commitment by ministers to put the promotionof equality at the heart of all policy making.
Officials were involved in theEqual Opportunities Commissions (EOC) External Advisory Group as part of their researchinto occupation segregation. I have met with the EOC since the launch of their investigative report into occupational segregation inMAs, Jobs for the boys and the girls. We will continue to work with them, and others, in tacklingissues through collaborative partnership working.
We have also, through the ModernApprenticeship Implementation Group (MAIG), encouraged changes to the role of thegroup, the way it operates and also the process that MA frameworks are approved.The process is now more robust and through Sector Skills Agreements we can encourageemployers to become more proactive in tackling occupational segregation and sharebest practice.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by George Lyon on 19 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many female council leaders there have been in each year since 1999, expressed as a percentage of the total number of all councillors in the same timescale and broken down by local authority area.
Answer
There are currently six femalecouncil leaders at Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Clackmannanshire, Dundee City, Fife and HighlandCouncils. That is 18.75% of all council leaders. Historical records of such dataare not held centrally.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by George Lyon on 19 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many female councillors there have been in each year since 1999, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of councillors in the same timescale and broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Two hundred and seventy-six femalecouncillors were elected in 1999, which constituted 22.6% of the total number ofcouncillors. Following the 2003 elections, these figure decreased to 266 and 21.8%respectively.
The gender breakdown of localauthority councillors after the 2003 election is shown as a percentage in the followingtable 1.
Table 1: Gender Profile ofScotland’s Councillors 2003
| Council | Total Councillors | Percent Male | Percent Female |
| Aberdeen | 43 | 67 | 33 |
| Aberdeenshire | 68 | 74 | 26 |
| Angus | 29 | 76 | 24 |
| Argyll and Bute | 36 | 86 | 14 |
| Clackmannanshire | 18 | 89 | 11 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 47 | 79 | 21 |
| Dundee | 29 | 76 | 24 |
| East Ayrshire | 32 | 81 | 19 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 24 | 67 | 33 |
| East Lothian | 23 | 83 | 17 |
| East Renfrewshire | 20 | 85 | 15 |
| Edinburgh | 58 | 81 | 19 |
| Eilean Siar | 31 | 90 | 10 |
| Falkirk | 32 | 84 | 16 |
| Fife | 78 | 73 | 27 |
| Glasgow | 79 | 71 | 29 |
| Highland | 80 | 74 | 26 |
| Inverclyde | 20 | 95 | 5 |
| Midlothian | 18 | 83 | 17 |
| Moray | 26 | 85 | 15 |
| North Ayrshire | 30 | 70 | 30 |
| North Lanarkshire | 70 | 87 | 13 |
| Orkney Islands | 21 | 90 | 10 |
| Perth and Kinross | 41 | 76 | 24 |
| Renfrewshire | 40 | 75 | 25 |
| Scottish Borders | 34 | 74 | 26 |
| Shetland Islands | 22 | 86 | 14 |
| South Ayrshire | 30 | 80 | 20 |
| South Lanarkshire | 67 | 78 | 22 |
| Stirling | 22 | 82 | 18 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 22 | 73 | 27 |
| West Lothian | 32 | 84 | 16 |
We do not hold centrally annualhistorical records of the number of female councillors in Scotland as awhole, nor broken down by local authority area.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 19 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many female engineering apprenticeships there have been under the modern apprenticeship programme in each year since 2001, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of engineering apprenticeships in the same timescale.
Answer
Details about the number of modernapprentices (MAs) broken down by framework and gender since 2001 is an operationalmater for Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. The information is not held centrally.
However, Scottish Enterprisehave published MA figures for males and females in the top 12 frameworks since 1998-99,as well as the gender split for each framework by age groups 16 to 24 and over 25sfor the year ending 31 March 2005.
These tables are available onthe Scottish Enterprise website:
www.scottish-enterprise.com/sedotcom_home/training-providers-top/training-providers/performance-and-reports.htm?siblingtoggle=1.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 19 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many female plumbing apprenticeships there have been under the modern apprenticeship programme in each year since 2001, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of plumbing apprenticeships in the same timescale.
Answer
Details about the number of modernapprentices (MAs) broken down by framework and gender since 2001 is an operationalmater for Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. The information is not held centrally.
However, Scottish Enterprisehave published MA figures for males and females in the top 12 frameworks since 1998-99,as well as the gender split for each framework by age groups 16 to 24 and over 25sfor the year ending 31 March 2005.
These tables are available onthe Scottish Enterprise website
www.scottish-enterprise.com/sedotcom_home/training-providers-top/training-providers/performance-and-reports.htm?siblingtoggle=1.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 19 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many male childcare apprenticeships there have been under the modern apprenticeship programme in each year since 2001, expressed also as a percentage of the total number of childcare apprenticeships in the same timescale.
Answer
Details about the number of modernapprentices (MAs), broken down by framework and gender since 2001, is an operationalmater for Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. The information is not held centrally.
However, Scottish Enterprisehave published MA figures for males and females in the top 12 frameworks since 1998-99,as well as the gender split for each framework by age groups 16 to 24 and over 25sfor the year ending 31 March 2005.
These tables are available onthe Scottish Enterprise website:
www.scottish-enterprise.com/sedotcom_home/training-providers-top/training-providers/performance-and-reports.htm?siblingtoggle=1.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 18 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimates have been made in respect of the number of likely casualties resulting from a major explosion at oil installations across Scotland, broken down by site.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. The assessment of risks associated with oil installations across Scotland is primarily a matter for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) under the Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations in close liaison with the site operator and Category 1 responders such as the police and fire service.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what risk assessments it has carried out in respect of the potential for radioactive contamination in the event of a major incident at a Scottish oil establishment.
Answer
The assessment of risks associated with oil installations across Scotland is primarily a matter for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) under the Control of Major Hazards (COMAH) Regulations in close liaison with the site operator and Category 1 responders such as the Police and Fire Service.
As part of the COMAH regulations, the HSE calculates the risk for the COMAH sites. In addition, HSE provides general risk assessments for industrial and associated hazards for the Scottish Strategic Co-ordinating Group (SCG) areas (same as Police and Fire areas) for inclusion in their area risk registers as required under the Civil Contingencies Act (CCA)
The CCA will help to consolidate the planning at the SCG area level since Category 1 responders are required to develop generic arrangements for warning and informing the public.
- Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive , further to the answer to question S2W-20910 by Cathy Jamieson on 7 December 2005, whether its discussions with the UK Government also included the case of Saad Iqbal Madni who was reportedly seized in January 2002 by CIA agents in Indonesia and flown in a Gulfstream V which landed in Scotland for refuelling before being transported to Guantanamo Bay where he was allegedly tortured by having electrodes placed on his knees and live current passed through them.
Answer
No, Scottish Executive officials have not discussed the case of Saad Iqbal Madni with the UK Government.
