- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 March 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 21 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many strip searches have taken place at (a) young offenders institutions and (b) secure units, in each of the last three years, broken down by age of the individual searched.
Answer
The Scottish Prison Service carries out ‘rub down searches’ or ‘full body searches’ rather than strip searches. These are performed in line with SPS search procedures, and are not recorded. Information on the number of body searches carried out is not collated centrally.
The Care Inspectorate is responsible for the regulation of care services for children and young people in Scotland, and assessing safety is a key element of inspection.
Within secure care, this extends to considering how the service protects children and young people from unsafe and unknown articles being brought into the service. The Care Inspectorate require each secure care service to keep records if a member of staff needs to search any person or their property. The service’s record should identify reasons for a search , the person authorising, staff involved and any subsequent action arising. The Care Inspectorate does not hold aggregated or centralised data.
Scotland’s secure centres all subscribe to the October 2020 secure care pathways and standards, co-designed with young people who have experience of secure care. All secure centres have written search policies reflecting the expectations set out in those standards. There is no central data on the number of strip searches carried out in each independent secure unit.
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 April 2022
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 21 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when it last met with COSLA and Police Scotland to discuss safe access for all women to clinics and hospitals.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 21 April 2022
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 March 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 31 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd’s announcement on 11 March 2022, what assessment it has made of (a) trade union recognition and (b) other aspects of the Fair Work Framework at Cemre Marin Endustri’s shipyard in Altinova, Turkey.
Answer
Cemre Marin Endustri’s shipyard has provided Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd with a full report of their shipyard practices at the workplace. Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd has made a full assessment of the report including trade union recognition and have found all of the practices to be acceptable.
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 March 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 31 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government to what extent Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd applied the Fair Work Framework in assessing preferred bidder status for the contract to build two ferries for Islay.
Answer
Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd ensured the highest standards of service quality in this procurement, relevant at time of initiating the procurement process. Suppliers were asked to describe and demonstrate how they will commit to progressing towards adopting the five Fair Work First criteria that were in place at the start of the procurement for workers (including any agency or sub-contractor workers) engaged in the delivery of this contract, as part of a fair and equitable employment and reward package as a route to progressing towards wider fair work practices set out in the Fair Work Framework. Answers also had to include tangible and measurable examples and also describe how they will report on, and demonstrate progress, to the contracting authority during the lifetime of the contract.
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 March 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 31 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what guidance it has provided to Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd since January 2020 on applying the Fair Work Framework to the vessel procurement process for Islay.
Answer
The Scottish Procurement & Property Directorate publish Scottish Procurement Policy Notes (SPPN) to provide advice to public bodies on procurement policy. SPPN 3/2021 which was then superseded by SPPN 6/2021 to reflect two new criteria set out the actions for public bodies to apply Fair Work First criteria in regulated procurements.
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 March 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 31 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd’s announcement on 11 March 2022, whether it will make an assessment of workers’ rights at Cemre Marin Endustri’s shipyard in Altinova, Turkey, during the 10-day standstill period.
Answer
Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd requested the four bidders at Invitation to Tender stage to provide responses to fair working practices. These were consequently received and fully evaluated by CMAL’s Head of Vessels and Head of Business Support as part of the procurement process.
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 March 2022
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 22 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with DP World and P&O Ferries regarding the loss of jobs for ferry staff working out of Cairnryan.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 22 March 2022
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 18 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have completed courses through the National Energy Efficiency Transition Support and Heat Pump Training Fund since its inception.
Answer
As outlined in the National Transition Training Fund Year 1 report published in February 2022, 60 individuals were supported through the Energy Efficiency Transition Support and Heat Pump Training Fund in the 2021-22 academic year.
In Year 2, the project aims to support 455 individuals. The Energy Skills Partnership (ESP) commenced the project in December 2021 offering colleges the opportunity to participate in the project. Delivery of courses began in January 2022 and will run until the end of the current academic year. We will report on final outcomes upon completion of the Fund in August 2022.
Another training opportunity related to heat pumps is the Sustainable Energy Supply Chain Programme at Energy Saving Trust, which manages and administers the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) fund on behalf of the Scottish Government. This fund provides grants to assist Scottish SMEs installing heat pumps in achieving MCS certification for the first time. This funding is for installers who are not currently MCS certified for heat pumps and who want to become MCS certified for any heat pump technology (air, water, or ground source). The fund pays for 75% of the initial fees required, up to a maximum of £1,000, for both the certification and consumer codes of conduct which installers are required to join in order to become MCS certified. The fund started in September 2021 and will continue to run until March 2023 or until funds fully invested.
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 18 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when the Community and Renewable Energy Scheme will reopen for new applications for development funding and capital funding.
Answer
Applications for development and capital funding are open. More information can be found on the Local Energy Scotland website here www.localenergyscot.org . Loan and grant capital funding is currently available to communities developing renewable energy, heat decarbonisation, and local energy system projects through the Scottish Government’s Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES).
Funding is dependent on project needs and type. The CARES team work with projects from inception to completion and continue to offer a flexible package of support to a wide range of renewable energy projects and will also soon offer support through a framework of specialised technical consultants to make it quicker and easier for communities to explore options. More information on this will be published shortly on the Local Energy Scotland website.
From April 2022 CARES will also give greater focus to the decarbonisation of heat in buildings in line with the ambitions set out in our Heat in Buildings Strategy.
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 February 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government on which date it expects to have concluded the (a) Community Needs and (b) Market Assessment on all routes in the contract for the Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Service, and whether Transport Scotland has tendered any contracts for this work.
Answer
These assessments will be undertaken as part of work on the Scottish Government's Islands Connectivity Plan (ICP). Community needs assessments establish the level of transport connectivity required by each island and remote mainland community within scope of ICP and will update assessments undertaken for the Ferries Plan 2013-2022. Market assessments consider whether the required level of transport connectivity can be provided without government intervention.
The exact timescales for these assessments is still to be determined. We aim to make significant progress with these assessments during 2022 and conclude any outstanding work during 2023. Priority is currently being given to assessments required to support the business cases for live vessel and port investment projects.
Transport Scotland has not yet invited tenders for work on any of these assessments. It is expected that the work will be undertaken utilising both internal staff resource and external consultancy.
