- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 6 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has carried out a race impact assessment of the action referred to in Choosing Our Future: Scotland's Sustainable Development Strategy.
Answer
The potential impacts on race equality of the actions referred to in Choosing Our Future will be assessed as the strategy implementation plan is developed and put into effect. An annual summary assessment will be included in public reports on progress in delivering the strategy.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it shares the Prime Minister's goal of eradicating racial inequalities from the labour market by 2013 and, if so, how it will contribute to achieving this goal.
Answer
The Executive shares this goal. To develop our response to it we have set up the Strategic Group on Ethnic Minorities and the Labour Market, as detailed in my replies to the associated question S2W-22608 about the group on 1 February 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the strategic group on ethnic minority employment will set specific targets to address racial inequalities in the labour market and, if so, who will be responsible for monitoring these targets.
Answer
These are matters which members of the strategic group will wish to consider in developing its action plan.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the formal remit is of the strategic group on ethnic minority employment and whether the group will be action and outcome oriented.
Answer
As stated in response to the answer to question S2W-19177 on 3 October 2005, the group’s formal remit will be agreed at its first meeting on 20 February 2006. The short-term outcome of the strategic group will be to produce an action plan to address the current inequalities that exist for minority ethnic communities in the labour market in Scotland.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the strategic group on ethnic minority employment will be led by the Minister or Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning.
Answer
The group is to be chaired by Dr Charan Gill MBE. The Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning and I will also sit on the group.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 19 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to announce its decision on Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive¿s response to the findings of the feasibility study into the Glasgow Crossrail link.
Answer
We expect tobe able to respond to Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive on the Glasgow Crossrailstudy during the spring.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the committee set up to monitor and assess the medical implications of Taser guns is still in existence and where its minutes can be accessed.
Answer
The Defence Scientific Advisory Council’s (DSAC) Sub-Committee on the Medical Implications of less lethal technologies is a non-departmental public body of the Ministry of Defence and is responsible for monitoring the medical implication of taser. The secretariat of the DSAC can be contacted on the following link
http://www.mod.uk/dsac/secretariat.htm.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 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 S2O-4038 by Cathy Jamieson on 18 November 2004, whether it will provide a list of the strict conditions it imposes on the use of Taser guns.
Answer
The deployment of Taser guns is an operational matter for chief constables. Ministers support the use of these devices in accordance with the policy and operational guidance which has been prepared by the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland. Copies of the guidance are publicly available on request through
acpos.secretariat@strathclyde.pnn.police.uk.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive which models of Taser guns are in use in Scottish police forces.
Answer
The Taser X26 is the device used in Scotland.
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has commissioned any independent research on the safety of the police use of Taser guns.
Answer
Taser technology has been subject to rigorous assessment by the police Scientific Development Branch and the Defence Scientific Advisory Council’s Sub-Committee on the Medical Implications of Less Lethal Technologies (DOMILL).
DOMILL continues to receive information from police forces across the UK to ensure on-going clinical scrutiny of the use of Taser.
