Parliamentary questions
James Kelly
833 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
16 Dec 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on reports that the Scottish Prison Service did not allow Carnegie College to engage in discussion or consultation with the college's staff during the bidding process for the provision of the prison education service and that, as a result of this, the staff were unawa…
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows: It is routine practice during bidding processes with the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) that bidders are asked not to advertise or publicly announ…
16 Dec 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the possibility that the prison education service provided in the west and east of the country might differ if Motherwell College continues to provide a service using fully qualified lecturing staff but Carnegie College does not.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows: The staffing model proposed by Carnegie College to deliver Learning and Skills Services to the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), was assessed by the…
16 Dec 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the proposal by Carnegie College to replace qualified lecturing staff with non-qualified staff for the delivery of prison education.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows: It is a matter for Carnegie College to determine how best to deliver the service it has contracted for. The staffing model proposed by Carnegie C…
16 Dec 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to resolve the dispute between the Educational Institute of Scotland and Carnegie College in light of any possible short-term impact that this might have on the prison education service.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. His response is as follows: As the current dispute between the Educational Institute of Scotland and Carnegie College concerns the college staffs terms and conditions,…
7 Dec 2011 · Portfolio Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it expects all local authorities to recycle at least 70% of their waste by 2025, with a maximum of 5% being sent to landfill.
2 Dec 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding will be available for the No Knives, Better Lives initiative in (a) South Lanarkshire, (b) North Lanarkshire, (c) South-east Glasgow, (d) West Edinburgh, (e) East Ayrshire and (f) North Ayrshire.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: To build on the success of the initial two years of the successful No Knives Better Lives campaign, the Cabinet Secretary for Justice announced a doubling of the funding to £500,000 for 2011-12. The budget is managed centrally and there is no specific allocat…
2 Dec 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding will be available to South Lanarkshire Council for the No Knives, Better Lives initiative.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: To build on the success of the initial two years of the successful No Knives Better Lives campaign, the Cabinet Secretary for Justice announced a doubling of the funding to £500,000 for 2011-12. The budget is managed centrally and there is no specific allocat…
30 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the membership is of the Ministerial Delivery Group on Tackling Sectarianism and who chairs the group.
Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-03727 on 15 November 2011. 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/parliamenta…
30 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Ministerial Delivery Group on Tackling Sectarianism last met.
Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: The Ministerial Delivery Group on Tackling Sectarianism was an initiative of a previous administration, when an administration changes at the end of a parliamentary term, all Cabinet Sub-Committees, Ministerial and Delivery Groups cease to exist. Information …
30 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many football banning orders have been issued to people convicted of (a) racist or (b) sectarian behaviour since their introduction.
Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: A total of 166 football banning orders have been issued on conviction between 1 September 2006 and 31 October 2011. Of these, 12 have been issued in relation to racist behaviour, and 62 in relation to sectarian behaviour.
30 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Ministerial Delivery Group on Tackling Sectarianism has been discontinued and, if so, who took the decision and when.
Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-03727 on 15 November 2011. 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/parliamenta…
30 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many football banning orders have been (a) applied for and (b) granted since May 2011, broken down by sherrifdom.
Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: Between 1 May and 31 October 2011, 159 cases requesting football banning orders (FBO) have been submitted to the Procurators Fiscal across the country. To date, 23 of these cases have passed through the Scottish legal system, of which 19 resulted in convictio…
28 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the total number of public sector procurement contracts was awarded through the Public Contracts Scotland advertising portal in (a) 2007, (b) 2008, (c) 2009 and (d) 2010.
Answer · Alex Neil: The Scottish Government does not hold information on the total number of public sector procurement contracts awarded in Scotland and cannot, therefore, specify the proportion of contracts that have been awarded through Public Contracts Scotland. The Public C…
10 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of prisoners who took part in a numeracy screening assessment in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11 was assessed as lacking in functional numeracy.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows: Before 1 August 2011, this information was not collected on a comprehensive basis. Since the introduction in public sector prisons on 1 August o…
10 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners have taken part in literacy programmes in each year since 2007.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows: Prior to 1 August 2011, this information was not collected separately. Information from 1 April 2007 to 31 July 2011 on the numbers of prisoners …
10 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many places have been available on courses offered by prison learning centres in each year since 2007.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows: This information is not routinely collected. However, the current capacity of learning centres across the prison estate is 924 places.
10 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners have been assessed under the Scottish Prison Service's new literacy and numeracy screening and levelling tool since its introduction and what percentage has been assessed as lacking in functional (a) literacy and (b) numeracy.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows: A total of 902 prisoners have opted to be assessed under the Scottish Prison Service's new literacy and numeracy screening and levelling from its…
10 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners have attended prison learning centres in each year since 2007.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows: This information is not collected on the basis of individual prisoners’ attendance as some prisoners may attend Learning Centres on a number of o…
10 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of cells in each prison accommodate two or more prisoners.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows: The proportion of cells in each prison accommodating two or more prisoners is listed in the following table. The report was taken from SPS Prison…
10 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many hours a week a prisoner spends engaged in offender development hours and what activity this term covers.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows: Offender development hours were replaced with purposeful activity hours in 2009. The amount of hours a prisoner is engaged in purposeful activit…
10 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of prisoners who took part in a literacy screening assessment in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11 was assessed as lacking in functional literacy.
Answer · Kenny MacAskill: I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows: Before 1 August 2011, this information was not collected on a comprehensive basis. Since the introduction in public sector prisons on 1 August o…
7 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has provided to local authorities since 2007 on dealing with sectarianism.
Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: I met with COSLA on 14 September and SOLACE on 19 July to discuss issues relating to sectarianism including the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Bill. No guidance has been issued to local authorities on dealing with se…
7 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it has allocated to anti-sectarian initiatives in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14 and (d) 2014-15 and from which budget lines.
Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: The Scottish Government announced a package of £527,000 of funding to organisations working to tackle sectarianism in 2011-12 on 8 March 2011, information on this is provided in the document Funding to Tackle Sectarianism 2010-11: Scottish Government Press Re…
7 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what work it has carried out since 2007 to promote the use of anti-sectarian education resources to teachers.
Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: Curriculum for Excellence, the national curriculum for Scottish schools, aims to provide the right environment to enable young people to develop as informed and responsible citizens. Curriculum for Excellence challenges schools to develop children and young p…
7 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to ensure that its directorates have a joined-up approach to dealing with sectarianism.
Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: On 23 November I announced the formation of a Ministerial Group on Tackling Sectarianism to coordinate the Scottish Government’s long term work to tackle sectarianism. This group will work across all portfolio areas to ensure that our approach to tackling sec…
7 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to review arrangements for marches and parades.
Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: There are no plans at present to review arrangements for marches and parades. I met with Strathclyde Police and Glasgow City Council on 15 November to discuss their experience of operating the Council’s new guidelines over the 2011 marching season.
7 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has provided to local authorities since 2007 for schools to teach about sectarianism.
Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-03238 on 25 November 2011. 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/parliamenta…
7 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) charges and (b) convictions there have been under section 38 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010.
Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: (a) There have been 29,545 charges reported to the Procurator Fiscal under section 38 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 between the time this section of the act came into force (6 October, 2010) and 30 September 2011. Source – Crown O…
7 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to update the 2006 Action Plan on Tackling Sectarianism in Scotland.
Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: The actions set out in the Action Plan on Tackling Sectarianism in Scotland, introduced by the last Scottish Labour-led administration, have been completed and this document is therefore historic. There are no plans to use this as the basis for future Scottis…
7 Oct 2011 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding is given to anti-sectarian projects in (a) schools and (b) youth work and how much was given in each year since 2005-06.
Answer · Roseanna Cunningham: The Scottish Government has provided funding over the period in question to a wide range of organisations. These organisations have delivered projects to tackle sectarianism and all forms of religious intolerance across all aspects of Scottish society. The to…