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Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
30 Apr 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
I am not sure what to take from that answer. I will move on to a general question on last year's budget, from which the committee felt there were two omissions. First, the introductory statement to the budget process lacked a strong and clear commitment to equality. Secondly, ...
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
30 Apr 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
Once again I am going to quote Peter Peacock. I think that he will be sorry that he opened his mouth at the meeting on 5 March. At that meeting, Peter Peacock stated:"If mainstream policy thinking addresses equality issues, the budget process will simply provide the cash to im...
Kay Ullrich (West of Scotland) (SNP): SNP Chamber
07 Feb 2001
Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2001
We have had four years of new Labour at Westminster and two in the Scottish Parliament. Today we must address that record in relation to local government. To do so, I will look at a typical Scottish local authority—North Ayrshire, where I live. Last year, like many Scottish co...
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
08 May 2001
Budget Process 2002-03
The minister mentioned the Engender women's budget group. In evidence to the committee last week, Engender said that, although the Scottish Executive has committed itself to the mainstreaming of equality,"There is no reference to equality or gender equality in the overall obje...
The Deputy Convener: SNP Committee
01 Oct 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
Members have a copy of paper EO/02/15/01, which outlines the options for stage 2 of the budget process 2003-04. I ask members to note that we have not yet received a response to the stage 1 budget report. We expect to receive it by the end of the week and the clerks will circu...
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
01 May 2001
Budget Process 2002-03
Do you believe that the Scottish budget demonstrates a mainstreaming approach to equality?
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
01 May 2001
Budget Process 2002-03
Are you saying that there is no evidence in the budget that the Executive is getting it right?
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
08 May 2001
Budget Process 2002-03
The Engender women's budget group expressed disappointment that the details of objectives and targets varied enormously. In some areas they were specific, but no gender dimension was included.
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
30 Apr 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
I will remind Tim Hopkins of something that he said when he appeared before the committee on 24 April 2001. He noted that the Executive was about to launch a study on methodologies for collecting data on LGBT equality, and that that study was to be carried out last summer. Are...
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
30 Apr 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
Tim Hopkins mentioned the omission of sexual orientation from page 63 of the annual expenditure report. Given that omission, how confident is he that issues that are relevant to LGBT people are mainstreamed in the Scottish budget?
The Deputy Convener: SNP Committee
01 Oct 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
I ask members to confirm their availability for the equality proofing budget seminar that is to be held with the Scottish Executive. The proposed date is 23 October. So far, Gil Paterson, Michael McMahon and Jamie Stone have confirmed that they can attend on that date. Members...
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
27 Oct 1999
Arbuthnott Report
We are talking about redistributing about 2 per cent of the national health service budget in Scotland. I agree that it is good that we are looking to address the health inequalities. However, this report would reallocate a very small portion of the health service budget. Does...
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
10 May 2000
Budget Process
Surely we have a duty to ensure that people are getting the community care services that they are supposed to be entitled to. There have been cuts in home helps. An average local authority will have 150 people on a waiting list for long-term care, and will be moving only two t...
Kay Ullrich: SNP Chamber
16 Dec 1999
Health Service
The staff at Lennox Castle hospital are in danger of losing their jobs in 2002. Instead of being redeployed in appropriate settings, the option has been created whereby they will be paid benefits to take someone into their home. That, surely, is the wrong motivation for someon...
Kay Ullrich (West of Scotland) (SNP): SNP Chamber
22 Mar 2000
National Health Service
I bet all members are very glad that they stayed on for that. It was a gey insubstantial emergency statement, even by new Labour standards. We have tried for months to secure an admission from the minister that the health service in Scotland is grossly underfunded and been una...
The Deputy Convener (Kay Ullrich): SNP Committee
27 Feb 2001
Scottish Parliament<br />Equal Opportunities Committee<br />Tuesday 27 February 2001<br />(Morning)
We are few in number this morning, but let us begin. Under agenda item 1, do members agree to take items 6, the draft report on the Housing (Scotland) Bill, and item 7, the budget paper, in private?Members indicated agreement.
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
01 May 2001
Budget Process 2002-03
Is that your basic worry? Here we are, a year on, and there is no evidence that equality has been anything other than an add-on, with people saying, "Well, while we're here, we'll mention equality."
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
01 May 2001
Budget Process 2002-03
Do you prioritise any areas of inequality as crucial?
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
01 May 2001
Budget Process 2002-03
Is there any advance on education and social justice?
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
01 May 2001
Budget Process 2002-03
We must get that right and we must have evidence that we are getting poverty proofing of the equality agenda right.
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
01 May 2001
Budget Process 2002-03
The Executive may well be getting it right, but no evidence shows that.
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
01 May 2001
Budget Process 2002-03
How do we measure progress?
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
01 May 2001
Budget Process 2002-03
Thank you. I must go to another meeting shortly. By leaving, I will not be walking out on you or staging a protest.
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
01 May 2001
Budget Process 2002-03
You are doomed, Cathy.
Kay Ullrich (West of Scotland) (SNP): SNP Committee
08 May 2001
Budget Process 2002-03
I know the feeling.
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
08 May 2001
Budget Process 2002-03
The minister spoke about difficulties and I appreciate such problems, but no resources have been allocated over the next three years. Is all equality activity cost neutral?
Kay Ullrich (West of Scotland) (SNP): SNP Committee
30 Apr 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
You have no doubt noticed that disabled people in housing get a specific mention on page 175 of the detailed AER, under the heading "TACKLING FUEL POVERTY". However, the improvement and repair grant funding is contained in the single allocation for local authorities. To what e...
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
30 Apr 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
What steps are being taken to collect such data?
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
30 Apr 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
Is that happening?
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
30 Apr 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
You said that in detailing the money that is given to the anti-bullying network, the AER mentions homophobic attitudes. Does that reflect a serious attempt to improve—at least—education for young gay people in Scotland?
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
30 Apr 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
Do the STUC representatives want to pick up on that?
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
30 Apr 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
The committee has an important role in that, which is why I asked the question.
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
30 Apr 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
The fact that the social justice portfolio covers equality issues marks a great step forward. I was a health spokesperson and, in the past, disabled people were lumped under health. That meant that the medical model had to be used when the issue was more about equalities or so...
The Deputy Convener: SNP Committee
01 Oct 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
I am on holiday too.
The Deputy Convener: SNP Committee
01 Oct 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
Shall we go for 30 October instead?
The Deputy Convener: SNP Committee
01 Oct 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
Or do people prefer 23 October?
The Deputy Convener: SNP Committee
01 Oct 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
It seems that 30 October would be more suitable for us all. I ask the clerks to make arrangements for the seminar on Wednesday 30 October before 11 am.
The Deputy Convener: SNP Committee
01 Oct 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
Oh.
The Deputy Convener: SNP Committee
01 Oct 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
The seminar will start at 9 am and will last for a full morning. Is Elaine Smith suggesting that it should start at 10 am? The clerks have suggested a 9 am start.
The Deputy Convener: SNP Committee
01 Oct 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
That is how it looked to me, too.
The Deputy Convener: SNP Committee
01 Oct 2002
Budget Process 2003-04
No. The seminar is to last for a full morning. It is likely that it will clash with a meeting of the Standards Committee and, as Lyndsay McIntosh said, it will clash with a meeting of the Social Justice Committee. However, I think that we should give priority to the seminar.
Kay Ullrich (West of Scotland) (SNP): SNP Committee
03 May 2000
Budget Process
My colleague, Duncan Hamilton, has more or less taken the words out of my mouth. We have all the figures here on what is being spent—except for what is being spent on PFI, of course. Is money held back in reserve? If so, how much?
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
03 May 2000
Budget Process
How much?
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
03 May 2000
Budget Process
How much was the reserve last year?
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
03 May 2000
Budget Process
At the beginning. How much money was put aside at the beginning?
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
03 May 2000
Budget Process
How much was spent from the reserves last year and on what was it spent? You mentioned meningitis. Why cannot we know what was spent?
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
03 May 2000
Budget Process
So your total reserves were used up on that?
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
03 May 2000
Budget Process
How much was that?
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
03 May 2000
Budget Process
What are the reserves in the coming year?
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
03 May 2000
Budget Process
I want to return for a moment to what Mary Scanlon said. I was rather concerned by what you said about monitoring health boards against the Executive's priorities. I know that people are very concerned about postcode prescribing. Cancer drugs are a topical example of that. In ...
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
03 May 2000
Budget Process
But postcode prescribing is taking place on grounds of cost.
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
03 May 2000
Budget Process
It is a contradiction in terms.
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
03 May 2000
Budget Process
I apologise in advance that I have to leave at half-past 11. I am not walking out on the committee.
Kay Ullrich (West of Scotland) (SNP): SNP Committee
10 May 2000
Budget Process
I want to concentrate mainly on community care. Given that mental health is one of the Executive's stated priorities, why, in table 4.10, is the mental illness specific grant at a standstill? The figures do not move from £12.6 million.Problems are being experienced in care in ...
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
10 May 2000
Budget Process
Voluntary organisations are being squeezed from all directions. They are being squeezed by local authorities that are suffering cuts to their funding and they are being squeezed by the health department.To put it in simple terms, minister, the organisation that I visited last ...
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
10 May 2000
Budget Process
I would also make the point that the growth in funding for mental health is running about 3 per cent behind that for the rest of the health service. Voluntary organisations and mental health appear still to be suffering from a lack of resources—a situation that will continue t...
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
10 May 2000
Budget Process
That brings me to table 4.11 on the grant-aided expenditure to social work, which cross-references to the section on local government. I notice that the figures given are for the GAE for all social work services. Why is it not possible—in order that we might monitor community ...
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
10 May 2000
Budget Process
All right.
Kay Ullrich: SNP Committee
13 Sep 2000
Community Care
Before I move on to the question that I am supposed to ask, I will follow up on what Isobel Allan said about respite care. Do you think that councils that have to make budget cuts have unfairly targeted respite care?
Kay Ullrich (West of Scotland) (SNP): SNP Chamber
25 Nov 1999
Carers Strategy
welcome the sentiments that the minister has expressed. I am sure that carers across Scotland will join me in regarding this as a first step in the long-overdue recognition of the role played by carers in society. For far too long, the needs of carers and those for whom they c...
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Committee

Equal Opportunities Committee, 30 Apr 2002

30 Apr 2002 · S1 · Equal Opportunities Committee
Item of business
Budget Process 2003-04
Ullrich, Kay SNP West of Scotland Watch on SPTV
I am not sure what to take from that answer. I will move on to a general question on last year's budget, from which the committee felt there were two omissions. First, the introductory statement to the budget process lacked a strong and clear commitment to equality. Secondly, it was not emphasised that organisations that are responsible for delivering services on behalf of the Executive should be implicated in promoting equality. Has this year's budget improved by addressing those areas?

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The Convener: Lab
I welcome British Sign Language interpreters Liz McLuskey and Sue Mowat to the committee. I also welcome Laura Harrison, a palantypist who has come all the w...
Mr Michael McMahon (Hamilton North and Bellshill) (Lab): Lab
I have a general question that applies to all the organisations from which we will hear this morning. The Scottish budget covers a range of cross-cutting iss...
Heather Fisken (Disability Rights Commission):
The questions that we received from the clerk included a definition of cross-cutting as a form of analysis. We do not see cross-cutting in that way—we see it...
Adam Gaines (Disability Rights Commission):
There is more evidence in this year's budget that cross-cutting has been taken into account than there was in last year's budget. There are more top-level in...
Wladyslaw Mejka (Disabled Persons Housing Service):
I found cross-cutting to be an interesting but difficult issue. The document does not reflect the fact that the thinking behind it includes cross-cutting. As...
Mr McMahon: Lab
I am glad that Heather Fisken picked up on education. There seems to be the same lack of cross-referencing in the section of the report on housing—around pag...
Bob Benson (Disability Rights Commission):
Last year, we commented on the opaqueness of the process and the difficulty in providing transparency across different parts of the budget and in finding out...
Cathy Peattie (Falkirk East) (Lab): Lab
Bob Benson answered my question before I asked it, which was well done. I am pleased to hear that there has been an improvement from last year in respect of ...
Bob Benson:
It is fair to say that the budget will have an impact on disabled people. The work of the Disability Rights Commission in progressing the rights of disabled ...
Wladyslaw Mejka:
The question concerned the accessibility of the document. I obtained the document about a month ago and have spent various evenings, last thing at night in b...
Heather Fisken:
When we gave evidence last year, we pointed out that we were unable to get copies of the budget document in alternative formats. This year, one of the first ...
Adam Gaines:
On the accessibility of the budget document, the top-level information is more accessible this year than it was last year and the key objectives are easier t...
Cathy Peattie: Lab
It has been highlighted that the voluntary sector has an important role to play in assisting the non-voluntary sector to mainstream equalities issues. What e...
Wladyslaw Mejka:
That is an interesting question. As someone who works for a voluntary sector organisation that is in one of the important pilot areas of the Executive's main...
Kay Ullrich (West of Scotland) (SNP): SNP
You have no doubt noticed that disabled people in housing get a specific mention on page 175 of the detailed AER, under the heading "TACKLING FUEL POVERTY". ...
Wladyslaw Mejka:
It is difficult to form any realistic conclusion about the impact because of the presentation of the figures in the AER. As you rightly point out, the money ...
Kay Ullrich: SNP
What steps are being taken to collect such data?
Wladyslaw Mejka:
I am pleased to say that the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 acknowledges two examples of good practice that my organisation has developed. It asks each local au...
Kay Ullrich: SNP
Is that happening?
Wladyslaw Mejka:
There are early signs that it might happen.
Kay Ullrich: SNP
I am not sure what to take from that answer. I will move on to a general question on last year's budget, from which the committee felt there were two omissio...
Adam Gaines:
There seems to be an improvement from last year in some of the presentation of information, particularly at the top level. The education section of the budge...
Mr Gil Paterson (Central Scotland) (SNP): SNP
I have a question for the Disability Rights Commission about local government. The AER shows that £9 million has been added to the general local government r...
Adam Gaines:
That sum is welcome and important because of the extent to which it will help to make schools more accessible. On the way in which the budget is presented, t...
Mr Paterson: SNP
As a way of highlighting that discrepancy, would it be a good idea to highlight priorities that might focus minds on the major problems?
Adam Gaines:
That is where the mainstreaming equality approach takes effect, because it indicates that there are priorities and that mainstreaming equality is one of them...
Mr Paterson: SNP
Thank you.I would like to ask the Disabled Persons Housing Service a question. I note that your submission says:"In the context of mainstreaming equalities a...
Wladyslaw Mejka:
The capital expenditure plan—£2 million is for one year, but the total is in excess of £3 million over three years—is a good example of an area in which peop...
Mr Paterson: SNP
Are you saying that we are spending money on the problem, but that we need more money for prevention?
Wladyslaw Mejka:
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