Executive Agencies (Hansard, 1 May 1995)

§ Mr. Lang

I have asked the chief executives of the agencies for which my Department is responsible, to write to the hon. Member.

Letter from Graeme N. Munro to Mr. Calum Macdonald, dated 1 May 1995: The Secretary of State for Scotland has asked me to reply to your recent question about changes in jobs and offices resulting from cross-border transfers of agency work over the past five years. As you will appreciate Historic Scotland has always been concerned only with the built heritage in Scotland since its establishment as an executive agency in 1991. It maintains no offices or posts outwith Scotland. The only addition to our functions since 1991 was the transfer of responsibility for marine archaeology in Scotland from the Department of Transport in 1992. This did not involve transfer of posts or offices and the extra responsibility has been absorbed as enhanced productivity by existing staff in Historic Scotland. I hope this information is helpful to you.

Letter from Andrew MacLeod to Mr. Calum Macdonald, dated 1 May 1995: I have been asked to respond for the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency to your Parliamentary Question to the Secretary of State for Scotland on agency work transferred between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom. The Agency has not closed any offices or made any reduction in the number of jobs as a result of transfers of work over the past 5 years. No offices or jobs have been transferred from the rest of the United Kingdom to Scotland in this period.

Letter from Norman MacLeod to Mr. Calum Macdonald, dated 1 May 1995: The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your Question about offices closed or opened and jobs lost or gained as a result of transfers of work from or to Scotland, so far as the Scottish Office Pensions Agency is concerned. All of the Agency's operations are carried out from the above address and no work has transferred from it to other locations in the UK over the past 5 years. Equally, no work has transferred to it from locations elsewhere in the UK. No offices or jobs have therefore been lost or gained.

Letter from Alan W. Ramase to Mr. Calum Macdonald, dated 1 May 1995: I have been asked to reply, in relation to Registers of Scotland Executive Agency, to your question to the Secretary of State for Scotland about jobs lost/gained and offices closed/opened through transfers of Agency work between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom. No Agency work has been transferred to or transferred from the rest of the United Kingdom. The Agency has therefore not gained or lost any jobs nor opened or closed any offices for this reason.

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Letter from Patrick Cadell to Ms. Calum Macdonald, dated 1 May 1995: I am writing in response to your question to the Secretary of State for Scotland about the number and location of offices closed and the number of jobs lost or transferred as a result of agency work transferring from Scotland to the rest of the United Kingdom over the past 5 years. The Scottish Record Office (SRO), which became an executive agency from 1 April 1993, maintains the national archives of Scotland and it would be entirely inappropriate for Scotland's written heritage to be housed anywhere other than Scotland. None of our repositories has been closed nor have any jobs been lost or transferred as a result of any of the SRO's work being transferred outwith Scotland. Although a few jobs have had to be created as a result of a general increase in workload, none of that increase can be attributed to work being transferred to Scotland from other parts of the United Kingdom. I hope that this information is of use to you.

Letter from E. W. Frizzell to Mr. Calum Macdonald, dated 1 May 1995: I refer to your Question to the Secretary of State for Scotland about changes in Agencies caused by transfers of work to or from Scotland. I am replying so far as the Scottish Prison Service is concerned. No offices have been opened or closed or jobs lost or gained in the Scottish Prison Service as a result of transfer of work within the United Kingdom.

Letter from K. MacRea to Mr. Calum Macdonald, dated 1 May 1995: I refer to the Parliamentary Question which you tabled to the Secretary of State for Scotland seeking information on transfers of work between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom in relation to various Executive Agencies. I have been asked to reply in respect of the Student Awards Agency for Scotland. There have been no transfers of work, or related changes in staff or offices, since the Agency was established in April 1994. I trust this is the information you were seeking.

Letter from Dr. R. K. M. Hay to Mr. Calum Macdonald, dated 1 May 1995: The Secretary of State has asked me to reply on behalf of the Scottish Agricultural Science Agency (SASA) to your recent questions regarding the number of jobs lost or transferred as a result of agency work transferring from Scotland to the rest of the United Kingdom over the past five years and the number of jobs gained in Scotland as a result of agency work transferring to Scotland from the rest of the United Kingdom over the same period. These questions are not applicable to SASA.