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Although the power to legislate on equal opportunities is reserved to the UK Government, the Scottish Parliament has the power to encourage equal opportunities, as well as the power to impose duties on Scottish public bodies and cross-border public authorities in relation to their Scottish functions. In 1999 the Scottish Parliament established an Equal Opportunities Committee as one of its eight mandatory committees. The committee has responsibility for considering and reporting on equal opportunities issues and monitoring equal opportunities in Parliament. The Parliament’s standing orders also require that all proposed legislation presented to the Executive is accompanied by a statement of impact on equal opportunities. The Parliament has also used its powers to place more specific duties on certain bodies in respect of aspects of education, housing, care and social services. 139_Public Health News (2005), Why is Scotland’s population shrinking and ageing?- a new research initiative. (18 April 2005) Currently there is no Race Equality Strategy for Scotland. There is a generic Equality Strategy, first published in 2000. A Review of Race Equality in Scotland, published in November 2005, introduced a number of measures aimed at reducing discrimination and challenging racism. The Review also announced that there would be a Race Equality Strategy and Action Plan announced in the autumn of 2006. Demographics Scotland has a long tradition of immigration with the first recorded Africans in Scotland in the Court of King James IV in 1505. However, more recently, from the mid twentieth century onwards we have seen increased migration to Scotland. People from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Caribbean and Nigeria were recruited to come to Britain to fill labour shortages and many settled in Scotland. The largest community is the community of Pakistani origin and the largest Pakistani Community is well established in Glasgow. The 2001 census showed that 47% of the people of Pakistani origin in Scotland were born in Scotland. There is also an established Chinese community in Scotland. The pattern of self-employment within the Chinese community (mainly in the restaurant business) means that as a community they are scattered throughout Scotland, and in the rural areas the Chinese community is the largest visible ethnic minority group. A Chinese community has been established in Glasgow since the 1960s. In Scotland the Scottish Executive have produced an analysis of ethnicity in the 2001 Census which consolidates all the data in relation to ethnicity in Scotland and which highlights key socio-economic data related to housing, the labour market, health care and education. 139 This is an important publication in the context of this study and provides policy makers and service providers a basis from which to benchmark the socio-economic progress of minority ethnic groups in Scotland in Intercensal periods. As a consequence, in this study there is significantly more detailed data available for Scotland than for Ireland and Northern Ireland. Based on data from the 2001 Census, the size of the minority ethnic population was just over 100,000, which accounts for 2% of the total population of Scotland. (5.062 million in 2001). Pakistanis are the largest minority ethnic group, followed by Chinese, Indians and those of mixed ethnic backgrounds. Over 70% of the total minority ethnic population were Asian: Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Chinese or other South Asian and over 12% of the population describe their ethnicity as ‘Mixed’. The size of the minority ethnic population has increased since the 1991 Census. Whilst the total population increase between 1991 and 2001 was 1.3% the minority ethnic population increased by 62.3%.
improving government service delivery to minority ethnic groups Chapter 3: Scotland Research Findings 80_81 140_www.onescotland.com 141_Barclay, A., A. Bowes, I. Ferguson et al (2003) Asylum Seekers in Scotland, Scottish Executive. 142_UHI Policyweb and the National Centre for Migration Studies (2005), Migrant Workers in the Highlands and Islands: Highlands and Islands Enterprise. Figure 6: Minority Ethnic Population in Scotland More recent arrivals in Scotland have been the asylum seeker and refugee population. Since the introduction of the UK 1999 Asylum and Immigration Act, it is estimated that 9,000 asylum seekers have been dispersed to Glasgow. Studies have shown that asylum seekers in the UK are the most likely of the non-white population to encounter hostility. A poll in June 2002 found that 24% of Scots thought that it was justifiable to verbally attack asylum seekers who receive housing and benefits in Scotland. 140 Research carried out in behalf of the Scottish Executive in 2003 141 found that: “ Service providers emphasised the ‘steep learning curve’ experienced in their work with dispersed asylum seekers. For some, expertise and resources were initially stretched to the limit, though over time provision was believed to have improved. Multi-agency working was identified as an area of strength.” More recently Scotland has seen the arrival of migrant workers from Eastern Europe. The Department of Work and Pensions record National Insurance Number (NINo) applications from overseas nationals including nationals from EU accession states. Between May 2004 and April 2005 there were 23,885 registrations of overseas nationals in Scotland and 67% of these were from EU accession states. 142
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