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What implications the General Agreement on Trade in Services proposals on trade in services will have for nursery education.
Started with S1W-29654 on 20 Sep 2002; latest 16 Jul 2003. Each later question says it follows up an earlier answer.
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To ask the Scottish Executive what implications the General Agreement on Trade in Services proposals on trade in services will have for nursery education.
Cathy Jamieson, 1 Oct 2002: The regulation of international trade is a reserved matter. However, the Executive continues to be in regular contact with the Department of Trade and Industry and other UK Government Departments on trade issues and how these may impact on the Executive's responsibilities.The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GA… -
Whether requests for liberalisation from other World Trade Organisation members in relation to the General Agreement on Trade in Services in order to secure private sector involvement in the provision of public services will limit its ability to protect public services from any adverse effects.
Cathy Jamieson, 17 Oct 2002: The regulation of international trade is a reserved matter. -
What effective market access for foreign service providers under the General Agreement on Trade in Services it considers appropriate for the education service.
Cathy Jamieson, 17 Oct 2002: The regulation of international trade is a reserved matter. -
What effective market access for foreign service providers under the General Agreement on Trade in Services it considers appropriate for the health service.
Malcolm Chisholm, 17 Oct 2002: The regulation of international trade is a reserved matter. However, the Executive continues to be in regular contact with the Department of Trade and Industry and other UK Departments on trade issues and how these may impact on the Executives responsibilities. The General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS) makes … -
What part of the General Agreement on Trade in Services "makes clear that liberalisation shall take place, if at all, with due respect for national policy objectives, and recognises the right of WTO member governments to regulate, and to introduce new regulations, on the supply of service within their territories in order to meet national policy objectives".
Cathy Jamieson, 29 Oct 2002: In the 4th paragraph of the preamble to the GATS, the following statement is located which makes it clear that liberalisation will take place, if at all, with due respect for national policy initiatives:"Recognizing the right of members to regulate, and to introduce new regulations, on the supply of services within th… -
What part of the General Agreement on Trade in Services leads it to consider that requests for liberalisation do not seek the privatisation of state-supplied public services.
Cathy Jamieson, 29 Oct 2002: It is not for the Scottish Executive to consider whether or not requests for liberalisation seek the privatisation of state-supplied public services as the regulation of international trade is a reserved matter. -
What adverse effects on trade in services in education need to be reduced or eliminated to provide effective market access for foreign service providers under the General Agreement on Trade in Services.
Cathy Jamieson, 3 Jan 2003: The UK position is that GATS will not apply to state-provided school education. There will, therefore, be no effects on such education in the UK following finalisation of the GATS agreement in January 2005. -
What requests for liberalisation under the General Agreement on Trade in Services it has made.
Iain Gray, 7 Jan 2003: None. -
Whether any other effective market access for service providers, other than for itself, exists in the NHS.
Malcolm Chisholm, 3 Jan 2003: The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) applies to measures affecting trade in services taken by central, regional or local governments and authorities and by non-governmental bodies in the exercise of powers delegated by such governments and authorities. Progressive liberalisation under the GATS concerns th… -
When it was last in contact with the Department of Trade and Industry on trade issues and on how these issues may impact on the Executive's responsibilities.
Iain Gray, 3 Jan 2003: The regulation of international trade is a reserved matter. However, the Executive continues to be in regular contact with the Department of Trade and Industry on trade issues. -
When it last made representations to Her Majesty's Government about liberalisation under the General Agreement on Trade in Services.
Iain Gray, 3 Jan 2003: The regulation of international trade is a reserved matter. However, the Executive continues to be in regular contact with the Department of Trade and Industry and other UK Government Departments regarding the General Agreement on Trade in Services. -
What adverse effects on trade in services in health need to be reduced or eliminated to provide effective market access for foreign service providers under the General Agreement on Trade in Services.
Malcolm Chisholm, 22 Jan 2003: The information relating to any adverse effects is not available at present. -
Further to the answers to questions S1W-29654 and S1W-30237 by Cathy Jamieson on 1 October and 29 October 2002, how the statement in the answer to question S1W-30237 that it is not for it to consider whether or not requests for liberalisation seek the privatisation of state-supplied public services is consistent with the answer to question S1W-29654 that requests for liberalisation by World Trade Organisation (WTO) …
Cathy Jamieson, 3 Jan 2003: The regulation of international trade is a reserved matter and the lead on WTO and General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) negotiations is taken by the UK Government. Any requests for liberalisation will take place, if at all, at member state, not at Scottish Executive level. However, it is the UK Government's v… -
When information will be available on what adverse effects on trade in services in health need to be reduced or eliminated to provide effective market access for foreign service providers under the General Agreement on Trade in Services.
Malcolm Chisholm, 10 Feb 2003: I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-33596 today. 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/search_wa. -
How the statement that "WTO members have the right to choose in which sectors and to what extent they want to make commitments" is consistent with the answer to question S1W-32596 by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 January 2003 which indicated that no assessment had been made of the legal implications of the BetterCare Group Ltd ruling on the impact and operation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services.
Cathy Jamieson, 10 Feb 2003: School level state education will be exempt from any pressure to privatise its provision under the General Agreement on Trade in Services. -
What effective market access for foreign service providers under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) it considers appropriate for the education service.
Peter Peacock, 13 Aug 2003: In the last GATS negotiation round (concluded in 1995 in Uruguay) the UK agreed to open privately funded education services in primary, secondary, higher and adult education to international competition. In the present GATS negotiation round, the European Commission's initial offer of further liberalisation does not i…
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