Results 1-20 of 1,762 for speaker:Rob Gibson
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Environment: Environment (18 March 2011)
Rob Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in measuring fine particulate emissions arising from thermal combustion.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Environment: Environment (18 March 2011)
Rob Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive what conditions on emissions it expects intended waste-to-heat developments to meet.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Planning: Planning (17 March 2011)
Rob Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive how many incinerator applications are pending in March 2011.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Planning: Planning (17 March 2011)
Rob Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive how many incinerator applications have received planning approval in each year since 1999.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Energy: Energy (11 March 2011)
Rob Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the debate on electricity market reform on 13 January 2011 ( Official Report , c. 32212), what its response is to the Electricity Market Reform consultation launched by the Department of Energy and Climate Change on 16 December 2010.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Registers of Scotland: Registers of Scotland (8 March 2011)
Rob Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive what targets it expects Registers of Scotland to achieve in 2011-12.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Climate Change: Climate Change (23 February 2011)
Rob Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive when it will meet its obligations under section 71 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 regarding permitted development rights for microgeneration equipment on non-domestic properties.
- Scottish Parliament written answers — Radioactive Waste: Radioactive Waste (20 January 2011)
Rob Gibson: To ask the Scottish Executive will provide an update on its policy for the long-term management of higher activity radioactive waste arising in Scotland.
- Scottish Parliament: Electricity Market Reform (13 January 2011)
Rob Gibson: I meant a firewall between the financial support for nuclear energy, which is supported by the UK Government, and the support that we need for renewables—we must not have that diverted.
- Scottish Parliament: Electricity Market Reform (13 January 2011)
Rob Gibson: I am pleased to participate in the debate. The Scottish approach is summed up in the suite of papers entitled "Scotland—A Low Carbon Society". It involves the opportunity for us to take an integrated approach to the production, supply and sale of electricity and to other carbon reduction measures. Previous speakers have mentioned the need for stability for developers and producers. We...
- Scottish Parliament: Proposed School Closures (Argyll) (12 January 2011)
Rob Gibson: The cabinet secretary mentioned that, under the previous Labour-Liberal Administration, every time a ministerial decision was required on a proposal to close a school the Labour and Liberal ministers closed the school. Can he tell us about the SNP's record on saving rural schools compared to the Labour-Lib Dem record?
- Scottish Parliament: Autism (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1: "Report on Low Carbon Scotland: The Draft Report on Proposals and Policies" (12 January 2011)
Rob Gibson: As a member of the Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee and the Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee, I was involved in discussions about both parts of the report. Much of the report is common sense and represents an important contribution to this first attempt by any Government to match the ambitious low-carbon targets that have been set. Given that that is the case, the...
- Scottish Parliament: Autism (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1: "Report on Low Carbon Scotland: The Draft Report on Proposals and Policies" (12 January 2011)
Rob Gibson: If Mr Harvie is brief.
- Scottish Parliament: Autism (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1: "Report on Low Carbon Scotland: The Draft Report on Proposals and Policies" (12 January 2011)
Rob Gibson: Of course that is possibly easier to measure. The important point is that this first attempt, in the middle of the biggest constraint on public spending that we have had, puts us in the position of trying to achieve many more radical changes at a time when we have fewer mechanisms to achieve them. The committee's report must be tempered with the facts in relation to the people who wish to...
- Scottish Parliament: Protection of Workers (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 (22 December 2010)
Rob Gibson: As deputy convener of the Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee, I am speaking on behalf of the committee because the convener, Iain Smith, cannot be here. We have recommended to the Parliament that it should not agree the general principles of the Protection of Workers (Scotland) Bill. We acknowledge the work that Hugh Henry has done in introducing the bill and highlighting an important...
- Scottish Parliament: Winter Resilience (16 December 2010)
Rob Gibson: I will be gentle with central belt members and merely suggest that it would have been interesting had the leaders of the Opposition parties taken any interest at all in the weather conditions in the north and north-east of this country at any time in the past. Those who simply fly over the country and do not have to deal with the road and rail situation in the north do not know what I and...
- Scottish Parliament: Winter Resilience (16 December 2010)
Rob Gibson: I will not at the moment, thanks. The arteries of this country will not work in extreme circumstances. In many cases when questions are asked about particular services—Shotts and the railways were discussed earlier on—I would say that the same applies to the far north. What does it take to heat points? We want to know about the work of Network Rail, ScotRail's franchise and what...
- Scottish Parliament: Winter Resilience (16 December 2010)
Rob Gibson: Not at all, thank you. Passenger Focus Scotland's experience is that passengers want information and that ScotRail should be told, "You got us into this. Get us out of it, because we've become dependent on your service." We have learned the lesson that arteries will sometimes not work. They have not done so for three or four days out of 365. Further north and north-east, they have not worked...
- Scottish Parliament: Winter Resilience (16 December 2010)
Rob Gibson: No, thank you. The contracts that have been made by Amey and BEAR Scotland have excluded mutual support between those transport companies and the local authorities on the major road networks. They have ruled out local authorities taking part in activities. A Transport Scotland report talks about the need for more mutual help. I am sorry that the convener of the Transport, Infrastructure and...
- Scottish Parliament: Winter Resilience (16 December 2010)
Rob Gibson: Will the member give way?