Wednesday, 4 November 2009

Scottish Parliament Written answers

• Allotments
  To ask the Scottish Executive what advice it has given to local authorities regarding regulations under section 6(1) of the Allotments (Scotland) Act 1892.
• Allotments
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether a local authority needs to formally make a regulation under section 6(1) of the Allotments (Scotland) Act 1892 before being able to charge or increase rent...
• Allotments
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many local authorities have referred to it for approval amendments to section 6(1) regulations made under the Allotments (Scotland) Act 1892.
• Animal Welfare
  To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken since the 2004 consultation, Proposals to Revise Existing Animal Welfare Legislation - A Consultation , in relation to reared birds and...
• Antisocial Behaviour
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many antisocial behaviour orders have been issued each year under the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004, broken down by local authority area.
• Antisocial Behaviour
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many antisocial behaviour orders have been issued to under 16-year-olds each year under the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004, broken down by local...
• Antisocial Behaviour
  To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent issuing antisocial behaviour orders under the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004, broken down by (a) year and (b) local authority area.
• Birds
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it regards the swallows that reside in Scotland each summer as native species and wild creatures.
• Children
  To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-26534 by Adam Ingram on 10 September 2009, when its response to the recommendations of the short-life working group on...
• Community Councils
  To ask the Scottish Executive what action is being taken to support community councils.
• Community Councils
  To ask the Scottish Executive what support is provided to community councils by local authorities.
• Community Councils
  To ask the Scottish Executive how much grant funding each local authority has provided to community councils in each of the last five years.
• Electricity
  To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of recent newspaper reports, whether it has made a decision on the proposed Beauly to Denny power line upgrade.
• Employment
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many redundant apprentices have achieved employment through the ScotAction programme since its launch in May 2009.
• Energy
  To ask the Scottish Executive what dialogue it has had with the Department for Energy and Climate Change regarding the requirement for carbon capture and storage technology to be fitted to all...
• Fire Service
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is concerned at the comments of Ken Ross of the Fire Brigades Union to the Justice Committee on 6 October 2009 that the COSLA was unable to tell the fire...
• Fire Service
  To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the comments of Ken Ross of the Fire Brigades Union to the Justice Committee on 6 October 2009 that "our priority is to ensure that at the...
• Fire Service
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will commit to (a) maintaining or (b) increasing the number of firefighters on the front line in the future years.
• Flood Prevention
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether the draft budget for 2010-11 for local government has had or will have additional resource added over the current year to assist local authorities with...
• Forth Crossing
  To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the Scottish Futures Trust is not managing the Forth Replacement Crossing project.
• Housing
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of evidence that banks are refusing to provide a mortgage because of a lack of confidence in a Home Report.
• Housing
  To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Council of Mortgage Lenders regarding the Home Report since its introduction.
• Public Sector Staff
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether consideration was given to removing the bonus element from the remuneration package for the post of chief executive of Scottish Enterprise.
• Public Sector Staff
  To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has given to local authorities regarding salary levels of chief officers; what action it proposes regarding any excessive increases in such...
• Public Sector Staff
  To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it has given to non-departmental public bodies regarding salary levels in 2010-11.
• Renewable Energy
  To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions Scottish ministers have had since May 2007 with HM Treasury ministers about funds in Ofgem’s Fossil Fuel Levy account.
• Renewable Energy
  To ask the Scottish Executive what projects have received grants under the Wave and Tidal Energy Support Scheme and how much they have (a) received or (b) been allocated in each year of the scheme.
• Renewable Energy
  To ask the Scottish Executive which projects that have received funds under the Wave and Tidal Energy Support Scheme have spent the funds allocated.
• Renewable Energy
  To ask the Scottish Executive what assurances it has received that the companies that have received funding under the Wave and Tidal Energy Support Scheme will be able to use the funds in 2009-10.
• Renewable Energy
  To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the funding available from the previous administration for the Wave and Tidal Energy Support Scheme (a) has been allocated and (b) remains unallocated.
• Renewable Energy
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will undertake to recoup Wave and Tidal Energy Support Scheme funds that are not spent in 2009-10 and make them available to wave and tidal developers...
• Road Accidents
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been killed in accidents on roads in the Lothians region in each month since May 2007, broken down by road.
• Roads
  To ask the Scottish Executive what the current position is regarding Nether Howcleugh, a derelict smallholding that was acquired during the construction of the M74.
• Roads
  To ask the Scottish Executive by what process a member of the public could purchase Nether Howcleugh with the intention of refurbishing it as a smallholding.
• Roads
  To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish the study conducted by AMEY on the Bellfield Interchange.
• Roads
  To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to improve the A9 north of Inverness.
• Scottish Centre for Financial Education
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to remove the Royal Bank of Scotland from the management group of the Scottish Centre for Financial Education and, if so, when.
• Scottish Futures Trust
  To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-24622 by John Swinney on 16 June 2009 and in light of the recent school building programme announcement and the role of...
• Scottish Government Staff
  To ask the Scottish Executive what contractual responsibilities the Permanent Secretary of the Scottish Executive has apart from his work for the Scottish Government.
• Scottish Veterans Fund
  To ask the Scottish Executive what projects have received funding from the Scottish Veterans’ Fund.
• Student Accommodation
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many students have been refused a place in university-provided student accommodation due to overcrowding in each of the last five years, broken down by (a)...
• Student Finance
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many students are eligible for a full young student bursary.
• Student Finance
  To ask the Scottish Executive how many students are eligible for the full amount of income assessed loan.
• Transport
  To ask the Scottish Executive what the legal requirements are on commercial bus and coach operators to allow access to their services for passengers with mobility problems.
• Transport
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether commercial bus and coach operators are required to carry mobility scooters belonging to passengers.
• Transport
  To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is a legal maximum load weight for commercial buses and coaches.