- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 18 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of (a) household, (b) commercial and (c) total waste was recycled by each local authority in each of the last three years.
Answer
Details on local authority recyclingrates up to 2005-06 are available on the Scottish Environment Protection Agency(SEPA) website at:
www.sepa.org.uk/nws/data/data_digest.htm.Data on municipal waste recycledup to June 2006 is also available from the SEPA website at www.sepa.org.uk/nws/data/returns.htm.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what reports commissioned by the previous administration into extending the Borders railway beyond Tweedbank it has been able to access.
Answer
The Scottish Executiveprior to May 2007 has not commissioned any reports into extending the Borders railwaybeyond Tweedbank.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding is available for the Young Scot scheme and how it is distributed.
Answer
Young Scot receives£750,000 per annum from the Scottish Executive. As the National Youth InformationAgency for Scotland they take forward a range of projects and initiatives to provideyoung people across Scotland with information and other services to help them makeinformed life choices and play an active part in their own communities.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 17 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities have issued Young Scot cards and how many are currently in circulation, expressed also as a percentage of each local authority’s secondary school population.
Answer
There are approximately337,000 Young Scot branded cards in circulation throughout all 32 of Scotland’s local authorities.
These are a mixtureof the original non smart cards (issued prior to April 2006) and the replacementNational Entitlement Card (smartcard) which has been available to all young peoplesince April 2006. The immediate priority has been to issue the cards to those youngpeople who are entitled to the Young Persons Concessionary Travel Scheme (whichhas been operational since January 2007).
Work is currentlyon-going with all local authorities (and in conjunction with Young Scot) to replaceall the original non smart cards.
There is currentlyno information available on what percentage of these cards are held by secondaryschool pupils in each local authority. However, when the new national card managementsolution is in place (October 2007) such management information will be available.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 July 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what capital funding has been given to (a) NHS National Services Scotland, (b) the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, (c) the Protein Fractionation Centre and (d) Alba Bioscience in each of the last four years.
Answer
National ServicesScotland (NSS) is given an annual capital allocationof c.£5 million to meet minor capital requirements across all its internal divisions.All further capital funding is by way of additional allocation from the HealthDepartment for specific projects. The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service(SNBTS), a division of NSS, has not received any specific allocations from theHealth Department during the four year period in question.
The funding shownfor SNBTS, the Protein Fractionation Centre (PFC) and Alba Bioscience (Alba) hastherefore been made available from the minor capital fund allocated to NSS.
The information requested,including a split of the total capital funding between funding for specific projectsand the minor capital fund, is as follows:
| Year | Total Capital Funding to NSS (£ Million) | Capital Funding for Specific Projects1 (£ Million) | Minor Capital Fund (£ Million) | Capital Funding to SNBTS2 (£ Million) | Capital Funding to PFC (£ Million) | Capital Funding to Alba (£ Million) |
| 2003-04 | 18.4 | 13.9 | 4.5 | 1.45 | 0.32 | 0.09 |
| 2004-05 | 25.9 | 19.4 | 6.5 | 0.74 | 0.03 | 0.04 |
| 2005-06 | 21.9 | 16.9 | 5 | 2.34 | 0.63 | 0.05 |
| 2006-07 | 34.6 | 29.3 | 5.3 | 2.04 | 0.14 | 0.12 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 13 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what reports it will commission on the cumulative impact of small to medium wind farm developments.
Answer
The recentlypublished Scottish Planning Policy 6: Renewable Energy (SPP6) stipulatesthat prospective developers must adequately address the cumulative impact of theirproposal. It also requires that Planning Authorities take account of projects thathave already been built, as well as those consented but not yet built and thosethat are currently at the application stage. This, together with existing ScottishNatural Heritage guidance, should ensure that cumulative impacts are effectivelymitigated. At this stage, we have no plans to commission research.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 9 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding is available for domestic micro-hydroelectric schemes.
Answer
The Scottish Communityand Householder Renewables Initiative provides grant funding for the installationof domestic micro-hydro schemes. Householders can obtain a grant of 30% of the installedcost, up to a maximum of £4,000.
Householders in Scotland are also eligible for funding under the UK Government’sLow Carbon Buildings Programme. A maximum grant of £1,000 per kW of installed capacityis available for micro-hydro, subject to an overall maximum of £2,500 or 30% of the relevant eligible costs, whichever is the lower.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 9 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been allocated for domestic micro-hydroelectric schemes in each year since 1999.
Answer
The Scottish Communityand Householder Renewables Initiative has provided funding for the installationof six domestic micro-hydro schemes since its launch in 2002, with a total of £22,507being allocated.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 9 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many public service workers given special leave with pay and serving with the Territorial Army or reserves have subsequently been recorded as suffering either physical or mental health problems as a result of their service activities.
Answer
This informationis not held centrally. We continue our discussions the Ministry of Defence andNHS boards to develop new models of service delivery for veterans.
Currentarrangements include assessment and out-patient service for those members of the reserved forces demobilised since January 2003 whose mental health isassessed to have suffered primarily as a result of their operationaldeployment. In-patient care is provided by NHS boards through normal referralprocesses subject to the terms on the priority to be attached for treatment forthose veterans in receipt of a service related pension.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 9 July 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its staff are currently on special leave with pay and serving with the Territorial Army or reserves, broken down by directorate.
Answer
There arecurrently no Scottish Executive staff on special leave for the purpose ofTerritorial Army or reservist duty with or without pay.
