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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S4W-01736

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how it supports the expansion of community renewables.

In the 2020 Routemap for Renewable Energy in Scotland, the Scottish Government has set a target of 500 megawatts of community and locally-owned renewable energy by 2020. The Routemap is published on the Scottish Government website at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/RoutemapforRenewableEnergy.

The Community and Renewable Energy Scheme provides loans of up to £150,000 to farmers, land managers, rural businesses, cooperatives and communities to help meet the pre-planning consent costs of developing a proposal. It is a requirement of the loan scheme to have in place a binding legal agreement on community benefit, with payments to begin when a project becomes operational, and continue for a period of 20 years.

The Scottish Government is also committed to securing the establishment of a Green Equity Fund for community renewables for the post-planning phase of development. More detailed proposals for supporting community renewables from the next financial year onwards will be set out in the spending review later this year.

Question reference: S4W-01714

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what financial support it will give the Scottish Energy Laboratory in each of the next five years.

Question reference: S4W-01710

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual budget will be for low carbon enterprise zones and which department will oversee these zones.

Question reference: S4W-01715

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much investment the Scottish Energy Laboratory has attracted since it was launched.

Question reference: S4W-01719

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish Energy Laboratory attracts foreign companies.

Question reference: S4W-01709

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what support it will give to companies wishing to start-up business in a low carbon enterprise zone.

Question reference: S4W-01707

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will establish a low carbon enterprise zone.

Question reference: S4W-01741

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when it plans to publish a public engagement strategy for the development of community renewables.

Question reference: S4W-01716

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much annual investment the Scottish Energy Laboratory needs to co-ordinate and promote energy research and development.

Question reference: S4W-01740

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how it encourages the development of mutualised local energy companies.