- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 16 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the Supported Employment Workplaces debate on 7 October 2010 (Official Report c. 29383), whether it has invited all interested parties, including the City of Edinburgh Council, MSPs and MPs, to meet to discuss the future of Blindcraft in Edinburgh and, if so, on what date the invitations were issued.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-37279 on 16 November 2010. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 16 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the Supported Employment Workplaces debate on 7 October 2010 (Official Report c. 29383), whether it will provide details of correspondence between it, the City of Edinburgh Council and MSPs regarding the proposed closure of Blindcraft in Edinburgh.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-37279 on 16 November 2010. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 11 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide further details of what local heat mapping and feasibility projects it has supported, as indicated in Action 6.2 of the Energy Efficiency Action Plan for Scotland.
Answer
Scottish Government is funding a heat mapping pilot in the Highland Council area and it is our intention to disseminate the results to other local authorities. We are supporting Sustainable Glasgow through the Central Energy Efficiency Fund and we also fund the Energy Saving Trust work programme for Scotland, which includes their recently published Scottish Planner Support Pack Sustainable Energy in the Built Environment: Best Practice for Scottish Planners. This provides supportive information to planning authorities on heat mapping.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 11 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive on what date it will appoint a dedicated officer to develop district heating as a discrete policy area, as indicated in Action 6.2 of the Energy Efficiency Action Plan for Scotland.
Answer
We recently appointed a dedicated officer who will take forward district heating policy and will co-ordinate activity across Scottish Government. The post commenced in August 2010.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 9 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on using planning regulations to require supermarkets to source locally a proportion of their goods.
Answer
There is currently no provision in primary legislation that would permit the making of such regulations.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to introduce community energy plans to allow local communities to identify their own local renewable energy needs.
Answer
Through a concerted drive to maximise community benefits from renewables and increase local ownership of energy, we already help communities to identify their own local renewable energy needs, and to realise their ambitions.
Our Climate Challenge Fund is about helping communities identify how much they can reduce their own carbon footprint, including identifying local renewable energy needs. It has funded 203 projects which include energy efficiency or renewables options in communities.
We have provided some £13.5 million over the last two years to fund our Community and Renewable Energy scheme which provides grants and free bespoke independent advice for communities to take forward their own energy projects. 600 projects are set to benefit by March 2011.
We are currently considering future funding options for community renewables, including the scope for a loan fund to de-risk the pre-planning costs of local renewable energy projects.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 4 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what it is doing to (a) promote and (b) support farmers’ co-operatives.
Answer
The Scottish Government works closely with the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society to promote and support co-operatives. We have also supported five co-operation projects totalling £1.5 million under the Scottish Rural Development Programme Food Processing, Marketing and Co-operation grant scheme.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 November 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 4 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive on what date it expects a tenancy deposit protection scheme to become operational.
Answer
A public consultation on draft regulations to set the framework for tenancy deposit schemes in Scotland, and the conditions for their approval, ended on 3 October 2010. We are currently analysing the consultation responses.
We plan to introduce the regulations to the Parliament by the end of 2010. This will enable proposals for national tenancy deposit schemes to be submitted to ministers in early 2011.
Until we receive proposals, it is not possible to predict the exact date on which a tenancy deposit scheme will become operational.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 2 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to its news release of 31 August 2010, Clampdown on ‘party flats’, what form of Scottish Statutory Instrument it will introduce to strengthen legislation aimed at addressing problems with such flats.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-37150 on 2 November 2010. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 October 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 2 November 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to its news release of 31 August 2010, Clampdown on ‘party flats’, what correspondence ministers have had with local authorities and agencies regarding the proposed changes to Part 7 of the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-37150 on 2 November 2010. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
