- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 26 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it consulted anybody in Mallaig before fixing the date of the visit of the coastal and marine national park campaign bus to Mallaig and, if so, who was consulted; whether the Mallaig and North West Fishermen’s Association was consulted, and whether the Executive received representations seeking an alternative date to 10 October 2006 from, or on behalf of, fishermen.
Answer
In preparation for the Coastaland Marine National Park roadshow permission was sought where necessary for thesiting of the vehicles at the venues to be visited.
Contact was made with local interestsin Mallaig and my officials have also been in correspondence with the Mallaig andNorth West Fishermen’s Association (MNWFA) about the timing of the Mallaig visit.I can confirm that MNWFA requested that an alternative date to 10 October be consideredfor Mallaig.
The proposed startand finish time of the roadshow at Mallaig was changed to allow fishermen to visitin the evening and the visit took place on 17 October.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 26 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that the visit of the coastal and marine national park campaign bus to Mallaig should have been arranged with prior consultation of the fishermen in the areas of the proposed visits and, if so, why such consultation was not carried out.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-28825 on 26 October 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 25 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many individuals are on the waiting list, opened by the Eaga Partnership Ltd in April 2006, for referrals under the Warm Deal scheme and central heating programme.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster,Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
The number of applicants on theWarm Deal Programme list, as notified by Eaga, was 2,204 at the end of September2006.
The number of applicants on thecentral heating programme list, as notified by Eaga, was 12,319 at the end of September2006.
It should be noted that not allhouseholders who apply to the programmes will necessarily fulfil the eligibilitycriteria.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 25 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a list of trunk roads on which there are swing bridges, indicating the location of each bridge.
Answer
Swing bridges are located onthe A82, A83 and the A830 trunk roads. In total there are six locations where swingbridges carry the trunk road over canals. The locations are as follows:
A830at Mallaig Road at Banavie - just north of Fort William
A82at Laggan - between Loch Lochy and Loch Oich
A82at Aberchalder - just north of Loch Oich
A82at Fort Augustus
A82at Tomnahurich - just south of Inverness
A83at Ardrishaig - over the Crinan Canal.
The first five bridges on thelist carry the trunk road over the Caledonian Canal.
Transport Scotland hasthe operational responsibility for Scottish trunk roads and can be contacted formore information if required.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 25 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Agricultural College has received the responses to the consultation on the Scottish Rural Development Plan (SRDP); whether the college has collated and analysed the responses and, if so, when it completed the work; whether the results of the analysis will be made public; whether the results have been provided to the SRDP and LMC Stakeholder groups and what the reasons are for its position on the matter, and whether the results will be provided to the groups before any proposals for the SRDP are finalised and before they are submitted to the European Commission for approval.
Answer
The consultation on theScotland Rural Development Plan 2007-13 attracted 259 written responses, whichhave been analysed by the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) on behalf of the Scottish Executive. The final report has since been finalised and published onthe Scottish Executive website.
For data protection reasons,it would not be proper for me to release personal information on individuals. Table1: SRDP Consultation List, provides details of the organisations to whomthe Executive sent the consultation to in that first phase, and is available inthe Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 40741).
Copies of the responsesthemselves, including contact details where the consultee has agreed that theirresponse can be made public, are available from the Scottish Executive library.
The results of theconsultation are helping to inform our consideration of the future content of the SRDP and will be a major factor as we develop the Programme in advance of itsformal submission to Brussels. In addition to placing the report of the consultationon the Scottish Executive website, my officials have circulated it to the SRDPand LMC stakeholder group in advance of finalising the proposals for submittingthe SRDP to the European Commission.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 25 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the responses to its consultation on the proposed Scottish Rural Development Plan, also showing the names of those who were consulted and an analysis of the responses to the questions asked in the consultation process.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-28729 on 25 October 2006. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliaments website, the search facility forwhich can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 25 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when the new Warm Deal scheme and central heating programme will be open for applications.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster,Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
The programme has remained openfor applications during the re-letting of the contract for a Managing Agent.
Eaga Partnership continued torecord the details of householders who contacted them until 30 September 2006 andScottish Gas began recording householders details when they took over administrationof the programmes on 1 October 2006.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 October 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 25 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will place in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre a copy of the contract awarded by Communities Scotland to British Gas for the delivery of the next stage of the Warm Deal scheme and central heating programme.
Answer
I have asked Angiolina Foster,Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:
Copies of the contract are availablein the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number No 40709). For reasonsof commercial confidentiality certain sections of the contract will be withheld.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 24 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will issue any guidance or advice to local authorities in respect of ensuring that street lighting is maintained and that lights are not turned off or dimmed during hours of darkness.
Answer
The provision and maintenanceof street lighting is a matter for local authorities. Section 35 to the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984states that a local roads authority shall provide and maintain lighting for roads,or proposed roads, which are, or will be, maintainable by them and which in theiropinion ought to be lit. Local authorities are best placed to take decisions onlocal needs on roads for which they are responsible.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 24 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the funding package for local government is sufficient to ensure that street lighting is maintained and that lights are neither turned off nor dimmed during hours of darkness.
Answer
The Executive supportslocal authority core revenue expenditure through its block grant. In distributingthis block grant, the Executive provides support of approximately £365 million perannum through the roads maintenance, winter maintenance, road lighting and roadadministration Grant Aided Expenditure (GAE) lines. As part of Spending Review 2004, the Scottish Executiveprovided local authorities with an additional £60 million in GAE for each of 2006-07and 2007-08 for road maintenance, winter maintenance and street lighting. It is for each local authority to decide howbest to allocate its block grant, based on its local needs and priorities.
