- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive to what terms and conditions the farm scale evaluations of genetically modified crops were subject.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-9329 on 20 August 2004. 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/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the farm scale evaluations of genetically modified crops carried out in Scotland were conducted under the same terms and conditions as those carried out in England.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-9329 on 20 August 2004. 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/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether comparisons between Scottish and English farm scale evaluations of genetically modified crops were valid if they were conducted under different terms and conditions.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-9329 on 20 August 2004. 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/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the terms and conditions under which the farm scale evaluations of genetically modified crops were carried out were applied rigorously.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-9329 on 20 August 2004. 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/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 20 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-741 by Ross Finnie on 7 September 1999, whether farm scale evaluations of genetically modified crops were conducted according to Supply Chain Initiative on Modified Agricultural Crop guidelines.
Answer
The SCIMAC guidelines are guidelines only, developed by the industry themselves to facilitate the management of herbicide resistant GM crops. As such they were not legally binding on farmers participating in the Farm Scale Evaluations; either in Scotland, or elsewhere in the UK. It was, however, our clear expectationthat farmers would follow these voluntary guidelines. We are satisfied that, asfar as possible, they did so.
The SCIMAC guidelines are entirely separate from the consent which is required before any GMO can legally be released. Consents - including the limitations and conditions set out within them - are legally binding. The terms and conditions for trial consents in Scotland were based on the advice of our statutory Advisory Committee on Release to the Environment and were the same as those in England in all material respects. Copies have been placed in the Scottish Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 33245).
Compliance with the consents was monitored and enforced by the Executive’s GM Inspectorate.
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 11 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether funding granted to the Caledonian Cheese Company in Stranraer to install a new production line was granted subject to the agreement that the new line would be used wholly to produce certified organic products.
Answer
Three awards have been made to the Caledonian Cheese Company under the Processing & Marketing Grant Scheme for Lowland Scotland towards the provision of new facilities and processing equipment. No condition has been placed on these awards which would limit the creamery to produce only wholly certified organic products.
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 11 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Caledonian Cheese Company in Stranraer is meeting the terms of its marketing grant awarded by the Executive for a new production line.
Answer
Three awards have been made to the Caledonian Cheese Company under the Executive’s Agriculture Processing & Marketing Grant Scheme for Lowland Scotland towards the provision of new facilities and processing equipment. The conditions pertaining to these grants will remain in place over the grant control periods. The company has to date met all the conditions relating to the grants.
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 02 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 10 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to its consultation paper, Technical Amendments to the Conservation (Natural Habitats &c.) Regulations 1994: A Consultation Paper on Amendments to the Habitats Regulations, when it will announce the result of the consultation and when it expects to publish the proposed regulations.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is still giving consideration to the consultation responses relating to the amendments to the Conservation (Natural Habitats &c.) Regulations 1994 proposed in the consultation paper to ensure consistency between the Regulations and the provisions of the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004. It is my intention to bring forward amendments to these regulations later this year.
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 09 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 9 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what conditions will be placed on the new ScotRail franchise regarding charges for the carriage of bicycles.
Answer
The operator of the new ScotRail franchise will be required to carry bicycles free of charge.
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 09 July 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 9 August 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities it has been informed are preparing to submit Integrated Transport Fund bids for major cycling infrastructure projects.
Answer
We are not aware of any local authorities preparing to submit Integrated Transport Fund (ITF) bids for such projects. Since substantial resources from the ITF are already committed to the delivery of our Partnership commitments, we would not encourage local authorities to work up detailed proposals for any transport project until these have been first discussed with their usual contacts in the Executive.
