- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 9 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many community service order supervisors are currently employed by each local authority.
Answer
The Executive does not hold centrally information on numbers of community service order supervisors employed by individual local authorities. However, figures for the numbers of community service staff employed as of October 2001 are given in the following table.
| Local Authority | Community Service Staff |
| Aberdeen | 12 |
| Aberdeenshire | 9 |
| Angus | 4 |
| Argyll and Bute | 5 |
| Clackmannanshire | 2 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 5 |
| Dundee | 6 |
| East Ayrshire | 10 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 6 |
| East Lothian | 1 |
| East Renfrewshire | 3 |
| Edinburgh | 23 |
| Eileanan Siar | 2 |
| Falkirk | 7 |
| Fife | 3 |
| Glasgow | 47 |
| Highland | 18 |
| Inverclyde | 6 |
| Midlothian | 5 |
| Moray | 5 |
| North Ayrshire | 11 |
| North Lanarkshire | 26 |
| Orkney Islands | 1 |
| Perth and Kinross | 0 |
| Renfrewshire | 10 |
| Scottish Borders | 0 |
| Shetland Islands | 2 |
| South Ayrshire | 6 |
| South Lanarkshire | 18 |
| Stirling | 2 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 3 |
| West Lothian | 2 |
| Total | 260 |
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 9 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will (a) give details of any bi-lateral ministerial meetings scheduled to discuss the forthcoming fishing quotas and (b) list any such meetings that have taken place in the last four weeks.
Answer
We held confidential discussions with the Commission, the presidency and other member states last week and further meetings will be held as appropriate.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 6 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of EU waters the Scottish 'one represents.
Answer
There is no comprehensive definition of EU waters. The Scottish fishing zone is approximately 127,000 square nautical miles.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 6 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has forwarded the findings of the recently published Fisheries Research Services reports, Industry/Science Partnership 2001-2002, Volume 1 Report of Scottish Trials Assessing the Selectivity of Trawls and Seines and Industry/Science Partnership 2001-2002, Volume 2 Report on Biological Information Gathered from Scottish Fishing Vessels to European Commission officials and, if so, when the reports were forwarded and for the attention of which officials within the commission.
Answer
Yes; at our request, the UK Permanent Representation to the EU (UKRep) presented a formal copy of the report to the Commission on 22 November 2002.In anticipation of that, and the relevance of the associated data, UKRep had previously written to the Commission about associated details on 2 August 2002. Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department officials followed this up in discussion with the Commission in advance of the EU/Norway consultations held on 20 to 22 November 2002.Some of the results were also discussed within the wider scientific community, particularly at the ICES Advisory Committee on Fishery Management on 9 to 17 October 2002, which the Commission attended as observers.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 6 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made in relation to reducing the level of industrial by-catch of white fish stocks in Scottish waters or areas fished by Scottish vessels.
Answer
The industrial fisheries are an integral part of the Common Fisheries Policy. White fish by-catch limits in the industrial fisheries are established by EU regulations.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 6 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the source, date and results of any research into the impact of the ban on sandeel fishing off the Wee Bankie on white fish stocks.
Answer
A copy of the recent report into the impact of the closure off the Wee Bankie compiled for the Commission by UK and Danish scientists has been placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 25356). The report does not focus upon the impact of the ban on white fish stocks as this was not the basis for the closure.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 6 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish registered vessels are engaged in industrial fishery.
Answer
The term industrial fishery encompasses a wide range of fisheries destined for purposes other than human consumption. The most important industrial fishery to Scotland is the blue whiting fishery. Thirteen Scottish registered vessels landed significant tonnages of blue whiting into Scotland in 2001. Three Scottish registered vessels landed sandeels into Scotland in 2001. There were no significant landings of Norway pout.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 6 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-28026 by Mr Jim Wallace on 4 November 2002, whether, in terms of sections 1.1(b) and (d) of the Scottish Ministerial Code, disclosure of information regarding attendance at EU meetings is not in the public interest and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
Answer
The Executive does provide information on attendance at EU meetings.I refer the member to the answers given to questions S1W-6228 on 9 May 2000, S1W-13367 on 29 March 2002, S1W-20175 on 5 December 2001, S1W-22493 on 25 February 2002 and S1W-31063 on 2 December 2002 regarding ministerial attendance; and to S1W-13370 on 2 May 2001 and S1W-31063 on 2 December 2002, regarding official attendance. 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: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 6 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what its policy is on publishing information on which of its ministers and the number, grade and department of officials that attend European Union meetings.
Answer
The Executive publishes information about ministers' attendance at meetings of the Council of the European Union through post-Council reports submitted to the European Committee. These become part of the Committee papers, which are public documents and are available on the internet at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/official_report/cttee/europe.htm.I refer the member to the answers given to questions S1W-13370 on 5 December 2001 and S1W-31063 on 2 December 2002. 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: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 6 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has received about the extent to which the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea took into account the impact on white fish stocks when making recommendations for next year's industrial fishing total allowable catch limits
Answer
I have no information further to that in the recent Advisory Committee on Fishery Management report. I refer the member to the report and specifically to sections on haddock, whiting, sandeels and Norway pout.
