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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
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Question reference: S1W-00378

Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 June 1999
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 2 July 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to invite the Scottish film industry to propose measures which the Executive may implement to help the industry to develop and prosper.

Question reference: S1O-00181

Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 24 June 1999
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 2 July 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to invite the Scottish film industry to propose measures which the Executive may implement to help the industry to develop and prosper.

Question reference: S1W-00144

Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 1999
Current Status: Answered by John Home Robertson on 29 June 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to make available details of any agreement reached during its recent meeting with the Scottish Salmon Growers Association and the Shetland Salmon Farmers Association to discuss the Infectious Salmon Anaemia crisis currently affecting the salmon farming industry.

Question reference: S1W-00019

Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 June 1999
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 15 June 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the First Minister would welcome a meeting with a delegation representing Scotland's fish processing industry with a view to assisting their campaign for a moratorium on the measures proposed for the implementation of the European Urban Waste Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC).

Question reference: S1W-00017

Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 June 1999
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 15 June 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends after 1 July to request a meeting with Scotland's water authorities to convey the concerns of Scotland's fish processing industry over the implementation of measures including new charges in connection with the European Urban Waste Directive (91/271/EEC).

Question reference: S1W-00016

Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 June 1999
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 15 June 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to provide the Parliament with an estimate of the likely additional costs to Scotland's fish processing industry of measures proposed to implement the European Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC) as soon as possible after 1 July.

I understand that the water authorities have been consulting industrial dischargers, including the fish processing industry, about the effects of implementing the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive. Much of the fish processing industry is in the area covered by the North of Scotland Water Authority, which has provided individual firms with estimates of the charge increases they will face over the next three years, if they take no action to reduce the amount and strength of the effluent they produce. I understand that the fish processing industry, with assistance from the North of Scotland Water Authority, local authorities, Grampian Enterprise Company and the Seafish Industry Authority, has commissioned consultants to report by August on ways to reduce these charges.

Question reference: S1W-00018

Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 June 1999
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 15 June 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends after 1 July to request Scotland's water authorities to refrain from signing any contracts in connection with relevant measures relating to the implementation of the European Urban Waste Water Directive (91/271/EEC) until a full review has been undertaken of the impact on Scotland's fish processing industry and its findings considered.

To introduce a delay in signing these contracts would almost certainly lead to the water authorities failing to meet the statutory requirements imposed by the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive. Clearly the water authorities must continue to plan to comply with their statutory obligations. Failure to do so would leave the UK open to infraction proceedings by the European Commission; any subsequent fines would fall to be met by the Scottish Executive.

This issue is particularly relevant to the North of Scotland Water Authority. I am aware that the Authority is working in partnership with the fish processing industry to find ways to minimise the cost implications arising from compliance with the Directive.

Question reference: S1W-00007

Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 May 1999
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 9 June 1999

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the First Minister will urgently meet with Scottish fishermens' leaders to discuss the Scottish Adjacent Water Boundaries Order (S.I. 1999/1126) and its implications for Scotland.