- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 5 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it issues on labelling “Restricted - Advice to Ministers” on its documents.
Answer
The Scottish Executivefollows the UK’s Protective Marking System. Guidance on this Systemand on the standard descriptors which can be applied to protective markingswithin the Executive, which denote the nature of the sensitivity involved, ismade available to all Executive employees via its Intranet. Guidance is also embeddedin templates used by civil servants in preparing submissions to ministers.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 5 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is standard policy to label early drafts of its papers intended for publication as “Restricted - Advice to Ministers”.
Answer
It is policy for the Scottish Executive to apply a Protective Marking to a document that meets thecriteria as detailed in the UK’s Protective Marking System guidance. In regard tothe use of the Advice to Ministers descriptor, the Cabinet Officemaintains a core descriptor list, however Departments may devise their owndescriptors and apply them to their information. The Advice to Ministers descriptor is used by the Executive to identifypapers which need to be handled carefully and is most commonly applied topapers during the development of policy.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 5 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when the decision to publish the EU Business: Reviews of Engagement with Europe and of EU Office reports was taken.
Answer
No decision has been taken onwhether to publish the reports, as they have not yet been finalised.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 5 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drafts of the EU Business: Reviews of Engagement with Europe and of EU Office reports have been produced and, of these, how many have been circulated to ministers.
Answer
There is only one draft versionof each of the reports and these were submitted to Ministers on 29 September 2006.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 1 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many fishermen there have been in each parliamentary constituency in each of the last five years, also showing year-on year percentage changes.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-30098 on 5 December 2006, which stated that information by parliamentaryconstituency is not available. All answers to written parliamentary questionsare available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can befound at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 1 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration is being given to the provision of assistance to the owners and crews of deep water vessels.
Answer
At the December Council wesecured a six-fold quota increase for Rockall haddock in line with thescientific advice and a 10% increase in Northern shelf monkfish. Thesedevelopments will help in part to mitigate the economic impact of the decisiontaken on deep sea species at the November Council, which was necessary as thescience was very bleak and strong action had to be taken to safeguard thestocks.
We are also consideringchanges to the UK’s licensing regime, following extensive consultationwith the Fishing Vessel Licensing Review Working Group, which may offeradditional options for owners to restructure their business’s.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 31 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive to what extent the (a) Strategic Waste Fund and (b) INCREASE programme have been oversubscribed in each year since their introduction, broken down by local authority and also showing year-on-year budgets, percentage changes and national totals.
Answer
I have placed tables in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. numbers 41534 and 41535). These show the Amount of Funding Awarded to Local Authorities Through the StrategicWaste Fund – 2000-01 to 2029-2030 and the Investment in Communityrecycling and Social Enterprise (INCREASE programme).
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 31 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive to what extent applications for funding under the INCREASE waste strategy programme have exceeded the funds available, showing the numbers of successful and unsuccessful applications and the amounts involved in each case, broken down by local authority.
Answer
Through INCREASE, a total of£10 million was available. A total of £18,183,727 was applied for. £9,807,134 hasbeen awarded and £8,376,593 declined. Projects totalling £2,216,652 were withdrawn.
Further details on the informationrequested is given in Investment in Community recycling and Social Enterprise (INCREASE programme), a copyof which has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number41535).
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 31 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been allocated to each local authority from the (a) Strategic Waste Fund and (b) INCREASE programme in each year since their introduction, also showing year-on-year percentage changes and national totals.
Answer
The information requested isgiven in the Amount of Funding Awarded to Local AuthoritiesThrough the Strategic Waste Fund – 2000-01 to 2029-30 table and the Investmentin Community recycling and Social Enterprise (INCREASE programme), copies ofwhich have been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. numbers41534 and 41535).
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for Moray, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 29 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive to what extent the weed known as ranunculus poses a threat to native species in the River Spey and other rivers and whether there are any plans to eradicate, or reduce the impact of, this weed and, if so, whether it will give details of such plans.
Answer
Scottish Natural Heritage hasadvised that the spread of river water-crowfoot (Ranunculus fluitans) in the Speymay be having some impact on freshwater pearl mussel and Atlantic salmon but thatthe extent of the threat which this represents for the integrity of these speciesis not clear.
I understand that Scottish NaturalHeritage and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency will be meeting with theSpey Fishery Board in the near future to discuss the matter and possible actionsfor the management of the situation.
