- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 21 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what advice it has taken on offering a bounty for a cull of grey squirrels and whether it will take any action on this issue.
Answer
During the Squirrel conferenceI hosted in February this year I asked Scottish Natural Heritage and the ForestryCommission Scotland to form a working group to advise me how best to conserve thered squirrel population in Scotland and to prepare proposals for an action plan. I understandthat the group considered a range of possible approaches to grey squirrel controland that they concluded that a bounty scheme would not be able to achieve the necessarytargeting of effort and would not provide good value for the use of public money.The group also expressed concerns about the potential public safety and animal welfareimplications.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 17 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-26309 by Tavish Scott on 13 June 2006, whether it will carry out a new study into the feasibility and cost of dualling the A9 in its entirety between Perth and Inverness.
Answer
We are undertakinga Strategic Transport Projects Review (STPR) which will provide an opportunity toconsider future strategic investment priorities for all modes of transport acrossthe whole transport network in Scotland, includingtransport corridors, such as the A9 between Perth and Inverness. In addition to the Perth – Inverness corridor, being assessed through the (STPR).
I recently announcedthe outcome of the Route Action Strategy Study between Perth and Blair Atholl which identified £165million worth of potential long-term improvement work on the southern section of the A9 and recommended that more detailed analysis on this be carried out to confirmthe practicality. I have agreed to this further work being done to fully assessthe implications and practicalities of dualling between Perth and Pitlochry, provision of safe overtakingopportunities and reconstruction along this important, but environmentally sensitiveroute.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 16 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many planning applications for hydro schemes under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 from (a) public limited companies and (b) private companies and other bodies since 1999 (i) have been refused and (ii) are still to be determined.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-27488 on 16 August 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: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 16 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many planning applications it has received for hydro schemes under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 from (a) public limited companies and (b) private companies and other bodies since 1999.
Answer
Twenty applications for consentunder section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 have been received since 1999, in respectof hydro schemes. Of these, 15 were made by public limited companies and five byprivate companies or others.
The details of all section 36hydro applications received since 1999 are outlined in the following table.
| | Plc | Private/Others | Total |
| Applications received | 15 | 5 | 20 |
| Refused | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Withdrawn | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Consented | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| To be determined | 5 | 2 | 7 |
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 16 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7804 by Lewis Macdonald on 11 May 2004, how many consents for hydro schemes under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 it has granted to (a) public limited companies and (b) private companies and other bodies since 1999.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-27488 on 16 August 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: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 28 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were employed in the manufacturing sector in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. It is for each local authority to consider in the context of their ownspending priorities.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 28 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how many full-time equivalent civil servants were employed in Scotland in each year since 1997, broken down into those employed by (a) the Executive and associated agencies and (b) all other civil service departments and agencies in Scotland.
Answer
The full-time equivalentnumber of civil servants employed on 31 March in each year is shown in thefollowing table:
| Year | Scottish Executive and Agencies | Other Civil Service1 |
| 1999 | 13,144.3 | 30,800 |
| 2000 | 13,488.3 | 31,300 |
| 2001 | 13,365.2 | 31,900 |
| 2002 | 13,870.1 | 31,900 |
| 2003 | 14,526.1 | 31,900 |
| 2004 | 14,922.5 | 33,500 |
| 2005 | 15,103.1 | 31,700 |
| 2006 | 15,263.0 | 31,300 |
Note:1. Source: Public Sector Employment in Scotland:Statistics for Q1 2006.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 28 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many full-time equivalent staff were employed by non departmental public bodies in each year since 1997.
Answer
Information on staff numbersemployed by NDPBs between 1999 and 2006 is published as part of the Public Sector Employment Quarterly Estimates. The latest version is available at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/06/29112448/0.Prior to 1999, informationon NDPB staff numbers was published in the annual Cabinet Office publicationpublic bodies. Copies of the 1997 and 1998 versions are available from:
http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/caboff/bodies97/tables/so-exb.htm.http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/caboff/pb98/contents.htm.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 29 June 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 27 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many times since his appointment the Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning has met officials of Scottish Enterprise in its headquarters in Glasgow.
Answer
I shall reply to the member as soon as possible.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 21 July 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S2W-14287 by Mr Jim Wallace on 2 March 2005 and S2W-25993 by Nicol Stephen on 8 June 2006, why there is discrepancy between the two figures given for total manufacturing employment in 2004.
Answer
The difference between thetwo figures provided for parliamentary questions S2W-14287 and S2W-25993 iscaused by the fact that they were answered using different sources and usingdifferent definitions. Different sources were used due to the differences inthe questions asked in the two parliamentary questions.
The data used in the answerto parliamentary question S2W-14287 were taken from the Labour Force Survey(LFS) which is a survey of individuals in the UK looking at varioussocio-economic issues. This source was used as the parliamentary question requesteddata on employment in the manufacturing industry which includes employees, thosewho are self employed, unpaid family workers and those on a government trainingscheme. The LFS is the preferred source for data on employment.
The data used in the answerto parliamentary question S2W-25993 were taken from the Annual Business Inquiry(ABI) which is an annual survey of businesses. This source was used as the parliamentaryquestion requested data on those employed within the manufacturing industry. TheABI provides information on employees and is the preferred source for data onemployees by industry. The ABI does not collect information on self employment.
All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament's website the search facility forwhich can be at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
