- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 December 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Derek Mackay on 12 January 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what sanctions can be applied to an industrial operation that operates outwith the hours permitted under its planning conditions.
Answer
Enforcement of planning control is a matter for the planning authority in the first instance. There is a wide range of enforcement powers in planning legislation. These include issuing a notice requiring the submission of a retrospective planning application and requiring the cessation of operations or the demolition of buildings.
Planning authorities have discretion to determine what power, or combination of powers, to use in any particular situation.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 December 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Derek Mackay on 12 January 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that the neighbour notification scheme provides adequate public involvement in the decision-making process regarding large-scale developments such as quarries.
Answer
Neighbour notification is only one of the publicity and consultation requirements associated with planning applications and is intended for those in the immediate vicinity of a proposed development. Others include a statutory requirement for pre-application consultation for certain categories of development, publication of weekly lists of planning applications, consultation with community councils and advertisement in a local newspaper in certain circumstances.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 December 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Derek Mackay on 12 January 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to review the neighbour notification scheme.
Answer
The Scottish Government proposes to consult on potential changes to the neighbour notification scheme in 2012.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 December 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Aileen Campbell on 16 December 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with (a) COSLA, (b) the third sector and (c) the NHS regarding the Early Years and Early Intervention Change Fund.
Answer
COSLA, the third sector and NHS Scotland are all represented on the Early Years Task Force, which will oversee the use of the Early Years and Early Intervention Change Fund. The first meeting of the task force was held on 8 November 2011, as part of the ongoing discussion on how best to lead and implement a preventative spend approach in Scotland.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 December 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Aileen Campbell on 16 December 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the money set out on page 59 of the Scottish Spending Review 2011 and Draft Budget 2012-13 for implementing Getting it Right for Every Child is new money.
Answer
The investment in the Early Years and Early Intervention Change Fund and the other Change Funds represents the Scottish Government and NHS Scotland’s intention to move existing resource to where it makes the most difference, by supporting a prevention and early intervention agenda.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 December 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Aileen Campbell on 16 December 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-03880 by Angela Constance on 17 November 2011, how much of the £272 million it will provide and how much will be provided by (a) local authorities and (b) the NHS in each year of the current spending review period.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-04325 on 16 December 2011. 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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 December 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Aileen Campbell on 16 December 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects agreements to be reached between local authorities and NHS boards regarding their contributions to the Early Years and Early Intervention Change Fund.
Answer
Agreements will be reached in line with guidance from the Early Years Taskforce.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 December 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Aileen Campbell on 16 December 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-03568 by John Swinney on 8 November 2011, how the Early Years and Early Intervention Change Fund will be divided across each (a) portfolio and (b) year of the current spending review period.
Answer
The final breakdowns across portfolios and over time will be subject to local decisions between delivery partners.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 December 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Aileen Campbell on 16 December 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how the Early Years and Early Intervention Change Fund will be allocated, broken down by budget line.
Answer
<>I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-04325 on 16 December 2011. 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/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 December 2011
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 15 December 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact the revised pay and conditions agreed by the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers in May 2011 has had on the availability of short-term supply teachers to schools in each local autthority and how it has monitored this.
Answer
The Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SNCT) is committed to monitoring the implementation of all aspects of the agreement, including short-term supply, and the Scottish Government will play its full part in that through our representation on the Committee.