- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement on enterprise networks by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth on 26 September 2007, what body or bodies will make decisions on the allocation of funding to Fife for enterprise and local economic development under the new Scottish Enterprise structure and (a) where the body will be based, (b) from which individuals and organisations it will be formed and (c) for which areas, other than Fife, the body will make such funding decisions.
Answer
These will be operationalmatters for Scottish Enterprise within the parameters set by the Cabinet Secretary’sstatement to Parliament.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement on enterprise networks by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth on 26 September 2007, whether existing Scottish Enterprise Fife staff will remain based in Fife, whether they will be given any decision-making responsibility and, if so, what decisions these will be.
Answer
These are operationalmatters for Scottish Enterprise. However, as now, decisions affecting Fife willreflect local Fife priorities and be informed by a continued Scottish Enterprisepresence in Fife.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will make a decision on whether to approve the Fife Structure Plan.
Answer
A decision will be taken after Fife Council submit proposed revisions to the Structure Plan at the end of 2007.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to ensure that Fife Council has fulfilled its statutory duties, particularly in respect of public consultation, in undertaking its strategic environmental assessment.
Answer
As the ResponsibleAuthority, it is for Fife Council to ensure it meets all statutory obligations,including those for early and effective public consultation, under strategic environmentalassessment legislation.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 5 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the justification is for allowing Fife Council to evaluate only one part of the Fife Structure Plan.
Answer
Fife Council wrote to ministers in June 2007 indicating that, because of new population and housing projections, it wished to re-appraise the housing requirements in the Structure Plan. Ministers agreed to this in July 2007.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 1 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Fife Council will have to re-evaluate the entire Fife Structure Plan following its re-evaluation of requirements for housing development.
Answer
Fife Council is currently re-appraising the housingrequirements in the structure plan which it submitted to ministers in 2006. It willsubmit the results of this process, including any resulting changes that need tobe made to other parts of the structure plan, to ministers at the end of this year.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 25 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has ruled out using private finance to pay in any way for a new Forth crossing, whether agreed (a) directly by it or (b) indirectly through the Forth Estuary Transport Authority or any other public authority.
Answer
No decision has beenmade regarding the financing of the replacement crossing.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 25 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will know whether dehumidifying the cables on the Forth Road Bridge will slow or halt the cable corrosion.
Answer
The outcome of Forth Estuary Transport Authority’s work to dehumidify the main suspension cablesis expected by 2011-12.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 25 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when its study into strengthening or replacing the cables on the Forth Road Bridge will be completed and when the results will be published.
Answer
The study into strengtheningor replacing the main cables on the Forth Road Bridge is the responsibility of the Forth EstuaryTransport Authority (FETA) who operates and maintains the bridge.
FETA expects the finaltechnical report on this during spring 2008.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 25 October 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether allowing the Forth Estuary Transport Authority to borrow to pay for the construction of a new Forth crossing would require approval from the UK Government.
Answer
I refer the memberto answer to question S3W-5114 on 25 October 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.Scottish Parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
