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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: S2W-14764

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to involve people with experience of poverty and social exclusion in the monitoring of Closing the Opportunity Gap's targets and objectives and how it will report on any activity undertaken in this area.

All departments have been asked to develop plans for involving service users and those with experience of poverty and social exclusion in the delivery of their targets. In addition, the Poverty Alliance are currently developing a programme of work that will enable the views of those with direct experience of poverty and social exclusion to be fed into the policy development, monitoring and review process.

Question reference: S2W-14602

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are living in residential caravans or mobile homes on unprotected sites.

Question reference: S2W-14608

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people renting caravans or mobile homes in the social rented sector or privately have tenancy agreements.

Question reference: S2W-14607

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will collect information on the reasons why people, with the exception of gypsies/travellers, live in caravans and mobile homes.

Question reference: S2W-14605

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many households living in residential caravans or mobile homes, excluding gypsies/travellers, do not have access to (a) water, (b) heating and (c) electricity.

Question reference: S2W-14606

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of caravans or mobile homes is (a) owned outright, (b) privately rented and (c) social rented.

Question reference: S2W-14604

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many residential caravans or mobile homes are situated on licensed sites.

Question reference: S2W-14603

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 21 February 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 March 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many households are housed in caravans or mobile homes by local authorities in meeting their duties to homeless people, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S2W-13940

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 11 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken following the decisions of the Transport and the Environment Committee and the European Parliament's Petitions Committee to call for the closure of the cattle incinerator in Carntyne, Glasgow.

There has been significant and continuing improvement in the environmental record of the Carntyne incinerator since the committees submitted their reports in 2003. Specific measures to upgrade odour abatement systems have been installed, and improved monitoring equipment and systems introduced. The incinerator now complies fully with all relevant environmental standards. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), which regulates the incinerator, has been asked to submit regular reports to the Executive confirming details of any complaint received by the agency concerning the plant’s operations, togetherwith the action SEPA and the company are taking to address the complaint. We expect SEPA to take robust enforcement action in the event of any future breaches of the incinerator’s authorisation.

The Executive has also commissioned research on the interaction between land use planning and environmental regulation, which was published in October 2004. This report makes a number of detailed recommendations which are being carefully considered by ministers. The report can be found at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/planning/iblu-00.asp.

Question reference: S2W-13771

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 24 January 2005
Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 2 February 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will respond to the report published in October 2004 by the Working Group on Hate Crime.