- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 4 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it plans to take to ensure that any barriers to the development of anaerobic digestion projects are identified so that plans can be made to overcome them.
Answer
The Scottish Government is keen to encourage the development of anaerobic digestion projects in Scotland. Any barriers would vary depending in particular on the size and location of the plant and the nature of the feedstock. However, anaerobic digestion is one of the processes on which the Scottish Government has engaged the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to provide advice on potential obstacles and how these may be overcome.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 4 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the roles of the local Offices will be in the new VisitScotland region into which VisitOrkney will be absorbed under the reorganisation of VisitScotland, outlining the work carried out in each local office.
Answer
This is an operational matter for VisitScotland and I have asked the Chief Executive to write to you on this matter.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 4 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what changes to the staffing of the Kirkwall office of VisitOrkney will result from the reorganisation of VisitScotland.
Answer
This is an operational matter for VisitScotland and I have asked the Chief Executive to write to you on this matter.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 4 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what changes to the role of the Kirkwall office of VisitOrkney will result from the reorganisation of VisitScotland.
Answer
This is an operational matter for VisitScotland and I have asked the Chief Executive to write to you on this matter.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 4 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the staffing will be of the new VisitScotland region into which VisitOrkney will be absorbed under the reorganisation of VisitScotland, outlining where each of the staff will be based.
Answer
This is an operational matter for VisitScotland and I have asked the Chief Executive to write to you on this matter.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 4 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the organisational structure will be of the new VisitScotland region into which VisitOrkney will be absorbed under the reorganisation of VisitScotland.
Answer
This is an operational matter for VisitScotland and I have asked the Chief Executive to write to you on this matter.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 19 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial savings are expected to result from the reorganisation of VisitScotland.
Answer
VisitScotland has estimated that savings within the range £1.2 million to £1.6 million each year will be delivered from the current internal reorganisation of its structure.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 5 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-5432 by Jim Mather on 1 November 2007, whether it is able to give more specific dates for the completion of planned upgrades to the telephone exchanges on (a) Eday and (b) Stronsay, due to take place during the first quarter of 2008.
Answer
We are working withBT to deliver the upgrades to Eday and Stronsay exchanges in March 2008. Any updatesto dates for our upgrade programme of Exchange Activate exchanges will be announcedon our website at
www.broadbandforscotland.co.uk.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 4 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to publish its energy strategy.
Answer
The preparation ofan overview of the Scottish Government’s energy policy is on-going and we intendto place such an overview on our website shortly.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 1 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it agrees with the Ofgem proposal to use the money raised through a windfall tax on energy companies to introduce measures targeted at addressing the problems of fuel poverty; if so, how it would envisage any such measures being taken forward in Scotland and, if not, what alternative proposals it has for the use in Scotland of the funds raised.
Answer
We think that this proposal from Ofgem merits consideration. We will want to discuss with the UK government their response to it. Were this proposal to be implemented, we would expect Scotland to receive an agreed share of any resources which were raised by this proposal.
