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Question reference: S4O-01282

Asked by: Kevin Stewart, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 September 2012

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the possible impact on its anti-poverty strategy, what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding its contract with Atos for carrying out work capability assessments.

Question reference: S4T-00001

Asked by: Kevin Stewart, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 03 September 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 4 September 2012

To ask the Scottish Government whether Aberdeen City Council has submitted any new tax incremental financing applications since rejecting the business plan incorporating the City Garden Project.

Question reference: S4W-09078

Asked by: Kevin Stewart, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 3 September 2012

To ask the Scottish Government what communication it has received from Aberdeen City Council regarding the council's (a) review of the proposed third Don crossing and (b) plans for improvements at the Haudagain roundabout.

The Scottish Government has received no correspondence from Aberdeen City Council in relation to a review of a Third Don Crossing.

A number of meetings were held between Transport Scotland and Aberdeen City Council before the publication of the A90/A96 Haudagain Improvement - STAG Report published in July 2008.

A meeting also took place on 12 April 2012 during which officials confirmed the allocation of £3 million to take forward the design work to improve the Haudagain Roundabout.

Question reference: S4W-08782

Asked by: Kevin Stewart, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 10 August 2012
Current Status: Answered by Mr Alex Neil MSP on 15 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government how many vehicles each local authority has procured using funding from the Low Carbon Vehicle Procurement Support Scheme, broken down by engine type.

The following tables show the number and types of vehicles purchased by each local authority, and their community planning partners, in the 2 years the scheme has operated, 2010-11 and 2011-12. In 2010-11 the scheme was also opened up to wider public bodies.

2011-12 Community Planning Partnership	Electric Car	Extended Range Electric Car	Electric Van	Hybrid Van	Electric Minibus	Electric Sweeper
Aberdeen City			1			1
Aberdeenshire			1			1
Angus	2					1
Argyll & Bute			2
Clackmannanshire			4			1
Dumfries and Galloway	2	1	2
Dundee	5		7
East Ayrshire	1					1
East Dunbartonshire	3
East Lothian	3
East Renfrewshire				2
Edinburgh	4	1	8
Falkirk	6
Fife	4		9
Glasgow	3					2
Highland		4	1

Inverclyde

No grant claimed

Midlothian	2		2
Moray		2

North Ayrshire

No grant claimed

North Lanarkshire					2
Orkney				1
Outer Hebrides/Eilean Siar (CNE)	1
Perth & Kinross	5
Renfrewshire	3		2
Scottish Borders		3	3
Shetland	2			1
South Ayrshire	4
South Lanarkshire			3		2
Stirling	5

West Dunbartonshire

No grant claimed

West Lothian	2	1				1
TOTAL 130	57	12	45	2	2	12

Question reference: S4W-08584

Asked by: Kevin Stewart, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government which local authorities provide a food waste recycling service.

The following table identifies those local authorities currently providing a household food waste recycling service:

	Council	Full/Part Rollout	How is food collected?	How often?
1	Aberdeen City	Part	Food and Garden	Fortnightly
2	Aberdeenshire	Part	Separately	Weekly
3	Argyll and Bute	Part	Separately	Weekly
4	Dundee City	Part	Separately	Weekly/Fortnightly
5	East Renfrewshire	Full	Food and Garden	Weekly
6	East Ayrshire	Part	Separately	Weekly
7	Edinburgh, City of	Part	Separately	Weekly
8	Eilean Siar	Full	Food, garden, paper and card	Fortnightly
9	Fife	Part	Food and Garden	Fortnightly
10	Moray	Full	Food and Garden	Fortnightly
11	North Lanarkshire	Part	Food and Garden	Fortnightly
12	Perth and Kinross	Full	Food and Garden	Fortnightly
13	Stirling	Full	Separately	Weekly
14	West Dunbartonshire	Part	Food and Garden	Fortnightly
15	Falkirk	Part	Separately	Weekly
16	Inverclyde	Full	Separately	Weekly
17	Fife	Rollout - ongoing	Food and Garden	Fortnightly

Zero Waste Scotland has advised that rollouts of household food collection services are also planned in Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, North Lanarkshire and North Ayrshire between now and February 2013.

Question reference: S4W-08585

Asked by: Kevin Stewart, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government how much each local authority has paid in landfill tax in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S4W-08583

Asked by: Kevin Stewart, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government what business waste recycling rates have been achieved in each local authority in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S4W-08582

Asked by: Kevin Stewart, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 August 2012

To ask the Scottish Government what household recycling rates have been achieved in each local authority area in each year since 1999.

The following table gives the household recycling rate achieved in each local authority area in each year since 1999.

Household Waste Recycled or Composted (% Tonnes)

Local Authority	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
Aberdeen	6.5	6.7	9.6	16.1	19.7	21.9	22.6	22.6	25.7	30.9
Aberdeenshire	5.6	9.5	12.9	10.3	16.3	23.0	31.2	32.3	33.3	32.4
Angus	14.3	15.9	10.7	31.1	35.4	32.7	37.0	37.5	40.6	38.4
Argyll and Bute	9.2	8.2	9.8	17.8	25.4	36.6	37.7	38.8	45.1	45.4
Clackmannan	3.9	6.5	9.3	38.7	40.1	43.6	42.2	44.9	46.7	49.8
Dumfries and Galloway	3.1	3.7	5.2	6.3	11.1	24.3	31.4	36.0	39.7	43.2
Dundee	5.7	11.1	12.4	27.6	31.5	30.0	32.4	34.7	37.5	30.3
East Ayrshire	2.4	3.2	6.2	19.0	33.8	37.2	44.1	44.2	45.1	46.0
E. Dunbartonshire	7.5	10.4	15.4	16.7	24.7	30.8	31.3	32.0	34.5	39.7
East Lothian	6.3	12.7	14.9	18.9	29.3	28.0	32.5	35.6	36.5	39.5
East Renfrewshire	7.9	13.3	21.4	29.3	32.4	33.4	36.8	40.5	38.0	47.4
Edinburgh	5.6	6.5	12.1	17.3	22.1	24.6	27.6	30.0	31.5	29.5
Eilean Siar	3.7	1.3	1.1	10.4	12.7	19.2	23.1	20.3	23.1	21.8
Falkirk	5.0	5.3	9.3	20.1	30.9	35.9	33.8	39.2	40.9	47.5
Fife	1.9	5.4	17.9	25.7	32.2	35.0	41.7	45.4	47.9	49.4
Glasgow	3.6	5.5	6.0	8.4	12.3	13.7	15.1	16.4	18.8	22.5
Highland	2.8	3.4	7.3	11.9	24.6	31.9	37.3	40.1	41.6	41.1
Inverclyde	3.9	4.7	5.6	7.1	21.7	24.0	24.9	33.6	36.8	36.9
Midlothian	3.9	4.4	5.0	5.0	23.1	34.0	38.2	39.5	43.4	46.3
Moray	4.4	8.4	16.1	17.8	28.7	36.4	41.0	40.9	39.8	41.3
North Ayrshire	6.6	14.5	23.6	27.7	30.4	28.9	34.7	39.9	46.7	48.5
North Lanarkshire	3.1	7.3	13.7	14.4	29.6	31.4	35.3	42.2	46.3	46.1
Orkney Islands	22.2	18.7	20.3	18.3	17.2	20.8	29.2	38.9	36.6	36.4
Perth and Kinross	16.6	19.1	20.9	26.4	34.7	34.9	37.0	38.0	43.4	48.0
Renfrewshire	5.2	9.2	11.1	16.4	25.3	29.3	31.2	31.7	38.8	44.1
Scottish Borders	12.8	11.1	12.9	7.8	17.8	29.2	36.5	40.9	43.4	45.8
Shetland Islands	10.5	23.3	29.6	9.3	9.6	17.3	19.2	22.7	19.3	19.5
South Ayrshire	4.7	4.9	6.8	19.3	33.5	38.7	45.2	48.0	51.2	47.3
South Lanarkshire	7.1	5.8	18.7	27.3	31.5	31.0	32.2	35.8	36.7	34.7
Stirling	10.1	8.9	15.1	28.0	34.6	39.0	42.4	44.7	46.8	51.1
West Dunbartonshire	5.7	6.6	7.4	11.5	29.7	37.7	35.7	33.8	33.9	41.5
West Lothian	6.5	6.8	12.4	17.5	27.2	37.1	37.1	43.3	44.3	47.5
Scotland average	5.7	7.7	12.2	17.8	25.5	29.2	32.6	35.4	38.0	40.3

Sources: SEPA Local authority Waste Arisings Survey (LAWAS) and WasteDataFlow.

Data for 2001-02 to 2003-04 calculated from Table 2 in Waste Data Digests 3, 4 and 5. Note: waste collected at civic amenity sites has been assumed to be 100% household

Data from 2004-05 to 2010-11 from Zero waste Plan Table 7: http://www.sepa.org.uk/waste/waste_data/zero_waste_plan_data.aspx.

Question reference: S4W-08670

Asked by: Kevin Stewart, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 July 2012

To ask the Scottish Government how many advocacy services have been put out to competitive tendering in the last year and how many were won by local organisations.

This information is not held centrally.

Commissioning of advocacy services is a matter for local authorities and NHS boards as they have responsibility, within their respective areas, for provision of advocacy for those who need it.

Guidance on the Procurement of Care and Support Services by public bodies in Scotland published jointly by the Scottish Government and COSLA in September 2012 is available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/09/21100130/0.

Question reference: S4W-08672

Asked by: Kevin Stewart, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 July 2012

To ask the Scottish Government how much public money was spent on advocacy in the last year, broken down by (a) NHS board and (b) local authority and also expressed per head of population.