Question reference: S1W-00752
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 30 July 1999
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Current status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 18 August 1999
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the volume of green-house gas emissions that have been produced in Scotland (a) as a whole and (b) from each economic sector, in each of the last 10 years.
Answer
These figures are not available. In conjunction with the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, the Department of the Environment (NI) and the Welsh Assembly, we have, however, let a research contract to disaggregate UK emissions of greenhouse gases. Initially, the 1990 and 1995 totals will be disaggregated and, depending on the outcome, we shall consider if and how we should take this exercise forward in future.