- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 9 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the total number of wind turbines is located in the Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley constituency.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question to S3W-31066 on 9 February 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 9 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of jobs related to wind farm developments is located in Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley constituency.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 9 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on whether there is a maximum number of wind farms that local communities can sustain.
Answer
Planning authorities should set out in development plans a spatial framework for onshore wind farms of over 20 megawatts generating capacity. This should identify areas where the cumulative impact of existing and consented wind farms limits further development.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 9 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of primary school pupils has access to a school-based credit union savings scheme.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 9 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many jobs have been created by wind farm developments.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
However, analysis for the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills suggests that there are around 8,000 jobs in the wind energy sector in Scotland.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 February 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 9 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to offer vaccinations to prevent shingles in older people.
Answer
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has recommended that a herpes zoster (shingles) vaccination programme be introduced to vaccinate people aged between 70 and 79, if a licensed vaccine is available at cost effective price.
The Scottish Government is now working with the Department of Health and the other devolved administrations on a procurement exercise to establish whether a cost effective vaccine can be obtained.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 4 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what support it is providing for the establishment of credit unions in schools.
Answer
The Scottish Centre for Financial Education is actively encouraging pupils'' understanding of the role of credit unions through the provision of teacher support materials, training events and conferences. The credit union movement is represented on the National Numeracy Network''s Financial Education Strategy Review Group.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 4 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many schools in (a) Scotland, (b) East Ayrshire and (c) South Ayrshire have a dedicated school nurse.
Answer
Information on the number of schools in Scotland with a dedicated school nurse is not held by the Scottish Government. However, each school in Scotland has a named nurse with whom the school will liaise on health issues. Figures recently published show an increase of 16% from 2007 to 2009 in the number of whole time equivalent school nurses in Scotland.
Each of the 17 secondary schools, 89 primary schools and six special educational needs schools in East and South Ayrshire have a named school nurse.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 4 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the £547,000 awarded to East Ayrshire Council from the Zero Waste Fund can be used for any purpose other than making progress toward meeting the 2013 Landfill Directive.
Answer
East Ayrshire have been awarded a total of £674,000 for 2010-11 from the Scottish Government for Zero Waste, this includes the Zero Waste Operational Grant, Zero Waste Capital Grant and the consolidated funding from the former Strategic Waste Fund. Funding to local authorities is no longer ring-fenced and local authorities have the flexibility to allocate resources on the basis of local needs and priorities. As landfill tax continues to increase and doing nothing will cost local authorities more both environmentally and financially, I would encourage them to use Zero Waste funding for the purpose for which it was intended.
- Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 4 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is satisfied that all rural communities in Ayrshire are adequately served by public transport.
Answer
Public transport provision is a matter for the local authorities, Strathclyde Partnership for Transport and individual transport operators in the first instance.
The Scottish Government is supporting bus operations in a number of ways, including the promotion of Statutory Quality Partnerships, Punctuality Improvement Partnerships, and the appointment of a Senior Bus Development Advisor. On rail, we are working with First ScotRail to take forward the Rolling Stock Procurement Programme, which will directly improve rail services in Ayrshire.
