- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 4 June 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive when fees for legal representatives at Children’s Hearings were last (a) increased and (b) reviewed.
Answer
The fees for legal representatives at Children''s Hearings were set at the introduction of the scheme in 2002. These have not been reviewed or increased since that time.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 4 June 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what changes are under consideration for the provision of legal representation in the forthcoming Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Bill.
Answer
It is our intention that the Children''s Hearings (Scotland) Bill will propose a permanent scheme to manage the provision of state-funded legal representation in Children''s Hearings.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 4 June 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) three-and (b) four-year-olds in Dumfries and Galloway are receiving their entitlement to free pre-school education in 2009-10.
Answer
The 2009 pre-school and child care statistics will be available in September.
Table 22 of the 2008 statistics shows the percentage of children who are registered with each local authority. This can be viewed on the Scottish Government''s website at the following address:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/09/12150803/29.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 27 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it makes funding available to groups such as inshore rescue for the purchase of equipment, for example lifeboats that adhere to the new regulations to be introduced by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
Answer
No specific Scottish Government funding available to groups for the purchase of inshore rescue equipment. However, Scottish Government has spent £262,000 over the past six years on water related equipment, including rescue boats, to enhance the response from Fire and Rescue Services to flooding.
Fire and Rescue Services also receive a Fire (LA) capital allocation of £20.2 million allocated amongst each of the eight FRS for 2009-10 to maintain or improve their operational capability. Decisions on the allocation of this funding are properly a matter for individual Fire and Rescue Services.
My colleague, Fergus Ewing, recently initiated a Review of Scotland''s Water Capabilities which will examine the resources and capabilities of the range of agencies involved in water rescue events and the operational and legal basis to their involvement. Funding considerations will be an underpinning aspect of the review.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 27 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-22989 by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 May 2009, whether the Central Science Laboratory’s assessment of the effectiveness of using falcons to deter gulls in Dumfries town centre will include the effect on gull populations outwith Dumfries town centre, such as the Georgetown and Lochside areas of Dumfries.
Answer
Regular monitoring of all known nest sites both within the town centre and the surrounding areas, such as the Georgetown and Lochside areas, will be undertaken throughout the trial period and immediately after the trial has ended. The data collected on numbers and locations of nest sites will be compared with data for previous years as part of the analysis to determine the effectiveness of the trial and any effects on gull nest sites elsewhere in the Dumfries area.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 27 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reasons Dumfries and Galloway Council’s application in 2008 to dredge and remove gravel beds in the River Nith at Dumfries town centre was refused.
Answer
The application CAR/L/103362 made by Dumfries and Galloway Council under the Controlled Activities Regulations (2005) was advertised by Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) as required by the Regulations. The application, together with the responses and SEPA''s Notice of Refusal, is contained in the Public Register held by SEPA at their Edinburgh Office, Clearwater House, Heriot Watt Research Park, Avenue North, Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AP, tel: 0131 449 7296.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 27 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the responses to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency’s consultation on the application by Dumfries and Galloway Council in 2008 to dredge and remove gravel beds in the River Nith at Dumfries town centre are publicly available.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-23834 on 27 May 2009. All answers on 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: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 27 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what agencies were consulted regarding Dumfries and Galloway Council’s application in 2008 to dredge and remove gravel beds in the River Nith at Dumfries town centre.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-23834 on 27 May 2009. All answers on 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: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether breeders of peregrine falcons will be required to register any young produced in 2009.
Answer
The legislation under the Wildlife and Countryside Act will continue to apply to all species currently listed under Schedule 4 of that act until an amending Order is brought forward for consideration by Parliament. There are no plans to make any Order amending Schedule 4 retrospective in effect.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether breeders of peregrine falcons will be required to pay for both the registration of young birds and the new Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species charges.
Answer
Breeders of peregrine falcons which are subject to both Schedule 4 registration and Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) controls will be required to pay both charges.
