- 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 it intends to amend the legislation requiring all birds currently listed in Schedule 4 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to be registered and, if so, when it will lay the requisite legislation before the Parliament.
Answer
I can confirm the Scottish Government intends to amend Schedule 4 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act to reduce the number of bird species that require to be registered. We will retain seven birds of prey on the Schedule, (golden eagle, goshawk, honey buzzard, marsh harrier, white-tailed eagle, Montagu''s harrier and osprey), and we will also retain the peregrine falcon and merlin where they are not otherwise subject to CITES regulations (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species). We aim to bring forward the Order amending the Schedule within the next few months.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 14 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration ministers have given to the conclusions of The Audit of Best Value and Community Planning - Dumfries and Galloway Council report, published by Audit Scotland in March 2009.
Answer
I wrote to the leader of Dumfries and Galloway Council on 1 April 2009 setting out my comments, and to urge that the council take the necessary remedial action to address the shortcomings highlighted in their Best Value report.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is examining how to widen the sharing of corporate services and increase the harmonisation of employer arrangements between the national park authorities.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-22970 on 13 May 2009. 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: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reasons it is not progressing with stage 2 of the National Parks Review.
Answer
In November 2008, Michael Russell the then Minister for Environment announced the recommendations of the National Parks Review, and expressed the view that these had significant potential to produce improvements in the delivery of national parks policy. In the light of this and in the interests of reducing bureaucracy, he decided not to proceed with a second stage of review.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive for what reasons the National Parks Review Report was not published until November 2008.
Answer
The report of the review was published following the completion of both the report and an accompanying consultation paper.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to reduce the size of the Cairngorms National Park Authority Board.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-22970, on 13 May 2009. 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: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to increase the proportion of directly elected members on the Cairngorms National Park Authority Board.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-22970, on 13 May 2009. 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: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any national parks strategy group established by it would be chaired by a minister.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-22970 on 13 May 2009. 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: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will assess the effectiveness of the national park authorities in implementing park plans.
Answer
The National Park Plans were prepared by the National Park Authorities in partnership with many organisations, businesses and individuals. Similarly the implementation of the park plans is a collective effort and it is the National Park Authorities who are assessing progress in achieving plan outcomes for 2012. The Cairngorms National Park Authority published a progress report in 2008 and the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority will be doing so in the course of 2009.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to assess the contribution of the national park authorities to the Scottish Government’s national objectives.
Answer
The National Park Authorities operate within the context provided by the National Performance Framework: their business plans and annual reports will show their contribution to National Outcomes.
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