- 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.
- 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: Thursday, 09 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to hold a meeting with organisations from the demolition industry in order to increase awareness of the safe disposal of demolition waste such as plastic foam insulation containing ozone depleting substances (ODS) from steel-clad buildings.
Answer
A Scottish Government official will attend a meeting in the summer with the UK Government and representatives of the building and demolition industries from across the UK.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 13 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that a meeting with organisations from the demolition industry would be beneficial in raising awareness of the safe disposal of plastic foam insulation containing ozone depleting substances (ODS) from steel-clad buildings and, if so, which organisations would be invited and what the terms of reference would be.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-22922 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 considers that there is a need to increase the availability of affordable housing in the Cairngorms National Park.
Answer
This is a matter for the Cairngorms National Park Authority to address in the Park Plan and the Local Development Plan. The Cairngorms Park Plan specifies affordable and sustainable housing as one of its seven priorities for action. The last annual report on delivery of the National Park Plan (2007-2008) sets out action taken to date on this issue, and is available through the following link
http://www.cairngorms.co.uk/nationalparkplan/abouttheplan/ The Cairngorms Local Plan (currently entering its Public Inquiry phase) sets out policies for increasing affordable housing in the area.
- 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 considering changing the planning powers of the national park authorities.
Answer
Changes to implement the Scottish Government''s modernisation and improvement of the planning system are in the process of being introduced. This will affect every planning authority in Scotland. There are no specific plans to change the planning powers of the national park authorities.
- 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 considers that increasing the availability of employment for local young people in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park should be a priority.
Answer
In the National Parks, as elsewhere, the lead authorities responsible for supporting young people into work, and creating routes to employment include Scottish Enterprise, Skills Scotland, Job Centre Plus and each of the four local authorities. Both National Park Authorities are addressing the issue of the employment of young people through a number of initiatives and in the formulation of their Park Plans and Local Development Plans.
- 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 considering the designation of additional national parks.
Answer
Ministers have no immediate plans to bring forward proposals for designation of new national parks.
- 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.
