- 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 Richard Lochhead on 12 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, if the Conservation of Seals Act (1970) is repealed under the provisions of the Marine (Scotland) Bill, whether the National Environment Research Council will still have a statutory responsibility to provide information on the number and distribution of seals in the waters around Scotland.
Answer
The proposals in the Marine (Scotland) Bill do not remove the current statutory responsibility of the Natural Environment Research Council to provide scientific advice on matters related to the management of seal populations.
- 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 Richard Lochhead on 12 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the conditions imposed by a seal licence, alluded to in section 100(2) of the Marine (Scotland) Bill, will include a prohibition on the shooting of seals from boats or other unstable platforms.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-23458 on 12 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: Friday, 01 May 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the conditions imposed by a seal licence, alluded to in section 100(2) of the Marine (Scotland) Bill, will include a prohibition on the shooting of seals in water.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-23458 on 12 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.
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- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Marine Scotland will have a duty to promote the regeneration of the biodiversity of our inshore waters.
Answer
Section 1 of the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004 requires every public body, in exercising its functions, to further the conservation of biodiversity so far as is consistent with the proper exercise of those functions. This duty applies equally to Marine Scotland.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive when the first meeting will be of the Marine Strategy Board.
Answer
I am aiming to set up the Marine Strategy Forum by July 2009 with the first meeting taking place a few weeks later. The forum will bring together delivery partners and stakeholders with a marine interest to work across boundaries ensuring an integrated approach across Scotland.
- 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 Richard Lochhead on 11 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider the designation of a marine national park.
Answer
Where communities are supportive, ministers will consider proposals for a Marine National Park once the work to improve the wider legislative framework for the marine environment is completed. The proposals for Scottish Marine Regions may fulfil some of the purposes of a marine national park and I would anticipate that the proposed Scottish Marine Regions will consider this issue.
- 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 11 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has discussed the control of marine litter with the UK Government and the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland and Wales.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-22873 on 11 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: Thursday, 09 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 11 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the capacity of available facilities to safely capture and dispose of products containing ozone depleting substances (ODS), with particular reference to plastic foam insulation from steel-clad buildings, rather than this waste being sent to designated landfill sites.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-21461 on 10 March 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: Thursday, 09 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 11 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to identify an agency to deal with marine litter.
Answer
No separate agency is proposed. Co-ordinated work with other parts of the UK on achieving Good Environmental Status, which includes ensuring marine litter does not harm coastal and marine environments, will be taken forward in implementing the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. Marine Scotland will lead the Scottish Government''s input to this and will consider the Marine Conservation Society''s target of reducing beach litter as part of that.
The Scottish Government is supporting a range of initiatives and taking action both to prevent and to deal with the consequences of marine and coastal litter and expects local authorities and other bodies to continue to work together to take action to tackle the problem.
The Scottish Government is actively involved in discussions with the UK Government and devolved administrations on the control of marine litter. The Fishing for Litter initiative was recently considered at the British-Irish Council Environment Group on 19 April 2009. Also, the OSPAR Biodiversity Committee and its Environmental Impacts of Human Activities Working Group continues to consider the issue of marine litter.
- 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 11 May 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will work with the UK Government and the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland and Wales to develop a coordinated marine litter strategy.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-22873 on 11 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.
