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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S3W-21766

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) enforcement notices and (b) prosecutions have been made for the improper disposal of plastic foam insulation containing ozone depleting substances (ODS) from steel-clad buildings.

Question reference: S3W-21764

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions resulted from the illegal disposal of plastic foam insulation containing ozone depleting substances (ODS) from steel-clad buildings in each year since 2004.

Question reference: S3W-21880

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of the 2008 woodfuel demand and usage data published by Forestry Commission Scotland, whether it will consider amending the Scottish Biomass Support Scheme to include reducing waste wood in landfill as a key driver.

The Scottish Biomass Heat Scheme does not support projects which would use treated waste wood as this is subject to tighter regulations and is out with the State Aid rules for the Scheme. However, the Scottish Biomass Heat Scheme can support projects using clean wood produced from timber processing activities which has not entered the waste stream. In fact, applications have been received for such projects and these will be considered by the Advisory Panel for the Scottish Biomass Heat Scheme which meets in April.

Question reference: S3W-21768

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 19 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list each area that has been designated as having pressured area status and when its designation will expire.

There are currently 13 pressured area designations in force across 11 local authority areas. These areas are listed below together with their expiry dates.

1. East Renfrewshire (Eastwood area) - 7 October 2010.

2. Highland (all areas excluding Caithness, Sutherland and some estates in Inverness and Fort William) - 15 November 2010.

3. South Ayrshire (29 letting areas comprising much of Prestwick and Ayr, and rural settlements) - 10 February 2011.

4. Moray (Elgin, Lossiemouth and Forres rural) - 7 March 2011.

5. Fife (for St Andrews and East Neuk) - 8 May 2011.

6. Dumfries and Galloway (69 villages of population less than 400 across the local authority area) - 5 June 2011.

7. Fife (13 West Fife villages) - 15 January 2012.

8. Perth and Kinross (21 letting areas across Highland Perthshire and in the rural areas around Perth) - 2 February 2012.

9. Aberdeen City (35 letting areas across the city) - 5 September 2012.

10. North Ayrshire (11 letting areas) “ 14 May 2013.

11. Aberdeenshire (88 letting areas) “ 6 November 2013.

12. North Lanarkshire (Cumbernauld and Moodiesburn) - 2 February 2014.

13. Moray (Forres letting area) “ 17 February 2014.

Question reference: S3W-21765

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance or instruction the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) gives to landfill operators to ensure that construction waste does not contain hazardous substances such as plastic foam insulation containing ozone depleting substances (ODS) from steel-clad buildings.

Question reference: S3W-21576

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 16 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether energy produced by anaerobic digestion will be included in its cap of not more that 25% of waste being treated as energy from waste by 2020.

Question reference: S3W-20364

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 30 January 2009
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 16 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what recent discussions it has had with Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ministers in relation to (a) changes to the Forestry Act 1967 and its operation in Scotland and (b) proposals in the Climate Change (Scotland) Bill regarding the Forestry Commissioners.

Question reference: S3W-21575

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 13 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it consider anaerobic digestion to be energy from waste.

Question reference: S3W-21577

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 March 2009
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 13 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is considering introducing further provisions to designate no-take zones in inshore fisheries in its forthcoming Marine Bill.

Question reference: S3W-21462

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 10 March 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive who is responsible for the safe disposal of plastic foam insulation containing ozone depleting substances (ODS) in steel-clad buildings when these buildings are being demolished.