- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-24398 by Roseanna Cunningham on 9 June 2009, whether an order changing the regulation of snaring has been laid before the Parliament.
Answer
I expect to lay an Order before Parliament very shortly which will make changes to the regulation of snaring in Scotland.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will monitor the proportion of (a) paper, (b) metal, (c) plastic, (d) glass, (e) food and (f) waste oils discarded by public sector bodies.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-27165 on 22 September 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, 10 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made, or will make, an estimate of the financial costs to local authorities of achieving zero waste.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-27165 on 22 September 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, 10 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will report on progress towards achieving zero waste.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-27165 on 22 September 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: Monday, 24 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 17 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial assistance is available for students over the age of 55 wishing to study Higher National Diploma courses.
Answer
Information relating to financial assistance available to students over the age of 55 wishing to study Higher National courses is available from the Student Awards Agency for Scotland. Please refer to their website
http://www.saas.gov.uk/.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 17 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is concerned about the uptake of school meals.
Answer
This question was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0917-01.htm
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Police (Injury Benefit) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 require a police authority to demand information regarding benefits paid by the UK Government to a former police officer in receipt of a police injury pension.
Answer
In determining the entitlement to an injury award in any given week, the regulations require police authorities to take into account entitlement to any additional benefits payable in that same week, including those paid by the UK Government. Consequently, police authorities actively seek that information in order to ensure that the former officer will receive the amount of Injury Benefit to which he or she is entitled.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Police (Injury Benefit) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 require a former police officer in receipt of a police injury pension to make periodic declarations regarding the level of benefits paid by the UK Government as a result of an injury sustained at work.
Answer
As police authorities are required to reduce the amount of an injury award in line with the former police officer''s entitlement to any additional benefits, they may require the beneficiaries to update them with information in order that the authority may fulfil its statutory duty to pay the correct award.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what powers a police authority has to force a former police officer in receipt of a police injury pension to disclose information regarding benefits paid by the UK Government as a result of an injury sustained at work.
Answer
Paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to the regulations requires police authorities to reduce an injury award by the amount of any entitlement to defined benefits payable by the UK Government. Given that former police officers benefit from these provisions there is a clear expectation that former police officers will provide police authorities with the necessary information to allow them to determine and pay the appropriate amount of injury benefit.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 11 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how reducing the number of pupils eligible for the Education Maintenance Allowance by over 6,000 per year is consistent with its desire for a better-educated Scotland.
Answer
Based on an analysis of recipients of EMA in academic year 2007-08, it is estimated that around 3,700 young people will not qualify for an Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) due to the removal of £10 and £20 payments.
We know from previous research carried out under the last administration that some young people would have stayed on at school regardless of EMA and that the maximum £30 award has a greater impact on young people''s participation than the £10 or £20 awards.
We also know that some of our most vulnerable young people “ from the lowest income families “ do not want to stay at school and are not ready to go to college. That is why we are reinvesting the money saved from refocusing the EMA in developing our pilots of Activity Agreements.
For some of our most vulnerable young people, learning in a community or third sector setting will be the best option when they reach their school leaving age. Activity Agreements will, for the first time, treat this as a genuinely mainstream option for young people and improve the way they and their families are supported.
