- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 21 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-28237 and S3W-29561 by John Swinney on 4 November and 8 December 2009 respectively, what discussions it has had with local authorities in the last 10 years regarding the legal authority with which they are operating and managing their allotments.
Answer
The Scottish Government has no record of discussions with local authorities in the last 10 years regarding the legal authority with which they operate and manage their allotments. This is a matter for local authorities as independent corporate bodies.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the condition of docks and wharfs since 1999.
Answer
Scottish ministers have no responsibility for assessing the condition of port assets. However, individual port operators and owners with statutory powers would be expected to review their condition on a regular basis to ensure that they comply with their obligations to maintain their harbours.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Johnstone on 21 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how much it has been spent on bottled water in each year since 1999.
Answer
Since we introduced tap water as an option, consumption of bottled water has fallen significantly at Parliament. The SPCB only provides bottled water for meetings including committees and the Debating Chamber. We have provided costs from 2003, as we no longer hold records of bottled water purchased prior to this year. To be helpful and to provide more accurate comparison we have included the number of bottles consumed, as the price of bottled water increases year-on-year.
| | Total Costs | 330ml Bottles | 1 Litre Bottles |
| 2003 | £2,086.61 | 4,744 | 1,229 |
| 2004 | £4,265.82 | 10,051 | 2,155 |
| 2005 | £5,738.60 | 11,996 | 3,064 |
| 2006 | £8,889.51 | 23,640 | 2,666 |
| 2007 | £6,707.20 | 13,430 | 2,916 |
| 2008 | £7,784.85 | 19,209 | 1,647 |
| 2009 | £7,086.10 | 16,583 | 1,221 |
In September 2009 we introduced tap water as an option to the rear of the Debating Chamber and for committee meetings. As a result, bottled water consumption fell by 21% for 330ml bottles and 41% for one litre bottles when compared to the corresponding months in 2008.
| | 2008 | 2009 |
| 330ml Bottles | 1 Litre Bottles | 330ml Bottles | 1 Litre Bottles |
| September | 2,308 | 161 | 1,826 | 111 |
| October | 1,231 | 214 | 1,171 | 105 |
| November | 1,824 | 148 | 1,345 | 88 |
| December | 1,531 | 86 | 1,132 | 55 |
| Total | 6,894 | 609 | 5,474 | 359 |
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 19 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on bottled water by each local authority in each year since 1999.
Answer
This information is not held centrally.
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- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 18 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent on bottled water by each NHS board in each year since 1999.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold this information centrally.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 15 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether local authority allotment tenants who have been charged rent as a result of the implementation of regulations that have not been confirmed by the Scottish Ministers in terms of section 6(1) of the Allotments (Scotland) Act 1892 are entitled to have these rents repaid to them.
Answer
A local authority would not be entitled to collect rent under regulations that had not been formally confirmed by Scottish Ministers in terms of section 6(1) of the Allotment (Scotland) Act 1892. Regulations made under this provision have no legal effect without ministerial confirmation. It would be for the local authority to resolve with its allotment holders the issue of rent collected in this manner.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 15 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many households are awaiting the installation of home insulation under the free home insulation scheme, broken down by Scottish Parliament constituency.
Answer
As at 3 January, the number of households by parliamentary constituency that have requested insulation measures from the programme is shown in the following table. It is not possible to provide a further breakdown between the multiple constituencies which form part of the Highland and Glasgow/South Lanarkshire local authority programmes.
| Parliamentary Constituency | Local Authority | Insulation Measure Requests |
| Angus | Angus | 508 |
| Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross/Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber | Highland | 397 |
| Central Fife | Fife | 902 |
| Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 539 |
| Dundee East | Dundee | 532 |
| Edinburgh East and Musselburgh | Edinburgh | 782 |
| Glasgow Cathcart/Glasgow Pollok/Glasgow Rutherglen | Glasgow (Cathcart/Pollok) South Lanarkshire (Rutherglen) | 654 |
| Orkney | Orkney | 125 |
| Stirling | Stirling | 371 |
| Total | | 4,810 |
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 15 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many households are awaiting the installation of home insulation under the free home insulation scheme, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
As at 3 January 2010, the number of households by local authority area that have requested insulation measures from the programme is as follows:
| Local Authority | Insulation Measure Requests |
| Angus | 508 |
| Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 539 |
| Dundee | 532 |
| Edinburgh | 782 |
| Fife | 902 |
| Glasgow | 493 |
| Highland | 397 |
| Orkney | 125 |
| South Lanarkshire | 161 |
| Stirling | 371 |
| Total | 4,810 |
In addition, home insulation scheme assessors have identified clients eligible for assistance under the Scottish Government''s Energy Assistance Package or have referred clients, through their own choice, to other support measures available under the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT). These are detailed as follows:
| Local Authority | Referred to EAP/CERT Support Measures |
| Angus | 130 |
| Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 232 |
| Dundee | 73 |
| Edinburgh | 199 |
| Fife | 262 |
| Glasgow | 158 |
| Highland | 108 |
| Orkney | 12 |
| South Lanarkshire | 18 |
| Stirling | 124 |
| Total | 1,316 |
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 15 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many local authorities are collecting rents for allotments using regulations that have not been confirmed by the Scottish Ministers in terms of section 6(1) of the Allotments (Scotland) Act 1892.
Answer
Information is not held centrally on whether local authorities are collecting rents for allotments under regulations made in terms of section 6(1) of the Allotments (Scotland) Act 1892, which have not been confirmed by ministers as required by section 6(1). Any such collection is a matter for individual authorities.
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 January 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 13 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time is for the installation of home insulation under the free home insulation scheme.
Answer
Contracted suppliers for the home insulation scheme are obliged to fully complete the householder''s installation within 28 calendar days of the referral being passed to them and, apart from where the needs of the household prevent the supplier from doing so or other factors such as severe weather, installations are being completed comfortably within this timescale.
Data which will allow for an accurate calculation of the average waiting time for the installation of insulation measures will be available shortly as the scheme develops.
