- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made on its pilot projects with South Lanarkshire Council and Highland Council on investigating ways of modernising the development planning system, as identified in Your place, your plan, its proposals for public involvement in the planning system.
Answer
Under thepilot projects, the Hamilton Local Plan in South Lanarkshire and the Wester Ross Local Plan in Highland are progressing well towards publicationof finalised draft plans. The project has helped to support the view that barriersto better plan making relate more to cultural and management issues rather thanlegislation or regulations. Both South Lanarkshire and Highland Councils have considered new ways of engagingwith the public and other stakeholders, including opinion meters and photographiccompetitions, which will be of interest to other authorities.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made on the proposal that reporters for local plan inquiries be appointed independently by its Inquiry Reporters Unit, as identified in Your place, your plan, its proposals for public involvement in the planning system.
Answer
I refer the member to the answergiven to question S2W-2229 which is available on the Parliament’s website, the searchfacility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Ministerial Working Group on Prostitution will be involved in the development of its proposal to introduce an offence of kerb crawling.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to S2W-2216 today. All answers to written parliamentary questionsare available on the Parliaments website, the search facility for which can befound at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the consultation timetable is in respect of Your place, your plan, its proposals for public involvement in the planning system.
Answer
The Executive's white paper onpublic involvement, Your place, your plan is not a consultation paper. Itsets out the Executive's measures to strengthen and enhance public involvement atall stages in the land-use planning system. We will take these measures forwardin an open and inclusive manner as time and resources permit.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will define “kerb crawling” in the development of its proposal to introduce such an offence.
Answer
The definition of “kerb crawling”will be a matter for consideration in the discussions of the Expert Group on Prostitution.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the announcement on the Ministerial Working Group on Prostitution, what the remit and timetable of the group will be.
Answer
The Expert Group on Prostitution,chaired by Sandra Hood OBE, will report to ministers on the first stage of theirwork in autumn 2004.
The remit of the group is toreview the legal, policing, health and social justice issues surrounding prostitutionin Scotland and to consider options for the future. Amongst otherissues the group will discuss the eradication of prostitution and exit strategiesfor prostitutes. In addition, the group has been asked to look at the proposalsfor a new offence of kerb crawling.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 28 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made on working with local authorities to produce guidance on neighbour notification, as identified in Your place, your plan, its proposals for public involvement in the planning system.
Answer
I refer the member to the answergiven to question S2W-2229 which is available on the Parliament’s website, the searchfacility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 9 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive when the annual report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner will be laid before the Parliament.
Answer
A copyof the Interception of Communication Commissioner’s annual report for 2002 hasbeen laid before Parliament today in accordance with the Regulation ofInvestigatory Powers Act 2000. With the agreement of the Prime Minister, theconfidential annex to the report, which contains sensitive information, hasbeen excluded from the published report. Copies have been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 29093).
Interceptionof communications is one of the ways in which the police and other lawenforcement agencies prevent and detect serious and organised crime in Scotland. The commissioner’s reportmakes it clear that warrants authorised by the Scottish ministers are onlyissued where their use is absolutely necessary and proportionate to what issought to be achieved by the interception.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 9 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to introduce legislation on household waste recycling, similar to the Household Waste Recycling Bill in England and Wales.
Answer
The Local Government inScotland Act 2003, Part 6, includes a duty on local authorities to prepareIntegrated Waste Management Plans. These plans will set out performance targetswhich the local authority shall, in performing its waste management functions,endeavour to meet.
The Executive will ensurethat these plans include measures to achieve national targets as outlined in APartnership for A Better Scotland, including that for local authorities torecycle or compost 25% of waste by 2006 and 55% by 2020 through increasing theuse of doorstep collection and through provision of recycling facilities inevery community.
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 4 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will encourage an upturn in bus passenger journeys.
Answer
A range of Executive funded initiatives is in place to encourage more people to travel by bus. These initiatives include:
bus service operators grant;
free local off-peak bus travel for people aged 60 and over and those with disabilities;
provision for supported services;
expenditure through the Public Transport Fund on bus improvement and bus priority measures, and
expenditure through the Rural Public Passenger Transporton rural public transport services.
