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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: S4W-01728

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 15 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will establish the first green skills academy.

Question reference: S4W-01726

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 15 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what financial support it gives to each Green Skills Hub.

Question reference: S4W-01711

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 12 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when the International Technology and Renewable Energy Zone will be fully operational; how much financial support it has given to establish the zone and how much it will provide in each of the next five years.

The Scottish Government does not provide any direct financial support to the International Technology and Renewable Energy Zone. The zone does however receive financial support from Scottish Enterprise.

The question of when the zone will be fully operational is an operational matter for Scottish Enterprise, which is leading the project.

I will ask Scottish Enterprise’s Chief Executive to write to you with that information.

Question reference: S4W-01731

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 12 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the criteria will be to define a green skills academy.

Question reference: S4W-01730

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 12 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many regional green skills hubs it plans to establish.

Question reference: S4W-01732

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 12 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what involvement local authorities will have in establishing regional green skills academies and how many meetings it has had with them on this.

Question reference: S4W-01733

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it gives to community groups to develop community-owned renewable power facilities.

Question reference: S4W-01735

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how it ensures that renewable energy projects developed on public land provide benefit to local communities.

The Scottish Government is leading by example through achieving levels of £5,000 per megawatt per annum community benefit on commercial developments recently leased on Forestry Commission (Scotland) (FCS) land. The recent leasing process by FCS also gives an opportunity for communities to engage and invest in up to 49 per cent ownership of projects.

We are further considering how to optimise community benefit and community engagement with renewables as we review the responses to the “Securing the Benefits of Scotland’s Next Energy Revolution” consultation.

Question reference: S4W-01689

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 15 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much money it has allocated to the National Housing Trust initiative to build affordable homes.

The National Housing Trust initiative (NHT) differs from the traditional grant funding approach in that the purchase of homes will be jointly funded by participating councils and developers, with the Scottish Government providing guarantees to councils to ensure they are able to repay any money they borrow to fund the scheme. As such, there is no Scottish Government money allocated to the NHT to build affordable homes in the same sense as monies would be allocated under grant-based schemes.

Question reference: S4W-01688

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 15 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether all new (a) affordable homes and (b) socially-rented houses that it plans to deliver in the current parliamentary session will be built under the National Housing Trust initiative.