- Asked by: Shiona Baird, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 13 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to advertise the availability of Scottish Communities and Household Renewables Initiative funding for new-build developments.
Answer
The Scottish Community and Householder Renewable Initiative (SCHRI) is delivered by The Energy Saving Trust (EST) and Highland and Islands Enterprise (HIE). In August 2004, the EST held a business breakfast at Hampden Park in Glasgow, followed by site visits, for builders, developers and architects, introducing renewable technologies and explaining the SCHRI grant process.
Renewable technologies and the SCHRI grants available for new-build developments have been promoted in the trade press by the EST. For example, a two page editorial feature was secured in Building Scotland, a key journal for the sector, and advertisements appear in specific new build media - Home Building and Renovating and the associated Plotfinder.net website. In addition, over the last two years an exhibition stand promoting SCHRI was present at the two main Homeshows in Scotland – Home Building and Renovating Show and the Ideal Homeshow. The EST also make presentations to building industry groups.
HIE advertise the SCHRI in general through local press such as the Stornoway Gazette. They also attend and provide promotional material to a number of community conferences in their area, for example the Community Energy Conference: Empowering Your Community held in Knoydart last month.
- Asked by: Shiona Baird, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much Community Energy Programme funding was awarded to biomass heating projects in Scotland in 2004-05 and how much has been earmarked for 2005-06.
Answer
We do not hold this information. The Community Energy Programme is an initiative of the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and is administered on their behalf by the Energy Saving Trust. Details of the initiative can be found at:
www.est.co.uk/communityenergy.
- Asked by: Shiona Baird, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses built in each of the last five years received Scottish Communities and Household Renewables Initiative funding.
Answer
The Scottish Community and Householder Renewables Initiative (SCHRI) commenced at the end of 2002-03. Funding is separated into two streams: a householder stream and a communities stream. Since the introduction of the scheme, grant funding has been awarded to 132 new-build domestic projects under the community stream, e.g. awards to local authority sponsored projects. Information on whether technologies installed under the householder stream are in new-build households is not recorded.
- Asked by: Shiona Baird, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures are in place to support the development of the biomass heating industry and how successful these measures have been.
Answer
The UK Government is currently considering whether measures are needed to support the biomass heat sector. My officials are keeping in close touch with that work as it progresses. When the results become available, expected towards the end of this year, the Forum for Renewable Energy Development in Scotland (FREDS) will reconvene its Biomass Energy Group to consider whether further action needs to be taken specifically in Scotland.
At present, through our Scottish Community and Householder Renewables Initiative, we are providing advisory and grant support for the installation of small scale biomass technologies. Since the scheme’s establishment at the end of 2002, funding has been awarded to 58 biomass projects, including small scale heat projects.
- Asked by: Shiona Baird, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to promote the installation of a biomass pelleting plant.
Answer
No specific steps are being taken. Following the publication of the Forum for Renewable Energy Development in Scotland’s (FREDS) report into the future of the biomass industry in Scotland, we are working with the enterprise networks and others to consider how best we might support biomass supply chain innovation and development.
- Asked by: Shiona Baird, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much Scottish Communities and Household Renewables Initiative funding was awarded in 2004-05 to the (a) micro hydro-electricity, (b) micro wind, (c) solar water heating, (d) solar space heating, (e) automated wood fuel heating and (f) ground, air and water-sourced heat pump sectors and how much it anticipates will be awarded in 2005-06.
Answer
Information in respect of 2004-05 is given in the following table. It is not possible to predict funding in advance of grant awards being determined. We currently provide £2.2 million per annum in support of the scheme.
| Technology1 | Total Funding (£000) |
| Micro-hydro | 3.26 |
| Micro-wind | 141 |
| Solar water heating | 215 |
| Solar space heating | 0.347 |
| Wood fuel heating | 693 |
| Heat pump (air, water and ground) | 576 |
| Solar air/solar water | 24 |
| Solar hot water/Ground Source Heat Pump | 43 |
| Total | 1,696 |
Source: Information provided by Energy Saving Trust and Highland and Islands Enterprise.
Note:
1. Projects involving multiple technologies are listed separately in the table above.
- Asked by: Shiona Baird, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 April 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 3 May 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any ministers have received an invitation from the Mayor of Doncaster or any representative of Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council to visit Doncaster or in any other way be updated on any aspect of the Council's zero waste strategy and, if so, when the invitation was received and what the response was of the minister or ministers concerned.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-14896 on
9 March 2005. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Shiona Baird, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 22 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive why funding to local mediation service providers has been discontinued under the Children, Young People and Families Unified Voluntary Sector Fund.
Answer
No such action has been taken.
- Asked by: Shiona Baird, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 18 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how local authorities will fund family mediation services without incurring additional financial burdens.
Answer
Many local authoritiesalready support local family relationship services. Local voluntary sectorservices are expected to source their funding locally. We are considering howbest to secure an integrated approach to the needs of families in transition byaligning family relationship support services more closely with other importantservices to children and families provided or secured by local government. Thedecisions on how to spend its budget is a matter for each local authority.
- Asked by: Shiona Baird, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 18 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to promote and support mediation and related services for families that are separating.
Answer
The Executive has long recognisedthe importance of family relationship services in helping families to resolve difficultieswithout recourse to the law. This will continue under our proposed reforms to familylaw. We provide grant assistance to four national family support organisations underthe Children, Young People and Families Unified Voluntary Sector Fund and to tenlocal family mediation services.
