Chamber and committees

Once my officials have information on the locations where these seeds have been planted they will visit them to verify that crops have been destroyed. Thereafter the sites in question will be monitored.

I refer Dr Jackson to the reply I gave to question S1W-6570.

The letter sent out by the Scottish Executive to local authorities informing them of the extra funding for "Safer Routes to School" drew their attention to the research report and suggested that they might take it into account in making decisions on the implementation of specific measures.

I refer the member to the speech I made during the debate on the Scottish Heart Transplant Unit on Wednesday 24 May.

On wind up of the Scottish Transport Group, the Scottish Executive will bring forward for Parliament's approval a Dissolution Order which will prescribe to whom the group should pay the surplus funds. The processes involved, including the wind up of the two Scottish Transport Group pension schemes, are complex and it is not envisaged that the Order will be brought forward until the autumn.

Proposals for land reform legislation which will have a direct impact on the interests of tenant farmers are contained in the White Paper Agricultural Holdings Proposals For Legislation (SE/2000/51) which I announced in the Scottish Parliament and published on 17 May. All the proposals in that White Paper deal with the relationships between tenant farmers and their landlords. Other land reform proposals, for example on access, may affect some tenant farmers but none of these are specifically intended to do so. There was an action plan for the land reform programme published in August 1999 and the latest report on progress with that action plan has just been published. All these documents are available in SPICe.

Yes, the Renewables (Scotland) Obligation will in future be the main vehicle for increasing the amount of new renewable electricity generation in Scotland. It will take the form of an obligation on all electricity suppliers to provide to their customers a specified proportion of electricity from qualifying renewable sources by 2010, subject to the cost to the consumer being acceptable. In addition to these arrangements, we expect that domestic scale wind turbines will also make a small but useful contribution.

I am not aware that any former employee entitled to a pension is not receiving it.

Although the British Kidney Patients Association (BKPA) provides a range of support to people who suffer from kidney disease and their families, rehabilitation of kidney transplant patients is essentially for the clinicians concerned. It includes medical, physiotherapy, nursing and dietetic elements. Social work also has a role to play. Rehabilitation begins before the transplant, with the provision of information to patients, and is an integral part of the national Managed Clinical Network for adult renal transplantation which is currently being developed.

As a UK organisation, the BKPA previously received funding from the Department of Health in England.

Neither the report of the Transport and the Environment Committee nor that of the Stewart Group recommends that telecommunications mast development should be halted. I refer the member to the answer I gave to question S1W-5100.