- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 17 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total income has been from council tax in each year since 1993.
Answer
The information requested is given in Table13 of Scottish Local Government Financial Statistics 1998-99 (for years 1993-1994 to 1998-99) and Table S3 of Scottish Local Government Financial Statistics 2003-04 (for years 1999-2000 to 2003-04). These documents were published by the Scottish Executive in 2000 and 2005 respectively, and copies are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. numbers 11910 and 35476 respectively).
- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 17 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total income has been from non-domestic rates in each year since 1993.
Answer
The information requested is given on Table 13 of the Scottish Local Government Financial Statistics published by the Scottish Executive. A copy of the relevant years are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre and the Bib numbers are shown in the following table.
| Year of Publication | Bib. Number |
| 1998-99 | 11910 |
| 1999-2000 | 18128 |
| 2000-01 | 25640 |
| 2001-02 | 29382 |
| 2002-03 | 32947 |
| 2003-04 | 35476 |
- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 17 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average rise in non-domestic rates has been in each year since 1993.
Answer
I refer the member to the question S2W-17228 answered on 17 June 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: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 May 2005
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Answered by Nicol Stephen on 10 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated annual monetary value will be to First ScotRail of reduced discounts, which are given to season ticket holders as a result of failure by ScotRail to meet its punctuality targets, following the introduction of the planned two-minute addition to journey times of Fife to Edinburgh services.
Answer
Discounts to First ScotRail passengers in Fife, which are paid under the Passengers Charter, will only reduce when punctuality levels of 87% are reached across the relevant group of services.
In order to achieve this saving, First ScotRail will need to bring about significant improvement over a number of months to the punctuality of the east service group of which Fife services form part and which also includes services to Bathgate, Dunblane, Newcraighall and North Berwick. It is highly unlikely that this level of improvement could be achieved solely by increasing Fife service journey times.
- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 9 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is any restriction on community councils being directly involved in negotiations with potential windfarm developers regarding the payment of community benefit by the developers.
Answer
Procedures for establishing communitycouncils are set out in the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and the Local Governmentetc. (Scotland) Act 1994. There is nothing in these acts to preventcommunity councils from being directly involved in negotiations with developers.However, the constitution and rules under which each community council operates are a matter for the relevantlocal authority to determine.
- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 7 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what reply it has made, or will make, to a letter from solicitors acting for Peter Swann to the Lord Advocate on 28 April 2005 regarding matters pertaining to the wrongful identification of fingerprints.
Answer
The Office of the Solicitor to the Scottish Executive replied to the letter referred to on 24 May 2005. A copy of this letter has been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 36715). A separate response is to be sent by Crown Office officials and this will also be placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 7 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive to whom it copied a letter from solicitors acting for Peter Swann to the Lord Advocate on 28 April 2005 regarding matters pertaining to the wrongful identification of fingerprints.
Answer
The letter referred to was not copied to anyone outwith the Scottish Executive. I understand that the author of the letter was responsible for its public release and circulation.
- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 7 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it publicly released a letter from solicitors acting for Peter Swann to the Lord Advocate on 28 April 2005, regarding matters pertaining to the wrongful identification of fingerprints and, if not, whether it will institute an inquiry into the leak of the contents of that letter and report the outcome of that inquiry to the Parliament.
Answer
The Scottish Executive did not publicly release the letter referred to. I understand that the author of the letter is responsible for its release. There is therefore no basis for an inquiry into this matter.
- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 May 2005
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Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 7 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the number of tourism businesses that will be affected by the draft Private Water Supplies (Scotland) Regulations 2005 when enacted.
Answer
The partial Regulatory Impact Assessment which was included in the consultation on the draft regulations considered the costs to individuals and businesses of complying with the quality standards set by the Drinking Water Directive (98/83/EC) and concluded that these were outweighed by the benefits of having fewer failing supplies, with their consequent health effects. Data on the total number of tourism or other businesses with private water supplies are not available.
- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 May 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 7 June 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what its estimate is of the costs of the Private Water Supplies Grant Scheme should it be introduced in the form suggested in the current consultation document on the draft Private Water Supplies (Scotland) Regulations 2005.
Answer
The full costs of the Private Water Supplies Grant Scheme will depend on several factors, including the number of supplies identified through the Private Water Supplies (Scotland) Regulations as requiring improvement, take-up rates, and associated administration costs incurred by local authorities. A budget of up to £8 million a year has been identified for each of the years 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08.
