- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 5 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that the A75 trunk route should maintain its position on the EU's Essen Trans European Network priority list.
Answer
The Executive believes that the A75's inclusion in the Trans European Network as part of the Ireland-UK-Benelux priority route recognises the vital role that this road plays in the European road network. Our commitment in the Motorway and Trunk Road Programme 2001-04 to invest £22 million in the A75 confirms our position on this.
- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 5 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will place in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre copies of all correspondence since 1997 relating to actual or potential Essen Trans European Network projects in Scotland.
Answer
Under the Scottish Executive's Code of Practice on Access to Scottish Executive Information, information whose disclosure would harm the frankness and candour of internal discussion including internal opinion, advice, recommendation, consultation and deliberation between departments is not released. We therefore have no plans to place this information in the Parliament's Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 5 July 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much European funding has been received in respect of the Glens improvement on the A75.
Answer
Trans-European Network (TEN) funding of some £350,000 was received in 1997 as a contribution to the improvement of the A75 at the Glen. The project has since been completed and a further claim for the outstanding amount of 780,000 ECU is being finalised. No other TEN funding has been received for upgrading the A75.
- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 28 June 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to respond to the South West Scotland Dry Stone Walling Association in connection with the standard of dry stone walls constructed as part of the A75 Glens improvement, as referred to in the Minister for Transport and the Environment's letter to me of 4 August 2000.
Answer
Officials have now replied to the South West Scotland Dry Stone Walling Association and a copy of the letter has been sent to the member.
- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Mike Watson on 28 June 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what recent discussions it has had with Dumfries and Galloway Tourist Board.
Answer
I met with Dumfries and Galloway Tourist Board on 20 May and had a productive discussion on tourism issues.
- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 28 June 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria it uses in assessing requests from local authorities for additional funding to prevent the closure of rural schools.
Answer
Funding for local authorities is not provided on this basis. Local authorities are responsible for funding the schools in their areas from the general resources available to them and determine their own priorities.
- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 June 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 28 June 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the economy of Dumfries and Galloway following the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.
Answer
The Dumfries and Galloway Economic Forum is leading a group of local organisations to assess the scale and nature of the impact in the Dumfries and Galloway area. Their work is feeding into the Economic Impact Assessment Group which Ross Finnie set up in March 2001 to inform the Executive's response in providing immediate hardship relief and planning for longer-term recovery.
- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 May 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 22 June 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to call in the planning application for a proposed waste energy plant at Dargavel, Dumfriesshire.
Answer
No. Planning permission for this development was granted by Dumfries and Galloway Council on 31 May 2001. There were no planning reasons for the Scottish Ministers to intervene in the processing of this application by the council.
- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 15 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many exam results are still under appeal to the Scottish Qualifications Authority from the 2000 diet and what the estimated timescale is for dealing with these appeals.
Answer
I have been informed by the Scottish Qualifications Authority that of the 87,000 appeals submitted as part of the usual appeals process following the 2000 Diet, no appeals remain outstanding.
- Asked by: Alasdair Morgan, MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 28 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all sales of Forestry Commission Land since 1 January 1999, showing the location, acreage and selling price in each case.
Answer
The table gives details of all the forest land (i.e. the forests, woods, associated unplanted land and land originally acquired for planting) that was sold by the Forestry Commission between 1 January 1999 and 31 December 2000, the latest date for which information is available. The table gives the name, location and area of each sale. In each case, the commission sought the purchaser's permission to disclose the price paid, and this is included whenever such permission was given.
| Location and Name of Wood | Area (hectares) | Sale Price |
| Aberdeenshire |
| Haremoss | 21.0 | £21,650 |
| New Pitsligo Lot 11 (part) | 2.0 | |
| New Pitsligo Lot 2 | 17.0 | £11,250 |
| Peelie Belt, Glassel | 2.0 | £6,000 |
| Argyll and Bute |
| Bullwood Quarry | 6.1 | |
| Drimsynie Leisure Centre (adjacent plantation) | 19.8 | £28,000 |
| Glenfinart (land at) | 13.9 | |
| Kinloch Plantation (formerly Carsaig) | 488.0 | £455,000 |
| Scoor Plantation Lot 5 | 360.0 | £220,000 |
| Stronhullin (land at) | 26.4 | |
| Clackmannanshire |
| Aberdona and Meeks Park | 48.0 | £78,112 |
| Dumfries and Galloway |
| Bargatton Package | 125.0 | |
| Bargrug | 9.0 | |
| Barnbarroch | 62.0 | |
| Beattock (M74) | 33.5 | |
| Beuchan | 102.0 | £143,110 |
| Blacklaw (land at) | 0.5 | |
| Carsduchan | 48.0 | |
| Carsewood | 12.0 | |
| Clauchrie | 89.2 | £115,323 |
| Dalshangan | 20.0 | £35,111 |
| Docherneil | 82.5 | |
| Glenling | 4.0 | |
| Littleclyde (M74) | 0.2 | |
| Livingstone Hill Block | 51.8 | £75,749 |
| Lochbank | 24.0 | |
| May | 71.0 | £60,000 |
| Mountainblaw | 11.0 | |
| Plascow/Ryes Boundary | 1.3 | |
| Polmoodie | 302.0 | |
| Priestside Flow | 75.0 | |
| Warren | 101.0 | £211,025 |
| East Ayrshire |
| Penkill | 26.0 | £15,250 |
| Fife |
| Bogside Devilla | 12.0 | |
| Highland |
| Achendounie Wood | 44.0 | £77,777 |
| Achnashellach Station (land at) | 0.7 | £2,000 |
| Brunery Wood | 47.9 | £20,000 |
| Carbisdale Castle Excambion | 0.2 | |
| Culloden Housing Site | 10.0 | £340,000 |
| Dunvegan Woodlands | 63.0 | |
| Foyers Radio Station Site | 0.0 | |
| Fryster Plantation | 13.0 | |
| Garynahine Plantation | 213.0 | |
| Gledfield to Braelangwell Road Improvement | 3.8 | |
| Glenkingie | 403.0 | £115,000 |
| Glenmore and Mugeary | 169.0 | |
| Helshetter Plantation | 27.0 | |
| Lochaber Rural Complex Site | 9.6 | £25,000 |
| Orbost Plantation (exchange) | 575.0 | £33,755 |
| Sheep Pass Wood | 277.2 | £25,500 |
| Suardal Plantation | 150.0 | £68,800 |
| Perth and Kinross |
| Blackhill and Cleish | 109.5 | £225,000 |
| Drumtenant Strip | 4.1 | £3,000 |
| High Wood | 53.0 | |
| Long | 80.0 | |
| Warroch | 116.5 | |
| Scottish Borders |
| Black/White Hill | 34.0 | |
| Blinkbonny | 30.0 | |
| Brundeanlaws | 79.0 | |
| Elibank Road (land at) | 1.3 | |
| Glenlude | 76.0 | |
| Lumsdaine | 5.0 | |
| Quarter Wood | 30.0 | |
| Soutra | 152.5 | £87,500 |
| Thorlieshope | 185.0 | £279,700 |
| South Ayrshire |
| Knockycoid (land adjoining) | 0.1 | £500 |
| Stirling |
| Ardeonaig Plantation | 45.0 | |
| Ardveich | 59.0 | |
| Auchraw | 90.0 | |
| Balanton | 4.6 | |
| Gartochorrans | 199.0 | |
| North Earn Wood | 6.2 | |
