- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 27 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what food safety regulations, rules and legislation apply to mobile snack and burger vans.
Answer
Mobile snack and burger vans are subject to the same regulations, rules and legislation as other retail and catering food businesses, the most important being the Food Safety Act 1990 and the Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995 which are made under the act.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 15 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority will have responsibility over car parks, public toilets, roadside viewing points and lay-bys and signage within the park boundaries.
Answer
Discussions are presently taking place between the National Park Authority and the relevant local authorities to establish the allocation of responsibilities for these issues.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 13 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the first supplementary question to S1O-5607 by Lewis Macdonald on 13 June 2002, when the surveys of the condition of non-trunk roads will begin; whether all local authority areas will be covered; which organisations will carry out such surveys; when the results will be published, and what steps it will consider taking following publication of the results.
Answer
Responsibility for non-trunk roads, including the carrying out of a survey of the non-trunk road network, lies with each council as the local roads authority for its area. The Scottish Executive fully supports the Society of Chief Officers of Transport in Scotland's (SCOTS) condition survey of the local road network across Scotland. The management of the survey is a matter for SCOTS, but I understand that it is now under way and that it will cover all local authorities in Scotland. The Scottish Executive will keep closely in touch with the process and will, of course, consider the results once they are available.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 13 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received any representations this year from local authorities regarding the re-regulation of the bus industry and, if so, from which local authorities such representations were received.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has not received any formal representations from local authorities about the re-regulation of the bus industry.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 8 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what allocations have been made to Stirling Council under its Public Transport Fund; what allocations have still to be made, and what applications have been made that have not received funding in each year since the scheme was established.
Answer
Details of the successful applications made by Stirling Council under the Public Transport Fund are set out in the table:
| Project (year) (£ million) | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 |
| Stirling Bus Priority (1999) | 0.150 | 0.297 | | | |
| Stirling, Bridge of Allan and Dunblane railway stations infrastructure (2001) | | | 2.538 | 0.900 | 0.303 |
In the initial 1998 round of the Public Transport Fund, Stirling Council was unsuccessful in its £2.090 million bid for "Change Points 2 - Park and Ride and New Gas Powered Buses" and no bid was submitted under the 2000 third round of the fund. I expect to announce successful bids for this year's fifth and final round by the end of October.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 7 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether farms in Clackmannanshire, Fife or Stirling are being considered for GM crop trials.
Answer
On 8 July 2002 the Scottish Executive announced that it had been notified of two proposed sites which will be considered for inclusion in the forthcoming final round of the GM farm scale evaluations. One proposed site is in Fife, the other is in Aberdeenshire. There are no proposed sites in Stirling or Clackmannanshire. Ministers will take advice before deciding on whether planting may proceed at the proposed sites.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 7 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made by local authorities in establishing quality partnership and quality contract schemes with bus operators under the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001.
Answer
The development of Quality Partnership schemes under the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 is a matter for individual local transport authorities. The Executive is not aware of any such schemes being introduced to date, nor has the necessary approval been sought from ministers for the making of any Quality Contract Schemes.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 7 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to introduce a regime to re-regulate the bus industry.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-27512.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 7 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what powers and obligations local authorities have under the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 in respect of buses and relations with bus operators.
Answer
The Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 provides enabling powers for local transport authorities to make Quality Partnership schemes and, with the approval of Scottish ministers, Quality Contract schemes. The 2001 act also places a duty on local transport authorities to determine from time to time what ticketing arrangements and information on bus services should be made available.
- Asked by: Mr Brian Monteith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 July 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 7 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what support it is giving to initiatives to reduce drug taking and alcohol abuse in the Forth Valley NHS Board area.
Answer
Funding support for local initiatives to reduce alcohol problems cannot be identified separately. NHS boards and local authorities fund such work from within their general health allocations and Grant Aided Expenditure respectively.The Forth Valley NHS Board area has benefited significantly from additional resources allocated by the Scottish Executive to tackle drug misuse for the period 2001-02 to 2003-04. This includes an additional £0.89 million in drug treatment funding to the NHS board, over £1.1 million to the three local authorities (Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire) for drugs rehabilitation and over £0.83 million to the three local authorities through the Changing Children's Services Fund for work with young people and families. Funding is used not only for drugs specific work, but also for prevention, treatment and care services covering all forms of substance misuse.The Executive provides the multi-agency Forth Valley Substance Action Team with over £161,000 support funding. This supports the strategic and co-ordinating function of the team on all substance misuse issues. In particular it includes assessment of local needs and drawing up a local strategy to address alcohol problems, in response to the national Plan for Action on Alcohol Problems, launched earlier this year.
