- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 2 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-12479 by Angus MacKay on 8 March 2001, when it will publish project plans and progress reports for the projects receiving funding from the Modernising Government Fund.
Answer
Funding arrangements for all of the Modernising Government Fund projects have been put in place and the first payments for those projects scheduled to commence in the current year were made before the end of March.The Senior Responsible Officers (SROs) for the projects are to submit appropriate plans containing deliverables and timescales for their projects. These should be in place before the end of April. The plans will then be published on the Scottish Executive's 21st Century Government website.Procedures are also in place for monitoring the progress of each project and SROs are to provide quarterly reports to the Executive. These reports will be used to update the website.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 30 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how much timber was produced by Ae Forest District in the year 2000.
Answer
About 230,000 cubic metres of timber were harvested from Ae Forest District last year.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 30 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many visitors there were in the year 2000 to the forests in Ae Forest District.
Answer
There were over 300,000 visitors to Ae Forest District last year.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 30 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the use by the Scottish Egg Producing Retailers Association of the lion rampant as a trademark signifying that eggs displaying that mark are Scottish eggs produced in Scotland.
Answer
The application to register the mark is currently with the UK Patent Office. This is a reserved matter and it will be for the Patent Office to determine if the lion rampant would be an acceptable trademark.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 30 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the proposed football academies which it intends will be funded from (a) sportscotland lottery funding and (b) other sources, will be outside Glasgow; where the academies will be, and how much funding each will receive.
Answer
The programme is application based so it is not possible to give a precise answer to this question. The funding currently available would allow eight academy projects to be supported from the Lottery Sports Fund if each received the maximum award of £500,000. Under the proposals endorsed by the Scottish Football Partnership, Academies will be geographically spread across Scotland. Several clubs outwith Glasgow have made public announcements about their intention to develop an academy.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc (Scotland) Act 2000, what steps are being taken to publicly advertise the process of extinction of feu duties under section 7 and the requirement of a compensatory payment under section 8.
Answer
The Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 will not be fully commenced until the closely related and complementary Title Conditions (Scotland) Bill has been enacted. It is intended that both pieces of legislation will be commenced at the same time and the Executive will fully publicise their meaning and effect before they come into force. The commencement order for the 2000 Act will be made six months before coming into effect and that would appear to be the appropriate time to advertise the provisions on the final extinction of feu duties.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has plans to set up community law centres similar to those operated in England and Wales.
Answer
The Executive has set up a broadly-based working group, involving a range of interested organisations, to examine how a community legal service might be developed for Scotland. As part of its work, the group may wish to consider issues such as community law centres. The working group will report to me in October; and the Executive will consult on any policy proposals flowing from that report.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Angus MacKay on 28 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities will be represented at next month's Promoting Electronic Government Conference in Birmingham.
Answer
Promoting Electronic Government (PEG) is a two-year Invest To Save project sponsored through the Department of the Environment and the Region's (DETR) Local Government Directorate. It aims to provide local authorities in England and Wales with support in building a body of good practice data.The majority of the representation at the conference will be from local authorities in England and Wales. To date some 140 delegates have registered from 60 local authorities. The conference organiser will supply the Executive with the details of all local authorities represented when the information is known.Scottish local authorities who have expressed an interest in attending are City of Edinburgh, Fife, Angus and South Ayrshire. The Executive has also been invited to send along an official observer.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 February 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jackie Baillie on 28 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to the announcement on 26 February 2001 by Ms Margaret Curran of #15 million additional funding for councils to help prepare for the introduction of the new "Supporting People" regime in April 2003, what percentage of this and what amount will go to Dumfries and Galloway and what this amount is in cash terms.
Answer
We will announce the allocations to individual local authorities shortly.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 12 March 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 28 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to make extra funding available to local authorities to help cover the costs of adopting and maintaining schemes for the publication of information if its draft Freedom of Information Bill becomes law.
Answer
No. As many Scottish public authorities, including local authorities, already handle requests for information and publish routinely a wide range of other information, and as model publication schemes, prepared either by the Scottish Information Commissioner or by third parties, will be available to assist public authorities, we would expect any additional costs which might be incurred to be borne within planned resources.
