- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 October 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Alasdair Morrison on 7 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has, or intends to compile, any data on the number of people resident in the North of England who regularly work in Scotland.
Answer
The UK-wide Labour Force Survey, which is run by the Office for National Statistics, asks people where they work and collects information on where they live. Latest figures, for summer 2000, show that around 22,000 people are resident in the North of England, but work in Scotland.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 October 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what the dates are of bank holidays in 2000.
Answer
These dates are set out in the publication Scottish Public Holidays 2000, a copy of which has been placed in SPICe for reference purposes (Bib. no 9399).
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 October 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 7 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what the definition is of a local holiday.
Answer
There is no statutory definition of a local holiday. Dates of local holidays vary from area to area across Scotland and are usually agreed between local government, local business interests and other interested local parties. Such holidays often have their roots in historical events of significance to the locality or represent the traditional holiday period in that area. Local holidays are not prescriptive and employers are not obliged to give employees leave on any such day, subject to the terms of any contract of employment. The dates of local holidays across Scotland can be obtained from the publication Scottish Public Holidays 2000, a copy of which has been placed in SPICe for reference purposes (Bib. No 9399).
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 25 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive which Scottish passenger port is the busiest and how many people use it annually.
Answer
The information requested is given in tables 10.11, 10.12, 10.13 and 10.14 of Scottish Transport Statistics No 19, 2000 Edition, published by the Scottish Executive in August 2000. A copy of this is available in the Parliament's Information Centre (Bib. number 8690).
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 31 March 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 25 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what costs and other logistical issues will be associated with any change of the name of the M74 to the M6.
Answer
Before any decision could be taken to rename the M74 it would be necessary to evaluate the costs of amending signing on the motorway and on all of its approach roads. Consultation would be required with the Highways Agency and local roads authorities adjoining the route.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 24 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many behaviour optometrists are employed by the National Health Service in Scotland.
Answer
The information requested is not available centrally. However, there are currently 29 qualified optometrists employed in the NHS in Scotland. How many are behaviour optometrists is not known.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 24 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many behaviour optometrists are practising in Scotland.
Answer
The information requested is not available centrally.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 9 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive Scottish Executive whether all materials required for the 2000-01 Advanced Highers have been made available to schools.
Answer
I refer David Mundell to the answers I gave to question S1W-9243 on 7 September and question S1W-9510 on 21 September.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 September 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 9 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all the material required for the 2000-01 Higher Still courses has been made available to schools from the Higher Still Development Unit.
Answer
I refer David Mundell to the answers I gave to question S1W-9243 on 7 September and question S1W-9510 on 21 September.
- Asked by: David Mundell, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 August 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 4 October 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to encourage the production of energy from renewable sources and what progress has been made with the review of the planning guidance for renewable energy and the review with electricity companies of the capacity of the Scottish electricity grid to connect more renewable products, as referred to in the answer to question S1W-4084 by Sarah Boyack on 1 February 2000.
Answer
As part of the consultation on the wider Scottish Climate Change Programme the Scottish Executive sought views on its proposals to secure an additional 5% of electricity generated from renewable sources by 2010 by means of the proposed obligation on electricity suppliers. Over 80 responses to this proposal were received. I am considering these along with the responses to the Scottish Climate Change Programme and will make a statement in due course.
Consultation on the draft revision of National Policy Planning Guideline (NPPG) 6: Renewable Energy closed on 28 July. Over 100 responses were received and are currently being considered. We aim to produce the final NPPG later in the summer.
The review of the capacity of the Scottish grid to connect more renewables is under way and I expect a preliminary report in the near future.
