- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 12 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether a 34% increase in salary for an executive director of Scottish Water is consistent with Scottish Government pay guidance.
Answer
The level of remuneration packages for Scottish Water''s Directors is a matter for Scottish Water''s Board to determine within the remuneration framework agreed with the previous administration in 2006. As part of that framework annual increases in basic salary are limited to the Scottish Government''s guidance for senior public appointments. The increase referred to relates to the difference in the total remuneration package for one director between 2006-07 and 2007-08 which included a revised basic salary, annual bonus and an additional payment for acting as interim chief executive following the resignation of the former CEO in November 2007 and the appointment of the current CEO in March 2008.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 12 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Water Industry Commission has a role in assessing the amount set aside from the funding available to Scottish Water for the remuneration of its executive directors.
Answer
No. The Water Industry Commission determines the overall cost of delivering Ministers'' objectives for the water industry in Scotland over a regulatory period. In doing so it considers the overall staffing costs appropriate to a company of Scottish Water''s size in operating its assets and delivering its capital programme, but not the detail of employee remuneration which is for Scottish Water to determine.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 12 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of legal representation and consultants fees will be to Transport Scotland in connection with the public inquiry into the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route.
Answer
These costs are not yet available as the public local inquiry is still on-going.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 10 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-9066 by Michael Russell on 25 February 2008, on how many occasions since 7 December 2007 (a) the Minister for Environment or (b) any other minister has contacted the chief executive of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) or any other official or board member of SEPA in relation to any live planning application; what the nature of such contact was, and what the outcomes were.
Answer
Neither the Minister for Environment nor any other Scottish Government minister acting in their ministerial capacity has had any such contacts.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 10 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether approval of the planning application put forward by Aviemore resorts hotels in the absence of a satisfactory flood risk assessment would, in the opinion of (a) the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and (b) the Chief Planner, have been in breach of the provisions of Scottish Planning Policy 7: Planning and Flooding (SPP7).
Answer
The planning application referred to was at all times a matter for the Cairngorms National Park Authority to determine. As the application was not notified to Scottish ministers it would be inappropriate to comment on the details.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 10 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what meetings have taken place between the Scottish Government and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to discuss the outcome of the Aviemore resort hotels masterplan planning application that was considered by Cairngorm National Park Authority in December 2007; who attended these meetings; when they took place, and what has happened since to clarify the process of flood risk assessment and ministerial intervention in the planning system.
Answer
There have been no meetings or subsequent discussions between the Scottish Government and SEPA on these issues.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 10 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions since 27 November 2007 the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment has contacted the chief executive of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) or any other official or board member of SEPA in relation to any live planning application; what the nature of such contact was, and what the outcomes were.
Answer
The Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment acting in his ministerial capacity has had no such contacts.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 10 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether on 4 December 2007 the Scottish Environment Protection Agency agreed to the contents of a letter in which it gave its consent to the approval of the planning application put forward by Aviemore resort hotels in the absence of a satisfactory flood risk assessment; whether this letter was issued, and, if so, to whom.
Answer
This is an operational issue for SEPA, and I have asked the Chief Executive, Campbell Gemmell, to write to you.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 9 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive which housing associations in East and West Dunbartonshire will share in the £4.1 million to fund land purchase by housing associations for future developments, announced on 26 November 2008; how much these housing associations will receive, and on which developments the money is to be spent.
Answer
The details of the projects approved in East and West Dunbartonshire being funded from the £4.1 million announced for land purchases from the £9 million second tranche of accelerated funding announced on 26 November 2008 are as follows:
| Local Authority | Housing Association | Project | Allocated Grant |
| West Dunbartonshire | Dunbritton Housing Association | Leven St, Alexandria | £0.500 |
| East Dunbartonshire | Cube Housing Association | Meiklehill Kirkintilloch | £1.500 |
The remaining £2.1 million for land purchases is for projects in other local authority areas.
- Asked by: Des McNulty, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 3 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive who represented the Cairngorms National Park Authority and Highland Council at the meeting involving the Minister for Community Safety in Aviemore on 26 October 2007 and whether any officials were present.
Answer
As this meeting was attended in a constituency capacity, no records are held by the Scottish Government.
