- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 August 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 26 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made to enable clinical dental technicians to have an opportunity to acquire the required qualification in the United Kingdom (UK) and whether the satellite course in the has been made available to such technicians in Scotland from August 2006, as indicated by the Regulatory Unit of the Executive’s Health Department in a letter to the Association for the Promotion of Denturism dated 4 July 2006.
Answer
Work is continuing with NHSEducation for Scotland on establishing a course to start as early aspossible in 2007. This is to enable dental technicians to gain the clinicalskills they need to register with the General Dental Council in order to practiseas clinical dental technicians. The course will require to be approved by theGeneral Dental Council, and its viability will have to be demonstrated for the Scottish education sector. Interest to date is low.
The Scottish satellite wasto be of the course being run by the Royal College of Surgeons of England forthose with a qualification from the George Brown University in Canada. However, only a single candidate has beenidentified in Scotland, and discussions are currently being held with him witha view to agreeing the best way of ensuring that individual can pursue thecourse.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will oppose the proposal by the UK Government to exercise the option of setting a 20% single farm payment modulation rate.
Answer
The UK Government has not proposeda 20% rate of voluntary modulation. This is the maximum rate permitted under thecurrent arrangements as set out in Regulation 1259/1999 which first introduced voluntarymodulation and the maximum rate that was agreed by all member states in voluntarymodulation proposals put forward during the December budget negotiations.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when a decision will be taken in respect of the single farm payment modulation rates to be applied from 2007.
Answer
A decision can only be takenonce the rules for voluntary modulation are agreed.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the European Commission has yet determined whether there can be different single farm payment modulation rates within a member state.
Answer
No. I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-28341 on 22 September 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can befound at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that there should be the capability for setting different single farm payment modulation rates within the United Kingdom.
Answer
Yes. Under existingarrangements, different rates of voluntary modulation can apply in each part of the UK. We want to continue with these arrangements, as do other parts of the UK.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Scotland will be able to set its own single farm payment modulation rate within the Scottish Rural Development Plan.
Answer
The draft voluntary modulationregulation currently allows for only one rate of voluntary modulation permember state. This is a point being pursued with the European Commission and othermember states as negotiations progress.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will commit to match funding modulation under the single farm payment scheme.
Answer
All financial decisions relatingto the budget for the next Rural Development Programme are dependent on the arrangementsfor voluntary modulation and these are not yet known.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has carried out any analysis of the impact of a single farm payment modulation rate of 20%, as proposed by the UK Government.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-28343 on 22 September 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’swebsite, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 20 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of the grants awarded from the additional top-up to the Scottish Forestry Grants Scheme of £6 million; for which forests these grants were awarded, giving the addresses of each area for which a grant was awarded, and which species were to be planted in each area.
Answer
Forestry Commission Scotlandhas not yet determined a detailed breakdown of how the £6 million will be allocatedbut it will largely be used to fund current approved contracts and to support landownerswho are restocking as part of the long-term forest plans system which was introduceda few years ago.
However, details of grant paymentsmade up to and including Friday 18 August 2006 have been published on the web pagesof Forestry Commission Scotland and can be viewed at:
www.forestry.gov.uk/sfgsgrantdetails.These details will be updatedthroughout the financial year.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 August 2006
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Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether information is made public about individuals who have had sexual offences prevention orders granted against them and, if not, (a) how the public is made aware of any restrictions on the liberty of a sex offender and (b) whether the Executive will consider making such information public.
Answer
Sexual Offences PreventionOrders are intended to protect the public from the risk posed by sex offendersby placing restrictions on their behaviour. In order to manage that risk to thepublic it is essential that the police are able to monitor offenders. The mosteffective method of achieving this is for the police to undertake limited andsensitively managed disclosure of such information to relevant individuals andorganisations, for example local authority parties or head teachers of localschools. This limited disclosure, assessed on a case by case basis by thepolice is designed to minimise the risk of driving the offender underground andis an important element in ensuring public safety.
