- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 7 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-21090 by Tavish Scott on 20 December 2005, whether Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd has any record of planes with aircraft registration numbers N187D, N168BF, N1HC, N8183J, N2189M, N221SG, N33NJ, N315CR, N470JF, N212AZ, N1016M, N581GA, N822US, N379P, N8068V, N44982, N4476S or N313P arriving from outwith EC countries since 2000 and, where it has any such record, what the (a) date of arrival, (b) point of original departure, (c) onward destination and (d) date and time of departure was of each aircraft.
Answer
Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd has no record of these aircraft having used its airports since 2000.
- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 7 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-21090 by Tavish Scott on 20 December 2005, whether Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd records the passenger/crew details of chartered or private flights arriving from outwith EC countries, notwithstanding the absence of any requirement to do so.
Answer
Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd may in certain circumstances, for example in the event of a health and safety incident or disorderly behaviour on the part of a disembarking or embarking passenger, record information on passengers/crew of chartered or private flights arriving from outwith EC countries.
- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 16 January 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 25 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the potential cost of extending the young person’s national concessionary travel scheme to (a) full-time mature students and (b) all mature students.
Answer
The Executive is currently focusingon planning and implementing the Partnership Agreement commitment to progressivelyintroduce a scheme of national bus, rail and ferry concessionary travel for youngpeople. No estimates have been made of the cost of extending the scheme to full-timemature students or all mature students. Such estimates would require detailed analysisof bus, rail and ferry usage by mature students, and discussions with key stakeholdersin local transport authorities and the bus, rail and ferry industries.
- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 22 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 19 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, in pursuance of the resolution of the Parliament on 22 December 2005 on motion S2M-3766, as amended, on “Torture Flights” on Scottish Soil, when it will detail the communications it has had with the Foreign Office over this matter.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is inregular contact with the UK Government on a wide range of issues. Whilecommunications with the UK Government are subject to an established undertakingof mutual confidentiality, I am able to confirm, in accordance with motionS2M-3766, that there has been communication with the Foreign and CommonwealthOffice about the issues that were debated in Parliament on 22 December 2005 andthat the UK Government has been made aware of the debate and the terms of themotion.
- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 18 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the progress to date by each local authority towards the provision of core path networks in their area and whether it will provide details of the outcome of any such assessment in respect of the lengths of (a) existing paths and (b) new paths developed as core paths.
Answer
Information provided by access authorities on these matters has been published on the Executive website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Environment/Countryside/16328/AccessAuthorities.
- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 18 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-19139 by Rhona Brankin on 20 September 2004, whether it has sought, or will seek, from local authorities details of their spending in undertaking their duties under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 in each financial year and whether it will publish any information collected as a result.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has established a monitoring scheme to collect information from all access authorities on their progress under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003, and an outline of the annual expenditure arising. The returns for the first half-year period (9 February 2005 to 30 September 2005) have been received, and are available on the Executive website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Environment/Countryside/16328/AccessAuthorities.
Access authorities have been requested to provide information about spending on an annual basis. The information which they provide at the end of the financial year in April 2006 will be published in the same way.
- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 18 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-19139 by Rhona Brankin on 20 September 2004, what proportion of the £8.1 million funding provided to local authorities in undertaking their duties under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 is expected to be spent on the development and maintenance of core paths.
Answer
Further to the answer to question S2W-19139 on 20 September 2005, Grant Aided Expenditure provisions are not budgets or spending targets, and each local authority is responsible for deciding how best to allocate resources based on local needs and priorities. Part 1 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 gives access authorities the power to undertake the maintenance of core paths. Exercise of that power is a matter for the discretion of individual authorities.
All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 18 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-19139 by Rhona Brankin on 20 September 2004, whether it will provide details of local authorities’ responsibilities under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 for which £8.1 million has been allocated.
Answer
The Scottish Executive in February 2005 issued Guidance for Local Authorities and National Park Authorities in relation to Part 1 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003. This document contains a summary of all the duties which are the responsibility of these access authorities, and the powers which are available to them under the act, together with guidance over the exercise of those duties and powers.
This publication is available on the Scottish Executive website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/environment/p1lra-00.asp.
- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 December 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 17 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-20766 by Mr Andy Kerr on 29 November 2005, what the actual level was of funding for General Medical Services in Orkney in 2003-04.
Answer
The actual level of funding for General Medical Services (GMS) in Orkney in 2003-04 was £3.9 million
which exceeds the indicative figure of £2.7 million as quoted in the answer to question S2W-20766 on 29 November 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
The difference of £1.2 million is the additional resource NHS Orkney spent on non-discretionary expenditure which was fully funded by the Scottish Executive under the former GMS Contract.
- Asked by: Mr Jim Wallace, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 20 December 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd (HIAL) has any information in respect of planes carrying US Government officials which have stopped in transit at any HIAL airport in the last two years.
Answer
Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd (HIAL) records, and also provides to Customs and Excise/Immigration for all aircraft arriving from outwith EC countries, the following information:
Aircraft registration;
Aircraft type;
Point of departure (last airfield before landing – this could be different from the home base);
Next destination;
Time of arrival/departure, and
Type of flight i.e. visual or instrument rules.
There is no requirement for HIAL to record or publish passenger/crew details of chartered/private flights.
