- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current legislative framework is regarding parking on pavements; whether it has any plans to amend the framework to allow local authorities to more easily regulate and control such parking, and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Answer
Local authorities have powersunder the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 to restrict or prohibit pavement parkingby the making of a Traffic Regulation Order (TRO). The procedures for the makingof TRO's are contained in the Local Authorities' Traffic Orders (Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations1999.
There are no current plans toamend this legislation.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 24 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to ensure that local authorities promote training and qualifications for both licensees and staff in light of the recent publication of the report of the Nicholson Committee and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Answer
When I announced publicationof Nicholson Report on 19 August, I indicated that the Executive would be seekingcomments on the recommendations until 19 December. While the Executive broadly welcomesthe recommendations on training we shall consider carefully the responses from consulteesbefore deciding how best to take forward the recommendations.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 23 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will reduce the speed limit on the A8 between Ratho Station and Gogarburn to 50 mph and what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
Answer
Under the Road Traffic RegulationAct 1984, responsibility for setting speed limits on roads in Scotland lies withthe appropriate traffic authority, in this case the City of Edinburgh Council.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 18 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1422 by Tavish Scott on 5 August 2003, what the (a) estimated and (b) actual costs have been of (i) the broadband Pathfinder projects, (ii) Project ATLAS and (iii) the trading exchange in each year since the inception of each project, broken down by cost centre accounting headings.
Answer
The Pathfinder projects areat present part way through the procurement process and, therefore, there hasbeen no expenditure incurred on the provision of broadband services to date.Expenditure on related legal, financial and technical advice to the Pathfinderproject team totalled £151,000 in 2001-02 and £547,000 in 2002-03 compared toestimated expenditure of £500,000 in each of these two years.
The costs associated withProject Atlas and the Telecoms Trading Exchange are operational matters forScottish Enterprise.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 18 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1422 by Tavish Scott on 5 August 2003, which (a) individuals and (b) organisations are scheduled to receive (i) funding and (ii) assistance other than funding from (1) the broadband Pathfinder project, (2) Project ATLAS and (3) the trading exchange in each of the next two years, detailing the other assistance to be provided
Answer
For the Pathfinder projects,no decisions on the allocation of funding have yet been taken since theprojects are only part way through the procurement process, but the aim of theprojects is to provide broadband services to the partner local authorities andhealth bodies involved.
Funding and assistance otherthan funding under Project ATLAS and the trading exchange are operationalmatters for Scottish Enterprise.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 18 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many petrol stations have (a) been awarded grants to install and (b) installed facilities for liquefied petroleum gas in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Grants to install liquefiedpetroleum gas (LPG) equipment have been awarded as shown in the followingtable:
| Local Authority | Year | No. of Petrol Stations Awarded Grants |
| Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar | 2000-01 | 1 |
| Highland | 2000-01 | 2 |
| Shetland | 2000-01 | 2 |
| Aberdeenshire | 2001-02 | 6 |
| Angus | 2001-02 | 1 |
| Argyll and Bute | 2001-02 | 4 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 2001-02 | 1 |
| Highland | 2001-02 | 4 |
| Moray | 2001-02 | 1 |
| Perth and Kinross | 2001-02 | 1 |
| Moray | 2003-04 | 1 |
| Total | 24 |
Information regarding thetotal number of petrol stations that have installed LPG facilities acrossScotland, is not collected by the Executive.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 18 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many vehicles have been converted to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) using grants provided by it in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
Answer
The information required isset out in the following table .The Scottish Executive provides funding forconversion of vehicles to alternative fuels, mainly LPG, in two ways. Firstly,it funds the Energy Saving Trust’s UK Powershift programme. In addition, the Scottish Executive launched a complementary scheme called
autogas+, in July 2002.
Autogas+supports the efforts of the PowerShift programme but aims to widen uptake ofLPG in Scotland and address particular Scottish issues such as takeup in rural areas. Figures for both programmes have been provided.
These figures have beensupplied by the Energy Saving Trust (EST) who administer both programmes in Scotland onbehalf of the Scottish Executive.
| Local Authority | PowerShift | autogas+ |
| 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | Total | 2002 | 2003 | Total |
| Aberdeen City | 0 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| Aberdeenshire | 9 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 21 | 30 |
| Angus | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| Argyll and Bute | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| City of Edinburgh | 0 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 48 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| Clackmannanshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Comhairle nan Eilean | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Dundee City | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| East Ayrshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| East Lothian | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| East Renfrewshire | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Falkirk | 3 | 1 | 29 | 19 | 2 | 54 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Fife | 3 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| Glasgow City | 233 | 44 | 90 | 33 | 2 | 402 | 4 | 11 | 15 |
| Highland | 0 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 17 | 13 | 36 | 49 |
| Inverclyde | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midlothian | 0 | 1 | 23 | 32 | 0 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Moray | 1 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 34 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| North Ayrshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| North Lanarkshire | 0 | 17 | 34 | 48 | 2 | 101 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Orkney Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perth and Kinross | 0 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Renfrewshire | 0 | 22 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Scottish Borders | 0 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Shetland Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Ayrshire | 2 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| South Lanarkshire | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Stirling | 6 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| West Lothian | 2 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 42 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Total | 274 | 261 | 249 | 201 | 52 | 1037 | 56 | 145 | 201 |
Note:
Figures for 2003 cover afive-month period up to end August 2003.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 18 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it allocated to the Rural Petrol Station Grant Scheme in each year since 1999 and how much it will allocate to this scheme in each of the next three years.
Answer
£400,000 has been allocatedto the Rural Petrol Stations Grant Scheme each year since 1998-99, except1999-2000 when the allocation was increased to £700,000 as a result ofadditional funding made available for rural transport measures in the 1999 budget.Funding over the next three years (2003-04 to 2005-06) is budgeted to remain at£400,000 per year.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 18 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1422 by Tavish Scott on 5 August 2003, which (a) individuals and (b) organisations have received (i) funding and (ii) assistance other than funding from (1) the broadband pathfinder projects, (2) Project ATLAS and (3) the trading exchange in each year since the inception of each project, detailing the nature of the other assistance provided
Answer
The Pathfinder Projects areat present part way through the procurement process. No contracts have yet beensigned and hence no payments made for the provision of broadband services.
Funding and assistance otherthan funding in relation to Project ATLAS and the Trading Exchange areoperational matters for Scottish Enterprise.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 September 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 16 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) regarding proposed UK legislation on offshore renewable energy and what impact such legislation will have on the energy sector in Scotland.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the UK Government on a wide range of issues,including offshore renewable energy. We are currently discussing with the DTIhow best to ensure that any future legislation does not place an additionalburden on developers.
