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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S3W-27345

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 24 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish the recommendations of the public local inquiry into the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route.

Question reference: S3W-26889

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 11 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider amending planning legislation to ensure that applicants have authorisation from the relevant landowners before lodging planning applications.

We have no plans to amend planning legislation to require applicants to obtain the authorisation of owners of land before applying for planning permission for said land.

The planning application process is concerned with whether a particular development proposal at a particular location is acceptable in planning terms. It is for any prospective developer to obtain, amongst other things, the necessary property rights “ through lease or purchase for example - to exercise a planning permission. The latter is not part of the planning application process.

Question reference: S3O-07784

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 10 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it remains satisfied that maintenance loans available to full-time higher education students in Scotland under the non-means tested support system remain at the level of £890 per year while in England all students studying away from home can access more than £3,000 of non-means tested maintenance loans.

Question reference: S3W-26237

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 31 July 2009
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 2 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of its hospitality budget has been spent on alcoholic beverages since May 2007, broken down by directorate.

Question reference: S3W-26238

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 31 July 2009
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 2 September 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how much of its hospitality budget has been spent on food since May 2007, broken down by directorate.

Question reference: S3W-26235

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 31 July 2009
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 25 August 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated value is of the alcoholic beverages that it currently stores and how many bottles of (a) wine, (b) beer, (c) spirits and (d) other alcoholic beverages.

Question reference: S3W-26239

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 31 July 2009
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 19 August 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how much each of its directorates has spent on travel costs for Cabinet members and staff since May 2007, broken down by journey and mode of transport.

Question reference: S3O-07413

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 25 June 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will announce the findings of the public local inquiry into the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route before the summer recess.

Question reference: S3O-07511

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 25 June 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive, given the approval of funding by the previous administration for Laurencekirk railway station and its subsequent recent reopening, whether it will commit to provide funding for the reopening of Kintore station.

Question reference: S3W-21311

Asked by: Mike Rumbles, MSP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 30 April 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider using satellite technology to monitor light pollution.

The Scottish Government has no plans to monitor light pollution using satellite technology but recognises that poorly designed, excessive and badly aimed lighting can have an adverse environmental effect. That is why we have recently introduced new legislation to include light pollution within the Statutory Nuisance regime as part of the Public Health etc (Scotland) Act 2008. The approach taken on light pollution is the most comprehensive in the United Kingdom with only lighthouses being exempt from the new nuisance provisions. Detailed guidance to accompany the provisions was published in January 2009 and can be found at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/01/23142152/0.