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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: S1W-17003

Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 13 July 2001
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 16 August 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-14378 by Sarah Boyack on 5 April 2001, whether the estimated capital value of the trunk road and motorway network as at 1 April 2001 is now available.

Question reference: S1W-17039

Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 July 2001
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 13 August 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-12505 by Sarah Boyack on 30 January 2001, whether, following the receipt of the full business case for the Larkhall to Milngavie rail route project, it is now able to give a definitive answer to question S1W-12505.

Question reference: S1W-17035

Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 July 2001
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 13 August 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-12500 by Sarah Boyack on 30 January 2001, whether the draft Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance has now been issued.

Question reference: S1W-17042

Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 July 2001
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 13 August 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-12515 by Mr Sam Galbraith on 30 January 2001, whether it is now able to issue a definition of the public interest groups who may be granted rights to act under the European Commission White Paper on Environmental Liability.

The Commission issued a working document on 25 July, outlining the principles on which the proposed Directive on environmental liability could be based. This does not refer to "Public interest groups", but rather to "Qualified entities in the field of environmental protection". These are defined as:

"Any body or organisation which, according to the criteria, if any, laid down in national law, has an interest in ensuring that significant environmental damage is restored. Bodies and organisations whose purpose, as is shown by the articles of incorporation thereof, is to protect the environment should be deemed to have such an interest".

The Commission will be consulting on this working document, with a view to bringing forward a proposed Directive on environmental liability, probably in early 2002. I shall be placing a copy of the working document in the Parliament's Reference Centre.

Question reference: S1W-17028

Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 July 2001
Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 13 August 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive what proposals it is considering for the application of environmental impact assessment procedures to projects intended to make more intensive use of uncultivated land.

A range of options have been included in a consultation paper that was issued on 1 June 2001 and which invites responses on what would be the best way forward on implementing the uncultivated land and semi-natural areas provisions of the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive.

Responses to the consultation paper are required by 31 August 2001 and a copy of the paper is available from the Parliament's Reference Centre or the Scottish Executive website.

Question reference: S1W-17033

Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 July 2001
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 13 August 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-10474 by Sarah Boyack on 6 November 2000, whether the scoping exercise to identify an appropriate methodology to forecast traffic growth in Scotland has been completed and, if so, whether it has now made a decision on the most appropriate way forward and can give a definitive answer to question S1W-10474.

Question reference: S1W-17034

Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 July 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 13 August 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-12368 by Jackie Baillie on 23 January 2001, whether the working group studying the employment and inclusion implications of housing investment has now reported and, if so, where the report may be obtained, what its recommendations are and what actions will be taken by the Executive on its recommendations.

Question reference: S1W-17043

Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 July 2001
Current Status: Answered by Neil Davidson on 13 August 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-12745 by Mr Sam Galbraith on 21 February 2001, how MSPs might be made aware of, and enabled to scrutini'e, the advice given by the Lord Advocate to Procurators Fiscal in relation to planning enforcement.

Question reference: S1W-17038

Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 July 2001
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 13 August 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-12504 by Sarah Boyack on 30 January 2001, what the outcome was of the four Freight Facilities Grant applications which were under review at that date.

Question reference: S1W-17037

Asked by: Murray Tosh, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 July 2001
Current Status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 13 August 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-12503 by Sarah Boyack on 30 January 2001, what the outcome was of the three Freight Facilities Grant applications which remained under review at that date.