- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 13 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations have been made, and by whom, in respect of the future of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Scotland and whether it will provide details, and publish copies, of any replies received to such representations.
Answer
Representations made by the Scottish Executive to the Natural Environment Research Council’s (NERC)consultation on the future of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and a responsereceived from NERC have been published on the Scottish Executive website at:
www.scotland.gov.uk/srg.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 13 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many publicly funded buildings and schools built in the last five years, including those currently under construction, source energy from renewable (a) heat and (b) electricity sources, shown as a percentage of all publicly funded buildings built in the last five years.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many hospital (a) in-patient and (b) out-patient operations have been cancelled or postponed in each hospital due to the (i) malfunctioning or (ii) lack of appropriate preparation of medical equipment in each of the last three years and so far this year, showing also national totals and expressed as a percentage of all such operations in each case.
Answer
The information requested isnot centrally available.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it make representations to the supermarkets in respect of the pressures experienced by the pig industry to ensure that the sector can compete on a level playing field.
Answer
I constantly stress, tosupermarkets and to others in the supply chain, the importance of healthytrading relationships, with good communication and co-operation throughout thesupply chain. Product sourcing decisions are, however, a matter for thesupermarkets themselves.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any legal issues which would prevent the introduction of a tenant farmer’s right to buy where the tenant’s landlord lives, or is based, outwith Scotland.
Answer
No.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many young offenders aged (a) 16 and (b) 17 have been housed in adult prisons in each of the last five years, broken down by individual prison and showing year on year percentage changes and percentage change for the five year period.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
This information is not available.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will introduce new measures to help the pig industry compete with cheaper and inferior imported products stocked by supermarkets.
Answer
The Scottish pig industryhas received £4.75 million of financial support from the UK Pig IndustryRestructuring Scheme. The terms of the scheme, agreed with the EuropeanCommission in January 2001, prohibit further assistance to the sector for aperiod of 10 years.
Product sourcing policiesare a matter for the supermarkets. The Executive encourages retailers tocontinue to offer consumers the option of purchasing Scottish pork products.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to the (a) UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and (b) European Union regarding the EU Landfill Directive in respect of the proposal for field stones to be classified as commercial waste.
Answer
None as we are not aware ofany such proposal. I understand that the Scottish Environment ProtectionAgency, which is responsible for the enforcement of waste legislation in Scotland, doesnot consider field stones to be waste unless they are actually disposed of tolandfill.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 10 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many buildings it (a) owns and (b) leases and what the total square footage is of each, also broken down by local authority area and expressed as a percentage of the total number of buildings in each case.
Answer
Currently the ScottishExecutive owns 15 buildings, leases 16 buildings and occupies space in another eightGovernment buildings which are controlled by other Government Departments. Eachoccupation of a Government building controlled by another Government Departmentis governed by a Memorandum of Terms of Occupation (MOTO)
The total square footage of the Scottish Executive owned buildings is 534,863 square feet. The total squarefootage of Scottish Executive leased buildings is 404,154 square feet. Thetotal square footage of MOTO buildings is 44,663 square feet. Thebreakdown of these figures is as follows:
Owned Buildings
| Local Authority Area | Square Footage | Percentage of Total Buildings (15) |
| Aberdeenshire Council | 17,853 | 6.67 |
| Argyll and Bute Council | 9,616 | 6.67 |
| City of Edinburgh Council | 449,532 | 20 |
| Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar | 6,219 | 13.33 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Council | 1,679 | 6.67 |
| Highland Council | 21,191 | 20 |
| Orkney Islands Council | 4,899 | 6.67 |
| Perth and Kinross Council | 8,973 | 6.67 |
| Scottish Borders Council | 8,642 | 6.67 |
| South Lanarkshire Council | 6,259 | 6.67 |
| Total | 534,863 | 100 |
Leased Buildings
| Local Authority Area | Square Footage | Percentage of Total Buildings (16) |
| Argyll and Bute Council | 1,115 | 6.25 |
| City of Edinburgh Council | 275,181 | 43.75 |
| Falkirk Council | 4,573 | 6.25 |
| Glasgow City Council | 91,448 | 18.75 |
| Highland Council | 1,983 | 12.5 |
| Moray Council | 3,339 | 6.25 |
| Perth and Kinross Council | 26,515 | 6.25 |
| Total | 404,154 | 100 |
MOTO Buildings
| Local Authority Area | Square Footage | Percentage of Total Buildings (8) |
| Aberdeen City Council | 3,678 | 12.5 |
| City of Edinburgh Council | 2,934 | 12.5 |
| Dumfries and Galloway Council | 8,820 | 12.5 |
| Dundee City Council | 11,910 | 25 |
| Shetland Islands Council | 2,905 | 12.5 |
| South Ayrshire Council | 11,782 | 12.5 |
| Stirling Council | 6,606 | 12.5 |
| Total | 44.663 | 100 |
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 February 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 9 March 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding the 14 areas in Scotland recently named as marine environment high risk areas.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is inregular contact with Her Majesty’s Government on a number of issues, including theprocess whereby a number of coastal areas in Scotland were recently designatedas marine environmental high risk areas.
