- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 29 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what 10 factors contribute most to CO2 emissions in Scotland, listed in descending order.
Answer
Levels of carbon dioxide emissions in Scotland by source are reported in the publication
Greenhouse Gas Inventories for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland: 1999-2001 a copy of which has been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 32027) and is also available on the Executive’s climate change website at
www.scotland.gov.uk/climatechange.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 29 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of (a) household, (b) commercial and (c) total waste was recycled by each local authority in each of the last three years.
Answer
Figures available from the Accounts Commission are:
| Authority | Household Waste Recycled (%) | Commercial and Industrial Waste Recycled (%) | Total Waste Recycled (%) |
| 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 |
| Aberdeen City | 3.6 | 5.8 | 8.2 | 9.5 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 5.7 | 7.5 |
| Aberdeenshire | 16.4 | 21.0 | 13.8 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 8.1 | 13.3 | 17.0 | 13.0 |
| Angus | 14.7 | 18.5 | 23.1 | 14.8 | 27.2 | 29.4 | 14.8 | 20.2 | 24.3 |
| Argyll and Bute | 11.5 | 8.9 | 8.9 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 10.5 | 8.9 | 7.7 | 9.1 |
| Clackmannanshire | 4.4 | 4.6 | 6.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 6.6 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 4.0 | | 4.1 | 0.0 | | 0.0 | 3.5 | | 3.6 |
| Dundee City | 7.4 | 24.4 | 24.1 | 4.2 | 14.8 | 17.3 | 6.3 | 21.1 | 21.9 |
| East Ayrshire | 2.3 | 2.5 | 3.8 | 14.8 | 15.5 | 14.8 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 5.0 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 6.0 | 7.8 | 10.5 | 0.0 | 6.4 | 9.7 | 5.3 | 7.6 | 10.4 |
| East Lothian | 6.2 | 6.5 | 12.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 5.3 | 5.6 | 11.6 |
| East Renfrewshire | 8.2 | 13.1 | 15.3 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 7.8 | 12.2 | 14.5 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 5.5 | 5.2 | 8.4 | 0.0 | 3.8 | 5.0 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 7.7 |
| Eilean Siar | 0.0 | 1.0 | 7.1 | 0.7 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 5.0 |
| Falkirk | 7.6 | 7.3 | 10.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 5.6 | 6.8 |
| Fife | 2.2 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 6.0 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 5.2 |
| Glasgow City | 3.3 | 4.7 | 6.2 | | 5.1 | 6.4 | | 4.8 | 6.2 |
| Highland | 2.0 | 2.0 | 4.4 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 3.5 |
| Inverclyde | 3.8 | 4.8 | 5.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.4 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 5.8 |
| Midlothian | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 4.1 |
| Moray | 3.5 | 5.2 | 9.6 | 6.2 | 8.6 | 15.7 | 4.6 | 6.6 | 12.2 |
| North Ayrshire | 8.0 | 6.6 | 13.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 6.9 | 5.8 | 12.3 |
| North Lanarkshire | 1.3 | 5.7 | 13.5 | 0.0 | 14.4 | 15.7 | 1.1 | 7.3 | 13.8 |
| Orkney Islands | 16.0 | 20.6 | 16.0 | 0.1 | 6.1 | 6.6 | 13.4 | 16.0 | 13.3 |
| Perth and Kinross | 17.9 | 18.6 | 18.6 | 9.6 | 2.6 | 13.5 | 16.4 | 15.8 | 17.7 |
| Renfrewshire | 4.7 | 5.6 | 9.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.9 | 5.0 | 8.4 |
| Scottish Borders | 15.2 | 18.7 | 13.8 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 11.4 | 13.6 | 9.7 |
| Shetland Islands | 11.0 | 10.3 | 5.6 | 17.5 | 10.3 | 5.5 | 12.0 | 10.3 | 5.6 |
| South Ayrshire | 6.4 | 5.9 | 6.9 | 5.2 | 2.8 | 17.4 | 6.0 | 5.1 | 10.7 |
| South Lanarkshire | 6.6 | 12.1 | 12.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.5 | 11.1 | 12.4 |
| Stirling | 8.0 | 10.1 | 11.6 | 7.3 | 5.1 | 7.2 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 10.2 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 9.0 | 9.8 | 10.2 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.9 | 5.3 | 6.1 | 6.6 |
| West Lothian | 3.4 | 6.1 | 10.1 | 5.8 | 4.5 | 7.3 | 3.9 | 5.7 | 9.8 |
The percentages are based on the tonnages of waste that are recycled or composted. Ash used for daily top cover at landfill sites is excluded. All figures for 2001-02 for Dumfries and Galloway and the commercial and industrial and total waste figures for Glasgow for 2000-01 have been excluded as the figures supplied to the Accounts Commission are considered unreliable.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of expenditure by research institutions was on the development of clean technologies in each of the last five years.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 29 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what involvement it will have in next year's G8 Summit.
Answer
The G8 Summit will be held at Gleneagles from 6 to 8 July next year. The decision to hold the event in Scotland was made by the Prime Minister and is warmly welcomed by the Scottish Executive.
The summit is a tremendous opportunity for Scotland to demonstrate its excellent facilities and infrastructure and to promote itself as a world-class destination for tourism, business and study as well as an attractive place to live. This will reinforce the work being done on Scotland’s International Image and is expected to bring significant benefits not only during the summit itself but in the long term as a result of heightened media exposure and increased visitor numbers.
I chair the Ministerial Group which oversees Scotland’s involvement with the G8 Summit. We are working closely with the UK Government and public agencies, non-governmental organisations and businesses throughout Scotland to ensure that Scotland reaps maximum benefits from the summit and that as many people as possible have an opportunity to be involved with events surrounding the summit.
The Executive is also committed to ensuring that the summit is safe and secure. Scottish police forces have considerable experience of managing large scale events and are well-equipped to cope with the security operation. Tayside Police is responsible for co-ordinating security arrangements in the area and will have support from other law enforcement agencies and forces south of the border.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what importance it places on degree-qualified chemists.
Answer
A key aim of
A Science Strategy for Scotland, published by the Scottish Executive in August 2001, is to ensure that enough people study science to a standard which will enable the future needs of the country to be met. However, the Executive does not have a policy in connection with the numbers of people taking particular degrees except in a few well-defined areas. My answer to question S2W-8365 answered on 7 June 2004 is also relevant. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’swebsite, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 29 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures have been taken to promote marine sources of energy production and what future plans there are for such measures.
Answer
The world’s first commercial wave energy project - in Islay - received support under the Scottish Renewables Obligation. More recently, the Executive has contributed over £2 million towards the establishment of the wave test facility at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney. Discussions with our funding partners to extend the Centre to accommodate tidal projects are at an advanced stage.
The Forum for Renewable Energy Development in Scotland (FREDS), which I chair, recently published a report identifying the way ahead for marine energy in Scotland. Three members of the sub-group which produced this report have since been among the partners which have formed the consortium based UK Centre for Marine Renewable Energy, which will drive forward some of the key tasks identifiedby the report.
Following the FREDS marine energy report, the DTI announced a £50 million UK fund for marine renewables. We will work closely with DTI colleagues on the details of this scheme. We will also consider how best the Executive can support marine developments from within our own renewables programme budget.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by George Reid on 28 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether there are any plans to acquire the Mercy and Justice statues that were situated in the pre-1707 Parliament for Holyrood.
Answer
There are no plans to acquire these statues. Phase 1 of the Parliament’s Art Strategy is now complete and decisions on the nature of phase 2 will be considered by the SPCB next year.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 28 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in securing additional monkfish quotas.
Answer
New scientific information generated by the Fisheries Research Service in partnership with the Scottish fishing industry has been made available to the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). The ICES Advisory Committee on Fishery Management is scheduled to publish advice on monkfish for fisheries managers on 22 October. By way of immediate action, we have secured around 705 tonnes of monkfish quota in international swaps with other member states during the course of this year and we will continue to pursue this avenue in the coming weeks.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 28 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to introduce individual transferable quotas to the fishing industry and whether it considers that the impact of such a policy would be damaging to the industry.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is currently considering its response to the No 10 Strategy Unit report Net Benefits: A sustainable and profitable future for UK fishing. The introduction of individual transferable quota (ITQ) is one of the recommendations within the report. No decision on the implementation of ITQ has been made. The Scottish Executive working closely with a range of key stakeholders, will carefully consider a range of economic and other data before reaching a view.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 August 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 28 September 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average number of (a) households and (b) people on housing waiting lists has been in each local authority area in each of the last 10 years, expressed also as a percentage of the population in each case.
Answer
The numbers of applicant households on waiting lists for each local authority are published on an annual basis for 2000-01 onwards in the quarterly Scottish Executive Statistical Bulletin (Housing Series)
Housing Trends in Scotland. Table 16 in the latest bulletin HSG/2004/4 published August 2004 shows the snapshot position as at 31 March 2004 as well as changes to the lists during 2003-04. This publication can be accessed on-line through publications section of the Scottish Executive housing statistics branch website (
www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/housing/hsbref). The published figures for 2000-01, 2001-02 and 2002-03 can also be found on the housing statistics website in the housing trends bulletins HSG/2001/6, HSG/2002/3 and HSG/2003/4 respectively.This data collection began in 2001 and data are not centrally available prior to that date. The numbers reported to the Scottish Executive are for applicant households and do not specify the number of people within each household.
The projections of the numbers of households by local authority area for the relevant years are available in the data library section of the Scottish Executive housing statistics branch website:
(http://www.scotland.gov.uk/about/DD/EAS/00014844/DataLibrary.aspx).
